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1,096 claims from 689 papers are on the record. 39 have been checked so far; the other 1,057 have no check with a result yet.

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1,057 claims from 652 papers, showing 181–200 of 652

  1. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 1208.2957

    arXiv 1208.2957: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“Better results were obtained when the Solar System was assumed to have five giant planets initially and one ice giant, with the mass comparable to that of Uranus and Neptune, was ejected into interstellar space by Jupiter.”
    2. Unchecked“We found that the dynamical evolution is typically too violent, if Jupiter and Saturn start in the 3:2 resonance, leading to ejection of at least one ice giant from the Solar System.”
    3. Unchecked“The best results were obtained when the ejected planet was placed into the external 3:2 or 4:3 resonance with Saturn and M_disk ~ 20 M_Earth.”
  2. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Experience-dependent rescaling of entorhinal grids

    Barry, Hayman, Burgess and Jeffery · Nature Neuroscience · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“Thus grid scale reflects an interaction between intrinsic, path-integrative calculation of location and learned associations to the external environment.”
  3. Physics and Astronomy › Complex Network Analysis Techniques

    The phase transition in inhomogeneous random graphs

    Bollobás, Janson and Riordan · Random Structures and Algorithms · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“We also consider other properties of the model, showing, for example, that when there is a giant component, it is `stable': for a typical random graph, no matter how we add or delete o(n) edges, the size of the giant component does not change by more than o(…
  4. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 2102.03029

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    1. Unchecked“The C2DB is a highly curated open database organizing a wealth of computed properties for more than 4000 atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials.”
  5. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum

    Boccara, Sargolini, Thoresen et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“The proportion of grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum was comparable to deep layers of MEC.”
    2. Unchecked“In rats, we found that one of the cell types, the grid cell, was abundant not only in medial entorhinal cortex (MEC), where it was first reported, but also in pre- and parasubiculum.”
    3. Unchecked“The symmetry of the grid pattern and its relationship to the theta rhythm were weaker, especially in presubiculum.”
  6. Computer Science

    A Refined Laser Method and Faster Matrix Multiplication

    Alman and Vassilevska Williams · TheoretiCS 3 (2024) · 2020 · arXiv 2010.05846

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    1. Unchecked“Thus, even before computing any specific values, it is clear that we achieve an improved bound on $ω$, and we indeed obtain the best bound on $ω$ to date: $$ω< 2.37286.$$”
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

    Is There a Debt-Threshold Effect on Output Growth?

    Chudík, Mohaddes, Pesaran and Raissi · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“In the empirical application, using data on a sample of forty countries over the 1965–2010 period, we find no evidence for a universally applicable threshold effect in the relationship between public debt and economic growth.”
    2. Unchecked“Regardless of the threshold, however, we find significant negative effects of public debt buildup on output growth.”
  8. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    The Origin of Pluto's Orbit: Implications for the Solar System Beyond Neptune

    Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 1995

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    1. Unchecked“Some consequences of this evolution for the present-day dynamical structure of the trans-Neptunian region are: (i) most of the objects in the region beyond Neptune and up to $\sim\!50$ AU exist in very narrow zones located at orbital resonances with Neptune…
  9. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Neural Networks for Postprocessing Ensemble Weather Forecasts

    Rasp and Lerch · Monthly Weather Review · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“In a case study of 2-meter temperature forecasts at surface stations in Germany, the neural network approach significantly outperforms benchmark post-processing methods while being computationally more affordable.”
    2. Unchecked“Key components to this improvement are the use of auxiliary predictor variables and station-specific information with the help of embeddings.”
  10. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    ElemNet: Deep Learning the Chemistry of Materials From Only Elemental Composition

    Jha, Ward, Paul et al. · Scientific Reports · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Here, we demonstrate that by using a deep learning approach, we can bypass such manual feature engineering requiring domain knowledge and achieve much better results, even with only a few thousand training samples.”
  11. Computer Science › Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications

    Mathematical discoveries from program search with large language models

    Romera‐Paredes, Barekatain, Novikov et al. · Nature · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Applying FunSearch to a central problem in extremal combinatorics—the cap set problem—we discover new constructions of large cap sets going beyond the best-known ones, both in finite dimensional and asymptotic cases.”
  12. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Activity flow over resting-state networks shapes cognitive task activations

    Cole, Ito, Bassett and Schultz · Nature Neuroscience · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“We found that estimating task-evoked activity flow (the spread of activation amplitudes) over resting-state FC networks allowed prediction of cognitive task activations in a large-scale neural network model.”
    2. Unchecked“Applying this insight to empirical functional MRI data, we found that cognitive task activations can be predicted in held-out brain regions (and held-out individuals) via estimated activity flow over resting-state FC networks.”
  13. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Lévy flight distribution: A new metaheuristic algorithm for solving engineering optimization problems

    Houssein, Saad, Hashim, Shaban and Hassaballah · Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“The statistical simulation results revealed that the LFD algorithm provides better results with superior performance in most tests compared to several well-known metaheuristic algorithms such as simulated annealing (SA), differential evolution (DE), particle…
    2. Unchecked“Eventually, the LFD algorithm performs successfully achieving a high coverage rate up to 43.16 %, while the A3, EECDS, and CDS-Rule K algorithms achieve low coverage rates up to 40 % based on network sizes used in the simulation experiments.”
  14. Mathematics

    arXiv cond-mat/0612365

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    1. Unchecked“For typical large instances, the two transitions are sharp.”
  15. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    Surprises in high-dimensional ridgeless least squares interpolation

    Hastie, A, Rosset and Tibshirani · The Annals of Statistics · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We recover—in a precise quantitative way—several phenomena that have been observed in large-scale neural networks and kernel machines, including the “double descent” behavior of the prediction risk, and the potential benefits of overparametrization.”
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Scaffolding protein functional sites using deep learning

    Wang, Lisanza, Juergens et al. · Science · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“The first approach, “constrained hallucination,” optimizes sequences such that their predicted structures contain the desired functional site.”
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

    Public Debt and Growth

    Woo and Kumar · IMF Working Paper · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“The empirical results suggest an inverse relationship between initial debt and subsequent growth, controlling for other determinants of growth: on average, a 10 percentage point increase in the initial debt-to-GDP ratio is associated with a slowdown in annua…
    2. Unchecked“There is some evidence of nonlinearity with higher levels of initial debt having a proportionately larger negative effect on subsequent growth.”
    3. Unchecked“Analysis of the components of growth suggests that the adverse effect largely reflects a slowdown in labor productivity growth mainly due to reduced investment and slower growth of capital stock.”
  18. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    A Disk of Scattered Icy Objects and the Origin of Jupiter-Family Comets

    Duncan and Levison · Science · 1997

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    1. Unchecked“A disk currently containing as few as ∼6 × 10 8 objects could supply all of the observed Jupiter-family comets.”
  19. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv astro-ph/0404456

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    1. Unchecked“Pre-discovery images from 2001, 2002, and 2003 have allowed us to refine the orbit sufficiently to conclude that 2003 VB12 is on a highly eccentric orbit which permanently resides well beyond the Kuiper belt with a semimajor axis of 480$\pm$40 AU and a perih…
  20. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Golden eagle optimizer: A nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm

    Mohammadi-Balani, Nayeri, Azar and Taghizadeh · Computers & Industrial Engineering · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Results were compared to that of two other multi-objective algorithms, which showed that it can approximate true Pareto optimal solutions better than the other two algorithms.”

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