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Submissions from 2021
Assessing the Trustworthiness of Saliency Maps for Localizing Abnormalities in Medical Imaging, Nishanth Arun, Nathan B. Gaw, Praveer Singh, Ken Chang, Mehak Aggarwal, Bryan Chen, Katharina Hoebel, Sharut Gupta, Jay Patel, Mishka Gidwani, Julius Adebayo, Matthew D. Li, and Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer
Predicting Lifecycle Impacts of Climate Change on Air Force Infrastructure, Alexander Baldwin, Scott Weiss, Louis Zib, Justin D. Delorit, and Christopher M. Chini
Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Jet Fuel for the U.S. Department of Defense, Colin M. Beal, Amanda D. Cuellar, and Torrey J. Wagner
Black Space versus Blue Space: A Proposed Dichotomy of Future Space Operations, Robert A. Bettinger and Carl A. Poole [*]
Tuning Hyperparameters for DNA-based Discrimination of Wireless Devices, Trevor Bihl, Joseph E. Schoenbeck, Aaron Jones, Christopher M. Rondeau, and Yuki Adams
Meta-Heuristic Optimization Methods for Quaternion-Valued Neural Networks, Jeremiah Bill, Lance E. Champagne, Bruce Cox, and Trevor J. Bihl
Robust Method of Determining Microfacet BRDF Parameters in the Presence of Noise via Recursive Optimization, Michael W. Bishop, Samuel D. Butler, and Michael A. Marciniak
Effect of noise and ototoxicants on developing standard threshold shifts at a U.S. Air Force depot level maintenance facility, Marc Blair, Jeremy M. Slagley, and N. Cody Schaal
A Learning Curve Model Accounting for the Flattening Effect in Production Cycles, Evan R. Boone, John J. Elshaw, Clay M. Koschnick, Jonathan D. Ritschel, and Adedeji B. Badiru
Performance-Based Building System Manufacturer Selection Decision Framework for Integration into Total Cost of Ownership Evaluations, Sarah L. Brown, Steven J. Schuldt, Michael N. Grussing, Louis B. Bartels, Michael A. Johnson, and Justin D. Delorit
Conjugate Heat Transfer Simulations to Evaluate the Effect of Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity on Overall Cooling Effectiveness, Carol E. Bryant and James L. Rutledge
An Assessment of the Spatial Variation of Isotopic Ratios in a CANDU Reactor for Nuclear Treaty Monitoring, Aaron W. Burkhardt, James E. Bevins, and Stephen H. Baxter
Zernike Integrated Partial Phase Error Reduction Algorithm, Stephen C. Cain
Evaluation of Unmanned Aircraft Flying/Handling Qualities Using a Stitched Learjet Model, Patrick M. Callaghan and Donald L. Kunz
Per-pixel Cloud Cover Classification of Multispectral Landsat-8 Data, Salome E. Carrasco [*], Torrey J. Wagner, and Brent T. Langhals
Terrain‐referenced Navigation Using a Steerable‐laser Measurement Sensor, Jason D. Carroll and Aaron J. Canciani
Micromechanically enabled microcavity on optical fiber tips, Hengky Chandrahalim, Jeremiah C. Williams, Jonathan W. Smith, Joseph S. Suelzer, and Nicholas G. Usechak
Measurement of the 160Gd(p,n)160Tb Excitation Function from 4–18 MeV using Stacked-target Activation, Ryan K. Chapman, Andreq S. Voyles, Narek Gharibyan, Lee A. Bernstein, and James E. Bevins
A Life Cycle Comparison of Remote, Deployed Expeditionary Waste Management Scenarios, David J. Chester [*], Chandrani Mukherjee, Jeremy M. Slagley, Eric Mbonimpa, and Thomas Hornstein
Opportunities for Robustness of Water Footprints in Electricity Generation, Christopher M. Chini and Justin D. Delorit
A Review of Energy-for-water Data in Energy-water Nexus Publications, Christopher M. Chini, Lauren E. Excell, and Ashlynn S. Stillwell
The Traded Water Footprint of Global Energy from 2010 to 2018, Christopher M. Chini and Rebecca A. M. Peer
Defect Detection in Atomic Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Images Using Machine Learning, Philip Cho, Aihua W. Wood, Krishnamurthy Mahalingam, and Kurt Eyink
A Closed-Loop Linear Covariance Framework for Vehicle Path Planning in a Static Uncertain Obstacle Field, Randall Christensen, Greg Droge, and Robert C. Leishman
Year-Independent Prediction of Food Insecurity Using Classical & Neural Network Machine Learning Methods, Caleb Christiansen, Torrey J. Wagner, and Brent Langhals