College of Engineering (COE): Recent submissions
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Characterizing capstone design teaching: A functional taxonomy
(2019-04)Background: Capstone design courses represent a critical juncture in students' development at the transition from school to work. However, few studies have systematically explored teaching in this context, leaving a ... -
Derivation of Hemispheric Ionospheric Current Functions From Ground-Level Magnetic Fields
(2019-04)The horizontal currents in the high-latitude ionosphere are the primary driver of the magnetic field perturbations that are observed at the surface of the Earth. These currents and their ground effects are an important ... -
Electrophysiologic effects of the I-K1 inhibitor PA-6 are modulated by extracellular potassium in isolated guinea pig hearts
(The Physiological Society, 2017-01)The pentamidine analog PA-6 was developed as a specific inward rectifier potassium current (I-K1) antagonist, because established inhibitors either lack specificity or have side effects that prohibit their use in vivo. We ... -
Delay of left ventricular longitudinal expansion with diastolic dysfunction: impact on load dependence of e′ and longitudinal strain rate
(The Physiological Society, 2014-07)The effect of diastolic dysfunction (DD) on the timing of left ventricular (LV) diastolic longitudinal and circumferential expansion and their load dependence is not known. This study evaluated the timing of the peak early ... -
Light-driven nitrous oxide production via autotrophic denitrification by self-photosensitized Thiobacillus denitrificans
(2019-06)N2O (Nitrous oxide, a booster oxidant in rockets) has attracted increasing interest as a means of enhancing energy production, and it can be produced by nitrate (NO3-) reduction in NO3--loading wastewater. However, ... -
Temperature-Dependent Gas Transport Behavior in Cross-Linked Liquid Crystalline Polyacrylate Membranes
(MDPI, 2019-08-20)Stable, cross-linked, liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) films for membrane separation applications have been fabricated from the mesogenic monomer 11-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy) undecyl methacrylate (CNBPh), non-mesogenic ... -
Reconstructing signaling pathways using regular language constrained paths
(2019-07-15)Motivation High-quality curation of the proteins and interactions in signaling pathways is slow and painstaking. As a result, many experimentally detected interactions are not annotated to any pathways. A natural question ... -
Lead release to potable water during the Flint, Michigan water crisis as revealed by routine biosolids monitoring data
(2019-09-01)Routine biosolids monitoring data provides an independent and comprehensive means to estimate water lead release pre-, during and post-Flint Water Crisis (FWC). The mass of potable plumbing-related metals ( i.e., lead, ... -
Environmental Persistence of Influenza Viruses Is Dependent upon Virus Type and Host Origin
(American Society for Microbiology, 2019-08-21)Highly transmissible influenza viruses (IV) must remain stable and infectious under a wide range of environmental conditions following release from the respiratory tract into the air. Understanding how expelled IV persist ... -
Stretchable sensors for environmental monitoring
(2019-03)The development of flexible and stretchable sensors has been receiving increasing attention in recent years. In particular, stretchable, skin-like, wearable sensors are desirable for a variety of potential applications ... -
Higher Education Student Body Diversification as Glocal Practice
(2012-07)Georg Simmel's assertion that strangeness organizes nearness and remoteness helps to understand how the social category of First Generation College Student (FGCS, first in the family to attend college) is used at a public ... -
Cognitive barriers during monitoring-based commissioning of buildings
(2019-04)Monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) is a continuous building energy management process used to optimize energy performance in buildings. Although monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) can reduce energy waste by up to ... -
Natural, incidental, and engineered nanomaterials and their impacts on the Earth system
(2019-03-29)Nanomaterials are critical components in the Earth system's past, present, and future characteristics and behavior. They have been present since Earth's origin in great abundance. Life, from the earliest cells to modern ... -
The Role of Disjoining Pressure and Thermal Activation in the Invasion of Droplets into Nanopores
(2019-03-21)Multiphase transport at a nanoscale level plays a key role in applications including drying of nanoporous materials and gas/oil recovery from low permeability rocks. A frequently encountered scenario in multiphase transport ... -
Repetitive Head Impact Exposure in College Football Following an NCAA Rule Change to Eliminate Two-A-Day Preseason Practices: A Study from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium
(Biomedical Engineering Society, 2019-08-06)Repetitive head impact exposure sustained by athletes of contact sports has been hypothesized to be a mechanism for concussion and a possible explanation for the high degree of variability in sport-related concussion ... -
Electromagnetic Signal Classification Based on Deep Sparse Capsule Networks
(IEEE, 2019)In complex electromagnetic environments, electromagnetic signal classification rates are low as long time have to be the cost to extract features. To cope with the issue, in this paper, an electromagnetic signal classification ... -
COSTA: Composite Trust-Based Asset-Task Assignment in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(IEEE, 2019)In mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), asset-task assignment problems have been explored with vastly different approaches. Considering the unique characteristics of MANET environments, such as no centralized trusted entity, ... -
Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control With Adaptive Kalman Filter Subject to Temporary Communication Loss
(IEEE, 2019)Cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) communicates the relevant preceding vehicle state data to the follower (ego) vehicle to improve the vehicle following capabilities. In general, the CACC utilizes the preceding ... -
The Mobile Base Station Strategy for Wireless Networks With Successive Interference Cancellation
(IEEE, 2019)Successive interference cancellation (SIC) and mobile base stations (MBSs) have been separately exploited to effectively collect data in wireless networks. This paper aims to jointly optimize SIC and MBSs movement to ...
