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A computational chemist’s guide to the development of designer material systems through the utilization of past, present, and developmental computational techniques
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-12)Computational chemistry broadly investigates chemical problems using computer aided simulations/models. The exploration of material properties through computational means requires traversing length scales, from atomic to ... -
Analyzing and predicting success of professional musicians
(Scientific Reports, 2022-12-17)The emergence of streaming services, e.g., Spotify, has changed the way people listen to music and the way professional musicians achieve fame and success. Classical music has been the backbone of Western media for a long ... -
High-fidelity information extraction in future power grids
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)The recent decades have witnessed the rapid growth of the deployment of smart meters in power systems. The massive amount of data collected from smart meters provide rich information of power systems, such as system dynamics ... -
Novel imaging strategies illuminate selective trafficking pathways in neurons
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)The fundamental unit of the nervous system is the neuron. Neurons develop many anatomically and functionally distinct domains to fulfill their role in electrochemical signaling. These domains require different complements ... -
Becoming irradiated: the epistemic politics of neglect along india’s nuclear fuel cycle
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)Becoming Irradiated demonstrates that the dual epistemic conditions of self-reliance and nuclear safety neglect experiences of radioactive contamination across three varied irradiated facilities in India that comprise the ... -
Made more radiant : "psychic practice" and other somatic technologies for re-enchantment and recovery
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)This practice-based dissertation, “Made More Radiant: ‘psychic practice’ and other somatic technologies for re-enchantment and recovery,” is grounded in “experimental dance” and queer and feminist performance art. The heart ... -
Dynamic regulation of metabolic pathways with CRISPR-dCAS9 toehold-gated rna regulators
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)In metabolic engineering, once a metabolic pathway is expressed, there is an optimization process that aims to increase the production, titer, rate, and yield of the target molecule with a goal to direct the maximum possible ... -
Social optimal disaster relief distribution with mobile beneficiaries
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)In post-disaster scenarios, where there are not enough critical relief supplies to satisfy the needs of individuals, the allocation of supplies available is a complex process. This dissertation proposes mathematical ... -
Autonomous navigation in deep space using optical measurements of unresolved planets and stars
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)One of the essential challenges in spaceflight is spacecraft navigation. This is the estimation of the state – position, velocity, and attitude – of a spacecraft given available measurements. The development of sensors and ... -
Knowledge-augmented deep learning and its applications
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)Deep learning models have achieved remarkable success in many different fields over the past years thanks to advanced algorithmic techniques; great computational power provided by processors; and, most importantly, tremendous ... -
Modeling, system identification, and parameter estimation for electrified aircraft systems and hydroelectric power plants
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)In recent years, there has been a push to electrify everyday technologies to help meet emissionsreduction and promote more sustainable energy consumption practices. In this work, three systems that consider the different ... -
Material politics in sound
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)In this dissertation, “Material Politics in Sound,” I utilize an experimental methodology that prioritizes a material-based practice in art and electricity, and in my artistic and scholarly analysis I explore my artistic ... -
Sensorless frame-to-volume multimodal image fusion via deep learning
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)Prostate cancer is the leading cause of death for men in the western world. The fusion of transrectal ultrasound (US) and magnetic resonance (MR) images for guiding the biopsy can facilitate the clinical diagnosis of ... -
Natural language understanding with semantic parsing
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)As a branch of natural language processing (NLP), natural language understanding (NLU) involves transforming natural language into a structured, machine-readable format. Typical target formats vary depending on the domain ... -
A clinically relevant wireless pressure sensor for acute compartment syndrome
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is a surgical emergency requiring rapid diagnosis and intervention. ACS occurs after traumatic injury when edema causes the pressure within a myofascial compartment to rise above capillary ... -
Characterization of protein surface hydrophobicity using molecular dynamics simulations and deep learning
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)In the past decade, there has been a significant growth in the market size for protein based therapeutics such as monoclonal antibodies, enzymes, bispecifics and Fc-fusion proteins. Protein based therapeutics provide many ... -
Design of a cold moderator for total cross section measurements of moderator materials at sub-thermal energies
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)In order to extend the neutron cross section measurement capability to below 0.001 eV, the sub-thermal neutron flux of the existing enhanced thermal target needed to be improved at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) ... -
A computational approach to lexical semantic shift across time and domain : methods and applications
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)Neural natural language models are designed to learn word and sequence representations from large volumes of text. Such amount of data is typically achieved by merging multiple heterogeneous corpora from the Web. However, ... -
Kap is a neuronal organelle adaptor for KIF3AB and KIF3AC
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)Neurons are the fundamental unit of the nervous system, their function being to receive and propagate electrochemical signals. Due to this role, neurons can be exceptionally large cells with specialized subdomains known ... -
Chromium ion implantation of In625 for in-situ tem molten chloride salt corrosion
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-12)Concentrated Solar Power plants (CSP) capture the Sun's thermal energy by concentrating sunlight to a central tower which transfers the heat to a thermal energy storage material (TES) such as molten salts. The TES containers ...