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CCS Visualization Program Director Dr. Alberto Cairo has published “Does Obesity Shorten Lives: Misreading Data Visualizations Can Reinforce Biased Perceptions” in the Public Health section of Scientific American’s September 2019 issue (p. 100). Read more “Alberto Cairo on Misreading Data Visualizations”
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The first project to come out of the UM-Magic Leap Project Alexandria collaboration is “The U Experience” a mixed reality tour of the Coral Gables campus. The team working on this Magic Leap experience celebrated on Friday, August 16th at the Newman Alumni Center. The project was completed in time for the President’s Celebration for New Students taking place on Saturday, and being offered to 2,800 incoming freshman.
Read more “Magic Leap Mixed Realty Campus Tour”
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Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit significant difficulties with emotion regulation and reactivity, which may be linked to underlying psychophysiology. The present study examined associations between autonomic nervous system activity and individual differences in externalizing behavior problems in children with ASD. Read more “Sympathetic-Parasympathetic Interaction and Externalizing Problems in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder”
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Cloud radiative feedbacks are disabled via “cloud-locking” in the Community Earth System Model, version 1.2 (CESM1.2), to result in a shift in El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) periodicity from 2–7 years to decadal time scales. We hypothesize that cloud radiative feedbacks may impact the periodicity in three ways, by: Read more “Cloud Radiative Feedbacks and El Niño—Southern Oscillation”
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Research projects by students in the computer science undergraduate research program are wrapping up this week at the University of Miami. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Research Experience for Undergraduates program provided 10-week grants for college students from across the country to come study with University of Miami professors and help them advance their research goals. Read more “AI and Computer Simulations Lift Research Experience”
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On Thursday July 25th, 2019, CCS hosted a field trip of middle schoolers from the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science. Read more “Frost Science Students Tour the Data Center and Viz Lab”
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Congratulations to Enrico Capobianco, PhD, Lead Senior Bioinformatics Scientist for CCS’s Computational Biology & Bioinformatics program, on receiving two grants. One NIH award with Dr. Jianning Wei of FAU, and the other an NSF award with Dr. Jun Deng of Yale University. Read more “Enrico Capobianco Receives 2 Grants for Bioinformatics Research”
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Congratulations to Enrico Capobianco, PhD, Lead Senior Bioinformatics Scientist for CCS’s Computational Biology & Bioinformatics program, on receiving grants from NIH and NSF. Read more “Enrico Capobianco Receives 2 Grants for Disease Research”
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Environmental sensitivity indices (ESIs) have long been used to identify coastal and shoreline resources particularly vulnerable to oil spills and ensuing mitigation measures. In the Gulf of Mexico, oil production by the United States and Mexico has increasingly focused on deepwater sources. Read more “Comparative Environmental Sensitivity of Offshore Gulf of Mexico Waters Potentially Impacted by Ultra-Deep Oil Well Blowouts”
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The ever-growing increase in deep-sea oil explorations in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) has been raising concerns with regard to future oil spills. Major oil spills in the GoM such as the Deepwater Horizon (DWH 2010) and the Ixtoc 1 (1979) resulted in extensive pollution of the pelagic, sea-floor, and coastal ecosystems. Read more “Comparison of the Spatial Extent, Impacts to Shorelines, and Ecosystem, and Four-Dimensional Characteristics of Simulated Oil Spills”