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Lin Guo, Anand Balu Nellippallil, Warren F. Smith, Janet K. Allen and Farrokh Mistree
When dealing with engineering design problems, designers often encounter nonlinear and nonconvex features, multiple objectives, coupled decision making, and various levels of fidelity of sub-systems. To realize the design with limited computational resou...
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Zhongda Huang, Andy Ogilvy, Steve Collins, Warren Hare, Michelle Hilts and Andrew Jirasek
A derivative-free optimization (DFO) method is an optimization method that does not make use of derivative information in order to find the optimal solution. It is advantageous for solving real-world problems in which the only information available about...
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Warren Hare and Gabriel Jarry-Bolduc
This paper examines a calculus-based approach to building model functions in a derivative-free algorithm. This calculus-based approach can be used when the objective function considered is defined via more than one blackbox. Two versions of a derivative-...
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Lauren Giurini, Loren Lipworth, Harvey J. Murff, Wei Zheng and Shaneda Warren Andersen
Obesity and a low socioeconomic status (SES), measured at the neighborhood level, are more common among Americans of Black race and with a low individual-level SES. We examined the association between the neighborhood SES and body mass index (BMI) using ...
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Amrita Dutta, Scott P. Breloff, Dilruba Mahmud, Fei Dai, Erik W. Sinsel, Christopher M. Warren and John Z. Wu
Awkward kneeling in sloped shingle installation operations exposes roofers to knee musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risks. To address the varying levels of risk associated with different phases of shingle installation, this research investigated utilizing ...
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Tyler Donahue, Peter Krekorian, Luke Swift, Malcolm L. Spaulding, Chris Baxter and Craig Swanson
The STORMTOOLS Coastal Environmental Risk Index (CERI) has historically been used to assess the damage to residential and commercial structures from coastal flooding, including the effects of sea level rise (SLR) in RI. In the present study, CERI was ext...
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Bowen Liu, Yuhua Yang, Jie Geng, Tingting Cai, Mengjuan Zhu, Tao Chen and Jinjing Xiang
Harsh parenting and its effect on children?s aggressive behavior has received attention from researchers, however few studies have considered the role of the emotional process. This study aims to examine the relationship between harsh parenting, children...
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Damien Warren Fernando, Nikos Komninos and Thomas Chen
This survey investigates the contributions of research into the detection of ransomware malware using machine learning and deep learning algorithms. The main motivations for this study are the destructive nature of ransomware, the difficulty of reversing...
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Waleed Saeed, Orfan Shouakar-Stash, Warren Wood, Beth Parker and André Unger
Sabkha Matti is the largest inland sabkha (2950 km2) in the Arabian Peninsula. The drainage area supporting this sabkha is >250,000 km2 and is the discharge point for part of the ten thousand meter thick regional groundwater systems ranging in age from P...
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Ju Xue, Ashley Farris, Yunfei Wang, Weiyan Yeh, Cristina Romany, James K. Guest, Warren L. Grayson, Anthony S. Hall and Timothy P. Weihs
In this study, we demonstrate that a uniform coating of hydroxyapatite (HAp, Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2) can be electrochemically deposited onto metallic 3D-woven bone scaffolds to enhance their bioactivity. The HAp coatings were deposited onto metallic scaffolds u...
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