• Transient-state analysis and modeling of renewable energy inverter 

  Tamtam, Perlekar; Jewell, Ward T. (IEEE, 2020-01-30)

  A commercial 3.6 kVA inverter designed for solar photovoltaic (PV) applications was tested to determine its performance under variable ac system conditions. The results showed that output real power varied as ac system ...

• Object recall from natural-language descriptions for autonomous robotic grasping 

  Rao, Achyutha Bharath; Li, Hui; He, Hongsheng (IEEE, 2020-01-20)

  Humans acquire grasping skills through repeated interaction with the objects; and they internalize the knowledge of various physical attributes of such objects. Even blindfolded, humans can reasonably estimate a suitable ...

• Robotic scene understanding by using a dictionary 

  Yan, Fujian; Nannapaneni, Saideep; He, Hongsheng (IEEE, 2020-01-20)

  Scene understanding is a fundamental task for intelligent robots, especially in human-robot interaction. It is challenging due to the complexity of the human environment. In this paper, the proposed method integrates ...

• Team combat identification: effects of gender, spatial visualization, and disagreement 

  Baker, Anthony L.; Keebler, Joseph R.; Anania, Emily C.; Schuster, David; Plummer, John P. (SAGE, 2020-02-04)

  Objective: The combat identification (CID) abilities of same-gender and mixed-gender dyads were experimentally assessed, along with measures of spatial skills and team communication. Background: CID is a high-stakes ...

• Examining determinants of sport event attendance: a multilevel analysis of a major league baseball season 

  Lim, Namhun; Pedersen, Paul M. (Taylor & Francis, 2018-12-31)

  Attendance data in sports leagues are organized at more than one level and thus are nested data with factors varying by individual games (e.g. single game attendance figure), which are nested within the factors varying by ...

• Middle-down proteomic analyses with Ion mobility separations of endogenous isomeric proteoforms 

  Shliaha, Pavel V.; Gorshkov, Vladimir A.; Kovalchuk, Sergey I.; Schwammle, Veit; Baird, Matthew A.; Shvartsburg, Alexandre A.; Jensen, Ole N. (NLM (Medline), 2020-01-14)

  Biological functions of many proteins are governed by post-translational modifications (PTMs). In particular, the rich PTM complement in histones controls the gene expression and chromatin structure with major health ...

• Synthesis, structure, and transport properties of Ba8Cu16 -x Au x P30 clathrate solid solution 

  Wang, Jian; Voyles, Jackson; Grzybowski, Scott; Kovnir, Kirill A. (American Institute of Physics Inc., 2020-02-03)

  A new clathrate solid solution Ba8Cu16 -xAuxP30 (x = 4, 8, 12) was synthesized by a high-temperature solid-state annealing method. The crystal structures of Ba8Cu16 -xAuxP30 were determined by single crystal x-ray diffraction. ...

• Human-centered deep learning neural network trained myoelectric controller for a powered wheelchair 

  Stroh, Ashley; Desai, Jaydip M. (IEEE, 2019-09)

  The powered wheelchair is one of the most widely used devices that assists users in activities of daily living. Although powered wheelchairs have improved the quality of life for most people, some users with certain ...

• Force myography controlled intelligent assistive wheelchair-mounted robotic exoskeleton for arm movements 

  Desai, Jaydip M.; Schabron, Bridget; Yihun, Yimesker S. (IEEE, 2019-09)

  People suffering from stroke, injury, cerebral palsy, and neuromuscular diseases such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy often utilize power wheelchairs for mobility. Recent advancement in embedded systems allowed researchers ...

• Editorial: Cognitive and Brain Aging: Interventions to Promote Well-Being in Old Age 

  Baldwin, Carryl L.; Greenwood, Pamela M. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-01-14)

  This Research Topic is dedicated to the memory of Raja Parasuraman who passed away prematurely on March 22, 2015, ending a remarkable career spanning both diverse and intersecting research areas. Over the course of his ...

• Identification of shoulder joint clearance in space suit using electromagnetic resonant spiral proximity sensor for injury prevention 

  Loflin, Ben; Cluff, Kim; Griffith, Jacob L.; Mohammed, Noor (Elsevier, 2020-05)

  Shoulder injury is one of the most common phenomena that occurs for astronauts when they are training for space flight. During training, astronauts are required to wear a full space suit, known as the extravehicular mobility ...

• Misbehavior detection in ephemeral networks: a local voting game in presence of uncertainty 

  Behfarnia, Ali; Eslami, Ali (IEEE, 2019-12-19)

  Emerging short-lived (ephemeral) connections between wireless mobile devices have raised concerns over the security of ephemeral networks. An important security challenge in these networks is to identify misbehaving nodes, ...

• Police expertise and use of force: using a mixed-methods approach to model expert and novice use-of-force decision-making 

  Mangels, Laura; Suss, Joel M.; Lande, Brian (Springer, 2020-01-24)

  Improving police use-of-force training is methodologically difficult. By providing a method for identifying the “expert” response to any given scenario, and by triangulating multiple methods, we aim to contribute towards ...

• Enhanced effect of negative differential thermal resistance in nanoscale confined structure with nanopatterned surfaces 

  Li, Fan; Wang, Jun; Xia, Guodong (American Chemical Society, 2020-01-09)

  A nanoscale confined fluid structure with nanopatterned surface has been investigated by using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations and kinetic theory. The negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) effect ...

• Evaluation of local texture descriptors for eyebrow-based continuous mobile user authentication 

  Mohammad, Ahmad Saeed; Rattani, Ajita; Derakhshani, Reza R. (Springer, 2020-01-08)

  Mobile user authentication plays an important role in securing physical and logical access, especially to globally ubiquitous smart phones. Several studies have evaluated face, ocular and finger modalities for mobile user ...

• TAM + ARCS = SNT framework for higher education 

  Akella, Nirupama (IGI Global, 2019-10)

  This chapter studies the challenge and issue of developing a sound social networking technology (SNT) framework to affect positive student engagement and consequently effective learning. The author aims to enable educational ...

• Progressive damage and failure analysis of bonded composite joints at high energy dynamic impacts 

  Bhasin, Akhil; Keshavanarayana, Suresh R.; Gomez, Luis; Kona Ravi, Aswini; Justusson, Brian P.; Olivares, Gerardo (DEStech Publications, 2019-09)

  Both wing and fuselage structures utilize bonded composite joints for structural efficiency in modern commercial and military aircraft. To ensure compliance with certification requirements mechanical fasteners are typically ...

• Damage mechanisms in tapered composite structures under static and fatigue loading 

  Rao, Prabhakar M.; Gurvich, Mark R.; Palliyaguru, Upul R.; Seneviratne, Waruna P. (DEStech Publications, 2019-09)

  In this work an integrated computational/experimental approach was developed to validate the predictive capabilities of State-of-the-Art (SoA) Progressive Damage Analysis (PDA) methods and tools. Specifically, a tapered ...

• Composite drilling characterization and performance evaluation 

  Xiao, Jian; Pham, Dinh Chi; Lua, Jim Y.; Saathoff, Caleb; Seneviratne, Waruna P. (DEStech Publications, 2019-09)

  Hole drilling is one of the most widely used operations in order to place bolts or rivets. Drilling holes in composites leads to drilling-induced defects and damages such as delamination, burr, microcracking, swelling, ...

• SIMULIA Abaqus simulations to predict compression-after-impact behavior 

  Krishnan, Arun; Perera, Shenal; Seneviratne, Waruna P. (DEStech Publications, 2019-09)

  Fiber-reinforced composites are receiving increased attention due to their superior mechanical properties compared to traditional materials. Since composites are made of multiple components, their failure mechanisms are ...

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