• Weak Solutions in Nonlinear Poroelasticity with Incompressible Constituents 

  Bociu, Lorena; Muha, Boris; Webster, Justin T. (2021-08-24)

  We consider quasi-static poroelastic systems with incompressible constituents. The nonlinear permeability is taken to be dependent on solid dilation, and physical types of boundary conditions (Dirichlet, Neumann, and mixed) ...

• Dark X-Ray Galaxies in the A1367 Galaxy Cluster 

  Henriksen, Mark; Dusek, Scott (IOP Publishing, 2021-08-24)

  We have characterized a sample of extended X-ray sources in the A1367 galaxy cluster that lack optical counterparts. The sources are galaxy size and have an average total mass of 1.3 × 10¹¹ solar masses. The average hot ...

• The 2019 outburst of the 2005 classical nova V1047 Cen: a record breaking dwarf nova outburst or a new phenomenon? 

  Aydi, E.; Sokolovsky, K. V.; Bright, J. S.; Tremou, E.; Nyamai, M. M.; Evans, A.; Strader, J.; Chomiuk, L.; Myers, G.; Hambsch, F-J.; Page, K. L.; Buckley, D. A. H.; Woodward, C. E.; Walter, F. M.; Mróz, P.; Vallely, P. J.; Geballe, T. R.; Banerjee, D. P. K.; Gehrz, R. D.; Fender, R. P.; Gromadzki, M.; Kawash, A.; Knigge, C.; Mukai, K.; Munari, U.; Orio, M.; Ribeiro, V. A. R. M.; Sokoloski, J. L.; Starrfield, S.; Udalski, A.; Woudt, P. A. (2021-08-17)

  We present a detailed study of the 2019 outburst of the cataclysmic variable V1047 Cen, which hosted a classical nova eruption in 2005. The peculiar outburst occurred 14 years after the classical nova event, lasted for ...

• Clinical Evaluation of Non-Contact Infrared Thermometers 

  Sullivan, Stacey J.L.; Rinaldi, Jean E.; Hariharan, Prasanna; Casamento, Jon P.; Baek, Seungchul; Seay, Nathanael; Vesnovsky, Oleg; Topoleski, Timmie (Research Square, 2021-08-18)

  Background: Non-contact infrared thermometers (NCITs) are being widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic as a temperature-measurement tool for screening and isolating patients in healthcare settings, travelers at ports ...

• Machine-Learned Dark Matter Subhalo Candidates in the 4FGL-DR2: Search for the Perturber of the GD-1 Stream 

  Mirabal, Nestor; Bonaca, Ana (IOP Publishing, 2021-05-25)

  The detection of dark matter subhalos without a stellar component in the Galactic halo remains a challenge. We use supervised machine learning to identify high-latitude gamma-ray sources with dark matter-like spectra among ...

• Synthesis of Acyclic Flexible Nucleoside Analogues Against Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases. 

  Yates, Mary (2019-01-01)

  Flaviviruses, such as Dengue (DENV) and Zika (ZIKV) viruses, represent a severe health burden due to their ease of transmission, propensity to become epidemics, and the development of unexpected pathologies. While there ...

• Functional analysis of the rlsA gene in Volvox carteri 

  Williams, James Trevor (2019-01-01)

  Multicellularity is arguably one of the most important evolutionary innovations of life on Earth, however, its origins are not fully understood. The volvocine green algae, a clade of algae that includes Volvox carteri, are ...

• Structural and Molecular Analysis of Melanopsin Phototransduction Activation, Deactivation, and Re-sensitization 

  Valdez-Lopez, Juan Carlos (2020-01-20)

  The visual pigment melanopsin is expressed in intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells in the mammalian retina, which regulate non-image forming visual tasks such as circadian photoentrainment and pupil constriction, ...

• PEPTIDE-ASSISTED SYNTHESIS AND ASSEMBLY OF CATHODE MATERIALS FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES 

  Barannikova, Evgenia A (2020-01-20)

  Biotemplating presents a unique approach for the synthesis and organization of technologically-relevant materials at the nanoscale. Among existing biotemplates, solid-binding peptides (SBPs) identified for the material of ...

• THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF FEMALE SONG IN EASTERN BLUEBIRDS (SIALIA SIALIS): INTRA-PAIR COMMUNICATION IN A TEMPERATE BREEDING SONGBIRD 

  Rose, Evangeline (2020-01-01)

  Historically, birdsong was generally considered as a male trait used in the breeding season for sexually selected functions, such as male/male contests and mate attraction. However, researchers have now identified female ...

• An Approach to Tuning Hyperparameters in Parallel: An Approach to Tuning Hyperparameters in Parallel 

  Barajas, Carlos Alexander (2019-01-01)

  Predicting violent storms and dangerous weather conditions, for instance predicting tornados, is an important application for public safety. Using numerical weather simulations to classify a weather pattern as tornadic or ...

• Behavior at the species boundary: the overlooked role of male mate choice in a sexually dimorphic species 

  Roberts, Natalie (2019-01-01)

  Behavioral isolation is a powerful barrier to gene flow and is often considered a major component in the maintenance of species boundaries. Empirical support for mating preferences as an isolating barrier exists across a ...

• CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EFFECTS OF SOLID BINDING PEPTIDES ON THE SYNTHESIS OF LITHIUM COBALT PHOSPHATE AND LITHIUM ION ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY 

  Riley, Scott J (2020-01-01)

  The electrochemical cell has been known as a paragon of energy storage since the Plante Battery in 1859 A. D. Since the establishment of electrochemistry in the early 1800s, an influx of new devices, inventions, and gadgets ...

• IMPROVING HAEMATOCOCCUS PLUVIALIS GROWTH AND ASTAXANTHIN PRODUCTION THROUGH CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS 

  Ramarui, Kyarii (2019-01-01)

  Astaxanthin is a keto-carotenoid known for its strong antioxidant activity. It is widely used in the aquaculture and nutraceutical industries. Haematococcus pluvialis has long been used as a natural source of astaxanthin, ...

• Topics in Sparse Recovery via Constrained Optimization: Least Sparsity, Solution Uniqueness, and Constrained Exact Recovery 

  Mousavi, Seyedahmad (2019-01-01)

  Sparse recovery finds numerous applications in different areas, for example, engineering, computer science, business, applied mathematics, and statistics. Sparse recovery is often formulated as relatively large-scale and ...

• ?Functional characterization of the chitin utilization system in the saprophytic bacterium Cellvibrio japonicus? 

  Monge, Estela C (2020-01-01)

  Chitin is a linear polymer of ? (1-4)-linked N-acetylglucosamine and is the second most abundant polysaccharide on earth. It is a major source of fixed carbon and nitrogen to microorganisms, and the strategies used by ...

• Analysis of Longitudinal Interval Reported Binary Recurrent Event Data & Statistical Model for Subgroup Identification in Enrichment Design 

  Lu, Wenxin (2019-01-01)

  This thesis contains two research projects. The first thesis project investigates the analytical methods for longitudinal interval reported binary recurrent event data. This project is motivated by the post hip fracture ...

• Investigations of Two-Dimensional Materials for Next-Generation Electronic Devices 

  Kropp, Jaron Abel (2020-01-01)

  Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) such as MoS2 exhibit a direct band gap when isolated in monolayer form. They also exhibit high carrier mobility and are therefore attractive for use as channel materials ...

• FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF METABOLIC COMPLEXES FOR GLUCOSE METABOLISM IN LIVING HUMAN CELLS 

  Jeon, Miji (2020-01-01)

  Metabolic enzymes in glucose metabolism have long been studied for the formation of multienzyme complexes and their biological significance in living cells. We have recently demonstrated the existence of multienzyme complexes ...

• Computational Methods for Hidden Markov Models with Applications 

  Ji, Qing (2019-01-01)

  Hidden Markov models (HMM) are used in applications when the data structure contains a latent Markov chain. However, the Fisher information matrix (FIM) of an HMM does not have a closed form. Estimating the parameters of ...

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