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Submissions from 2021
Impact of Hurricane Michael (2018) on Local Vertical Total Electron Content, Joanna E.S. Williams, Robert C. Tournay, H. Rose Tseng, Daniel J. Emmons II, and Omar A. Nava
Validation of Doppler Lidar Sensor using Covariance Analysis, Tristan Williams and Robert C. Leishman
Estimating Turbulence Distribution over a Heterogeneous Path Using Time‐lapse Imagery from Dual Cameras, Benjamin Wilson, Santasri Bose-Pillai, Jack E. McCrae, Kevin J. Keefer, and Steven T. Fiorino
The Effect of Mixing and Free-floating Carrier Media on Bioaerosol Release from Wastewater: A Multiscale Investigation with Bacillus globigii, Yun Xing, Adam C. Burdsall, Andrew Owens, Matthew Magnuson, and Willie F. Harper Jr.
Operational Carbon Footprint of the U.S. Water and Wastewater Sector’s Energy Consumption, Louis J. Zib III, Diana M. Byrne, Landon T. Marston, and Christopher M. Chini
Classical and Neural Network Machine Learning to Determine the Risk of Marijuana Use, Laura Zoboroski [*], Torrey J. Wagner, and Brent T. Langhals
Implications of Polarized Pupil Degradation Due to Focal Shifts in Dynamically Ranged Rayleigh Beacons, Steven M. Zuraski, Ethan VanTilburg, Matthew Wilson, Jack E. McCrae, and Steven T. Fiorino
Submissions from 2020
Optimal Multi-stage Allocation of Weapons to Targets Using Adaptive Dynamic Programming, Darryl K. Ahner and Carl R. Parson
Wilton Ripples in Weakly Nonlinear Dispersive Models of Water Waves: Existence and Analyticity of Solution Branches, Benjamin F. Akers and David P. Nicholls
Seasonal affective disorder and seasonal changes in weight and sleep duration are inversely associated with plasma adiponectin levels, Faisal Akram, Claudia Gragnol, Uttam K. Raheja, Soren Snitker, Christopher A. Lowry, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Andrew J. Hoisington, Lisa A. Brenner, Erika Saunders, John Stiller, Kathleen Ryan, Kelly J. Rohan, Braxton D. Mitchell, and Teodor T. Postolache
An Ultra-Sparse Approximation of Kinetic Solutions to Spatially Homogeneous Flows of Non-continuum Gas, Alexander Alekseenko, Amy Grandilli, and Aihua W. Wood
Analysis of Military Construction Cost Growth in USAF Major Defense Acquisition Programs, Emily E. Angell, Edward D. White, Jonathan D. Ritschel, and Alfred E. Thal Jr.
Legendre G-array Pairs and the Theoretical Unification of Several G-array Families, K. T. Arasu, Dursun A. Bulutoglu, and J. R. Hollon
In-cylinder Temperature Measurements in a 55-cm3 Two Stroke Engine via Tunable Laser Absorption Spectroscopy, Joseph K. Ausserer, Marc D. Polanka, Matthew J. Deutsch, Jacob A. Baranski, and Keith D. Rein
Future Uncertainty-Based Control for Relative Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments, He Bai and Clark N. Taylor
Managing the Shelf Life of Type II Materials, Kaitlyn Barry [*], Jacob M. Denney, and Jeremy Slagley
Homotopy Simulation of Dissipative Micropolar Flow and Heat Transfer from a Two-dimensional Body with Heat Sink Effect: Applications in Polymer Coating, O. A. Bég, B. Vasu, A. K. Ray, T. A. Beg, A. Kadir, H. J. Leonard, and Rama S. R. Gorla
Topological Data Analysis for Enhancing Embedded Analytics for Enterprise Cyber Log Analysis and Forensics, Trevor J. Bihl, Robert J. Gutierrez, Kenneth W. Bauer, Bradley C. Boehmke, and Cade M. Saie
Cyber-Physical Security with RF Fingerprint Classification through Distance Measure Extensions of Generalized Relevance Learning Vector Quantization, Trevor J. Bihl, Todd J. Paciencia, Kenneth W. Bauer Jr., and Michael A. Temple
Easy and Efficient Hyperparameter Optimization to Address Some Artificial Intelligence “ilities”, Trevor J. Bihl, Joseph E. Schoenbeck, Daniel Steeneck, and Jeremy D. Jordan
Performance Analysis of Reference Oscillators and Frequency Synthesizers for use in High-Fidelity Satellite Navigation Receivers, Andrew D. Braun and Sanjeev Gunawardena
Evaluation of an Immunomodulatory Probiotic Intervention for Veterans with Co-occurring Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Pilot Study, Lisa A. Brenner, Jeri E. Forster, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Christopher E. Stamper, Andrew J. Hoisington, Diana P. Brostow, Merideth Mealer, Hal S. Wortzel, Teodor T. Postolache, and Christopher A. Lowry
Contractual Procurement Alternatives of Air Force Contingency Pharmaceuticals: A Cost-Benefit Analysis, Adam J. Brubakken, John M. Dickens, Jason Andrerson, and William A. Cunningham III
A Computational Technique to Evaluate the Relative Influence of Internal and External Cooling on Overall Effectiveness, Carol E. Bryant and James L. Rutledge
Leveraging Behavioral Game Theory to Inform Military Operations Planning, William N. Caballero, Brian J. Lunday, and Richard F. Deckro