Carlos Alvarez College of Business Faculty Research
Recent Submissions
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Identifying Flow Patterns in a Narrow Channel via Feature Extraction of Conductivity Measurements with a Support Vector Machine
(2023-02-08)In this work, a visualization experiment for rectangular channels was carried out to explore gas–liquid two-phase flow characteristics. Typical flow patterns, including bubble, elastic and mixed flows, were captured by ... -
Positive Clinical Outcomes for Severe Reported Pain Using Robust Non-Addictive Home Electrotherapy—A Case-Series
(2023-02-15)The North American opioid epidemic has resulted in over 800,000 related premature overdose fatalities since 2000, with the United States leading the world in highest opioid deaths per capita. Despite increased federal ... -
A Conway–Maxwell–Poisson Type Generalization of Hypergeometric Distribution
(2023-02-02)The hypergeometric distribution has gained its importance in practice as it pertains to sampling without replacement from a finite population. It has been used to estimate the population size of rare species in ecology, ... -
Clinical and Quality of Life Benefits for End-Stage Workers' Compensation Chronic Pain Claimants following H-Wave(R) Device Stimulation: A Retrospective Observational Study with Mean 2-Year Follow-Up
(2023-02-01)Previously promising short-term H-Wave(R) device stimulation (HWDS) outcomes prompted this retrospective cohort study of the longer-term effects on legacy workers' compensation chronic pain claimants. A detailed chart-review ... -
Can Hierarchical Transformers Learn Facial Geometry?
(2023-01-13)Human faces are a core part of our identity and expression, and thus, understanding facial geometry is key to capturing this information. Automated systems that seek to make use of this information must have a way of ... -
Genetic Addiction Risk and Psychological Profiling Analyses for "Preaddiction" Severity Index
(2022-10-27)Since 1990, when our laboratory published the association of the DRD2 Taq A1 allele and severe alcoholism in JAMA, there has been an explosion of genetic candidate association studies, including genome-wide association ... -
Quantifying Privacy Risks for Continuous Trait Data
(2022-10-20)In the context of life sciences, the rapid biotechnical development leads to the creation of huge amounts of biological data. The use of such data naturally brings concerns on human genetic privacy breaches, which also ... -
Job-Related Performance and Quality of Life Benefits in First Responders Given Access to H-Wave® Device Stimulation: A Retrospective Cohort Study
(2022-10-08)Current chronic pain treatments primarily target symptoms and are often associated with harmful side-effects and complications, while safer non-invasive electrotherapies like H-Wave® device stimulation (HWDS) have been ... -
Fuzzy Reasoning Numerical Spiking Neural P Systems for Induction Motor Fault Diagnosis
(2022-09-28)The fuzzy reasoning numerical spiking neural P systems (FRNSN P systems) are proposed by introducing the interval-valued triangular fuzzy numbers into the numerical spiking neural P systems (NSN P systems). The NSN P systems ... -
Statistical Validation of Risk Alleles in Genetic Addiction Risk Severity (GARS) Test: Early Identification of Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) in 74,566 Case–Control Subjects
(2022-08-26)Since 1990, when our laboratory published the association of the DRD2 Taq A1 allele and severe alcoholism in JAMA, there has been an explosion of genetic candidate association studies, including GWAS. To develop an accurate ... -
Classical and Bayesian Inference of a Progressive-Stress Model for the Nadarajah–Haghighi Distribution with Type II Progressive Censoring and Different Loss Functions
(2022-05-08)Accelerated life testing (ALT) is a time-saving technology used in a variety of fields to obtain failure time data for test units in a fraction of the time required to test them under normal operating conditions. This study ... -
Mean Equality Tests for High-Dimensional and Higher-Order Data with k-Self Similar Compound Symmetry Covariance Structure
(2022-02-01)An extension of the D2 test statistic to test the equality of mean for high-dimensional and k-th order array-variate data using k-self similar compound symmetry (k-SSCS) covariance structure is derived. The k-th order ... -
More on the Supremum Statistic to Test Multivariate Skew-Normality
(2021-11-29)This review is about verifying and generalizing the supremum test statistic developed by Balakrishnan et al. Exhaustive simulation studies are conducted for various dimensions to determine the effect, in terms of empirical ... -
Participatory sensing-based semantic and spatial analysis of urban emergency events using mobile social media
(EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking volume;44, 2016-02-09)With the advances of information communication technologies, it is critical to improve the efficiency and accuracy of emergency management systems through modern data processing techniques. Geographic information system ... -
Ensemble-based multi-filter feature selection method for DDoS detection in cloud computing
(EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking;130, 2016-05-10)Widespread adoption of cloud computing has increased the attractiveness of such services to cybercriminals. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting the cloud’s bandwidth, services and resources to render the ... -
Secure and privacy-preserving 3D vehicle positioning schemes for vehicular ad hoc network
(EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking;271, 2018-11-29)Industrial wireless networks (IWNs) have applications in areas such as critical infrastructure sectors and manufacturing industries such as car manufacturing. In car manufacturing, IWNs can facilitate manufacturers to ... -
Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection for Distributed Denial of Service Attack in Agriculture 4.0
(5/25/2021)Smart Agriculture or Agricultural Internet of things, consists of integrating advanced technologies (e.g., NFV, SDN, 5G/6G, Blockchain, IoT, Fog, Edge, and AI) into existing farm operations to improve the quality and ... -
Novel Numerical Spiking Neural P Systems with a Variable Consumption Strategy
(3/20/2021)A novel variant of NSN P systems, called numerical spiking neural P systems with a variable consumption strategy (NSNVC P systems), is proposed. Like the spiking rules consuming spikes in spiking neural P systems, NSNVC P ... -
Load-Sharing Model under Lindley Distribution and Its Parameter Estimation Using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm
(11/22/2020)A load-sharing system is defined as a parallel system whose load will be redistributed to its surviving components as each of the components fails in the system. Our focus is on making statistical inference of the parameters ... -
Testing the Strength of Hospital Accreditation as a Signal of the Quality of Care in Romania: Do Patients’ and Health Professionals’ Perceptions Align?
(9/19/2020)Hospital accreditation, as a quality signal, is gaining its popularity among low- and middle-income countries, such as Romania, despite its costly nature. Nevertheless, its effectiveness as a quality signal in driving ...