The MSCS Faculty Research and Publications Series is comprised of books and articles published by Marquette University's MSCS faculty.
Submissions from 2016
Maximizing H-Colorings of Connected Graphs with Fixed Minimum Degree, John Engbers
A Direct Proof of the Integral Formulae for the Inverse Hyperbolic Functions, John Engbers and Adam Hammett
Two Combinatorial Proofs of Identities Involving Sums of Powers of Binomial Coefficients, John Engbers and Christopher Stocker
Kings and Heirs: A Characterization of the (2,2)-domination Graphs of Tournaments, Kim A. S. Factor and Larry J. Langley
On Characterizations and Infinite Divisibility of Recently Introduced Distributions, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani
Remarks on a Paper of Ahmad, Ahmad and Ahmed, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani
Certain Characterizations of Recently Introduced Distributions, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani and Seyed Morteza Najibi
A Hybrid Segmentation and D-Bar Method for Electrical Impedance Tomography, Sarah J. Hamilton, J. M. Reyes, Samuli Siltanen, and X. Zhang
Pain Level Detection From Facial Image Captured by Smartphone, Md Kamrul Hasan, Golam Mushih Tanimul Ahsan, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Rechard Love, and Reza Salim
New Flexible Regression Models Generated by Gamma Random Variables with Censored Data, Elizabeth M. Hashimoto, Gauss M. Cordeiro, Edwin M. M. Ortega, and Gholamhossein G. Hamedani
A Browser-based IDE for the MUzECS Platform, Omokolade Hunpatin, Casey O'Hare, Ryan Thomas, and Dennis Brylow
Message from the NATA Organizing Committee, Ali Hurson, Ji-jiang Yang, Behrooz Shirazi, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Toyokazu Akiyama, Sahra Sedigh Sarvestani, and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
A Note on the Howson Property in Inverse Semigroups, Peter Jones
Almost Perfect Restriction Semigroups, Peter R. Jones
Roles of a Teacher and Researcher during in situ Professional Development around the Implementation of Mathematical Modeling Tasks, Hyunyi Jung and Corey Brady
Learning About Modeling in Teacher Preparation Programs, Hyunyi Jung, Eryn Stehr, Jia He, and Sharon L. Senk
Activity Detection Using Time-Delay Embedding in Multi-modal Sensor System, Ferdaus Kawsar, Md Kamrul Hasan, Tanvir Roushan, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, William C. Chu, and Rechard Love
Skewed Factor Models Using Selection Mechanisms, Hyoung-Moon Kim, Mehdi Maadooliat, Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle, and Marc G. Genton
Complex-Valued Time-Series Correlation Increases Sensitivity in FMRI Analysis, Mary C. Kociuba and Daniel B. Rowe
CSF Signal as a Complex-Valued RETROICOR Regressor Removes Unwanted Physiological Signal and Increases the Accuracy of Spatial Correlation in Complex-Valued fMRI, Mary C. Kociuba and Daniel B. Rowe
Accuracy and Precision of Occlusal Contacts of Stereolithographic Casts Mounted by Digital Interocclusal Registrations, Jason T. Krahenbuhl, Seok-Hwan Cho, Jon Patrick Irelan, and Naveen K. Bansal
The Decay of Disease Association with Declining Linkage Disequilibrium: A Fine Mapping Theorem, Mehdi Maadooliat, Naveen K. Bansal, Jibal Upadhya, Manzur R. Farazi, Xiang Li, Max M. He, Scott J. Hebbring, Zhan Ye, and Steven J. Schrodi
Collective estimation of multiple bivariate density functions with application to angular-sampling-based protein loop modeling, Mehdi Maadooliat, Lan Zhou, Seyed Morteza Najibi, Xin Gao, and Jianhua Z. Huang
Your Walk is My Command: Gait Detection on Unconstrained Smartphone Using IoT System, AKM Jahangir Alam Majumder, Piyush Saxena, and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Disjoint Supercyclic Weighted Shifts, Özgür Martin and Rebecca Sanders
Biomarkers for Radiation Pneumonitis Using Noninvasive Molecular Imaging, Meetha Medhora, Steven Haworth, Yu Liu, Jayashree Narayanan, Feng Gao, Ming Zhao, Said H. Audi, Elizabeth R. Jacobs, Brian L. Fish, and Anne V. Clough
Another Generalized Transmuted Family of Distributions: Properties and Applications, Faton Merovci, Morad Alizadeh, and Gholamhossein Hamedani
Worldwide Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma Incidences Analyzed by Sex, Age, and Skin Type Over Time (1955–2007): Is HPV Infection of Androgenic Hair Follicular Melanocytes a Risk Factor for Developing Melanoma Exclusively in People of European-Ancestry?, Stephen Merrill, Madhan Subramanian, and Dianne E. Godar
A Generalized Gamma-Weibull Distribution: Model, Properties and Applications, R. S. Meshkat, H. Torabi, and Gholamhossein G. Hamedani
Machine Learning and Grounded Theory Method: Convergence, Divergence, and Combination, Michael Muller, Shion Guha, Eric P.S. Baumer, David Mimno, and N. Sadat Shami
Influences of Peers, Friends, and Managers on Employee Engagement, Michael Muller, N. Sadat Shami, Shion Guha, Mikhil Masli, Geyer Werner, and Alan Wild
Genome Resources for Climate-Resilient Cowpea, An Essential Crop for Food Security, María Muñoz-Amatriaín, Hamid Mirebrahim, Pei Xu, Steve Wanamaker, MingCheng 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
Self-monitoring Practices, Attitudes, and Needs of Individuals with Bipolar Disorder: Implications for the Design of Technologies to Manage Mental Health, Elizabeth L. Murnane, Dan Cosley, Pamara Chang, Shion Guha, Ellen Frank, Geri K. Gay, and Mark Matthews
Pooling Strength Amongst Limited Datasets using Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis, with Application to Pyroclastic Density Current Mobility Metrics, Sarah E. Ogburn, James Berger, Eliza S. Calder, Danilo Lopes, Abani K. Patra, E. Bruce Pitman, Regis Rutarindwa, Elaine Spiller, and Robert L. Wolpert
An Ensemble Model of QSAR Tools for Regulatory Risk Assessment, Prachi Pradeep, Richard J. Povinelli, Shannon White, and Stephen Merrill
Privacy Challenges and Goals in mHealth Systems, Farzana Rahman, Ivor D. Addo, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, J.-J. Yang, and Q. Wang
Image Reconstruction in Functional MRI, Daniel B. Rowe
Image Registration Techniques Alter Image Properties in fMRI, Daniel B. Rowe
Separation of Parallel Encoded Complex-Valued Slices (SPECS) From A Single Complex-Valued Aliased Coil Image, Daniel B. Rowe, Iain P. Bruce, Andrew S. Nencka, James S. Hyde, and Mary C. Kociuba
RESAR: Reliable Storage at Exabyte Scale, Thomas Schwarz, Ahmed Amer, Thomas Kroeger, Ethan Miller, Darrell Long, and Jehan-François Pâris
Supporting Preservice Teachers’ Use of Connections and Technology in Algebra Teaching and Learning, Eryn Stehr, Hyunyi Jung, Jill Newton, and Sharon L. Senk
A New Weibull-G Family of Distributions, M. H. Tahir, Muhammad Zubair, M. Mansoor, Gauss M. Cordeiro, Morad Alizadeh, and Gholamhossein Hamedani
Message from STPSA 2016 Workshop Organizers, Hassan Takabi, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, and Mohammad Zulkernine
Treatment with ActRIIB-mFc Produces Myofiber Growth and Improves Lifespan in the Acta1 H40Y Murine Model of Nemaline Myopathy, Jennifer Tinklenberg, Hui Meng, Lin Yang, Fujun Liu, Raymond G. Hoffmann, Mahua Dasgupta, Kenneth P. Allen, Alan H. Beggs, Edna C. Hardeman, R. Scott Pearsall, Robert Fitts, and Michael W. Lawlor
Impact of MYH6 Variants in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Aoy Tomita-Mitchell, Karl D. Stamm, Donna K. Mahnke, Min-Su Kim, Pip M. Hidestrand, Huan-Ling Liang, Mary A. Goetsch, Mats Hidestrand, Pippa Simpson, Andrew N. Pelech, James S. Tweddell, D. Woodrow Benson, John Lough, and Michael Mitchell
Impact of MYH6 Variants in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, Aoy Tomita-Mitchell, Karl D. Stamm, Donna K. Mahnke, Min-Su Kim, Pip M. Hidestrand, Huan-Ling Liang, Mary Goetsch, Pippa Simpson, Andrew N. Pelech, James S. Tweddell, D. Woodrow Benson, John Lough, and Michael E. Mitchell
Challenges in Developing Applications for Aging Populations, Drew Marie Williams, Md O. Gani, Ivor D. Addo, AKM Jahangir Alam Majumder, Chandana Tamma, Mong-Te Wang, Chih-Hung Chang, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, and Cheng-Chung Chu
Message from the MediComp Workshop Organizers, Ji-jiang Yang, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, and Jianqiang Li
On Six-Parameter Fréchet Distribution: Properties and Applications, Haitham M. Yousof, Ahmed Z. Afify, Abd El Hadi N. Ebraheim, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani, and Nadeem Shafique Butt
Submissions from 2015
A Reference Architecture for Social Media Intelligence Applications in the Cloud, Ivor D. Addo, Duc Do, Rong Ge, and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Assessment of Pain Using Facial Pictures Taken with a Smartphone, Mohammad Adibuzzaman, Colin R. Ostberg, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Richard J. Povinelli, Bhagwant Sindhu, Richard Love, Ferdaus Ahmed Kawsar, and Golam Mushih Tanimul Ahsan
Characterizations of Distributions via Conditional Expectation of Generalized Order Statistics, M. Ahsanullah, Gholamhossein Hamedani, and Mehdi Maadooliat
The Kumaraswamy Marshal-Olkin Family of Distributions, Morad Alizadeh, M. H. Tahir, Gauss M. Cordeiro, M. Mansoor, Muhammad Zubair, and Gholamhossein Hamedani
Multi-Track Programming Competitions with Scratch, Jason Arnold, Heather Bort, Ryan Naugle, Casey O'Hare, and Dennis Brylow
In vivo Detection of Hyperoxia-induced Pulmonary Endothelial Cell Death Using 99mTc-Duramycin, Said H. Audi, Elizabeth R. Jacobs, Ming Zhao, David L. Roerig, Steven T. Haworth, and Anne V. Clough
MUzECS: Embedded Blocks for Exploring Computer Science, Matthew Bajzek, Heather Bort, Omokolade Hunpatin, Luke Mivshek, Tyler Much, Casey O'Hare, and Dennis Brylow
A Bayesian Methodology for Detecting Targeted Genes Under Two Related Experiments, Naveen K. Bansal, Hongmei Jiang, and Prachi Pradeep
Missing Photos, Suffering Withdrawal, or Finding Freedom? How Experiences of Social Media Non-Use Influence the Likelihood of Reversion, Eric P.S. Baumer, Shion Guha, Emily Quan, David Mimno, and Geri K. Gay
A Canonical Correlation Analysis-Based Dynamic Bayesian Network Prior to Infer Gene Regulatory Networks from Multiple Types of Biological Data, Brittany Baur and Serdar Bozdag
Probabilistic Quantification of Hazards: A Methodology Using Small Ensembles of Physics-based Simulations and Statistical Surrogates, M. J. Bayarri, J. O. Berger, E. S. Calder, Abani K. Patra, E. Bruce Pitman, Elaine T. Spiller, and Robert L. Wolpert
Introducing Computing Concepts to Non-Majors: A Case Study in Gothic Novels, Heather Bort, Mimi Czarnik, and Dennis Brylow
Models and Modeling, Corey Brady, Hyunyi Jung, and Cheryl Eames
Applying SPOCs for Programming Course to Improve Study Quality, William Cheng-Chung Chu, Stephen Hung, Chih-Hung Chang, and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Extremal H-Colorings of Graphs with Fixed Minimum Degree, John Engbers
Combinatorially Interpreting Generalized Stirling Numbers, John Engbers, David Galvin, and Justin Hilyard
Reversible Peg Solitaire on Graphs, John Engbers and Christopher Stocker
Characterizations of Gamma Distribution via Sub-Independent Random Variables, Gholamhossein Hamedani
Characterizations of NWP, ETGR and TWL Distributions, Gholamhossein Hamedani
Characterizations of Transmuted Complementary Weibull Geometric Distribution, Gholamhossein Hamedani
Characterizations of Levy Distribution via Sub-Independence of the Random Variables and Truncated Moments, Gholamhossein G. Hamedani, M. Ahsanullah, and Seyed Morteza Najibi
Kumaraswamy-Half-Cauchy Distribution: Characterizations and Related Results, Gholamhossein Hamedani and I. Ghosh
Sub-Independence: A Useful Concept, Gholamhossein Hamedani and Mehdi Maadooliat
e-ESAS: Evolution of a Participatory Design-based Solution for Breast Cancer (BC) Patients in Rural Bangladesh, Mohammad Munirul Haque, Ferdaus Kawsar, Mohammad Adibuzzaman, Md Miftah Uddin, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Richard Love, Ragib Hasan, Rumana Dowla, Tahmina Ferdousy, and Reza Salim
Analysing Student Work Involving Geometric Concepts, Hyunyi Jung
Strategies to Support Students' Mathematical Modeling, Hyunyi Jung
Characteristics of Feedback that Influence Student Confidence and Performance during Mathematical Modeling, Hyunyi Jung, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Aladar K. Horvath, Kelsey Joy Rodgers, and Monica E. Cardella
Preparing Secondary Mathematics Teachers: Focus on Modeling in Algebra, Hyunyi Jung, Alexia Mintos, and Jill Newton
Incorporating Relaxivities to More Accurately Reconstruct MR Images, Muge Karaman, Iain P. Bruce, and Daniel B. Rowe
A Novel Activity Detection System Using Plantar Pressure Sensors and Smartphone, Ferdaus Ahmed Kawsar, Md Kamrul Hasan, Richard Love, and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Activin-A and Bmp4 Levels Modulate Cell Type Specification during CHIR-Induced Cardiomyogenesis, Min-Su Kim, Audrey Horst, Steven Blinka, Karl D. Stamm, Donna K. Mahnke, James Schuman, Rebekah Gundry, Aoy Tomita-Mitchell, and John Lough
Predicting Scenarios for Successful Autodissemination of Pyriproxyfen by Malaria Vectors from Their Resting Sites to Aquatic Habitats; Description and Simulation Analysis of a Field-Parameterizable Model, Samson Sifael Kiware, George F. Corliss, Stephen Merrill, Dickson W. Lwetoijera, Gregor J. Devine, Silas Majambere, and Gerry F. Killeen
Gene Expression in Experimental Aortic Coarctation and Repair: Candidate Genes for Therapeutic Intervention?, John F. LaDisa Jr., Serdar Bozdag, Jessica Olson, Ramani Ramchandran, Judy R. Kersten, and Thomas J. Eddinger
Integrating Data Transformation in Principal Components Analysis, Mehdi Maadooliat, Jianhua Z. Huang, and Jianhua Hu
A Novel Wireless System to Monitor Gait Using Smartshoe-Worn Sensors, Jahangir Majumder, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Richard J. Povinelli, Chandana Tamma, and Roger O. Smith
The ACE1 Thoracic Electrical Impedance Tomography System for Ventilation and Perfusion, Michelle M. Mellenthin, Jennifer L. Mueller, Erick Dario León Bueno de Camargo, Fernando Silva de Moura, Sarah J. Hamilton, and Raul Gonzales Lima
Exponentially Increasing Incidences of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma in Europe Correlate with Low Personal Annual UV Doses and Suggests 2 Major Risk Factors, Stephen Merrill, Samira Ashrafi, Madhan Subramanian, and Dianne E. Godar
Thyroid Autoimmunity as a Window to Autoimmunity: An Explanation for Sex Differences in the Prevalence of Thyroid Autoimmunity, Stephen Merrill and Ying Mu
Sequencing of 15 622 Gene-bearing BACs Clarifies the Gene-dense Regions of the Barley Genome, María Muñoz-Amatriaín, Stefano Lonardi, MingCheng Luo, Kavitha Madishetty, Jan T. Svensson, Matthew J. Moscou, Steve Wanamaker, Tao Jiang, Andris Kleinhofs, Gary J. Muehlbauer, Roger P. Wise, Nils Stein, Shane Ma, Edmundo Rodriguez, Dave Kudrna, Prasanna R. Bhat, Shiaoman Chao, Pascal Condamine, Shane Heinen, Josh Resnik, Rod Wing, Heather N. Witt, Matthew Alpert, Marco Beccuti, Serdar Bozdag, Francesca Cordero, Hamid Mirebrahim, Rachid Ounit, Yonghui Wu, Frank You, Jie Zheng, Hana Simková, Jaroslav Dolezel, Jane Grimwood, Jeremy Schmutz, Denisa Duma, Lothar Altschmied, Tom Blake, Phil Bregitzer, Laurel Cooper, Muharrem Dilbirligi, Anders Falk, Leila Feiz, Andreas Graner, Perry Gustafson, Patrick M. Hayes, Peggy Lemaux, Jafar Mammadov, and Timothy J. Close
Free Split Bands, Francis Pastijn and Justin Albert
Novel Uses of In Vitro Data to Develop Quantitative Biological Activity Relationship Models for in Vivo Carcinogenicity Prediction, Prachi Pradeep, Richard J. Povinelli, Stephen Merrill, Serdar Bozdag, and Daniel Sem
A Novel Scoring Based Distributed Protein Docking Application to Improve Enrichment, Prachi Pradeep, Craig Struble, Terrence Neumann, Daniel S. Sem, and Stephen Merrill
The Kumaraswamy-G Poisson Family of Distributions, Manoel Wallace A. Ramos, Pedro Rafael D. Marinho, Gauss M. Cordeiro, Ronaldo V. da Silva, and Gholamhossein Hamedani
iPeer: A Sociotechnical Systems Approach for Helping Veterans with Civilian Reintegration, Rizwana Rizia, Zeno Franco, Katinka Hooyer, Nadiyah Frances Johnson, A B M Kowser Patwary, Golam Mushih Tanimul Ahsan, Bob Curry, Mark Flower, and Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed
Students’ Perceptions of and Responses to Teaching Assistant and Peer Feedback, Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Aladar K. Horvath, Hyunyi Jung, Amanda S. Fry, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, and Monica E. Cardella
Signal Processing Spreads a Voxel’s Temporal Frequency Task-Activated Peak and Induces Spatial Correlations in Dual-Task Complex-Valued fMRI, Daniel B. Rowe
Maximal Class p-Groups with Large Character Degree Gaps, Michael Slattery
Mathematical Knowledge for Teachers: Opportunities to Learn to Teach Algebra in Teacher Education Programs, Eryn Stehr, Jeffrey Craig, Hyunyi Jung, Leonardo Medel, Alexia Mintos, and Jill Newton
The Transmuted Exponentiated Generalized-G Family of Distributions, Haitham M. Yousof, Ahmed Z. Afify, Morad Alizadeh, Nadeem Shafique Butt, and Gholamhossein Hamedani
An Exploratory Analysis of Pre-Service Middle School Teachers' Mathematical Arguments, Vecihi S. Zambak and Marta T. Magiera
Thermodynamically-Constrained Computational Model of Lung Mitochondrial Bioenergetics, Xiao Zhang, Ranjan K. Dash, Anne V. Clough, Elizabeth R. Jacobs, and Said H. Audi