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    A cost-effective approach to measurements of fluorophore temperature sensitivity and temperature change with reasonable accuracy

    The demand for measuring fluorophore temperature sensitivity and temperature change in chemical or biological samples has spurred the search for effective methods. While infrared (IR) light-based thermal devic...

    Matthew Cai, Alexander Sun, Andrea Yan, Zachary Ding in Scientific Reports (2024)

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    Learning to downscale satellite gravimetry data through artificial intelligence

    Self-supervised learning offers a promising way of downscaling the total water storage anomaly data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, contributing to a better understanding o...

    Alexander Sun in Nature Water (2024)

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    Merkel Cell Carcinoma

    Merkel cell carcinomas (MCCs) are rare cutaneous neuroendocrine neoplasms that are clinically aggressive due to a relatively high local, regional, and distant metastatic recurrence potential. They are found mo...

    Andrea M. Covelli, Anthony M. Joshua, Joan E. Lipa in Surgical Oncology Manual (2020)

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    Non-melanoma Skin Cancer

    Non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSCs) are the most commonly diagnosed cancers in Canadians. Although basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is approximately four to five times more common (80% of non-melanoma skin cancers) th...

    David W. Lim, Lu Yin, Jennifer M. Racz, Anthony Michael Joshua in Surgical Oncology Manual (2020)

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    Simulating in-zone chemistry changes from injection time to longer periods of CO2 storage

    Geochemical reactions can play important role in the long-term geological storage of CO2 in sites where the target formations have reactive minerals. Although the use of batch models (experimental or theoretical...

    Akand Islam, Alexander Sun, Jiemin Lu in Environmental Earth Sciences (2016)

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    Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation

    For Environmental and Water Resource Systems

    Ne-Zheng Sun, Alexander Sun (2015)

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    Multiobjective Inversion and Regularization

    After incorporating prior information, the inverse problem becomes a bi-criterion optimization problem. The use of prior information in such a way can be seen as a special case of the regularization method int...

    Ne-Zheng Sun, Alexander Sun in Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation (2015)

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    Model Differentiation

    In the previous chapters, we showed that an inverse problem ultimately becomes an optimization problem, regardless the type of framework (deterministic or statistical) used to formulate it. Gradient-based algo...

    Ne-Zheng Sun, Alexander Sun in Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation (2015)

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    Model Structure Identification

    In practice, determination of the model structure is the first problemthat a modeler has to deal with when modeling a complicatedphysical system. Model structure error is often the major cause ofmodel failure....

    Ne-Zheng Sun, Alexander Sun in Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation (2015)

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    Data Assimilation for Inversion

    Many EWR applications are data centric and naturally call for the ability to fuse spatial and temporal information from multiple sources and in different formats and scales. With the rapid advance of in situ a...

    Ne-Zheng Sun, Alexander Sun in Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation (2015)

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    Model Uncertainty Quantification

    Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is the analytic process of determining the effect of input uncertainties (both their magnitudes and sources) on system outcomes. Traditionally applied in engineering r...

    Ne-Zheng Sun, Alexander Sun in Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation (2015)

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    Goal-Oriented Modeling

    Two criteria are traditionally used for model parameter estimation and model structure identification: (C-1) fitting observation data; and (C-2) honoring prior information. As we have shown in Chaps. 3 and 7, ...

    Ne-Zheng Sun, Alexander Sun in Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation (2015)

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    The Classical Inverse Problem

    The classical inverse problem (CIP) assumes no model structure error and, thus, only model parameters need to be identified. In this chapter, we consider the solution of CIP for single state variable models. U...

    Ne-Zheng Sun, Alexander Sun in Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation (2015)

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    Statistical Methods for Parameter Estimation

    In this chapter, the CIP is formulated in a statistical framework. Byusing the Bayesian inference theory, we cast the CIP asaninformation transfer problem, in which the prior information andtheinformation tran...

    Ne-Zheng Sun, Alexander Sun in Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation (2015)

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    Model Dimension Reduction

    A real system, especially a distributed parameter system, may havehigh or even infinite dimensions of freedom (DOF). When the DOF ofa model is too high, all inversion methods that we have learnedbecome ineffic...

    Ne-Zheng Sun, Alexander Sun in Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation (2015)

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    Development of Data-Driven Models

    In previous chapters, we have mainly dealt with physics-based models represented by a general map** $$\mathbf{u}=\mathcal{M}(\mathrm{}{\boldsymbol{\uptheta...

    Ne-Zheng Sun, Alexander Sun in Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation (2015)

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    Optimal Experimental Design

    In environmental and water resource (EWR) engineering, different types of design problems exist, such as operation design, monitoring design, detection design, and remediation design. This chapter is devoted t...

    Ne-Zheng Sun, Alexander Sun in Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation (2015)

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    Introduction

    In this chapter, commonly seen models in environmental and water resources (EWR) study are shown. A general form of mathematical models and their classifications are then provided. Different mathematical model...

    Ne-Zheng Sun, Alexander Sun in Model Calibration and Parameter Estimation (2015)

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    Groundwater Contamination in Karst Terranes

    Ronald T. Green, Scott L. Painter, Alexander Sun in Water, Air, & Soil Pollution: Focus (2006)