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Online surveys are a widely used form of data collection in many fields. Rapid deployment of large scale surveys is now commonplace using online tools such as SurveyMonkey. These tools however are constrained in a number of ways:
- Participants are required to interact with the survey through a custom website or app.
- In most cases, the entire survey has to be completed in one session.
- There are no easy ways to seamlessly follow up with participants at a later date.
In recent years, the production and sales of Electric Vehicles (EVs) have been known as an important growth worldwide. This evolution is mainly due to the severe limits regarding greenhouse gas emission that cannot be respected by internal combustion vehicles. The expected growth in EV adoption creates large opportunities for grid integration, through flexible smart charging and vehicle to grid (V2G) or vehicle to premises (V2P) to moderate peak demand.
Since the 1990s, researchers have known that commonly-used public-key cryptosystems (such as RSA and Diffie-Hellman systems) could be potentially broken using efficient algorithms running on a special type of computer based on the principles of quantum mechanics, known as a quantum computer. Due to significant recent advances in quantum computing technology, this threat may become a practical reality in the coming years. To mitigate against this threat, new `quantum-safe’ (a.k.a.
The last several years have witnessed the promising growth of AI-empowered techniques in mobile devices, from the camera to smart assistants. Users can find traces of AI in almost every aspect of mobile devices.
Traditional recommendation generation approaches mostly need to either collect and use expert rules or train learning models to generate recommendations. Generative AI tools show high potential to facilitate this process as their model has been trained on a large volume of scientific studies. They can generate content in a specific sentiment or mirror one’s lexicon by following instructions from the user. This feature contributes to improving the user experience, particularly when it is used for seeking health-related recommendations.…
Sodium ions play a central role in membrane transport and cell homeostasis. Increased sodium concentration has been observed in brain tumors as well as neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Huntington’s disease. While 23Na MRI of the human brain was first performed over 20 years ago, the low concentration of 23Na compared to 1H and rapid T2 decay resulted in low signal to noise (SNR) and long acquisition times, limiting its diagnostic feasibility.
The security threat by quantum computing to almost all currently used digital signatures was triggered by the discovery of Shor’s quantum algorithm, which efficiently breaks the two problems underlying the security of these schemes, namely integer factoring, and elliptic curve discrete logarithms (ECDLP). When quantum computers become widespread, all security for the current digital signatures that are widely used to secure a wide range of systems is lost.
Spontaneous synchronization is a common phenomenon occurring in diverse contexts, from a group of glowing fireflies at night or chirping crickets in a field to a network of coupled neurons in the brain. The study of synchronization helps to understand how uniform behaviors emerge in populations of heterogeneous neurons. At a macroscale level, the cortex operates in two classically-defined states: “synchronized” state which is characterized by strong low-frequency fluctuations and “desynchronized” state in which low-frequency fluctuations are suppressed…
Recent technological advances in micro and nano-fabrication technology and high-yield electrophysiology techniques allowed us to record the activity of hundreds/thousands of neurons simultaneously. This has spurred renewed interest in applying multi-electrode extracellular electrophysiology approaches in the field of neuroscience. Each electrode samples the activity of one or more neurons in its vicinity.
The evolutionary back and forth between hosts and mobile genetic elements drives the innovation of remarkable molecular strategies to sense or conceal foreign genetic material. The Knott Lab uses bioinformatics, biochemistry, and structural biology to understand how CRISPR-Cas and other novel immune systems specifically sense DNA or RNA. We aim to better understand the function of nucleic acid sensors to harness their activity as tools for molecular diagnostics or as innovative biomedicines.