The University of Texas at Arlington

Probabilistic Extreme Rainfall Projections under Climate Change: Extending Regional Extreme Value Analysis with a Climate Model–Informed Bayesian Approach

Abstract Climate change challenges traditional civil engineering design approaches that rely on stationarity and use historical data and parametric distributions to quantify uncertainty, e.g., the generalized extreme value (GEV) distributions for extreme rainfall. Key barriers in...

Comparative Analysis of Ion and Electron Contributions to Ionospheric Ionization at Auroral and Subauroral Latitudes

Abstract Electron and proton precipitation into the nightside ionosphere is a key process in magnetosphere–ionosphere coupling. Although auroral electron precipitation at –10 keV is traditionally considered the main driver of auroral emissions, recent studies show that keV electr...

Photoacoustic Tomography with Time-Dependent Damping: Theoretical and a Convolutional Neural Network-Guided Numerical Inversion Procedure

Abstract. In photoacoustic tomography (PAT), a hybrid imaging modality that is based on the acoustic detection of optical absorption from biological tissue exposed to a pulsed laser, a short pulse laser generates an initial pressure proportional to the absorbed optical energy, wh...

Estimating genetic correlation jointly using individual-level and summary-level GWAS data

Abstract With the increasing accessibility of individual-level data from genome wide association studies, it is now common for researchers to have individual-level data of some traits in one specific population. For some traits, we can only access public released summary-level da...

Fibrinogen as aMolecular Bridge Linking SARS-CoV-2Immune Evasion and Endothelial Access?

Abstract SARS-CoV-2 exploits multiple cellular entry routes. Beyond ACE2-mediated entry, we propose that the spike protein binds fibrinogen not only to facilitate immune evasion but also to position the receptor-binding domain for integrin-mediated uptake. This molecular bridge m...

Relative Effects of Fabry‐Perot, Mie, and Guided‐Mode Resonance in Periodic Photonic Lattice Physics

ABSTRACT We investigate the physical origins of resonance effects in one‐dimensional periodic photonic lattices (PhL), focusing on the relative roles of Fabry–Perot (FP), Mie, and guided‐mode resonance (GMR) mechanisms. Using rigorous numerical simulations and modal analysis, we...

Evaluation of in process heating for extrusion printing of tall thin-walled structures

Compared to other additive manufacturing processes, extrusion printing offers a cost-effective solution in prototyping thin-walled structures across diverse applications. However, transitioning these prototypes into fully functional parts remains difficult due to weak interlayer...

Dipyridamole-Coated 3D-Printed β-Tricalcium Phosphate Scaffolds: Spectrophotometric Characterization, Drug Release Kinetics, and In Vitro Evaluation to Guide Critical-Sized Bone Defect Repair Studies

Critical-sized bone defects remain a significant clinical challenge, and dipyridamole (DIPY)-coated 3D-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) scaffolds have shown promising osteogenic efficacy in preclinical models. However, the literature on the systematic physicochemical characterization...

Desire for Help Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth at Risk for Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth face disproportionate hardships from systemic inequality and are overrepresented among youth at risk for commercial sexual exploitation (CSE), yet little is known about the help they desire as sexual risk escalates. Using data from a nationa...

Reducing Computational Cost in Long-Term Simulations of Multiscale Cellular Mechanobiology

Abstract The long-term simulation of biological systems at the cellular level presents a significant computational challenge due to pronounced multiscale behavior and severe numerical stiffness. While implicit solvers offer improved stability in solving stiff systems, they can in...

Inscription of Quasi-Sinusoidal Surface Relief Optical Gratings in ZEONOR™ Cyclic Olefin Polymer by a 10.5 MeV N4+ Ion Microbeam at Low Implanted Fluences

Direct writing of microstructures in ZEONOR™ cyclic olefin polymer, using a high-energy medium-mass ion microbeam, was proposed and demonstrated. Microbeams of 10.5 MeV N4+ ions were used. The implanted fluences were between 2.5·1012 and 2.0·1013 ion/cm2. The microstructures were...

Human Pose Estimation in 2D and 3D: A Survey of Analytical Methods, Benchmarking Frameworks, and Engineering Applications

This survey presents a comprehensive review of Human Pose Estimation spanning 2D and 3D settings, unifying prior work through a taxonomy of body representations (2D keypoints, 3D skeletons, dense meshes), processing flows (top-down vs. bottom-up), problem formulations (regression...

Beyond heuristics: an experimental study on the impact of math self-efficacy and cognitive reflection on newsvendor decision-making performance

Behavioural newsvendor research has documented persistent deviations from optimal ordering – demand chasing, pull-to-center, and anchoring – yet the psychological foundations underlying these biases remain underspecified. We distinguish two constructs: cognitive reflection (CRT),...