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Oscillation And Nonoscillation Criteria For Four-Dimensional Advanced And Delay Time-Scale Systems, Elvan Akin, Gülşah Yenpi Dec 2021

Oscillation And Nonoscillation Criteria For Four-Dimensional Advanced And Delay Time-Scale Systems, Elvan Akin, Gülşah Yenpi

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We obtain oscillation and Non oscillation criteria for solutions to four-dimensional advanced and delay systems of first-order dynamic equations on time scales. To establish oscillation criteria, we eliminate Non oscillatory solutions of the systems based on the sign of components of the solutions. Furthermore, some of our results are new in the discrete case.


Software Training In Hep, Sudhir Malik, Samuel Meehan, Kilian Lieret, Meirin Oan Evans, Michel H. Villanueva, Daniel S. Katz, Graeme A. Stewart, Peter Elmer, Sizar Aziz, Matthew Bellis, Riccardo Maria Bianchi, Gianluca Bianco, Johan Sebastian Bonilla, Angela Burger, Jackson Burzynski, David Chamont, Matthew Feickert, Philipp Gadow, Bernhard Manfred Gruber Dec 2021

Software Training In Hep, Sudhir Malik, Samuel Meehan, Kilian Lieret, Meirin Oan Evans, Michel H. Villanueva, Daniel S. Katz, Graeme A. Stewart, Peter Elmer, Sizar Aziz, Matthew Bellis, Riccardo Maria Bianchi, Gianluca Bianco, Johan Sebastian Bonilla, Angela Burger, Jackson Burzynski, David Chamont, Matthew Feickert, Philipp Gadow, Bernhard Manfred Gruber

Faculty and Student Publications

The long-term sustainability of the high-energy physics (HEP) research software ecosystem is essential to the field. With new facilities and upgrades coming online throughout the 2020s, this will only become increasingly important. Meeting the sustainability challenge requires a workforce with a combination of HEP domain knowledge and advanced software skills. The required software skills fall into three broad groups. The first is fundamental and generic software engineering (e.g., Unix, version control, C++, and continuous integration). The second is knowledge of domain-specific HEP packages and practices (e.g., the ROOT data format and analysis framework). The third is more advanced knowledge involving …


Toi-2109: An Ultrahot Gas Giant On A 16 Hr Orbit, I. Wong, A. Shporer, G. Zhou, D. Kitzmann, T. D. Komacek, X. Tan, R. Tronsgaard, L. A. Buchhave, S. Vissapragada, M. Greklek-Mckeon, J. E. Rodriguez, J. P. Ahlers, S. N. Quinn, E. Furlan, S. B. Howell, A. Bieryla, K. Heng, H. A. Knutson, K. A. Collins, K. K. Mcleod, P. Berlind, P. Brown, M. L. Calkins, J. P. De Leon, E. Esparza-Borges, G. A. Esquerdo, A. Fukui, T. Gan, E. Girardin, C. L. Gnilka, M. Ikoma, Eric L.N. Jensen, J. Kielkopf, T. Kodama, S. Kurita, K. V. Lester, P. Lewin, G. Marino, F. Murgas, N. Narita, E. Pallé, R. P. Schwarz, K. G. Stassun, M. Tamura, N. Watanabe, B. Benneke, G. R. Ricker, D. W. Latham, R. Vanderspek, S. Seager, J. N. Winn, J. M. Jenkins, D. A. Caldwell, W. Fong, C. X. Huang, I. Mireles, J. E. Schlieder, B. Shiao, J. N. Villaseñor Dec 2021

Toi-2109: An Ultrahot Gas Giant On A 16 Hr Orbit, I. Wong, A. Shporer, G. Zhou, D. Kitzmann, T. D. Komacek, X. Tan, R. Tronsgaard, L. A. Buchhave, S. Vissapragada, M. Greklek-Mckeon, J. E. Rodriguez, J. P. Ahlers, S. N. Quinn, E. Furlan, S. B. Howell, A. Bieryla, K. Heng, H. A. Knutson, K. A. Collins, K. K. Mcleod, P. Berlind, P. Brown, M. L. Calkins, J. P. De Leon, E. Esparza-Borges, G. A. Esquerdo, A. Fukui, T. Gan, E. Girardin, C. L. Gnilka, M. Ikoma, Eric L.N. Jensen, J. Kielkopf, T. Kodama, S. Kurita, K. V. Lester, P. Lewin, G. Marino, F. Murgas, N. Narita, E. Pallé, R. P. Schwarz, K. G. Stassun, M. Tamura, N. Watanabe, B. Benneke, G. R. Ricker, D. W. Latham, R. Vanderspek, S. Seager, J. N. Winn, J. M. Jenkins, D. A. Caldwell, W. Fong, C. X. Huang, I. Mireles, J. E. Schlieder, B. Shiao, J. N. Villaseñor

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

We report the discovery of an ultrahot Jupiter with an extremely short orbital period of 0.67247414 ± 0.00000028 days (∼16 hr). The 1.347 ± 0.047 RJup planet, initially identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, orbits TOI-2109 (TIC 392476080)—a Teff ∼ 6500 K F-type star with a mass of 1.447 ± 0.077 M☉, a radius of 1.698 ± 0.060 R☉, and a rotational velocity of v sin i* = 81.9 ± 1.7 km s⁻¹. The planetary nature of TOI-2109b was confirmed through radial-velocity measurements, which yielded a planet mass of 5.02 …


Tic 172900988: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet Detected In One Sector Of Tess Data, V. B. Kostov, B. P. Powell, J. A. Orosz, W. F. Welsh, W. Cochran, K. A. Collins, M. Endl, C. Hellier, D. W. Latham, P. Macqueen, J. Pepper, B. Quarles, L. Sairam, G. Torres, R. F. Wilson, S. Bergeron, P. Boyce, A. Bieryla, R. Buchheim, C. B. Christiansen, D. R. Ciardi, K. I. Collins, D. M. Conti, S. Dixon, P. Guerra, N. Haghighipour, J. Herman, E. G. Hintz, W. S. Howard, Eric L.N. Jensen, J. F. Kielkopf, E. Kruse, N. M. Law, D. Martin, P. F. L. Maxted, B. T. Montet, F. Murgas, M. Nelson, G. Olmschenk, S. Otero, R. Quimby, M. Richmond, R. P. Schwarz, A. Shporer, K. G. Stassun, D. C. Stephens, A. H. M. J. Triaud, J. Ulowetz, B. S. Walter, E. Wiley, D. Wood, M. Yenawine, E. Agol, T. Barclay, T. G. Beatty, I. Boisse, D. A. Caldwell, J. Christiansen, K. D. Colón, M. Deleuil, L. Doyle, M. Fausnaugh, G. Fűrész, E. A. Gilbert, G. Hébrard, D. J. James, J. Jenkins, S. R. Kane, R. C. Kidwell Jr., R. Kopparapu, G. Li, J. J. Lissauer, M. B. Lund, S. R. Majewski, T. Mazeh, S. N. Quinn, E. Quintana, G. Ricker, J. E. Rodriguez, J. Rowe, A. Santerne, J. Schlieder, S. Seager, M. R. Standing, D. J. Stevens, E. B. Ting, R. Vanderspek, J. N. Winn Dec 2021

Tic 172900988: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet Detected In One Sector Of Tess Data, V. B. Kostov, B. P. Powell, J. A. Orosz, W. F. Welsh, W. Cochran, K. A. Collins, M. Endl, C. Hellier, D. W. Latham, P. Macqueen, J. Pepper, B. Quarles, L. Sairam, G. Torres, R. F. Wilson, S. Bergeron, P. Boyce, A. Bieryla, R. Buchheim, C. B. Christiansen, D. R. Ciardi, K. I. Collins, D. M. Conti, S. Dixon, P. Guerra, N. Haghighipour, J. Herman, E. G. Hintz, W. S. Howard, Eric L.N. Jensen, J. F. Kielkopf, E. Kruse, N. M. Law, D. Martin, P. F. L. Maxted, B. T. Montet, F. Murgas, M. Nelson, G. Olmschenk, S. Otero, R. Quimby, M. Richmond, R. P. Schwarz, A. Shporer, K. G. Stassun, D. C. Stephens, A. H. M. J. Triaud, J. Ulowetz, B. S. Walter, E. Wiley, D. Wood, M. Yenawine, E. Agol, T. Barclay, T. G. Beatty, I. Boisse, D. A. Caldwell, J. Christiansen, K. D. Colón, M. Deleuil, L. Doyle, M. Fausnaugh, G. Fűrész, E. A. Gilbert, G. Hébrard, D. J. James, J. Jenkins, S. R. Kane, R. C. Kidwell Jr., R. Kopparapu, G. Li, J. J. Lissauer, M. B. Lund, S. R. Majewski, T. Mazeh, S. N. Quinn, E. Quintana, G. Ricker, J. E. Rodriguez, J. Rowe, A. Santerne, J. Schlieder, S. Seager, M. R. Standing, D. J. Stevens, E. B. Ting, R. Vanderspek, J. N. Winn

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

We report the first discovery of a transiting circumbinary planet detected from a single sector of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) data. During Sector 21, the planet TIC 172900988b transited the primary star and then five days later it transited the secondary star. The binary is itself eclipsing, with a period P ≈ 19.7 days and an eccentricity e ≈ 0.45. Archival data from ASAS-SN, Evryscope, KELT, and SuperWASP reveal a prominent apsidal motion of the binary orbit, caused by the dynamical interactions between the binary and the planet. A comprehensive photodynamical analysis of the TESS, archival and follow-up data …


The Hashtag Project: The First Submillimeter Images Of The Andromeda Galaxy From The Ground, Matthew W.L. Smith, Stephen A. Eales, Thomas G. Williams, Bumhyun Lee, Zongnan Li, Pauline Barmby, Martin Bureau, Scott Chapman, Brian S. Cho, Aeree Chung, Eun Jung Chung, Hui Hsuan Chung, Christopher J.R. Clark, David L. Clements, Timothy A. Davis, Ilse De Looze, David J. Eden, Gayathri Athikkat-Eknath, George P. Ford, Yu Gao, Walter Gear, Haley L. Gomez, Richard De Grijs, Jinhua He, Luis C. Ho, Thomas M. Hughes, Sihan Jiao, Zhiyuan Li, Francisca Kemper Dec 2021

The Hashtag Project: The First Submillimeter Images Of The Andromeda Galaxy From The Ground, Matthew W.L. Smith, Stephen A. Eales, Thomas G. Williams, Bumhyun Lee, Zongnan Li, Pauline Barmby, Martin Bureau, Scott Chapman, Brian S. Cho, Aeree Chung, Eun Jung Chung, Hui Hsuan Chung, Christopher J.R. Clark, David L. Clements, Timothy A. Davis, Ilse De Looze, David J. Eden, Gayathri Athikkat-Eknath, George P. Ford, Yu Gao, Walter Gear, Haley L. Gomez, Richard De Grijs, Jinhua He, Luis C. Ho, Thomas M. Hughes, Sihan Jiao, Zhiyuan Li, Francisca Kemper

Physics and Astronomy Publications

Observing nearby galaxies with submillimeter telescopes on the ground has two major challenges. First, the brightness is significantly reduced at long submillimeter wavelengths compared to the brightness at the peak of the dust emission. Second, it is necessary to use a high-pass spatial filter to remove atmospheric noise on large angular scales, which has the unwelcome side effect of also removing the galaxy's large-scale structure. We have developed a technique for producing high-resolution submillimeter images of galaxies of large angular size by using the telescope on the ground to determine the small-scale structure (the large Fourier components) and a space …


Psl-An Expert System To Evaluate Degree Plans, Robert Swanson Dec 2021

Psl-An Expert System To Evaluate Degree Plans, Robert Swanson

Computer Science & Engineering Student Projects

This paper describes a general-purpose expert system to evaluate degree plans according to the individual preferences of a college student. This system implements a preference specification language (PSL) on top of this expert system to allow for the textual expression of certain requirements and preferences that the system uses for evaluation. The PSL evaluator produces a single value to describe how well it meets the student’s preferences, which a plan generation system could use to create a degree plan optimized according to the specification.


Deep Learning Strategies For Pool Boiling Heat Flux Prediction Using Image Sequences, Connor Heo Dec 2021

Deep Learning Strategies For Pool Boiling Heat Flux Prediction Using Image Sequences, Connor Heo

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The understanding of bubble dynamics during boiling is critical to the design of advanced heater surfaces to improve the boiling heat transfer. The stochastic bubble nucleation, growth, and coalescence processes have made it challenging to obtain mechanistic models that can predict boiling heat flux based on the bubble dynamics. Traditional boiling image analysis relies on the extraction of the dominant physical quantities from the images and is thus limited to the existing knowledge of these quantities. Recently, machine-learning-aided analysis has shown success in boiling crisis detection, heat flux prediction, real-time image analysis, etc., whereas most of the existing studies are …


Investigating Depth Estimation To Archaeological Magnetic Source Bodies, Jeremy G. Menzer Dec 2021

Investigating Depth Estimation To Archaeological Magnetic Source Bodies, Jeremy G. Menzer

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Magnetometry is the most widely applied archaeo-geophysical technique. Current practice standards employ the technique to map only in a two-dimensional plan view fashion, but in deep geologic studies depth estimators are routinely applied to magnetic datasets. These estimators provide three-dimensional information to magnetic source-bodies. There are many different depth estimators employed in geologic study that all require various degrees of processing complexity. This study investigates two mathematically simple techniques, half-width rules and multi-height methods. Half-width rules are likely the oldest depth estimators within the field while multi-height techniques are but a minor footnote in the literature. The applicability of these …


Community Perceptions And Aesthetic Valuation Of Remediation Gardens, Rachel Bechtold Dec 2021

Community Perceptions And Aesthetic Valuation Of Remediation Gardens, Rachel Bechtold

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Creating successfully remediated landscapes may rely on both natural resources and human perception in landscape design. Urban areas present a dynamic environment wherein communities and nature compete for resources and space. This dissertation study was designed to better understand aesthetic perceptions of native plants capable of land remediation in midwestern communities. Findings from this study show the importance of aesthetic perceptions of stakeholders towards rehabilitated landscapes and the importance of organizing indicators for future design decisions in an interdisciplinary fashion. Recommendations include continued evaluation of aesthetic perceptions for plant species in urban landscapes and modeling a more consistent framework for …


Respiratory Compensated Robot For Liver Cancer Treatment: Design, Fabrication, And Benchtop Characterization, Mishek Jair Musa Dec 2021

Respiratory Compensated Robot For Liver Cancer Treatment: Design, Fabrication, And Benchtop Characterization, Mishek Jair Musa

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in the world. Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is an effective method for treating tumors less than 5 cm. However, manually placing the RFA needle at the site of the tumor is challenging due to the complicated respiratory induced motion of the liver. This paper presents the design, fabrication, and benchtop characterization of a patient mounted, respiratory compensated robotic needle insertion platform to perform percutaneous needle interventions. The robotic platform consists of a 4-DoF dual-stage cartesian platform used to control the pose of a 1-DoF needle insertion module. The active …


Formation Of Reactive Nitrogen Species During Dichloramine Decay And Their Impact On N Nitrosodimethylamine Formation Under Drinking Water Conditions, Huong Thu Pham Dec 2021

Formation Of Reactive Nitrogen Species During Dichloramine Decay And Their Impact On N Nitrosodimethylamine Formation Under Drinking Water Conditions, Huong Thu Pham

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

NDMA occurrence and formation pathways in drinking water systems are reviewed and NDMA yields are compared on the basis of disinfectant type, water chemistry, and precursor category. In chloramination, despite monochloramine being the predominant species between pH 7-9, evidence suggests that dichloramine is the primary species involved in NDMA formation. This is somewhat confounding as NDMA yields are maximal at pH 9, yet at pH 9 dichloramine decays faster than it forms and hence is present at trace levels; additionally, the proposed mechanism involves a spin-forbidden incorporation of dissolved oxygen as a triplet, which is presumably kinetically slow. This review …


Field Evaluation Of Struvite As A Phosphorus Source, Niyi Sunday Omidire Dec 2021

Field Evaluation Of Struvite As A Phosphorus Source, Niyi Sunday Omidire

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Phosphorus (P) is an element that is crucial in many biological processes in all forms of life and is not substitutable. Excess P in wastewaters leading to the degradation of receiving waters or eutrophication once released is a major environmental concern. Removal of excess P from wastewater as the mineral struvite (MgNH4PO4·6H2O) could be a promising solution to reduce P discharge into receiving waters and can potentially provide a valuable fertilizer-P source for agricultural production. The objectives of this project were to evaluate the effects of: 1) chemically precipitated struvite (CPST), compared to triple superphosphate (TSP) and an unamended control …


2021 Fall Engr333 Seminar Presentation, Anika Huizinga, John Stehouwer, William Terpstra, Duncan Waanders Dec 2021

2021 Fall Engr333 Seminar Presentation, Anika Huizinga, John Stehouwer, William Terpstra, Duncan Waanders

ENGR 333

File for student presentation, given by students in the Fall 2021 class of ENGR333.


How To Select Typical Objects, Mariana Benitez, Jeffrey Weidner, Vladik Kreinovich Dec 2021

How To Select Typical Objects, Mariana Benitez, Jeffrey Weidner, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In many practical situations, we have a large number of objects, too many to be able to thoroughly analyze each of them. To get a general understanding, we need to select a representative sample. For us, this problem was motivated to analyze the possible effect of an earthquake on buildings in El Paso, Texas. In this paper, we provide a reasonable formalization of this problem, and provide a feasible algorithm for solving thus formalized problem.


How To Simulate If We Only Have Partial Information But We Want Reliable Results?, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva Dec 2021

How To Simulate If We Only Have Partial Information But We Want Reliable Results?, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

The main objective of a smart energy system is to make control decisions that would make energy systems more efficient and more reliable. To select such decisions, the system must know the consequences of different possible decisions. Energy systems are very complex, they cannot be described by a simple formula, the only way to reasonably accurately find such consequences is to test each decision on a simulated system. The problem is that the parameters describing the system and its environment are usually known with uncertainty, and we need to produce reliable results -- i.e., results that will be true for …


(R1471) Mhd Reiner-Rivlin Liquid Flow Through A Porous Cylindrical Annulus, Satya Deo, Satish Kumar Dec 2021

(R1471) Mhd Reiner-Rivlin Liquid Flow Through A Porous Cylindrical Annulus, Satya Deo, Satish Kumar

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

The present work concerns the steady and unsteady flow of an incompressible Reiner- Rivlin liquid in the porous annular region of two concentric rotating cylinders, which is moving parallel to their axis, about the common axis of these cylinders under uniform magnetic field acted in perpendicular direction of the axis. The electrically conducting flow of Reiner-Rivlin liquid in the annular porous region is governed by the Brinkman equation with the consideration that the effective viscosity of liquid is same as viscosity of the liquid. Analytical expressions for velocity components, pressure gradient and volumetric flow rate are established. Effects of the …


(R1523) Abundant Natural Resources, Ethnic Diversity And Inclusive Growth In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Mathematical Approach, Juliet I. Adenuga, Kazeem B. Ajide, Anthonia T. Odeleye, Abayomi A. Ayoade Dec 2021

(R1523) Abundant Natural Resources, Ethnic Diversity And Inclusive Growth In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Mathematical Approach, Juliet I. Adenuga, Kazeem B. Ajide, Anthonia T. Odeleye, Abayomi A. Ayoade

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

The sub-Saharan African region is blessed with abundant natural resources and diverse ethnic groups, yet the region is dominated by the largest number of poor people worldwide due to inequitable distribution of national income. Existing statistics forecast decay in the quality of lives over the years compared to the continent of Asia that shares similar history with the region. In this paper, a-five dimensional first-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations was formulated to give insight into various factors that shaped dynamics of inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa. The validity test was performed based on ample mathematical theorems and the model was …


Clmm: A Lsst-Desc Cluster Weak Lensing Mass Modeling Library For Cosmology, H. Wu Dec 2021

Clmm: A Lsst-Desc Cluster Weak Lensing Mass Modeling Library For Cosmology, H. Wu

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

We present the v1.0 release of CLMM, an open source PYTHON library for the estimation of the weak lensing masses of clusters of galaxies. CLMM is designed as a stand-alone toolkit of building blocks to enable end-to-end analysis pipeline validation for upcoming cluster cosmology analyses such as the ones that will be performed by the Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time-Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST-DESC). Its purpose is to serve as a flexible, easy-to-install, and easy-to-use interface for both weak lensing simulators and observers and can be applied to real and mock data to study the systematics …


Apache Science Team, Denise L. Jameson Dec 2021

Apache Science Team, Denise L. Jameson

Agricultural Education: Graduate Internship Reports

Sanger High school has the unique opportunity to offer a wide array of classes and pathways for students to take so that they can meet their educational goals of graduation the move on to higher education or starting a career right out of high school. Students have all these opportunities and benefits to have a strong start out of high school, but ultimately students are unaware of what jobs are related to those choices or pathways that they have decided to take part in. Apache Science Team allows for students to experience and learn about many different careers and opportunities …


Book Review: Is Law Computable?: Critical Perspectives On Law And Artificial Intelligence, F. Tim Knight Dec 2021

Book Review: Is Law Computable?: Critical Perspectives On Law And Artificial Intelligence, F. Tim Knight

Librarian Publications & Presentations

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Validation Of Landsat 8 High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Using Surfers, Quinton Vanhellemont, Robert J. W. Brewin, Philip J. Bresnahan, Tyler Cyronak Dec 2021

Validation Of Landsat 8 High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Using Surfers, Quinton Vanhellemont, Robert J. W. Brewin, Philip J. Bresnahan, Tyler Cyronak

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Nearshore coastal waters are highly dynamic in both space and time. They can be difficult to sample using conventional methods due to their shallow depth, tidal variability, and the presence of breaking waves. High resolution satellite sensors can be used to provide synoptic views of Surface Temperature (ST), but the performance of such ST products in the nearshore zone is poorly understood. Close to the shoreline, the ST pixels can be influenced by mixed composition of water and land, as a result of the sensor’s spatial resolution. This can cause thermal adjacency effects due to the highly different diurnal temperature …


Toi-1201 B: A Mini-Neptune Transiting A Bright And Moderately Young M Dwarf, D. Kossakowski, J. Kemmer, P. Bluhm, S. Stock, J. A. Caballero, V. J. S. Béjar, C. Cardona Guillén, N. Lodieu, K. A. Collins, M. Oshagh, M. Schlecker, N. Espinoza, E. Pallé, T. Henning, L. Kreidberg, M. Kürster, P. J. Amado, D. R. Anderson, J. C. Morales, S. Cartwright, D. Charbonneau, P. Chaturvedi, C. Cifuentes, D. M. Conti, M. Cortés-Contreras, S. Dreizler, D. Galadí-Enríquez, P. Guerra, R. Hart, C. Hellier, C. Henze, E. Herrero, S. V. Jeffers, J. M. Jenkins, Eric L.N. Jensen, A. Kaminski, J. F. Kielkopf, M. Kunimoto, M. Lafarga, D. W. Latham, J. Lillo-Box, R. Luque, K. Molaverdikhani, D. Montes, G. Morello, E. H. Morgan, G. Nowak, A. Pavlov, M. Perger, E. V. Quintana, A. Quirrenbach, S. Reffert, A. Reiners, G. Ricker, I. Ribas, C. Rodríguez López, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, S. Seager, P. Schöfer, A. Schweitzer, T. Trifonov, S. Vanaverbeke, R. Vanderspek, R. West, J. Winn, M. Zechmeister Dec 2021

Toi-1201 B: A Mini-Neptune Transiting A Bright And Moderately Young M Dwarf, D. Kossakowski, J. Kemmer, P. Bluhm, S. Stock, J. A. Caballero, V. J. S. Béjar, C. Cardona Guillén, N. Lodieu, K. A. Collins, M. Oshagh, M. Schlecker, N. Espinoza, E. Pallé, T. Henning, L. Kreidberg, M. Kürster, P. J. Amado, D. R. Anderson, J. C. Morales, S. Cartwright, D. Charbonneau, P. Chaturvedi, C. Cifuentes, D. M. Conti, M. Cortés-Contreras, S. Dreizler, D. Galadí-Enríquez, P. Guerra, R. Hart, C. Hellier, C. Henze, E. Herrero, S. V. Jeffers, J. M. Jenkins, Eric L.N. Jensen, A. Kaminski, J. F. Kielkopf, M. Kunimoto, M. Lafarga, D. W. Latham, J. Lillo-Box, R. Luque, K. Molaverdikhani, D. Montes, G. Morello, E. H. Morgan, G. Nowak, A. Pavlov, M. Perger, E. V. Quintana, A. Quirrenbach, S. Reffert, A. Reiners, G. Ricker, I. Ribas, C. Rodríguez López, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, S. Seager, P. Schöfer, A. Schweitzer, T. Trifonov, S. Vanaverbeke, R. Vanderspek, R. West, J. Winn, M. Zechmeister

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Works

We present the discovery of a transiting mini-Neptune around TOI-1201, a relatively bright and moderately young early M dwarf (J ≈ 9.5 mag, ~600–800 Myr) in an equal-mass ~8 arcsecond-wide binary system, using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, along with follow-up transit observations. With an orbital period of 2.49 d, TOI-1201 b is a warm mini-Neptune with a radius of Rb = 2.415 ± 0.090 R⊕. This signal is also present in the precise radial velocity measurements from CARMENES, confirming the existence of the planet and providing a planetary mass of Mb = …


Implications Of Condition Shifts On Shallow Lakes, Alicia Skolte Dec 2021

Implications Of Condition Shifts On Shallow Lakes, Alicia Skolte

Biology Graduate Theses

Shallow lakes have undergone condition shifts throughout time by natural causes, management actions, or a combination of the two. Because shallow lakes are especially vulnerable to shifts towards turbid conditions, management actions on shallow lakes have focused on water level/retainment, biomanipulations, the management/removal of non-native species, and land-use changes. This review compiles a summary on ecosystem shifts including a discussion on the frequency of shifts historically and the importance and causes of those shifts, trophic cascades, and the influence of introduced species in shallow lakes. This review will then examine case-studies of management-linked shifts and explain current shift theory. Next, …


Feeding Patterns And Diet Overlap Of Muskellunge And Co-Occurring Piscivores In Minnesota Lakes, Kamden Glade Dec 2021

Feeding Patterns And Diet Overlap Of Muskellunge And Co-Occurring Piscivores In Minnesota Lakes, Kamden Glade

Biology Graduate Theses

Muskellunge Esox masquinongy are the largest member of the family Esocidae found in Minnesota and are managed for trophy angling opportunities with large minimum size requirements, limited harvest, and stocking to support existing populations or expand angling opportunities. While Muskellunge impacts at the community level appear minimal based on available literature, relatively little is known about Muskellunge diets, eat the le particularly in Minnesota. In this study, we used gastric lavage to examine gut contents of Muskellunge, Northern Pike Esox lucius, Walleye Sander vitreus, and Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides. Diets were quantified using an index of relative importance (IRI) and …


Extracting Clinical Event Sequence By Using Association Rule Mining To Predict Clinical Events From Health Records, Aashara Shrestha Dec 2021

Extracting Clinical Event Sequence By Using Association Rule Mining To Predict Clinical Events From Health Records, Aashara Shrestha

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Data mining is the process of extracting useful information from large amounts of data. Data mining has been around for a long time, and there are many multiple methods of performing data mining. However, the abundance of data that has become available in the last decade has made it possible to mine through this data to uncover important patterns and sequences. The relationship between variables and the way in which they can lead to a specific outcome is an interesting area of research. Today's healthcare industry faces a number of challenges. Providers must reduce costs, improve transparency, and improve the …


Adaptive Human-Robot Motion Transfer For Complete Body Imitation, Francisco Villa Dec 2021

Adaptive Human-Robot Motion Transfer For Complete Body Imitation, Francisco Villa

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Programming robot systems to perform certain tasks is a big challenge especially if such programming is to be performed by persons who are not experts in robotics. For example, when programming a robot to serve as an exercise trainer, the person defining the motions might more naturally be a person in the exercise domain rather than a robotics expert. To address this, this thesis investigates programming by demonstration or teleoperation using full direct body motion. The goal is to reproduce gaits, gestures, and postures on a humanoid robot from observed human demonstrations. Fine motor movements such as movement of fingers …


Translation Of Array-Based Loop Programs To Optimized Sql-Based Distributed Programs, Md Hasanuzzaman Noor Dec 2021

Translation Of Array-Based Loop Programs To Optimized Sql-Based Distributed Programs, Md Hasanuzzaman Noor

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Most programs written to operate on data are usually expressed in terms of array operations in sequential loops. However, these programs do not scale to large amount of data generated by scientific experiments and industrial and commercial markets. Given the success of machine learning algorithms on large amount of data and the recent shift of industries to data-driven decision making, the data scientists who are not familiar with Big Data frameworks have to rewrite the sequential programs to distributed data-parallel programs by hand. We present a novel framework, called SQLgen, that automatically translates sequential loops to distributed data-parallel programs. SQLgen …


Language Pre-Training And Auxiliary Tasks For Vision And Language Navigation, Saumya Bhatt Dec 2021

Language Pre-Training And Auxiliary Tasks For Vision And Language Navigation, Saumya Bhatt

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

The Vision and Language Navigation task came to life from the idea that we can build a robot or an autonomous system that can be instructed in human language and that will navigate using the instructions given. For example, we tell the agent to “Go down past some room dividers toward a glass top desk and turn into the dining area. Wait next to the large glass dining table” and not only does it reach the goal state but it follows the instructions while navigating. With the current developments, this may not seem like a distant problem anymore and in …


Statistical Modeling, Learning And Computing For Stochastic Dynamics Of Complex Systems, Mohammadmahdi Hajiha Dec 2021

Statistical Modeling, Learning And Computing For Stochastic Dynamics Of Complex Systems, Mohammadmahdi Hajiha

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

With the recent advances in sensor technology, it is much easier to collect and store streams of system operational and environmental (SOE) data. These data can be used as input to model the underlying behavior of complex engineered systems and phenomenons if appropriate algorithms with well-defined assumptions are developed. This dissertation is comprised of the research work to show the applicability of SOE data when fed into proposed tailored algorithms. The first purposes of these algorithms are to estimate and analyze the reliability of a system as elaborated in Chapter 2. This chapter provides the derivation of closed-form expressions that …


Mechanisms And Applications Of Improved Protein Analysis By Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (Desi-Ms), Roshan Javanshad Dec 2021

Mechanisms And Applications Of Improved Protein Analysis By Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (Desi-Ms), Roshan Javanshad

Dissertations

Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) is a soft ionization technique that allows detection of macromolecules, such as intact proteins, by the formation of multiply charged ions from solutions. Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) is an ambient ionization technique that directly samples analyte from a surface during ESI-MS analysis. Although DESI-MS is highly accomplished at the analyses of metabolites, lipids, and other small molecules, it is far more limited when it comes to protein analysis. While most of the field in ambient ionization MS has moved towards primarily applications, our approach has been to explore the use of DESI-MS and …