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ABSTRACT: Multi-objective optimization remains a significant and realistic problem in engineering. A trade-off among conflicting objectives subject to equality and inequality constraints is known as ...

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Houston has been tied to human spaceflight for decades. Now, the city’s companies are chasing something that’s less romantic but more lucrative: harnessing the flood of data collected in space.

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

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