Rensselaer Libraries: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Interactions of the mediodorsal thalamus and the prefrontal cortex support cognitive flexibility
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Cognitive control has long been a central problem of neuroscience. Recent experimental findings suggest that several subcortical regions are implicated in mediating brain function which is a significant shift from the ... -
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 ... -
Synthetic data generation and evaluation for fairness
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Artificial Intelligence (AI) models often have unfairness, resulting in biased predictions against certain groups of protected individuals. This thesis addresses two broad objectives for quantifying fairness in AI. As the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The molecular characterization of tau glycoprotein/glycan interactions and phosphorylation in alzheimer’s disease
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-06)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the 7th leading cause of death in the United States as of 2021, with poorly understood etiology and limited therapeutic measures. Of the various hypotheses for AD pathogenesis, herpes virus has ... -
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 ... -
Mechanistic modeling of multimodal chromatography: from first-principles to principal applications
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Biotherapeutics, since their inception, have played a key role in the worldwide treatment of complex health conditions (e.g., cancer, autoimmune disorders, and viral infections). To meet the ever-increasing demand for these ... -
The mechanical response of materials at the nanoscale via simulations
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)We use both molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and density functional theory (DFT) calculations to investigate various nanomechanical properties of nanoparticles under compression, exfoliation of perovskite heterogeneous ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Glitch serendipity: exploring the spectrum across media
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)This thesis presents glitch serendipity as a formalized approach to artistic practice. The study focuses on the concepts of glitch, remix, and serendipity, employing interdisciplinary methods and principles such as disjunctive ... -
Engineering the electronic structure of inse and inse/tmd devices
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Engineering the band structure is a technique that is used to modify semiconductors in modern electronic devices. There are two problems that advancement in modern electronics currently faces: miniaturization and specialized ... -
Fabricating heterogeneous alginate microbead arrays with spatially prescribed distributions using laser direct-write bioprinting
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)Manufacturing 3D tumor systems with control over the spatial placement of disparate cell types (e.g., tumor, stromal) has posed a significant challenge. Compared to other fabrication methods, bioprinting approaches are ... -
Neural models for causal information extraction using domain adaptation
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)The task of identifying causality related events or actions from text is an important step in building knowledge graph of events and consequences from the vast amount of unlabeled documents available to us in the digital ... -
Effects of sounds on the visitors’ experience in museums
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2023-08)With the growing popularity of museums, there is an increasing awareness of the importance of acoustics in creating a high-quality visitor experience. As a result, the research field of museum acoustics has gained attention, ...