• Migration through a small pore disrupts inactive chromatin organization in neutrophil-like cells 

  Jacobson, Elsie C.; Perry, Jo K.; Long, David S.; Olins, Ada L.; Olins, Donald E.; Wright, Bryon E.; Vickers, Mark H.; O'Sullivan, Justin M. (BioMed Central Ltd., 2018-11-26)

  Background. Mammalian cells are flexible and can rapidly change shape when they contract, adhere, or migrate. The nucleus must be stiff enough to withstand cytoskeletal forces, but flexible enough to remodel as the cell ...

• Real-time control of cyber-physical manufacturing process under uncertainty 

  Nannapaneni, Saideep; Mahadevan, Sankaran; Dubey, Abhishek (ASME, 2018-06)

  Modern manufacturing processes are increasing becoming cyber-physical in nature, where a computational system monitors the system performance, provides real-time process control by analyzing sensor data collected regarding ...

• Analysis of representative elementary volume and through-plane regional characteristics of carbon-fiber papers: diffusivity, permeability and electrical/thermal conductivity 

  Garcia-Salaberri, Pablo A.; Zenyuk, Iryna V.; Shum, Andrew D.; Hwang, Gisuk; Vera, Marcos; Weber, Adam Z.; Gostick, Jeff T. (Elsevier, 2018-12)

  Understanding the transport processes that occur in carbon-fiber papers (CFPs) used in fuel cells, electrolyzers, and metal-air/redox flow batteries is necessary to help predict cell performance and durability, optimize ...

• BCC-Phased PdCu Alloy as a highly active electrocatalyst for hydrogen oxidation in alkaline electrolytes 

  Qiu, Yang; Xin, Le; Li, Yawei; McCrum, Ian T.; Guo, Fangmin; Ma, Tao; Ren, Yang; Liu, Qi; Zhou, Lin; Gu, Shuang; Janik, Michael J.; Li, Wenzhen (American Chemical Society, 2018-11-05)

  Anion-exchange membrane fuel cells hold promise to greatly reduce cost by employing nonprecious metal cathode catalysts. More efficient anode catalysts are needed, however, to improve the sluggish hydrogen oxidation reaction ...

• Emission analysis of recycled tire rubber modified asphalt in hot and warm mix conditions 

  Yang, Xu; You, Zhanping; Perram, David L.; Hand, David; Ahmed, Zeyad T.; Wei, Wei; Luo, Sang (Elsevier, 2019-03-05)

  The hazardous emissions of crumb rubber (CR) modified asphalt during construction has been a concern for a long period. This study aims to identify the emission components in the CR modified asphalt in traditional hot mix ...

• Modeling and analysis of short-term work planning in inpatient care settings 

  Aragon, Lucy G.; Cure Vellojin, Laila N.; Tiong, Ewing; Bush, Rita (Elsevier, 2018-12)

  This paper uses operations research (OR) to investigate inpatient care work planning decisions from the perspective of a single healthcare provider in a hospital unit. While there has been considerable research on the ...

• Passive self resonant skin patch sensor to monitor cardiac intraventricular stroke volume using electromagnetic properties of blood 

  Alruwaili, Fayez H.; Cluff, Kim; Griffith, Jacob L.; Farhoud, Hussam (IEEE, 2018-09-26)

  This paper focuses on the development of a passive, lightweight skin patch sensor that can measure fluid volume changes in the heart in a non-invasive, point-of-care setting. The wearable sensor is an electromagnetic, ...

• Wearable heading estimation for motion tracking in health care by adaptive fusion of visual-inertial measurements 

  Zhang, Yinlong; Liang, Wei; He, Hongsheng; Tan, Jindong (IEEE, 2018-11)

  The increasing demand for health informatics has become a far-reaching trend in the aging society. The utilization of wearable sensors enables monitoring senior people daily activities in free-living environments, conveniently ...

• Relaxing leaf-motion restrictions in dynamic multileaf collimator leaf sequencing 

  Mirzapourrezaei, Seyedali; Salari, Ehsan (John Wiley and Sons, 2018-11)

  Purpose Methods Traditionally, unidirectional leaf-sweeping schemes have been employed to deliver IMRT plans using the dynamic multileaf collimator (DMLC) technique. The goal of this research is to investigate the potential ...

• Secret sharing over a public channel from correlated random variables 

  Chou, Remi (IEEE, 2018)

  We consider a model for secret sharing, where a dealer distributes the shares of a secret among a set of participants with the constraint that only predetermined subsets of participants must be able to reconstruct the ...

• Explicit codes for the wiretap channel with uncertainty on the eavesdropper's channel 

  Chou, Remi (IEEE, 2018)

  We develop explicit codes for the wiretap channel when uncertainties hold on the eavesdropper's channel statistics. We do not require any symmetry or degradation assumptions on the channel and we do not require a ...

• Utility-optimal wireless routing in the presence of big and heavy data 

  Xia, Shuang; Wang, Pu; Kwon, Hyuck M. (IEEE, 2018-11-02)

  Due to emerging mobile applications and an Internet of things, data traffic carried by wireless networks has increased dramatically. As a result, maximizing the utilization of the limited network resource is a top priority. ...

• Material degradation modeling and failure prediction using microstructure images 

  Si, Wujun; Yang, Qingyu; Wu, Xin (Taylor & Francis, 2018-11-05)

  Degradation data, frequently along with low-dimensional covariate information such as scalar-type covariates, are widely used for asset reliability analysis. Recently, many high-dimensional covariates such as functional ...

• Environmental impact reduction as a new dimension for quality measurement of healthcare services: the case of magnetic resonance imaging 

  Esmaeili, Mohammad Amin; McGuire, Charles; Overcash, Michael; Ali, Kamran; Soltani, Seyed A.; Twomey, Janet M. (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018-10)

  PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed accounting of energy and materials consumed during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: The first and second stages of ISO standard ...

• Modified dielectric properties of poly(vinylidene fluoride) via 2S fraction of soy protein 

  Zheng, Zhuoyuan; Li, Bin (John Wiley and Sons, 2018-12-20)

  Soy protein, as a naturally available resource, has been widely studied as a functional material. Major 7S and 11S fractions of soy protein have drawn the most attention. In contrast, the 2S fraction, a component with low ...

• Investigating compression strengths of 3D printed polymeric infill specimens of various geometries 

  Subeshan, Balakrishnan; Alonayni, Abdullah; Rahman, Muhammad M.; Asmatulu, Eylem (SPIE, 2018-03-23)

  Conventional manufacturing techniques include removing the excess materials to get the desired shapes; however, additive manufacturing include direct manufacturing of the objects using computer aided design model through ...

• Integrating Spirulina platensis cultivation and aerobic composting exhaust for carbon mitigation and biomass production 

  Lu, Weidong; Alam, Md Asraful; Luo, Wenshi; Asmatulu, Eylem (Elsevier, 2019-01)

  Aerobic composting is an effective way to dispose of organic waste. However, considerable carbon is converted into CO2 and emitted into the atmosphere, which is a waste of the carbon resource and has the potential for the ...

• A multi-criteria ranking algorithm (MCRA) for determining breast cancer therapy 

  Hasan, Mostafa; Buyuktahtakin, Esra; Elamin, Elshami (Elsevier, 2019-01)

  Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. The selection of an effective, patient specific treatment plan for breast cancer has been a challenge for physicians because the decision process involves a ...

• An overview of Cube-Satellite propulsion technologies and trends 

  Tummala, Akshay Reddy; Dutta, Atri (MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017-12-09)

  CubeSats provide a cost effective means to perform scientific and technological studies in space. Due to their affordability, CubeSat technologies have been diversely studied and developed by educational institutions, ...

• Optimal resource allocation for SWIPT with full-duplex operation and secrecy 

  Zewde, Tewodros A.; Chou, Remi; Gursoy, M. Cenk (IEEE, 2018-07-05)

  In this paper, we study optimal resource allocation strategies for SWIPT focusing on the throughput and energy efficiency of a hybrid system that consists of an energy harvesting unit (EHU) and non-energy harvesting nodes. ...

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