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Evaluation of Locomotion Techniques in Room and Standing Scale Tracked Spaces
(2020-03-31)
Navigation is an everyday activity. It consists of knowing where you are, knowing where you want to go, and choosing some way to get there. This way is referred to as locomotion or a locomotion method. As we locomote we ...
Essays on Peer Effects in Social Networks
(2020-05-13)
This dissertation introduces a new model of peer effects in social networks with sample selection. In this model, an original exogenous network structure influences the binary choices of network members; these choices in ...
The Relationship among Maternal Characteristics, Maternal Dietary Self-Regulation, and the Dietary Intake and Body Weight Status of Two to Five-Year-Old Children
(2020-03-19)
Background: Eating preferences and practices are established early in life, yet we have little knowledge about how mothers make food decisions on behalf of their children. These decisions, however, lay the foundation for ...
Atomic Structures and Doping Effects in Intercalated Few-layer Graphene
(2020-05-14)
Intercalation, the process of inserting atoms or molecules into host materials, has been extensively researched in graphite for energy storage and reaction catalysis applications. The recent ability to isolate graphite ...
Investigating Noise Robustness of Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification Using Gabor Filters
(2020-04-02)
Alongside the ever-growing influence of convolutional neural networks(CNN) in the image classification task, its capability for working robustly with noisy images will become more critical. A practical classification system ...
Augmenting Deep Reinforcement Learning with Clustering
(2020-03-27)
Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms today suffer heavily from sample inefficiency – the need for a lot of training samples to learn the desired behavior. Although there are quite a few reasons for this inefficiency, one ...
DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED IN VIVO TOOL COMPOUND, VU6001221, FOR NON-COMPETITIVE INHIBITION OF CHT, DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF M1 PAMS: BENZOMORPHOLINE AND TETRAHYDROQUINOLINE SERIES, AND DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL, BRAIN-PENETRANT PAR4 ANTAGONISTS
(2020-06-02)
Here in, we describe the optimization of high-affinity, choline up-take transporter (CHT) antagonist, ML352, to improved in vivo tool compound, VU6001221. VU6001221, a potent and selective CHT inhibitor with significantly ...
Nanocalorimeter Platform for Point-of-Care Medical Applications
(2020-05-19)
Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics is an important field of biomedical research, delivering rapid results in nonlaboratory settings. Advances in microfabrication have given rise to calorimeters with smaller reaction volumes, ...
Radio frequency pulse designs for high resolution magnetic resonance imaging
(2020-05-19)
High resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is desirable for better in vivo tissue characterization. The overall aim of this dissertation is to develop new RF pulses that address problems hindering high-resolution ...
Gold Discoveries During the US Classical Gold Standard Era: Monetary News Shocks and Adaptive Learning in a DSGE Model
(2020-05-19)
I study the real effect of gold discoveries as a form of monetary news shock during the classical gold standard era (1880-1914). I took advantage of a unique dataset of gold and silver deposits in the US that includes the ...