This study presents a theoretical analysis of the deformation induced in an existing curved subway tunnel by a new shield tunnel crossing diagonally beneath it. A refined two-stage method is developed ...

Virological plaque assays are the primary method for quantifying infectious particles in a suspension, achieved by incubating a serial dilution of the virus with a monolayer of indicator cells.

There are so many benefits to participating in research early in your academic career, whether your plan is going to graduate school or going into industry---or even if you don't have a plan at all ...

MASA (Manufactured Analytical Solution Abstraction) is a library written in C++ (with C, python and Fortran90 interfaces) which provides a suite of manufactured solutions for the software verification ...

Inorganic materials that allow fast lithium-ion diffusion play a critical role as solid electrolytes in all-solid-state batteries. For decades, the paddlewheel effect, in which lithium-ion diffusion ...

GPUs have become a household name in High Performance Computing (HPC) systems over the last 15 years. However, programming GPUs is still largely a manual and arduous task, which requires expert ...

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Mechanical thrombectomy helps prevent disability in patients with acute ischemic stroke involving occlusion of a large cerebral vessel. Thrombectomy requires procedural expertise and not all hospitals ...

The drift-diffusion model (DDM) is an important decision-making model in cognitive neuroscience. However, innovations in model form have been limited by methodological challenges. Here, we introduce ...