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The authors monitored water quality over time looking for influences from construction and deforestation.
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The authors looked at how different blends of synthetic and non-synthetic fabrics protected against UV radiation.
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The authors survey high school students regarding preferences for taking notes by hand versus typing.
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The authors looked at the importance of different point breakdowns needed to win in a game of tennis.
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The authors employ computational protein design to identify a mini-protein with the potential to enhance binding of the tight junction protein, claudin-5, at the blood-blood barrier with therapeutic potential for neurodegenerative diseases.
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The authors looked at what conditions with host stars favor development of exoplanets.
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The authors compare current machine learning algorithms with a new Explainable AI algorithm that produces a human-comprehensible decision tree alongside predictions.
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The authors looked at ways to provide better forecasting on website traffic. They found that deep learning models performed better than statistical models.
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