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A Cartographic Turn? Bridging the Gap between Sciences and Technologies of the Inhabited Space

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Driving and suppressing the human language network using large language models

The conceptual foundations of innate immunity: Taking stock 30 years later

Geometric Learning: Leveraging differential geometry for learning and control

A Streamline Upwind Petrov-Galerkin Reduced Order Method for Advection-Dominated Partial Differential Equations Under Optimal Control

Anomalous and Chern topological waves in hyperbolic networks

Measurement of the K+ → π+γγ decay

Type-Preserving Compilation of Class-Based Languages

Towards Novel Evaluation Methods for Social Dialog Systems

Empathetic Conversational Agents for Distress Support

Resistances to change in urban travel behaviors

Complex Representation Learning with Graph Convolutional Networks for Knowledge Graph Alignment

Measurement of the 171Tm beta spectrum

Clustering and Informative Path Planning for 3D Gas Distribution Mapping: Algorithms and Performance Evaluation

Kinesthetic motor-imagery training improves performance on lexical-semantic access

Mapping Active Site Geometry to Activity in Immobilized Frustrated Lewis Pair Catalysts

A Lightweight Goal-Based model for Trajectory Prediction

Social/dialogical roles of social robots in supporting children's learning of language and literacy-A review and analysis of innovative roles

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