• The effects of a fatiguing lifting task on postural sway among males and females 

  Bannon, Helen; Hakansson, Nils A.; Jakobsen, Markus D.; Sundstrup, Emil; Jorgensen, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2018-06)

  Lifting and falls comprise a large proportion of work related injuries. Repetitive lifting to the point of fatigue can affect postural sway, which is associated with fall risk. To investigate the effects of lifting and ...

• A study of temperature effects in modulation-assisted machining 

  Natarajan, Arvind (Wichita State University, 2017-12)

  Machining is a process that involves extreme physical and chemical interactions between cutting tools and work materials. The extreme interactions lead to high tool wear and intensive energy expenditure; and, to mitigate ...

• Rolling pattern and energy requirements when rolling from supine to side-lying on rigid and soft surfaces 

  Agrawal, Rahul Omprakash (Wichita State University, 2017-12)

  Rolling is an activity that most people perform repeatedly on a daily basis. Rolling and repositioning oneself in bed serves to improve comfort, circulation, and sleep quality and prevent decubitus ulcers, commonly referred ...

• Large-scale online environmental mapping: from theory to implementation 

  Rabanimotlagh, Ahmad (Wichita State University, 2017-12)

  Within the context of environmental studies, environmental mapping addresses the monitoring and analysis of physical processes appearing in the nature, such as atmospheric or oceanic transformations. In such studies, often ...

• Life cycle and energy analysis of products and hospital systems 

  Alshqaqeeq, Fadhel Y. (Wichita State University, 2017-12)

  There is a relationship between the healthcare sector and treatment of the patient in the delivery of service. During the process of this relationship, waste and CO2 are generated, which increases over time. Compared to ...

• Advanced fusion diagnosis with evolving data streams for health management of complex engineered systems 

  Abdolsamadi, Amirmahyar (Wichita State University, 2017-12)

  Effective health diagnostics for engineered systems provide tremendous benefits such as improved safety, reliability, and reduced costs of operation and maintenance. Extensive literature review on health diagnostics and ...

• Stochastic dynamic resource allocation for HIV prevention and treatment: An approximate dynamic programming approach 

  Cosgun, Ozlem; Buyuktahtakin, Esra (Elsevier, 2018-04)

  Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a key global health concern, with 33 million people living with HIV worldwide and 2.7 million new infections occurring annually. To prevent the spread of this widely prevalent epidemic ...

• Predicting engineering student attrition risk using a probabilistic neural network and comparing results with a backpropagation neural network and logistic regression 

  Mason, Cindi R.; Twomey, Janet; Wright, David W.; Whitman, Lawrence E. (Springer Nature, 2018-05)

  As the need for engineers continues to increase, a growing focus has been placed on recruiting students into the field of engineering and retaining the students who select engineering as their field of study. As a result ...

• Concurrent validity of heart rate measures using a wrist worn activity tracker during treadmill walking 

  Shargawi, Anas A.; Hafez, Khaled A. (Wichita State University, 2018-04-27)

  Introduction: Wearable technology devices are becoming increasingly popular. Many of these devices offer features allowing users to monitor health related biometric information. One biometric variable commonly measured is ...

• Learning robotic grasping strategy based on natural-language object descriptions 

  Rao, Bharath (Wichita State University, 2018-04-27)

  Given the description of an object's physical attributes, humans can determine a proper strategy and grasp an object. Accomplishing a similar feat with robotic hands is considerably challenging despite significant progress ...

• Supplier assessment process for a manufacturing firm 

  Patel, Favi J. (Wichita State University, 2018-04-27)

  In the global supply chain, appropriate and sustainable suppliers play a vital role in supply chain development and feasibility. In any big organization with many suppliers, it is necessary to divide suppliers based on ...

• Comparison of the machining behavior of additively manufactured in 625 and cast wrought in 625 

  Lopez-Hawa, Homar (Wichita State University, 2018-04-27)

  Additive manufacturing has recently gained momentum as new technologies have made possible three-dimensional (3D) printing of functional parts; especially in the aerospace sector, where intricate parts fabricated from ...

• Validity and reliability of step count measures using a wrist worn activity tracker during treadmill walking 

  Hafez, Khaled Abdulrashid A; Shargawi, Anas A. (Wichita State University, 2018-04-27)

  INTRODUCTION: Wearable technology devices are becoming increasingly popular. Many of these devices offer features allowing users to monitor physical activity levels through the reporting of step-count. However, as many ...

• Multivariate approaches to evaluating quality in trauma care 

  Aragon, Lucy (Wichita State University, 2018-04-27)

  The need to assess the performance of healthcare systems to improve quality and reduce costs has gained increasing attention in recent years. The Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) developed a database to measure ...

• Thermoset composite recycling - Driving forces, development, and evolution of new opportunities 

  Overcash, Michael; Twomey, Janet M.; Asmatulu, Eylem; Vozzola, Eric; Griffing, Evan M. (SAGE, 2018-04-01)

  Thermoset composites represent a substantial challenge for recycling, even as composite products increase in market interest. The concept of putting all future thermoset composite products into landfills over the next ...

• Predicting pediatric clinic no-shows: a decision analytic framework using elastic net and Bayesian belief network 

  Topuz, Kazim; Uner, Hasmet; Oztekin, Asil; Yildirim, Mehmet Bayram (Springer, 2018-04)

  No-shows are becoming a major problem in primary care facilities, creating additional costs for the facility while adversely affecting the quality of patient care. Accurately predicting no-shows plays an important role in ...

• Bidirectional leaf trajectory optimization approaches for dynamic delivery of intensity-modulated radiotherapy plans 

  Mirzapourrezaei, Seyedali; Salari, Ehsan (WILEY, 2017-06-14)

  Purpose: Traditionally, unidirectional leaf-sweeping schemes have beenused for dynamic deliver y of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) plans.This research investigates the potential benefits of bidirectional ...

• Spatiotemporally integrated radiotherapy plan optimization 

  Adibi, Ali; Salari, Ehsan (Wiley, 2017-06-14)

  Purpose: This research aims at quantifying the extent of potential therapeu-tic gain that can be achieved from altering the radiation dose distribution overtreatment sessions in fractionated radiotherapy. Methods: A ...

• Enabling resilience of complex engineered systems using control theory 

  Yodo, Nita; Wang, Pingfeng; Rafi, Melvin (IEEE, 2018-03)

  Successful recovery from a disrupted state to maintain optimal performance is a key feature that a resilient complex engineered system should have. In the engineering design community, the current focus of engineering ...

• Predicting graft survival among kidney transplant recipients: A Bayesian decision support model 

  Topuz, Kazim; Zengul, Ferhat D.; Dag, Ali; Almehmi, Ammar; Yildirim, Mehmet Bayram (Elsevier, 2018-02)

  Predicting the graft survival for kidney transplantation is a high stakes undertaking considering the shortage of available organs and the utilization of healthcare resources. The strength of any predictive model depends ...

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