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Submissions from 2024
How Individuals’ Opinions Influence Society’s Resistance to Epidemics: an Agent-based Model Approach, Geonsik Yu, Michael J. Garee, Mario Ventresca, and Yuehwern Yih
Charactering Receiver Clocks for the Detection and Identification of Inauthentic GNSS Signals, Zen Zhu, Sanjeev Gunawardena, Eric Vinande, and Jason Pontious
Approaches to Improve Preprocessing for Latent Dirichlet Allocation Topic Modeling, Jamie Zimmermann, Lance E. Champagne, John M. Dickens, and Benjamin T. Hazen
Submissions from 2023
A Finite Element Study on the Effects of Thickness and Material Nonlinearity on the Equilibrium Path of Axially Loaded Circular Cylindrical Shells, Ruben Adorno and Anthony N. Palazotto
Thermal Blooming with Laser-induced Convection: Radial Basis Function Simulation, Benjamin F. Akers, Steven T. Fiorino, and Jonah A. Reeger
A Study of the Effects of Containment Wall on the Combustion of Swirl-Stabilized Flames, Saja Al-Rifai, Cheng-Xian Lin, Brian T. Bohan, Kevin J. Demarco, and Marc D. Polanka
Investigation of In-Cylinder Pressure Measurement Methods within a Two-Stroke Spark Ignition Engine, Joseph K. Ausserer, Marc D. Polanka, Paul J. Litke, and Keith D. Grinstead
Decimation Classes of Nonnegative Integer Vectors using Multisets, Daniel M. Baczkowski and Dursun A. Bulutoglu
Leadership Matters: An Industrial Engineering Framework for Developing and Sustaining Industry, Adedeji B. Badiru and Melinda L. Tourangeau
Modeling Potential Damages of Hurricanes at the Facility Scale: A Case Study of Eglin Air Force Base, Alexander J. Baldwin, Christopher M. Chini, Steven J. Schuldt, and Justin D. Delorit
Protecting Coastal Installation Electric Infrastructure from Flooding, Dylan Bechen, Christopher M. Chini, Gregory Howland, and Zachary Moer
The Characteristics of Successful Military IT Projects: A Cross-country Empirical Study, Helene Berg and Jonathan D. Ritschel
Beauty in chaos: the hidden art and sacred geometric designs of trajectories in multi-body gravitational systems, Robert A. Bettinger, Adam P. Wilmer, Liberty M. Shockley, and Nathan R. Boone
A Comparison of Quaternion Neural Network Backpropagation Algorithms, Jeremiah Bill, Bruce A. Cox, and Lance Champaign
Correlations for the Performance, Efficiency, and Energy Losses for Single Cylinder, Four-Cycle Internal Combustion Engines with Displaced Volumes Ranging from 40 to 200 cc., Jason R. Blantin, Marc D. Polanka, Joseph K. Ausserer, and Jacob A. Baranski
ADS-B Classification using Multivariate Long Short-term Memory–fully Convolutional Networks and Data Reduction Techniques, Sarah Bolton *, Richard Dill, Michael R. Grimaila, and Douglas Hodson
Aircraft Classification Using Flight Phase Identification, Sarah Bolton, Richard Dill, Michael R. Grimaila, and Douglas D. Hodson
Debris Collision Risk Analysis Following Simulated Cislunar Spacecraft Explosions, Nathan R. Boone and Robert A. Bettinger
Simulation of Debris Events in Selected Low Lunar Orbits, Nathan R. Boone and Robert A. Bettinger
GPU Computing of GNSS Chipshape, Tyler Bransfield and Sanjeev Gunawardena
Insights into the Performance of InAs-based Devices in Extreme Environments from Multiscale Simulations, Logan R. Brennaman and Adib J. Samin
Food Desert Residence Has Limited Impact on Veteran Fecal Microbiome Composition: A U.S. Veteran Microbiome Project Study, Diana P. Brostow, Meghan Donovan, Molly Penzenik, Christopher E. Stamper, Talia Spark, Christopher A. Lowry, Suzanne L. Ishaq, Andrew J. Hoisington, and Lisa A. Brenner
Absolute Light Yield of the EJ-204 Plastic Scintillator, J. A. Brown, T. A. LaPlace, B. L. Goldblum, Juan J. Manfredi, T. S. Johnson, F. Moretti, and A. Venkatraman
Scaling Overall Effectiveness in Low-Temperature Experiments, Carol E. Bryant and James L. Rutledge
Temperature Dependent Property Considerations for Biot Number Matching with Composite Materials, Carol E. Bryant and James L. Rutledge