Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Sustaining women presidencies in higher education

Purpose The purpose of this qualitative research is to contribute to the understanding of the individual and organizational factors that affect women in their leadership journey and in sustaining success when serving their Higher Education communities and beyond. Design/methodolo...

Integrating fuzzy neural networks and elastic weight consolidation for continual learning under non-stationary data streams

Neuro-fuzzy systems combine neural network learning with fuzzy logic to robustly represent qualitative, uncertain, and imprecise knowledge, making them especially effective for data mining and knowledge discovery. With ongoing digitalization, the volume and velocity of data strea...

Interpretable and Calibrated Classification of Clinical Data Using Supervised Feature Binarization

Black-box models limit the adoption of artificial intelligence in medicine because their predictions are difficult to interpret and reproduce. We present a statistically grounded framework for interpretable, rule-based clinical classification using the Bernoulli Naïve Bayes (BNB)...

Metatarsal Strains During Loading and Motion of the Foot and Ankle in a Cadaveric Model

Metatarsal bone stress injuries (BSI) are painful, overuse injuries commonly seen in athletes and military personnel. High strain magnitudes combined with repetitive loading cycles causes bone fatigue and microdamage accumulation. To protect against BSI, it is necessary to determ...

Combining Contingency Management With Continuous Glucose Monitoring to Support Type 2 Diabetes Prevention and Care

Diabetes prevention and care require recurring self-management behaviors whose benefits are often delayed and uncertain. Digital contingency management (CM), which arranges incentives contingent on objective evidence of behavior or outcomes, offers a scalable way to strengthen th...

Mechanics of electroadhesion by polycation interfacial bridging: sticky electrophoresis, ionic complexation and chain entanglement

Abstract An e-GLUE is a polymer network containing interpenetrating polycations, which can bond the anionic network of mucosa by polycation interfacial bridging under an electric field. This paper formulates a theoretical model to study such electroadhesion by electrophoresis of...

Another regularizing property of the 2D eikonal equation

A weak solution of the two-dimensional eikonal equation amounts to a vector field m:Ω⊂R2→R2 such that |m|=1 a.e. and divm=0 in D′(Ω). It is known that, if m has some low regularity, e.g., continuous or W1/3,3, then m is automatically more regular: locally Lipschitz outside a loca...

Bayesian bilevel operator learning with low-rank adaptation for efficient uncertainty quantification of PDE inverse problems

Abstract Uncertainty quantification in PDE inverse problems is essential in many applications. Scientific machine learning and AI enable data-driven learning of model components while preserving physical structure, and provide the scalability and adaptability needed for emerging...

Myth, History, and Messianic Solidarity: Benjamin and the Matter of Politics in Petzold's Recent Trilogies

Abstract This essay contends that the work of Walter Benjamin illuminates the political trajectory of Christian Petzold's recent cinema. Against critiques of the Berlin School as apolitical, it argues that Petzold's Systems and Elements trilogies engage contemporary concerns, inc...

Combinatorial Metabolic Engineering of Alkane Biosynthesis in the Osmotolerant Yeast Debaryomyces hansenii CBS 767

ABSTRACT Debaryomyces hansenii is a yeast with diverse potential applications like producing oleochemicals from biomass. Yet, combinatorial metabolic engineering in D. hansenii is limited because, like many nonconventional organisms, key genomic data and genetic elements are miss...

Metabolomic profiling reveals distinct and shared biology in COPD and IPF

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD) and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) are chronic pulmonary disorders with distinct pathologies but shared risk factors. Metabolomics may provide insights into mechanisms. To identify metabolites associated with COPD and IPF, and to...