A curated list of academic phrases in research papers.
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| Word | Example |
|---|---|
| conduct | "The review will be conducted through the above broadened perspectives of human mobility." (Wang et al. 2019) |
| cater | "The present study proposes a universal approach to classifying intra-city tourists, which not only caters to the development of geo-big data but also incorporates the perspective of urban tourism functions." (Park et al. 2023) |
| deviate | "However, training LSTM with maximum likelihood estimation suffers from the exposure bias problem, where the generated samples might deviate from a realistic path with longer sequences." (Kun et al. 2018) |
| Word | Example |
|---|---|
| heuristic | "The A* algorithm is a heuristic search algorithm used extensively on the road network." (Jiang et al. 2023) |
| spherical | "The spherical distance can not accurately estimate the expected cost." (Jiang et al. 2023) |
- "Both class of methods have their own merits, and transportation system applications require the right methods." (Yu et al. 2019)
- thermal tumbler, thermal comfort
A spectacular superconductor claim is making news. Here’s why experts are doubtful (ADRIAN CHO, 2023)
- "This week, social media has been aflutter over a claim for a new superconductor that works not only well above room temperatures, but also at ambient pressure. If true, the discovery would be one of the biggest ever in condensed matter physics and could usher in all sorts of technological marvels, such as levitating vehicles and perfectly efficient electrical grids. ... On the other hand, he says, researchers at Argonne and elsewhere are already trying to replicate the experiment. ... What’s more, the disorder introduced by the doping ought to further suppress superconductivity. ... How will this be sorted out? The big question will be whether anybody can reproduce the observations. ... "
[accessed on 1 Aug, 2023]
ChatGPT-like AIs are coming to major science search engines (Richard Van Noorden, 2023)
Scopus, Dimensions and Web of Science are introducing conversational AI search.
- "... Many other AI search engine systems adopt a similar strategy, ... Elsevier has also cut down the unpredictability of its AI by picking a low setting for the bot’s ‘temperature’ — a measure of how often it chooses to deviate from the most plausible words in its response. ... Might users simply copy and paste the bot’s paragraphs into their own papers, effectively plagiarizing the tool? ... Elsevier has so far tackled this with guidance that asks researchers to use the summaries responsibly, he says. Khan points out that funders and publishers have issued similar guidance, asking for transparent disclosure if LLMs are used in, ... a search engine first retrieves relevant articles, ... "
[accessed on 2 Aug, 2023]
Is Fukushima wastewater release safe? What the science says (Bianca Nogrady, 2023)
Radiation in the water will be diluted to almost-background levels, but some researchers are not sure this will be sufficient to mitigate the risks
- "... Japan is pressing ahead with plans to release water contaminated by the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. ... Jim Smith, ..., says the risk this poses to nations around the Pacific Ocean will probably be negligible. ... But Richmond is concerned the tritium could concentrate in the food web as larger organisms eat smaller contaminated ones. ... Shigeyoshi Otosaka says that the organically bound form of tritium could accumulate in fish and marine organisms. ... “We have confirmed that the tritium concentrations in the bodies of marine organisms reach equilibrium after a certain period of time and do not exceed the concentrations in the living environment,” the spokesperson said. ... "
[accessed on 6 Sep, 2023]
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie, 2018)
- "Causal inference is all about taking this question seriously. It posits that the human brain is the most advanced tool ever devised for managing causes and effects. Our brains store an incredible amount of causal knowledge which, supplemented by data, we could harness to answer some of the most pressing questions of our time. More ambitiously, once we really understand the logic behind causal thinking, we could emulate it on modern computers and create an “artificial scientist.” This smart robot would discover yet unknown phenomena, find explanations to pending scientific dilemmas, design new experiments, and continually extract more causal knowledge from the environment."
[recorded on 24 Nov, 2023]