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On Relationality and Organizationality: Degrees of durability, materiality, and communicatively constituting a fluid social collective by Smith, William Roth

“…Recent organizational theorizing contends that loosely structured fluid social collectives may attain degrees of “organizationality” depending on whether or…”
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Bacterial defences: mechanisms, evolution and antimicrobial resistance by Smith, William P. J., Wucher, Benjamin R., Nadell, Carey D., Foster, Kevin R.

“…Throughout their evolutionary history, bacteria have faced diverse threats from other microorganisms, including competing bacteria, bacteriophages and…”
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The evolution of the type VI secretion system as a disintegration weapon by Smith, William P J, Vettiger, Andrea, Winter, Julius, Ryser, Till, Comstock, Laurie E, Basler, Marek, Foster, Kevin R

“…The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a nanomachine used by many bacteria to drive a toxin-laden needle into other bacterial cells. Although the potential to…”
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Height-from-Polarisation with Unknown Lighting or Albedo by Smith, William A. P., Ramamoorthi, Ravi, Tozza, Silvia

“…We present a method for estimating surface height directly from a single polarisation image simply by solving a large, sparse system of linear equations. To do…”
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Towards a Complete 3D Morphable Model of the Human Head by Ploumpis, Stylianos, Ververas, Evangelos, Sullivan, Eimear Oa, Moschoglou, Stylianos, Wang, Haoyang, Pears, Nick, Smith, William A. P., Gecer, Baris, Zafeiriou, Stefanos

“…Three-dimensional morphable models (3DMMs) are powerful statistical tools for representing the 3D shapes and textures of an object class. Here we present the…”
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Outdoor Inverse Rendering From a Single Image Using Multiview Self-Supervision by Yu, Ye, Smith, William A. P.

“…In this paper we show how to perform scene-level inverse rendering to recover shape, reflectance and lighting from a single, uncontrolled image using a fully…”
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Inverse Rendering of Faces with a 3D Morphable Model by Aldrian, O., Smith, W. A. P.

“…In this paper, we present a complete framework to inverse render faces with a 3D Morphable Model (3DMM). By decomposing the image formation process into…”
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Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth over the last three decades by Jiao, Wenzhe, Wang, Lixin, Smith, William K., Chang, Qing, Wang, Honglang, D’Odorico, Paolo

“…Despite the growing interest in predicting global and regional trends in vegetation productivity in response to a changing climate, changes in water constraint…”
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InverseRenderNet: Learning Single Image Inverse Rendering by Yu, Ye, Smith, William A. P.

“…We show how to train a fully convolutional neural network to perform inverse rendering from a single, uncontrolled image. The network takes an RGB image as…”
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The Hybrid Algorithm for Treating Chronic Total Occlusions in Europe: The RECHARGE Registry by Maeremans, Joren, Walsh, Simon, Knaapen, Paul, Spratt, James C, Avran, Alexandre, Hanratty, Colm G, Faurie, Benjamin, Agostoni, Pierfrancesco, Bressollette, Erwan, Kayaert, Peter, Bagnall, Alan J, Egred, Mohaned, Smith, Dave, Chase, Alexander, McEntegart, Margaret B, Smith, William H T, Harcombe, Alun, Kelly, Paul, Irving, John, Smith, Elliot J, Strange, Julian W, Dens, Joseph

“…The hybrid algorithm for chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was developed to improve procedural outcomes. Large,…”
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Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades by Gampe, David, Zscheischler, Jakob, Reichstein, Markus, O’Sullivan, Michael, Smith, William K., Sitch, Stephen, Buermann, Wolfgang

“…Climate extremes such as droughts and heatwaves have a large impact on terrestrial carbon uptake by reducing gross primary production (GPP). While the evidence…”
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“No dig, No Ride”: The Communicative Constitution and Consequences of Imperfect Authoritative Texts in Fluid Collective Organizing by Smith, William Roth

“…Drawing upon the theoretical roots of Montreal school communicative constitution of organizing (CCO), this study extends the notion of “authoritative texts”…”
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Cooperation, competition and antibiotic resistance in bacterial colonies by Frost, Isabel, Smith, William P. J., Mitri, Sara, Millan, Alvaro San, Davit, Yohan, Osborne, James M., Pitt-Francis, Joe M., MacLean, R. Craig, Foster, Kevin R.

“…Bacteria commonly live in dense and genetically diverse communities associated with surfaces. In these communities, competition for resources and space is…”
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Ethics and ego dissolution: the case of psilocybin by Smith, William R, Sisti, Dominic

“…Despite the fact that psychedelics were proscribed from medical research half a century ago, recent, early-phase trials on psychedelics have suggested that…”
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Rapid assessment of the extent of feral introgression in British and Irish Rock Dove ( Columba livia ) populations by Smith, William J.

“…Interbreeding of related forms following anthropogenic activity can lead to genomic homogenization, contributing to decreasing biodiversity. Assessing…”
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Cell morphology drives spatial patterning in microbial communities by Smith, William P. J., Davit, Yohan, Osborne, James M., Kim, Wook, Foster, Kevin R., Pitt-Francis, Joe M.

“…The clearest phenotypic characteristic of microbial cells is their shape, but we do not understand how cell shape affects the dense communities, known as…”
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Collective protection against the type VI secretion system in bacteria by Granato, Elisa T., Smith, William P. J., Foster, Kevin R.

“…Bacteria commonly face attacks from other strains using the type VI secretion system (T6SS), which acts like a molecular speargun to stab and intoxicate…”
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Uncalibrated, Two Source Photo-Polarimetric Stereo by Tozza, Silvia, Zhu, Dizhong, Smith, William A. P., Ramamoorthi, Ravi, Hancock, Edwin R.

“…In this paper we present methods for estimating shape from polarisation and shading information, i.e. photo-polarimetric shape estimation, under varying, but…”
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Widespread seasonal compensation effects of spring warming on northern plant productivity by Buermann, Wolfgang, Forkel, Matthias, O’Sullivan, Michael, Sitch, Stephen, Friedlingstein, Pierre, Haverd, Vanessa, Jain, Atul K., Kato, Etsushi, Kautz, Markus, Lienert, Sebastian, Lombardozzi, Danica, Nabel, Julia E. M. S., Tian, Hanqin, Wiltshire, Andrew J., Zhu, Dan, Smith, William K., Richardson, Andrew D.

“…Climate change is shifting the phenological cycles of plants 1 , thereby altering the functioning of ecosystems, which in turn induces feedbacks to the climate…”
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Coarse-graining DNA for simulations of DNA nanotechnology by Doye, Jonathan P K, Ouldridge, Thomas E, Louis, Ard A, Romano, Flavio, Šulc, Petr, Matek, Christian, Snodin, Benedict E K, Rovigatti, Lorenzo, Schreck, John S, Harrison, Ryan M, Smith, William P J

“…To simulate long time and length scale processes involving DNA it is necessary to use a coarse-grained description. Here we provide an overview of different…”
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