• Coupled soil heat and moisture transfer -- a simplified soil energy and hydrologic model 

  Zhang, Lingfei (2020)

  While Soil temperature and moisture information are urgently needed in meteorology, agriculture, and forestry, field measurements are not easy to be carried out due to geographical conditions, soil types, and other restrictions. ...
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  Tracing, Expanding, and Making Accessible the Digital Pathways of Latinx Sexual Dissidence in the Hemisphere 

  Gonzalez, Melissa M (2020)

  The project aims to analyze, archive, and enable the powerful ways that contemporary Latinx intersectional queer activists, located in sites as disparate as Oakland (U.S.) and Santiago (Chile), use YouTube, Facebook, and ...
• Advancing African Development Through Art: Artist Perspectives 

  Camara, M'Balou (2020)

  While there is a common understanding that artists find it hard to make a living through their artistic activities, research is silent on how artists view and understand their lived experiences. “Creative wealth”, which ...
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  Dynamics at Different Scales: Hormonal Control in Oryza Sativa Root Circumnutation and Gene Regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana Cell Differentiation 

  Nirmal, Niba Audrey (2020)

  This research spans multiple scales—from the entire organism, down to the genes that created it.The first project, “Gene Dynamics in Tissue Development”, explores how stem cell differentiation depends on the dynamics of ...
• Incidence of postpartum hypertension among Kenyan women with preeclampsia: a prospective cohort study 

  Lumsden, Rebecca (2020)

  Background: The burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is rising in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Preeclampsia, a type of hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, is a unique risk factor for CVD among women, yet little is known about ...
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  Predicting Concentrations of Selected Ions and Total Hardness in Groundwater Using Artificial Neural Networks and Multiple Linear Regression Models 

  Calvert, Matthew Brian (2020)

  Assessing the quality of groundwater in a given aquifer can be an expensive and time-consuming process. An effort is made in this thesis to predict several water quality parameters, namely Fe, Cl, SO4, and total hardness ...
• Transfer learning in continuous RL under unobservable contextual information 

  Liu, Chenyu (2020)

  In this paper, we consider a transfer Reinforcement Learning (RL) problem in continuous stateand action spaces, under unobserved contextual information. The context here can represent a specific unique mental view of the ...
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  Human-in-the-Loop Robot Planning with Non-Contextual Bandit Feedback 

  Zhou, Yijie (2020)

  In this paper, we consider robot navigation problems in environments populated by humans. The goal is to determine collision-free and dynamically feasible trajectories that also maximize human satisfaction, by ensuring that ...
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  Embodied Objects: A Digital Exploration of Women, Space, and Power in the Monza Holy Land Ampullae 

  Pinchbeck, Clara Garmisa (2020)

  During the Late Antique and Early Byzantine periods, women were fundamental to the expansion and development of the Christian religion. While many sources detailing the lives of these individuals have been lost, the objects ...
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  A New Take on Gamification: Playing the Culture Shock Experience in a Digital Card Game 

  Yan, Anni (2020)

  In 2018-2019, over 1 million international students from all over the world come to the United States to seek higher education. Along with their hope for quality education, they bring their own cultures. The clash of the ...
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  Formal Verification of Stochastic ReLU Neural Network Control System 

  Sun, Shiqi (2020)

  In this work, we address the problem of formal safety verification for stochastic cyber-physical systems (CPS) equipped with ReLU neural network (NN) controllers. Our goal is to find the set of initial states from where, ...
• Nanometer to Micrometer Electron Transfer: Incoherent Hopping in Biomolecular Systems 

  Ru, Xuyan (2020)

  Biological electron transfer (ET) reactions are of both fundamental and practical interests, with their importance in redox signaling, oxidative damage protection, respiratory metabolism, and bioenergetic transport.Charge ...
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  A Measurement of the Production Cross Section of a Single Top Quark in Association with a $W$-boson at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider 

  Davis, Douglas (2020)

  A measurement of the Standard Model cross section for the production of a single top quark in association with a $W$-boson from proton-proton collisions is presented. Collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV totaling ...
• Retinal Ganglion Cell Population Codes From Starlight to Sunlight 

  Ruda, Kiersten (2020)

  The retina signals visual information to the brain with the parallel channels of different retinal ganglion cell (RGC) types, whose signals ultimately lead to visual perception. Between cloudy nights and sunny days, the ...
• Enslaved and Freed Persons in Roman Military Communities Under the Principate (27 BCE–284 CE) 

  Linden-High, Adrian C. (2020)

  This dissertation explores the lives of persons enslaved or formerly enslaved to soldiers and veterans of the Roman imperial armies (27 BCE–284 CE). Previous scholarship on the subject has been sparse and one-sided, mostly ...
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  A Defense of Basic Prudential Hedonism 

  Nelson, Joseph Richard (2020)

  Prudential hedonism is a school of thought in the philosophy of welfare that says that only pleasure is good for us in itself and only pain is bad for us in itself. This dissertation concerns an especially austere form of ...
• Forward Modeling and Inversion of 3D Electromagnetic Scattering Problems in Complicated Backgrounds 

  Wang, Dezhi (2020)

  In this dissertation, four topics will be presented: (1) The volume integral eqaution method with the domain decomposition method (VIE-DDM) and the inversion using VIE-DDM as forward solver; (2)The numerical mode matching ...
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  FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS FOR COMMUNITY DETECTION IN LABELLED NETWORKS 

  Mayya, Vaishakhi Sathish (2020)

  The problem of detecting the community structure of networks as well as closely related problems involving low-rank matrix factorization arise in applications throughout science and engineering. This dissertation focuses ...
• Regulation of Tissue Regeneration in Zebrafish by Vitamin D Signaling 

  Chen, Anzhi (2020)

  Adult mammals have limited regenerative capacities. Lost limbs are replaced by scar tissues. Heart attacks lead to massive cardiomyocyte death without robust proliferative response at the injury sites, resulting in permanently ...
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  Plant water transport and photosynthesis in water-limited environments 

  Mrad, Assaad (2020)

  Terrestrial ecosystems depend on vegetation for many indispensable services including carbon fixation from the atmosphere, food production, and the maintenance of the global water and carbon cycles. As the climate changes, ...

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