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MACH2: System for Root Cause Analysis of Kernel Vulnerabilities
Kernel code is ubiquitous in the modern technology landscape, and therefore, enforcing its security is of high importance. A common problem among modern kernel fuzzers is the discovery of vulnerabilities whose causes are ... -
Machine Learning based Procedural Content Generation in Semantic Choreography
BeatMania is a rhythm-action game where players press buttons in response to keysound events to generate music. Rhythm-action game charts (the sequence of keysound events) have traditionally been human authored, since each ... -
MACHINE LEARNING MODELING OF COVID-19 AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH MONITORING AND CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT
Prediction of healthcare trends to improve public health and clinical decision making is a challenge affecting all lives and requires state-of-art mathematical modeling to solve. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in ... -
Macrophage Activation in Sickle Cell Disease: The Role of Sphingolipid Metabolism in the Disease State
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-04-22)Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a disorder in which defective hemoglobin causes sickling of red blood cells, inducing painful vaso-occlusive crises when blood flow is blocked at sites of red blood cell (RBC) clotting that can ... -
A mannose receptor-like molecule likely serves as the mate recognition pheromone receptor in the male rotifer Brachionus manjavacas
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-05-12)Mate recognition in the male rotifer Brachionus manjavacas is controlled by contact chemoreception, which occurs when the male has a head-on encounter with a conspecific female. The female expresses a glycoprotein, the ... -
Manufacturing and Mechanical Testing of Biochemically Stimulated Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Constructs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-05-12)Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), and transglutaminase have been shown to induce mechanical changes within collagen-based blood vessel constructs. Recent studies have found that the mechanical properties of tissue-engineered blood ... -
Mapping anatomical connectivity of the primate cerebral cortex using diffusion MRI
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-05-09)The human brain can be modeled as a small-world network that has the capability of handling complex cognitive function. However, that network as a whole still remains poorly understood partly due to a limited understanding ... -
Mapping and Quantifying Tortuous Ridges on Europa
Double ridges are the most common surface feature on Europa and account for both some of the oldest and newest surface features on the moon. Ridges with linear and cycloidal trajectories have been well-studied, with ... -
Markov Chain Algorithms for Emergent Phenomena in Self-Organizing Particle Systems
We investigate Markov chain algorithms that can accomplish global emergent phenomena in a distributed setting, namely in self-organizing particle systems, an abstraction of programmable matter. These particle systems are ... -
Mastering Reconnaissance Blind Chess with Reinforcement Learning
Research within Artificial Intelligence has often set goals of being able to autonomously play games (e.g., Chess or Go) at or above human level. Novel machine learning-based agents have recently made advances in the ... -
Material Classification with Active Thermography on Multiple Household Objects
Active thermography is a technique to inject heat into a target sample and observe the temperature change along time. Such a technique enables a robot to perform material classification with machine learning algorithms and ... -
Material-Directed Chondrogenic Differentiation Under Mechanical Stimulation
The mechanical properties of scaffolds used to encapsulate stem cells are widely known to help direct the differentiation of those stem cells down different lineages. When studying chondrogenesis, the ability of the scaffold ... -
Measuring Cerebral Blood Flow in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease
Mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs), which are defined by an absence of overt structural damage in the brain have been associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's Disease when sustained multiple times over an interval. ... -
Measuring Interfacial Tension with the Pendant Drop Method
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-01-28)In the field of soft condensed matter and in particular, microfluidics, the understanding of surface tension is vital. Interfacial tension (IFT), fundamentally defines liquid interactions at the micro-scale. To give some ... -
Measuring present-day strain rates along the Fish Lake Valley fault system, Pacific-North America plate boundary
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-05-07)The eastern California shear zone (ECSZ) is located east of the San Andreas fault and contains a complex network of structures that accommodate ~25% of the relative displacement between the Pacific and North American plates. ... -
Mechanical Characterization of Tricuspid Bicuspidization in a Porcine Model
Tricuspid valve regurgitation currently affects over 1.6 million people in the US and largely uses annuloplasty ring deployment as the main method of correction for severe regurgitation. As this method inherently contains ... -
Mechanical Stiffness in 3D Embryonic Stem Cell Aggregates Undergoing Osteochondral Differentiation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-01-28)This study aimed to investigate the effect of osteochondral differentiation on mechanical stiffness of 3D mouse embryonic stem cell (ESC) aggregates. Both soluble osteoinductive cues and mineral coated microparticles were ... -
Mechanically Activated Currents in Mechanosensitive Cells
The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of ultrasonic pressure on the mechanosensitive channel activity in the N2A cell line. Prior research has indicated that certain ion channels in the cellular membrane of ... -
Mechanism of palindrome-induced DNA double stranded breakage (DSBs) in yeast
Chromosomes are dynamic cellular structures that carry genetic information; they combine the stability required for inheritance and the flexibility required for change. The departure from normal chromosome number and ... -
Mediating Age-Related Changes in Memory with Recall Intervention
Memory- the lifeform that gives life its meaning and stores valuable information key to the success of our species. As far as we know, aging, a natural and unavoidable process, causes aspects of our memory to decline. ...