Computer Science / Engineering posts
- April 23, 2014
- 11:32 AM
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Plasmonic Metamaterials Could Improve Solar Cell Performance
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
New plasmonic metamaterials that operate at high temperatures could radically improve solar cell performance and bring advanced computer data storage technology that uses heat to record information on a magnetic disk.... Read more »
Guler, U., Boltasseva, A., & Shalaev, V. (2014) Refractory Plasmonics. Science, 344(6181), 263-264. DOI: 10.1126/science.1252722
- April 21, 2014
- 04:03 PM
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Pyrolysis Biofuel Production Process Simplified
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Innovations at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are bringing researchers one step closer to developing “green” biofuel production systems farmers can use to meet on-farm energy needs, or to produce renewable fuels for commercial markets.... Read more »
Pourhashem, G., Spatari, S., Boateng, A., McAloon, A., & Mullen, C. (2013) Life Cycle Environmental and Economic Tradeoffs of Using Fast Pyrolysis Products for Power Generation. Energy , 27(5), 2578-2587. DOI: 10.1021/ef3016206
- April 21, 2014
- 07:18 AM
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What makes music groovy?
by Henkjan Honing in Music Matters
Last week PLOS ONE published an interesting study on rhythm, groove and syncopation that uses an often criticized methodology: questionnaire and web-based research...... Read more »
Witek, M., Clarke, E., Wallentin, M., Kringelbach, M., & Vuust, P. (2014) Syncopation, Body-Movement and Pleasure in Groove Music. PLoS ONE, 9(4). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094446
Honing, H., & Reips, U.-D. (2008) Web-based versus lab-based studies: a response to Kendall (2008). Empirical Musicology Review, 3(2), 73-77. info:/
- April 20, 2014
- 11:45 PM
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Cross-validation in finance, psychology, and political science
by Artem Kaznatcheev in Evolutionary Games Group
A large chunk of machine learning (although not all of it) is concerned with predictive modeling, usually in the form of designing an algorithm that takes in some data set and returns an algorithm (or sometimes, a description of an algorithm) for making predictions based on future data. In terminology more friendly to the philosophy […]... Read more »
Bailey, D., Borwein, J., de Prado, M.L., & Zhu, Q. (2014) Pseudo-Mathematics and Financial Charlatanism: The Effects of Backtest Overfitting on Out-of-Sample Performance. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 61(5), 458. DOI: 10.1090/noti1105
- April 18, 2014
- 11:04 AM
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Danish Project to Make Polymer Solar Cells More Profitable
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Project Megawatt intends to make polymer solar cells profitable enough to allow power generation from polymer solar cells to compete on market terms with traditional coal-fired power plants.... Read more »
Krebs, F., Espinosa, N., Hösel, M., Søndergaard, R., & Jørgensen, M. (2014) 25th Anniversary Article: Rise to Power - OPV-Based Solar Parks. Advanced Materials, 26(1), 29-39. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201302031
Sommer-Larsen, P., Jørgensen, M., Søndergaard, R., Hösel, M., & Krebs, F. (2013) It is all in the Pattern-High-Efficiency Power Extraction from Polymer Solar Cells through High-Voltage Serial Connection. Energy Technology, 1(1), 15-19. DOI: 10.1002/ente.200055
- April 15, 2014
- 02:17 PM
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Airborne Wind Turbines Have Significant Potential, Study Finds
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Airborne wind turbines hovering high in the air and tethered to the ground, like kites, have the potential to generate huge amounts of electricity, based on a recent wind availability study led by the University of Delaware.... Read more »
Archer, C., Delle Monache, L., & Rife, D. (2014) Airborne wind energy: Optimal locations and variability. Renewable Energy, 180-186. DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.10.044
- April 13, 2014
- 11:45 PM
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Big data, prediction, and scientism in the social sciences
by Artem Kaznatcheev in Evolutionary Games Group
Much of my undergrad was spent studying physics, and although I still think that a physics background is great for a theorists in any field, there are some downsides. For example, I used to make jokes like: “soft isn’t the opposite of hard sciences, easy is.” Thankfully, over the years I have started to slowly […]... Read more »
Lazer, D., Kennedy, R., King, G., & Vespignani, A. (2014) Big data. The parable of Google Flu: traps in big data analysis. Science, 343(6176), 1203-1205. PMID: 24626916
- April 13, 2014
- 01:56 PM
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Intro to External Pulsed Plasma Propulsion (EPPP)
by Jason Carr in Wired Cosmos
External Pulsed Plasma Propulsion (EPPP) is something that’s been discussed for some time. In fact, it was originally proposed by Stanislaw Ulam way back in 1947. Unfortunately the public perception of atomic technology as well as pieces of otherwise well meaning legislation have called into question the feasibility of spacecraft that operate using this advanced … Read More →... Read more »
J.A. Bonometti, & P. Jeff Morton. (2012) External pulsed plasma propulsion (EPPP) analysis maturation. 36th AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference. DOI: 10.2514/6.2000-3610
- April 13, 2014
- 11:59 AM
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The Curse of the Internet
by Aurametrix team in Health Technologies
It's hard to imagine our lives without the Internet - either mobile or desktop. The Internet has become a catalyst of innovation, an essential tool in business and social life. It brought new levels of participation and access to knowledge. It enabled new forms of interaction, albeit mostly utilized for entertainment purposes. But despite all the advantages and conveniences, does the Internet really serve us or is it the other way around?... Read more »
Pogue D. (2014) The curse of the cloud. Scientific American, 310(2), 28. PMID: 24640327
Wu F, & Xu L. (2013) Security analysis and Improvement of a Privacy Authentication Scheme for Telecare Medical Information Systems. Journal of medical systems, 37(4), 9958. PMID: 23818249
- April 12, 2014
- 12:12 PM
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Flexible Plastics Turn Vibrations Into Electrical Energy
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Kui Yao and co-workers from the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore have discovered a way to give lightweight polymer vibration harvesters a hundredfold boost in energy output—a finding that may help to eliminate manual battery recharging in microsensors and mobile devices. ... Read more »
Lei Zhang, ., Oh, S., Ting Chong Wong, ., Chin Yaw Tan, ., & Kui Yao, . (2013) Piezoelectric polymer multilayer on flexible substrate for energy harvesting. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 60(9), 2013-2020. DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2013.2786
- April 11, 2014
- 12:46 PM
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Variant Annotation in Coding Regions
by Daniel Koboldt in Massgenomics
The analysis of NGS data comes with many challenges — data management, read alignment, variant calling, etc. — that the bioinformatics community has tackled with some success. Today I want to discuss another critical component of analysis that remains an unsolved problem: annotation of genetic variants. This process, in which we try to predict the […]... Read more »
Davis J McCarthy, Peter Humburg, Alexander Kanapin, Manuel A Rivas, Kyle Gaulton, The WGS500 Consortium, Jean-Baptiste Cazier and Peter Donnelly. (2014) Choice of transcripts and software has a large effect on variant annotation. Genome Medicine, 6(26). info:/doi:10.1186/gm543
- April 9, 2014
- 12:03 PM
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Study Reveals Causes of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Degradation
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have made a surprising discovery about the degradation of dye-sensitized solar cells that could help pave the way to prolonging the lifetime of these cells.... Read more »
Ono, L., Schulz, P., Endres, J., Nikiforov, G., Kato, Y., Kahn, A., & Qi, Y. (2014) Air-Exposure-Induced Gas-Molecule Incorporation into Spiro-MeOTAD Films. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 1374-1379. DOI: 10.1021/jz500414m
- April 8, 2014
- 09:37 AM
- 81 views
Researchers Use Sun to Make Solar Energy Materials
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered a way to tap the sun not only as a source of power, but also to directly produce the solar energy materials that make this possible.... Read more »
Kim, K., Oleksak, R., Pan, C., Knapp, M., Kreider, P., Herman, G., & Chang, C. (2014) Continuous synthesis of colloidal chalcopyrite copper indium diselenide nanocrystal inks. RSC Advances, 4(32), 16418. DOI: 10.1039/c4ra01582g
- April 6, 2014
- 11:45 PM
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Kleene’s variant of the Church-Turing thesis
by Artem Kaznatcheev in Evolutionary Games Group
In 1936, Alonzo Church, Alan Turing, and Emil Post each published independent papers on the Entscheidungsproblem and introducing the lambda calculus, Turing machines, and Post-Turing machines as mathematical models of computation. A myriad of other models followed, many of them taking seemingly unrelated approaches to the computable: algebraic, combinatorial, linguistic, logical, mechanistic, etc. Of course, […]... Read more »
Dershowitz, N., & Gurevich, Y. (2008) A natural axiomatization of computability and proof of Church's Thesis. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 14(3), 299-350. DOI: 10.2178/bsl/1231081370
- April 6, 2014
- 04:19 PM
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Scientists Determine Most Favorable Wind Turbine Positioning
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has developed a new way to study wake effects that takes into account the airflow both within and around a wind farm and challenges the conventional belief that turbines arrayed in checker board patterns produce the highest power output.... Read more »
Stevens, R., Gayme, D., & Meneveau, C. (2014) Large eddy simulation studies of the effects of alignment and wind farm length. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 6(2), 23105. DOI: 10.1063/1.4869568
- April 1, 2014
- 10:17 PM
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Good vibrations: Using light-heated water to deliver drugs
by Jason Carr in Wired Cosmos
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, in collaboration with materials scientists, engineers and neurobiologists, have discovered a new mechanism for using light to activate drug-delivering nanoparticles and other targeted therapeutic substances inside the body. This discovery represents a major innovation, said Adah Almutairi, PhD, associate professor … Read More →... Read more »
Viger, M., Sheng, W., Dore, K., Alhasan, A., Carling, C., Lux, J., de Gracia Lux, C., Grossman, M., Malinow, R., & Almutairi, A. (2014) Near Infrared-Induced Heating of Confined Water in Polymeric Particles for Efficient Payload Release. ACS Nano, 2147483647. DOI: 10.1021/nn500702g
- April 1, 2014
- 11:13 AM
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Multilayered Waveguide Array Opens New Possibilities in Solar Power
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
A new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo explores the use of a nanoscale microchip ... Read more »
Ji, D., Song, H., Zeng, X., Hu, H., Liu, K., Zhang, N., & Gan, Q. (2014) Broadband absorption engineering of hyperbolic metafilm patterns. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/srep04498
- March 31, 2014
- 09:03 PM
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How to Incorporate Elusive Atoms into Nanodiamond
by Shannon Demlow in Blingtronics - Science, Engineering and Diamonds
In an article published last week in Nature Communications [1], Andrew Magyar and coworkers described a method for getting europium with a particular electronic structure into diamond. Before we examine the how let's look for a second at the why, as in, "why would you want to put europium into nanodiamond?"... Read more »
Magyar, A., Hu, W., Shanley, T., Flatté, M., Hu, E., & Aharonovich, I. (2014) Synthesis of luminescent europium defects in diamond. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4523
Mochalin, V., Shenderova, O., Ho, D., & Gogotsi, Y. (2011) The properties and applications of nanodiamonds. Nature Nanotechnology, 7(1), 11-23. DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.209
Williams, O., Nesladek, M., Daenen, M., Michaelson, S., Hoffman, A., Osawa, E., Haenen, K., & Jackman, R. (2008) Growth, electronic properties and applications of nanodiamond. Diamond and Related Materials, 17(7-10), 1080-1088. DOI: 10.1016/j.diamond.2008.01.103
- March 30, 2014
- 01:20 PM
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New Magnetic Materials Hold Promise for Better Generators
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Scientists from the Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M) are developing a new type of tidal energy generator that will be cheaper and more efficient. The device would replace conventional magnetic materials for new materials that are made using an alternative technology.... Read more »
Torralba, J., Hidalgo, J., & Morales, A. (2013) Powder injection moulding: processing of small parts of complex shape. International Journal of Microstructure and Materials Properties, 8(1/2), 87. DOI: 10.1504/IJMMP.2013.052648
- March 29, 2014
- 01:37 PM
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Supercomputers, The Human Brain and the Advent of Computational Biology
by JB Sheppard in Antisense Science
What makes a supercomputer different from a human brain, and how is this leading to a better understanding of ourselves? ... Read more »
Janes KA, Reinhardt HC, & Yaffe MB. (2008) Cytokine-induced signaling networks prioritize dynamic range over signal strength. Cell, 135(2), 343-54. PMID: 18957207
Yoon, B. (2009) Hidden Markov Models and their Applications in Biological Sequence Analysis. Current Genomics, 10(6), 402-415. DOI: 10.2174/138920209789177575
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