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Kinetic Particle Simulations Of Plasma Charging At Lunar Craters Under Severe Conditions, David Lund, Xiaoming He, Daoru Frank Han Jul 2023

Kinetic Particle Simulations Of Plasma Charging At Lunar Craters Under Severe Conditions, David Lund, Xiaoming He, Daoru Frank Han

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper presents fully kinetic particle simulations of plasma charging at lunar craters with the presence of lunar lander modules using the recently developed Parallel Immersed-Finite-Element Particle-in-Cell (PIFE-PIC) code. The computation model explicitly includes the lunar regolith layer on top of the lunar bedrock, taking into account the regolith layer thickness and permittivity as well as the lunar lander module in the simulation domain, resolving a nontrivial surface terrain or lunar lander configuration. Simulations were carried out to study the lunar surface and lunar lander module charging near craters at the lunar terminator region under mean and severe plasma environments. …


Use Only What You Need: Judicious Parallelism For File Transfers In High Performance Networks, Md Arifuzzaman, Engin Arslan Jun 2023

Use Only What You Need: Judicious Parallelism For File Transfers In High Performance Networks, Md Arifuzzaman, Engin Arslan

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Parallelism is key to efficiently utilizing high-speed research networks when transferring large volumes of data. However, the monolithic design of existing transfer applications requires the same level of parallelism to be used for reading, write, and network operations for file transfers. This, in turn, overburdens system resources since setting the parallelism level for the slowest component results in unnecessarily high parallelism for other components. Using more than necessary parallelism led to increased overhead on system resources and unfair resource allocation among competing transfers. In this paper, we introduce modular file transfer architecture, Marlin, to separate I/O and network operations for …


Grm: Generative Relevance Modeling Using Relevance-Aware Sample Estimation For Document Retrieval, Iain Mackie, Ivan Sekulic, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeffrey Dalton, Fabio Crestani Jun 2023

Grm: Generative Relevance Modeling Using Relevance-Aware Sample Estimation For Document Retrieval, Iain Mackie, Ivan Sekulic, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeffrey Dalton, Fabio Crestani

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Recent studies show that Generative Relevance Feedback (GRF), using text generated by Large Language Models (LLMs), can enhance the effectiveness of query expansion. However, LLMs can generate irrelevant information that harms retrieval effectiveness. To address this, we propose Generative Relevance Modeling (GRM) that uses Relevance-Aware Sample Estimation (RASE) for more accurate weighting of expansion terms. Specifically, we identify similar real documents for each generated document and use a neural re-ranker to estimate their relevance. Experiments on three standard document ranking benchmarks show that GRM improves MAP by 6-9% and R@1k by 2-4%, surpassing previous methods.


Anderson Localization Of Electromagnetic Waves In Three Dimensions, Alexey Yamilov, Sergey E. Skipetrov, Tyler W. Hughes, Momchil Minkov, Zongfu Yu, Hui Cao Jun 2023

Anderson Localization Of Electromagnetic Waves In Three Dimensions, Alexey Yamilov, Sergey E. Skipetrov, Tyler W. Hughes, Momchil Minkov, Zongfu Yu, Hui Cao

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Anderson localization is a halt of diffusive wave propagation in disordered systems. Despite extensive studies over the past 40 years, Anderson localization of light in three dimensions has remained elusive, leading to the question of its very existence. Recent advances have enabled finite-difference time-domain calculations to be sped up by orders of magnitude, allowing us to conduct brute-force numerical simulations of light transport in fully disordered three-dimensional systems with unprecedented dimension and refractive index difference. We show numerically three-dimensional localization of vector electromagnetic waves in random aggregates of overlapping metallic spheres, in sharp contrast to the absence of localization for …


Lagrangian Displacement Field Estimators In Cosmology, Atsuhisa Ota, Hee Jong Seo, Shun Saito, Florian Beutler Jun 2023

Lagrangian Displacement Field Estimators In Cosmology, Atsuhisa Ota, Hee Jong Seo, Shun Saito, Florian Beutler

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The late-time nonlinear Lagrangian displacement field is highly correlated with the initial field, so reconstructing it could enable us to extract primordial cosmological information. Our previous work [A. Ota et al., Phys. Rev. D 104, 123508 (2021)PRVDAQ2470-001010.1103/PhysRevD.104.123508] carefully studied the displacement field reconstructed from the late-time density field using the iterative method proposed by Schmittfull et al. [Phys. Rev. D 96, 023505 (2017)PRVDAQ2470-001010.1103/PhysRevD.96.023505] and found that it does not fully converge to the true, underlying displacement field (e.g., ∼8% offset at k∼0.2 h Mpc-1 at z=0.6). We also constructed the Lagrangian perturbation theory model for the reconstructed field, but the …


Uniqueness For An Inverse Quantum-Dirac Problem With Given Weyl Function, Martin Bohner, Ayça Çetinkaya Jun 2023

Uniqueness For An Inverse Quantum-Dirac Problem With Given Weyl Function, Martin Bohner, Ayça Çetinkaya

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this work, we consider a boundary value problem for a q-Dirac equation. We prove orthogonality of the eigenfunctions, realness of the eigenvalues, and we study asymptotic formulas of the eigenfunctions. We show that the eigenfunctions form a complete system, we obtain the expansion formula with respect to the eigenfunctions, and we derive Parseval's equality. We construct the Weyl solution and the Weyl function. We prove a uniqueness theorem for the solution of the inverse problem with respect to the Weyl function.


Vallée-Poussin Theorem For Equations With Caputo Fractional Derivative, Martin Bohner, Alexander Domoshnitsky, Seshadev Padhi, Satyam Narayan Srivastava Jun 2023

Vallée-Poussin Theorem For Equations With Caputo Fractional Derivative, Martin Bohner, Alexander Domoshnitsky, Seshadev Padhi, Satyam Narayan Srivastava

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this paper, the functional differential equation (CDaα+x)(t) + mΣi=0 (Tix(i))(t) = f(t); t 2 [a; b]; with Caputo fractional derivative CDaα+ is studied. The operators Ti act from the space of continuous to the space of essentially bounded functions. They can be operators with deviations (delayed and advanced), integral operators and their various linear combinations and superpositions. Such equations could appear in various applications and in the study of systems of, for example, two fractional differential equations, when one of the components can be …


Modeling And A Domain Decomposition Method With Finite Element Discretization For Coupled Dual-Porosity Flow And Navier–Stokes Flow, Jiangyong Hou, Dan Hu, Xuejian Li, Xiaoming He Jun 2023

Modeling And A Domain Decomposition Method With Finite Element Discretization For Coupled Dual-Porosity Flow And Navier–Stokes Flow, Jiangyong Hou, Dan Hu, Xuejian Li, Xiaoming He

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

In This Paper, We First Propose and Analyze a Steady State Dual-Porosity-Navier–Stokes Model, Which Describes Both Dual-Porosity Flow and Free Flow (Governed by Navier–Stokes Equation) Coupled through Four Interface Conditions, Including the Beavers–Joseph Interface Condition. Then We Propose a Domain Decomposition Method for Efficiently Solving Such a Large Complex System. Robin Boundary Conditions Are Used to Decouple the Dual-Porosity Equations from the Navier–Stokes Equations in the Coupled System. based on the Two Decoupled Sub-Problems, a Parallel Robin-Robin Domain Decomposition Method is Constructed and Then Discretized by Finite Elements. We Analyze the Convergence of the Domain Decomposition Method with the Finite …


Asymptotic Stability Of Solitary Waves For The 1d Nls With An Attractive Delta Potential, Satoshi Masaki, Jason Murphy, Jun Ichi Segata Jun 2023

Asymptotic Stability Of Solitary Waves For The 1d Nls With An Attractive Delta Potential, Satoshi Masaki, Jason Murphy, Jun Ichi Segata

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We Consider the One-Dimensional Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with an Attractive Delta Potential and Mass-Supercritical Nonlinearity. This Equation Admits a One-Parameter Family of Solitary Wave Solutions in Both the Focusing and Defocusing Cases. We Establish Asymptotic Stability for All Solitary Waves Satisfying a Suitable Spectral Condition, Namely, that the Linearized Operator Around the Solitary Wave Has a Two-Dimensional Generalized Kernel and No Other Eigenvalues or Resonances. in Particular, We Extend Our Previous Result [35] Beyond the Regime of Small Solitary Waves and Extend the Results of [19, 29] from Orbital to Asymptotic Stability for a Suitable Family of Solitary Waves.


Solitary Waves In A Quantum Droplet-Bearing System, Garyfallia Katsimiga, Simeon I. Mistakidis, G. N. Koutsokostas, D. J. Frantzeskakis, R. Carretero-González, P. G. Kevrekidis Jun 2023

Solitary Waves In A Quantum Droplet-Bearing System, Garyfallia Katsimiga, Simeon I. Mistakidis, G. N. Koutsokostas, D. J. Frantzeskakis, R. Carretero-González, P. G. Kevrekidis

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We Unravel The Existence And Stability Properties Of Dark Soliton Solutions As They Extend From The Regime Of Trapped Quantum Droplets Towards The Thomas-Fermi Limit In Homonuclear Symmetric Bose Mixtures. Leveraging A Phase-Plane Analysis, We Identify The Regimes Of Existence Of Different Types Of Quantum Droplets And Subsequently Examine The Possibility Of Black And Gray Solitons And Kink-Type Structures In This System. Moreover, We Employ The Landau Dynamics Approach To Extract An Analytical Estimate Of The Oscillation Frequency Of A Single Dark Soliton In The Relevant Extended Gross-Pitaevskii Model. Within This Framework, We Also Find That The Single Soliton Immersed …


Generative And Pseudo-Relevant Feedback For Sparse, Dense And Learned Sparse Retrieval, Iain Mackie, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeffrey Dalton May 2023

Generative And Pseudo-Relevant Feedback For Sparse, Dense And Learned Sparse Retrieval, Iain Mackie, Shubham Chatterjee, Jeffrey Dalton

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) is a classical approach to address lexical mismatch by enriching the query using first-pass retrieval. Moreover, recent work on generative-relevance feedback (GRF) shows that query expansion models using text generated from large language models can improve sparse retrieval without depending on first-pass retrieval effectiveness. This work extends GRF to dense and learned sparse retrieval paradigms with experiments over six standard document ranking benchmarks. We find that GRF improves over comparable PRF techniques by around 10% on both precision and recall-oriented measures. Nonetheless, query analysis shows that GRF and PRF have contrasting benefits, with GRF providing external context …


Fedar+: A Federated Learning Approach To Appliance Recognition With Mislabeled Data In Residential Environments, Ashish Gupta, Hari Prabhat Gupta, Sajal K. Das May 2023

Fedar+: A Federated Learning Approach To Appliance Recognition With Mislabeled Data In Residential Environments, Ashish Gupta, Hari Prabhat Gupta, Sajal K. Das

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

With the enhancement of people's living standards and the rapid evolution of cyber-physical systems, residential environments are becoming smart and well-connected, causing a significant raise in overall energy consumption. As household appliances are major energy consumers, their accurate recognition becomes crucial to avoid unattended usage and minimize peak-time load on the smart grids, thereby conserving energy and making smart environments more sustainable. Traditionally, an appliance recognition model is trained at a central server (service provider) by collecting electricity consumption data via smart plugs from the clients (consumers), causing a privacy breach. Besides that, the data are susceptible to noisy labels …


Fractal Newton Methods, Ali Akgül, David E. Grow May 2023

Fractal Newton Methods, Ali Akgül, David E. Grow

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We introduce fractal Newton methods for solving (Formula presented.) that generalize and improve the classical Newton method. We compare the theoretical efficacy of the classical and fractal Newton methods and illustrate the theory with examples.


Fully Decoupled Energy-Stable Numerical Schemes For Two-Phase Coupled Porous Media And Free Flow With Different Densities And Viscosities, Yali Gao, Xiaoming He, Tao Lin, Yanping Lin May 2023

Fully Decoupled Energy-Stable Numerical Schemes For Two-Phase Coupled Porous Media And Free Flow With Different Densities And Viscosities, Yali Gao, Xiaoming He, Tao Lin, Yanping Lin

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this article, we consider a phase field model with different densities and viscosities for the coupled two-phase porous media flow and two-phase free flow, as well as the corresponding numerical simulation. This model consists of three parts: a Cahn-Hilliard-Darcy system with different densities/viscosities describing the porous media flow in matrix, a Cahn-illiard-Navier-Stokes system with different densities/viscosities describing the free fluid in conduit, and seven interface conditions coupling the flows in the matrix and the conduit. Based on the separate Cahn-Hilliard equations in the porous media region and the free flow region, a weak formulation is proposed to incorporate the …


Repeated Low-Level Blast Exposure Alters Urinary And Serum Metabolites, Austin Sigler, Jiandong Wu, Annalise Pfaff, Olajide Adetunji, Paul Ki-Souk Nam, Donald James, Casey Burton, Honglan Shi May 2023

Repeated Low-Level Blast Exposure Alters Urinary And Serum Metabolites, Austin Sigler, Jiandong Wu, Annalise Pfaff, Olajide Adetunji, Paul Ki-Souk Nam, Donald James, Casey Burton, Honglan Shi

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Repeated exposure to low-level blast overpressures can produce biological changes and clinical sequelae that resemble mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). While recent efforts have revealed several protein biomarkers for axonal injury during repetitive blast exposure, this study aims to explore potential small molecule biomarkers of brain injury during repeated blast exposure. This study evaluated a panel of ten small molecule metabolites involved in neurotransmission, oxidative stress, and energy metabolism in the urine and serum of military personnel (n = 27) conducting breacher training with repeated exposure to low-level blasts. The metabolites were analyzed using HPLC—tandem mass spectrometry, and the Wilcoxon …


An Integer Garch Model For A Poisson Process With Time-Varying Zero-Inflation, Isuru Panduka Ratnayake, V. A. Samaranayake May 2023

An Integer Garch Model For A Poisson Process With Time-Varying Zero-Inflation, Isuru Panduka Ratnayake, V. A. Samaranayake

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

A serially dependent Poisson process with time-varying zero-inflation is proposed. Such formulations have the potential to model count data time series arising from phenomena such as infectious diseases that ebb and flow over time. The model assumes that the intensity of the Poisson process evolves according to a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic (GARCH) formulation and allows the zero-inflation parameter to vary over time and be governed by a deterministic function or by an exogenous variable. Both the expectation maximization (EM) and the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) approaches are presented as possible estimation methods. A simulation study shows that both parameter …


Dual Crosslinked Poly(Acrylamide-Co-N-Vinylpyrrolidone) Microspheres With Re-Crosslinking Ability For Fossil Energy Recovery, Jingyang Pu, Baojun Bai, Jiaming Geng, Na Zhang, Thomas P. Schuman May 2023

Dual Crosslinked Poly(Acrylamide-Co-N-Vinylpyrrolidone) Microspheres With Re-Crosslinking Ability For Fossil Energy Recovery, Jingyang Pu, Baojun Bai, Jiaming Geng, Na Zhang, Thomas P. Schuman

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Microspheres have been proposed to be applied in controlling wastewater production for mature oilfields and migrating leakage for gas and nuclear waste storage. However, it remains challenging for stacked microspheres to maintain strong blocking ability in micron-sized small pores or fractures. In this study, a novel microsphere was developed with comprehensive properties including high deformability and long re-crosslinking time upon tunable swelling ratio for the applications. A dual covalent and physical crosslinking strategy was used to develop novel microspheres reinforced by a hydrogen bond (H-bond, between pyrrole ring and amide group) and coordination bond (between chromium acetate (CrAc) and carboxyl …


Collisional Excitation Of C2h- By H2: New Interaction Potential And Scattering Calculations, Fabien Dumouchel, Ernesto Quintas-Sánchez, Christian Balança, Richard Dawes, François Lique, Nicole Feautrier Apr 2023

Collisional Excitation Of C2h- By H2: New Interaction Potential And Scattering Calculations, Fabien Dumouchel, Ernesto Quintas-Sánchez, Christian Balança, Richard Dawes, François Lique, Nicole Feautrier

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Interstellar Anions Play an Important Role in Astrochemistry as Being Tracers of the Physical and Chemical Conditions in Cold Molecular Clouds and Circumstellar Gas. the Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium is Generally Not Fulfilled in Media Where Anions Are Detected and Radiative and Collisional Data Are Required to Model the Observed Lines. the C2H- Anion Has Not Yet Been Detected in the Interstellar Medium; However, Collisional Data Could Be Used for Non-LTE Models that Would Help in Identifying the Most Intense Lines. for This Purpose, We Have Computed the First 4D Potential Energy Surface (PES) of the C2H--H2 Complex using an Explicitly …


Conformational Comparison Of Urea And Thiourea Near The Ccsd(T) Complete Basis Set Limit, Kayleigh R. Barlow, Gregory S. Tschumper Apr 2023

Conformational Comparison Of Urea And Thiourea Near The Ccsd(T) Complete Basis Set Limit, Kayleigh R. Barlow, Gregory S. Tschumper

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The global minima of urea and thiourea were characterized along with other low-lying stationary points. Each structure was optimized with the CCSD(T) method, and triple-ζ correlation consistent basis sets followed by harmonic vibrational frequency computations. Relative energies evaluated near the complete basis set limit with both canonical and explicitly correlated CCSD(T) techniques reveal several subtle but important details about both systems. These computations resolve a discrepancy by demonstrating that the electronic energy of the C2v second-order saddle point of urea lies at least 1.5 kcal mol−1 above the C2 global minimum regardless of whether the structures were optimized with MP2, …


Dynamical Formation Of Two-Fold Fragmented Many-Body State Induced By An Impurity In A Double-Well, Jie Chen, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Peter Schmelcher Apr 2023

Dynamical Formation Of Two-Fold Fragmented Many-Body State Induced By An Impurity In A Double-Well, Jie Chen, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Peter Schmelcher

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We Unravel The Correlated Quantum Quench Dynamics Of A Single Impurity Immersed In A Bosonic Environment Confined In An One-Dimensional Double-Well Potential. A Particular Emphasis Is Placed On The Structure Of The Time-Evolved Many-Body (MB) Wave Function By Relying On A Schmidt Decomposition Whose Coefficients Directly Quantify The Number Of Configurations That Are Macroscopically Populated. For A Non-Interacting Bosonic Bath And Weak Postquench Impurity-Bath Interactions, We Observe The Dynamical Formation Of A Two-Fold Fragmented MB State Which Is Related To Intra-Band Excitation Processes Of The Impurity And Manifests As A Two-Body Phase Separation (Clustering) Between The Two Species For Repulsive …


Effects Of Autoionizing Resonances On Wave-Packet Dynamics Studied By Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Pengju Zhang, Van Hung Hoang, Chuncheng Wang, Tran Trung Luu, Vít Svoboda, Anh-Thu Le, Hans Jakob Wörner Apr 2023

Effects Of Autoionizing Resonances On Wave-Packet Dynamics Studied By Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Pengju Zhang, Van Hung Hoang, Chuncheng Wang, Tran Trung Luu, Vít Svoboda, Anh-Thu Le, Hans Jakob Wörner

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We Report a Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Effect of Autoionizing Resonances in Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy. the Coherent Excitation of N2 by ∼14.15 EV Extreme-Ultraviolet Photons Prepares a Superposition of Three Dominant Adjacent Vibrational Levels (V′=14-16) in the Valence B′ ςu+1 State, Which Are Probed by the Absorption of Two or Three Near-Infrared Photons (800 Nm). the Superposition Manifests itself as Coherent Oscillations in the Measured Photoelectron Spectra. a Quantum-Mechanical Simulation Confirms that Two Autoionizing Rydberg States Converging to the Excited a Π2u and B ςu+2 N2+ Cores Are Accessed by the Resonant Absorption of …


Epitaxial Single-Domain Cu-Btc Metal-Organic Framework Thin Films And Foils By Electrochemical Conversion Of Cuprous Oxide, Xiaoting Zhang, Bin Luo, Avishek Banik, John Z. Tubbesing, Jay A. Switzer Apr 2023

Epitaxial Single-Domain Cu-Btc Metal-Organic Framework Thin Films And Foils By Electrochemical Conversion Of Cuprous Oxide, Xiaoting Zhang, Bin Luo, Avishek Banik, John Z. Tubbesing, Jay A. Switzer

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Are an Important Class of Crystalline Porous Materials with Extensive Chemical and Structural Merits. However, the Fabrication of MOF Thin Films Oriented Along All Crystallographic Axes to Achieve Well-Aligned Nanopores and Nanochannels with Uniform Apertures Remains a Challenge. Here, We Achieved Highly Crystalline Single-Domain MOF Thin Films with the [111] Out-Of-Plane Orientation by Electrochemical Conversion of Cuprous Oxide. Copper(II)-Benzene-1,3,5-Tricarboxylate, Cu3(BTC)2 (Referred to as Cu-BTC), is a Well-Known Metal-Organic Open Framework Material with a Cubic Crystal System. Epitaxial Cu-BTC(111) Thin Films Were Manufactured by Electrochemical Oxidation of Cu2O(111) Films Electrodeposited on Single-Crystal Au(111). …


A New Approach To Proper Orthogonal Decomposition With Difference Quotients, Sarah Locke Eskew, John R. Singler Apr 2023

A New Approach To Proper Orthogonal Decomposition With Difference Quotients, Sarah Locke Eskew, John R. Singler

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

In a Recent Work (Koc Et Al., SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 59(4), 2163–2196, 2021), the Authors Showed that Including Difference Quotients (DQs) is Necessary in Order to Prove Optimal Pointwise in Time Error Bounds for Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) Reduced Order Models of the Heat Equation. in This Work, We Introduce a New Approach to Including DQs in the POD Procedure. Instead of Computing the POD Modes using All of the Snapshot Data and DQs, We Only Use the First Snapshot Along with All of the DQs and Special POD Weights. We Show that This Approach Retains All of the …


Rank-Based Inference For Survey Sampling Data, Akim Adekpedjou, Huybrechts F. Bindele Apr 2023

Rank-Based Inference For Survey Sampling Data, Akim Adekpedjou, Huybrechts F. Bindele

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

For regression models where data are obtained from sampling surveies, the statistical analysis is often based on approaches that are either non-robust or inefficient. The handling of survey data requires more appropriate techniques, as the classical methods usually result in biased and inefficient estimates of the underlying model parameters. This article is concerned with the development of a new approach of obtaining robust and efficient estimates of regression model parameters when dealing with survey sampling data. Asymptotic properties of such estimators are established under mild regularity conditions. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed method, Monte Carlo simulation experiments are …


Rage Inhibitors In Neurodegenerative Diseases, V. Prakash Reddy, Puspa Aryal, Pallavi Soni Apr 2023

Rage Inhibitors In Neurodegenerative Diseases, V. Prakash Reddy, Puspa Aryal, Pallavi Soni

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Nonenzymatic Reactions of Reducing Sugars with Primary Amino Groups of Amino Acids, Proteins, and Nucleic Acids, Followed by Oxidative Degradations Would Lead to the Formation of Advanced Glycation Endproducts (AGEs). the AGEs Exert Multifactorial Effects on Cell Damage Leading to the Onset of Neurological Disorders. the Interaction of AGEs with the Receptors for Advanced Glycation Endproducts (RAGE) Contribute to the Activation of Intracellular Signaling and the Expression of the Pro-Inflammatory Transcription Factors and Various Inflammatory Cytokines. This Inflammatory Signaling Cascade is Associated with Various Neurological Diseases, Including Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Secondary Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis …


Molecular Cluster Complex Of High-Valence Chromium Selenide Carbonyl As Effective Electrocatalyst For Water Oxidation, Ibrahim Munkaila Abdullahi, Manashi Nath Apr 2023

Molecular Cluster Complex Of High-Valence Chromium Selenide Carbonyl As Effective Electrocatalyst For Water Oxidation, Ibrahim Munkaila Abdullahi, Manashi Nath

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Developing Simple, Affordable, and Environmentally Friendly Water Oxidation Electrocatalysts with High Intrinsic Activity and Low overpotential Continues to Be an Area of Intense Research. in This Article, a Trichromium Diselenide Carbonyl Cluster Complex (Et4N)2[Se2Cr3(CO)10], with a Unique Bonding Structure Comprising Bridging Se Groups, Has Been Identified as a Promising Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER). This Carbonyl Cluster Exhibits a Promising overpotential of 310 MV and a Low Tafel Slope of 82.0 MV Dec−1 at 10 MAcm−2, with Superior Durability in an Alkaline Medium, for a Prolonged …


Apparatus-Dependent Corrections To The Electron G-2 Revisited, Ulrich D. Jentschura Apr 2023

Apparatus-Dependent Corrections To The Electron G-2 Revisited, Ulrich D. Jentschura

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We revisit the derivation of the apparatus-dependent correction to the energy levels of quantum cyclotron states, as previously outlined [Boulware et al., Phys. Rev. D 32, 729 (1985)PRVDAQ0556-282110.1103/PhysRevD.32.729]. We evaluate the leading corrections to the axial, magnetron, cyclotron, and spin-projection-dependent energy levels due to the altered photon field quantization in the vicinity of a conducting wall. Our work significantly extends previous considerations. Quantum cyclotron states are used for the determination of the electron g factor in Penning traps. Our calculations show that the numerically largest apparatus-dependent corrections can be expected for the axial and magnetron frequencies, where they can be …


Sharprazor: Automatic Removal Of Hair And Ruler Marks From Dermoscopy Images, Reda Kasmi, Jason Hagerty, Reagan Harris Young, Norsang Lama, Januka Nepal, Jessica Miinch, William V. Stoecker, R. Joe Stanley Apr 2023

Sharprazor: Automatic Removal Of Hair And Ruler Marks From Dermoscopy Images, Reda Kasmi, Jason Hagerty, Reagan Harris Young, Norsang Lama, Januka Nepal, Jessica Miinch, William V. Stoecker, R. Joe Stanley

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Background: The removal of hair and ruler marks is critical in handcrafted image analysis of dermoscopic skin lesions. No other dermoscopic artifacts cause more problems in segmentation and structure detection. Purpose: The aim of the work is to detect both white and black hair, artifacts and finally inpaint correctly the image. Method: We introduce a new algorithm: SharpRazor, to detect hair and ruler marks and remove them from the image. Our multiple-filter approach detects hairs of varying widths within varying backgrounds, while avoiding detection of vessels and bubbles. The proposed algorithm utilizes grayscale plane modification, hair enhancement, segmentation using tri-directional …


Dynamic Equations, Control Problems On Time Scales, And Chaotic Systems, Martin Bohner Mar 2023

Dynamic Equations, Control Problems On Time Scales, And Chaotic Systems, Martin Bohner

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The unification of integral and differential calculus with the calculus of finite differences has been rendered possible by providing a formal structure to study hybrid discrete-continuous dynamical systems besides offering applications in diverse fields that require simultaneous modeling of discrete and continuous data concerning dynamic equations on time scales. Therefore, the theory of time scales provides a unification between the calculus of the theory of difference equations with the theory of differential equations. In addition, it has become possible to examine diverse application problems more precisely by the use of dynamical systems on time scales whose calculus is made up …


Chemically Induced Ferromagnetism Near Room Temperature In Single Crystal (Zn1−Xcrx)Te Half-Metal, J. Guo, A. Sarikhani, P. Ghosh, T. Heitmann, Yew San Hor, D. K. Singh Mar 2023

Chemically Induced Ferromagnetism Near Room Temperature In Single Crystal (Zn1−Xcrx)Te Half-Metal, J. Guo, A. Sarikhani, P. Ghosh, T. Heitmann, Yew San Hor, D. K. Singh

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Magnetic Semiconductors Are at the Core of Recent Spintronics Research Endeavors. Chemically Doped II-VI Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors, such as (Zn1xCrx)Te, Provide a Promising Platform in This Quest. However, a Detailed Knowledge of the Microscopic Nature of Magnetic Ground State is Necessary for Any Practical Application. Here, We Report on the Synergistic Study of (Zn1xCrx)Te Single Crystals using Elastic Neutron Scattering Measurements and Density Functional Calculations. for the First Time, Our Research Unveils the Intrinsic Properties of Ferromagnetic State in a Macroscopic Specimen of (Zn0.8Cr0.2)Te. …