• The True Romance of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Dark Princess 

  Bhalla, Tamara

  W.E.B Du Bois’s 1928 novel Dark Princess has had a long and contradictory reception. On the one hand, scholars admire how it offers a prescient model of the possibilities in our own time of intergroup solidarity as well ...

• TRPM5-Expressing Solitary Chemosensory Cells Respond to Odorous Irritants 

  Lin, Weihong; Ogura, Tatsuya; Margolskee, Robert F.; Finger, Thomas E.; Restrepo, Diego (American Physiological Society (APS), 2008-03-01)

  Inhaled airborne irritants elicit sensory responses in trigeminal nerves innervating the nasal epithelium, leading to protective reflexes. The sensory mechanisms involved in the detection of odorous irritants are poorly ...

• Vagal gustatory reflex circuits for intraoral food sorting behavior in the goldfish: Cellular organization and neurotransmitters 

  Ikenaga, Takanori; Ogura, Tatsuya; Finger, Thomas E. (Wiley, 2009-09-20)

  The sense of taste is crucial in an animal's determination as to what is edible and what is not. This gustatory function is especially important in goldfish, who utilize a sophisticated oropharyngeal sorting mechanism to ...

• Chemoreception Regulates Chemical Access to Mouse Vomeronasal Organ: Role of Solitary Chemosensory Cells 

  Ogura, Tatsuya; Krosnowski, Kurt; Zhang, Lana; Bekkerman, Mikhael; Lin, Weihong (PLOS, 2010-07-30)

  Controlling stimulus access to sensory organs allows animals to optimize sensory reception and prevent damage. The vomeronasal organ (VNO) detects pheromones and other semiochemicals to regulate innate social and sexual ...

• Cholinergic microvillous cells in the mouse main olfactory epithelium and effect of acetylcholine on olfactory sensory neurons and supporting cells 

  Ogura, Tatsuya; Szebenyi, Steven A.; Krosnowski, Kurt; Sathyanesan, Aaron; Jackson, Jacqueline; Lin, Weihong (American Physiological Society (APS), 2011-09-01)

  The mammalian olfactory epithelium is made up of ciliated olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs), supporting cells, basal cells, and microvillous cells. Previously, we reported that a population of nonneuronal microvillous cells ...

• Automated measurement of nerve fiber density using line intensity scan analysis 

  Sathyanesan, Aaron; Ogura, Tatsuya; Lin, Weihong (Elsevier, 2012-05-15)

  Quantification of nerve fibers in peripheral and central nervous systems is important for the understanding of neuronal function, organization and pathological changes. However, current methods to quantify nerve fibers are ...

• An Effective Manual Deboning Method To Prepare Intact Mouse Nasal Tissue With Preserved Anatomical Organization 

  Dunston, David; Ashby, Sarah; Krosnowski, Kurt; Ogura, Tatsuya; Lin, Weihong (JoVE, 2013-08-10)

  The mammalian nose is a multi-functional organ with intricate internal structures. The nasal cavity is lined with various epithelia such as olfactory, respiratory, and squamous epithelia which differ markedly in anatomical ...

• Skn-1a/Pou2f3 is required for the generation of Trpm5-expressing microvillous cells in the mouse main olfactory epithelium 

  Yamaguchi, Tatsuya; Yamashita, Junpei; Ohmoto, Makoto; Aoudé, Imad; Ogura, Tatsuya; Luo, Wangmei; Bachmanov, Alexander A.; Lin, Weihong; Matsumoto, Ichiro; Hirota, Junji (BMC, 2014-01-16)

  Background The main olfactory epithelium (MOE) in mammals is a specialized organ to detect odorous molecules in the external environment. The MOE consists of four types of cells: olfactory sensory neurons, supporting ...

• Increases in intracellular calcium via activation of potentially multiple phospholipase C isozymes in mouse olfactory neurons 

  Szebenyi, Steven A.; Ogura, Tatsuya; Sathyanesan, Aaron; AlMatrouk, Abdullah K.; Chang, Justin; Lin, Weihong (Frontiers Media, 2014-10-21)

  Phospholipase C (PLC) and internal Ca²⁺ stores are involved in a variety of cellular functions. However, our understanding of PLC in mammalian olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) is generally limited to its controversial role ...

• Dichotomous Distribution of Putative Cholinergic Interneurons in Mouse Accessory Olfactory Bulb 

  Marking, Sarah; Krosnowski, Kurt; Ogura, Tatsuya; Lin, Weihong (Frontiers Media, 2017-02-27)

  Sensory information processing in the olfactory bulb (OB) relies on diverse populations of bulbar interneurons. In rodents, the accessory OB (AOB) is divided into two bulbar regions, the anterior (aAOB) and posterior (pAOB), ...

• Lack of TRPM5-Expressing Microvillous Cells in Mouse Main Olfactory Epithelium Leads to Impaired Odor-Evoked Responses and Olfactory-Guided Behavior in a Challenging Chemical Environment 

  Lemons, Kayla; Fu, Ziying; Aoudé, Imad; Ogura, Tatsuya; Sun, Julianna; Chang, Justin; Mbonu, Kenechukwu; Matsumoto, Ichiro; Arakawa, Hiroyuki; Lin, Weihong (Society for Neuroscience, 2017-06-05)

  The mammalian main olfactory epithelium (MOE) modifies its activities in response to changes in the chemical environment. This process is essential for maintaining the functions of the olfactory system and the upper airway. ...

• Chemical Exposure-Induced Changes in the Expression of Neurotrophins and Their Receptors in the Main Olfactory System of Mice Lacking TRPM5-Expressing Microvillous Cells 

  AlMatrouk, Abdullah; Lemons, Kayla; Ogura, Tatsuya; Luo, Wangmei; Wilson, Chantel; Lin, Weihong (MDPI, 2018-09-27)

  Functional maintenance of the mammalian main olfactory epithelium (MOE) is challenging because of its direct exposure to a wide spectrum of environmental chemicals. We previously reported that transient receptor potential ...

• Atmospheric correction over the ocean for hyperspectral radiometers using multi-angle polarimetric retrievals 

  Hannadige, Neranga K.; Zhai, Peng-Wang; Gao, Meng; Franz, Bryan A.; Hu, Yongxiang; Knobelspiesse, Kirk; Werdell, P. Jeremy; Ibrahim, Amir; Cairns, Brian; Hasekamp, Otto P. (OSA Publishing, 2021)

  We developed a fast and accurate polynomial based atmospheric correction (POLYAC) algorithm for hyperspectral radiometric measurements, which parameterizes the atmospheric path radiances using aerosol properties retrieved ...

• Creation in shifting to digital 

  Young, Patricia A. (Springer Nature, 2021-01-28)

• Explainable Models with Consistent Interpretations 

  Pillai, Vipin; Pirsiavash, Hamed (AAAI, 2021)

  Given the widespread deployment of black box deep neural networks in computer vision applications, the interpretability aspect of these black box systems has recently gained traction. Various methods have been proposed ...

• A Climate Hyperspectral Infrared Radiance Product (CHIRP) Combining the AIRS and CrIS Satellite Sounding Record 

  Strow, L. Larrabee; Hepplewhite, Chris; Motteler, Howard; Buczkowski, Steven; DeSouza-Machado, Sergio (MDPI, 2021-01-26)

  A Climate Hyperspectral Infrared Radiance Product (CHIRP) is introduced combining data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on NASA’s EOS-AQUA platform, the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) sounder on NASA’s ...

• Greater aridity increases the magnitude of urban nighttime vegetation-derived air cooling 

  Ibsen, Peter C.; Borowy, Dorothy; Dell, Tyler; Greydanus, Hattie; Gupta, Neha; Hondula, David M.; Meixner, Thomas; Santelmann, Mary V.; Shiflett, Sheri A.; Sukop, Michael C.; Swan, Christopher M.; Talal, Michelle L.; Valencia, Miguel; Wright, Mary K.; Jenerette, G. Darrel (IOP Publishing, 2021-02-15)

  High nighttime urban air temperatures increase health risks and economic vulnerability of people globally. While recent studies have highlighted nighttime heat mitigation effects of urban vegetation, the magnitude and ...

• Faith, Science, and Trust - African American Clergy & Community Conversation on COVID-19 

  Fauci, Anthony; Hickman, Debra; Thomas, Stephen B.; Thomas, Walter Scott; Jackson, Janice; Hrabowski, Freeman; Hickman, Donte Sr.; Freeman, Bowyer G.; Braxton, Brad; Young, Robert (2021-01-25)

• Faith, Science, and Trust: African American Clergy & Community Conversation on COVID-19 

  Fauci, Anthony S.; Braxton, Brad Ronnell; Freeman, Bower G.; Hickman, Debra; Hickman, Donte Sr.; Hrabowski, Freeman A.; Jackson, Janice R.; Kotloff, Karen; Reese, E. Albert; Thomas, Stephen B.; Thomas, Walter Scott (UMB Digital Archive, 2021-01-22)

  Is it safe to participate in a COVID-19 clinical trial? How can we be sure that all groups are represented in vaccine research? And will there be equitable distribution once the vaccine is available? These were some of ...

• An Energy Efficient EdgeAI Autoencoder Accelerator for Reinforcement Learning 

  Manjunath, Nitheesh Kumar; Shiri, Aidin; Hosseini, Morteza; Prakash, Bharat; Waytowich, Nicholas R.; Mohsenin, Tinoosh (IEEE, 2021-01-25)

  In EdgeAI embedded devices that exploit reinforcement learning (RL), it is essential to reduce the number of actions taken by the agent in the real world and minimize the compute-intensive policies learning process. ...

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