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
Rapid thermokinetics driven nanoscale vanadium clustering within martensite laths in laser powder bed fused additively manufactured Ti6Al4V (open access)

Rapid thermokinetics driven nanoscale vanadium clustering within martensite laths in laser powder bed fused additively manufactured Ti6Al4V

Article reports the computational approach adopted for thermo-diffusion kinetics to rationalize homogenously distributed nanoscale vanadium-rich clusters formed within the martensite laths of Ti6Al4V alloy printed using laser powder bed fusion at an energy density of 52.08J/mm³.
Date: June 1, 2020
Creator: Pantawane, Mangesh V.; Dasari, Sriswaroop; Mantri, Srinivas Aditya; Banerjee, Rajarshi & Dahotre, Narendra B.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mining Potential Effects of HUMIRA in Twitter Posts Through Relational Similarity (open access)

Mining Potential Effects of HUMIRA in Twitter Posts Through Relational Similarity

Article investigating HUMIRA effects mentioned in Twitter posts using a relational similarity-based method. The authors were able to identify effects previously known as well as potentially unreported, which demonstrates the power of this method and its potential for studying effects of other medications shared by Twitter users.
Date: June 16, 2020
Creator: Feng, Shichao; Jiang, Keyuan; Huang, Liyuan; Chen, Tingyu & Bernard, Gordon R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploring Edge Computing in Multi-Person Mixed Reality for Cooperative Perception (open access)

Exploring Edge Computing in Multi-Person Mixed Reality for Cooperative Perception

Article and accompanying poster presenting a prototype for the use of Edge with MR devices to provide cooperative perception capability to the MR device.
Date: June 25, 2020
Creator: Tang, Sihai; Chen, Bruce (Haidi); Hochstetler, Jacob; Hirsch, Jason & Fu, Song
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
CAREER: Reinventing Network-on-Chips of GPU-Accelerated Systems (open access)

CAREER: Reinventing Network-on-Chips of GPU-Accelerated Systems

Data management plan for the grant, "CAREER: Reinventing Network-on-Chips of GPU-Accelerated Systems." Research seeking to reinvent on-chip networks for GPU-accelerated systems to remove a communication bottleneck. A major outcome of the project is a set of techniques that enable the development of effective and efficient network-on-chip architectures. Graphics processing units (GPUs) have rapidly evolved to become high-performance accelerators for data-parallel computing. To fully take advantage of the computing power of GPUs, on-chip networks need to provide timely data movement to satisfy the requests of data by the processing cores. Currently, there exists a big gap between the fast-growing processing power of the GPU processing cores and the slow-increasing on-chip network bandwidth. Because of this, GPU-accelerated systems are interconnect-dominated and the on-chip network becomes their performance bottleneck.
Date: 2021-06-01/2026-05-31
Creator: Zhao, Hui
Object Type: Text
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
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
Targeted Systemic Delivery of SDF-1 DNA for the Treatment of Chronic Heart Disease (open access)

Targeted Systemic Delivery of SDF-1 DNA for the Treatment of Chronic Heart Disease

Data management plan for the grant, "Targeted Systemic Delivery of SDF-1 DNA for the Treatment of Chronic Heart Disease."
Date: 2023-06-01/2023-07-31
Creator: Won, Youngwook
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborative Research: Combined Tribological and Bactericidal Effect of Bioinjectable Nanodiamonds on Biological Joints (open access)

Collaborative Research: Combined Tribological and Bactericidal Effect of Bioinjectable Nanodiamonds on Biological Joints

Data management plan for the grant, "Collaborative Research: Combined Tribological and Bactericidal Effect of Bioinjectable Nanodiamonds on Biological Joints."
Date: 2023-06-01/2026-05-31
Creator: Berman, Diana
Object Type: Text
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
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
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