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Submissions from 2025
Progress in the development of a versatile table-top kHz-rate laser-plasma accelerator for mixed radiation sources, Anil K. Patnaik, Michael L. Dexter, Kyle D. Frische, Benjamin M. Knight, Nathaniel Tamminga, Ronak Desai, Joseph Snyder, Chris M. Orban, and Enam A. Chowdhury
Misalignment Uncertainty in Near-Field Terahertz Scattering Experiments, Philip Patterson, Michael A. Saville, Anais Rawson, Tomas Di Fulvio, Paul Sotirelis, and Ellott R. Brown
A Standardized Methodology for Evaluating a Digital Badging System [ Data Package ], Benjamin T. Pederson, Mark G. Reith, Ralucca Gera, David S. Long, Edward D. White, and Jonathan Zemmer
Neural Image Sharpening: A Framework for Volumetric Wavefront Sensing and Imaging, Casey J. Pellizzari, Adrienne M. Weaver, Tyler J. Hardy, and Mark F. Spencer
Engineering safe human-autonomy teaming using STPA-coordination, Elizabeth S. Pennington, Kip E. Johnson, Kerianne L. Hobbs, and John M. Colombi
Multi-class Classification of Satellite Orbits for Database Quality Control, Richard Peterson, Torrey J. Wagner, Paul Auclair, and Brent T. Langhals
Amp: Single-shot Ultra-wide Fisheye-to-cubemap PnP Pose Estimation, Ryan M. Raettig, Richard R. Nyquist, Scott L. Nykl, Clark N. Taylor, and Christine M. Schubert Kabban
Effect of Film Cooling Hole Location on Flow Dynamics in a Rotating Detonation Combustor, Shreyas Ramanagar Sridhara, Marc D. Polanka, Myles D. Bohon, and Antonio Andreini
Preliminary investigation of multi-body orbit architectures for Mars surface positioning, navigation, and timing, Kaitlin R. Roberts and Robert A. Bettinger
Effect of velocity slip and temperature jump on unsteady magnetohydrodynamic Maxwell ternary hybrid nanofluid flow over a shrinking sheet, Nepal Chandra Roy, Md. Mahmudul Hassan, and Rama Subba Reddy Gorla
Experimental Investigation of Ranque–Hilsch Vortex Tube Performance Characteristics With High-Temperature Air, James L. Rutledge and James L. Rutledge
Empirical Comparison of Shadow Imagery Resolution Advantages from Multispectral Image Stacking, Douglas B. Ruyle, David H. Curtis, and Peter N. McMahon-Crabtree
Investigation of varying telescope array spacing for shadow imaging reconstruction from partial diffraction patterns, Douglas B. Ruyle, David H. Curtis, and Peter N. Mcmahon-Crabtree
Derandomizing Codes for the Adversarial Wiretap Channel of Type II, Eric Ruzomberka, Homa Nikbakht, Christopher G. Brinton, David J. Love, and H. Vincent Poor
Investigation of the Flow Field Morphology of Film Cooling in Supersonic Flow, Umberto Sandri, Massimiliano Ferro, Alessio Picchi, Antonio Andreini, Bruno Facchini, and Marc D. Polanka
Adiabatic Effectiveness Measurements of Film Cooling in Supersonic Flow, Umberto Sandri, Marc D. Polanka, Marc D. Polanka, Alessio Picchi, Antonio Andreini, and Bruno Facchini
Preliminary Investigation of Cislunar Disposal Reachability via Electric Propulsion for Selected L2 Lagrange Point Orbit Families, Ryan M. Sargent, Robert A. Bettinger, and Carl R. Hartsfield
Benchmark Performance of a Rust-Based Python Extension, Ethan J. Schofield and Douglas D. Hodson
Terahertz SAR measurements of 1/60th scale models for rapid object recognition development, Ryan J. Shaver, Jacob Ross, Will Coleman, Paul Sotirelis, Rob Ewing, Ben Pierce, Tomas Di Fulvo, Elliott Brown, and Michael A. Saville
Exploring Emotion Classification of Indonesian Tweets using Large Scale Transfer Learning via IndoBERT, Connor Shaw, Phillip M. LaCasse, and Lance E. Champagne
Risk-based stormwater fragility curves for urbanized coastal flooding, Ashish Shrestha and Christopher M. Chini
Predictive Analysis of Defense Language Proficiency Test Outcomes: A Comparative Study Using Neural Networks and Logistic Regression, Jared Smith, Eric M. Mbonimpa, Torrey Wagner, and Brent Langhals
Development of a Neuromorphic-Friendly Spiking Neural Network for RF Event-based Classification, Michael Smith, Michael A. Temple, and James W. Dean
Analyzing LF/VLF Lightning Waveforms to Estimate D-region Electron Density Profiles, William R. Smith, Erin H. Lay, Kyle E. Fitch, and Daniel J. Emmons
Measurements of Test Objects for Maritime Signature Validation, Paul Sotirelis, Ben Lewis, Rob Ewing, Ben Pierce, Tomas Di Fulvio, Elliott Brown, Sean Gilmore, and Michael A. Saville