Michigan Technological University

Feasibility of Water Distribution System Upgrades to Allow Functionality After an Earthquake Using the System Augmentation for Use After an Earthquake Method

Water systems can become nonfunctional after earthquakes due to pipe failure along fault lines or soil liquefaction. A new algorithm is introduced here that adds scientific originality and advances the current state-of-the-art in earthquake disaster management. Network modeling w...

Effect of Sun Glints from Ice Clouds on MODIS Data Products

This paper examines the way sun glints from horizontally oriented ice crystals that occur in clouds impact atmospheric data products provided by the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). For this, the paper presents a statistical analysis of two years of MODIS da...

3D-Printed Polycaprolactone/Alginate-Whitlockite Composite Scaffolds for Bioactive Bone Tissue Engineering

Abstract Despite advances in 3D printing, achieving simultaneous mechanical stability and biological functionality in polymer-based scaffolds remains challenging for bone tissue engineering applications. In this study, 3D-printed scaffolds fabricated from a polycaprolactone/algin...

ProMUSE: Progressive Multi-modal Uncertainty-guided Staged Evidential Alzheimer Disease Classification

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a fatal disorder that destroys memory and cognitive skills in the elderly population. Most treatments for AD are effective in the early stage, leading to an increasing demand for early AD diagnosis. AD diagnosis increasingly relies on multimodal data s...

Moving omics methods beyond the bench to tackle urgent challenges facing the water industry

Advances in multi-omic sequencing have revolutionized our understanding of the composition and potential function of genetic sequences across human, natural, and engineered systems. However, while advancements in omics methods have transformed the medical industry through patient...

Resistance of birch wood modified with sorbitol-citric acid to white-rot decay and weathering

Abstract The increasing interest in sustainable and bio-based wood modification strategies has led to growing attention toward improving the performance of low-durability wood species for exterior applications. Sorbitol-citric acid (SorCA) modification has previously been reporte...

Exploring the Mutual Effects of Excipients and Proteins in Complex Coacervation

Abstract Complex coacervation is a type of associative liquid−liquid phase separation driven by the electrostatic complexation of oppositely-charged macromolecules. Coacervate materials have shown significant potential for the formulation of proteins and viruses with improved the...

Stability and Error Estimates of Local Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Convection-Diffusion Equations in Polar Coordinates

In this paper, we develop a local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method for convection-diffusion equations in polar coordinates and derive the stability and error estimates. Since the PDEs in polar coordinates differ from those in Cartesian coordinates, the inner products and norms...

MergeRepair: An Exploratory Study on Merging Task-Specific Adapters in Code LLMs for Automated Program Repair

Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown high capabilities in several software development-related tasks such as program repair, documentation, code refactoring, debugging, and testing. However, training these models requires massive amount of data and significant computa...

Perceptions and priorities for residential heat pump adoption in the rural northern US

Heat pump (HP) technology has significant potential for decarbonization in the residential energy sector. However, in rural areas of the northern Great Lakes region in the United States, factors such as reduced HP efficiency during winter and financial and social structural barri...

Election delay: public support for postponing elections during public health crises

Is it democratic to postpone elections under an emergency situation? Considering the fact that 80 countries around the world postponed elections, this study takes a rare look at citizens’ attitudes toward election delay during a crisis time (the COVID-19 pandemic). Using national...

The plausible relationship between deep long-period earthquakes and volatiles: a case study of the Alaska-Aleutian arc

Abstract Deep long-period (DLP) earthquakes are observed beneath volcanoes in various tectonic settings during background activity, unrest, and eruption. The exact processes generating DLPs have been subject to ongoing debate, as they may provide insight into deep magmatic plumbi...

Operator Inference for Elliptic Eigenvalue Problems

Efficient computation of elliptic eigenvalue problems is critical in science and engineering. In this paper, we propose a novel operator learning framework that directly maps arbitrary domains to their associated eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Our approach employs a hybrid archi...

Microbial Conversion of Wetland Plants to Organic Acids for Reductive Bioleaching of Metals (Manganese, Iron, and Nickel): Review

This review focuses on invasive aquatic and wetland plants, such as cattail ( Typha latifolia ) L., common reed ( Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud.), and water hyacinth ( Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms), as feedstocks for microbial production of organic acids used i...

Landscape Greening Following Unseasonal Precipitation Along a Desert–Alpine Gradient

In seasonally arid systems, where water is a key limiting resource, unseasonal precipitation events may promote landscape greening. Because herbivores track spatial variation in fresh plant growth, dry-season precipitation could be an important catalyst of out-of-season foraging...

Fabrication of photoresist SU-8 pyrolyzed carbon electrodes and their integration in a microfluidic hematocrit detection system

Carbon microelectrodes are attractive for microfluidic biosensing due to their wide potential window, low overpotentials, chemical stability, and compatibility with low-cost microfabrication. Pyrolysis of photopatterned SU-8 offers a scalable route to carbon electrode fabrication...

Unifying Observations, Simulations, and Theory for Drizzle Size Distribution Tails

Abstract The onset and rate of drizzle remain open problems in atmospheric physics. This study brings together theory, simulations, and observations to analyze the emergence of power‐law tails in droplet size distributions as a signature of a dynamic steady state with coalescence...

Anatomy and impact of a high Arctic atmospheric river driving extreme winter rain and snowfall

Abstract. Atmospheric rivers (ARs) transport concentrated fluxes of heat and moisture poleward, driving temperature and precipitation extremes. Yet, their vertical structure in the High Arctic – where small thermodynamic perturbations govern rain-snow partitioning and cryospheric...

Disentangling the Hemodynamic Effects of A-Wave Loss and Cardiac Output Reduction in Atrial Fibrillation

PURPOSE: Atrial fibrillation (AF) increases thromboembolic risk, yet the relative hemodynamic contributions of A-wave loss, cardiac output (CO) reduction, and patient-specific atrial geometry remain incompletely understood. This study aimed to isolate the hemodynamic consequences...

Exact Closed-Form Solution for Fanno Flow of a Calorically Perfect Ideal Gas

Abstract This paper presents an explicit Lambert-W inversion of the classical Fanno relation for steady, adiabatic, quasi-one-dimensional flow of a calorically perfect ideal gas in a constant-area duct with wall friction. The formulation isolates the downstream Mach number as a f...