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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 ... -
High-order accurate finite-difference methods for partial differential equations on complex geometry
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)We devise two high-order accurate finite-difference methods to solve scalar partial differential equations (PDEs), in second-order form, on curvilinear and overset grids. The first method addresses high-order accurate ... -
Fostering cooperative intersection crossing for connected and automated traffic on urban corridors
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies can revolutionize transportation by eliminating human errors and enabling timely information sharing. The potential of CAVs to improve traffic mobility, safety, and ... -
The interiorization of reality: subjective turn, therapeutic governance, and the case of internet addiction in china
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)This dissertation explores the trend of internalization across historical, artistic, and sociopolitical dimensions. In the historical dimension, this research reviews the emergence of the subjective turn during the nineteenth ... -
An investigation of the pampean flat slab and its role in andean tectonics through the analysis of enhanced earthquake catalogues
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)The Andean margin of South America is an archetypal example of a convergent tectonic environment that has played a fundamental role in the creation, evolution, and consumption of both continental and oceanic lithosphere. ... -
Exploring the association of glycemic control and tissue functionality in diabetes: a mechanistic and data analytic approach
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)Diabetes is a global epidemic affecting approximately 537 million people worldwide, which can lead to multiple complications. Non-enzymatic glycation (NEG), a post-translational modification process that is highly accelerated ... -
Group decision makings from partial preferences
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)Group decision making is the situation that a group of agents makes collective choices over a set of alternatives. The input of group decision making is the partial preferences of agents, and its output is one (or more) ... -
Pushing the boundaries of nonlinearities using structured light
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)Spatial light modulators give us the ability to manipulate the fundamental constituents of light (amplitude and phase). This ability has ushered in a new way to approach light matter interaction (to control light matter ... -
Enhancing monte carlo modeling workflows with a metamodel-driven approach for nuclear reactor analysis
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)Nuclear simulation programs are diverse and copious; one can easily find a myriad of programs for modeling applications ranging from neutronics to thermal-hydraulics to species transport and corrosion. Furthermore, it is ... -
Inflammation and immunomodulation: considerations towards developing treatments for symptoms of autism spectrum disorder
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is an increasingly prevalent developmental disorder characterized by moderate to debilitating social, behavioral, and communicative deficits. It is frequently accompanied with one or more ... -
First-order methods for large-scale distributed nonconvex optimization
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)Distributed optimization has garnered much attention from the machine learning community in recent years due to the ever-growing presence of distributed data and the emphasis on more complex machine learning models which ... -
Associative learning for text and graph data
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)This dissertation focuses on the application of associative learning into text data and graphstructured data. Associative learning is the process of learning to associate two stimuli. If the connection between two events ... -
Assessing the influence of mechanical and electrical stimulation on engineered scaffold-free skeletal muscle fiber development
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)One of the greatest challenges when engineering skeletal muscle is creating a construct that can withstand and produce physiologically relevant force levels. In an effort to improve force production, many tissue engineering ... -
Interfacial phenomena in heat pipes: microscopic and molecular dynamics study
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)Micro-scale transport phenomena have gained prominence in various high heat flux dissipation devices in microelectronics, where the hotspots created require that each chip be cooled individually. Heat pipes have been an ... -
Numerical investigation of k<sub>σ</sub> at high confining pressures under field drainage conditions
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)The State of Practice (SoP) for assessing liquefaction triggering of cohesionless soils at high confining pressures extrapolates the SoP liquefaction triggering charts using the overburden correction factor (K<sub>σ</sub>). ... -
Gender dysphoria and being human
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)Scientific practices and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), now in its 5th version, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), have been some of the strongest powers confining gender dysphoria to ... -
Efficient and robust federated learning in heterogeneous networks
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)In the modern day, data for machine learning tasks is generated by globally distributed devices. The data are often sensitive, containing private information that must not be shared. Federated learning (FL) algorithms were ... -
Accelerated stochastic gradient methods with adaptive techniques and distributed computing
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)Stochastic gradient methods (SGMs) have gained widespread usage for solving stochastic optimization problems due to their simplicity and efficient computation as first-order methods. However, vanilla SGMs suffer from slow ... -
Loaded language and conspiracy theorizing
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)Loaded language is an umbrella term for words, phrases, and overall rhetorical strategies that have strong emotional implications and intent to sway others. Belief in conspiracy theories is tied to a range of strong emotions ... -
Design of silicon, iii-v, diamond, and graphene terafet detectors
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-05)The plasmonic terahertz field-effect transistor (TeraFET) has been studied extensively since the 1990s, and has shown promise for a range of applications such as sensing, imaging, biomedical engineering, and wireless ...