Last Heir or First Engineer? An Intellectual Portrait of Vincenzio Viviani through his Working Papers

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Last Heir or First Engineer? An Intellectual Portrait of Vincenzio Viviani through his Working Papers

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Bioengineering human mini-intestines with in vivo-like complexity and function

Towards Stable and Efficient Adversarial Training against $l_1$ Bounded Adversarial Attacks

Extension of the OFFBEAT fuel performance code to finite strains and validation against LOCA experiments

Gamma-Blind Fast Neutron Detection for Spent Nuclear Fuel Characterization

Reduced order modelling of nonaffine problems on parameterized NURBS multipatch geometries

Conjugate heat transfer in isolated granular clusters with interstitial fluid using lattice Boltzmann method

An unrefinement algorithm for planar THB-spline parameterizations

Stabilized isogeometric discretizations on trimmed and union geometries, and weak imposition of the boundary conditions for the Darcy flow

Validation of spent nuclear fuel decay heat calculations using Polaris, ORIGEN and CASMO5

How Leibniz read Pascal’s Geometry: The Practice of Reading as Hybrid Hermeneutics in the Materiality of Leibniz’s Pascaliana

Data-Driven Predictive Models: Calculational Bias in Characterization of Spent Nuclear Fuel

GeoNeRF: Generalizing NeRF with Geometry Priors

RADCAM-A radiation camera system combining foil bolometers, AXUV diodes, and filtered soft x-ray diodes

Relative, local and global dimension in complex networks

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