In this work, a hybrid simulation approach is adopted as the major approach along with analytical method to examine 3-D power networks. Combining electromagnetic (EM) tools and circuit simulators, the hybrid approach is ...

Scanning Thermal Microscopy (SThM) is a powerful technique that can measure samples’ thermal conductivity, temperature, Seebeck coefficient, and topography at the same time with excellent spatial resolution and sensitivity. ...

Drug development is inefficient and expensive, with less than 10% of drug candidates entering clinical trials proceeding to market, and each costing an estimated $2.5 billion. This inefficiency is due to several reasons, ...

235U and 239Pu are important isotopes with significant impact on the nuclear community,and the nuclear data which describes their behavior when subjected to incident neutrons directly supports calculations for nuclear ...

This dissertation focuses on two different but related natural language processing problems, namely, question answering and question generation. Automated question answering (QA) is the process of finding answers to natural ...

There exists a line of study in which the decision-making and data acquisition processes are decoupled and the focus is placed on forming the most reliable decisions based on a given set of data samples. These approaches ...

Microbial communities that exhibit coordinated, population-dependent behaviors have been engineered for use in applications of biotechnology, therapeutics, bioprocessing, and synthetic biology. Intercellular communication ...