NDAWL-PINN: a new non-dimensionalization and multi-task learning approach for efficient training of physics-informed neural networks to solve the shallow water equations by Xin Qi, Dawei Zhang, Fan Wang, Wuxia Bi, Mingda Lu

“…This paper introduces a novel training approach that integrates non-dimensionalization with a multi-task learning technique, termed Automatic Weighted Loss (AWL), to autonomously achieve an optimal balance for each loss function. In the baseline PINN training for solving time-dependent PDEs, multiple weights (usually more than six) must be manually tuned for the model, whereas this method can reduce the number of scaling weights to only one. …”
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Human cardiac tissues produce lower contractile stress and exhibit slower cross-bridge cycling in type 2 diabetes by J. H. Musgrave, J.-C. Han, M.-L. Ward, N. Kang, A. J. Taberner, K. Tran

“…Results Diabetic trabeculae generated 20% lower active stress and had 16% lower cross-bridge stiffness on average. …”
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Effect of Strain Path on Retained Austenite Transformation Rates and Material Ductility in Transformation-Induced Plasticity-Assisted Advanced High-Strength Steel by Parker Gibbs, Derrik Adams, David T. Fullwood, Eric R. Homer, Anil K. Sachdev, Michael P. Miles

“…The retained austenite (RA) levels were measured, as a function of the plastic strain, using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). …”
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Adipocyte-expressed SIRT3 manipulates carnitine pool to orchestrate metabolic reprogramming and polarization of macrophages by Jiali Chen, Fei Zhou, Lei Zhang, Ruohan Lou, Cangman Zhang, Jianbo Wan, Xiaojun Ma, Ligen Lin

“…The deacetylase Sirtuin 3 (SIRT3) participates in inflammatory responses via regulating mitochondrial function and FAO. Herein, an AT-specific SIRT3 overexpression mice model (AT-SIRT3OE) was generated using adeno-associated virus transduction. …”
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The dynamics and longevity of circulating CD4+ memory T cells depend on cell age and not the chronological age of the host. by M Elise Bullock, Thea Hogan, Cayman Williams, Sinead Morris, Maria Nowicka, Minahil Sharjeel, Christiaan van Dorp, Andrew J Yates, Benedict Seddon

“…This behaviour may limit memory CD4 T cell diversity by skewing TCR repertoires towards clones generated early in life, but may also compensate for functional defects in new memory cells generated in old age.…”
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Speech-dependent data augmentation for own voice reconstruction with hearable microphones in noisy environments by Mattes Ohlenbusch, Christian Rollwage, Simon Doclo

“…In this paper, we investigate several data augmentation techniques to simulate a large amount of in-ear own voice signals from a limited amount of recorded own voice signals. More specifically, we consider different models for the own voice transfer characteristics between the outer microphone and the in-ear microphone, ranging from a fixed talker-averaged relative transfer function to a phoneme-dependent individual model. …”
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How to map soil organic carbon stocks at field scale in South Africa? by Willie Herman Cloete, Gerhard du Preez, George Munnik Van Zijl

“…For dry bulk density (ρb), a pedo-transfer function was created for predicting the ρb at unsampled locations. …”
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Ionospheric Correction Based on Ingestion of Global Ionospheric Maps into the NeQuick 2 Model by Xiao Yu, Chengli She, Weimin Zhen, Nava Bruno, Dun Liu, Xinan Yue, Ming Ou, Jisheng Xu

“…The accuracy of TEC prediction can be improved further through performing a four-coefficient function expression of Az versus MODIP. As more measurements from earlier days are involved in the Az optimization procedure, the accuracy may decrease. …”
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Influence of Interleukin-8 and Neutrophil Extracellular Trap (NET) Formation in the Tumor Microenvironment: Is There a Pathogenic Role? by Manuela Gonzalez-Aparicio, Carlos Alfaro

“…However, the extent to which NETs affect the function of other cells of the immune system in the tumor context has not been directly demonstrated. …”
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A Study on the Coarse-to-Fine Error Decomposition and Compensation Method of Free-Form Surface Machining by Yueping Chen, Junchao Wang, Qingchun Tang, Jie Li

“…The simulation and analysis results of the design show that the method has a more ideal processing error decomposition ability and can decompose the systematic error contained in the processing error in a more complete way. …”
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Novel selenoprotein neighborhoods suggest specialized biochemical processes by Daniel H. Haft, Igor Tolstoy

“…Selenoproteins, optimized by natural selection to encode selenocysteine where cysteine might have been encoded much more easily, carry a strong clue to their function—some specialized aspect of binding or catalysis. …”
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Multilingual education

“… [Summary generated by ChatGPT] Overview: This issue of Babylonia explores “Language Awareness” (Éveil aux langues), a pedagogical approach aimed at introducing students to linguistic and cultural diversity. …”
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Low-Rank Representation and Data Compression of Full-Field Displacement Maps for Structural Modal Analysis and Damage Identification by Yankun Li, Yu Huang, Ziguang Li, Zhiping Yin, Shancheng Cao

“…For the purpose of resolving those issues, a complete method is proposed, consisting of (1) an adaptive kernel function construction method for low-rank-representing the full-field displacement maps while retaining both global and local shape features, (2) an enhanced frequency domain decomposition approach for noise-robust mode shape estimation based on the kernel functions, and (3) extracting and fusing local shape features of multiple mode shapes for more accurate damage localization. …”
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Single-cell chromatin accessibility landscape profiling reveals the diversity of epigenetic regulation in the rat nervous system by Peiyao Ma, Shanshan Duan, Wen Ma, Qiuting Deng, Yeya Yu, Peng Gao, Yue Yuan, Chuanyu Liu

“…Single-cell sequencing can provide information on cell-type-specific chromatin structure and regulatory elements, revealing differences in chromatin organization between different cell types and their potential roles of these differences in brain function. Here, we generated a chromatin accessibility dataset through single-cell ATAC-seq of 174,593 high-quality nuclei from 16 adult rat brain regions. …”
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Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) in cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana L., Solanaceae) by Jaime A. Osorio-Guarín, Francy L. García-Arias, Roxana Yockteng

“…More than half of the treated plants showed photo-bleaching, indicating an efficiency rate of 50 % of the VIGS protocol. …”
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Identification of a general O-linked protein glycosylation system in Acinetobacter baumannii and its role in virulence and biofilm formation. by Jeremy A Iwashkiw, Andrea Seper, Brent S Weber, Nichollas E Scott, Evgeny Vinogradov, Chad Stratilo, Bela Reiz, Stuart J Cordwell, Randy Whittal, Stefan Schild, Mario F Feldman

“…Although A. baumannii is considered as one of the more threatening "superbugs" for our healthcare system, little is known about the factors contributing to its pathogenesis. …”
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Denoising and deconvolving CT images of unknown origin: comparing linear Wiener-deconvolution with deep convolutional neural network Noise2Inverse by Simon Zabler, Antoine Klos, Pierre Lhuissier, Luc Salvo, Maziyar Farahmandi, Simon Wittl

“…Unlike Wiener filtering, N2I is far more effective in removing pixel noise. Yet, these models give the vague impression that they might generate ghosts of small features (pores or spots) in the object. …”
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A Novel Double Cluster and Principal Component Analysis-Based Optimization Method for the Orbit Design of Earth Observation Satellites by Yunfeng Dong, Xiaona Wei, Lu Tian, Fengrui Liu, Guangde Xu

“…The test results from a multiobjective numerical benchmark function and the orbit design results of an Earth observation satellite show that DCPC-based OM converges more efficiently than WSGA-based HM. …”
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A New Cipher Based on Feistel Structure and Chaotic Maps by Al-Bahrani et al.

“…The proposed cipher operates on more than 500 bytes (4000-bit) readable text blocks by six round computing. …”
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Fine structure of the doublet P levels of boron by Saeed Nasiri, Dmitry Tumakov, Monika Stanke, Andrzej Kędziorski, Ludwik Adamowicz, Sergiy Bubin

“…The nonrelativistic wave function of each of the states is generated in an independent variational calculation by expanding it in terms of a large number, 12000–17000, of all-electron explicitly correlated Gaussian (ECG) functions whose nonlinear parameters are extensively optimized with a procedure that employs analytic energy gradient determined with respect to these parameters. …”
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