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Frank Delaglio, Gregory S. Walker, Kathleen A. Farley, Raman Sharma, Jeffrey C. Hoch, Luke Arbogast, Robert Brinson, John Marino
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is an indispensable tool in pharmaceutical science, with uses in drug discovery, development, and manufacturing. Non-Uniform Sampling (NUS) is an acquisition method for NMR experiments with two or more
Timothy J. Blattner, Walid Keyrouz, Mary C. Brady, Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Milton Halem
Designing applications for scalability is key to improving their performance in hybrid and cluster computing. Scheduling code to utilize parallelism is difficult, particularly when dealing with data dependencies, memory management, data motion, and
Knowledge models are supposed to capture knowledge of lasting value in a reusable form. However, reuse of these models is hampered by arbitrary and application-specific constraints; any constraints that conflict with a new application must be altered or
Mark W. Maciejewski, Adam D. Schuyler, Michael R. Gryk, Ion I. Moraru, Pedro R. Romero, Eldon L. Ulrich, Hamid R. Eghbalnia, Miron Livny, Frank Delaglio, Jeffrey C. Hoch
Advances in computation have been enabling for many recent advances in biomolecular applications of NMR. Due to the wide diversity of applications of NMR, the number and variety of software packages for processing and analyzing NMR data is quite large
Jin Chu Wu, Michael W. Halter, Raghu N. Kacker, John T. Elliott, Anne L. Plant
Background: Cell image segmentation (CIS) is an essential part of quantitative imaging of biological cells. Designing a performance measure and conducting significance testing are critical for evaluating and comparing the CIS algorithms for image-based
Martial Michel, Edmond J. Golden III, Olivier Serres, Ahmad Anbar, Tarek El-Ghazawi
Due to its availability, Cloud computing is the de facto platform of choice for big data, where Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) is believed to be the next best thing. In this book chapter we will first introduce cloud computing, defining the advantages it
Antoine Vandecreme, Michael P. Majurski, Joe Chalfoun, Keana Scott, John Henry Scott, Mary C. Brady, Peter Bajcsy
This article aims at introducing readers to a web-based solution useful for interactive measurements of centimeter-sized specimens at nanoscales. Modern imaging technology has enabled nanoscale imaging to become a routine process. As the imaging technology
The ferromagnetic Ising model with zero applied field reduces to sampling even subgraphs X of a graph G with probability proportional to $\lambda^|E(X)|}$, for $\lambda \in [0,1]$. In this paper, we present a class of Markov chains for sampling subgraphs
A quantity value, such as 5 kg, consists of a number and a reference (often an International System of Units (SI)unit) that together express the magnitude of a quantity. Many software libraries, packages, and ontologies that implement "quantities and units
Jacob H. Forstater, Kyle Briggs, Joseph W. Robertson, Jessica H. Benjamini, Olivier M. Marie-Rose, Canute I. Vaz, John J. Kasianowicz, Vincent Tabard-Cossa, Arvind Balijepalli
Single molecule measurements with nanometer-scale pores are being developed for a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Critical to the method is the ability to accurately and precisely detect the presence of an analyte, quantify its
Barry I. Schneider, Lee A. Collins, klaus Bartschat, Xiaoxu Guan, Suxing Hu
We discuss a number of aspects regarding the physics of H_2+ nd H_2. This includes low-energy electron scattering processes and the interaction of both weak (perturbative) and strong (ultrafast/intense) electromagnetic radiation with those systems.
The dataset contains several MATLAB files and input files for the software package JCMsuite that enable the modeling of optical imaging of finite multi-line arrays. (Certain commercial materials are identified in order to specify the experimental procedure
The annellation theory method has been used to predict the locations of maximum absorbance (LMA) of the ultravioletvisible (UV-Vis) spectral bands in the group of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) C24H14 (dibenzo and naphtho)derivatives of
Jeffrey T. Fong, James J. Filliben, Nathanael A. Heckert, Pedro V. Marcal, Marvin J. Cohn
Recent experimental results on creep-fracture damage with minimum time to failure (minTTF) varying as the 9th power of stress, and a theoretical consequence that the coefficient of variation (CV) of minTTF is necessarily 9 times that of the CV of the
The Short Iterative Lanczos (SIL) method has been combined with the Finite-Element Discrete Variable Representation (SIL-FEDVR) to yield a powerful approach to solving the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. It has been applied to the interaction of
Antonio Cardone, Mary C. Brady, Ram D. Sriram, Harish C. Pant, Sergio Hassan
The hyperactivity of the cyclic dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) induced by the activator protein p25 has been linked to a number of pathologies of the brain. The CDK5p25 complex has thus emerged as a major therapeutic target for Alzheimers disease (AD) and
Derek Juba, Walid Keyrouz, Michael V. Mascagni, Mary C. Brady, Michael Mascagni
This paper describes our on-going work to accelerate ZENO, a software tool based on Monte Carlo methods (MCMs), used for computing material properties at the nanoscale. ZENO employs three main algorithms: (1)Walk on Spheres (WoS), (2)interior sampling, and
Jeffrey T. Fong, James J. Filliben, Nathanael A. Heckert, Pedro V. Marcal, Robert Rainsberger, Li Ma
In a 3-part series of papers, of which this paper is Part II, we investigate the applicability of the fully quadratic hexa-27 element (see Part I) to four problems of interest to the pressure vessels and piping community: (1) The solid-element-based
Timothy J. Blattner, Walid Keyrouz, Milton Halem, Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Mary C. Brady
The scalability of applications is a key requirement to improving performance in hybrid and cluster computing. Scheduling code to utilize parallelism is difficult, particularly when dealing with dependencies, memory management, data motion, and processor
Jose Gomez-Ballesteros, Juan Burgos, Pin A. Lin, Renu Sharma, Perla Balbuena
The dynamic evolution of nanocatalyst particle shape and carbon composition is examined through the initial stages of the single walled-carbon nanotubes chemical vapor deposition synthesis via classical reactive and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations
We consider the unique issues related to software sustainability that accompany scientific codes that employ stochastic algorithms. These are codes that often implement Monte Carlo methods (MCMs). We will focus our attention on ZENO, a code of interest at
Experimental reproducibility is a cornerstone of the scientific method. The ease of achieving its counterpart in computing, numerical reproducibility, was one of the core assumptions underpinning the growth of scientific computing over the past several
Jeffrey T. Fong, Nathanael A. Heckert, James J. Filliben, Pedro V. Marcal, Robert Rainsberger
Uncertainty in COMSOL finite element simulations due to (a) mesh-induced truncation errors, and (b) model parameter uncertainties, is estimated using a nonlinear least squares logistic distribution fit method, and a design-of-experiments approach
Nathan A. Hotaling, Kapil Bharti, Haydn Kriel, Carl G. Simon Jr.
Despite the growing use of nanofiber scaffolds for tissue engineering applications, there is not a validated, readily available (commercial or open source) solution for rapid, automated analysis of nanofiber diameter from scanning electron microscope (SEM)