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Identifying functional thermodynamics in autonomous Maxwellian ratchets by Boyd, Alexander B, Mandal, Dibyendu, Crutchfield, James P

“…We introduce a family of Maxwellian Demons for which correlations among information bearing degrees of freedom can be calculated exactly and in compact…”
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Thermodynamics of Modularity: Structural Costs Beyond the Landauer Bound by Boyd, Alexander B., Mandal, Dibyendu, Crutchfield, James P.

“…Information processing typically occurs via the composition of modular units, such as the universal logic gates found in discrete computation circuits. The…”
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Maxwell Demon Dynamics: Deterministic Chaos, the Szilard Map, and the Intelligence of Thermodynamic Systems by Boyd, Alexander B, Crutchfield, James P

“…We introduce a deterministic chaotic system-the Szilard map-that encapsulates the measurement, control, and erasure protocol by which Maxwellian demons extract…”
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The genome of tolypocladium inflatum: evolution, organization, and expression of the cyclosporin biosynthetic gene cluster by Bushley, Kathryn E, Raja, Rajani, Jaiswal, Pankaj, Cumbie, Jason S, Nonogaki, Mariko, Boyd, Alexander E, Owensby, C Alisha, Knaus, Brian J, Elser, Justin, Miller, Daniel, Di, Yanming, McPhail, Kerry L, Spatafora, Joseph W

“…The ascomycete fungus Tolypocladium inflatum, a pathogen of beetle larvae, is best known as the producer of the immunosuppressant drug cyclosporin. The draft…”
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Shortcuts to Thermodynamic Computing: The Cost of Fast and Faithful Information Processing by Boyd, Alexander B., Patra, Ayoti, Jarzynski, Christopher, Crutchfield, James P.

“…Landauer’s Principle states that the energy cost of information processing must exceed the product of the temperature, Boltzmann’s constant, and the change in…”
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Thermodynamic machine learning through maximum work production by Boyd, Alexander B, Crutchfield, James P, Gu, Mile

“…Abstract Adaptive systems—such as a biological organism gaining survival advantage, an autonomous robot executing a functional task, or a motor protein…”
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Untangling the Solar Wind and Magnetospheric Drivers of the Radiation Belt Electrons by Wing, Simon, Johnson, Jay R., Turner, Drew L., Ukhorskiy, Aleksandr Y., Boyd, Alexander J.

“…Many solar wind parameters correlate with one another, which complicates the causal‐effect studies of solar wind driving of the magnetosphere. Conditional…”
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Leveraging Environmental Correlations: The Thermodynamics of Requisite Variety by Boyd, Alexander B., Mandal, Dibyendu, Crutchfield, James P.

“…Key to biological success, the requisite variety that confronts an adaptive organism is the set of detectable, accessible, and controllable states in its…”
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Transient Dissipation and Structural Costs of Physical Information Transduction by Boyd, Alexander B, Mandal, Dibyendu, Riechers, Paul M, Crutchfield, James P

“…A central result that arose in applying information theory to the stochastic thermodynamics of nonlinear dynamical systems is the information-processing second…”
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Medical liver biopsy: background, indications, procedure and histopathology by Boyd, Alexander, Cain, Owen, Chauhan, Abhishek, Webb, Gwilym James

“…Histological analysis of liver tissue continues to play an important role in modern hepatological practice. This review explores the indications for medical…”
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Refining Landauer’s Stack: Balancing Error and Dissipation When Erasing Information by Wimsatt, Gregory W., Boyd, Alexander B., Riechers, Paul M., Crutchfield, James P.

“…Nonequilibrium information thermodynamics determines the minimum energy dissipation to reliably erase memory under time-symmetric control protocols. We…”
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A biologically oriented algorithm for spatial sound segregation by Chou, Kenny F, Boyd, Alexander D, Best, Virginia, Colburn, H Steven, Sen, Kamal

“…Listening in an acoustically cluttered scene remains a difficult task for both machines and hearing-impaired listeners. Normal-hearing listeners accomplish…”
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Liver Transplantation for Acute Intermittent Porphyria by Lissing, Mattias, Nowak, Greg, Adam, René, Karam, Vincent, Boyd, Alexander, Gouya, Laurent, Meersseman, Wouter, Melum, Espen, Ołdakowska‐Jedynak, Urszula, Reiter, Florian P., Colmenero, Jordi, Sanchez, Rosario, Herden, Uta, Langendonk, Janneke, Ventura, Paolo, Isoniemi, Helena, Boillot, Olivier, Braun, Felix, Perrodin, Stéphanie, Mowlem, Elizabeth, Wahlin, Staffan

“…Recurrent attacks of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) result in poor quality of life and significant risks of morbidity and mortality. Liver transplantation…”
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Chronic pain education delivered with a virtual reality headset in outpatient physical therapy clinics: a multi-site exploratory trial by Brown, Lorna, DiCenso-Fleming, Tina, Ensign, Trevor, Boyd, Alexander J, Monaghan, Gail, Binder, David S

“…Chronic pain is multidimensional, requiring expanded interventions for optimal management. Pain education, mindfulness training, and virtual reality (VR) are…”
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Modeling gradual diffusion changes in radiation belt electron phase space density for the March 2013 Van Allen Probes case study by Li, Zhao, Hudson, Mary, Jaynes, Allison, Boyd, Alexander, Malaspina, David, Thaller, Scott, Wygant, John, Henderson, Michael

“…March 2013 provided the first equinoctial period when all of the instruments on the Van Allen Probes spacecraft were fully operational. This interval was…”
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Collaboration and knowledge generation in an 18-year quality improvement research programme in Australian Indigenous primary healthcare: a coauthorship network analysis by Bailie, Jodie, Potts, Boyd Alexander, Laycock, Alison Frances, Abimbola, Seye, Bailie, Ross Stewart, Cunningham, Frances Clare, Matthews, Veronica, Bainbridge, Roxanne Gwendalyn, Conte, Kathleen Parker, Passey, Megan Elizabeth, Peiris, David

“…ObjectivesThough multidisciplinary research networks support the practice and effectiveness of continuous quality improvement (CQI) programmes, their…”
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Development of an Automated, Non-Enzymatic Nucleic Acid Amplification Test by Zimmers, Zackary A., Boyd, Alexander D., Stepp, Hannah E., Adams, Nicholas M., Haselton, Frederick R.

“…Among nucleic acid diagnostic strategies, non-enzymatic tests are the most promising for application at the point of care in low-resource settings. They remain…”
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Network evaluation of an innovation platform in continuous quality improvement in Australian Indigenous primary healthcare by Cunningham, Frances Clare, Potts, Boyd Alexander, Ramanathan, Shanthi Ann, Bailie, Jodie, Bainbridge, Roxanne Gwendalyn, Searles, Andrew, Laycock, Alison Frances, Bailie, Ross Stewart

“…Abstract Background From 2014 to 2019, the Centre for Research Excellence in Integrated Quality Improvement (CRE-IQI) was evaluated as an innovation platform…”
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Genome sequencing provides insight into the reproductive biology, nutritional mode and ploidy of the fern pathogen Mixia osmundae by Toome, Merje, Ohm, Robin A, Riley, Robert W, James, Timothy Y, Lazarus, Katherine L, Henrissat, Bernard, Albu, Sebastian, Boyd, Alexander, Chow, Julianna, Clum, Alicia, Heller, Gregory, Lipzen, Anna, Nolan, Matt, Sandor, Laura, Zvenigorodsky, Natasha, Grigoriev, Igor V, Spatafora, Joseph W, Aime, M. Catherine

“…Mixia osmundae (Basidiomycota, Pucciniomycotina) represents a monotypic class containing an unusual fern pathogen with incompletely understood biology. We…”
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Reliability analysis of productivity enhancement initiatives by Nicholds, Boyd Alexander, Mo, John P.T

“…Purpose Process improvement (PI) projects in manufacturing suffer from high failure rates, often due to management capability overstretch. An organisation’s…”
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