The authors examined the relationships between S&P 500 Technology and Financials equity sectors and their corresponding investment-grade fixed-income markets from 1995 to 2025.
Read More...Sector Dynamics: Equity and fixed-income performance across market cycles
The authors examined the relationships between S&P 500 Technology and Financials equity sectors and their corresponding investment-grade fixed-income markets from 1995 to 2025.
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Comparing traveling salesman problem algorithms to chart delivery routes in a city
The authors studied optimized delivery routes to reduce travel times using different traveling salesman algorithms.
Read More...Mapping equity in California K-12 school solar adoption using computer vision
The authors investigated adoption rates of solar photovoltaic power at K-12 schools in California.
Read More...The impact of visual attention on visual working memory
The authors looked at how the focus of someone's attention impacted what information was retained in their working memory.
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The authors studied the effect of potassium bromate, a common food additive, to cell viability.
Read More...Influence of induction heating on static recrystallization kinetics of AISI 4130 steel
This article investigates whether induction heating can speed up static recrystallization in AISI 4130 steel compared with traditional radiant heating. It was found that induction-heated samples recrystallized faster, softened more quickly, and showed earlier microstructural changes like grain nucleation and pearlite spheroidization, suggesting induction heating could be a more efficient alternative for industrial metal heat treatments.
Read More...Impact of contamination variability on convolutional neural network accuracy in recycling classification
The authors looked at the ability of a convolutional neural network (CNN) to sort contaminated recycling, with varying levels of contamination. They found as contamination levels increased, the CNN faced more difficulty correctly classifying items.
Read More...Differential physiological response of microalgae exposed to petroleum- and bio-based microplastics
The authors test the effect of petroleum-based and bio-based microplastics on the growth of two microalgae species.
Read More...Measuring the effect of early universe dark matter on the primordial values of helium-4 and deuterium
Recent observations by the “Extremely Metal-Poor Representatives Explored by the Subaru Survey” (EMPRESS) collaboration found normal deuterium levels but unexpectedly low helium-4, challenging current cosmological theories. This study used simulations with the PRyMordial package to test whether dark matter particles interacting with neutrinos in the early universe could explain the discrepancy.
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