A 2.53 NEF 8-bit 10 kS/s 0.5 µm CMOS Neural Recording Read-Out Circuit with High Linearity for Neuromodulation Implants (open access)

A 2.53 NEF 8-bit 10 kS/s 0.5 µm CMOS Neural Recording Read-Out Circuit with High Linearity for Neuromodulation Implants

This article presents a power-efficient complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) neural signal-recording read-out circuit for multichannel neuromodulation implants.
Date: March 3, 2021
Creator: Tasneem, Nishat Tarannum & Mahbub, Ifana
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
Accelerometer-Based Automated Counting of Ten Exercises without Exercise-Specific Training or Tuning (open access)

Accelerometer-Based Automated Counting of Ten Exercises without Exercise-Specific Training or Tuning

Article presents research that creates an automatic repetition counting system that is flexible enough to measure multiple distinct and repeating movements during physical therapy without being trained on the specific motion.
Date: October 10, 2020
Creator: Zelman, Samuel; Dow, Michael; Tabashum, Thasina; Xiao, Ting & Albert, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accessibility and Mechanical Stability of Nanoporous Zinc Oxide and Aluminum Oxide Coatings Synthesized via Infiltration of Polymer Templates (open access)

Accessibility and Mechanical Stability of Nanoporous Zinc Oxide and Aluminum Oxide Coatings Synthesized via Infiltration of Polymer Templates

Article describes how the conformal nanoporous inorganic coatings with accessible pores that are stable under applied thermal and mechanical stresses represent an important class of materials used in the design of sensors, optical coatings, and biomedical systems. Authors synthesize porous AlOx and ZnO coatings by the sequential infiltration synthesis (SIS) of two types of polymers that enable the design of porous conformal coatings.
Date: October 14, 2023
Creator: Omotosho, Khalil D.; Lyon, Zachary; Shevchenko, Elena V. & Berman, Diana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accuracy-Constrained Efficiency Optimization and GPU Profiling of CNN Inference for Detecting Drainage Crossing Locations (open access)

Accuracy-Constrained Efficiency Optimization and GPU Profiling of CNN Inference for Detecting Drainage Crossing Locations

Article describes how the accurate and efficient determination of hydrologic connectivity has garnered significant attention from both academic and industrial sectors due to its critical implications for environment management. To address these challenges, the focus of the author's study is on detecting drainage crossings through the application of advanced convolutional neural networks.
Date: November 12, 2023
Creator: Zhang, Yicheng; Pandey, Dhroov; Wu, Di; Kundu, Turja; Li, Ruopu & Shu, Tong
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Achieving extraordinary structural efficiency in a wrought magnesium rare earth alloy (open access)

Achieving extraordinary structural efficiency in a wrought magnesium rare earth alloy

Article describes development of an ultrafine-grained magnesium alloy with an extraordinary strength and ductility combination, exceptional high specific strength, zero yield strength asymmetry and excellent high strain rate superplasticity.
Date: January 29, 2020
Creator: Panigrahi, S. K.; Mishra, Rajiv; Brennan, R.C. & Cho, K. C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Action unit classification for facial expression recognition using active learning and SVM (open access)

Action unit classification for facial expression recognition using active learning and SVM

Article utilizing active learning and support vector machine (SVM) algorithms to classify facial action units (AU) for human facial expression recognition. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively suppress correlated noise and achieve higher recognition rates than principal component analysis and a human observer on seven different facial expressions.
Date: April 4, 2021
Creator: Yao, Li; Wan, Yan & Xu, Bugao
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Additive friction stir deposition: a deformation processing route to metal additive manufacturing (open access)

Additive friction stir deposition: a deformation processing route to metal additive manufacturing

This article outlines key advantages of additive friction stir deposition, e.g. rendering fully-dense material in the as-printed state with fine, equiaxed microstructures, identifies its niche engineering uses, and points out future research needs in process physics and materials innovation.
Date: November 24, 2020
Creator: Yu, Hang Z. & Mishra, Rajiv
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Air Mobility Operation and Infrastructure for Sustainable Connected eVTOL Vehicle (open access)

Advanced Air Mobility Operation and Infrastructure for Sustainable Connected eVTOL Vehicle

Article discusses how advanced air mobility (AAM) is an emerging sector in aviation aiming to offer secure, efficient, and eco-friendly transportation utilizing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. This paper introduces a novel concept addressing future flight challenges and proposes a framework for integrating operations, infrastructure, connectivity, and ecosystems in future air mobility.
Date: May 16, 2023
Creator: Al-Rubaye, Saba; Tsourdos, Antonios & Namuduri, Kamesh
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advancing Reverse Electrowetting-on-Dielectric from Planar to Rough Surface Electrodes for High Power Density Energy Harvesting (open access)

Advancing Reverse Electrowetting-on-Dielectric from Planar to Rough Surface Electrodes for High Power Density Energy Harvesting

Article presenting electrical and multiphysics-based modeling approaches of REWOD energy harvester using structured rough surface electrodes. By enhancing the overall available surface area, an increase in the overall capacitance is achieved.
Date: December 15, 2021
Creator: Adhikari, Pashupati R.; Patwary, Adnan B.; Kakaraparty, Karthik; Gunti, Avinash; Reid, Russell C. & Mahbub, Ifana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
agroString: Visibility and Provenance through a Private Blockchain Platform for Agricultural Dispense towards Consumers (open access)

agroString: Visibility and Provenance through a Private Blockchain Platform for Agricultural Dispense towards Consumers

Article discusses the large quantities of farm and meat products that rot and are wasted if correct actions are not taken leading to serious health concerns if consumed. Because there is no proper system for tracking and communicating the status of goods to consumers, a right which according to the authors should be a given, they propose a method of increased communication using Corda private blockchain.
Date: October 27, 2022
Creator: Vangipuram, Sukrutha L. T.; Mohanty, Saraju P.; Kougianos, Elias & Ray, Chittaranjan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Corridors: Concept, Design, Simulation, and Rules of Engagement (open access)

Air Corridors: Concept, Design, Simulation, and Rules of Engagement

Article presenting fundamental insights into the design of air corridors with high operational efficiency as well as zero collisions. It begins with the definitions of air cube, skylane or track, intersection, vertiport, gate, and air corridor. Then a multi-layered air corridor model is proposed. Traffic at intersections is analyzed in detail with examples of vehicles turning in different directions. The concept of capacity of an air corridor is introduced along with the nature of distribution of locations of vehicles in the air corridor and collision probability inside the corridor are discussed. Finally, results of traffic flow simulations are presented.
Date: November 12, 2021
Creator: Muna, Sabrina Islam; Mukherjee, Srijita; Namuduri, Kamesh; Compere, Marc; Akbas, Mustafa Ilhan; Molnár, Péter et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Natural Language Inference Benchmarks through the Lens of Negation (open access)

An Analysis of Natural Language Inference Benchmarks through the Lens of Negation

Article presents a new benchmark for natural language inference in which negation plays a critical role and shows that state-of-the-art transformers struggle making inference judgments with the new pairs.
Date: November 2020
Creator: Hossain, Md Mosharaf; Dutta, Pranoy; Kao, Tiffany; Wei, Elizabeth; Blanco, Eduardo & Kovatchev, Venelin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyzing influence of COVID-19 on crypto & financial markets and sentiment analysis using deep ensemble model (open access)

Analyzing influence of COVID-19 on crypto & financial markets and sentiment analysis using deep ensemble model

Article describes how COVID-19 affected the world's economy severely and increased the inflation rate in both developed and developing countries. This study performs an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on public opinion and sentiments regarding the financial markets and crypto markets.
Date: September 28, 2023
Creator: Washington, Patrick Bernard; Gali, Pradeep; Rustam, Furqan & Ashraf, Imran
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anthropo-fidelic behavior of elastic-plastic lattice structures (open access)

Anthropo-fidelic behavior of elastic-plastic lattice structures

Article discusses how vat photopolymerization is used to construct triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) to match human heel pad stiffness. This work substantiates the suitability of latticed models to reach the stiffness of the heel pad chambers.
Date: February 24, 2023
Creator: Haney, Christopher W. & Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An approach for reliably identifying high-frequency oscillations and reducing false-positive detections (open access)

An approach for reliably identifying high-frequency oscillations and reducing false-positive detections

Article states that high-frequency oscillation (HFO), classified as ripples (80-240 Hz) and fast ripples (240-500 Hz), is regarded as a promising biomarker of epilepsy. The authors presented an integrated, multi-layered procedure capable of automatically rejecting HFOs from a variety of common false positives, such as motion, background signals, and sharp transients.
Date: September 2, 2022
Creator: Zhou, Yufeng; You, Jing; Kumar, Udaya; Weiss, Shennan A.; Bragin, Anatol; Engel Jr., Jerome et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Artificial Intelligence for Colonoscopy: Past, Present, and Future (open access)

Artificial Intelligence for Colonoscopy: Past, Present, and Future

Article summarizing the past and present development of colonoscopy video analysis methods, focusing on two categories of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies used in clinical trials, (1) analysis and feedback for improving colonoscopy quality and (2) detection of abnormalities.
Date: August 2021
Creator: Tavanapong, Wallapak; Oh, JungHwan; Riegler, Michael; Khaleel, Mohammed I.; Mitta, Bhuvan & de Groen, Piet C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Author Correction: MXene/graphene oxide nanocomposites for friction and wear reduction of rough steel surfaces (open access)

Author Correction: MXene/graphene oxide nanocomposites for friction and wear reduction of rough steel surfaces

Correction to the article points out an error in Figure 1e. The figure is corrected in this article.
Date: October 11, 2023
Creator: Macknojia, Ali Zayaan; Ayyagari, Aditya; Shevchenko, Elena V. & Berman, Diana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Autoencoder Composite Scoring to Evaluate Prosthetic Performance in Individuals with Lower Limb Amputation (open access)

Autoencoder Composite Scoring to Evaluate Prosthetic Performance in Individuals with Lower Limb Amputation

Authors of the article created an overall assessment metric using a deep learning autoencoder to directly compare clinical outcomes in a comparison of lower limb amputees using two different prosthetic devices—a mechanical knee and a microprocessor-controlled knee. The proposed methods were used on data collected from ten participants with a dysvascular transfemoral amputation recruited for a prosthetics research study.
Date: October 18, 2022
Creator: Tabashum, Thasina; Xiao, Ting; Jayaraman, Chandrasekaran; Mummidisetty, Chaithanya K.; Jayaraman, Arun & Albert, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
BAM: A Block-Based Bayesian Method for Detecting Genome-Wide Associations with Multiple Diseases (open access)

BAM: A Block-Based Bayesian Method for Detecting Genome-Wide Associations with Multiple Diseases

Article proposes a novel Bayesian method, named BAM, for simultaneously partitioning Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) into Linkage Disequilibrium(LD)-blocks and detecting genome-wide multi-locus epistatic interactions that are associated with multiple diseases. Experimental results on the simulated datasets demonstrate that BAM is powerful and efficient.
Date: April 16, 2020
Creator: Guo, Xuan; Wu, Guanying & Xu, Baohua
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biochar aerogel-based electrocatalyst towards efficient oxygen evolution in acidic media (open access)

Biochar aerogel-based electrocatalyst towards efficient oxygen evolution in acidic media

Article argues that traditional acidic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts are more prone to be oxidized and corroded as results of unstable carrier structures and variable electronic states of active species, so a high-performing biochar aerogel (BA) based electrocatalyst was realistically designed and synthetized via joint utilization of the terrestrial lignin and seaweed polysaccharide as carbon sources. This work puts forward a novel and effective strategy towards the enhancement of the acidic OER process by rational regulations of the BA and the coupling effect in micro-interface.
Date: July 22, 2022
Creator: Hui, Bin; Chen, Hongjiao; Zhou, Chengfeng; Cai, Liping; Zhang, Kewei; Quan, Fengyu et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bioresorbable stent to manage congenital heart defects in children (open access)

Bioresorbable stent to manage congenital heart defects in children

This article assembles large, pediatric-sized stents (Ø10 - Ø20 mm) from poly(L-lactide) fibers (DH-BDS) at two thicknesses, 250 µm and 300 µm. DH-BDS exhibiting hoop strength similar to metal stents and demonstrating minimal degradation and strength loss over the first year before completely disappearing within 3 to 4.5 years show promise as a pediatric interventional alternative to current strategies.
Date: March 19, 2021
Creator: Wright, Jamie; Nguyen, Annie; D'Souza, Nandika Anne, 1967-; Forbess, Joseph M.; Nugent, Alan; Reddy, Surenderanath R. Veeram et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Black Phosphorus-Molybdenum Disulfide Hetero-Junctions Formed with Ink-Jet Printing for Potential Solar Cell Applications with Indium-Tin-Oxide (open access)

Black Phosphorus-Molybdenum Disulfide Hetero-Junctions Formed with Ink-Jet Printing for Potential Solar Cell Applications with Indium-Tin-Oxide

Article on the implementation of liquid exfoliation to inkjet-print two-dimensional (2D) black phosphorous (BP) and molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) p–n heterojunctions on a standard indium tin oxide (ITO) glass substrate in a vertical architecture. The authors also compared the optical and electrical properties of the inkjet-printed BP layer with that of the MoS₂ and the electrical properties of the mechanically exfoliated MoS₂ with that of the inkjet-printed MoS₂.
Date: May 18, 2021
Creator: Mehta, Ravindra & Kaul, Anupama
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Blood cancer prediction using leukemia microarray gene data and hybrid logistic vector trees model (open access)

Blood cancer prediction using leukemia microarray gene data and hybrid logistic vector trees model

Article is a study proposing an approach for blood cancer disease prediction using the supervised machine learning approach to perform blood cancer prediction with high accuracy using microarray gene data.
Date: January 19, 2022
Creator: Rupapara, Vaibhav; Rustam, Furqan; Aljedaani, Wajdi; Shahzad, Hina Fatima; Lee, Ernesto & Ashraf, Imran
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library