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Established in 2013 to honour innovations that have benefited humanity, the QEPrize is an international competition open to ...

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Ten Johns Hopkins University PhD students and postdoctoral researchers were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate ...

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Early visual alpha oscillations correlate on a trial-by-trial basis with steady-state responses at later stages of the processing stream, implying a role in signal enhancement and interareal ...