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JMIR Publications partners with Signals to strengthen research integrity across its portfolio

JMIR Publications
Business Announcement

JMIR Publications is pleased to announce an agreement with Signals Manuscript Checks to leverage their tool across their entire portfolio.

FAU Engineering study takes a ‘quantum leap’ to detect kidney disease

Florida Atlantic University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers explored how machine learning and quantum computing can be used to improve early detection of chronic kidney disease, aiming to develop faster, more accurate diagnostic tools for clinicians.

Journal: Informatics and Health

When AI draws our words

University of Liège
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Can we really trust artificial intelligence to illustrate our ideas? A team of scientists has examined the capabilities of Midjourney and DALL·E - two Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) software programs - to produce images from simple sentences. The verdict is mixed... between aesthetic feats and beginner's mistakes, machines still have a long way to go.

Mizzou researchers create a new way to study heart valve stiffness

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the University of Missouri are working to develop a new platform for testing treatments for heart valve stiffness—a condition caused by calcium buildup that can make it harder for the heart to pump blood efficiently.

Journal: Circulation Research

AI can deliver personalized learning at scale, study shows

Dartmouth College
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Dartmouth study finds that AI can deliver educational support that meets the individual needs of large numbers of students. The researchers are among the first to report that students may put more trust in platforms programmed to pull answers from only curated expert sources, but also highlight challenges educators may face in implementing generative AI chatbots.

Journal: npj Digital Medicine

AI’s energy usage is less than previously thought

University of Waterloo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Contrary to popular belief, new research finds that the use of artificial intelligence has a minimal effect on global greenhouse gas emissions and may actually benefit the environment and the economy.

For their study, researchers from the University of Waterloo and the Georgia Institute of Technology combined data on the U.S. economy with estimates of AI use across industries to determine the environmental fallout if AI use continues its current trajectory.

Journal: Environmental Research Letters

High-performance computing in Paderborn: new ‘Otus’ supercomputer put into operation

Universität Paderborn
Business Announcement

A computer that can calculate hundreds of scientific tasks simultaneously and thus helps provide a solution to key social challenges: this is the new IT heart of Paderborn University. The ‘Otus’ supercomputer was put into operation at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC2) on Monday 10 November. From now onwards, researchers all over Germany can use it to run challenging computer simulations and conduct scientific enquiry at the highest level.

AI world model to simulate the Earth System

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Grant and Award Announcement

Wildfires, flooding events, or droughts: a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) project at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) promises to be a game-changer in providing more precise, faster, and energy-efficient predictions of such events in a changing climate. In the “WOW – a World model of Our World” project, researchers will develop an AI world model that combines multiple specialized AI sub-models through shared “latent spaces”. Overall, this will provide an entirely new approach to simulate the highly complex climate system across scales, from changing global weather patterns to local impacts. The Carl-Zeiss-Foundation is funding the project with six million euros.

‘Cool’ signs based on a new colorful, flexible electronic display technology

American Chemical Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Electronic signs are all around us, giving directions or advertising the latest gadget. In ACS Energy Letters, researchers report that they’ve developed a dynamic display technology that dissipates heat instead of generating it when the color changes, cooling the surface underneath. They also showed the display could be attached to flexible backings and wrapped over skin. The passive cooling mechanism could usher in the next generation of sustainable, flexible outdoor signs and smart devices.

Journal: ACS Energy Letters