Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a leading cause of cancer mortality with limited therapeutic options. Despite ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

Abstract: Quantum walk-based search algorithms have demonstrated an asymptotic quadratic speedup compared to classical search methods. Formulating a generic search problem as a (quantum) search over a ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

The Meet in the Middle approach is an optimization technique for solving problems like the Subset Sum Problem, particularly when n is around 30–40. It reduces time complexity from O(2ⁿ) to O(2ⁿ/²), ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have emerged as a promising alternative to conventional ...

ABSTRACT: Soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) is significant to estimate the site-specific unsaturated soil properties (such as unsaturated shear strength and coefficient of permeability) for ...

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