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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Education•Worcester, Massachusetts, United States•
About: Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a education organization based out in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Population. The organization has 6270 authors who have published 12704 publications receiving 332081 citations. The organization is also known as: WPI.
Topics: Computer science, Population, Data envelopment analysis, Nonlinear system, Finite element method
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TL;DR: A simple, cost-effective microfluidic channel is designed on the same scale to regulate the sperm's journey to the egg, supported by a computational model incorporating the exhaustion time of sperm.
Abstract: Fertilization is central to the survival and propagation of a species, however, the precise mechanisms that regulate the sperm's journey to the egg are not well understood. In nature, the sperm has to swim through the cervical mucus, akin to a microfluidic channel. Inspired by this, a simple, cost-effective microfluidic channel is designed on the same scale. The experimental results are supported by a computational model incorporating the exhaustion time of sperm.
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28 Dec 2015TL;DR: Team WPI-CMU was the only team in the DRC Finals that attempted all tasks, scored points, did not require physical human intervention (a reset), and did not fall in the two missions during the two days of tests.
Abstract: We describe Team WPI-CMU's approach to the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), focusing on our strategy to avoid failures that required physical human intervention. We implemented safety features in our controller to detect potential catastrophic failures, stop the current behavior, and allow remote intervention by a human supervisor. Our safety methods and operator interface worked: we avoided catastrophe and remote operators could safely recover from difficult situations. We were the only team in the DRC Finals that attempted all tasks, scored points (14/16), did not require physical human intervention (a reset), and did not fall in the two missions during the two days of tests. We also had the most consistent pair of runs. Much of the paper discusses lessons learned from the DRC.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the long and small fatigue crack growth mechanisms in LENS materials under static loading conditions and provided fundamental knowledge that facilitate the application of LENS in the design and repair of structural components.
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TL;DR: A semiparametric cure rate model with a smoothing parameter that controls the degree of parametricity in the right tail of the survival distribution is proposed and it is shown that such a parameter is crucial for these kinds of models and can have an impact on the posterior estimates.
Abstract: We propose methods for Bayesian inference for a new class of semiparametric survival models with a cure fraction. Specifically, we propose a semiparametric cure rate model with a smoothing parameter that controls the degree of parametricity in the right tail of the survival distribution. We show that such a parameter is crucial for these kinds of models and can have an impact on the posterior estimates. Several novel properties of the proposed model are derived. In addition, we propose a class of improper noninformative priors based on this model and examine the properties of the implied posterior. Also, a class of informative priors based on historical data is proposed and its theoretical properties are investigated. A case study involving a melanoma clinical trial is discussed in detail to demonstrate the proposed methodology.
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TL;DR: In this article, the turnover rate and reaction orders for the combustion of methane in excess oxygen over Pd foils were in agreement with literature results reported for supported catalysts, and the surface area of the foil was measured by isotopic exchange of surface oxygen with 18 O 2, increased by a factor of approximately 2 after reaction.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Andrew G. Clark | 140 | 823 | 123333 |
Ming Li | 103 | 1669 | 62672 |
Joseph Sarkis | 101 | 482 | 45116 |
Arthur C. Graesser | 95 | 614 | 38549 |
Kevin J. Harrington | 85 | 682 | 33625 |
Kui Ren | 83 | 501 | 32490 |
Bart Preneel | 82 | 844 | 25572 |
Ming-Hui Chen | 82 | 525 | 29184 |
Yuguang Fang | 79 | 572 | 20715 |
Wenjing Lou | 77 | 311 | 29405 |
Bernard Lown | 73 | 330 | 20320 |
Joe Zhu | 72 | 231 | 19017 |
Y.S. Lin | 71 | 304 | 16100 |
Kevin Talbot | 71 | 268 | 15669 |
Christof Paar | 69 | 399 | 21790 |