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Submissions from 2025

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Evaluation of an Active Control, Constant Normal Stiffness Apparatus for Improved Evaluation of Shaft Friction in Micropiles in the Offshore Environment, A. Babaee, C. D.P. Baxter, and A. S. Bradshaw

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Relationship between shear band dilation and stress-corrected relative density under constant normal stiffness (CNS) conditions, Amir Babaee, Aaron S. Bradshaw, and Christopher D.P. Baxter

Submissions from 2024

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Hysteretic damping of piles in sands for offshore wind jacket structures, Aaron S. Bradshaw and Irina Perepelitsa

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A case study of foundation damping in a piled offshore wind jacket structure, Aaron S. Bradshaw, Maeve Story, Irina Perepelitsa, Christopher D.P. Baxter, Nasim Partovi-Mehr, Babak Moaveni, and Eric M. Hines

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An investigation into the electromechanical performance of textile fabrics with conductive yarn elements for data transfer capabilities, Birendra Chaudhary, Gideon A. Lyngdoh, Jim Owens, Sumanta Das, and Helio Matos

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Multifunctional composite structures with embedded conductive yarns for shock load monitoring and failure detection, Birendra Chaudhary, Helio Matos, Sumanta Das, and Jim Owens

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Review of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Structures with Multifunctional Capabilities through Smart Textiles, Birendra Chaudhary, Thomas Winnard, Bolaji Oladipo, Sumanta Das, and Helio Matos

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Literature review on appropriate health-based standards for direct and indirect potable reuse as well as various non-potable reuse scenarios, Carrie Ellis, Alexandra Russo, and Joseph E. Goodwill

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Application of the T-Z Method to the Analysis of Rigid Inclusions, Thomas Grogan and Aaron S. Bradshaw

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Review of Modeling Approaches at the Freshwater and Saltwater interface in Coastal Aquifers, Mamoon Ismail, Soni M. Pradhanang, Thomas Boving, Sophia Motta, Brendan McCarron, and Ashley Volk

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Lithium in drinking water: Review of chemistry, analytical methods, and treatment technologies, Julie A. Korak, Philip J. Brandhuber, and Joseph E. Goodwill

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Integrating data imputation and augmentation with interpretable machine learning for efficient strength prediction of fly ash-based alkali-activated concretes, Nausad Miyan, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, and Sumanta Das

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Shock response of sandwich panels with additively manufactured polymer gyroid lattice cores, Bolaji Oladipo, Sami Doner, Gideon A. Lyngdoh, Jonathan T. Villada, Piyush Wanchoo, Helio Matos, Arun Shukla, and Sumanta Das

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A data-driven global flood forecasting system for medium to large rivers, Wahid Palash, Ali S. Akanda, and Shafiqul Islam

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The contraction of freshwater lenses in barrier island: A combined geophysical and numerical analysis, Jeeban Panthi, Thomas B. Boving, Soni M. Pradhanang, Christopher J. Russoniello, and Seogi Kang

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Time-Lapse Geophysical Measurements for Monitoring Coastal Groundwater Dynamics in an Unconfined Aquifer, Jeeban Panthi, Thomas Boving, Soni M. Pradhanang, and Mamoon Ismail

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Fatigue Analysis of a Jacket-Supported Offshore Wind Turbine at Block Island Wind Farm, Nasim Partovi-Mehr, John DeFrancisci, Mohsen Minaeijavid, Babak Moaveni, Daniel Kuchma, Christopher D.P. Baxter, Eric M. Hines, and Aaron S. Bradshaw

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Elucidating the evolution of pore structure, microstructural damage, and micromechanical response in cement pastes containing microencapsulated phase change materials under freeze-thaw conditions, Rakesh Paswan and Sumanta Das

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Meso-structural degradation and mechanical property evolution in cementitious mortars containing microencapsulated phase change materials under extended freeze-thaw cycles, Rakesh Paswan and Sumanta Das

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Assessing the Hydrologic Response of a Major Drinking Water Reservoir to Extreme Flood Events and Climate Change Using SWAT and OASIS, Supria Paul, Soni M. Pradhanang, and Thomas B. Boving

Assessing the Reservoir Inflow Relationship for Effective Flood Mitigation: A Hydrologic Modeling Approach for Scituate Reservoir, Rhode Island, Supria Paul, Soni M. Pradhanang, and Thomas B. Boving

Submissions from 2023

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A Ten-Fold Solvent Kinetic Isotope Effect for the Nonradiative Relaxation of the Aqueous Ferrate(VI) Ion, Cali Antolini, Danielle J. Jacoby, Sophia M. Tiano, Christopher J. Otolski, Gilles Doumy, Anne Marie March, Donald A. Walko, Joseph E. Goodwill, and Dugan Hayes

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Simple Modifications to a Direct Shear Device to Perform Constant Normal Stiffness (CNS) Tests, C. D.P. Baxter, J. Fernandez Scarioni, A. S. Bradshaw, and A. Babaee

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Contaminant Back Diffusion from Low-Conductivity Matrices: Case Studies of Remedial Strategies, Julie Blue, Thomas Boving, Mary Ellen Tuccillo, Jonathan Koplos, Jason Rose, Michael Brooks, and David Burden

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Corrigendum to “Quantification of microplastics in sediments from Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island USA using a novel isolation and extraction method” (Marine Pollution Bulletin (2022) 174, (S0025326X21012881), (10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.113254)), Michaela Cashman, Troy Langknecht, Dounia El Khatib, Robert M. Burgess, Thomas B. Boving, Sandra Robinson, James Farnan, and Kay T. Ho

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Multifunctional carbon/epoxy composites with power transmission capabilities, Birendra Chaudhary, Helio Matos, Sumanta Das, and Jim Owens

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Late Pleistocene-Holocene age and stratigraphy of the Currituck Slide Complex, U.S. mid-Atlantic continental slope: Implications for landslide triggering, Jason D. Chaytor, Uri S. ten Brink, and Christopher D.P. Baxter

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The influence of metallic particulate inclusions on the mechanical and thermal performance of 3D printable acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene/thermoplastic polyurethane fused polymer blends, Sami Doner, Rakesh Paswan, and Sumanta Das

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Improving the Creep Resistance of Hardened Cement Paste through the Addition of Wollastonite Microfibers: Evaluation Using the Micro-Indentation Technique, Sami Doner, Jonathan T. Villada, and Sumanta Das

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Pullout Capacity of Single and Biwing Anchors in a Soft Clay Deposit: Model Investigation in a Centrifuge and FEM Predictions, J. Fanning, V. Sivakumar, S. Nanda, K. Gavin, T. Murray, A. Bradshaw, J. Black, and S. Jalilvand

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Structural instrumentation and monitoring of the Block Island Offshore Wind Farm, Eric M. Hines, Christopher D.P. Baxter, David Ciochetto, Mingming Song, Per Sparrevik, Henrik J. Meland, James M. Strout, Aaron Bradshaw, Sau Lon Hu, Jorge R. Basurto, and Babak Moaveni

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Groundwater quality: global challenges, emerging threats and novel approaches, Dan Lapworth, Thomas Boving, Bentje Brauns, Jane Dottridge, Paul Hynds, Seifu Kebede, David Kreamer, Bruce Misstear, Abhijit Mukherjee, Viviana Re, James Sorensen, and Claudia Ruz Vargas

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Discerning Watershed Response to Hydroclimatic Extremes with a Deep Convolutional Residual Regressive Neural Network, Albert Larson, Abdeltawab Hendawi, Thomas Boving, Soni M. Pradhanang, and Ali S. Akanda

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Machine learning guided design of microencapsulated phase change materials-incorporated concretes for enhanced freeze-thaw durability, He Wen Xuan Li, Gideon Lyngdoh, N. M.Anoop Krishnan, and Sumanta Das

FRAGILITY ANALYSIS OF DUNES REINFORCED WITH GEOSYNTHETIC SAND CONTAINERS, Brian Maggi, Christopher Baxter, and Annette Grilli

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Integrating experiments, finite element analysis, and interpretable machine learning to evaluate the auxetic response of 3D printed re-entrant metamaterials, Bolaji Oladipo, Helio Matos, N. M.Anoop Krishnan, and Sumanta Das

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Delineating bedrock topography with geophysical techniques: An implication for groundwater mapping, Jeeban Panthi, Carole D. Johnson, Soni M. Pradhanang, Brian Savage, Mamoon Y. Ismail, and Thomas B. Boving

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Sustainable Water Treatment with Induced Bank Filtration, Miles Schelling, Kavita Patil, and Thomas B. Boving

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Chitosan of blood cockle shell (Anadara granosa) as a natural coagulant for removal of total suspended solids (TSS) and turbidity of well-water, Eko Siswoyo, Rahmalina Nur Zahra, Nurul Hardina A. Mai, Awaluddin Nurmiyanto, Kazuo Umemura, and Thomas Boving

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An anchoring system for supporting platforms for wind energy devices, Vinayagamoorthy Sivakumar, Joseph Fanning, Ken Gavin, Snehasis Tripathy, Aaron Bradshaw, Edward J. Murray, Jonathan Black, and Shane Donohue

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Pilot-scale evaluation of sulfite-activated ferrate for water reuse applications, Charles D. Spellman Jr. and Joseph E. Goodwill

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Evaluating the adhesion response of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS)/thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) fused interface using multiscale simulation and experiments, Jonathan T. Villada, Gideon A. Lyngdoh, Rakesh Paswan, Bolaji Oladipo, and Sumanta Das

Submissions from 2022

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Prediction of Pavement Maintenance Performance Using an Expert System, Abdullah Al-Mansour, Kang-Won Wayne Lee, and Abdulraaof H. Al-Qaili

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Photochemical and Photophysical Dynamics of the Aqueous Ferrate(VI) Ion, Cali Antolini, Charles D. Spellman, Christopher J. Otolski, Gilles Doumy, Anne Marie March, Donald A. Walko, Cunming Liu, Xiaoyi Zhang, Benjamin T. Young, Joseph E. Goodwill, and Dugan Hayes

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Approach to Estimate Hysteretic Soil Damping in Piled Jacket Structures, Aaron S. Bradshaw

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Field study of group effects on the pullout capacity of “deep” helical piles in sand, Aaron S. Bradshaw, Lindsay Cullen, and Zachary Miller

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Communal Wastewater Treatment Plants’ Effectiveness, Management, and Quality of Groundwater: A Case Study in Indonesia, Widodo Brontowiyono, Thomas Boving, Adelia Anju Asmara, Suphia Rahmawati, Andik Yulianto, Noviani Ima Wantoputri, Annisa Nur Lathifah, and Yuli Andriansyah

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Non-technical dimensions of communal wastewater treatment plant sustainability in peri-urban Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Widodo Brontowiyono, Thomas Boving, Adelia Anju Asmara, Suphia Rahmawati, Andik Yulianto, Noviani Ima Wantoputri, Annisa Nur Lathifah, and Yuli Andriansyah

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Peroxone activated persulfate oxidation of 1,4-Dioxane under column scale conditions, M. Cashman, R. Ball, T. Lewis, and T. B. Boving

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Quantification of microplastics in sediments from Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island USA using a novel isolation and extraction method, Michaela A. Cashman, Troy Langknecht, Dounia El Khatib, Robert M. Burgess, Thomas B. Boving, Sandra Robinson, and Kay T. Ho

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Fracture response of wollastonite fiber-reinforced cementitious composites: Evaluation using micro-indentation and finite element simulation, Sami Doner, Gideon A. Lyngdoh, Sumeru Nayak, and Sumanta Das

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Emerging investigator series: moving beyond resilience by considering antifragility in potable water systems, Joseph E. Goodwill, Patrick Ray, Destenie Nock, and Christopher M. Miller

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New insights into the failure mechanisms of horizontal plate anchors in clay during pull-out, Soroosh Jalilvand, Kenneth Gavin, Vinayagamoothy Sivakumar, Robert B. Gilbert, and Aaron Bradshaw

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Groundwater quality: Global threats, opportunities and realising the potential of groundwater, D. J. Lapworth, T. B. Boving, D. K. Kreamer, S. Kebede, and P. L. Smedley

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Elucidating the Interfacial Bonding Behavior of Over-Molded Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites: Experiment and Multiscale Numerical Simulation, Gideon A. Lyngdoh and Sumanta Das

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Elucidating the auxetic behavior of cementitious cellular composites using finite element analysis and interpretable machine learning, Gideon A. Lyngdoh, Nora-Kristin Kelter, Sami Doner, N.M. Anoop Krishnan, and Sumanta Das

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Prediction of Concrete Strengths Enabled by Missing Data Imputation and Interpretable Machine Learning, Gideon A. Lyngdoh, Mohd Zaki, N.M. Anoop Krishnan, and Sumanta Das

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Predicting the Near Field Underwater Explosion Response of Coated Composite Cylinders using Multiscale Simulations, Experiments, and Machine Learning, Sumeru Nayak, Gideon A. Lyngdoh, Arun Shukla, and Sumanta Das

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A High-Resolution Earth Observations and Machine Learning-Based Approach to Forecast Waterborne Disease Risk in Post-Disaster Settings, Farah Nusrat, Musad Haque, Derek Rollend, Gordon Christie, and Ali S. Akanda

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Saltwater intrusion into coastal aquifers in the contiguous United States — A systematic review of investigation approaches and monitoring networks, Jeeban Panthi, Soni M. Pradhanang, Annika Nolte, and Thomas B. Boving

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Determining the threshold displacement energy of magnesium using molecular dynamics simulations, Tanu Pittie, Gautam Kunwar, Sumanta Das, Jayant Jain, and Krishnan N M Anoop

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Sulfite-activated ferrate for water reuse applications, Charles D. Spellman Jr., Sahar Da'Er, Kaoru Ikuma, Isabella Silverman, and Joseph E. Goodwill

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Sustainable groundwater treatment technologies for underserved rural communities in emerging economies, Boving Thomas, Craver Vinka, Labhasetwar Pawan, and Sabatini David

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Assessment of Urban Water-Energy Interactions and Heat Island Signatures in Rhode Island, Fabian Wagner, Farah Nusrat, Leon Thiem, and Ali S. Akanda

Submissions from 2021

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Physicochemical implications of cyanobacteria oxidation with Fe(VI), Erika L. Addison, Kyle T. Gerlach, Charles D. Spellman Jr., Grace Santilli, Alyson R. Fairbrother, Zachary Shepard, Jeanine D. Dudle, and Joseph E. Goodwill

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Does improved risk information increase the value of cholera prevention? An analysis of stated vaccine demand in slum areas of urban Bangladesh, Sonia Aziz, Emily L. Pakhtigian, Ali S. Akanda, Antarpreet Jutla, Anwar Huq, Munirul Alam, Gias U. Ashan, and Rita R. Colwell

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Versatility, Cost Analysis, and Scale-up in Fluoride and Arsenic Removal Using Metal-organic Framework-based Adsorbents, Linisha Biswal, Joseph E. Goodwill, Christoph Janiak, and Somak Chatterjee

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Contaminant transport and fate, Thomas B. Boving and William J. Blanford

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Cyclic Strain Approach for the Analysis of Ocean Wave Liquefaction, Aaron S. Bradshaw and Artur Apostolov

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Effect of ferrate and monochloramine disinfection on the physiological and transcriptomic response of Escherichia coli at late stationary phase, Sahar Daer, Joseph E. Goodwill, and Kaoru Ikuma

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Electrocoagulation applied for the removal of microplastics from wastewater treatment facilities, Dounia Elkhatib, Vinka Oyanedel-Craver, and Elvis Carissimi

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Sweeping Effects Modify Taylor’s Frozen Turbulence Hypothesis for Scalars in the Roughness Sublayer, K. A. Everard, G. G. Katul, G. A. Lawrence, A. Christen, and M. B. Parlange

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Emerging investigator series: moving beyond resilience by considering antifragility in potable water systems, Joseph E. Goodwill, Patrick Ray, Destenie Nock, and Christopher M. Miller

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A Local Similarity Function for Katabatic Flows Derived From Field Observations Over Steep- and Shallow-Angled Slopes, Chaoxun Hang, Holly J. Oldroyd, Marco G. Giometto, Eric R. Pardyjak, and Marc B. Parlange

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My Private Lead Service Line, Lillian C. Jeznach and Joseph E. Goodwill

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Integrating multiscale numerical simulations with machine learning to predict the strain sensing efficiency of nano-engineered smart cementitious composites, Gideon A. Lyngdoh and Sumanta Das

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Finite Element-Based Numerical Simulations to Evaluate the Influence of Wollastonite Microfibers on the Dynamic Compressive Behavior of Cementitious Composites, Gideon A. Lyngdoh, Sami Doner, Sumeru Nayak, and Sumanta Das

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Hydrologic Regionalization under Data Scarcity: Implications for Streamflow Prediction, Jeeban Panthi, Rocky Talchabhadel, Ganesh R. Ghimire, Sanjib Sharma, Piyush Dahal, Rupesh Baniya, Thomas Boving, Soni M. Pradhanang, and Binod Parajuli

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Induced Bank Filtration: Hydraulic Testing of Pilot Filters, M. Schelling, T. B. Boving, and K. Patil

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Development and Application of STORMTOOLS Design Load (SDL) Maps, Isabella Silverman, Blaze Engelman, Alexa Leone, Michael Rothenbucher, Allison Munch, Joseph Sorrentino, Brandon Markiewicz, Chris Pearson, Christopher Baxter, Craig Swanson, George Tiastas, and Malcolm Spaulding

Submissions from 2020

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Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17, Ali S. Akanda and et al

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Mapping geographical inequalities in childhood diarrhoeal morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17: Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, Ali S. Akanda and et al

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Prioritizing Water Security in the Management of Vector Borne Diseases: Lessons from Oaxaca Mexico, Ali S. Akanda, Kristin Johnson, Howard S. Ginsberg, and Janelle Couret

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A computer vision based rebar detection chain for automatic processing of concrete bridge deck GPR data, Pouria Asadi, Mayrai Gindy, Marco Alvarez, and Alireza Asadi

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Prediction of the Limiting Flux and Its Correlation with the Reynolds Number during the Microfiltration of Skim Milk Using an Improved Model, Carolina Astudillo-Castro, Andrés Cordova, Vinka Oyanedel-Craver, Carmen Soto-Maldonado, Pedro Valencia, Paola Henriquez, and Rafael Jimenez-Flores

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Cooling rate effects on the structure of 45S5 bioglass: Insights from experiments and simulations, Pratik Bhaskar, Rajesh Kumar, Yashasvi Maurya, R. Ravinder, Amarnath R. Allu, Sumanta Das, Nitya Nand Gosvami, Randall E. Youngman, Mikkel S. Bodker, Nerea Mascaraque, Morten M. Smedskjaer, Mathieu Bauchy, and N.M. Anoop Krishnan

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Sulfite activation changes character of ferrate resultant particles, Bradley M. Bzdyra, Charles D. Spellman Jr., Irene Andreu, and Joseph E. Goodwill

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Comparison of microplastic isolation and extraction procedures from marine sediments, Michaela A. Cashman, Kay T. Ho, Thomas B. Boving, Stephen Russo, Sandra Robinson, and Robert M. Burgess

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Use of α-cyclodextrin to Promote Clean and Environmentally Friendly Disinfection of Phenolic Substrates via Chlorine Dioxide Treatment, Sauradip Chaudhuri, Dana J. DiScenza, Thomas B. Boving, Alan Burke, and Mindy Levine

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Developing a forecasting model for cholera incidence in Dhaka megacity through time series climate data, Salima Sultana Daisy, AKM Saiful Islam, Ali S. Akanda, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Nuhu Amin, and Peter Kjaer Mackie Jensen

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A Critical Review of Extraction and Identification Methods of Microplastics in Wastewater and Drinking Water, Dounia Elkhatib and Vinka Oyanedel-Craver

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Evaluation of Cold Recycled Asphalt Mixture Treated with Portland Cement as Base-Layer Materials, Masoud Faramarzi, Yongjoo Kim, Sooahn Kwon, and Kang-Won Wayne Lee

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WTP for Water Filters and Water Quality Testing Services in Guatemala, Todd Guilfoos, Sarah Hayden, Emi Uchida, and Vinka Oyanedel-Craver

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Dynamics of confined water and its interplay with alkali cations in sodium aluminosilicate hydrate gel: insights from reactive force field molecular dynamics, Gideon A. Lyngdoh, Rajesh Kumar, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, and Sumanta Das

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Elucidating the constitutive relationship of calcium–silicate–hydrate gel using high throughput reactive molecular simulations and machine learning, Gideon A. Lyngdoh, Hewenxuan Li, Mohd Zaki, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, and Sumanta Das

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Fracture Toughness of Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Gels: Evaluations Using Nanoindentation Experiment and Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Gideon A. Lyngdoh, Sumeru Nayak, N.M. Anoop Krishnan, and Sumanta Das

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Fracture toughness of sodium aluminosilicate hydrate (NASH) gels: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations, Gideon A. Lyngdoh, Sumeru Nayak, Rajesh Kumar, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, and Sumanta Das

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Household Water Storage Management, Hygiene Practices, and Associated Drinking Water Quality in Rural India, Sarah L. McGuinness, Joanne O'Toole, S. Fiona Barker, Andrew B. Forbes, Thomas B. Boving, Asha Giriyan, Kavita Patil, Fraddry D'Souza, Ramkrishna Vhaval, Allen C. Cheng, and Karin Leder

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A stepped wedge cluster-randomized trial assessing the impact of a riverbank filtration intervention to improve access to safe water on health in rural India, Sarah L. McGuinness, Joanne O'Toole, Andrew B. Forbes, Thomas B. Boving, Kavita Patil, Fraddry D'Souza, Chetan A. Gaonkar, Asha Giriyan, S. Fiona Barker, Allen Cheng, Martha Sinclair, and Karin Leder

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Strain sensing efficiency of hierarchical nano-engineered smart twill-weave composites: Evaluations using multiscale numerical simulations, Sumeru Nayak and Sumanta Das