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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 ... -
Human-building collaboration: a case study on lighting enabled collaborative system design
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Building automation systems have gained increased attention by means of their ability to improve building performance. They increasingly rely on cutting-edge technologies, sensors, and the Internet of Things to autonomously ... -
Embedding fairness and ethics in collective decision-making
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Collective decision-making is the problem where we have to aggregate individual preferences to collectively make a choice. Voting is one of the most commonly studied methods of making collective decisions. The task of ... -
Protease-catalyzed synthesis of oligopeptides and glycan-terminated peptides
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Peptides and peptide conjugates are used for many applications, including as therapeutics and biomedical materials. At present, established synthetic routes to peptides and their conjugates include solid-phase peptide ... -
Preprocessing and learning for graph structured data
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Graphs are general structures which may be used to describe any system or dataset with related elements. Because of the prevalence of such data, efficient and accurate algorithms for analyzing graphs are of extreme importance ... -
A continuous approximation model for the design of park-and-ride systems
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Park-and-Ride (P&R) systems have emerged as a popular traffic management solution in response to the need for sustainable transportation options to combat the climate crisis and improve traffic flow. The goal of this ... -
Spectral ct at ultra-high resolution via photon-counting and deep learning
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Computed tomography (CT) plays an indispensable role in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Enabled by recent dual-energy CT (DECT) advances, spectral CT allows anatomical and functional imaging with material ... -
Finite element formulation of laser material interaction accounting for geometry evolution
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Laser subtractive and additive manufacturing holds tremendous potential to create intricate parts in small batches. However, due to the complexity of the process physics, it is not currently possible to predict a priori ... -
Arcadian pasts and futures: making and breaking a lignite coal landscape in southern greece
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)At the end of the 1950s, Greece’s state-owned electrical utility the Public Power Corporation (PPC) surveyed large reserves of a low-quality energy resource called lignite coal around the town of Megalopolis. Since the ... -
The virgo radial merger: a recent and substantial contribution to the local stellar halo
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)The Milky Way's (MW) stellar halo is built up from the debris of many disrupted dwarf galaxies. It is widely known that the MW's inner stellar halo contains a [Fe/H]-rich, radialized component, which contributes the majority ... -
Deep learning and optimization based interferometric and phaseless imaging
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Interferometric imaging involves reconstructing an image from the cross-correlations of the scattered waves reflected from the illuminated medium. Phaseless imaging on the other hand involves reconstructing an image from ... -
Three essays in financial intermediation: a regulatory perspective
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)This dissertation consists of three essays on the role of added regulation on financial advisory firms and bank holding companies. Compliance with stringent added regulations can create ethical dilemmas in financial ... -
Learning from event sequences
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Event sequences are fundamental in various domains, encompassing customer transactions, electronic health records, and other scenarios involving actions over time. Understanding the dynamics of event transitions enables ... -
Investigation of climate-adaptive opaque building components: toward an ectothermic approach to heating and cooling in buildings
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)While the predominant practice for low-energy buildings aims to achieve highly insulating building envelopes, there is a growing interest in exploring climate-adaptive building envelopes as an alternative. However, most ... -
Three essays on ethical issues in natural language use for the design and implementation of artificial intelligence (ai) systems
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)This dissertation consists of three essays on ethical issues in natural language use for the design and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Several ethical concerns regarding the use of AI to support ... -
System risk quantification and decision making support with integrated artificial reasoning framework
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Decision-making involves the identification and selection of options, guided by a predetermined set of criteria and personal preferences set by the decision-maker. Each option presents a unique trajectory and profile in ... -
Accessing (or not) telemedicine to treat opioid use disorder during covid-19: an ethnographic study in new york state
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)This dissertation presents an in-person and digital ethnography of people in New York State who use drugs and seek treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) using phone or video connection to receive healthcare (telecare) ... -
deep neural network quantifies individual cardiovascular disease risk
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of global mortality, emphasizing the urgent need for accurate, accessible, and interpretable risk assessment methodologies. This dissertation introduces a deep learning ... -
Individual and team performance and behavioral adaptation in competitive adversarial games: an application to elite biathlon
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)This dissertation develops and explores prospects for investigating human performance and adaptive behavior in competitive, individual- and team-based settings. It is motivated by recent work on theoretical underpinnings ... -
Defect engineering for tuning electronic and optical properties of materials
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)All pristine nanostructured materials are susceptible to disruptions in their chemical composition and expected crystal structure, where these disruptions are commonly referred to as defects. At first glance, defects may ...