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Learning to coordinate a redundant motor system : the role of postural comfort
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-12)When realizing a motor goal, actors have access to a large number of redundant action possibilities from which a particular movement must be selected. Comfort has been shown to play an important role in the selection of ... -
Levee erosion simulation using smoothed particle hydrodynamics
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LiDAR data manipulation: object detection, segmentation, and inpainting
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Light of reason and dead butterflies
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Liquid dynamics in dielectrophoretic actuation
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Listeners' expectation of room acoustical parameters based on visual cues
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Long contextualized document embeddings for financial reports
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-05)With rapid advancements in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Transformer-based techniques have been applied to a variety of downstream tasks such as question answering, text classification, and so on. However, ... -
Loss-tolerant TCP (LT-TCP) : adapting TCP to modern wireless networks
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-08)The transport protocol most widely adopted for reliable network communication, TCP, does not fully utilize wireless networks where packet losses and topological changes are prevalent. To address this issue, Loss-Tolerant ... -
Low power interface IC's for electrostatic energy harvesting applications
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Low-order methods for nonconvex functional constrained optimization
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-07)Recently, many real-world problems in engineering and data science not only have very large scales and complicated functional constraints, but also go beyond the scope of convex optimization and inevitably include nonconvex ... -
Low-temperature electronic transport in one-dimensional systems : metal embedded carbon nanotubes
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Lyapunov based control of a six degree of freedom satellite testbed
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-08)The development of novel techniques for the guidance, navigation, and control of spacecraft is a necessary step in the effort to create new autonomous spacecraft. The costs of on-orbit testing can be mitigated by the use ... -
Machine learning strategies for power systems
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-08)As renewable energy penetration into the United States power system continues to increase, maintaining situational awareness of the complex power grid becomes increasingly challenging. Machine learning models developed ... -
Machinescape
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Making a record: preserving & celebrating the lives of women through experimental documentary portraiture
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Making cultures : politics of inclusion, accessibility, and empowerment at the margins of the maker movement
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2017-08)By examining the margins, I trouble the Maker Movement label, the people who hold sway over this categorization, and consider both proponents as well as dissenters from within and without its bounds. I question claims that ... -
Mass spectrometry analysis of glycosaminoglycans and applications in biological research
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2020-05)The glycosaminoglycan (GAG) family of polysaccharides includes the unsulfated hyaluronan and sulfated heparin, heparan sulfate, keratan sulfate, and chondroitin/dermatan sulfate. GAGs are involved in various biological ... -
Matching, social welfare and ordinal approximation
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2020-05)Many important problems involve agents with preferences for different outcomes. Such settings include, for example, social choice and matching problems. Although the quality of an outcome to an agent may be measured by a ... -
Mathematical modeling of wildfire dynamics
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-12)Wildfires continue to pose a long-standing threat in our society. In this thesis, I derive and solve a fluid dynamics model to study a specific type of wildfire, namely, a two-dimensional flow around a rising plume above ... -
Meaningful clicks, significant bricks : perceptions of creative agency in physical and virtual play
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2012-08)Conversations about children and interactive virtual technology (IVT) use vary significantly across disciplines. Discussions about computers, videogames, the Internet and, more recently, mobile applications, range from ...