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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...