Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2024
NOVEL ANALYTICAL APPROACHES FOR THE STUDY OF ENERGY AND NUTRIENT FLOW IN STREAMS, Michelle Catherine Kelly
LUNAR: Automated Input Generation and Analysis for Reactive LAMMPS Simulations, Josh Kemppainen, Jacob R. Gissinger, S. Gowtham, and Gregory Odegard
APPLICATIONS OF INDEPENDENT AND IDENTICALLY DISTRIBUTED (IID) RANDOM PROCESSES IN POLARIMETRY AND CLIMATOLOGY, Dan Kestner
Single-fly genome assemblies fill major phylogenomic gaps across the Drosophilidae Tree of Life, Bernard Y. Kim, Hannah R. Gellert, Samuel H. Church, Anton Suvorov, Sean S. Anderson, Olga Barmina, Sofia G. Beskid, Aaron A. Comeault, K. Nicole Crown, Sarah E. Diamond, Steve Dorus, Takako Fujichika, James A. Hemker, Jan Hrcek, Thomas Werner, and et. al
Detection of wintertime green vegetated cover using object-based classification with open-source remote sensing and geospatial technologies, Jae Sung Kim, Sara P. Syswerda, and Sigrid D. P. Smith
Mixing measurement on hydrogen jet by LIBS under various injection strategies, Youngmin Ki, Jungho Justin Kim, Seong Young Lee, Joonsik Hwang, and Choongsik Bae
Increasing the Dissolution Rate of Polystyrene Waste in Solvent-Based Recycling, Rita Kol, Ruben Denolf, Gwendoline Bernaert, Dave Manhaeghe, Ezra Bar Ziv, George W. Huber, Norbert Niessner, Michiel Verswyvel, Angeliki Lemonidou, Dimitris S. Achilias, and Steven De Meester
Spectral Differencing of Glories Reflects Cloud Droplet Size Distribution, Ilan Koren, Alex Kostinski, and Uri Wollner
Deep space observations of conditionally averaged global reflectance patterns, Alexander Kostinski, Alexander Marshak, and Tamás Várnai
Estimating Polarization Purity With Noise, Alex Kostinski, Dan Kestner, and Jothiram Vivekanandan
Unusual catalytic strategy by non-heme Fe(ii)/2-oxoglutarate-dependent aspartyl hydroxylase AspH, Anandhu Krishnan, Sodiq Waheed, Ann Varghese, Fathima Hameed Cherilakkudy, Christopher J. Schofield, and Tatyana G. Karabencheva-Christova
Controls on Stable Methane Isotope Values in Northern Peatlands and Potential Shifts in Values Under Permafrost Thaw Scenarios, McKenzie A. Kuhn, Ruth K. Varner, Carmody K. McCalley, Clarice R. Perryman, Mika Aurela, Sophia A. Burke, Evan S. Kane, Virginia I. Rich, and et al.
Editorial Commentary on the Special Issue “Antioxidant Therapy for Cardiovascular Diseases”—Cutting-Edge Insights into Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Therapy in Cardiovascular Health, Guim Kwon, K. Michael Gibson, and Lanrong Bi
Shifting the language of ‘invasion’ ecology: two-eyed seeing as a framework for discourse regarding introduced species, Shelby Nicole Lane-Clark, Valoree Gagnon, and Tara Bal
Advancements in the Programmable Hyperspectral Seawater Scanner Measurement Technology for Enhanced Detection of Harmful Algal Blooms, John J. Langan and Jungyun Bae
FSPDE: A Full Stack Plausibly Deniable Encryption System for Mobile Devices, Jinghui Liao, Niusen Chen, Lichen Xia, Bo Chen, and Weisong Shi
Version 1 NOAA-20/OMPS Nadir Mapper total column SO2 product: continuation of NASA long-term global data record, Can Li, Nickolay A. Krotkov, Joanna Joiner, Vitali Fioletov, Chris Mclinden, Debora Griffin, Peter J.T. Leonard, Simon Carn, Colin Seftor, and Alexander Vasilkov
Performance of optimized composition of epoxy resin adhesive used in High Friction Surface Treatment, Jiapeng Li, Xiao Huan, Shubing Wang, Yanping Sheng, Dahui Xu, and Zhanping You
Evaluation of ICESat-2 Significant Wave Height Data with Buoy Observations in the Great Lakes and Application in Examination of Wave Model Predictions, Linfeng Li, Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome, Russ Miller, Dan Titze, and Hayden Henderson
ENHANCING RESILIENCE OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURAL SYSTEMS AGAINST SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS, Miaomiao Li
Deep Neural Network-Oriented Indicator Method for Inverse Scattering Problems Using Partial Data, Yule Lin, Xiaoyi Yan, Jiguang Sun, and Juan Liu
Channel Prediction for Underwater Acoustic Communication: A Review and Performance Evaluation of Algorithms, Haotian Liu, Lu Ma, Zhaohui Wang, and Gang Qiao
A Nearly Gapless, Highly Contiguous Reference Genome for a Doubled Haploid Line of Populus ussuriensis, enabling Advanced Genomic Studies, Wenxuan Liu, Caixia Liu, Song Chen, Meng Wang, Xinyu Wang, Hairong Wei, and et al.
A Decentralized Digital Watermarking Framework for Secure and Auditable Video Data in Smart Vehicular Networks, Xinyun Liu, Ronghua Xu, and Yu Chen
AGFI-GAN: An Attention-Guided and Feature-Integrated Watermarking Model Based on Generative Adversarial Network Framework for Secure and Auditable Medical Imaging Application, Xinyun Liu, Ronghua Xu, and Chen Zhao
The role of storage in the emerging Power-to-X Economy: The case of Hawaiʻi, Gabriel Lopez, Arman Aghahosseini, Dmitrii Bogdanov, Rasul Satymov, Ayobami Solomon Oyewo, Barry Solomon, and Christian Breyer
Association of Bovine Arch Anatomy With Incident Stroke After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Gerardo V. Lo Russo, Hasan S. Alarouri, Abdulah Al-Abcha, Brennan Vogl, Abdulah Mahayni, Agata Sularz, Hoda Hatoum, Jeremy Collins, Juan A. Crestanello, and Mohamad Alkhouli
Aerobic exercise improves depressive symptoms in the unilateral 6-OHDA-lesioned rat model of Parkinson's disease, Hannah Loughlin, Jacob Jackson, Chloe Looman, Alayna Starll, Jeremy Goldman, Zhiying Shan, and Chunxiu Yu
For those who don't know (how) to ask: Building a dataset of technology questions for digital newcomers, Evan Lucas, Kelly S. Steelman, Leo Ureel, and Charles Wallace
Social determinants of rural food security: Findings from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Hongmei Lu and Angie Carter
Modeling, Control and Validation of a Three-Phase Single-Stage Photovoltaic System, Eubis Pereira Machado, Adeon Cecílio Pinto, Rodrigo Pereira Ramos, Ricardo Menezes Prates, Jadsonlee da Silva Sá, Joaquim Isídio de Lima, Flavio Bezerra Costa, Damásio Fernandes, and Alex Coutinho Pereira
Exploring Learning Paths: Understanding the Learning Strategies of Artificial Intelligence System Users and Their Involvement in Social Forums, Tauseef Ibne Mamun and Shane Mueller
Reflective and dialogical approaches in engineering ethics education, Lavinia Marin, Yousef Jalali, Alexandra Morrison, and Cristina Voinea
The Implications of Waste Streams at Camp Au Train, Timothy J. Maze
NEW METHOD FOR COMPUTING THE EUCLIDEAN CONDITION NUMBER WITH RIM-C, Cody McCarthy
Knockdown of microRNA390 Enhances Maize Brace Root Growth, Juan Meng, Weiya Li, Feiyan Qi, Tianxiao Yang, Na Li, Jiong Wan, Xiaoqi Li, Yajuan Jiang, Chenhui Wang, Meilian Huang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yongqiang Chen, Sachin Teotia, Guiliang Tang, Zhanhui Zhang, and Jihua Tang
Species Abundance Modelling of Arctic-Boreal Zone Ducks Informed by Satellite Remote Sensing, Michael Allan Merchant, Michael Battaglia, Nancy H. French, Kevin Smith, Howard V. Singer, Llwellyn Armstrong, Vanessa B. Harriman, and Stuart Slattery
A JWST Survey of the Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A, Dan Milisavljevic, Tea Temim, Ilse De Looze, Danielle Dickinson, J. Martin Laming, Robert Fesen, John C. Raymond, Richard G. Arendt, Jacco Vink, Bettina Posselt, George G. Pavlov, Ori D. Fox, Ethan Pinarski, Bhagya Subrayan, Judy Schmidt, William P. Blair, Armin Rest, Daniel Patnaude, Bon Chul Koo, Jeonghee Rho, Salvatore Orlando, Hans Thomas Janka, Moira Andrews, Michael J. Barlow, Adam Burrows, Roger Chevalier, Geoffrey Clayton, Claes Fransson, Christopher Fryer, Haley L. Gomez, and Florian Kirchschlager
The above L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture radar surveys, Charles E. Miller, Peter C. Griffith, Elizabeth Hoy, Naiara S. Pinto, Yunling Lou, Scott Hensley, Bruce D. Chapman, Jennifer Baltzer, Kazem Bakian-Dogaheh, W. Robert Bolton, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Richard H. Chen, Byung Hun Choe, Leah K. Clayton, Thomas A. Douglas, Nancy H. French, Jean E. Holloway, Gang Hong, Lingcao Huang, Go Iwahana, Liza K. Jenkins, John S. Kimball, Tatiana Loboda, Michelle Mack, Philip Marsh, Roger J. Michaelides, Mahta Moghaddam, Andrew Parsekian, Kevin Schaefer, Paul R. Siqueira, and Debjani Singh
MATRIX STIFFNESS SENSING BY NASCENT ADHESIONS AND THE ROLE OF RIAM IN ADHESION ASSEMBLY, Nikhil Mittal
Myosin-independent stiffness sensing by fibroblasts is regulated by the viscoelasticity of flowing actin, Nikhil Mittal, Etienne B. Michels, Andrew E. Massey, Yunxiu Qiu, Shaina P. Royer-Weeden, Bryan R. Smith, Alexander X. Cartagena-Rivera, and Sangyoon J. Han
Polymerizing actin regulates myosin-independent mechanosensing by modulating actin elasticity and flow fluctuation, Nikhil Mittal, Etienne Michels, Kathleen Pakenas, Shaina P. Royer-Weeden, and Sangyoon J. Han
RECYCLING WASTE PLASTICS FROM E-WASTE AND HOUSEHOLD SOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE ASPHALT CONSTRUCTION, Sepehr Mohammadi
Design and Analysis of Self-Tanked Stepwise Charging Circuit for Four-Phase Adiabatic Logic, William Morell and Jin Woo Choi
UNDERSTANDING SUBTLE GENDER BIAS RECOGNITION AMONG WITNESSES IN A STEM UNDERGRADUATE CONTEXT, Darnishia Lashalle Morris
Genome size influences plant growth and biodiversity responses to nutrient fertilization in diverse grassland communities, Joseph A. Morton, Carlos Alberto Arnillas, Lori Biedermann, Elizabeth T. Borer, Lars A. Brudvig, Yvonne M. Buckley, Marc W. Cadotte, Kendi Davies, Ian Donohue, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, Catalina Estrada, Sylvia Haider, Yann Hautier, Anke Jentsch, Holly Martinson, Rebecca L. McCulley, Xavier Raynaud, Christiane Roscher, Eric W. Seabloom, Carly J. Stevens, Katerina Vesela, Alison Wallace, Ilia J. Leitch, Andrew R. Leitch, and Erika Hersch-Green
EXPLORING USABILITY IN EXERCISE INTERVENTIONS: FROM CONCEPTUALIZATION TO MEASUREMENT AND APPLICATION, Anne Inger Mørtvedt
Experimental investigation of long-term performance of fiber-reinforced epoxy and polyurethane polymer composites, Abdel Hamid I. Mourad, Amir Hussain Idrisi, Asima Zahoor, Muhammad M. Sherif, and Beckry M. Abdel-Magid
Light curve and hardness tests for millilensing in GRB 081122A, GRB 081126A, GRB 110517B, and GRB 210812A, Oindabi Mukherjee and Robert J. Nemiroff
Light curve and hardness tests for millilensing in GRB 950830, GRB 090717A, and GRB 200716C, Oindabi Mukherjee and Robert J. Nemiroff
Assessing visibility at highway-rail grade crossings using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology, Mohsen Naghdi, Pasi T. Lautala, and Abdolmajid Erfani
Morphological Changes of Liver Among Post-Fontan Surgery Patients, Varatharajan Nainamalai, Håvard Bjørke Jenssen, Khadiza Tun Suha, Mostafa Rezaeitaleshmahalleh, Min Wang, Sarah Khan, Marcus Haw, Jingfeng Jiang, and Joseph Vettukattil
The Effect of Seasonal Ice Cover Duration on Shoreline Erosion in Lake Michigan, Ryan S. Navarre
Land use change and forest management effects on soil carbon stocks in the Northeast U.S., Lucas E. Nave, Kendall DeLyser, Grant M. Domke, Scott M. Holub, Maria K. Janowiak, Adrienne B. Keller, Matthew P. Peters, Kevin A. Solarik, Brian F. Walters, and Christopher W. Swanston
Aluminum Critical Mineral Production Feasibility via Landfill Mining: Preliminary study of potential project locations and co-benefits, Anabel M. Needham
Valorization of Spent Vetiver Roots for Biochar Generation, Sameer Neve, Dibyendu Sarkar, Manas Warke, Teresa Bandosz, and Rupali Datta
Gravity Fed Hopper Flow of Bulk Solids for Lunar ISRU, Jason Bendixen Noe
CONTINUOUS, PLATFORM PURIFICATION OF VIRAL PRODUCTS USING AQUEOUS TWO-PHASE EXTRACTION, Natalie M. Nold
Editorial: Mitral valve disease: mechanisms to therapies, Maria Carmo Nunes, Hoda Hatoum, Alison M. Pouch, and Muralidhar Padala
Characterization of non-Gaussianity in the snow distributions of various landscapes, Noriaki Ohara, Andrew D. Parsekian, Benjamin M. Jones, Rodrigo C. Rangel, Kenneth M Hinkel, and Rui A.P. Perdigão
Efficient alkaline water electrolysis with an iron-incorporated yttrium oxide/yttrium phosphide nanorod catalyst on Ni foam: overpotential reduction and electrochemical insights, Subash Pandey and Rudy L. Luck
ALGORITHMS FOR COORDINATING MULTIPLE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES UNDER VARIOUS CONSTRAINTS WITH EMPHASIS ON WORKLOAD BALANCING, Abhishek Patil
FROM TECHNICAL RESOLUTION TO AGILE EVOLUTION: A BLENDED ROLE AT HUMANE INTERFACE DESIGN ENTERPRISE (HIDE), Ketansingh Anil Patil
The effect of gamma-ray irradiation on polymer-graphene nanocomposite interfaces, Sagar Patil, Josh Kemppainen, Travis Wavrunek, and Gregory Odegard
Intelligent Transportation System with 5G Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X): Architectures, Vehicular Use Cases, Emergency Vehicles, Current Challenges, and Future Directions, Vaishali Pawar, Nilima Zade, Deepali Vora, Vaishali Khairnar, Aurenice M. Oliveira, Ketan Kotecha, and Ambarish Kulkarni
EXAMINING GENOME SIZE AND NUTRIENT INFLUENCE ON DAMAGE PATTERNS, AND PLANT-INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY DYNAMICS, Hailee B. Petosky
Usefulness of Current Patient-Reported Outcome Scales for ACL Injury: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Stakeholder-Perceived Utility of Specific Constructs and Items Across the Rehabilitation Timeline, Erich Petushek, Jed A. Diekfuss, Joseph D. Lamplot, Anne-Inger Mørtvedt, Lauren C. Hoey, Kevin Heo, Camryn B. Petit, Kim D. Barber Foss, Shayla M. Warren, Alexis B. Slutsky-Ganesh, Charles D. Kenyon, April L. McPherson, Michael E. Biller, Michael Newsome, Brian Jennings, John W. Xerogeanes, and Gregory D. Myer
Asymptotics of the rate function in the large deviation principle for sums of independent identically distributed random variables, Iosif Pinelis
STATICALLY CONTROLLED SYNCHRONIZED LANE ARCHITECTURES, Scott K. Pomerville
Characterization of Oscillatory Response of Light-Weight Wind Turbine Rotors under Controlled Gust Pulses, Fernando Ponta, Alayna Farrell, Apurva Baruah, and North Yates
High-Frequency-Based Transmission Line Percentage Differential Protection with Traveling Wave Alignment, Igor F. Prado, Flavio Costa, Kleber M. Silva, Rodrigo P. Medeiros, and Bruce A. Mork
LMCrot: An enhanced protein crotonylation site predictor by leveraging an interpretable window-level embedding from a transformer-based protein language model, Pawel Pratyush, Soufia Bahmani, Suresh Pokharel, Hamid D. Ismail, and Dukka Bahadur
Gains in soil carbon storage under anthropogenic nitrogen deposition are rapidly lost following its cessation, Brooke E. Propson, Donald R. Zak, Aimée T. Classen, Andrew J Burton, and Zachary B. Freedman
The Great Lakes Winter Grab: Limnological data from a multi-institutional winter sampling campaign on the Laurentian Great Lakes, Ge Pu, Krill Shchapov, Nolan J.T. Pearce, Kelly Bowen, Andrew Bramburger, Andrew Camilleri, Maci Quintanilla, Trista Vick-Majors, and et al.
Synergy between Ca2+ and high ionic field-strength cations during the corrosion of alkali aluminoborosilicate glasses in hyper-alkaline media, Qianhui Qin, Nicholas Stone-Weiss, Nian Shi, Pinaki Mukherjee, Jinjun Ren, and Ashutosh Goel
Recognition, Subject Formation, and Agency: Marginalization and Agency in Feminist Dystopian Narratives, Samantha J. Quade
The Microverse: A Task-Oriented Edge-Scale Metaverse, Qian Qu, Mohsen Hatami, Ronghua Xu, Deeraj Nagothu, Yu Chen, Xiaohua Li, Erik Blasch, Erika Ardiles-Cruz, and Genshe Chen
SPECIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ARM ISA USING ADL, Jonathan A. Rabideau
INTEGRATING ARCGIS AND REDUX USING MIDDLEWARE, Vishnu Vardhan Reddy Rapuru
Strain and Substrate-Induced Electronic Properties of Novel Mixed Anion-Based 2D ScHX2 (X = I/Br) Semiconductors, Ashima Rawat and Ravindra Pandey
Cytauxzoonosis in Indiana, USA: a case series of cats infected with Cytauxzoon felis (2018-2022), Mason V. Reichard, Stacy R. Cotey, Sriveny Dangoudoubiyam, Pabasara Weerarathne, Kenneth Tussey, Rebecca P. Wilkes, and et. al.
Social and knowledge diversity in forest education: Vital for the world’s forests, Mika Rekola, Andrew B. Taber, Terry Sharik, John A. Parrotta, Michael J. Dockry, Folaranmi D. Babalola, Tara L Bal, David Ganz, Marta Gruca, Manuel R. Guariguata, James Kungu, Pipiet Larasatie, Anne Nevgi, Sandra Rodriguez-Piñeros, Sirichai Saengcharnchai, Niclas Sandström, and Khalil Walji
Developing a nearly automated open-source pipeline for conducting computational fluid dynamics simulations in anterior brain vasculature: a feasibility study, Mostafa Rezaeitaleshmahalleh, Nan Mu, Zonghan Lyu, Joseph Gemmete, Aditya Pandey, and Jingfeng Jiang
UNESCO, Mining Heritage and the Scalar Sustainability of Tourism Geographies at Industrial World Heritage Sites, Mark A. Rhodes and Kathryn L. Hannum
Health Impacts of Future Prescribed Fire Smoke: Considerations From an Exposure Scenario in California, Andrew Rosenberg, Sumi Hoshiko, Joseph R. Buckman, Kirstin R. Yeomans, Thomas Hayashi, Samantha J. Kramer, Shih Ming Huang, Nancy H. French, and Ana G. Rappold
Reversing File Access Control Using Disk Forensics on Low-Level Flash Memory, Caleb J. Rother and Bo Chen
New examples of self-dual near-extremal ternary codes of length 48 derived from 2-(47,23,11) designs, Sanja Rukavina and Vladimir Tonchev
A Micromechanical Study of Interactions of Cyanate Ester Monomer with Graphene or Boron Nitride Monolayer, Geeta Sachdeva, Álvaro Lobato, Ravindra Pandey, and Gregory Odegard
Sustainable Environmental Technologies: Recent Development, Opportunities, and Key Challenges, Prafulla Kumar Sahoo, Rupali Datta, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, and Dibyendu Sarkar
Jovian Vortex Hunter: A Citizen Science Project to Study Jupiter’s Vortices, Ramanakumar Sankar, Shawn R. Brueshaber, Lucy Fortson, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, Chris Lintott, Kameswara Mantha, Cooper Nesmith, and Glenn S. Orton
Understanding Confusion: A Case Study of Training a Machine Model to Predict and Interpret Consensus From Volunteer Labels, Ramanakumar Sankar, Kameswara Mantha, Cooper Nesmith, Lucy Fortson, Shawn R. Brueshaber, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, and Glenn Orton
Verifying an improved intermittent water distribution network analysis method based on EPA-SWMM, Dondu Sarisen, Raziyeh Farmani, David W. Watkins, Brian Barkdoll, Brian Rivers, Chao Zhang, and Fayyaz Ali Memon
A PHYSICAL TEST ARTIFACT FOR EVALUATING EDGE CASES OF INDIVIDUAL AND FUSED AUTOMATED DRIVING PERCEPTION SENSORS, Colin Schaefer
Enriched microbial consortia from natural environments reveal core groups of microbial taxa able to degrade terephthalate and terphthalamide, Laura G. Schaerer, Sulihat Aloba, Emily Wood, Allison Olson, Isabel B. A. Valencia, Rebecca Ong, and Stephen Techtmann
Engagement for Life's Sake: Reflections on Partnering and Partnership with Rural Tribal Nations, Chelsea Schelly, Valoree Gagnon, Kathleen Brosemer, and Kristin Arola
LES-C Turbulence Models and Fluid Flow Modeling: Analysis and Application to Incompressible Turbulence and Fluid-Fluid Interaction, Kyle J. Schwiebert
A staged approach using machine learning and uncertainty quantification to predict the risk of hip fracture, Anjum Shaik, Kristoffer A. Larsen, Nancy E. Lane, Chen Zhao, Kuan Jui Su, Joyce H. Keyak, Qing Tian, Qiuying Sha, Hui Shen, Hong Wen Deng, and Weihua Zhou
The Integration of Neuromorphic Computing in Autonomous Robotic Systems, Md Abu Bakr Siddique
Impact of changing climate on bryophyte contributions to terrestrial water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles, Mandy L. Slate, Anita Antoninka, Lydia Bailey, Monica B. Berdugo, Des A. Callaghan, Mariana Cárdenas, Matthew W. Chmielewski, Nicole J. Fenton, Hannah Holland-Moritz, Samantha Hopkins, Mélanie Jean, Bier Ekaphan Kraichak, Zoë Lindo, Amelia Merced, Tobi Oke, Daniel Stanton, Julia E. Stuart, Daniel Tucker, and Kirsten K. Coe
Sphere-Graph: A Compact 3D Topological Map for Robotic Navigation and Segmentation of Complex Environments, Meryl Spencer, Reid W. Sawtell, and Sarah Kitchen