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Phonon Anharmonicity and Phase Transitions in Perovskites
(2022)Lattice dynamics and phonon quasi-particles are commonly used to describe atomic vibrations in crystalline materials, typically within a harmonic approximation. However, anharmonicity is crucial to understand the thermal ... -
Modeling and Design of Assured and Adaptive Cyber-Physical Systems
(2022)Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) feature synergetic integration of multiple subsystems to control physical environments through cycles of sensing and actuation. The correct-by-design paradigm aims to provide guarantees on the ... -
Fighting for Life: War Trauma, Healing, and Ritual Communities in the American Pacific Northwest
(2022)This dissertation traces the complex connections between violence, trauma, healing, and medicalization in North America. The project connects to conversations in medical anthropology and American studies, and intersects ... -
Three Essays about Problems of Space in the Early Modern Period
(2022)Given that we cannot perceive space via the senses, how do we arrive at the representation of space in the first place? Why do we tend to attribute certain properties to space – for instance, that it is infinite, empty, ... -
New tools for Bayesian clustering and factor analysis
(2022)Traditional model-based clustering faces challenges when applied to mixed scale multivariate data, consisting of both categorical and continuous variables. In such cases, there is a tendency for certain variables to overly ... -
Stromal CaMKK2 promotes immunosuppression and checkpoint blockade resistance in Glioblastoma
(2022)Glioblastoma (GBM) is notorious for its immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). GBM is universally lethal and remains highly refractory to immunotherapy, including immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). Resistance to ... -
Advancing Drone Methods for Pinniped Ecology and Management
(2022)Pinniped species undergo a life history, unique among marine mammals, that includes discrete periods of occupancy on land or ice within a predominantly marine existence. This makes many pinniped species valuable sentinels ... -
The Development and Resolution of Conflict Among Federal Appellate Courts
(2022)Circuit splits, arising when U.S. Courts of Appeals create contradictory legal rules, are one of the most important phenomena in American law. Making up a significant proportion of the Supreme Court’s docket, cases involving ... -
Connecting Density Functional Theory and Green's Function Theory
(2022)Developing accurate and efficient theoretical approaches to describe the electronic structure has been a long-standing task in quantum chemistry. The main workhouse in quantum chemistry, density functional theory (DFT), has ... -
Visualizing Bodies: Public Health and the Medicalized Everyday in Modern Japan
(2022)This dissertation examines the complex network of visual culture that represented public health in early twentieth century Japan. I investigate the role of images in shaping modern Japanese public health discourse within ... -
MULTI STAGE HEAVY QUARK TRANSPORT IN ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS
(2022)The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is one of the most interesting forms of matter providing us with insight on quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the early universe. It is believed that the heavy-ion collision experiments at the ... -
Approximations for Economic Efficiency and Fairness
(2022)Efficiency and fairness are two major objectives in designing economic systems -- they provide guidelines on the desirability of economic solutions. However, perfectly efficient and fair utopian economies are often nonexistent ... -
Glycerate from Fat-modulating Fructose Metabolism as a Mediator of Diabetes
(2022)The prevalence of diabetes is on the rise, thus imposing a huge burden on our society. In addition to genetic and environmental risk factors, obesity strongly predicts the development of diabetes. Owing to the strong correlation ... -
Design and Performance Prediction for Supply Chain Systems with Graphical Structures
(2022)This dissertation studies the optimal design and performance evaluation of large-scale supply chain systems with graphical structures such as assemble-to-order (ATO) systems and e-commerce fulfillment networks. It consists ... -
Online Algorithms with Learned Predictions
(2022)Optimization under uncertainty is a classic theme in the fields of algorithm design and machine learning. The traditional design of online algorithms have however proved to be insufficient for practical instances, since ... -
Behavioral Measures and Ecological Correlates of Vision in Poeciliid Fishes
(2022)Understanding how animals see the world and how visual systems have evolved to meet the needs of particular animals are major goals of visual ecology research. The Poeciliidae are a diverse family of Neotropical freshwater ... -
Development of acoustofluidic scanning nanoscope
(2022)The largest obstacle in nanoscale microscopy is the diffraction limit. Although several means of achieving sub-diffraction resolution exist, they all have shortcomings such as cost, complexity, and processing time, which ... -
Mechanochromism and Strain-Induced Crystallization in Thiol-yne-derived Stereoelastomers
(2022)Most elastomers undergo strain-induced crystallization (SIC) under tension; as individual chains are held rigidly in a fixed position by an applied strain, their alignment along the strain field results in a shift ... -
Probing the Brahmsnebel, 1875-1910
(2022)The evocative term ‘Brahmsnebel,’ appearing in German music criticism during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, aptly depicts the nebulous haze of composers throughout Europe who emulated Brahms’s compositional ... -
Advancements in Low-Cost, non-Conventional Bioprocessing Methods for Therapeutic Proteins
(2022)Protein-based drugs are becoming increasingly important both therapeutically and economically. However, these drugs are complex and costly to manufacture, making them difficult to access for many patients and not feasible ...
