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  1. ; ; ; ; ( , Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
    Free, publicly-accessible full text available January 1, 2023
  2. ; ; ; ; ( , Science advances)
    Free, publicly-accessible full text available September 20, 2022
  3. ; ; ; ; ; ; ( , The Astrophysical Journal)
    Free, publicly-accessible full text available July 1, 2022
  4. ; ; ; ; ( , Geophysical Research Letters)
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  5. ; ; ; ; ; ( , HotMobile)
    Autonomous vehicles are predicted to dominate the transportation industry in the foreseeable future. Safety is one of the major chal- lenges to the early deployment of self-driving systems. To ensure safety, self-driving vehicles must sense and detect humans, other vehicles, and road infrastructure accurately, robustly, and timely. However, existing sensing techniques used by self-driving vehicles may not be absolutely reliable. In this paper, we design REITS, a system to improve the reliability of RF-based sensing modules for autonomous vehicles. We conduct theoretical analysis on possible failures of existing RF-based sensing systems. Based on the analysis, REITS adopts a multi-antenna design,more »which enables constructive blind beamforming to return an enhanced radar signal in the incident direction. REITS can also let the existing radar system sense identifi- cation information by switching between constructive beamforming state and destructive beamforming state. Preliminary results show that REITS improves the detection distance of a self-driving car radar by a factor of 3.63.« less
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  6. ; ; ; ; ; ( , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
    ABSTRACT Of all the factors that influence star formation, magnetic fields are perhaps the least well understood. The goal of this paper is to characterize the 3D magnetic field properties of nearby molecular clouds through various methods of statistically analysing maps of polarized dust emission. Our study focuses on nine clouds, with data taken from the Planck Sky Survey as well as data from the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry observations of Vela C. We compare the distributions of polarization fraction (p), dispersion in polarization angles ($\mathcal {S}$), and hydrogen column density (NH) for each of our targeted clouds.more »To broaden the scope of our analysis, we compare the distributions of our clouds’ polarization observables with measurements from synthetic polarization maps generated from numerical simulations. We also use the distribution of polarization fraction measurements to estimate the inclination angle of each cloud’s cloud-scale magnetic field. We obtain a range of inclination angles associated with our clouds, varying from 16○ to 69○. We establish inverse correlations between p and both $\mathcal {S}$ and NH in almost every cloud, but we are unable to establish a statistically robust $\mathcal {S}$ versus NH trend. By comparing the results of these different statistical analysis techniques, we are able to propose a more comprehensive view of each cloud’s 3D magnetic field properties. These detailed cloud analyses will be useful in the continued studies of cloud-scale magnetic fields and the ways in which they affect star formation within these molecular clouds.« less
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  7. ; ; ; ( , Physical review letters)
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  8. ; ; ; ; ; ( , Biotechnology progress)
    Precipitation can be used for the initial purification of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), with the soluble host cell proteins removed in the permeate by tangential flow microfiltration. The objective of this study was to examine the use of a feed-and-bleed configuration to increase the effective conversion (ratio of permeate to feed flow rates) in the hollow fiber module to enable more effective washing of the precipitate. Experiments were performed using human serum Immunoglobulin G (IgG) precipitates formed with 10 mM zinc chloride and 7 wt% polyethylene glycol. The critical flux was evaluated as a function of the shear rate and IgG concentration,more »with the resulting correlation used to predict conditions that can achieve 90% conversion in a single pass with minimal fouling. Experimental data for both the start-up and steady-state performance are in good agreement with model calculations. These results were used to analyze the performance of an enhanced continuous precipitation–microfiltration process using the feed-and-bleed configuration for the initial capture / purification of a mAb product.« less
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  9. ; ; ( , The annals of statistics)
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  10. ; ; ; ( , Journal of manufacturing processes)
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