• Frontoparietal Cortical Thickness Mediates the Effect of COMT Val¹⁵⁸Met Polymorphism on Age-Associated Executive Function 

  Miranda, Giuseppe G.; Rodrigue, Karen M.; Kennedy, Kristen M. (Elsevier Science Inc, 2018-09-21)

  Proper dopamine (DA) signaling is likely necessary for maintaining optimal cognitive performance as we age, particularly in prefrontal-parietal networks and in fronto-striatal networks. Thus, reduced DA availability is a ...

• Speech and Language Processing for Assessing Child–Adult Interaction Based on Diarization and Location 

  Hansen, John H. L.; Najafian, Maryam; Lileikyte, Rasa; Irvin, D.; Rous, B. (Springer New York LLC, 2019-06-05)

  Understanding and assessing child verbal communication patterns is critical in facilitating effective language development. Typically speaker diarization is performed to explore children’s verbal engagement. Understanding ...

• Hybrid Mist-Cloud Systems for Large Scale Geospatial Big Data Analytics and Processing: Opportunities and Challenges 

  Barik, Rabindra Kumar; Misra, Chinmaya; Lenka, Rakesh K.; Dubey, Harishchandra; Mankodiya, Kunal (Springer Heidelberg, 2019-01-08)

  The cloud and fog computing paradigms are developing area for storing, processing, and analysis of geospatial big data. Latest trend is mist computing which boost fog and cloud concepts for computing process where edge ...

• Modeling Energetic Electron Nonlinear Wave-Particle Interactions with Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves 

  Zheng, Liheng; Chen, Lunjin; Zhu, Hui (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019-04-15)

  Electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves in duskside plasmasphere and plasmaspheric plume scatter megaelectron volt electrons into the loss cone and are considered a major loss mechanism for the outer radiation belt. ...

• Estimating the Daily Pollen Concentration in the Atmosphere Using Machine Learning and NEXRAD Weather Radar Data 

  Zewdie, Gebreab K.; Lary, David J.; Liu, Xun; Wu, Daji; Levetin, E. (Springer International Publishing, 2019-06-07)

  Millions of people have an allergic reaction to pollen. The impact of pollen allergies is on the rise due to increased pollen levels caused by global warming and the spread of highly invasive weeds. The production, release, ...

• Applying Deep Neural Networks and Ensemble Machine Learning Methods To Forecast Airborne Ambrosia Pollen 

  Zewdie, Gebreab K.; Lary, David J.; Levetin, E.; Garuma, G. F. (MDPI AG, 2019-06-04)

  Allergies to airborne pollen are a significant issue affecting millions of Americans. Consequently, accurately predicting the daily concentration of airborne pollen is of significant public benefit in providing timely ...

• Enhancement of Consonant Recognition in Bimodal and Normal Hearing Listeners 

  Yoon, Y. -S; Riley, B.; Patel, H.; Frost, Amanda; Fillmore, P.; Gifford, R.; Hansen, John H. L. (Sage Publications Inc., 2019-05-15)

  Objectives: The present study investigated the effects of 3-dimensional deep search (3DDS) signal processing on the enhancement of consonant perception in bimodal and normal hearing listeners. Methods: Using an articulation-index ...

• DeepReco: Deep Learning Based Health Recommender System Using Collaborative Filtering 

  Sahoo, A. K.; Pradhan, C.; Barik, R. K.; Dubey, Harishchandra (MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-05-22)

  In today's digital world healthcare is one core area of the medical domain. A healthcare system is required to analyze a large amount of patient data which helps to derive insights and assist the prediction of diseases. ...

• Progress Update from the Hippocampal Subfields Group 

  Olsen, R. K.; Carr, V. A.; Daugherty, A. M.; La Joie, R.; Amaral, R. S. C.; Amunts, K.; Augustinack, J. C.; Kennedy, Kristen M.; Rodrigue, Karen M.; Hippocampal Subfields Group (Elsevier Inc., 2019-06-13)

  Introduction: Heterogeneity of segmentation protocols for medial temporal lobe regions and hippocampal subfields on in vivo magnetic resonance imaging hinders the ability to integrate findings across studies. We aim to ...

• Orthogonal Pattern of Spinnable Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Effectiveness 

  Lee, D. W.; Kim, H.; Moon, J. H.; Jeong, J. -H; Sim, H. J.; Kim, B. J.; Hyeon, J. S.; Baughman, Ray H.; Kim, S. J. (Elsevier Ltd, 2019-05-02)

  The need for thin and lightweight electromagnetic interference shielding materials is rapidly increasing in several industries, such as aerospace and telecommunication. This research finds that a shielding material, which ...

• Implementation and Analysis of a Free Water Protocol in Acute Trauma and Stroke Patients 

  Kenedi, Helen; Campbell-Vance, J.; Reynolds, J.; Foreman, M.; Dollaghan, Cristine A.; Graybeal, D.; Warren, A. M.; Bennett, M. (American Association of Critical Care Nurses, 2019-06-01)

  Background Free water protocols allow patients who aspirate thin liquids and meet eligibility criteria to have access to water or ice according to specific guidelines. Limited research is available concerning free water ...

• High-Fidelity Mapping of Repetition-Related Changes in the Parietal Memory Network 

  Gilmore, A. W.; Nelson, Steven M.; Laumann, T. O.; Gordon, Evan M.; Berg, J. J.; Greene, D. J.; Gratton, C.; Nguyen, A. L.; Ortega, M.; Hoyt, C. R.; Coalson, R. S.; Schlaggar, B. L.; Petersen, S. E.; Dosenbach, N. U. F.; McDermott, K. B. (Academic Press Inc., 2019-06-05)

  fMRI studies of human memory have identified a “parietal memory network” (PMN) that displays distinct responses to novel and familiar stimuli, typically deactivating during initial encoding but robustly activating during ...

• Engineering Repressors with Coevolutionary Cues Facilitates Toggle Switches with a Master Reset 

  Dimas, R. P.; Jiang, Xian-Li; Alberto de la Paz, Jose; Morcos, Faruck; Chan, C. T. Y. (Oxford University Press, 2019-04-24)

  Engineering allosteric transcriptional repressors containing an environmental sensing module (ESM) and a DNA recognition module (DRM) has the potential to unlock a combinatorial set of rationally designed biological ...

• RNA Control in Pain: Blame it on the Messenger 

  de la Peña, June Bryan I.; Song, Jane J.; Campbell, Zachary T. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019-05-14)

  mRNA function is meticulously controlled. We provide an overview of the integral role that posttranscriptional controls play in the perception of painful stimuli by sensory neurons. These specialized cells, termed nociceptors, ...

• Automatic Speech Activity Recognition from MEG Signals Using Seq2Seq Learning 

  Dash, Debadatta; Ferrari, P.; Malik, S.; Wang, Jun (IEEE Computer Society, 2019-03)

  Accurate interpretation of speech activity from brain signals is critical for understanding the relationship between neural patterns and speech production. Current research on speech activity recognition from the brain ...

• Relative Activation Patterns Associated with Self-Transcendent and Self-Enhancement Core Values: An fMRI Study of Basic Human Values Theory Concepts in Males 

  Teed, Adam R.; Rakic, Jelena; Mark, D. B.; Krawcyzk, Daniel C. (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2019-04-13)

  Core values have been shown to influence a variety of social behaviors, but research on the brain networks supporting their effects is sparse. While undergoing fMRI scanning, twenty male participants evaluated descriptions ...

• Vagus Nerve Stimulation Reverses the Extinction Impairments in a Model of PTSD with Prolonged and Repeated Trauma 

  Souza, Rimenez R.; Robertson, Nicole M.; Pruitt, David T.; Gonzales, Phillip A.; Hays, Seth A.; Rennaker, Robert L.; Kilgard, Michael P.; McIntyre, Crista K. (Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2019-04-23)

  We have shown that vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) enhances extinction of conditioned fear and reduces anxiety in rat models of PTSD using moderate stress. However, it is still unclear if VNS can be effective in enhancing ...

• Ethics as a Rare Bird: A Challenge for Situated Studies of Ethics in the Engineering Lab 

  Lee, Eun Ah; Gans, N. R.; Grohman, Magdalena G.; Brown, Matthew J. (Routledge, 2019-04-25)

  Engineering ethics cannot be reduced to the ethics of individual engineers but must be considered in situ, within the sociocultural and environmental contexts of a research or design project. We studied teams in academic ...

• Gene Correction for SCID-X1 In Long-Term Hematopoietic Stem Cells 

  Pavel-Dinu, M.; Wiebking, V.; Dejene, B. T.; Srifa, W.; Mantri, S.; Nicolas, C. E.; Lee, C.; Bao, G.; Kildebeck, Eric J.; Punjya, N.; Sindhu, C.; Inlay, M. A.; Saxena, N.; DeRavin, S. S.; Malech, H.; Roncarolo, M. G.; Weinberg, K. I.; Porteus, M. H.

  Gene correction in human long-term hematopoietic stem cells (LT-HSCs) could be an effective therapy for monogenic diseases of the blood and immune system. Here we describe an approach for X-linked sSevere cCombined ...

• Transcriptome Analysis of the Human Tibial Nerve Identifies Sexually Dimorphic Expression of Genes Involved in Pain, Inflammation, and Neuro-Immunity 

  Ray, Pradipta R.; Khan, Jawad; Wangzhou, Andi; Tavares-Ferreira, Diana; Akopian, A. N.; Dussor, Gregory; Price, Theodore J.

  Sex differences in gene expression are important contributors to normal physiology and mechanisms of disease. This is increasingly apparent in understanding and potentially treating chronic pain where molecular mechanisms ...

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