Despite the impressive success of deep-learning models on unstructured data (e.g., images, audio, text), tree-based ensembles such as random forests and gradient-boosted trees are hugely popular and remain the preferred ...

As social media occupies an increasingly important place in people’s lives, new opportunities are presented for people to select and modify their online environments. On many platforms, users have significant control over ...

Lower-class language, logics, and ways of being have been excluded from higher education, especially at selective universities. Fewer people from the lower classes enroll, and those who manage to matriculate do so as ...

As there is a growing population of non-native speakers worldwide, facilitating communication involving native and non-native speakers has become increasingly important. While one way to help communication involving native ...

Synthesis of new materials drives technological advances, but the ability to consistently predict and synthesize a material with specific properties remains unrealized, especially for metastable materials. Using the modulated ...

Parental mind-mindedness refers to caregivers’ propensity to attribute mind-like and intentional qualities in their interactions with or representation of their young children. It is proposed to be associated with positive ...

We investigate the role of time-frequency entanglement in nonlinear interactions of both low- and high-gain broadband squeezed vacuum. Our work is motivated by the large body of research proposing the use of time-frequency ...

Massage parlors in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District have experienced heightened police surveillance, mobilized by legislation that increasingly regulates massage labor performed by Asian migrant women. This wave ...

DNA functions as a stable repository for heritable information across generations. However, the structure of DNA within the cell must be dynamic, allowing for thermally induced fluctuations to facilitate the recognition ...

Increased concern for changing population dynamics in abalone fisheries has necessitated shifts in conservation and management. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) results indicate that red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) in Oregon ...