College of Engineering (COE): Recent submissions
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Improved pentamethine cyanine nanosensors for optoacoustic imaging of pancreatic cancer
(2021-02-23)Optoacoustic imaging is a new biomedical imaging technology with clear benefits over traditional optical imaging and ultrasound. While the imaging technology has improved since its initial development, the creation of ... -
Bioactive Cellulose Nanocrystal-Poly(epsilon-Caprolactone) Nanocomposites for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications
(2021-02-25)3D-printed bone scaffolds hold great promise for the individualized treatment of critical-size bone defects. Among the resorbable polymers available for use as 3D-printable scaffold materials, poly(epsilon-caprolactone) ... -
Bubble cloud behavior and ablation capacity for histotripsy generated from intrinsic or artificial cavitation nuclei
(2021-03)The study described here examined the effects of cavitation nuclei characteristics on histotripsy. High-speed optical imaging was used to compare bubble cloud behavior and ablation capacity for histotripsy generated from ... -
Experimental Investigation of Sound Transmission Loss in Concrete Containing Recycled Rubber Crumbs
(Technopress, 2021-05-15)This study represents procedures and material to improve sound transmission loss through concrete without having any significant effects on mechanical properties. To prevent noise pollution damaging effects, and for reducing ... -
Spatially expandable fiber-based probes as a multifunctional deep brain interface
(Nature Research, 2020)Understanding the cytoarchitecture and wiring of the brain requires improved methods to record and stimulate large groups of neurons with cellular specificity. This requires miniaturized neural interfaces that integrate ... -
A language and hardware independent approach to quantum–classical computing
(Elsevier, 2018-07-25)Heterogeneous high-performance computing (HPC) systems offer novel architectures which accelerate specific workloads through judicious use of specialized coprocessors. A promising architectural approach for future scientific ... -
muBLASTP: database-indexed protein sequence search on multicore CPUs
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a fundamental program in the life sciences that searches databases for sequences that are most similar to a query sequence. Currently, the BLAST algorithm utilizes ... -
A survey on artificial intelligence assurance
(2021-04-26)Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms are increasingly providing decision making and operational support across multiple domains. AI includes a wide (and growing) library of algorithms that could be applied for different ... -
The conduction velocity-potassium relationship in the heart is modulated by sodium and calcium
(2021-03)The relationship between cardiac conduction velocity (CV) and extracellular potassium (K+) is biphasic, with modest hyperkalemia increasing CV and severe hyperkalemia slowing CV. Recent studies from our group suggest that ... -
Physics-aware Architecture of Neural Networks for Uncertainty Quantification: Application in Lake Temperature Modeling
(SIGKDD, 2019-08-05)In this paper, we explore a novel direction of research in theory-guided data science to develop physics-aware architectures of artificial neural networks (ANNs), where scientific knowledge is baked in the construction of ... -
Development of Piezoelectric Energy Harvester System through Optimizing Multiple Structural Parameters
(MDPI, 2021-04-20)Road power generation technology is of significance for constructing smart roads. With a high electromechanical conversion rate and high bearing capacity, the stack piezoelectric transducer is one of the most used structures ... -
Isolation Properties of Low-Profile Magnetorheological Fluid Mounts
(MDPI, 2021-04-19)This study evaluates the stiffness and damping characteristics of low-profile magnetorheological (MR) fluid mounts (MRFM) to provide a better understanding of the vibration improvements offered by such mounts, as compared ... -
Investigation of the Residual Mechanical and Porosity Properties of Cement Mortar under Axial Stress during Heating
(MDPI, 2021-04-13)The preload load on concrete during heating is considered to cause a ‘densification’ of cement mortar which led to the increased compressive strength. In order to assess the influence of coupled load and heating effects ... -
Analysis and Optimization of a Novel Hexagonal Waveguide Concentrator for Solar Thermal Applications
(MDPI, 2021-04-12)This paper analyzes a novel, cost-effective planar waveguide solar concentrator design that is inspired by cellular hexagonal structures in nature with the benefits of facile installation and low operation and maintenance ... -
Real-Time and Efficient Traffic Information Acquisition via Pavement Vibration IoT Monitoring System
(MDPI, 2021-04-10)Traditional road-embedded monitoring systems for traffic monitoring have the disadvantages of a short life, high energy consumption and data redundancy, resulting in insufficient durability and high cost. In order to improve ... -
Physics-Informed Discriminator (PID) for Conditional Generative Adversarial Nets
(NeurIPS, 2020-12-11)We propose a novel method of incorporating physical knowledge as an additional input to the discriminator of a conditional Generative Adversarial Net (cGAN). Our proposed approach, termed as Physics-informed Discriminator ... -
Photocatalyst-independent photoredox ring-opening polymerization of O-carboxyanhydrides: stereocontrol and mechanism
(2021-03-14)Photoredox ring-opening polymerization of O-carboxyanhydrides allows for the synthesis of polyesters with precisely controlled molecular weights, molecular weight distributions, and tacticities. While powerful, obviating ... -
Navigation and ionosphere characterization using high-frequency signals: Models and solution concepts
(2021-03-17)A navigation concept is being developed that relies on passive one-way ranging using pseudorange and beat carrier-phase measurements of high-frequency (HF) beacon signals that travel along non-line-of-sight paths via ... -
Fast and accurate incremental feedback for students' software tests using selective mutation analysis
(2021-05)As incorporating software testing into programming assignments becomes routine, educators have begun to assess not only the correctness of students' software, but also the adequacy of their tests. In practice, educators ... -
LINflow: a computational pipeline that combines an alignment-free with an alignment-based method to accelerate generation of similarity matrices for prokaryotic genomes
(2021-03-24)Background: Computing genomic similarity between strains is a prerequisite for genome-based prokaryotic classification and identification. Genomic similarity was first computed as Average Nucleotide Identity (ANI) values ...
