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Open AccessQuantifying the recarbonization of post-agricultural landscapes
Despite worldwide prevalence, post-agricultural landscapes remain one of the least constrained human-induced land carbon sinks. To appraise their role in rebuilding the planet’s natural carbon stocks through e...
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Correction: Identifying Factors Associated with Head Impact Kinematics and Brain Strain in High School American Football via Instrumented Mouthguards
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Physics-Informed Machine Learning Improves Detection of Head Impacts
In this work we present a new physics-informed machine learning model that can be used to analyze kinematic data from an instrumented mouthguard and detect impacts to the head. Monitoring player impacts is vit...
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Identifying Factors Associated with Head Impact Kinematics and Brain Strain in High School American Football via Instrumented Mouthguards
Repeated head impact exposure and concussions are common in American football. Identifying the factors associated with high magnitude impacts aids in informing sport policy changes, improvements to protective ...
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Predictive Factors of Kinematics in Traumatic Brain Injury from Head Impacts Based on Statistical Interpretation
Brain tissue deformation resulting from head impacts is primarily caused by rotation and can lead to traumatic brain injury. To quantify brain injury risk based on measurements of kinematics on the head, finit...
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Time Window of Head Impact Kinematics Measurement for Calculation of Brain Strain and Strain Rate in American Football
Wearable devices have been shown to effectively measure the head’s movement during impacts in sports like American football. When a head impact occurs, the device is triggered to collect and save the kinematic...
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Open AccessA new open-access platform for measuring and sharing mTBI data
Despite numerous research efforts, the precise mechanisms of concussion have yet to be fully uncovered. Clinical studies on high-risk populations, such as contact sports athletes, have become more common and g...
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Fracture shearing of polycrystalline material simulations using the material point method
In this work, we present a newly developed workflow to study the combined effect of shear and normal stresses upon a preexisting fracture plane. This workflow is used to study the behavior of both single grain...
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Open AccessA deep learning approach for designed diffraction-based acoustic patterning in microchannels
Acoustic waves can be used to accurately position cells and particles and are appropriate for this activity owing to their biocompatibility and ability to generate microscale force gradients. Such fields, howe...
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Modeling damage and plasticity in aggregates with the material point method (MPM)
In order to simulate the failure of aggregate materials, a coupled damage and plasticity model is used with the material point method (MPM). A pressure-dependent J2 plasticity law, the Drucker–Prager model, is...
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A strategy to couple the material point method (MPM) and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) computational techniques
A strategy is introduced to allow coupling of the material point method (MPM) and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) for numerical simulations. This new strategy partitions the domain into SPH and MPM regio...
