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- Creator:
- Moore, Talia Y, Villacis Nunez, C Nathaly, Ray, Andrew P, and Cooper, Kimberly L
- Description:
- Hind limbs can undergo dramatic changes in loading conditions during the transition from quadrupedal to bipedal locomotion. For example, the most early diverging bipedal jerboas (Rodentia: Dipodidae) are some of the smallest mammals in the world, with body masses that range 2-4 grams. The larger jerboa species exhibit developmental and evolutionary fusion of the central three metatarsals into a single cannon bone. We hypothesize that body size reduction and metatarsal fusion are mechanisms to maintain the safety factor of the hind limb bones despite the higher ground reaction forces associated with bipedal locomotion. Using finite element analysis to model collisions between the substrate and the metatarsals, we found that body size reduction was insufficient to reduce bone stress on unfused metatarsals, based on the scaled dynamics of larger jerboas, and that fused bones developed lower stresses than unfused bones when all metatarsals are scaled to the same size and loading conditions. Based on these results, we conclude that fusion reinforces larger jerboa metatarsals against high ground reaction forces. Because smaller jerboas with unfused metatarsals develop higher peak stresses in response to loading conditions scaled from larger jerboas, we hypothesize that smaller jerboas use alternative dynamics of bipedal locomotion that reduces the impact of collisions between the foot and substrate.
- Keyword:
- finite element, functional morphology, bipedal, jerboa, metatarsus, and bone fusion
- Citation to related publication:
- Villacis Nunez, Ray, Cooper, Moore (submitted). Body size reduction and metatarsal fusion were distinct mechanisms to resist bending as jerboas (Dipodidae) transitioned from quadrupedal to bipedal.
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- van Velden, Grace and Reddy, Raghav
- Description:
- A household survey was developed to capture household perceptions and behaviors around drinking water use. It consisted of several modules: key informant and household demographics, household assets and consumption, water use behaviors in the dry season, water use behaviors during the rest of the year, and water supply maintenance and repair. Intervention and safe water device surveys were also developed; the household and intervention surveys were administered via Qualtrics. and This record consists of several survey instruments, exported where appropriate from Qualtrics into PDF and .qsf.
- Keyword:
- Bangladesh, arsenic, sustainability, survey
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Smith, Joeseph P., Gronewold, Andrew D., Read, Laura, Crooks, James L., School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, and Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research
- Description:
- Using the statistical programming package R ( https://cran.r-project.org/), and JAGS (Just Another Gibbs Sampler, http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/), we processed multiple estimates of the Laurentian Great Lakes water balance components -- over-lake precipitation, evaporation, lateral tributary runoff, connecting channel flows, and diversions -- feeding them into prior distributions (using data from 1950 through 1979), and likelihood functions. The Bayesian Network is coded in the BUGS language. Water balance computations assume that monthly change in storage for a given lake is the difference between beginning of month water levels surrounding each month. For example, the change in storage for June 2015 is the difference between the beginning of month water level for July 2015 and that for June 2015., More details on the model can be found in the following summary report for the International Watersheds Initiative of the International Joint Commission, where the model was used to generate a new water balance historical record from 1950 through 2015: https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2018/20180021.pdf. Large Lake Statistical Water Balance Model (L2SWBM): https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/WaterBalanceModel/, and This data set has a shorter timespan to accommodate a prior which uses data not used in the likelihood functions.
- Keyword:
- Water, Balance, Great Lakes, Laurentian, Machine, Learning, Lakes, Bayesian, and Network
- Citation to related publication:
- Smith, J., Gronewald, A. et al. Summary Report: Development of the Large Lake Statistical Water Balance Model for Constructing a New Historical Record of the Great Lakes Water Balance. Submitted to: The International Watersheds Initiative of the International Joint Commission. Accessible at https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2018/20180021.pdf, Large Lake Statistical Water Balance Model (L2SWBM). https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/WaterBalanceModel/, and Gronewold, A.D., Smith, J.P., Read, L. and Crooks, J.L., 2020. Reconciling the water balance of large lake systems. Advances in Water Resources, p.103505.
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Mukhopadhyay, Agnit, Daniel T Welling, Michael W Liemohn, Aaron J Ridley, Shibaji Chakrabarty, and Brian J Anderson
- Description:
- An updated auroral conductance module is built for global models, using nonlinear regression & empirical adjustments to span extreme events., Expanded dataset raises the ceiling of conductance values, impacting the ionospheric potential dB/dt & dB predictions during extreme events., and Application of the expanded model with empirical adjustments refines the conductance pattern, and improves dB/dt predictions significantly.
- Keyword:
- Space Weather Forecasting, Extreme Weather, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, MI Coupling, Ionospheric Conductance, Auroral Conductance, Aurora, SWMF, SWPC, Nonlinear Regression, and dB/dt
- Citation to related publication:
- Mukhopadhyay, A., Welling, D. T., Liemohn, M. W., Ridley, A. J., Chakraborty, S., & Anderson, B. J. (2020). Conductance Model for Extreme Events: Impact of Auroral Conductance on Space Weather Forecasts. Space Weather, 18(11), e2020SW002551. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020SW002551
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- BIRDS Lab, U. Michigan
- Description:
- These data were produced in an attempt to characterize the turning and steering behaviors of 1-DoF multi-legged (hexpedal in this case) robots. Such turning behaviors require sliding contact points. All the data is provided in a single, large .csv.gz file (416256 rows); additional details and example code in the README
- Keyword:
- robot, multilegged, and steering
- Citation to related publication:
- BIRDS Lab, U. BigAnt v6 robot motion tracking data - RAW dataset [Data set], University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/024q-kk06, Revzen, S., & Guckenheimer, J. (2008). Estimating the phase of synchronized oscillators. Phys. Rev. E, 78, 051907. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.78.051907, and Dan Zhao and Shai Revzen 2020 Bioinspir. Biomim. 15 045001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ab84c0
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Regoli, Leonardo H.
- Description:
- The research analyzed the response of nine PNI RM3100 magnetometers to radiation doses expected during a Europa lander mission. The radiation levels are drawn from the Europa Lander Science Definition Team report ( https://europa.nasa.gov/resources/58/europa-lander-study-2016-report). The sensors were tested up to a total ionization dose (TID) level of 500 kRad.
- Keyword:
- Magnetometer, Magneto-inductive, Europa, and Radiation
- Citation to related publication:
- Regoli, L. H., Moldwin, M. B., Raines, C., Nordheim, T. A., Miller, C. A., Carts, M., and Pozzi, S. A.: Radiation tolerance of the PNI RM3100 magnetometer for a Europa lander mission, Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 9, 499–507, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-499-2020, 2020.
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- BIRDS Lab, U. Michigan
- Description:
- These data were produced for ARO W911NF-14-1-0573 "Morphologically Modulated Dynamics" and ARO MURI W911NF-17-1-0306 "From Data-Driven Operator Theoretic Schemes to Prediction, Inference, and Control of Systems" to explore the trade-offs between various oscillator coupling models in modeling multilegged locomotion of Multipod robots with 6,8,10 and 12 legs. The data is stored in .csv.gz files, one file for each robot morphology. Details of how to run the processing code on the raw dataset to generate the processed files found here, as well as example code for loading the data found here, are in the README. This dataset is self contained and can be used on its own without running any of the provided code.
- Citation to related publication:
- Zhao, D. & Revzen, S. Multi-legged steering and slipping with low DoF hexapod robots Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2020, 15, 045001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ab84c0, Zhao, D. Ph.D. Thesis "Locomotion of low-DOF multi-legged robots" University of Michigan 2021 https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/169985, and BIRDS Lab Multipod robot motion tracking data - RAW data, doi:10.7302/m05a-0d90
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Attari, Ali
- Description:
- Please refer to the "README.txt" for more details., MATLAB R2018a (Mathworks, Natick, MA, USA) was used to process this data., and Excel (Microsoft Office) was used to store survey data on the comfort of both systems and also to provide absolute and relative intraobserver variablities for the DM device.
- Keyword:
- Digital Manometry
- Citation to related publication:
- Comparison of anorectal function measured using wearable digital manometry and a high resolution manometry system Attari A, Chey WD, Baker JR, Ashton-Miller JA (2020) Comparison of anorectal function measured using wearable digital manometry and a high resolution manometry system. PLOS ONE 15(9): e0228761. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228761
- Discipline:
- Engineering, Science, and Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Bougher, S. W. (CLaSP Department, University of Michigan)
- Description:
- The NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft, which is currently in orbit around Mars, has been taking systematic measurements of the densities and deriving temperatures in the upper atmosphere of Mars between about 140 to 240 km above the surface since late 2014. Wind measurement campaigns are also conducted once per month for 5-10 orbits. These densities, temperatures and winds change with time (e.g. solar cycle, season, local time) and location, and sometimes fluctuate quickly. Global dust storm events are also known to significantly impact these density, temperature and wind fields in the Mars thermosphere. For the current project, the inert light species helium is used to trace the circulation patterns and constrain wind magnitudes throughout the Mars thermosphere. Presently, more than 6 years of Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) measurements of helium densities have been obtained by the MAVEN team (e.g. Elrod et al., 2017; 2021; Gupta et al., 2021). Measured helium distributions are compared to simulations from a computer model of the Mars atmosphere called M-GITM (Mars Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model), developed at U. of Michigan. Since the global circulation plays a role in the structure, variability, and evolution of the atmosphere, understanding the processes that drive the winds in the upper atmosphere of Mars also provides the needed context for understanding helium distributions and how the atmosphere behaves as a whole system. Three dimensional M-GITM simulations for the Mars four cardinal seasons (Ls = 0, 90, 180, 270, for Mars Year 33) were conducted for detailed comparisons with NGIMS helium and CO2 distributions (Gupta et al. 2021). The M-GITM datacubes used to extract these densities (plus winds) along the trajectory of each orbit path between 140 and 240 km, are provided in this Deep Blue Data archive. README files are also provided for each datacube, detailing the contents of each file. In addition, a general README file is provided that summarizes the inputs and outputs of the M-GITM code simulations for this study. Finally, a basic version of the M-GITM code can be found on Github at https:/github.com/dpawlows/MGITM.
- Keyword:
- Mars, MAVEN Spacecraft Mission, Mars Thermosphere, Helium Density Distributions, and Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS)
- Citation to related publication:
- Gupta, N., N. V. Rao, S. W. Bougher, and M. K. Elrod, Latitudinal and Seasonal Asymmetries of the Helium Bulge in the Martian Upper Atmosphere J. Geophys. Res., 126, XXXX-XXXX. doi:10.1002/2021JEXXXXXX
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Gliske, Stephen V and Stacey, William C
- Description:
- This data repository includes the quantitative features of high frequency, intracranial EEG along with all necessary scripts to reproduce the figures of the accompanying manuscript.
- Keyword:
- high frequency oscillation, HFO, high frequency activity, and epilepsy
- Citation to related publication:
- (under review)
- Discipline:
- Science, Engineering, and Health Sciences