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Design standards for icons: The independent role of aesthetics, visual complexity and concreteness in icon design and icon understanding

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Online Dating Quantification Practices: A Human-Machine Learning Process

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The phenomenon of online dating via web and mobile phone applications involves several actors: graphical interfaces, developers, algorithmic systems for user matching, and users. These actors have been studied in parallel by the social sciences and by comp ...

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User Expectations of Conversational Chatbots Based on Online Reviews

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On the non-existence of stepped-pressure equilibria far from symmetry

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The Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code (SPEC) (Hudson et al 2012 Phys. Plasmas 19 112502) has been successful in the construction of equilibria in 3D configurations that contain a mixture of flux surfaces, islands and chaotic magnetic field lines. In this m ...

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Sketch2Mesh: Reconstructing and Editing 3D Shapes from Sketches

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