• Deep, effortless concentration: re-examining the flow concept and exploring relations with inattention, absorption, and personality 

  Marty-Dugas, Jeremy; Smilek, Daniel (Springer, 2018-06-18)

  Conceptualizing the construct of flow in terms of ‘deep and effortless concentration’, we developed two measurement scales designed to index individual differences in flow during ‘internal’ tasks, such as thinking (deep ...

• Coupled Dynamics of Cable-Harnessed Structures: Experimental Validation 

  Yerrapragada, Karthik; Salehian, Armaghan (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019-07-15)

  The experimental study and model validations for the coupled dynamics of a cable-harnessed beam structure are presented. The system under consideration consists of multiple pretensioned cables attached along the length of ...

• Analytical Study of Coupling Effects for Vibrations of Cable-Harnessed Beam Structures 

  Yerrapragada, Karthik; Salehian, Armaghan (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019-01-22)

  This paper presents a distributed parameter model to study the effects of the harnessing cables on the dynamics of a host structure motivated by space structures applications. The structure is modeled using both Euler-Bernoulli ...

• Testing the Universality of Entropic Segregation at Polymer Surfaces 

  Mahmoudi, Pendar; Forrest, William; Beardsley, Tom; Matsen, Mark (2018)

  This study addresses entropic segregation effects at the surfaces of monodisperse and bidisperse melts. For the monodisperse melts, we focus on the segregation of chain ends to the surface, and for the bidisperse melts, ...

• Spontaneous Tilting Transition in Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Brushes 

  Blaber, Steven; Abukhdeir, Nasser Mohieddin; Matsen, Mark (2019)

  The equilibrium phase behavior of main-chain liquid-crystalline polymer brushes in good solvent is investigated using self-consistent field theory. The calculation assumes semi-dilute brushes, where the grafting density ...

• Optimal Controller and Actuator Design for Nonlinear Parabolic Systems 

  Edalatzadeh, M. Sajjad; Morris, Kirsten (2019-10-08)

  Many physical systems are modeled by nonlinear parabolic differential equations, such as the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (KS) equation. In this paper, the existence of a concurrent optimal controller and actuator design is ...

• Importance Sampling and Stratification for Copula Models 

  Arbenz, Philipp; Cambou, Mathieu; Hofert, Marius; Lemieux, Christiane; Taniguchi, Yoshihiro (Springer, 2018)

  An importance sampling approach for sampling from copula models is introduced. The proposed algorithm improves Monte Carlo estimators when the functional of interest depends mainly on the behaviour of the underlying random ...

• Inevitably Wikipedia 

  Robichaud, Danielle (2019-10-24)

  Broad overview of editing Wikipedia through an archival lens, including contributing to the Wikimedia Commons.

• Unprofitable Affiliates and Income Shifting Behavior 

  De Simone, Lisa; Klassen, Kenneth; Seidman, Jeri K. (American Accounting Association, 2017-05)

  Income shifting from high-tax to low-tax jurisdictions is considered a primary method of reducing worldwide tax burdens of multinational firms. Current losses also affect income shifting incentives. We extend prior approaches ...

• Self-powered on-line ion concentration monitor in water transportation driven by triboelectric nanogenerator 

  Chen, Chen; Wen, Zhen; Wei, Aimin; Xie, Xinkai; Zhai, Ningning; Wei, Xuelian; Peng, Mingfa; Liu, Yina; Sun, Xuhui; Yeow, John T. W. (Elsevier, 2019-08)

  Ion concentration in water is a key criterion for evaluating water quality. In this work, we developed a self-powered on-line ion concentration monitor in water transportation based on impedance matching effect of triboelectric ...

• Fluctuation effects in blends of A+B homopolymers with AB diblock copolymer 

  Spencer, Russell; Matsen, Mark (AIP, 2018-05)

  Field-theoretic simulations (FTS) are performed on ternary blends of A- and B-type homopolymers of polymerization N_h and symmetric AB diblock copolymer of polymerization N_c. Unlike previous studies, our FTS are conducted ...

• Fluctuation correction for the critical transition of symmetric homopolymer blends 

  Beardsley, Tom; Matsen, Mark (AIP, 2017-07)

  Monte Carlo simulations are performed on structurally symmetric binary homopolymer blends over a wide range of invariant polymerization indexes, N. A finite-size scaling analysis reveals that certain critical exponents ...

• Calibration of a Lattice Model for High-Molecular-Weight Block Copolymer Melts 

  Willis, James; Beardsley, Tom; Matsen, Mark (AIP, 2019-05-06)

  The Morse calibration is applied to a lattice model designed for efficient simulations of two-component polymer melts of high molecular weight. The model allows multiple occupancy per site, which results in high invariant ...

• Religion, Non-Belief, Spirituality and Social Behaviour among North American Millennials 

  Wilkins-Laflamme, Sarah (2019-09-19)

  This report stems from the SSHRC-funded research project Surveying Millennials’ Nonreligious Homophily and Social Distance, led by principal investigator Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, assistant professor in the Department of ...

• Effect of chain stiffness on the entropic segregation of chain ends to the surface of a polymer melt 

  Blaber, Steven; Mahmoudi, Pendar; Spencer, Russell; Matsen, Mark (2019)

  Entropic segregation of chain ends to the surface of a monodisperse polymer melt and its effect on surface tension is examined using self-consistent field theory (SCFT). In order to assess the dependence on chain stiffness, ...

• From eye to face: The impact of face outline, feature number, and feature saliency on the early neural response to faces 

  Parkington, Karisa; Itier, Roxane J. (Elsevier, 2019-11-01)

  The LIFTED model of early face perception postulates that the face-sensitive N170 event-related potential may reflect underlying neural inhibition mechanisms which serve to regulate holistic and featural processing. It ...

• Sensor Array for Volatile Organic Compounds based on Doped Poly (2,5-dimethyl aniline) 

  Stewart, Katherine M.E.; Penlidis, Alexander (Wiley, 2016-12)

  A sensor array containing five different sensing materials has been created that is able to distinguish between six different volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at an analyte concentration of 5 ppm. While none of the sensing ...

• Evaluation of Polymeric Nanocomposites for the Detection of Toxic Gas Analytes 

  Stewart, Katherine M.E.; Penlidis, Alexander (Taylor & Francis, 2016-09)

  Four different metal oxide nanoparticles, copper oxide (CuO), aluminum oxide (Al2O3), nickel oxide (NiO), and titanium dioxide (TiO2), were added to poly (2,5-dimethyl aniline) (P25DMA) during synthesis to create different ...

• Can students be taught to articulate employability skills? 

  Tomasson Goodwin, Jill; Goh, Joslin; Verkoeyen, Stephanie; Lithgow, Katherine (Emerald, 2019-03-03)

  Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on research findings from a teaching and learning intervention that explored whether undergraduate university students can be taught to articulate their employability skills ...

• Is cancer prevention influenced by the built environment? A multidisciplinary scoping review 

  Wray, Alexander James David; Minaker, Leia Michelle (Wiley, 2019-07-09)

  Background: The built environment is a significant determinant of human health. Globally, the growing prevalence of preventable cancers suggests a need to understand how features of the built environment shape exposure ...

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