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Factors that Influence the Extent to which Cities on Florida’s Atlantic Coast are Preparing for Climate Change: A multiple regression analysis and learning opportunities for policymakers
(2021-12)This study involved a survey (Appendix A) to leaders of 158 cities inside the counties that border the Atlantic coast of Florida. The impetus behind this study was to identify how policymakers were obtaining, understanding, ... -
Measuring the Relationship of Gender Misclassification and Automated Face Recognition Match Accuracy Relative to Skin Tone
(2021-07)The gap of accuracy observed in some commercial face analytic systems based on race and gender raised questions about the equity and fairness of those systems. Since these systems are part of several applications today, ... -
Studies on How Grooming Can Improve the Performance of Fouling Control Coatings
(2021-07)Biofouling is the accumulation of unwanted organisms on a submerged surface. This can be a major issue to most marine activities. The most common approach to biofouling prevention on ship hulls is the application of fouling ... -
Characterization and Modeling of Upward Lightning at the Gaisberg Tower
(2021-07)The majority of cloud-to-ground lightning is downward. Upward lightning rarely occurs; less than 1% of cloud-to-ground lightning is upward. Upward lightning differs from its downward counterpart in how it is initiated. ... -
Stress Analysis Based on ECG and EEG
(2021-07)Stress is a significant risk factor for various diseases such as hypertension, heart attack, stroke, and even sudden death. In many studies, stress is linked to decision making, performance, and learning. The heart rate ... -
Divergent Regulatory Roles of NuRD Chromatin Remodeling Complex Subunits GATAD2 and CHD4 in Caenorhabditis elegans
(2021-07)During stress, a protective cellular network known as the heat shock response (HSR) is induced to maintain protein-folding homeostasis, or proteostasis. While the HSR is essential for stress resistance, its misregulation ... -
Unveiling Migration Patterns Using Data and Network Science
(2021-12)Many real-world phenomena have recently been witnessed, motivating scientists to provide a comprehensive understanding of worldwide networks, such as the human migration phenomenon. Human migration research is multidisciplinary ... -
ARION 33: A Prospective Mission to Near-Earth Asteroids
(2021-12)Near-Earth asteroids will become primary targets for space industrialization in the future as humanity becomes a multi-planetary species. But before such missions, it is necessary to survey these asteroids for their intrinsic ... -
A Biological Assessment of Oyster Restoration Mats throughout the Indian River Lagoon: Changes in Community Composition and Filtration Capacity of Living Docks
(2021-08)Like many estuaries worldwide, the Indian River Lagoon (IRL), has seen a decline in resources and overall water quality due to human activities. There is a growing interest in implementing ecological engineering methods ... -
A Computational Model of Arterial Thrombus Mechanics in Stenotic Channels
(2021-07)Platelet aggregation is one of the major components of blood clotting. The proximal cause of most heart attacks and many strokes is the rapid formation of a blood clot (thrombus) in response to the rupture or erosion of ... -
Scaling Flight Test Data Between a Scaled Aircraft and a Cessna 172 for Use in Trajectory Energy Model Validation
(2021-07)Currently in the general aviation sector, a new type of aircraft is rising to prominence. It is known as Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and takes many shapes and sizes. The goal of UAM is to produce aircraft that can be used to ... -
Enhanced Solar Receiver Design: Using Modern Materials and Manufacturing Methods
(2021-07)Solar receivers are a core component in receiver technology used for solar thermal power plants that use mirror reflectors to concentrate solar radiation onto a single point. This point is where the solar receiver is ... -
The Effects of Noise on Parametrically Excited Systems with Nonlinear Damping
(2021-07)Parametric oscillators are a class of resonating systems in which a parameter, such as stiffness in a mechanical system or capacitance in an electrical system, is periodically modulated in order to alter the system ... -
Development of Axial-Chiral Lewis Base Catalysts for Asymmetric Synthesis
(2021-07)Asymmetric Synthesis has become an essential tool to provide materials necessary to our everyday lives. The asymmetric formation of carbon-carbon bonds is the most important process in the construction of asymmetric ... -
A Numerical Study of Jovian Moist Convection with a new Convective Adjustment Scheme, and Implications for Jupiter's Water Abundance
(2021-07)Jupiter’s atmosphere features a variety of clouds that are formed from the interplay of chemistry and atmospheric dynamics, from the deep red of the Great Red Spot to the high altitude white ammonia clouds present in the ... -
Belief Networks as Approximated Models for Testing the Design in Production
(2021-07)A software design methodology is proposed involving the development of approximate models based on reputation systems and Bayesian Networks capturing probabilistic representations of expected behavior, which are further ... -
The Potential of Indian River Lagoon Muck to act as a Reservoir for Emerging Organic Contaminants
(2021-07-26)Pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and personal care products are frequently found in sediments and waterways around the world. These chemicals, collectively known as Emerging Organic Contaminants (EOCs) can harm the environments ... -
Near-Shore Sediment Transport Under Cnoidal Waves Using Particle Image Velocimetry
(2021-07)With future trends showing a higher percentage of the human population living along the coast, coastal resilience is a significant topic of concern for many researchers. The purpose of this research was to analyze near-shore ... -
Reduced Sample Minimum Strength Estimates for Novel Material Systems: Effects on Confidence and Structural Risk
(2021-07)There are ongoing efforts to standardize the materials, methods and process controls used in additive manufacturing. To support the broader use of additive manufacturing (AM) in the aerospace industry, the statistics working ... -
Design and Analysis of a Pipe and Pump System Constructed to Connect Port Canaveral to the Banana River
(2021-07)The Indian River Lagoon (IRL) has hosted an extensive array of plants and animals throughout its lifetime, having one of the greatest species’ diversity of all North American estuaries. In addition to the variety of marine ...