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Real-Time Drone-Based Snow Detection for PV Systems Using Robust Lightweight Deep Learning Models, Amna Mazen, Ashraf Saleem, Kamyab Yazdipaz, and Ana Dyreson

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Dynamic coasts, resilient futures: Navigating changes in the Great Lakes – Foreword to the special section, Lorelle A. Meadows, Ethan Theuerkauf, Cary Troy, Pengfei Xue, Guy Meadows, and Chin Wu

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Wavelet-based time-domain double-fed induction generator differential protection, R. P. Medeiros, L. S. Barros, F. B. Costa, and F. E.V. Taveiros

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Catalytic Mechanism of the Bacterial Non-Heme Fe(II) and 2-Oxoglutarate Dependent Enzyme AlkB with Single-Stranded DNA Containing Complex Guanine Adducts, Sreerag Melayikandy, Anandhu Krishnan, Ann Varghese, Simahudeen Bathir Jaber Sathik Rifayee, Sodiq Waheed, Rajeev Ramanan, Deyu Li, Christo Z. Christov, and Tatyana Karabencheva-Christova

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Long-range quantum entanglement in dielectric mu-near-zero metamaterials, Olivia Mello, Larissa Vertchenko, Seth Nelson, Adrien Debacq, Durdu Guney, Eric Mazur, and Michaël Lobet

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Automated Semantic Segmentation of Arctic Surface Water Features with Very-High Resolution Satellite X-Band Radar Imagery and U-Net Deep Learning: Segmentation sémantique automatisée des caractéristiques des eaux de surface de l’Arctique à partir d’images radar satellite en bande X à très haute résolution et à l’aide de l’apprentissage profond U-Net, Michael Allan Merchant, Masoud Mahdianpari, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Ben DeVries, and Aaron Berg

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Inspiring the next generation of engineers and scientists to be champions of equitable change, Nyasha Milanzi

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Meaningful engagement in transitions research: Care and value in research partnerships, Nyasha Milanzi and Chelsea Schelly

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Characterization of fibrotic liver tissue microstructure for predicting shear wave speed variability: A Machine-learning-based computational study, Emily J. Miller, Yongmei M. Jin, and Jingfeng Jiang

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Remote Sensing of Seismic Signals via Enhanced Moiré-Based Apparatus Integrated with Active Convolved Illumination, Adrian A. Moazzam, Anindya Ghoshroy, Durdu Güney, and Roohollah Askari

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Role of Pyrolysis Wax on Enhancing the Performance of Waste Plastic Modified Asphalt Prepared with the Wet Modification Process, Sepehr Mohammadi, Dongzhao Jin, Daniel G. Kulas, Ali Zolghadr, David R. Shonnard, and Zhanping You

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Incorporation of E-Waste Plastics into Asphalt: A Review of the Materials, Methods, and Impacts, Sepehr Mohammadi, Dongzhao Jin, Zhongda Liu, and Zhanping You

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Integrating Recycled Acrylonitrile–Butadiene–Styrene Plastics from Electronic Waste with Carbon Black for Sustainable Asphalt Production, Sepehr Mohammadi, Dongzhao Jin, and Zhanping You

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Slope Instability Predictor-Kerala (SLIP-K): A mobile/web Application for Landslide Hazard Prediction in Idukki, India, Subhami Mohan, A. Rajaneesh, V. K. Krishnapriya, K. S. Sajinkumar, Cees van Westen, Nikhil N. Vasu, Yunus P. Ali, Lina Hao, C. L. Vishnu, and R. S. Ajin

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Learn How to Design High-Quality Qualitative Educational Research! - A Workshop for Disciplinary STEM Faculty by Disciplinary STEM Faculty, John R. Morelock, Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, Heather Chenette, Sara Hooshangi, Betsy Chestnutt, Sarah Wilson, Azadeh Bolhari, Kirsten Dodson, Iglika Pavlova, and Rebecca Reck

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Perspectives on usability and adoption of a new ACL injury prevention programme for female handball players: a mixed methods approach, Anne Inger Mørtvedt, Tron Krosshaug, and Erich Petushek

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Overview of porous magnesium-based scaffolds: development, properties and biomedical applications, Amir Motaharinia, Jaroslaw Drelich, Safian Sharif, Ahmad Fauzi Ismail, Farid Naeimi, Alexandra G. Glover, Mahshid Ebrahiminejad, and Hamid Reza Bakhsheshi-Rad

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Commercial Fishing Influences the Life Histories of Fish in the World's Largest Desert Lake, Madison F. Muehl, Jill A. Olin, James L. Keyombe, Josephine Y. Aller, Robert C. Aller, Kamazima M. Lwiza, and et. al.

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Using LLMs, Knowledge Space Representations and Worked Examples to Support Adaptive Cybertraining in Construction Education, Shane T. Mueller, Katrina Carlson, Yifan Wang, Xiaoyu Hou, Zaid Alwashah, Hexu Liu, and Bo Xiao

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Gene regulatory network prediction using machine learning, deep learning, and hybrid approaches, Sai Teja Mummadi, Md Khairul Islam, Victor Busov, and Hairong Wei

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Towards Robust Polyp Segmentation: Multi-Focus Attention Network with Fine-grained Polyp Cues, Nan Mu, Xianchao Zhang, Yazhou Feng, Xiaoning Li, Jingfeng Jiang, and Lei Liu

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The Feasibility of Using Lidar-Derived Digital Elevation Models for Gravity Data Reduction, Jacob T. Murchek, Benjamin J. Drenth, James J. Reitman, Eric D. Anderson, Benjamin P. Magnin, and James M. DeGraff

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Vaccine diplomacy: The politics of COVID-19 vaccines in Zimbabwe, Haruka Nagao, Rigao Liu, William Hatungimana, Leeann H. Youn, and John James Kennedy

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Remote Sightline Inspection at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings Using LiDAR Data and Geospatial Analysis, Mohsen Naghdi, Pasi Lautala, and Abdolmajid Erfani

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A longitudinal analysis of morphological shape variation of spleen in patients with fontan surgery, Varatharajan Nainamalai, Håvard Bjørke Jenssen, Mostafa Rezaeitaleshmahalleh, Djinaud Prophete, Jordan Gosnell, Sarah Khan, Marcus Haw, Jingfeng Jiang, and Joseph Vettukattil

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Gelatin-reduced graphene oxide-azithromycin biocomposite coating on baghdadite scaffolds, A. Najafinezhad, S. Nasiri-Harchegani, Hamid Reza Bakhsheshi-Rad, Jaroslaw Drelich, Safian Sharif, Ahmad Fauzi Ismail, and Mahmood Razzaghi

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Polycaprolactone-chitosan-based scaffolds with nanostructured cuprorivaite fabricated via 3D printing for bone tissue engineering, A. Najafinezhad, S. Nasiri-Harchegani, J. Drelich, R. Arefi, M. Keshavarz, and H. R. Bakhsheshi-Rad

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Synthesis of Fe3O4@MIL-101-OH/Chitosan for adsorption and release of doxorubicin, Iman Najafipour, Nafiseh Emami, Pegah Sadeh, Adonis Amoli, Sareh Mosleh-Shirazi, Ali Mohammad Amani, Hesam Kamyab, Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan, Seyed Reza Kasaee, and Ehsan Vafa

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Progressive Insights into 3D Bioprinting for Corneal Tissue Restoration, Ilayda Namli, Deepak Gupta, Yogendra Pratap Singh, Pallab Datta, Muhammad Rizwan, Mehmet Baykara, and Ibrahim T. Ozbolat

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Extended Abstract: A Modular and Open-Source Human-in-the-Loop Qualitative Analysis Framework for Multimodal Data, Aneet D. Narendranath, Chang Kyoung Choi, and Radheshyam Tewari

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Initial Exploration of Thematic Emergence in Students' Reflections Post an Entrepreneurially Minded Learning Activity, Aneet D. Narendranath, Sirena Hargrove-Leak, and Chang Kyoung Choi

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The Museum Guide Robot: Enhancing Visitor Experience Through Autonomous Robotics, Navid Nasiri and Ashraf Saleem

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Top-k Document Retrieval in Compressed Space, Gonzalo Navarro and Yakov Nekrich

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Land use change and forest management affect soil carbon stocks in the central hardwoods, U.S., Lucas E. Nave, Kendall DeLyser, Grant M. Domke, Scott M. Holub, John M. Kabrick, Adrienne B. Keller, Patricia Leopold, Matthew P. Peters, Kevin A. Solarik, and Christopher W. Swanston

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Carbon cycling across ecosystem succession in a north temperate forest: Controls and management implications, Lucas E. Nave, Christopher M. Gough, Cameron Clay, Fernanda Santos, Jeff W. Atkins, Sonja E. Benjamins-Carey, and et. al.

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The influence of culpability, harm to animals, and professional education on attitudes about killing animals in the name of conservation, Danial Nayeri, Reyhane Rastgoo, Alireza Mohammadi, Mohammad S. Farhadinia, Jeremy T. Bruskotter, and John Vucetich

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Faster Range LCP Queries in Linear Space, Yakov Nekrich and Sharma V. Thankachan

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Forb diversity globally is harmed by nutrient enrichment but can be rescued by large mammalian herbivory, Rebecca A. Nelson, Lauren L. Sullivan, Erika Hersch-Green, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, Pedro M. Tognetti, and et al.

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Optical vortex spin-orbit control of refractive index in iron garnets, Seth Nelson, Cong Yu, Daniel Watson, Shahrzad Ramtinfard, and Miguel Levy

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Reduction-Driven Mobilization of Structural Fe in Clay Minerals with High Fe Content, Anke Neumann, Luiza Notini, W. A.P.Jeewantha Premaratne, Drew E. Latta, and Michelle M. Scherer

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Exclusive optimization of Cs2AgBi0.75Sb0.25Br6-based solar cells using dual ETL with better photo transmission, Kumar Neupane, Sagar Bhattarai, Nitumoni Deka, Ahmet Sait Alali, Abderrahim Yousfi, Okba Saidani, Md Ferdous Rahman, Abhinav Kumar, and Hanen Karamti

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Empowering rubidium-based halide PSCs: A deep dive into ETL material performance, Kumar Neupane, Pratap Kumar Dakua, Jayant Kumar Sahu, Subba Rao Polamuri, Amit Ved, M. Chethan, D. V.N. Ananth, Raj Kumar, Hemasri Karri, and Sagar Bhattarai

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Sustainable management of copper-contaminated soils using vetiver root biochar, Sameer Neve, Dibyendu Sarkar, Zhiming Zhang, and Rupali Datta

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Closed-Loop Neuromorphic Deep Brain Stimulation using Deep Spiking Q-Networks, Binh Nguyen, Edward Mighetto, Dylan Louie, Chunxiu Yu, and Jason Eshraghian

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Exploring Italian consumers’ willingness to pay for sustainable fashion: the roles of eco-consciousness and vintage preference, Minh Hoang Nguyen, Minh Phuong Thi Duong, Thien Vu Tran, Hong Hue Thi Nguyen, Tran Thi Mai Anh, and Quan Hoang Vuong

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Quantifying the decay timescale of volcanic sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere, Paul A. Nicknish, Kane Stone, Susan Solomon, and Simon Carn

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Insights on avian life history and physiological traits in Central Africa: ant-following species have young-dominated age ratios in secondary forest, Panagiotis Nikolaou, Billi A. Krochuk, Patricia F. Rodrigues, Kristin E. Brzeski, Susana L. Mufumu, Silvestre E. Malanza, and et. al.

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Feasibility study on large-scale geologic carbon sequestration in Southern Colorado, Yanrui Ning, Ali Tura, David Herman, Jay Bridgeman, and Dana Clark

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“Nothing About Us Without Us”: Post-Exertional Malaise (PEM) and the Challenge of Designing Activism for People with ME and Long Covid, Jennifer Nish

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Purification of a Non-enveloped Virus using Sequential Aqueous Two-phase Extraction, Natalie M. Nold, Seth A. Kriz, Trisha Colling, Ethan Burghardt, Pratik U. Joshi, Caryn Heldt, and et. al.

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Continuous purification of a parvovirus using two aqueous two-phase extraction steps, Natalie Nold, Sheridan Waldack, Grace James, Trisha Colling, Lynn M. Manchester, Taravat Sarvari, Amanda P. Bekkala, Seth Kriz, Madison Baldwin, Emily Agustin-Mazariegos, Michael J. Betenbaugh, and Caryn Heldt

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Trophic Ecology and Mercury Bioaccumulation among Lake Superior lake charr (Salvelinus namaycush) Ecotypes, Dalton C. Norris, Shawn P. Sitar, Jill A. Olin, and Gordon Paterson

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Origin of the World-Class Eagle, Eagle East, and Tamarack Ni-Cu-PGE Deposits, Robert Nowak, Chad Deering, and Espree Essig

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Using Confidence Scores to Improve Eyes-free Detection of Speech Recognition Errors, Sadia Nowrin and Keith Vertanen

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Overcoming heterocoagulation challenge in selective flotation separation between lithium cobalt oxide and lithium manganese oxide, Richard Kofi Oboh, Kaiwu Huang, and Lei Pan

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Special issue on advanced high-strength composites for aerospace structures, Gregory Odegard, Richard Liang, Ibrahim Guven, and Emilie J. Siochi

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Low-Altitude sUAS Flights for Remote Sensing of Submillimeter Hairline Cracks: A Case Study, Kunle S. Oguntoye, Md Abdullah All Sourav, Rajrup Mitra, Abby Jenkins, Halil Ceylan, Sunghwan Kim, Berk Gulmezoglu, Yunjeong Mo, and Colin Brooks

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Near-Infrared Probes Designed with Hemicyanine Fluorophores Featuring Rhodamine and 1,8-Naphthalic Derivatives for Viscosity and HSA Detection in Live Cells, Adenike Olowolagba, Omowunmi Rebecca Aworinde, Sushil K. Dwivedi, Micah Olamide Idowu, Dilka Liyana Arachchige, Crystal Wang, Olivya Rose Graham, Joseph Peters, Grace Rickauer, Thomas Werner, Athar Ata, Rudy Luck, and Haiying Liu

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Soil amendments alter tree growth and wood decay after forest thinning, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Martin Jurgensen, Chris Miller, Joanne M. Tirocke, Derek N. Pierson, Cole Mayn, Mark J. Kimsey, and Haley C. Anderson

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Stochastic Open Pit Optimization Under Volume and Grade Uncertainty: An Application to African Copper Mine, Amol Paithankar and Snehamoy Chatterjee

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Rhodamine-derived ratiometric fluorescent probes for high-sensitivity detection and real-time imaging of mitochondrial pH and viscosity in HeLa cells and Drosophila melanogaster, Subash Pandey, Dilka Liyana Arachchige, Ronald J. Schwandt, Sushil K. Dwivedi, Ishana Kathuria, Haiying Liu, and Rudy Luck

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Reactions of disinfectants at solution/iron interfaces: Modeling pipeline surface chemistry, Subash Pandey, Danica Lemmons, Chathura de Alwis, Ryan Mackie, Drew Kolodge, and Kathryn Perrine

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Plants as partners: honoring the personhood of Manoomin in research, restoration, and education, Bazile Minogiizhigaabo Panek, Madeline Nyblade, Nisogaabokwe Melonee Montano, and Cassandra M. Reed-VanDam

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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Removal Using Carbonaceous Adsorbents in a Brackish Water Circular Economy, Bailey Papes, Kyle Shimabuku, Magda Garbowski, and Anthony Kennedy

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Evaluation of machine learning performance on source separated passive acoustic recordings, Carter Paprocki, Morgan Crump, Tyler Dare, Andrew Barnard, Kristin Cody, Peter Newman, and Derrick Taff

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High-performance, multi-component epoxy resin simulation for predicting thermo-mechanical property evolution during curing, Sagar Umesh Patil, Josh Kemppainen, Marianna Maiaru, and Gregory M. Odegard

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Preparation and Microwave Deicing Properties of Ferric Oxide-Modified Emulsified Asphalt, Chao Peng, Peiwen Guan, Zhanping You, Di Ruan, Dongjin Yang, Zhile Ye, Yunfei Ning, Ni Zhao, and Feiyu Yang

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Development of a Sustainable Slow-release De-icing Additive for Asphalt Pavements Using Lignin Fiber, Chao Peng, Yunfei Ning, Zhanping You, Qifang Yin, Peiwen Guan, Dongjin Yang, and et. al.

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A Photothermal Hydrophobic Emulsified Asphalt Coating with Prussian Blue and Polytetrafluoroethylene for Improved Road Anti-Icing and Deicing, Chao Peng, Dongjin Yang, Zhanping You, Tianjun Li, Di Ruan, Peiwen Guan, Zhile Ye, Yunfei Ning, Ni Zhao, and Feiyu Yang

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Multidecadal patterns of coastal profile change reveal low likelihood of beach recovery following a period of high Lake Michigan water level, Nathaniel H. Penrod, Ethan J. Theuerkauf, Guy A. Meadows, and Lorelle A. Meadows

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Microbial Communities in Glacial Lakes of Glacier National Park, MT, USA, Logan M. Peoples, J Joseph Giersch, Tyler H. Tappenbeck, Joseph W. Vanderwall, John M. Ranieri, Trista J. Vick-Majors, and et. al.

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Metal-rich lacustrine sediments from legacy mining perpetuate copper exposure to aquatic-riparian food webs, Brittany G. Perrotta, Karen A. Kidd, Kate M. Campbell, Marie-Noële Croteau, Tyler J. Kane, Amy Marcarelli, R Blaine McCleskey, Gordon Paterson, Craig A. Stricker, and David M. Walters

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Effects of chronic metal exposure and metamorphosis on the microbiomes of larval and adult insects and riparian spiders through the aquatic-riparian food web, Brittany G. Perrotta, Karen A. Kidd, Amy Marcarelli, Gordon Paterson, and David M. Walters

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RSVP Keyboard with Inquiry Preview: mixed performance and user experience with an adaptive, multimodal typing interface combining EEG and switch input, Betts Peters, Basak Celik, Dylan Gaines, Deirdre Galvin-McLaughlin, Tales Imbiriba, Michelle Kinsella, Daniel Klee, Matthew Lawhead, Tab Memmott, Niklas Smedemark-Margulies, Jack Wiedrick, Deniz Erdogmus, Barry Oken, Keith Vertanen, and Melanie Fried-Oken

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Adaptive Radio Frequency Target Localization, Anthony A. Petrakian, Parker Segelhorst, Abigail Smith, Jeffery Dwayne Tippmann, and Zigfried Hampel-Arias

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Competency and Confidence in Qualitative Biomechanical Assessment of Exercise Technique Among Exercise Professionals, Erich Petushek, Sarah Breen, Gregory D. Myer, Beau P. Dupuis, Sandor Dorgo, William Ebben, and Tron Krosshaug

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Biopsychosocial profiles following ACL reconstruction: A latent class analysis of barriers to return-to-activity, Erich Petushek, Matthew S. Harkey, Kim Santiago, Alexander Stamm, Shelby Baez, Jed A. Diekfuss, Gregory D. Myer, and Christopher Kuenze

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High-heat transfer lithium-ion batteries: A new era in battery thermal management, Alfred J. Piggott, Jeffrey S. Allen, and Ahmad A. Pesaran

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Multiscale Modeling of Thermoplastics Using Atomistic-Informed Micromechanics, Evan J. Pineda, Jamal F. Husseini, Josh Kemppainen, Brett A. Bednarcyk, William A. Pisani, Gregory Odegard, and Scott E. Stapleton

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Minimax Approximation of the l1-ball by Ellipsoids, Iosif Pinelis

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Preservation of the Bernstein property for sums of independent random variables, Iosif Pinelis

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PLM-DBPs: enhancing plant DNA-binding protein prediction by integrating sequence-based and structure-aware protein language models, Suresh Pokharel, Kepha Barasa, Pawel Pratyush, and Dukka B. Kc

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Empirical Analysis on Machine Vision Recognition of Green Bike Lanes for Vulnerable Road Users Safety, Venkata Naga Rithika Ponnuru, Sushanta Das, Joseph Grant, Jeffrey Naber, and Mojtaba Bahramgiri

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Real-Time Dynamic Mass Learning Algorithm for Connected and Automated Light-Duty Vehicles, Aman Poovalappil, Andrew Robare, Peter Apostol, Mojtaba Bahramgiri, Bo Chen, Jeffrey Naber, and Darrell Robinette

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On-Road Investigation of Energy Saving Opportunity for Autonomous Light-Duty Vehicles through Automated Vehicle-Following in Safe Distance Scenarios, Aman Poovalappil, Andrew Robare, Logan Schexnaydre, Pruthwiraj Santhosh, Mojtaba Bahramgiri, Jeremy Bos, Bo Chen, Jeffrey Naber, and Darrell Robinette

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CaLMPhosKAN: Prediction of general phosphorylation sites in proteins via fusion of codon aware embeddings with amino acid aware embeddings and wavelet-based Kolmogorov-Arnold network, Pawel Pratyush, Callen Carrier, Suresh Pokharel, Hamid D. Ismail, Meenal Chaudhari, and Dukka B. Kc

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Advances in Prediction of Posttranslational Modification Sites Known to Localize in Protein Supersecondary Structures, Pawel Pratyush and Dukka KC

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LMPTMSite: A Platform for PTM Site Prediction in Proteins Leveraging Transformer-Based Protein Language Models, Pawel Pratyush, Suresh Pokharel, Hamid D. Ismail, Soufia Bahmani, and Dukka B. Kc

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Coupled Lake-Atmosphere-Land Physics Uncertainties in a Great Lakes Regional Climate Model, William J. Pringle, Chenfu Huang, Pengfei Xue, Jiali Wang, Khachik Sargsyan, Miraj Kayastha, and et. al.

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Template Inversion Attack Against Face Recognition Systems in Smart Cities with a Tiny Dataset, Shengyang Qin, Xinyu Lei, Hongyu Huang, Xu Zhou, Cong Yang, and Nankun Mu

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Uncovering Risks of Data-Free Feature Vector Inversion Attacks Against Vector Databases, Shengyang Qin, Xinyu Lei, Nankun Mu, Hongyu Huang, Tian Xie, and Xiao Zhang

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Imine Crosslinked, Injectable, and Self-Healing Fucoidan Hydrogel with Immunomodulatory Properties, Asma Talib Qureshi, Shajia Afrin, Saad Asim, and Muhammad Rizwan

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Overview of biodegradable materials for bone repair and osteosarcoma treatment: From bulk to scaffolds, Shebeer A. Rahim, Hamid R. Bakhsheshi-Rad, Joseph Licavoli, Brandon W. Jonard, and Jaroslaw Drelich

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Microstructural control of Zn alloy by melt spinning - A novel approach towards fabrication of advanced biodegradable biomedical materials, Shebeer A. Rahim, Joseph Tomei, Joseph Licavoli, Hamid R. Bakhsheshi-Rad, Jeremy Goldman, and Jaroslaw W Drelich

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NOx-responsive nitrogen-doped line defective graphene nanosensor, B. Keshav Rao, Debora C.M. Rodrigues, Wanderlã L. Scopel, Rodrigo G. Amorim, and Ravindra Pandey

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Effect of Aging Duration on the Microstructure and Corrosion Characteristics of 17-4 PH Stainless Steel, G. Narasinga Rao, Subrat Kumar Baral, Y. Madhavi, Sriram Vijayan, and Ravikumar Dumpala

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Biomedically vibrant and cost-effective biocomposite bone plate – development and testing, Asif Mahmud Rayhan, Md Enamul Hoque, and Adib Bin Rashid

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Numerical simulation of hollow-cone hydrogen underexpanded jet injection using a phenomenological barrel shock model, Youngchul Ra, Hyejun Won, Ashwin Karthik Purushothaman, Ashwin Karthik Purushothaman, Si won Lee, and Jae woo Chung

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A controlled-source physical model for long period seismic events, Sananda Ray, Gregory P. Waite, and Radwin Askari

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Chlorocatechol-functionalized gelatin nanoparticles as a hemostatic agent with antimicrobial properties, Fatemeh Razaviamri, James Manuel, Kan Wang, Zhongtian Zhang, and Bruce P Lee