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The effect of political ideology on governmental coronavirus response
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-05)The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) separates nations into five distinct categories of political ideology. Authoritarian nations have little to no democratic elements, ... -
The effect of self-luminous electronic displays on melatonin
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The effects of magnesium(II) on zinc oxide nanorod growth from aqueous solution
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The future of agriculture in a resource-constrained world: a scenario analysis
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The geometry of learning and the learning of geometry
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-05)Overall, this work concerns the intersection of machine learning and differential geometry. It investigates ways in which these fields can mutually inform each other. Our goal is to promote bringing a geometric paradigm ... -
The human microtubule crosslinking protein prc1 acts like a viscous dashpot to resist microtuble sliding during mitosis
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2020-12)The results indicated that the resistive forces generated by PRC1 crosslinked microtubule bundles scale with sliding velocity and the number of PRC1 within the bundle. Interestingly, the resistive forces measured were ... -
The impact of 470-nm light on acute nocturnal melatonin suppression
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The impact of heterogeneity on threshold-limited social contagion, and on crowd decision-making
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2017-08)First, to capture the complex nature of social influencing we use a simple but classic model of contagion spreading in complex social systems, namely the threshold model. We investigate numerically and analytically the ... -
The influence of mechanical stimulation and macromolecular crowding on engineered, scaffold-free tendon fibers
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-05)The current standard for treatment of high grade tendon tears is surgical replacement grafts, however they present the challenge of limited tissue availability (allografts and autografts), donor site morbidity (autografts), ... -
The investigation of geometrical acoustics within a 3-dimensional CAD program
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“The kind of music we play”: a study of self-idiomatic improvised music and musicians in Boston
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The leading-edge stall of airfoils with blunt noses at low to moderately high Reynolds numbers
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2017-12)The inception of leading-edge stall on stationary, smooth thin airfoils with various blunt nose shapes of the form $y=\pm k(ax)^{\frac{1}{a}}$ (where $a \geq 2$ and $k$ is a constant) at low to moderately high Reynolds ... -
The life of the by-product in the “Grants uranium district” of northwestern New Mexico
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2019-08)In the “Grants uranium district” of northwestern New Mexico, there is a large-scale high-tech operation underway to monitor and cleanup the uranium mine waste and mill tailings from the U.S. Cold War development of nuclear ... -
The mechanics of multitasking: the choreography of perception, action, and cognition over 7.05 orders of magnitude
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The organism as networked object : cognitive perception and organization as applied to living and non-living processes.
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The RAMDISK storage accelerator — a method of accelerating I/O performance on HPC systems using RAMDISKs
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The role of sensing information in pursuit-evasion games
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2008-08)Today mobile sensor networks find widespread use in environmental monitoring, health care applications, home automation, traffic control and search-and-rescue missions. One can envision robots in civilian environments ... -
The role of vision and biomechanics when walking over rough terrain
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2017-12)In order to take action in the world, humans require coordination between per- ceptual information about the environment and the action capabilities endowed to us by the structure of our bodies. Within the context of ... -
The Sagittarius tidal stream and the shape of the galactic stellar halo
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-08)Fits to the Sgr stream in 18 SDSS data stripes were performed, and a continuous density profile is found for the major Sgr stream. The stellar halo is found to be strongly oblate (flattening parameter q=0.53). A catalog ... -
The semantic ehumanities methodology : same but different
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-12)The Empirical Humanities, which includes the work of history, folklore, and cultural anthropology, are facing new challenges. For decades, they been an almost entirely individual-centric enterprise. Field notes, observations, ...