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Neonatal Glycemia and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes at 2 Years
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2015-10-15)Neonatal hypoglycemia is a common and readily treatable risk factor for neurologic impairment in children. Although associations between prolonged symptomatic neonatal hypoglycemia and brain injury are well established,1 ... -
Network centrality analysis of eye-gaze data in autism spectrum disorder
(Elsevier, 2019-08)Individuals suffering from autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit impaired social communication, the manifestations of which include abnormal eye contact and gaze. In this study, we first seek to characterize the spatial ... -
Neural bases of eye and gaze processing: The core of social cognition
(Elsevier, 2009-02-24)Eyes and gaze are very important stimuli for human social interactions. Recent studies suggest that impairments in recognizing face identity, facial emotions or in inferring attention and intentions of others could be ... -
Neural control of the healthy pectoralis major from low-to-moderate isometric contractions
(American Physiological Society, 2021-07-01)The pectoralis major critically enables arm movement in several directions. However, its neural control remains unknown. High-density electromyography (HD-sEMG) was acquired from the pectoralis major in two sets of experiments ... -
Neural network enhanced measurement efficiency for molecular groundstates
(IOP Publishing, 2023-02-09)It is believed that one of the first useful applications for a quantum computer will be the preparation of groundstates of molecular Hamiltonians. A crucial task involving state preparation and readout is obtaining physical ... -
Neural networks for dimensionality reduction of fluorescence spectra and prediction of drinking water disinfection by-products
(Elsevier, 2018-06-01)The use of fluorescence data coupled with neural networks for improved predictability of drinking water disinfection by-products (DBPs) was investigated. Novel application of autoencoders to process high-dimensional ... -
Neural processing of fearful and happy facial expressions during emotion-relevant and emotion-irrelevant tasks: A fixation-to-feature approach
(Elsevier, 2016-09-01)Research suggests an important role of the eyes and mouth for discriminating facial expressions of emotion. A gaze-contingent procedure was used to test the impact of fixation to facial features on the neural response to ... -
The neural systems for perceptual updating
(Elsevier, 2018-04-01)In a constantly changing environment we must adapt to both abrupt and gradual changes to incoming information. Previously, we demonstrated that a distributed network (including the anterior insula and anterior cingulate ... -
Neutron interferometer crystallographic imperfections and gravitationally induced quantum interference measurements
(American Physical Society, 2017-01-25)Dynamical diffraction leads to an interesting, unavoidable set of interference effects for neutron interferometers. This experiment studies the interference signal from two and three successive Bragg diffractions in the ... -
Neutron interferometric measurement of the scattering length difference between the triplet and singlet states of n-He-3
(American Physical Society, 2014-12-15)We report a determination of the n-He-3 scattering length difference = b = = b = 1 -b = 0 = [-5.411 = 0.031 (statistical) = 0.039 (systematic)] fm between the triplet and singlet states using a neutron interferometer. This ... -
Neutron Interferometry at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(Hindawi, 2015)Neutron interferometry has proved to be a very precise technique for measuring the quantum mechanical phase of a neutron caused by a potential energy difference between two spatially separated neutron paths inside ... -
Neutron limit on the strongly-coupled chameleon field
(American Physical Society, 2016-03-11)The physical origin of the dark energy that causes the accelerated expansion rate of the Universe is one of the major open questions of cosmology. One set of theories postulates the existence of a self-interacting scalar ... -
A New Adaptive Controller for Performance Improvement of Automotive Suspension Systems with MR Dampers
(SAE International, 2014-04-01)A control algorithm is developed for active/semi-active suspensions which can provide more comfort and better handling simultaneously. A weighting parameter is tuned online which is derived from two components - slow and ... -
A new and efficient Solid Phase Microextraction approach for analysis of high fat content food samples using a matrix-compatible coating
(Elsevier, 2017-05-15)The current work presents the optimization of a protocol enabling direct extraction of avocado samples by a new Solid Phase Microextraction matrix compatible coating. In order to further extend the coating life time, ... -
A new approach to rapidly generate random periodic representative volume elements for microstructural assessment of high volume fraction composites
(Elsevier, 2018-07-15)An algorithm based on event-driven molecular dynamics theory was developed to rapidly generate periodic representative volume elements (RVEs) with nonuniform distributions for both unidirectional fibre-reinforced and ... -
New approaches to characterize polymeric oil additives in solution based on pyrene excimer fluorescence
(Wiley, 2017-01-01)Maleated polyolefins (MaPOs) such as maleated ethylene propylene copolymers or polyisobutylene terminated at one end with a succininic anhydride can be used as polymeric dispersants in engine oils after reaction with ... -
A new approximation of Fermi-Dirac integrals of order 1/2 for degenerate semiconductor devices
(Elsevier, 2018-06-01)There had been tremendous growth in the field of Integrated circuits (ICs) in the past fifty years. Scaling laws mandated both lateral and vertical dimensions to be reduced and a steady increase in doping densities. Most ... -
New composite sustainability indices for Cradle-to-Cradle process design: Case study on thinner recovery from waste paint in auto industries
(Elsevier, 2017-11-10)In a conventional chemical process design, the main focus is on the process economy resulting in the generation of huge amounts of waste materials within the process. Such design approach demands end-of-pipe treatment, ... -
New constraints on mid-Proterozoic ocean redox from stable thallium isotope systematics of black shales
(Elsevier, 2021-12-15)Stable thallium (Tl) isotope data from organic-rich siliciclastic sedimentary rocks have the potential to track ocean redox state on a broad scale. Here, we report new Tl isotope data from the Mesoproterozoic Velkerri ... -
A new crystal plasticity framework to simulate the large strain behaviour of aluminum alloys at warm temperatures
(Elsevier, 2018-06-06)To improve metal formability, high temperature forming has become a desired manufacturing process. Phenomenological plasticity models are widely used in this application, however lack good predictive capability concerning ...