This report reflects the efforts of the Office of the Orinoco-Apure Project to define an environmental policy based research delineating priority areas of research and identification of potential environmental impacts of the project.

This article explores various combinations of electrolyte concentrations, dielectrics, and dielectric thicknesses to generate maximum output power employing REWOD energy harvester with the objective of implementing a fully self-powered wearable sensor.

Article investigates the strength-ductility synergy of high-entropy alloys (HEAs).

This paper discusses dynamic channel assignment in IEEE 802.11 networks.

Article on a mobility-based CAC algorithm for arbitrary call-arrival rates in CDMA cellular systems.

In this paper, the authors investigate the performance of a multi-cell CDMA network by determining the maximum throughput that the network can archive for a given grade-of-service requirement, quality-of-service requirement, network topology and call arrival rate profile.

This article discusses the effects of interference on capacity in multi-cell CDMA networks.

Article describes study which sought to evaluate methods for activity recognition for toddlers.

Article describes study which sought to evaluate the efficiency of pilot water desalination system treating brackish water which was obtained mixing fresh water and seawater up to reach 1,500 mg L-1 of total dissolved solids (TDS) concentration.

Poster for the 2014 UNT Graduate Exhibition in the Computer Science and Information Technology category. This poster discusses data mining techniques for predicting breast cancer survivability among women in the United States.

Poster for the 2014 MCBIOS Conference. This poster discusses classifying drug resistance in the NCI60 cancer cell lines based on the mRNA expression levels of the 48 ABC transporters.

Article discussing a resource efficient and scalable approach to routing in large communication networks.

Article says that plasmonic and phase transition has been blended to gain the infrared radiative switching which is tunable with temperature or voltage supply. This is applied via vanadium dioxide, tungsten trioxide, and molybdenum trioxide as transition metal oxides (TMO), the authors state that the work expands the usage of transition metal oxides in infrared region with larger contrast.

Describes the development of a strong mold-resistant adhesive by incorporating soybean meal and blood meal.

Data management plan for the grant, "CAREER: Manufacturing of Mechanically Stable Nanoporous Ceramic Structures Via Selective Infiltration of Polymer Templates." This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation supports fundamental research to elucidate a new strategy of manufacturing nanoporous ceramic structures with controllable structure and composition and programmable mechanical stability. The specific goal of this research is to discover processing-structure-property relationships in ceramic coatings and heterostructures by providing fundamental insights on the mechanism of liquid phase swelling-based infiltration of spin-coated polymer templates with inorganic precursors and defining the rules that control the resulting structure and, thus, access to various materials surfaces and interfaces.

This article demonstrates that tribochemical reactions occur even in dry conditions when hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (H-DLC) surface is slid against two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum disulfide along with nanodiamonds in dry nitrogen atmosphere.

This book chapter discusses predicting subjectivity orientation of online forum threads.

In this paper, the authors introduce PicNet, a Web-based system for augmenting semantic resources with illustrative images using volunteer contributions over the Web.

This article is a study where the authors integrated the multi-omics datasets such as copy number aberration, DNA methylation, gene and microRNA expression to identify the signature microRNA-gene associations from frequently aberrated DNA regions across pan-cancer utilizing a LASSO-based regression approach.

This article reviews approaches for improvement of tribological properties of polymers based on inclusion of fillers.

Data management plan for the grant, "REU Site: TaMaLe - Testing and Machine Learning for Context-Driven Systems: Research Experience for Undergraduates." TaMaLe (Testing and Machine Learning for Context-Driven Systems), a renewal Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at University of North Texas, engages 10 undergraduate students for 10 weeks with problems in the context-driven system domain. The students explore research problems to improve the reliability and security of context-driven systems. Context-driven systems, such as mobile apps, face constant streams of input from both users and context changes in their environments. Users interact with apps through touch and speech interfaces. These systems also respond to context events that occur in their environments such as changes to network connection, battery level, screen orientation, and more. The combined explosion of possible user events and context event sequences pose new challenges that require cost effective testing solutions. Students and mentors in this REU program work in small teams to develop and empirically evaluate new software testing techniques for context-driven systems using strategies such as reinforcement learning and combinatorial-based techniques.

In this article, different composite materials have been developed and characterized for different applications in the health science field and as optoelectromechanical sensors.

In this paper, the authors evaluate the extent to which human-written book summaries can be obtained through cut-and-paste operations from the original book. The authors analyze the effect of the parameters involved in the decomposition algorithm, and highlight the distinctions in coverage obtained for different summary types.

This article proposes a novel preconditioned and accelerated Gauss–Siedel algorithm referred to as Symmetric Successive Overrelaxation Preconditioned Gauss-Seidel (SSORGS) to address the signal detection challenges associated with massive MIMO technology.