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Submissions from 2024
Improving 2–5 Qubit Quantum Phase Estimation Circuits Using Machine Learning, Charles Woodrum [*], Torrey J. Wagner, and David E. Weeks
Relative Vectoring using Dual Object Detection for Autonomous Aerial Refueling, Derek B. Worth, Jeffrey L. Choate, James Lynch, Scott L. Nykl, and Clark N. Taylor
Editorial: Observations and Simulations of Layering Phenomena in the Middle/upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere, Bingkun Yu, Xuguang Cai, Daniel J. Emmons II, and Chong Wang and Jianfei Wu
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
Submissions from 2023
Thermal Blooming with Laser-induced Convection: Radial Basis Function Simulation, Benjamin F. Akers, Steven T. Fiorino, and Jonah A. Reeger
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
A Comparison of Quaternion Neural Network Backpropagation Algorithms, Jeremiah Bill, Bruce A. Cox, and Lance Champaign
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
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
Directional Microwave Emission from Femtosecond-laser Illuminated Linear Arrays of Superconducting Rings, Thomas J. Bullard, Kyle Frische, Charlie Ebbing, Stephen J. Hageman, John Morrison, John Bulmer, Enam A. Chowdury, Michael L. Dexter, Timothy J. Haugan, and Anil K. Patniak
System-level Noise Performance of Coherent Imaging Systems, Derek J. Burrell, Joshua H. Follansbee, Mark F. Spencer, and Ronald G. Driggers
Toward Automated Instructor Pilots in Legacy Air Force Systems: Physiology-based Flight Difficulty Classification via Machine Learning, William N. Caballero, Nathan Gaw, Phillip R. Jenkins, and Chancellor Johnstone
Measurement of Proton Light Yield of Water-based Liquid Scintillator, E. J. Callaghan, B. L. Goldblum, J. A. Brown, T. A. Laplace, Juan J. Manfredi, M. Yeh, and G. D. Orebi Gann
Strong Evidence for 9N and the Limits of Existence of Atomic Nuclei, R. J. Charity, J. Wylie, S. M. Wang, T. B. Webb, K. W. Brown, G. Cerizza, Z. Chajecki, J. M. Elson, J. Estee, D. E. M. Hoff, S. A. Kuvin, W. G. Lynch, Juan J. Manfredi, N. Michel, D. G. McNeel, P. Morfouace, W. Nazarewicz, C. D. Pruitt, C. Santamaria, S. Sweany, J. Smith, L. G. Sobotka, M. B. Tsang, and A. H. Wuosmaa
Wave Optics Approach to Solar Cell BRDF Modeling with Experimental Results, Madilynn Compean, Todd V. Small, Milo W. Hyde IV, and Michael Marciniak
Development of a Methodology for the Quantification of Reaerosolization of a Biological Contaminate Surrogate Particle from a Military Uniform Fabric, George Cooksey, Jeremy M. Slagley, Casey W. Cooper, Douglas Lewis, and Alisha Helm
Sensitivity of Single-Pulse Radar Detection to Aircraft Pose Uncertainties, Austin Costley, Randall Christensen, Robert C. Leishman, and Greg Droge