Abstract: The metaverse has the potential to revolutionize the next generation of the Internet by supporting highly interactive services with satisfactory user experience. The synchronization between ...

The Committee on Planetary Protection (CoPP) monitors progress implementing the planetary protection guidelines associated with priority programs and missions identified in the National Academies ...

Objectives To provide evidence of the magnitude of census undercounts of ‘hard-to-reach’ subpopulations and to improve estimation of the size of the urban indigenous population in Toronto, Canada, ...

Private equity (PE) firms have actively acquired substance use disorder treatment facilities in the past decade. Evidence on whether these acquisitions affect establishments’ operations is limited.

One of the coolest things about generative AI models — both large language models (LLMs) and diffusion-based image generators — is that they are "non-deterministic." That is, despite their reputation ...

Extropic is not a normal startup. But then, these are hardly normal times. The company is developing a radical new kind of computer chip that harnesses the thermodynamic fluctuations that naturally ...

ABSTRACT: The study sought to explore the state of budgeting at school level in a selected District in Zimbabwe. Freeman’s (2010) Stakeholder Theory guided this study. The theory focuses on, ...

Enhanced sampling (ES) simulations of biomolecular recognition, such as binding small molecules to proteins and nucleic acid targets, protein–protein association, and protein-nucleic acid interactions ...

A critical failure of the Bearspaw feeder main was identified as low probability in a City of Calgary assessment to prioritize asset inspections, prior to its rupture in June. The revelation came as ...

Abstract: In practical applications, sampled-data systems are often affected by unforeseen physical constraints that may cause deviations in the sampling interval from the expected value and result in ...