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Direct Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Helium Spectrum from 40 GeV to 250 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station
(APS, 2023-04-27)We present the results of a direct measurement of the cosmic-ray helium spectrum with the CALET instrument in operation on the International Space Station since 2015. The observation period covered by this analysis spans ... -
Spatial Coincidence between Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays and TeV Gamma Rays in the Direction of GRB 980425/SN 1998bw
(AAS, 2023-04)Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been suspected as possible ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) accelerators. In this brief note, I report that GRB 980425/SN 1998bw falls within the region of interest (ROI) with the ... -
Improving NASA’s Earth Satellite and Model Data Discoverability for Interdisciplinary Research, Applications, and Education
(Ubiquity Press, 2023-04-28)Since the Internet era began, numerous earth science data services have been developed to facilitate data discovery (e.g., data sources, documents, facts, visualization, opinions) and data access for research and application ... -
Antibiotic responsibility and agricultural publics: diverse stakeholder perceptions of antibiotic use in animal agriculture
(Springer Nature, 2023-05-01)This paper examines diverse perspectives around the concept of responsibility concerning antibiotic use in animal agriculture. Antibiotic use in agriculture has been identified as a source of antimicrobial resistance, one ... -
Deep Spatiotemporal Clustering: A Temporal Clustering Approach for Multi-dimensional Climate Data
(2023-04-27)Clustering high-dimensional spatiotemporal data using an unsupervised approach is a challenging problem for many data-driven applications. Existing state-of-the-art methods for unsupervised clustering use different similarity ... -
TinyM²Net-V2: A Compact Low Power Software Hardware Architecture for Multimodal Deep Neural Networks
(ACM, 2023-05-03)With the evaluation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), there has been a resurgence of interest in how to use AI algorithms on low-power embedded systems to broaden potential use cases of the Internet of Things (IoT). To mimic ... -
Plasma neurofilament light and brain volumetric outcomes among middle-aged urban adults
(Elsevier, 2023-05-02)Elevated plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL) is associated with dementia, though underlying mechanisms remain unknown. We examined cross-sectional relationships of time-dependent plasma NfL with selected brain structural ... -
Gravitational Redshift Detection from the Magnetic White Dwarf Harbored in RX J1712.6-2414
(2023-04-28)Gravitational redshift is a fundamental parameter that allows us to determine the mass-to-radius ratio of compact stellar objects, such as black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs (WDs). In the X-ray spectra of the ... -
Multi-Objective Optimal Design of a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot Based on an Adaptive Adjustment Inertia Weight Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm
(ASME, 2023-05-22)Cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) have been widely used in engineering fields because of their significant advantages including high load-bearing capacity, large workspace, and low inertia. However, the impact of ... -
Machine Learning Security as a Source of Unfairness in Human-Robot Interaction
(2023)Machine learning models that sense human speech, body placement, and other key features are commonplace in human-robot interaction. However, the deployment of such models in themselves is not without risk. Research in ... -
Reducing Aerosol Forcing Uncertainty By Combining Models with Satellite and Within-the-Atmosphere Observations: A Three-Way Street
(AGU, 2023-05-03)Aerosol forcing uncertainty represents the largest climate forcing uncertainty overall. Its magnitude has remained virtually undiminished over the past 20 years despite considerable advances in understanding most of the ... -
A Systematic Study on Object Recognition Using Millimeter-wave Radar
(2023-05-03)Due to its light and weather-independent sensing, millimeter-wave (MMW) radar is essential in smart environments. Intelligent vehicle systems and industry-grade MMW radars have integrated such capabilities. Industry-grade ... -
FIREBALL: A Dataset of Dungeons and Dragons Actual-Play with Structured Game State Information
(2023-05-02)Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is a tabletop roleplaying game with complex natural language interactions between players and hidden state information. Recent work has shown that large language models (LLMs) that have access to ... -
Atmospheric nourishment of global ocean ecosystems
(AAAS, 2023-05-04)Over the vast open ocean, vital nutrients for phytoplankton growth in the sunlit surface layer are largely provided through physical transport from deep waters, but some nutrients are also provided through atmospheric ... -
Can Feature Engineering Help Quantum Machine Learning for Malware Detection?
(2023-05-03)With the increasing number and sophistication of malware attacks, malware detection systems based on machine learning (ML) grow in importance. At the same time, many popular ML models used in malware classification are ... -
The Edge Effect
(QUBES, 2023-05-03)This module has students venturing outdoors to take a 50m transect and collect abundance data on plants utilizing quadrats in both edge and interior environment. Mathematically the goals of this module are to emphasize how ... -
Adaptive Nonlinear Control of a Bicopter with Unknown Dynamics
(2023-05-05)This paper presents an adaptive input-output linearization controller with a finite-time convergent parameter estimator for the multicopter trajectory following problem. The controller is constructed by augmenting ... -
RARES: Runtime Attack Resilient Embedded System Design Using Verified Proof-of-Execution
(2023-05-05)Modern society is getting accustomed to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) for a variety of applications that involves security-critical user data and information transfers. In the lower end of ... -
Info-Autopoiesis and the Limits of Artificial General Intelligence
(MDPI, 2023-05-07)Recent developments, begun by the ascending spiral of the anticipated endless prospects of ChatGPT, promote artificial intelligence (AI) as an indispensable tool and commodity whose time has come. Yet the sinister specter ... -
HeteroEdge: Addressing Asymmetry in Heterogeneous Collaborative Autonomous Systems
(2023-05-05)Gathering knowledge about surroundings and generating situational awareness for IoT devices is of utmost importance for systems developed for smart urban and uncontested environments. For example, a large-area surveillance ...
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