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- Creator:
- Skerlos, Steven J.
- Description:
- Supporting Information for research article "Life cycle comparison of environmental emissions from three disposal options for unused pharmaceutical". This spreadsheet provides the calculations and values used for this study; please refer to the manuscript and supporting information (as text) available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es203987b for details about how to use this spreadsheet. We use life cycle assessment methodology to compare three disposal options for unused pharmaceuticals: (i) incineration after take-back to a pharmacy, (ii) wastewater treatment after toilet disposal, and (iii) landfilling or incineration after trash disposal. For each option, emissions of active pharmaceutical ingredients to the environment (API emissions) are estimated along with nine other types of emissions to air and water (non-API emissions). Under a scenario with 50% take-back to a pharmacy and 50% trash disposal, current API emissions are expected to be reduced by 93%. This is within 6% of a 100% trash disposal scenario, which achieves an 88% reduction. The 50% take-back scenario achieves a modest reduction in API emissions over a 100% trash scenario while increasing most non-API emissions by over 300%. If the 50% of unused pharmaceuticals not taken-back are toileted instead of trashed, all emissions increase relative to 100% trash disposal. Evidence suggests that 50% participation in take-back programs could be an upper bound. As a result, we recommend trash disposal for unused pharmaceuticals. A 100% trash disposal program would have similar API emissions to a take-back program with 50% participation, while also having significantly lower non-API emissions, lower financial costs, higher convenience, and higher compliance rates.
- Citation to related publication:
- Cook, Sherri M., Bryan J. VanDuinen, Nancy G. Love, and Steven J. Skerlos. “Life Cycle Comparison of Environmental Emissions from Three Disposal Options for Unused Pharmaceuticals.” Environmental Science & Technology 46, no. 10 (May 15, 2012): 5535–41. https://doi.org/10.1021/es203987b
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Rupp, Jonathan D., Klein, Katelyn F., and Reed, Matthew P.
- Description:
- The files include an Excel file with the x-, y-, and z- coordinates that make up the nodal coordinates for a surface model of small (5th percentle) female pelvis geometry, the finite element model (.k file) that represents the nodal coordinates, and two surface files that represent the geometry (.obj and .ply).
- Citation to related publication:
- Katelyn F. Klein, Matthew P. Reed, and Jonathan D. Rupp. "Development of Geometric Specifications for the Pelvis of a Small Female Anthropomorphic Test Device." IRCOBI Conference 2016, IRC-16-79. http://www.ircobi.org/wordpress/downloads/irc16/pdf-files/79.pdf
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Stoev, Stilian and Hu, Weifeng
- Description:
- Many data sets come as point patterns of the form (longitude, latitude, time, magnitude). The examples of data sets in this format includes tornado events, origins/destination of internet flows, earthquakes, terrorist attacks and etc. It is difficult to visualize the data with simple plotting. This research project studies and implements non-parametric kernel smoothing in Python as a way of visualizing the intensity of point patterns in space and time. A two-dimensional grid M with size mx, my is used to store the calculation result for the kernel smoothing of each grid points. The heat-map in Python then uses the grid to plot the resulting images on a map where the resolution is determined by mx and my. The resulting images also depend on a spatial and a temporal smoothing parameters, which control the resolution (smoothness) of the figure. The Python code is applied to visualize over 56,000 tornado landings in the continental U.S. from the period 1950 - 2014. The magnitudes of the tornado are based on Fujita scale.
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Grosh, Karl and Li, Yizeng
- Description:
- In a sensitive cochlea, the basilar membrane response to transient excitation of any kind--normal acoustic or artificial intracochlear excitation--consists of not only a primary impulse but also a coda of delayed secondary responses with varying amplitudes but similar spectral content around the characteristic frequency of the measurement location. The coda, sometimes referred to as echoes or ringing, has been described as a form of local, short term memory which may influence the ability of the auditory system to detect gaps in an acoustic stimulus such as speech. Depending on the individual cochlea, the temporal gap between the primary impulse and the following coda ranges from once to thrice the group delay of the primary impulse (the group delay of the primary impulse is on the order of a few hundred microseconds). The coda is physiologically vulnerable, disappearing when the cochlea is compromised even slightly. The multicomponent sensitive response is not yet completely understood. We use a physiologically-based, mathematical model to investigate (i) the generation of the primary impulse response and the dependence of the group delay on the various stimulation methods, (ii) the effect of spatial perturbations in the properties of mechanically sensitive ion channels on the generation and separation of delayed secondary responses. The model suggests that the presence of the secondary responses depends on the wavenumber content of a perturbation and the activity level of the cochlea. In addition, the model shows that the varying temporal gaps between adjacent coda seen in experiments depend on the individual profiles of perturbations. Implications for non-invasive cochlear diagnosis are also discussed.
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Health Sciences
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- Creator:
- Tsai, Grace and Kuipers, Benjamin
- Description:
- ******Michigan Indoor Corridor 2012 Dataset****** This dataset is made available for research purpose only. Please contact Grace Tsai( gstsai@umich.edu) for any questions or comments. This dataset was used to produce the results in our IROS 2012 paper. If you use the data, please cite the following reference in your publications related to this work: Grace Tsai and Benjamin Kuipers Dynamic Visual Understanding of the Local Environment for an Indoor Navigating Robot International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'12) October 2012 The dataset contains 4 video sequences acquired with camera mounted on a wheeled vehicle. The camera was set-up so that there was zero tilt and roll angle with respect to the ground. The camera has a fixed height (0.47 m) with the ground throughout the video. The intrinsic parameters of the cameras are: Focal length fc = [ 1389.182714 1394.598277 ] Principal point cc = [ 672.605430 387.235803 ] The distortion of the camera has been corrected. For each video sequences, an estimated camera pose in each frame of the video is provided in the file pose.txt. Each line in the file looks like: <frame index> <x (pose)> <y (pose)> <theta (pose)> Note the camera poses provided here are estimated by using an occupancy grid mapping algorithm with a laser range finder to obtain the robot pose. The dataset provides a ground truth labeling for all the pixels every 10 frames for each video. The labels of each frame is stored as a 2D matrix in a .mat file. The filename of each .mat file corresponds to the image frame. The labels can be interpreted as followed: -2 -> ceiling plane -1 -> ground plane >0 -> walls The labels of the walls are illustrated in a .pdf figure. Note the figure is only a illustration graph, not an actual floor plan.
- Keyword:
- Robotics and Computer vision
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Figueroa, C. Alberto
- Description:
- Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) of the aorta of a 30 yo healthy volunteer, segmented and discretized using the software CRIMSON ( www.crimson.software). Additionally, models corresponding to virtually-aged aortic geometries at ages: 40, 60, and 75.
- Keyword:
- Pulse Wave Velocity, Blood flow modeling, Hypertension, and Aging
- Citation to related publication:
- Cuomo F, Roccabianca S, Dillon-Murphy D, Xiao N, Humphrey JD, Figueroa CA (2017) Effects of age-associated regional changes in aortic stiffness on human hemodynamics revealed by computational modeling. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0173177. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173177
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Larson, Ronald G., Wen, Fei, Huang, Wenjun, and Huang, Ming
- Description:
- We provide the parameters used in Umbrella Sampling simulations reported in our study "Efficient Estimation of Binding Free Energies between Peptides and an MHC Class II Molecule Using Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations with a Weighted Histogram Analysis Method", namely the set positions and spring constants for each window in simulations. Two tables are provided. Table 1 lists the names of the peptides and their corresponding sequences. Table 2 lists the parameters. The abstract of our work is the following: We estimate the binding free energy between peptides and an MHC class II molecule using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with Weighted Histogram Analysis Method (WHAM). We show that, owing to its more thorough sampling in the available computational time, the binding free energy obtained by pulling the whole peptide using a coarse-grained (CG) force field (MARTINI) is less prone to significant error induced by biased-sampling than using an atomistic force field (AMBER). We further demonstrate that using CG MD to pull 3-4 residue peptide segments while leaving the remain-ing peptide segments in the binding groove and adding up the binding free energies of all peptide segments gives robust binding free energy estimations, which are in good agreement with the experimentally measured binding affinities for the peptide sequences studied. Our approach thus provides a promising and computationally efficient way to rapidly and relia-bly estimate the binding free energy between an arbitrary peptide and an MHC class II molecule.
- Keyword:
- Molecular Dynamics, Binding Free Energy, Protein, MHC, and Coarse-Grained
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Jones, Monica L.H.
- Description:
- This study evaluated the performance of a video-based intervention for improving the belt fit obtained by drivers. Previous laboratory studies have demonstrated that some drivers position their seat belts suboptimally. Specifically, the lap portion of the belt may be higher and farther forward relative to the pelvis than best practice, and the shoulder portion of the belt may be outboard or inboard of mid-shoulder. A video was developed to present the most important aspects of belt fit best practices, with emphasis on the lap belt. The video demonstrated how a seat belt should be routed with respect to an individual’s anatomy to ensure a proper fit. The three key belt fit concepts conveyed in the video were: 1) Lap belt low on hips, touching the thighs. 2) Shoulder belt crossing middle of collarbone. 3) Belt snug, as close to bones as possible. Additional context about the ability to achieve to good belt fit, such as opening a heavy coat or adjusting the height adjusters on the B-pillar behind the windows, were also presented.
- Keyword:
- Safety, Seatbelt Fit, Intervention, and Evaluation
- Citation to related publication:
- Jones, M.L.H., Ebert, S.M., Buckley, L., Park, J., and Reed, M.P. (2016). Evaluating an Intervention to Improve Belt Fit for Drivers. Technical Report UMTRI 2016-12. University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI. , Reed, M.P., Ebert-Hamilton, S.M. and Rupp, J.D. (2012). Effects of obesity on seat belt fit. Traffic Injury Prevention, 13(4):364-372. https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2012.659363, Reed, M.P., Ebert, S.M. and Hallman, J.J. (2013). Effects of driver characteristics on seat belt fit. Stapp Car Crash Journal, 57:43-57. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24435726/, and Jones, M.L.H., Ebert, S.M., and Reed, M.P. (2015). Effects of High Levels of Obesity on Driver Seat Belt Fit. Advancing Transportation Leadership and Safety Technical Report ATLAS-2015-016. University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI. https://trid.trb.org/view/1427384 http://www.atlas-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ATLAS-Final-Report-ATLAS-2016-15.pdf
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Jones, Monica L.H.
- Description:
- These manikins represent body shape models for children weighing 9 to 23 kg in a seated posture relevant to child restraint design. The design of child restraints is guided in part by anthropometric data describing the distributions of body dimensions of children. However, three-dimensional body shape data have not been available for children younger than three years of age. These manikins will be useful for assessing child accommodation in restraints. The SBSM can also provide guidance for the development of anthropomorphic test devices and computational models of child occupants. The sampled manikins were predicted for a range of torso length and body weight dimensions. The SBSM model was exercised for two torso lengths and nine body weights to obtain 18 body shapes. The 3D shape models can be downloaded in a standard mesh format (PLY). Each body shape is accompanied by predicted landmark locations and standard anthropometric variables.
- Keyword:
- Child anthropometry, Child restraint system, Statistical body shape model, and Anthropomorphic testing device (ATD)
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Grosky, William I. and Ruas, Terry L.
- Description:
- This dataset was used for a proof-of-concept of fixed lexical chain approach for semantic information retrieval.
- Keyword:
- fixed lexical chains
- Citation to related publication:
- Ruas, T. L., & Grosky, W. I. (2017). Exploring and expanding the use of lexical chains in information retrieval. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. Retrieved from the Deep Blue institutional repository website: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/2027.42/136659
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Engel, Michael, Glotzer, Sharon C., Anderson, Joshua A., Antonaglia, James, and Millan, Jaime A.
- Description:
- This dataset was generated for our work "Shape and symmetry determine two-dimensional melting transitions of hard regular polygons". The dataset includes simulation results for 13 different polygons (equilateral triangles through regular tetradecagons and the 4-fold pentille) at a variety of packing fractions near the isotropic fluid to solid phase transition. Each trajectory contains the final 4 frames of each simulation run we conducted at system sizes of over one million particles. For each shape, there is a JSON file that describes the vertices of the polygon and a number of simulation trajectory files in GSD ( https://bitbucket.org/glotzer/gsd) format. The trajectory files contain the positions and orientations of all the polygons at each frame, along with the simulation box size. The trajectory file names identify the packing fraction of that simulation run.
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Fries, Kevin J.
- Description:
- This data is in support of the WRR paper by Fries and Kerkez: Big Ship Data: Using Vessel Measurements to Improve Estimates of Temperature and Wind Speed on the Great Lakes Code is also provided
- Keyword:
- Gaussian process regression, Data integration, Wind speed, Water surface temperature, Air temperature, and student-friendly
- Citation to related publication:
- Fries, K., and B. Kerkez (2017), Big Ship Data: Using vessel measurements to improve estimates of temperature and wind speed on the Great Lakes, Water Resour. Res., 53, 3662–3679, http://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR020084.
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Malik, Hafiz and Khan, Muhammad Khurran, King Saud University
- Description:
- Details of the microphone used for data collection, acoustic environment in which data was collected, and naming convention used are provided here. 1 - Microphones Used: The microphones used to collect this dataset belong to 7 different trademarks. Table (1) illustrates the number of used Mics of different trademarks and models. Table 1: Trademarks and models of Mics Mic Trademark Mic Model # of Mics Shure SM-58 3 Electro-Voice RE-20 2 Sennheiser MD-421 3 AKG C 451 2 AKG C 3000 B 2 Neumann KM184 2 Coles 4038 2 The t.bone MB88U 6 Total 22 2- Environment Description: A brief description of the 6 environments in which the dataset was collected is presented here: (i) Soundproof room: a small room (nearly 1.5m × 1.5m × 2m), which is closed and completely isolated. With an exception of a small window in the front side of the room which is made of glass, all the walls of the room are made of wood and covered by a layer of sponge from the inner side, and the floor is covered by carpet. (ii) Class room: standard class room (6m × 5m × 3m). (iii) Lab: small lab (4m × 4m × 3m). All the walls are made of glasses and the floor is covered by carpet. The lab contains 9 computers. (iv) Stairs: is in the second floor. The place of recording is 3m × 5m (v) Parking: is the college parking. (vi) Garden: is an open space outside the buildings. 3- Naming Convention: This set of rules were followed as a naming convention to give each file in the dataset a unique name: (i) The file name is 19 characters long, and consists of 5 sections separated by underscores. (ii) The first section is of 3 characters indicates the Microphone trademark. (iii) The second section of 4 characters indicates the microphone model as in table (2). (iv) The third section of 2 characters indicates a specific microphone within a set of microphones of the same trademark and model, since we have more than one microphone of the same trademark and model. (v) The fourth section of 2 characters indicates the environment, where Soundproof room --> 01 Class room --> 02 Lab --> 03 Stairs --> 04 Parking --> 05 Garden --> 06 (vi) The fifth section of 2 characters indicates the language, where Arabic --> 01 English --> 02 Chinese --> 03 Indonesian --> 04 (vii) The sixth section of 2 characters indicates the speaker. Table 2: Microphones Naming Criteria Original Mic Trademark and model --> Naming Convenient Shure SM-58 --> SHU_0058 Electro-Voice RE-20 --> ELE_0020 Sennheiser MD-421 --> SEN_0421 AKG C 451 --> AKG_0451 AKG C 3000 B --> AKG_3000 Neumann KM184 --> NEU_0184 Coles 4038 --> COL_4038 The t.bone MB88U --> TBO_0088 For example: SEN_0421_02_01_02_03 is an English file recorded by speaker number 3 in the soundproof room using microphone number 2 of Sennheiser MD-421
- Keyword:
- audio forensic, multimedia forensics, microphone identification, tamper detection, splicing detection, and codec identification
- Citation to related publication:
- Muhammad Khurram Khan, Mohammed Zakariah, Hafiz Malik & Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo (2018). A novel audio forensic data-set for digital multimedia forensics, Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 50:5, 525-542, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2017.1296186
- Discipline:
- Engineering, Government, Politics and Law, and Science
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- Creator:
- Vasudevan, Ram, Barto, Charles, Rosaen, Karl, Mehta, Rounak, Matthew, Johnson-Roberson, and Nittur Sridhar, Sharath
- Description:
- A dataset for computer vision training obtained from long running computer simulations
- Keyword:
- autonomous driving, simulation, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, deep learning, Computer Science, object detection, and Robotics
- Citation to related publication:
- M. Johnson-Roberson, C. Barto, R. Mehta, S. N. Sridhar, K. Rosaen and R. Vasudevan, "Driving in the Matrix: Can virtual worlds replace human-generated annotations for real world tasks?," 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 2017, pp. 746-753. Available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01983 and https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989092
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Schiffmann, Philipp, Sick, Volker, and Reuss, David L
- Description:
- This archive contains data files from motored internal combustion engine experiments. Included are two-dimensional two-component velocity fields from four measurement planes with maximized field of view. in-cylinder pressure measurements, external pressure and temperature data, as well as details on the geometry of the optical engine to enable setups of simulation configurations. Motored operating conditions include 40kPa and 90kPa MAP, 800 and 1300 RPM.
- Keyword:
- TCC III engine, internal combustion engine, particle image velocimetry, in-cylinder flow, turbulence in engines, CFD validation data, motored engine, optical engine, cyclic variability , and PIV
- Citation to related publication:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.2516/ogst/2015028
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Schiffmann, Philipp, Sick, Volker, and Reuss, David L
- Description:
- This archive contains data files from spark-ignited homogenous combustion internal combustion engine experiments. Included are two-dimensional two-component velocity fields acquired in a small, high-resolution field of view near the spark plug, and images of hydroxyl radical chemiluminescence recording the early flame-kernel growth. Included are in-cylinder pressure measurements, external pressure and temperature data, as well as details on the geometry of the optical engine to enable setups of simulation configurations. Included are tables of one-per-cycle parameters for each test with methane or propane at stoichiometric, dilute limit, lean limit, and rich limit, operation conducted at 40kPa and 1300 RPM.
- Keyword:
- OH* imaging, TCC III engine, internal combustion engine, particle image velocimetry, in-cylinder flow, turbulence in engines, CFD validation data, cyclic variability, early flame kernel growth, optical engine, combustion variability, ignition, and PIV
- Citation to related publication:
- dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468087417720558
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Schiffmann, Philipp, Sick, Volker, and Reuss, David L
- Description:
- This archive contains data files from spark-ignited homogenous combustion internal combustion engine experiments. Included are two-dimensional two-component velocity fields from various measurement planes with maximized field of view, in-cylinder pressure measurements, external pressure and temperature data, as well as details on the geometry of the optical engine to enable setups of simulation configurations. Fired operation was with stoichiometric propane air, 40kPa MAP, at 1300 RPM.
- Keyword:
- TCC III engine, internal combustion engine, particle image velocimetry, in-cylinder flow, turbulence in engines, CFD validation data, cyclic variability, optical engine, combustion variability, and PIV
- Citation to related publication:
- dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468087417720558
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Mathieu, Johanna L, Balzano, Laura, and Ledva, Gregory S
- Description:
- This data set contains the relevant time series for constructing and testing electricity load models within the related paper. The files within are a '.mat' file that contains the data and a 'readme.txt' file detailing the contents of the data.
- Keyword:
- Output feedback, Online learning, Machine learning, Real-time filtering, and Energy disaggregation
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Mathews, Elizabeth and Verhoff, Frank
- Description:
- Each pdf is an electronic version of the paper output for each experiment. Each text file is the electronic version of the data on the computer cards for each experiment. These text files are directly readable by Excel. Once in Excel, the data can be manipulated as desired. Additional information is in the theses.
- Keyword:
- Two Liquid Phase Processes, Droplet Size and Concentration, Population Balances, and Dispersed Phase Mixing
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Fries, Kevin J
- Description:
- This data is in support of the publication in review "Using sensor data to dynamically map large-scale models to site-scale forecasts: A case study using the National Water Model". It is all the raw data extracted from the NWM flow forecasts for Iowa and the IFIS stage readings. For the NWM data, each date has it's own tab-delimited file with columns being the time (hrs) and rows being the NHD site. For the IFIS gages, each tab delimited file is for a single site for the period of record.
- Keyword:
- student-friendly
- Discipline:
- Engineering