Flexibility (engineering)
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glmmTMB Balances Speed and Flexibility Among Packages for Zero-inflated Generalized Linear Mixed Modeling Open
Count data can be analyzed using generalized linear mixed models when observations are correlated in ways that require random effects. However, count data are often zero-inflated, containing more zeros than would be expected from the typic…
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LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales Open
Since the classical molecular dynamics simulator LAMMPS was released as an open source code in 2004, it has become a widely-used tool for particle-based modeling of materials at length scales ranging from atomic to mesoscale to continuum. …
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ape 5.0: an environment for modern phylogenetics and evolutionary analyses in R Open
Summary After more than fifteen years of existence, the R package ape has continuously grown its contents, and has been used by a growing community of users. The release of version 5.0 has marked a leap towards a modern software for evolut…
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Hyperledger fabric Open
Fabric is a modular and extensible open-source system for deploying and operating permissioned blockchains and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by the Linux Foundation (www.hyperledger.org). Fabric is the first truly extensible block…
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Organic–Inorganic Perovskites: Structural Versatility for Functional Materials Design Open
Although known since the late 19th century, organic-inorganic perovskites have recently received extraordinary research community attention because of their unique physical properties, which make them promising candidates for application i…
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Intelligent Manufacturing in the Context of Industry 4.0: A Review Open
Our next generation of industry—Industry 4.0—holds the promise of increased flexibility in manufacturing, along with mass customization, better quality, and improved productivity. It thus enables companies to cope with the challenges of pr…
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Advances in engineering hydrogels Open
Wet, soft, squishy, and tunable Hydrogels are highly cross-linked polymer networks that are heavily swollen with water. Hydrogels have been used as dynamic, tunable, degradable materials for growing cells and tissues. Zhang and Khademhosse…
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Ammonia for power Open
A potential enabler of a low carbon economy is the energy vector hydrogen. However, issues associated with hydrogen storage and distribution are currently a barrier for its implementation. Hence, other indirect storage media such as ammoni…
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Characteristics of Qualitative Descriptive Studies: A Systematic Review Open
Qualitative description (QD) is a term that is widely used to describe qualitative studies of health care and nursing‐related phenomena. However, limited discussions regarding QD are found in the existing literature. In this systematic rev…
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Anchors: High-Precision Model-Agnostic Explanations Open
We introduce a novel model-agnostic system that explains the behavior of complex models with high-precision rules called anchors, representing local, "sufficient" conditions for predictions. We propose an algorithm to efficiently compute t…
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The relation between 21st-century skills and digital skills: A systematic literature review Open
Innovation starts with people, making the human capital within the workforce decisive. In a fast-changing knowledge economy, 21st-century digital skills drive organizations' competitiveness and innovation capacity. Although such skills are…
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An overview of the qualitative descriptive design within nursing research Open
Background Qualitative descriptive designs are common in nursing and healthcare research due to their inherent simplicity, flexibility and utility in diverse healthcare contexts. However, the application of descriptive research is sometime…
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InterPro in 2019: improving coverage, classification and access to protein sequence annotations Open
The InterPro database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/) classifies protein sequences into families and predicts the presence of functionally important domains and sites. Here, we report recent developments with InterPro (version 70.0) and i…
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Mordred: a molecular descriptor calculator Open
Molecular descriptors are widely employed to present molecular characteristics in cheminformatics. Various molecular-descriptor-calculation software programs have been developed. However, users of those programs must contend with several i…
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Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning Open
Building models that can be rapidly adapted to novel tasks using only a handful of annotated examples is an open challenge for multimodal machine learning research. We introduce Flamingo, a family of Visual Language Models (VLM) with this …
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Mosdepth: quick coverage calculation for genomes and exomes Open
Summary Mosdepth is a new command-line tool for rapidly calculating genome-wide sequencing coverage. It measures depth from BAM or CRAM files at either each nucleotide position in a genome or for sets of genomic regions. Genomic regions ma…
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Role of Molecular Dynamics and Related Methods in Drug Discovery Open
Molecular dynamics (MD) and related methods are close to becoming routine computational tools for drug discovery. Their main advantage is in explicitly treating structural flexibility and entropic effects. This allows a more accurate estim…
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Flexible Electronics toward Wearable Sensing Open
Wearable sensors play a crucial role in realizing personalized medicine, as they can continuously collect data from the human body to capture meaningful health status changes in time for preventive intervention. However, motion artifacts a…
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DynaMut: predicting the impact of mutations on protein conformation, flexibility and stability Open
Proteins are highly dynamic molecules, whose function is intrinsically linked to their molecular motions. Despite the pivotal role of protein dynamics, their computational simulation cost has led to most structure-based approaches for asse…
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Electrical and Electrochemical Properties of Conducting Polymers Open
Conducting polymers (CPs) have received much attention in both fundamental and practical studies because they have electrical and electrochemical properties similar to those of both traditional semiconductors and metals. CPs possess excell…
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Metal-organic framework functionalization and design strategies for advanced electrochemical energy storage devices Open
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of porous materials with unprecedented chemical and structural tunability. Their synthetic versatility, long-range order, and rich host–guest chemistry make MOFs ideal platforms for identifying d…
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Critical review of the molecular design progress in non-fullerene electron acceptors towards commercially viable organic solar cells Open
A critical analysis of the molecular design strategies employed in the recent progress of non-fullerene electron acceptors for organic photovoltaics.
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Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning Open
fastai is a deep learning library which provides practitioners with high-level components that can quickly and easily provide state-of-the-art results in standard deep learning domains, and provides researchers with low-level components th…
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A combined compromise solution (CoCoSo) method for multi-criteria decision-making problems Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the advantage of a combinatory methodology presented in this study. The paper suggests that the comparison with results of previously developed methods is in high agreement. Design/methodolog…
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A review of composite solid-state electrolytes for lithium batteries: fundamentals, key materials and advanced structures Open
All-solid-state lithium ion batteries (ASSLBs) are considered next-generation devices for energy storage due to their advantages in safety and potentially high energy density.
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Perovskites for Next-Generation Optical Sources Open
Next-generation displays and lighting technologies require efficient optical sources that combine brightness, color purity, stability, substrate flexibility. Metal halide perovskites have potential use in a wide range of applications, for …
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Perceptions of medical students towards online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national cross-sectional survey of 2721 UK medical students Open
Objectives To investigate perceptions of medical students on the role of online teaching in facilitating medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design Cross-sectional, online national survey. Setting Responses collected online fro…
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Improving the usefulness of a tool for appraising the quality of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies, the <span>Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool</span> (<span>MMAT</span>) Open
Rationale, aims, and objectives Systematic reviews combining qualitative, quantitative, and/or mixed methods studies are increasingly popular because of their potential for addressing complex interventions and phenomena, specifically for a…
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Multiscale structural similarity for image quality assessment Open
The structural similarity image quality paradigm is based on the assumption that the human visual system is highly adapted for extracting structural information from the scene, and therefore a measure of structural similarity can provide a…
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Catechol-functionalized hydrogels: biomimetic design, adhesion mechanism, and biomedical applications Open
This review presents insights into the fundamental challenges of wet adhesion, and the applications of catechol-functionalized hydrogels in diverse areas.