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The role of the Drosophila SK channel in sensory processing and behavior / by Ahmad Nawwaf Abou Tayoun.
Partially ordered sets. ; Forcing (Model theory). ; Set theory.
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Algorithmic problems arising in posets and permutations / by Shahrzad Haddadan
Partially ordered sets and permutations are combinatorial structures having vast applications in theoretical computer science. In this thesis, we study various computational and algorithmic problems related to these structures. The first chapter of...
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High resolution infrared spectroscopy and photolysis of solutes in cryogenic solids.
Infrared spectroscopy. ; Photodissociation. ; Argon. ; Nitrogen.
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Hamiltonians, invariants and magnetic field-line topology.
Magnetic fields -- Mathematical models. ; Hamiltonian systems. ; Invariants.
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Random quantum dynamics : from random quantum circuits to quantum chaos.
Quantum computers. ; Quantum chaos. ; Many-body problem. ; Hamiltonian systems.
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High-throughput analysis of antigen-specific antibody effector function from polyclonal Ig / by Eric Brown
Antibodies are known to be a primary correlate of protection in almost all current vaccines, and thus evaluating the antibody response is of critical importance in attempting to predict the efficacy of novel vaccine candidates. Historically...
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$High performance fractal image compression.$
High performance fractal image compression.
Image processing -- Digital techniques -- Mathematics. ; Image compression. ; Fractals. ; Computer algorithms.
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Photoconductivity of optical fiber preforms.
Optical fibers -- Measurement. ; Photoconductivity -- Measurement. ; Second harmonic generation.
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Landscape and environmental effects on organic carbon in tundra soil, west Greenland / by Julia I. Bradley-Cook
Arctic soils in the permafrost region store substantially more carbon than is contained in the atmosphere, and are undergoing rapid change associated with anthropogenic climate change. Soil decomposition is an important component of ecosystem...
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Characterizing the impact of single nucleotide variation in breast cancer / by Kinjal Desai
Genome sequencing technology has enabled the identification of genetic variants that are linked with cancer phenotypes, whether these are somatically acquired mutations or common inherited single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Whereas coding...
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Efficient design and implementation of permutation algorithms on the memory hierarchy.
Computer algorithms. Permutations. Memory hierarchy (Computer science). Computer programming.
For many scientific applications, the data set cannot entirely fit in main memory. The data must reside out-of-core, i.e., on parallel disks. For many basic data-movement operations such as permuting, if the programmer does not design efficient...
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Equivalences on patterns in random walks / by Megan A. Martinez
In the past decade, the use of ordinal patterns in the analysis of time series and dynamical systems has become an important tool. Ordinal patterns (otherwise known as a permutation patterns) are found in time series by taking n data points at...
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Measuring the seeds of thermal ion outflow / by Philip A. Fernandes
The ionosphere is the primary source for heavy ions which are ubiquitous in the terrestrial magnetosphere. Low-altitude energization in the auroral ionosphere results in bulk heating and transverse acceleration of ions, which begin to upwell and/or...
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Rabbit genomic clones for synovial fibroblast collagenase: tools for understanding connective tissue disease.
Collagenases. ; Fibroblasts. ; Connective tissues -- Diseases -- Genetic aspects. ; Clone cells. ; Rabbits.
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Geometric permutation representations of finite symplectic, orthogonal, and unitary groups.
Finite groups. ; Permutations.
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A polynomial time algorithm for isomorphism of directed graphs of bounded valence.
Directed graphs. ; Algorithms. ; Isomorphisms (Mathematics).
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Applications of the exterior algebra to graphs and linear codes.
Hypergraphs.
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Transformation monoids of algebraic number rings.
Monoids. ; Transformations (Mathematics). ; Rings (Algebra). ; Galois theory.
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Habitat partitioning by notonectids: temporal patterns and the role of spatial complexity.
Backswimmers (Insects) -- Ecology. ; Habitat partitioning (Ecology). ; Spatial behavior in animals. ; Aquatic insects -- Ecology.
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The root character of the Weyl group of a (B,N) group.
Group theory.
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Orthogonal modular forms : an application to a conjecture of Birch, algorithms and computations / by Jeffery Hein
'Orthogonal modular forms are algebraic modular forms arising from lattices in quadratic spaces. In this thesis, we define orthogonal modular forms, establish their basic properties, and then apply them to a case of ternary quadratic spaces to...
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Uniform avoidance coupling, design of anonymity systems and matching theory / by Ewa Joanna Infeld
We start by introducing avoidance coupling of Markov chains, with an overview of existing results. We then introduce and motivate a new notion, uniform coupling. We show that the only Markovian avoidance coupling on a cycle is of this type, and...
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Finite element simulation of two-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic flows.
Magnetohydrodynamics -- Simulation methods. ; Finite element method. ; Galerkin methods.
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Three dimensional finite element simulations for regional electromagnetic hyperthermia treatment of cancer.
Cancer -- Treatment. ; Fever. ; Electromagnetic waves. ; Finite element method. ; Maxwell equations.
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On the origins of cancer cell identity : epigenetic deregulation of cellular states / by Kevin Johnson
The identification of molecular alterations present in cancer is critical to better understand carcinogenesis as well as the clinical trajectories of patients with malignant tumors. Early detection and application of appropriate treatment...
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Regeneration of neuromuscular connections from allotransplanted ganglia in the crayfish.
Ganglia, Sensory -- Transplantation. ; Central nervous system -- Regeneration. ; Procambarus clarkii -- Nervous system. ; Neurons -- Innervation. ; Synapses.
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Molecular Replacement for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: application to NMR resonance assignment and protein structure determination.
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy -- Data processing. ; Proteins -- Analysis -- Mathematical models. ; Computer algorithms.
Our aim is to enhance high-throughput applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) through the development of efficient computational methods that operate on sparse (minimal) sets of experimental NMR data. We have developed a family of four...
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A covariant formulation of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
Statistical mechanics.
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The molecular mechanisms of circadian phase in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Arabidopsis thaliana -- Genetics. ; Circadian rhythms. ; Genetic regulation.
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Mobile agent planning problems.
Mobile agents (Computer software). ; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing. ; Sequential processing (Computer science) -- Mathematical models.
Mobile agents have received much attention recently as a way to efficiently access distributed resources in a low bandwidth network. Planning allows mobile agents to make the best use of the available resources. This thesis studies several planning...
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Double circulant codes and related algebraic structures.
Coding theory.
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Galley: a new parallel file system for scientific applications.
Parallel processing (Electronic computers). ; File organization (Computer science). ; Multiprogramming (Electronic computers). ; Multiprocessors.
Most current multiprocessor file systems are designed to use multiple disks in parallel, using the high aggregate bandwidth to meet the growing I/O requirements of parallel scientific applications. Most multiprocessor file systems provide...
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An eigenspace approach to decomposing representations of finite groups.
Representations of groups. ; Finite groups. ; Transformations (Mathematics).
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Impurity scattering on the Fermi surface.
Scattering (Physics) Fermi surfaces.
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Automatic test pattern generation techniques for built-in self-test of digital circuits.
Digital integrated circuits -- Testing. Digital integrated circuits -- Testing -- Mathematical models. Digital integrated circuits -- Design and construction.
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Natural image statistics for digital image forensics.
Image processing -- Statistical methods. Image processing -- Digital techniques. Images
We describe a set of natural image statistics that are built upon two multi-scale image decompositions, the quadrature mirror filter pyramid decomposition and the local angular harmonic decomposition. These image statistics consist of first- and...
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An effective distributed caching strategy for partial result reuse for discrete optimization problems.
Evolutionary computation. Cache memory. Mathematical optimization. Protein folding -- Computer simulation.
Evolutionary Computation (EC) is one of the most advanced computational techniques. It has been frequently and successfully used to find good solutions to many complicated optimization problems with limited computational resources. EC is the...
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Tackling latency using FG
Parallel processing (Electronic computers);""Memory management (Computer science)"";""Distributed shared memory.""
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Virulence and motility gene regulation in Vibrio cholerae.
Vibrio cholerae -- Molecular genetics. DNA-binding proteins. Genetic transcription -- Regulation. Promoters (Genetics)
The ctx and tcp genes that encode cholera toxin and the toxin co-regulated pilus, the major virulence determinants of Vibrio cholerae, are repressed by the nucleoid-associated protein H-NS and activated by the AraC-like transcriptional regulator...
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Anisotropic quasiparticle properties in aluminum.
Aluminum. ; Fermi surfaces.
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Rewards and self-regulation in the resting brain / by Jeremy Ford Huckins
The ability to resist highly tempting reward impulses is a struggle that all humans face on a daily basis, one that gives rise to many societal problems such as obesity and drug addiction. This form of self-regulation involves a critical balance...
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Population structure, ancestry, and environmental predictors of lung and bladder cancer in New Hampshire.
Lungs -- Cancer -- New Hampshire. Bladder -- Cancer -- New Hampshire. Cancer -- Epidemiology. Cancer -- Environmental aspects -- New Hampshire. Cancer -- Genetic aspects
Complex diseases such as lung cancer are most commonly the result of environmental variables acting on an individual's genetic background. Those environmental variables may be found in the external environment, such as exposures to carcinogenic...
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An investigation into the mechanism of action of aldosterone on ENaC: A search for endogenous substrates of SGK1.
Subject Protein kinases. Aldosterone -- Physiological effect. Sodium -- Physiological transport. Sodium channels. Epithelial cells. Glucocorticoids. Medical Term Sgk protein.
It is well established that SGK1 plays a role in aldosterone mediated sodium transport. The intracellular localization of SGK1 has recently been demonstrated as mitochondrial. The studies described here evaluate the hypothesis that SGK1...
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Heterogeneous self-reconfiguring robotics.
Robotics. Robots -- Control systems. Robots -- Motion. Robots -- Repairing. Manipulators (Mechanism). Heterogeneous computing. Computer algorithms.
Self-reconfiguring (SR) robots are modular systems that can autonomously change shape, or reconfigure , for increased versatility and adaptability in unknown environments. In this thesis, we investigate planning and control for systems of...
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Bijective combinatorics of reduced decompositions / by Zachary Hamaker.
We study the bijective combinatorics of reduced words. These are fundamental objects in the study of Coxeter groups. We restrict our focus to reduced words of permutations and signed permutations. Our results can all be situated within the context...
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Efficient I/O for computational grid applications.
Computer input-output equipment. ; Computational grids (Computer systems). ; High performance computing. ; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing.
High-performance computing increasingly occurs on computational grids composed of heterogeneous and geographically distributed systems of computers, networks, and storage devices that collectively act as a single virtual computer. A key challenge...
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Understanding the vulnerabilities of tumors : a network-based approach to drug target discovery / by Nadia M. Penrod.
The demand for novel molecularly targeted drugs will continue to rise as we make progress toward personalizing cancer treatments to the molecular signatures of individual tumors. While the collection and analysis of genomic data has become routine,...
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Integration of machine learning network science and pathway analysis in genetic epidemiology / by Qinxin Pan.
Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and other high-throughput initiatives have led to an information explosion in human genetics and genetic epidemiology, the mapping from genotype to phenotype remains challenging as most of the...
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Prime polynomials over finite fields.
Polynomials. Finite fields (Algebra). Algebraic functions. Number theory.
The ring of univariate polynomials over a finite field shares many foundational arithmetic properties with the ring of rational integers. This similarity makes it possible for many problems in elementary number theory to be translated 'through the...
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Performance evaluation of distributed security protocols using discrete event simulation.
Computer networks -- Security measures. BGP (Computer network protocol). Public key infrastructure (Computer security). Discrete-time systems -- Mathematical models. Computer simulation.
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) that manages inter-domain routing on the Internet lacks security. Protective measures using public key cryptography introduce complexities and costs. To support authentication and other security functionality in...
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