• Combining Proration and Full Information Maximum Likelihood in Handling Missing Data in Likert Scale Items: A Hybrid Approach 

  Wu, Wei; Gu, Fei; Fukui, Sadaaki (2020-10-10)

  This is example SAS code for a manuscript entitled “Combining Proration and Full Information Maximum Likelihood in Handling Missing Data in Likert Scale Items: A Hybrid Approach" coauthored by Wei Wu, Fei Gu, and Sadaaki Fukui.
• Simulation of Transitional and Bursty Wireless Visual Sensor Networks 

  Caswell, Mark; Liang, Yao (IEEE, 2019-10)

  Communication links in low-power wireless visual sensor networks (WVSNs) are subject to short-term and long-term noise variations. These variations can cause a WVSN to exhibit prolonged or periodic transitional or bursty ...
• A representation of joint moments of CUE characteristic polynomials in terms of Painlevé functions 

  Basor, Estelle; Bleher, Pavel; Buckingham, Robert; Grava, Tamara; Its, Alexander; Its, Elizabeth; Keating, Jonathan P. (IOP, 2019-10)

  We establish a representation of the joint moments of the characteristic polynomial of a CUE random matrix and its derivative in terms of a solution of the -Painlevé V equation. The derivation involves the analysis of a ...
• Smart Phone Based Mobile Code Dissemination for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks 

  Faruk, Omor; Zhong, Xiaoyang; Liang, Yao; Liang, Xu (IEEE, 2019-10)

  Low-power Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are being widely used in various outdoor applications including environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, and smart cities. WSN is a distributed network of sensor devices ...
• Quantifying the linguistic persistence of high and low performers in an online student forum 

  Myers, Carissa; Fox, Elizabeth; Traxler, Adrienne; Gavrin, A. (2019-07)

  This work uses recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) to analyze the online forum discussion between students in an introductory physics course. Previous network and content analysis found differences in student conversations ...
• Automated Gaze-Based Mind Wandering Detection during Computerized Learning in Classrooms 

  Hutt, Stephen; Krasich, Kristina; Mills, Caitlin; Bosch, Nigel; White, Shelby; Brockmole, James R.; D'Mello, Sidney K. (Springer, 2019)

  We investigate the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) eye-trackers to automatically detect mind wandering—a phenomenon involving a shift in attention from task-related to task-unrelated thoughts—during computerized ...
• Versatile and precise quantum state engineering by using nonlinear interferometers 

  Su, Jie; Cui, Liang; Li, Jiamin; Liu, Yuhong; Li, Xiaoying; Ou, Z. Y. (OSA, 2019-07)

  The availability of photon states with well-defined temporal modes is crucial for photonic quantum technologies. Ever since the inception of generating photonic quantum states through pulse pumped spontaneous parametric ...
• Amide Synthesis through the In Situ Generation of Chloro- and Imido-Phosphonium Salts 

  Irving, Charles D.; Floreancig, Jack T.; Laulhé, Sébastien (ACS, 2020-06)

  We describe a methodology for the amidation of carboxylic acids by generating phosphonium salts in situ from N-chlorophthalimide and triphenylphosphine. Aliphatic, benzylic, and aromatic carboxylic acids can be transformed ...
• Change Point Modeling of Covid-19 Data in the United States 

  Zhang, Sheng; Xu, Ziyue; Peng, Hanxiang (Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications (SSCA), 2020-07-28)

  To simultaneously model the change point and the possibly nonlinear relationship in the Covid-19 data of the US, a continuous second-order free knot spline model was proposed. Using the least squares method, the change ...
• Knowledge Reused Outlier Detection 

  Yu, Weiren; Ding, Zhengming; Hu, Chunming; Liu, Hongfu (IEEE, 2019-03)

  Tremendous efforts have been invested in the unsupervised outlier detection research, which is conducted on unlabeled data set with abnormality assumptions. With abundant related labeled data available as auxiliary ...
• Influence of Environmental Factors on the Production of MIB and Geosmin Metabolites by Bacteria in a Eutrophic Reservoir 

  Clercin, Nicolas A.; Druschel, Gregory K. (AGU, 2019-07)

  Occurrences of odorous bacterial metabolites, 2‐methylisoborneol (MIB) and geosmin (GSM), in drinking water supply reservoirs are considered as a nuisance by the water industry and a source of complaints from customers. ...
• From dimers to webs 

  Fraser, Chris; Lam, Thomas; Le, Ian (AMS, 2019)

  We formulate a higher-rank version of the boundary measurement map for weighted planar bipartite networks in the disk. It sends a network to a linear combination of $ \textnormal {SL}_r$-webs and is built upon the $ r$-fold ...
• The social threats of COVID-19 for people with chronic pain 

  Karos, Kai; McParland, Joanna L.; Bunzli, Samantha; Devan, Hem; Hirsh, Adam; Kapos, Flavia P.; Keogh, Edmund; Moore, David; Tracy, Lincoln M.; Ashton-James, Claire E. (International Association for the Study of Pain, 2020-07-13)

  In this review, we draw attention to the potential for social and systemic changes associated with attempts to contain the spread of COVID-19 to precipitate, maintain and exacerbate pain by increasing the social threats ...
• Testing Measurement Invariance with Ordinal Missing Data: A Comparison of Estimators and Missing Data Techniques 

  Chen, Po-Yi; Wu, Wei; Garnier-Villarreal, Mauricio; Kite, Benjamin Arthur; Jia, Fan (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  Ordinal missing data are common in measurement equivalence/invariance (ME/I) testing studies. However, there is a lack of guidance on the appropriate method to deal with ordinal missing data in ME/I testing. Five methods ...
• Reducing the Number of Tests for COVID-19 Infection via Group Testing Methodologies 

  Sarkar, Jyotirmoy (Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications (SSCA), 2020-07-12)

  Total economic shutdown being detrimental to a nation’s prosperity, most governments are reopening businesses and schools with the requirement of frequent and mass-scale testing to determine each person’s status of COVID-19 ...
• Underlying Neurobiological and Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Impulsivity in Risk-Taking Behaviors 

  Cyders, Melissa A. (MDPI, 2020-03-25)

  Impulsivity has been widely implicated in many maladaptive risk-taking and clinical disorders associated with such behaviors [1,2], and may be the most frequently noted criteria in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual for ...
• Embryonic ethanol exposure alters expression of sox2 and other early transcripts in zebrafish, producing gastrulation defects 

  Sarmah, Swapnalee; Srivastava, Rajneesh; McClintick, Jeanette N.; Janga, Sarath C.; Edenberg, Howard J.; Marrs, James A. (Springer Nature, 2020-03-03)

  Ethanol exposure during prenatal development causes fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), the most frequent preventable birth defect and neurodevelopmental disability syndrome. The molecular targets of ethanol toxicity ...
• Formation and evolution of an extensive blue ice moraine in central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica 

  Kassab, Christine M.; Licht, Kathy J.; Petersson, Rickard; Lindbäck, Katrin; Graly, Joseph A.; Kaplan, Michael R. (Cambridge UP, 2020-02)

  Mount Achernar moraine is a terrestrial sediment archive that preserves a record of ice-sheet dynamics and climate over multiple glacial cycles. Similar records exist in other blue ice moraines elsewhere on the continent, ...
• Water limitations to large-scale desert agroforestry projects for carbon sequestration 

  Wang, Lixin; D’Odorico, Paolo (National Academy of Sciences, 2019-11-26)
• Parity–Time Symmetry in Bidirectionally Coupled Semiconductor Lasers 

  Wilkey, Andrew; Suelzer, Joseph; Joglekar, Yogesh; Vemuri, Gautam (MDPI, 2019-12)

  We report on the numerical analysis of intensity dynamics of a pair of mutually coupled, single-mode semiconductor lasers that are operated in a configuration that leads to features reminiscent of parity–time symmetry. ...

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