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2018-06

McKillop, Ashley B

Background: Persistent back pain is a debilitating problem that can threaten many aspects of affected individuals’ lives, including engagement in valued social roles (i.e., participation). Related research often focuses on studying vulnerabilities and deficits, rather than the psychosocial...

2018-06

Fan, Juehui

We present a new algorithm to estimate depth of real-world scenes containing an object semi-submerged in water using a light field camera. Existing hand-held consumer light field cameras are well-suited for automated refocusing, depth detection in outdoor environment. However, when it comes to...

2018-06

Fontaine, Melanie A

Introduction: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are increasing at an alarming rate globally. A common feature in these conditions is increased adiposity leading to insulin resistance (IR). Dyslipidemia is a major contributing...

2018-06

Emam, Seyedeh Sepideh

Using models in order to formalize and abstract the view of a system is a popular approach in different research areas. Deriving behavioral models from software executions is a common approach used in supporting a broad range of software development, maintenance, and verification and validation...

2018-06

Patel, Rajan G.

Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD), an in-situ thermal oil recovery method is successfully utilized to extract bitumen from the Canadian oil sands. To improve the reservoir performance, an idea of closed-loop reservoir management (CLRM) was proposed that comprises near-continuous data...

2018-06

Wang, Yiyu

Grade 91 steel is one of the most important 9-12% Cr creep strength enhanced ferritic (CSEF) steels used in fossil-fuel fired power plants. A narrow heat-affected zone with heterogeneous structures is generated in the base metal, due to non-equilibrium phase transformations during the arc welding...

2018-06

Meng, Fanchi

Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) in proteins lack stable three dimensional structure under physiological conditions. IDRs are prevalent in nature, functionally important, and difficult to characterize experimentally due to their unstructuredness. As a result, many computational methods...

2018-06

Le Minh, Hong Anh

Weaning imposes a variety of stress factors on piglets including consuming dry feed instead of milk, changes of environment and physiology, and pathogenic challenges while decreasing passive immunity. Feeding strategies are cost-effectively attractive approaches to maintain health and promote...

2018-06

Pagonis, Alice J

Some of an organization’s most valuable resources are their managers since they have a core function in directing and influencing strategy, controlling resources, and monitoring employee performance (Storey, 1989). It is unclear how managers learn to become managers as well as how, when, and...

2018-06

Li,David S

The propagation of alarms which results in multiple alarm annunciations can lead to what are known as alarm floods, where operators are unable to resolve all alarms at the same time. It is highly unlikely for operators to read through an alarm response manual during an alarm flood that requires...