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PPAD: a deep learning architecture to predict progression of Alzheimer’s disease (open access)

PPAD: a deep learning architecture to predict progression of Alzheimer’s disease

Article asserts that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects millions of people worldwide. The authors of the article propose two deep learning architectures based on RNN, namely Predicting Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease (PPAD) and PPAD-Autoencoder.
Date: June 30, 2023
Creator: Olaimat, Mohammad Al; Martinez, Jared; Saeed, Fahad & Bozdag, Serdar
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
SUPREME: multiomics data integration using graph convolutional networks (open access)

SUPREME: multiomics data integration using graph convolutional networks

Article states that, to pave the road towards precision medicine in cancer, patients with similar biology ought to be grouped into same cancer subtypes. On breast cancer subtyping, unlike existing tools, SUPREME generates patient embeddings from multiple similarity networks utilizing multiomics features and integrates them with raw features to capture complementary signals.
Date: June 28, 2023
Creator: Kesimoglu, Ziynet Nesibe & Bozdag, Serdar
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Numerical Analysis of Cambered Plate Configurations under Low Reynolds Numbers and at a Low-Density Condition (open access)

Numerical Analysis of Cambered Plate Configurations under Low Reynolds Numbers and at a Low-Density Condition

Article discusses how, after one year of operation, the Ingenuity rotorcraft and the Perseverance rover continue their exploration missions on Mars. Succeeding the technology demonstration phase, by proving its flight capabilities, Ingenuity transitioned to a new mission stage to explore modes of flight exploration for future scouting missions. The author's research intends to analyze, using numerical simulations, the aerodynamic conditions such as those experienced by Ingenuity during its flight missions.
Date: June 27, 2023
Creator: Saez, Aleandro; Manzo, Maurizio & Ciarcià, Marco
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
NextGen-Malloc: Giving Memory Allocator Its Own Room in the House (open access)

NextGen-Malloc: Giving Memory Allocator Its Own Room in the House

Article describes how memory allocation and management have a significant impact on performance and energy of modern applications. The authors observe that performance can vary by as much as 72% in some applications based on which memory allocator is used, and in this paper, the authors make a case for offloading memory allocation (and other similar management functions) from main processing cores to other processing units to boost performance, reduce energy consumption, and customize services to specific applications or application domains.
Date: June 22, 2023
Creator: Li, Ruihao; Wu, Qinzhe; Kavi, Krishna M.; Mehta, Gayatri; Yadwadkar, Neeraja J. & John, Lizy Kurian
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Boosting Piezoelectricity by 3D Printing PVDF-MoS2 Composite as a Conformal and High-Sensitivity Piezoelectric Sensor (open access)

Boosting Piezoelectricity by 3D Printing PVDF-MoS2 Composite as a Conformal and High-Sensitivity Piezoelectric Sensor

Article describes how additively manufactured flexible and high-performance piezoelectric devices are highly desirable for sensing and energy harvesting of 3D conformal structures. This study reports a significantly enhanced piezoelectricity in polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) achieved through the in situ dipole alignment of PVDF within PVDF-2D molybdenum disulfide composite by 3D printing.
Date: June 21, 2023
Creator: Islam, M.D, Nurul; Rupom, Rifat Hasan; Adhikari, Pashupati R.; Demchuk, Zoriana; Popov, Ivan; Sokolov, Alexei P. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Thermal Effectiveness and Crevice Corrosion Risk of Fin Geometry on All-Aluminum Microchannel Heat Exchangers (open access)

Comparison of Thermal Effectiveness and Crevice Corrosion Risk of Fin Geometry on All-Aluminum Microchannel Heat Exchangers

Article all-aluminum microchannel heat exchangers have recently gained popularity in the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning industry. Despite their attractive thermal performance design, these heat exchangers make coils used in automotive, commercial, and residential applications prone to crevice corrosion. This study uses high-fidelity conjugate heat transfer simulations to model a micro channel heat exchanger system that includes fins and tubes with crossflow to compare their thermal effectiveness to gain insight into potential crevice corrosion of the MCHE alloy.
Date: June 12, 2023
Creator: Ahmed, Hossain; Nasrazadani, Seifollah & Sadat, Hamid
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Underlying factors determining grain morphologies in high-strength titanium alloys processed by additive manufacturing (open access)

Underlying factors determining grain morphologies in high-strength titanium alloys processed by additive manufacturing

Article describes how, in recent research, additions of solute to Ti and some Ti-based alloys have been employed to produce equiaxed microstructures when processing these materials using additive manufacturing. The present study develops a computational scheme for guiding the selection of such alloying additions, and the minimum amounts required, to effect the columnar to equiaxed microstructural transitions.
Date: June 6, 2023
Creator: Nartu, Mohan S. K. K. Y.; Welk, Brian A.; Mantri, Srinivas Aditya; Taylor, Nevin L.; Viswanathan, Gopal B.; Dahotre, Narendra B. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thermal heat transfer and energy modeling through incorporation of phase change materials (PCMs) into polyurethane foam (open access)

Thermal heat transfer and energy modeling through incorporation of phase change materials (PCMs) into polyurethane foam

Article describes how decreasing HVAC energy consumption through insulation effectiveness enables low energy use, low carbon emissions, and high thermal comfort in sustainable buildings. In this paper, two PCMs with transition temperature above and below the outdoor temperature incorporated in highly porous flexible polyurethane foam were evaluated using a one-dimensional (1D) foam core panel built in COMSOL Multiphysics®.
Date: June 3, 2023
Creator: Nandy, Aditi; Houl, Yassine; Zhao, Weihuan & D'Souza, Nandika Anne, 1967-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Probabilistic Seismic Assessment of CoSPSW Structures Using Fragility Functions (open access)

Probabilistic Seismic Assessment of CoSPSW Structures Using Fragility Functions

This article presents a study on the probabilistic assessment of the seismic performance and vulnerability of corrugated steel plate shear walls (CoSPSWs) using fragility functions.
Date: June 18, 2022
Creator: Tan, Zhilun; Zhao, Quihong; Zhao, Yu & Yu, Cheng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stabilized anode-electrolyte interfaces via Cs4Pb(Cl/Br/I)6 perovskite crystal based glass-ceramics for fast and long cycle-life lithium ion batteries (open access)

Stabilized anode-electrolyte interfaces via Cs4Pb(Cl/Br/I)6 perovskite crystal based glass-ceramics for fast and long cycle-life lithium ion batteries

Article is a study that designs a smart anode/liquid electrolyte interface for high energy density batteries that present large specific capacity retentions.
Date: June 17, 2022
Creator: Xie, Wenqing; Cao, Jianghang; Li, Panpan; Fan, Meiqiang; Xu, Shiqing; Du, Jincheng et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wearable airbag technology and machine learned models to mitigate falls after stroke (open access)

Wearable airbag technology and machine learned models to mitigate falls after stroke

Article discusses wearable airbag technology that has been designed to detect and mitigate fall impact. However, this technology has not been validated for the stroke population, so authors investigated whether population-specific training data and modeling parameters are required to pre-detect falls in a chronic stroke population.
Date: June 17, 2022
Creator: Botonis, Olivia K.; Harari, Yaar; Embry, Kyle R.; Mummidisetty, Chaithanya K.; Riopelle, David; Giffhorn, Matt et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detecting Covid-19 chaos driven phishing/malicious URL attacks by a fuzzy logic and data mining based intelligence system (open access)

Detecting Covid-19 chaos driven phishing/malicious URL attacks by a fuzzy logic and data mining based intelligence system

Article analyses the impact of Covid-19 on various cyber-security related aspects.
Date: June 7, 2022
Creator: Zahra, Syed Rameem; Chishti, Mohammad Ahsan; Baba, Asif Iqbal & Wu, Fan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corrosion Fatigue Characteristics of 316L Stainless Steel Fabricated by Laser Powder Bed Fusion (open access)

Corrosion Fatigue Characteristics of 316L Stainless Steel Fabricated by Laser Powder Bed Fusion

This article studies the corrosion and corrosion fatigue characteristics of LPBF 316L stainless steels (SS) in 3.5 wt.% NaCl solution using an electrochemical method, high cycle fatigue, and fatigue crack propagation testing.
Date: June 29, 2021
Creator: Gnanasekaran, Balachander; Song, Jie; Vasudevan, Vijay K. & Fu, Yao
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Weak-Light Image Enhancement Method Based on Adaptive Local Gamma Transform and Color Compensation (open access)

Weak-Light Image Enhancement Method Based on Adaptive Local Gamma Transform and Color Compensation

This article proposes a correction method for image enhancement models based on an adaptive local gamma transformation and color compensation inspired by the illumination reflection model. It is demonstrated that the proposed method adaptively reduces the influence of uneven illumination to avoid overenhancement and improves the visual effect of low-light images.
Date: June 25, 2021
Creator: Wang, Wencheng; Yuan, Xiaohui; Chen, Zhenxue; Wu, Xiaojin & Gao, Zairui
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low-Cost Reliable Corrosion Sensors Using ZnO-PVDF Nanocomposite Textiles (open access)

Low-Cost Reliable Corrosion Sensors Using ZnO-PVDF Nanocomposite Textiles

This article investigates the reliability and effectiveness of nonwoven zinc(II) oxide-polyvinylidene fluoride (ZnO-PVDF) nanocomposite fiber textiles as an embedded corrosion sensor using an accelerated thermal cyclic method paired to electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Results suggest that the flexible sensor is reliable at both monitoring the corrosion and acting as a corrosion barrier.
Date: June 17, 2021
Creator: Chowdhury, Tonoy; D'Souza, Nandika Anne, 1967- & Dahotre, Narendra B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Theories and analyses of functionally graded circular plates (open access)

Theories and analyses of functionally graded circular plates

This article presents the governing equations and analytical solutions of the classical and shear deformation theories of functionally graded axisymmetric circular plates.
Date: June 12, 2021
Creator: Reddy, J. N.; Ruocco, Eugenio; Loya, Jose Antonio & Neves, Ana M. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tribo-corrosion response of additively manufactured high-entropy alloy (open access)

Tribo-corrosion response of additively manufactured high-entropy alloy

Article highlighting the potential of utilizing additive manufacturing of HEAs for use in extreme environments that require a combination of tribo-corrosion resistance, mechanical durability, extended service life, and net shaping with low dimensional tolerance.
Date: June 11, 2021
Creator: Shittu, Jibril; Sadeghilaridjani, Maryam; Pole, M.; Muskeri, Saideep; Ren, Jie; Liu, Yanfang et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Differential Responses of Transplanted Stem Cells to Diseased Environment Unveiled by a Molecular NIR-II Cell Tracker (open access)

Differential Responses of Transplanted Stem Cells to Diseased Environment Unveiled by a Molecular NIR-II Cell Tracker

This article develops a molecular cell tracker with a strong fluorescence signal in the second near-infrared (NIR-II) window (1,000-1,700 nm) for real-time monitoring of in vivo cell behaviors in both healthy and diseased animal models to address the issue of precisely and quantitatively evaluating the in vivo cell distribution, migration, and engraftment in stem cell therapy.
Date: June 9, 2021
Creator: Chen, Hao; Yang, Huaxiao; Zhang, Chen; Chen, Si; Zhao, Xin; Zhu, Mark et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of amorphous cellulose on the deformation behavior of cellulose composites: molecular dynamics simulation (open access)

Effect of amorphous cellulose on the deformation behavior of cellulose composites: molecular dynamics simulation

This article is a study aimed at predicting and enhancing the properties of the blend, as well as exploring the mechanism, of a polylactic acid (PLA)/amorphous cellulose composite system through molecular characterization. The static properties of the amorphous cellulose/PLA blend model and the mechanical response of the material under uniaxial tension were studied by molecular dynamics simulation to establish the structure–property relationship.
Date: June 8, 2021
Creator: Ren, Zechun; Guo, Rui; Zhou, Xinyuan; Bi, Hongjie; Jia, Xin; Xu, Min et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Protein functional module identification method combining topological features and gene expression data (open access)

Protein functional module identification method combining topological features and gene expression data

Article conducting an intensive study on the problems of low recognition efficiency and noise in the overlapping structure of protein functional modules, based on topological characteristics of PPI network. Developing a protein function module recognition method ECTG based on Topological Features and Gene expression data for Protein Complex Identification. The experimental results show that the ECTG algorithm can detect protein functional modules better.
Date: June 8, 2021
Creator: Zhao, Zihao; Xu, Wenjun; Chen, Aiwen; Han, Yueyue; Xia, Shengrong; Xiang, ChuLei et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
First principles computation of composition dependent elastic constants of omega in titanium alloys: implications on mechanical behavior (open access)

First principles computation of composition dependent elastic constants of omega in titanium alloys: implications on mechanical behavior

Article on the poor mechanical properties of Ti alloys. The study shows that the elastic properties of the ω-phase can be systematically varied as a function of its composition to enhance both the ductility and strength of the Ti-alloy. Furthermore, that ω precipitates are not intrinsically embrittling and detrimental and that Ti-alloys can be created with both good ductility and strength by tailoring ω precipitates' composition instead of completely eliminating them.
Date: June 7, 2021
Creator: Salloom, Riyadh; Mantri, Srinivas Aditya; Banerjee, Rajarshi & Srinivasan, S. G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
MyWear: A Novel Smart Garment for Automatic Continuous Vital Monitoring (open access)

MyWear: A Novel Smart Garment for Automatic Continuous Vital Monitoring

Accepted Manuscript version of an article presenting the design and development of a smart garment called MyWear that continuously monitors and collects physiological data. It can analyze muscle activity, stress levels, and heart rate variations and send all the data to the cloud. With a in-built alert system, it can notify the associated medical officials if necessary. The authors also propose a deep neural network model that classifies heartbeat data into abnormalities with 96.9% accuracy and 97.3% precision.
Date: June 3, 2021
Creator: Sethuraman, Sibi C.; Kompally, Pranav; Mohanty, Saraju P. & Choppali, Uma
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
In-vitro biomineralization and biocompatibility of friction stir additively manufactured AZ31B magnesium alloy-hydroxyapatite composites (open access)

In-vitro biomineralization and biocompatibility of friction stir additively manufactured AZ31B magnesium alloy-hydroxyapatite composites

Article presents research where friction stir additive manufacturing technique was employed to fabricate AZ31B magnesium-hydroxyapatite composite. The study aims to evaluate effect of hydroxyapatite (HA, Ca₁₀(PO₄)₆OH₂), a ceramic similar to natural bone, into AZ31B Mg alloy matrix on biomineralization and biocompatibility.
Date: June 30, 2020
Creator: Ho, Yee-Hsien; Man, Kun; Joshi, Sameehan; Pantawane, Mangesh V.; Wu, Tso-Chang; Yang, Yong et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
3D-printed and injection molded polymer matrix composites with 2D layered materials (open access)

3D-printed and injection molded polymer matrix composites with 2D layered materials

This article reports on a study where 2D TMDs (MoS₂ and WS₂) and the 3D allotrope of carbon and graphite were incorporated into acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG) matrices in order to form polymer matrix composites (PMCs). The multipronged analysis described in this study was motivated by the purpose to fuse together topics of low-cost, additive manufacturing with 2D layered materials, and studying their ensuing mechanical and tribological properties.
Date: June 26, 2020
Creator: Gamboa, Gerardo; Mazumder, Sangram; Hnatchuk, Nathalie; Catalan Gonzalez, Jorge Alfredo; Cortes, Damaris; Chen, Ikang et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library