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Matthew G. Montgomery, Miles B. Yaw and John S. Schwartz
Probabilistic risk methods are becoming increasingly accepted as a means of carrying out risk-informed decision making regarding the design and operation policy of structures such as dams. Probabilistic risk calculations require the quantification of epi...
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Valerie Hernley, Aleksandar Jemcov, Jeongseek Kang, Matthew Montgomery and Scott C. Morris
The relationship between aerodynamic forcing and non-synchronous vibration (NSV) in axial compressors remains difficult to ascertain from experimental measurements. In this work, the relationship between casing pressure and blade vibration was investigat...
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Sina Razzaghi Asl
Globally, floods are becoming more severe, lasting longer, and occurring more frequently because of changes in climate, rapid urbanization, and changing human demographics. Although traditional structural flood mitigation infrastructures (e.g., drainage ...
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Asher Sajid, Omar S. Sonbul, Muhammad Rashid and Muhammad Yousuf Irfan Zia
The focus of this article is to present a novel crypto-accelerator architecture for a resource-constrained embedded system that utilizes elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). The architecture is built around Binary Edwards curves (BEC) to provide resistance...
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Craig Mahoney, Joshua Montgomery, Stephanie Connor and Danielle Cobbaert
Boreal wetlands within the oil sands region of Alberta, Canada, are subject to natural and anthropogenic pressures, resulting in the need for monitoring these sensitive ecosystems to ensure their protection. This study presents results from Canada?s pilo...
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Dachen Sheng and Heather A. Montgomery
This paper examines the determinants of bond issuance in the Chinese market and the influence of capital structure?in particular direct debt finance?on firm performance and the cost of debt. The results reveal that institutional factors in the Chinese ma...
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Dachen Sheng and Heather Montgomery
Taking advantage of a recently established dataset that records financial analysts? firm visits, this study examines the factors that determine the number of buy-side and sell-side analyst firm visits in a given year and how investors respond to these vi...
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Souleymane Fall, Kapo Coulibaly, Joseph Quansah and Gamal El Afandi
Urban heat vulnerability varies within and across cities, necessitating detailed studies to understand diverse populations? specific vulnerabilities. This research assessed urban heat vulnerability at block group level in three Alabama cities: Birmingham...
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Brett Lawrence
Small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) and relatively new photogrammetry software solutions are creating opportunities for forest managers to perform spatial analysis more efficiently and cost-effectively. This study aims to identify a method for leveragin...
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Manawaduge Supun De Silva, Barath Narayanan Narayanan and Russell C. Hardie
Lung segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided detection and diagnosis using chest radiographs (CRs). Currently, the U-Net and DeepLabv3+ convolutional neural network architectures are widely used to perform CR lung segmentation. To boost pe...
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