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Generalizing Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Processing for Data Science: From Data to Threads and Agent-Based Simulations

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Traversing Time Dependent Light Fields for Daylight Glare Evaluation

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To understand how daylight gives shape and life to architectural spaces, whether existing or imagined, requires quantifying its dynamism and energy. Maintaining these details presents a challenge to simulation and analysis methods that flatten data into di ...

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Difference-frequency generation in optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

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Source noise suppression in attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy by edge-pixel referencing

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Simulation-based optimization models are widely applied to find optimal operating conditions of processes. Often, computational challenges arise from model complexity, making the generation of reliable design solutions difficult. We propose an algorithm fo ...

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Integrated Simulation Approach to Loss Calculations of Power Converter Systems

Drazen Dujic, Min Luo, Nikolina Djekanovic

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Magnetization transfer in magnetic resonance fingerprinting

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Delay-And-Sum (DAS), the state-of-art in ultrasound imaging, is known to be sub-optimal, resulting in low resolution and contrast. Most proposed improvements involve ad-hoc re-weighting, or hit computational bottlenecks given real-time requirements. This p ...

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