The MSCS Faculty Research and Publications Series is comprised of books and articles published by Marquette University's MSCS faculty.
Submissions from 2019
On Continuous Images of Ultra-Arcs, Paul Bankston
Characterizations of Certain Recently Introduced Discrete Distributions, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani
Submissions from 2018
Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide Production in the Isolated Rat Lung Using Amplex Red, Said H. Audi, Nina Friedly, Ranjan K. Dash, Andreas M. Beyer, Anne V. Clough, and Elizabeth R. Jacobs
Semicontinuity of Betweenness Functions, Paul Bankston, Aisling McCluskey, and Richard J. Smith
Empirical Bayesian Approach to Testing Multiple Hypotheses with Separate Priors for Left and Right Alternatives, Naveen K. Bansal, Mehdi Maadooliat, and Steven J. Schrodi
The Transmuted Geometric-Quadratic Hazard Rate Distribution: Development, Properties, Characterizations and Applications, Fiaz Ahmad Bhatti, Gholamhossein Hamedani, Mustafa Ç. Korkmaz, and Munir Ahmad
The Impact of Exploring Computer Science in Wisconsin: Where Disadvantage is an Advantage, Heather Bort, Shion Guha, and Dennis Brylow
Reality Versus Grant Application Research “Plans”, Linda Burhansstipanov, Linda U. Krebs, Daniel Petereit, Mark Dignan, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Michele Sargent, Krisin Cina, Kimberly Crawford, Doris Thibeault, Simone Bordeaux, Shalini Kanekar, Golam Mushih Tanimul Ahsan, Drew Williams, and Ivor D. Addo
The Kumaraswamy Marshall-Olkin Log-Logistic Distribution with Application, Selen Cakmakyapan, Gamze Ozel, Yehia Mousa Hussein El Gebaly, and Gholamhossein G. Hamedani
Cancerin: A Computational Pipeline to Infer Cancer-Associated ceRNA Interaction Networks, Duc Do and Serdar Bozdag
On comparability of bigrassmannian permutations, John Engbers and Adam Hammett
Combinatorial Proofs of Identities of Alzer and Prodinger and Some Generalizations, John Engbers and Christopher Stocker
Life-Threatening Allergies: Using a Patient-Engaged Approach, Joel Louis Gallagher, Robert David Rivera, Kirk Van Shepard, Tanvir Roushan, Golam Mushih Tanimul Ahsan, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Asriani Chiu, Mary Jurken, Pippa Margaret Simpson, Melodee Nugent, Karina Shah Gobin, Cheng K. Fred Wen, and Christina E. Eldredge
Safety vs. Surveillance: What Children Have to Say about Mobile Apps for Parental Control, Arup Kumar Ghosh, Karla Badillo Urguiola, Shion Guha, Joseph J. LaViola Jr., and Pamela J. Wisniewski
On the Mixtures of Weibull and Pareto (IV) Distribution: An Alternative to Pareto Distribution, I. Ghosh, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani, Naveen K. Bansal, and Mehdi Maadooliat
Regrets, I've Had a Few: When Regretful Experiences Do (and Don't) Compel Users to Leave Facebook, Shion Guha, Eric P.S. Baumer, and Geri K. Gay
Characterizations and Infinite Divisibility of Certain Recently Introduced Distributions III, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani
Characterizations and Infinite Divisibility of Certain Recently Introduced Distributions IV, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani
On Characterizations of McLLoG, ELLoGW, PTHL and k-GE Distributions, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani and Nadeem Shafique Butt
Type I General Exponential Class of Distributions, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani, Haitham M. Yousof, Mahdi Rasekhi, Morad Alizadeh, and Seyed Morteza Najibi
Supporting Accurate Interpretation of Self-Administered Medical Test Results for Mobile Health: Assessment of Design, Demographics, and Health Condition, Jess C. Hohenstein, Eric P.S. Baumer, Lindsay Reynolds, Elizabeth L. Murnane, Dakota O'Dell, Seoho Lee, Shion Guha, Yu Qi, Erin Rieger, and Geri K. Gay
Parking Lot Design Contest, Hyunyi Jung and Ji-Yeong I
Preservice Mathematics Teachers' Conceptions and Enactments of Modeling Standards, Hyunyi Jung and Jill Newton
Smartphone-Based Prenatal Education for Parents with Preterm Birth Risk Factors, U. Olivia Kim, K. Barnekow, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, S. Dreier, C. Jones, M. Taylor, Md Kamrul Hasan, and M. A. Basir
Nonparametric Collective Spectral Density Estimation with an Application to Clustering the Brain Signals, Mehdi Maadooliat, Ying Sun, and Tianbo Chen
Hyperoxia Causes Mitochondrial Fragmentation in Pulmonary Endothelial Cells by Increasing Expression of Pro-Fission Proteins, Cui Ma, Andreas M. Beyer, Matthew J. Durand, Anne V. Clough, Daling Zhu, Laura Norwood Toro, Maia Terashvili, Johnathan D. Ebben, R. Blake Hill, Said H. Audi, Meetha Medhora, and Elizabeth R. Jacobs
A Note on Sum, Difference, Product and Ratio of Kumaraswamy Random Variables, Avishek Mallick, Indranil Ghosh, and Gholamhossein G. Hamedani
Equal Outcomes 4 All: A Study of Student Learning in ECS, Steven McGee, Randi McGee-Tekula, Jennifer Duck, Catherine McGee, Lucia Dettori, Ronald I. Greenberg, Eric Snow, Daisy Rutstein, Dale Reed, Brenda Wilkerson, Don Yanek, Andrew M. Rasmussen, and Dennis Brylow
Thyroid Autoimmunity: An Interplay of Factors, Stephen Merrill and Sarah B. Minucci
A Patient-Specific Treatment Model for Graves’ Hyperthyroidism, Balamurugan Pandiyan, Stephen J. Merrill, Flavia Di Bari, Alessandro Antonelli, and Salvatore Benvenga
Impacts of Simultaneous Multislice Acquisition on Sensitivity and Specificity in fMRI, Benjamin B. Risk, Mary C. Kociuba, and Daniel B. Rowe
Special Interest Group on Transparent Statistics Guidelines, Chat Wacharamanotham, Matthew Kay, Steve Haroz, Shion Guha, and Pierre Dragicevic
Dynamic Statistical Models for Pyroclastic Density Current Generation at Soufrière Hills Volcano, Robert L. Wolpert, Elaine T. Spiller, and Eliza S. Calder
A Bayesian Variable Selection Approach Yields Improved Detection of Brain Activation From Complex-Valued fMRI, Cheng-Han Yu, Raquel Prado, Hernando Ombao, and Daniel B. Rowe
Submissions from 2017
Privacy Vulnerabilities in the Practices of Repairing Broken Digital Artifacts in Bangladesh, syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha, Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Faysal Hossain Shezan, and Nicola Dell
Privacy, Security, and Surveillance in the Global South: A Study of Biometric Mobile SIM Registration in Bangladesh, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Md. Romael Hoque, Shion Guha, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, and Nicola Dell
A Direct D-Bar Method for Partial Boundary Data Electrical Impedance Tomography With a Priori Information, Melody Alsaker, Sarah J. Hamilton, and Andreas Hauptmann
Classification of Physical Activities Using Wearable Sensors, Muhammad Arif, Ahmed Kattan, and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Protection by Inhaled Hydrogen Therapy in a Rat Model of Acute Lung Injury can be Tracked in vivo Using Molecular Imaging, Said H. Audi, Elizabeth R. Jacobs, Xiao Zhang, Amadou K.S. Camara, Ming Zhao, Meetha M. Medhora, Benjamin Michael Rizzo, and Anne V. Clough
Hypothesis Testing for High-Dimensional Problems, Naveen K. Bansal
XinuPi3: Teaching Multicore Concepts Using Embedded Xinu, Priva Bansal, Rade Latinovich, Tom Lazar, Patrick J. McGee, and Dennis Brylow
Comparing Grounded Theory and Topic Modeling: Extreme Divergence or Unlikely Convergence?, Eric P.S. Baumer, David Mimno, Shion Guha, Emily Quan, and Geri K. Gay
When Subjects Interpret the Data: Social Media Non-use as a Case for Adapting the Delphi Method to CSCW, Eric P.S. Baumer, Xiaotong Xu, Christine Chu, Shion Guha, and Geri K. Gay
ProcessDriver: A Computational Pipeline to Identify Copy Number Drivers and Associated Disrupted Biological Processes in Cancer, Brittany Baur and Serdar Bozdag
Preparing Family Caregivers to Recognize Delirium Symptoms in Older Adults After Elective Hip or Knee Arthroplasty, Margaret J. Bull, Lesley Boaz, Mehdi Maadooliat, Mary E. Hagle, Lynn Gettrust, Maureen T. Greene, Sue Baird Holmes, and Jane S. Saczynski
Extremal H-Colorings of Trees and 2-connected Graphs, John Engbers and David Galvin
Merging Peg Solitaire in Graphs, John Engbers and Ryan Weber
All Sites but Skin Cancer Incidences Analyzed Worldwide by Sex, Age, and Skin Type Over Time (1955-2007), Advancing Age, and UVB Dose Reveals Important Carcinogenic Drivers, Dianne E. Godar, Rossen Gurov, and Stephen Merrill
Untangling the Most Probable Role for Vitamin D3 in Autism, Dianne E. Godar and Stephen J. Merrill
Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma Incidences Analyzed Worldwide by Sex, Age, and Skin Type over Personal Ultraviolet-B Dose Shows No Role for Sunburn but Implies One for Vitamin D3, Dianne E. Godar, Madhan Subramanian, and Stephen Merrill
Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma Incidences Analyzed Worldwide by Skin Type over Advancing Age of Males and Females: Evidence Estrogen and Androgenic Hair are Risk Factors, Dianne E. Godar, Madhan Subramanian, and Stephen Merrill
Characterizations of Kumaraswamy-Laplace, McDonald Inverse Weibull and New Generalized Exponential Distributions, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani
Some Extended Classes of Distributions: Characterizations and Properties, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani, Gauss M. Cordeiro, M. C.S. Lima, and A. D.C. Nascimento
Characterizations of Recently Introduced Univariate Continuous Distributions, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani and Mehdi Maadooliat
A Short note on the Paper: "New Characterizations of the Pareto Distribution", Gholamhossein G. Hamedani and M. Rasekhi
EIT Imaging of Admittivities with a D-Bar Method and Spatial Prior: Experimental Results for Absolute and Difference Imaging, Sarah J. Hamilton
Incorporating a Spatial Prior into Nonlinear D-Bar EIT Imaging for Complex Admittivities, Sarah J. Hamilton, Jennifer L. Mueller, and Melody Alsaker
Nature of Mathematical Modeling Tasks for Secondary Mathematics Preservice Teachers, Jia He, Eryn Stehr, and Hyunyi Jung
Interproximal Distance Analysis of Stereolithographic Casts Made by CAD-CAM Technology: An in Vitro Study, Melanie Hoffman, Seok-Hwan Cho, and Naveen K. Bansal
Using Algebraic Signatures to Compress Built-in Self Test on a Chip, Jaya Jeswani, John Rose, and Thomas Schwarz
Varieties of Restriction Semigroups and Varieties of Categories, Peter Jones
Conceptions of Modeling Reported by Instructors in Teacher Preparation Programs, Hyunyi Jung, Eryn Stehr, and Jia He
Sexual Dimorphism in Digit Ratios Derived from Dorsal Digit Length among Adults and Children, Sanjay Kumar, Martin Voracek, and Maharaj Singh
Symptom Levels in Care-Seeking Bangladeshi and Nepalese Adults With Advanced Cancer, Richard Love, Tahmina Ferdousy, Bishnu D. Paudel, Shamsun Nahar, Rumana Dowla, Mohammad Adibuzzaman, Golam Mushih Tanimul Ahsan, Miftah Uddin, Reza Selim, and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
K-8 Pre-service Teachers’ Algebraic Thinking: Exploring the Habit of Mind Building Rules to Represent Functions, Marta T. Magiera, John C. Moyer, and Leigh A. van den Kieboom
The Double-edged Sword: A Mixed Methods Study of the Interplay between Bipolar Disorder and Technology Use, Mark Matthews, Elizabeth Murnane, Jaime Snyder, Shion Guha, Pamara Chang, Gavin Doherty, and Geri K. Gay
Genome Resources for Climate‐Resilient Cowpea, an Essential Crop for Food Security, Maria Munoz-Amatriain, Hamid Mirebrahim, Pei Xu, Steve Wanamaker, Ming-Cheng Luo, Hind Alhakami, Matthew Alpert, Ibrahim Atokple, Benoit J. Batieno, Ousmane Boukar, Serdar Bozdag, Ndiaga Cisse, Issa Drabo, Jeffrey D. Ehlers, Andrew Farmer, Christian Fatokun, Yong Q. Gu, Yi-Ning Guo, Bao-Lam Huynh, Scott A. Jackson, Francis Kusi, Cynthia T. Lawley, Mitchell R. Lucas, Yaqin Ma, Michael P. Timko, Jiajie Wu, Frank You, Noelle A. Barkley, Philip A. Roberts, Stefano Lonardi, and Timothy J. Close
A Perspective on the Challenges and Issues in Developing Biomarkers for Human Allergic Risk Assessments, Ying Mu, Dianne E. Godar, and Stephen Merrill
Protein Structure Classification and Loop Modeling Using Multiple Ramachandran Distributions, Seyed Morteza Najibi, Mehdi Maadooliat, Lan Zhou, Jianhua Z. Huang, and Xin Gao
An Online Educational Program Improves Pediatric Oncology Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Spiritual Care Competence, Cheryl L. Petersen, Margaret Callahan, Donna O. McCarthy, Ronda G. Hughes, Rosemary White-Traut, and Naveen K. Bansal
On Congruence Lattices of Nilsemigroups, Alexander L. Popovich and Peter Jones
Predoctoral Dental Students’ Perceptions of Dental Implant Training: Effect of Preclinical Simulation and Clinical Experience, Soni Prasad and Naveen K. Bansal
Implant Treatment in the Predoctoral Clinic: A Retrospective Database Study of 1091 Patients, Soni Prasad, Christopher Hambrook, Eric Reigle, Katherine Sherman, Naveen K. Bansal, and Arthur F. Hefti
A Privacy Preserving Framework for RFID Based Healthcare Systems, Farzana Rahman, Anwarul A. Bhuiyan, and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
AnonPri: A Secure Anonymous Private Authentication Protocol for RFID Systems, Farzana Rahman, Md. Endadul Hoque, and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Mapping the STK4/Hippo Signaling Network in Prostate Cancer Cell, Damien Ready, Kader Yagiz, Pooneh Amin, Yuksel Yildiz, Vincent Funari, Serdar Bozdag, and Bekir Cinar
Weighted Distributions: A Brief Review, Perspective and Characterizations, Aamir Saghir, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani, Sadaf Tazeem, and Aneeqa Khadim
Deriving a Provisional Tolerable Intake for Intravenous Exposure to Silver Nanoparticles Released from Medical Devices, Laura C. Savery, Rene Vinas, Amber M. Nagy, Prachi Pradeep, Stephen Merrill, Subhas G. Malghan, Peter L. Goering, and Ronald P. Brown
Dodrant-Homomorphic Encryption for Cloud Databases using Table Lookup, Thomas Schwarz
De Novo [PSI+] Prion Formation Involves Multiple Pathways to Form Infectious Oligomers, Jaya Sharma, Grett T. Wisniewski, Emily Paulson, Joanna O. Obaoye, Stephen J. Merrill, and Anita L. Manogaran
How Much Do I Know About Mathematical Modeling?, Ji-Won Son, Hyunyi Jung, and Ji Yeong I
Learning to Notice Student Thinking About the Equal Sign: K-8 Preservice Teachers' Experiences in a Teacher Preparation Program, Leigh A. van den Kieboom, Marta T. Magiera, and John C. Moyer
Developing Criteria to Design and Assess Mathematical Modeling Problems: From Problems to Social Justice, Ji Yeong I, Hyunyi Jung, and Ji-Won Son
Submissions from 2016
Towards Modeling Confidentiality in Persuasive Robot Dialogue, Ivor D. Addo, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, and William C. Chu
Privacy Preservation in Affect-Driven Personalization, Ivor D. Addo, Praveen Madiraju, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, and William C. Chu
An Assessment of Statistical Models of Complex-Valued fMRI Data, Daniel W. Adrian, Ranjan Maitra, and Daniel B. Rowe
The Transmuted Weibull-Pareto Distribution, Ahmed Z. Afify, Haitham M. Yousof, Nadeem Shafique Butt, and Gholamhossein G. Hamedani
Characterizations of Pareto, Weibull and Power Function Distributions Based On Generalized Order Statistics, M. Ahsanullah and Gholamhossein Hamedani
New Classes of Univariate Continuous Exponential Power Series Distributions, M. Ahsanullah, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani, M. Shakil, B.M. Golam Kibria, and F. George
Searchable Encryption through Dispersion, Carlos Aiello, Luis Vidal Introini, and Thomas Schwarz
Generalized Transmuted Family of Distributions: Properties and Applications, Morad Alizadeh, Faton Merovci, and Gholamhossein G. Hamedani
Multi-Track Programming Competitions with Scratch (2016), Jason Arnold, Heather Bort, Ryan Naugle, Casey O'Hare, and Dennis Brylow
99MTc-Hexamethylpropyleneamine Oxime Imaging for Early Detection of Acute Lung Injury in Rats Exposed to Hyperoxia or Lipopolysaccharide Treatment, Said H. Audi, Anne V. Clough, Steven T. Haworth, Meetha Medhora, Mahsa Ranji, John C. Densmore, and Elizabeth R. Jacobs
Amalgamation-Type Properties of Arcs and Pseudo-Arcs, Paul Bankston
Ultracoproduct Continua and their Regular Subcontinua, Paul Bankston
Testing multiple hypotheses with skewed alternatives, Naveen K. Bansal, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani, and Mehdi Maadooliat
A Feature Selection Algorithm to Compute Gene Centric Methylation from Probe Level Methylation Data, Brittany Baur and Serdar Bozdag
Models and Modeling Working Group, Corey Brady, Angeles Dominguez, Aran Glancy, Hyunyi Jung, Jeffrey McLean, and James Middleton
A Response to Mathematical Problem Posing as a Measure of Curricular Effect on Students’ Learning, Jinfa Cai, Stephen Hwang, and John C. Moyer
Solving Set Cover with Pairs Problem using Quantum Annealing, Yudong Cao, Shuxian Jiang, Debbie Perouli, and Sabre Kais