• A new proof of a Nordgren, Rosenthal and Wintrobe Theorem on universal operators 

  Cowen, Carl C.; Gallardo-Gutiérrez, Eva A. (American Mathematical Society, 2017)

  A striking result by Nordgren, Rosenthal and Wintrobe states that the Invariant Subspace Problem is equivalent to the fact that any minimal invariant subspace for a composition operator Cφ induced by a hyperbolic automorphism ...
• Reducing STEM gender bias with VIDS (video interventions for diversity in STEM) 

  Moss-Racusin, Corinne A.; Pietri, Evava S.; Hennes, Erin P.; Dovidio, John F.; Brescoll, Victoria L.; Roussos, Gina; Handelsman, Jo (American Psychological Association, 2018)

  Gender biases contribute to the underrepresentation of women in STEM. In response, the scientific community has called for methods to reduce bias, but few validated interventions exist. Thus, an interdisciplinary group of ...
• Maybe She Is Relatable Increasing Women’s Awareness of Gender Bias Encourages Their Identification With Women Scientists 

  Pietri, Evava S.; Johnson, India R.; Ozgumus, Ezgi; Young, Alison I. (SAGE, 2018-06-01)

  In the current research, we explored whether informing women about gender bias in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) would enhance their identification with a female scientist and whether this increased ...
• Fog and Dew as Potable Water Resources: Maximizing Harvesting Potential and Water Quality Concerns 

  Kaseke, Kudzai F.; Wang, Lixin (Wiley, 2018)

  Fog and dew are often viewed as economic nuisances causing significant financial losses in the transportation industry and agricultural sector. However, they are also critical components of the hydrological cycle, especially ...
• A coupled ETAS-I2GMM point process with applications to seismic fault detection 

  Cheng, Yicheng; Dundar, Murat; Mohler, George (Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2018-09)

  Epidemic-type aftershock sequence (ETAS) point process is a common model for the occurrence of earthquake events. The ETAS model consists of a stationary background Poisson process modeling spontaneous earthquakes and a ...
• Nitrogen preference across generations under changing ammonium nitrate ratios 

  Daryanto, Stefani; Wang, Lixin; Gilhooly, William P., III; Jacinthe, Pierre-André (Oxford, 2018-03)

  Aims Nitrogen (N) in natural environments is typically supplied by a mixture of ammonia (NH4+) and nitrate (NO3−). However, factors that underlie either NH4+ or NO3− preference, and how such preference will change across ...
• Assessment of STEM e-Learning in an Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) Environment 

  Rogers, Christian B.; El-Mounayri, Hazim; Wasfy, Tamer; Satterwhite, Jesse (ASEE, 2018)

  This paper shows the early research findings of utilizing a virtual reality environment as an educational tool for the operation of a computerized numerical control (CNC) milling machine. Based off of previous work, the ...
• Spatial Expansion and Soil Organic Carbon Storage Changes of Croplands in the Sanjiang Plain, China 

  Man, Weidong; Yu, Hao; Li, Lin; Liu, Mingyue; Mao, Dehua; Ren, Chunying; Wang, Zongming; Jia, Mingming; Miao, Zhenghong; Lu, Chunyan; Li, Huiying (MDPI, 2017-04)

  Soil is the largest pool of terrestrial organic carbon in the biosphere and interacts strongly with the atmosphere, climate and land cover. Remote sensing (RS) and geographic information systems (GIS) were used to study ...
• Distributed monocular visual SLAM as a basis for a collaborative augmented reality framework 

  Egodagamage, Ruwan; Tuceryan, Mihran (Elsevier, 2018-04)

  Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has been used for markerless tracking in augmented reality applications. Distributed SLAM helps multiple agents to collaboratively explore and build a global map of the ...
• Exploring diseases based biomedical document clustering and visualization using self-organizing maps 

  Shah, Setu; Luo, Xiao (IEEE, 2017-10)

  Document clustering is a text mining technique used to provide better document search and browsing in digital libraries or online corpora. In this research, a vector representation of concepts of diseases and similarity ...
• Lower Bounds for Numbers of Real Self-Dual Spaces in Problems of Schubert Calculus 

  Lu, Kang (National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 2018)

  The self-dual spaces of polynomials are related to Bethe vectors in the Gaudin model associated to the Lie algebras of types B and C. In this paper, we give lower bounds for the numbers of real self-dual spaces in intersections ...
• Students perceptions of an alternative testing method: hints as an option for exam questions 

  Rogers, Christian; Schnepp, Jerry Clyde (ASEE, 2014)
• Social correlates of mental health in gastrointestinal cancer patients and their family caregivers: Exploring the role of loneliness 

  Secinti, Ekin; Rand, Kevin L.; Johns, Shelley A.; O'Neil, Bert H.; Helft, Paul R.; Shahda, Safi; Jalal, Shadia I.; Mosher, Catherine E. (Springer, 2018)

  Purpose The present study examined the degree to which loneliness mediated the influence of negative (social constraints) and positive (emotional support) relationship qualities on the global mental health of advanced ...
• Spatially and temporally variable sulfur cycling in shallow-sea hydrothermal vents, Milos, Greece 

  Houghton, Jennifer L.; Gilhooly, William P., III; Kafantaris, Fotios-Christos A.; Druschel, Gregory K.; Lu, Guang-Sin; Amend, Jan P.; Godelitsas, Athanasios; Fike, David A. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Shallow-sea hydrothermal systems are ideal for studying the relative contributions to sedimentary sulfur archives from ambient sulfur-utilizing microbes and from fluxes of hydrothermally derived sulfur. Here we present ...
• A Qualitative Examination of Pain Centrality Among Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Conflicts 

  Outcalt, Samantha D.; Nicolaidis, Christina; Bair, Matthew J.; Myers, Laura J.; Miech, Edward J.; Matthias, Marianne S. (Oxford, 2017-02)

  Objective. Centrality of pain refers to the degree to which a patient views chronic pain as integral to his or her life or identity. The purpose of this study was to gain a richer understanding of pain centrality from the ...
• WiFi-Enabled Smart Human Dynamics Monitoring 

  Guo, Xiaonan; Liu, Bo; Shi, Cong; Liu, Hongbo; Chen, Yingying; Chuah, Mooi Choo (ACM, 2017-11)

  The rapid pace of urbanization and socioeconomic development encourage people to spend more time together and therefore monitoring of human dynamics is of great importance, especially for facilities of elder care and ...
• Responses of Chinese fir and Schima superba seedlings to light gradients: Implications for the restoration of mixed broadleaf-conifer forests from Chinese fir monocultures 

  Liu, Bo; Liu, Qingqing; Daryanto, Stefani; Guo, Si; Huang, Zhijun; Wang, Zhengning; Wang, Lixin; Ma, Xiangqing (Elsevier, 2018-07)

  Although Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook) plantations are widely grown for timber production in southern China, they have low biodiversity and provide limited ecosystem services. To address this problem, ...
• Szeg\H{o}-type asymptotics for ray sequences of Frobenius-Pad\’e approximants 

  Aptekarev, Alexander I.; Bogolubsky, Alexey I.; Yattselev, Maxim I. (arXiv, 2016)

  Let $\widehat\sigma$ be a Cauchy transform of a possibly complex-valued Borel measure $\sigma$ and $\{p_n\}$ be a system of orthonormal polynomials with respect to a measure $\mu$, $\mathrm{supp}(\mu)\cap\mathrm{supp}(\s ...
• Predicting interval time for reciprocal link creation using survival analysis 

  Dave, Vachik S.; Al Hasan, Mohammad; Zhang, Baichuan; Reddy, Chandan K. (Springer, 2018-12)

  The majority of directed social networks, such as Twitter, Flickr and Google+, exhibit reciprocal altruism, a social psychology phenomenon, which drives a vertex to create a reciprocal link with another vertex which has ...
• Compressed Sensing in Multi-Hop Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Routing Topology Tomography 

  Li, Yimei; Liang, Yao (IEEE, 2018)

  Data acquisition from multi-hop large-scale outdoor wireless sensor network (WSN) deployments for environmental monitoring is full of challenges. This is because of the severe resource constraints on tiny battery-operated ...

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