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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Serendipity"”.
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Courting Serendipity: The Search for Transient Radio Signals
The transient radio sky remains a frontier of observational astronomy, not for lack of scientific promise, but for practical obstacles: terrestrial radio frequency interference (RFI) and limited computing power. Today, a confluence of new RFI mitigation techniques and computing power makes a …
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Making serendipity stick : translating short, live online interactions into meaningful relationships
Deep personal connections foster rich learning. Making such connections is one of the most valuable benefits of attending face-to-face conferences. Online technologies offer the opportunity to meet with more people at a fraction of the cost. However, it is more challenging to experience the …
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Engineering serendipity : Terra Incognita and other strange encounters with global news
There is a significant body of research that shows that people tend to congregate with others like them and favor information that confirms their existing views. With declining global news coverage and the rise of personalized news feeds and social media, there is concern that our forms of …
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Serendipity Project : the occurrence and development of events in a happy or beneficial way
This report consolidates a number of working methods/methodology by the originator in order to create outputs using drawing, photography and film in order to visually capture the creative ‘spontaneous’ potential of a given moment, or creative act. A phenomenological approach to ‘making ready’ for …
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Spontaneity to serendipity: from an enediyne core biosynthetic hypothesis to the hexadehydro-Diels-Alder reaction
Enediyne containing natural products have promising potential as cancer therapeutics due to their unique molecular architecture. The (Z)-1,5-diyn-3-ene subunit in the enediyne core can undergo cycloaromatization to yield a diradical capable of scission of the DNA double helix. While the biological …
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Conceptualizing an online platform to facilitate purposeful serendipity, meaningful networking and hiring, through play and creative collaborations.
… ‘How can we spark purposeful serendipity to catalyze creative collaborations & innovation?’ ‘How to find and network with professionally resonating individuals in a chaotic world?’ I went through 4 research strategies to answer the above questions: 1) Studying the existing …
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Genomics research and cultivating serendipity in pharmaceutical drug discovery : assessing the competitiveness of R&D productivity between the West and Asia
… discovery is characteristically attributed to serendipity. Collectively, pharmacological compounds were identified that targeted the products of -400-500 genes in the human body over the past five decades. These single-molecular targets-the majority of which are mechanistically overrepresented …
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The Odd Witch
<p>This children's novel follows the young witch, Serendipity, as she navigates a new school and grapples with her lack of ability to wield the power of superstition.</p>
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ENHANCING USER ENGAGEMENT WITH ONLINE INFORMATION: THE IMPACTS OF ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT LAYOUT AND SERENDIPITOUS RECOMMENDATION
… ad effectiveness. Study Two presents a new serendipity-related dataset and proposes novel serendipitous recommender systems to address the problem of overspecification in recommendation. By leveraging transfer learning and multi-objective optimization techniques, our models improve over …
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From efficient high-order methods to scientific machine learning.
… savings by exploiting the structure of serendipity elements and developing a wrapper that integrates Machine Learning with FEM packages. First, we focus on implicit Runge-Kutta methods which possess high-order accuracy and important stability properties. Implementation difficulties and …
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From efficient high-order methods to scientific machine learning.
… savings by exploiting the structure of serendipity elements and developing a wrapper that integrates Machine Learning with FEM packages. First, we focus on implicit Runge-Kutta methods which possess high-order accuracy and important stability properties. Implementation difficulties and …
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An architectural vernacular and the design of college park airport museum
… language helps to eliminate random forms and serendipity. Through the use of this vernacular I will be able to rationalize, validate and justify my design.
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Higher order mesh curving using geometry curvature extrapolation
… are positioned using the basis functions for serendipity face and volume elements. Parameters are defined which allow user specified control over element quality and the propagation of curvature in the mesh. Curved higher order meshes are shown for test cases in both two and three dimensions.
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Towards Digital Liminality : computational tools for 'beyond average' creative thinking
… are limited when it comes to embracing the serendipity that can inspire creative breakthroughs. How can we develop digital tools to augment this liminal period of the creative process and help designers discover unexpected ideas?
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Impact Fiction: the Gentle Art of Bending the Near Future.
… tangle of polychotomies’. For which, a certain serendipity — driven with applied intent — appears requisite; done by vesting high relevance MC; situated in context at the most “upstream” source of segment needs or desires. Impact-innovation outcomes require the mindsets of myriad Leaders to …
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Design, Synthesis and Characterization of D-glucosamine Low Molecular Weight Gelators
… Most of the gelators were discovered through serendipity, and their structural requirements are somewhat ambiguous. This is due, in part, to the fact that the supramolecular gelation phenomenon is not yet fully understood, though many structural classes have been found to be excellent …
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Road Stories
… that explore the pull, allure, sanctuary, serendipity, and adventure of life on the open road. The novellas examine how for some, the road holds the promise of a new day, an improved life, a better opportunity, or a deeper love; while for others, it is nothing more than an assortment of …
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Formulating design rules to predict 2D materials and heterostructures for next-generation electronics
… for a given property will reduce reliance on serendipity in materials design and help us answer questions like, what is the ideal mix of elements for a “beyond-silicon” device, or a high-temperature superconductor. In this thesis, by employing first-principles quantum theory methods, …
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On Indigenous Tax Consciousness: The Socio-Legal History of the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government, 1938-1987
… good timing, a few key individuals, and some serendipity. Most importantly, however, Indigenous tax consciousness goes hand in hand with a profound desire to seek political, economic, and cultural empowerment.
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Painting with data : from a computational history of urban models to an alternative urban computing
… It operates through a careful combination of serendipity and habit. The success and survival of the city lies on its capacity to create opportunistic and unexpected connections, and transformations: serendipity beyond habit. Nevertheless, urban planning's relationship to policy-making has …
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