Application of Koopman Operator Theory to Legged Locomotion by Terrones, Jasmine G.

“…Nonlinearities from complicated robot systems and harsh contact dynamics have long impeded the effectiveness of optimal control strategies for legged robots. …”
Get full text

Development of a Computational Tool for Simplifying Engineering Tradeoff Analysis for the Design of Cost-Optimized, Time-Variant, Electrodialysis Reversal Desalination Systems by Costello, Jeffrey

“…In place of explicit computation, this paper proposes a simplifying assumptions to simulate desalination power and production rate of a TEDR process without explicit computation, enabling rapid year-long simulation and system optimization. The output of the model is compared to experimental data from a pilot TEDR system and found to have good agreement between desalination power and production rate. …”
Get full text

Practical Exocompilation for Performance Engineers in User-Schedulable Languages by Qian, Kevin

“…We show that providing more control does not necessitate sacrificing automation, as long as the language is designed so that users can build their own automation. …”
Get full text

The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building by Spencer, Chelsea Anne

“…This dissertation tells the story of how building became contracting in the United States during the long nineteenth century. Known to legal historians as the age of contract, the nineteenth century gave rise to a constellation of juridical and economic ideas that revolved around a vision of social relations modeled on market exchange and possessive individualism. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Materials beyond monolayers: The magnetic quasi-1D semiconductor CrSBr by Klein, Julian, Ross, Frances M.

“…We describe monolayer properties exhibited by this material in its bulk form, discussing how the quasi-1D electronic structure of CrSBr allows mono- or bilayer physics to be displayed even in thick crystals. Long-range magnetic order offers additional tuning with the coupled lattice, spin, orbit, and charge degrees of freedom enabling magneto-correlated phenomena. …”
Get full text

Active Learning for Inference and Regeneration of Applications that Access Databases by Shen, Jiasi, Rinard, Martin

“…Because the technique works with only externally observable inputs, outputs, and database contents, it can infer the behavior of applications written in arbitrary languages using arbitrary coding styles (as long as the behavior of the application is expressible in the domain-specific language). …”
Get full text

VERY LARGE-SCALE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH FOR THE QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM by Ahuja, Ravindra, Jha, Krishna, Orlin, James, Sharma, Dushyant

“…Previous efforts to explore larger size neighborhoods (such as 3-exchange or 4-exchange neighborhoods) were not very successful, as it took too long to evaluate the larger set of neighbors. In this paper, we propose very largescale neighborhood (VLSN) search algorithms where the size of the neighborhood is very large and we propose a novel search procedure to heuristically enumerate good neighbors. …”
Get full text

Dynamic Scheduling of a Production/Inventory System with By-Products and Random Yield by Ou, Jihong, Wein, Lawrence M.

“…The objective is to minimize the long run expected average cost, which includes costs for holding work-in-process inventory(which may differ by process type and service stage) and backordering and holding finished goods inventory (which may differ by product type). …”
Get full text

21A.100 Introduction to Anthropology, Fall 2004 by Howe, James

“…Although some of the results and conclusions of anthropology will be discussed, emphasis will be on appreciating cultural difference and its implications, studying cultures and societies through long-term fieldwork, and most of all, learning to think analytically about other people's lives and our own.…”
Get full text

Engineering protein thermostability using a generic activity-independent biophysical screen inside the cell by Asial, Ignacio, Cheng, Yue Xiang, Engman, Henrik, Dollhopf, Maria, Wu, Binghuang, Nordlund, Pär, Cornvik, Tobias

“…We also show that thermostabilization of a protein drug using our approach translates into dramatic improvements in long-term stability. As the method is generic and activity independent, it can easily be applied to a wide range of proteins.…”
Get full text
Get full text

Personality predicts words in favorite songs by Qiu, Lin, Chen, Jiayu, Ramsay, Jonathan, Lu, Jiahui

“…Psychologists have long theorized that people actively create, select, or modify experiences and situations to fulfill their individual psychological needs. …”
Get full text

FAIM : an antagonist of Fas-killing and beyond by Huo, Jianxin, Xu, Shengli, Lam, Kong-Peng

“…Faim has two alternatively spliced isoforms, with the short isoform ubiquitously expressed in various tissues and the long isoform mainly found in the nervous tissues. …”
Get full text

The role of mainstreamness and interdisciplinarity for the relevance of scientific papers by Thurner, Stefan, Liu, Wenyuan, Klimek, Peter, Cheong, Siew Ann

“…Studying the rewards of papers, we find that in terms of absolute citations, both, mainstream and interdisciplinary papers are rewarded. In the long run, mainstream papers perform less than interdisciplinary ones in terms of citation rates. …”
Get full text

Game theoretical, statistical and behavioural aspects of peer evaluation by Tan, Catherine Ser Ping

“…The ”free rider” problem has long been a problem among a team of students working on a project. …”
Get full text

Habitat occupancy of terrestrial mammals along Singapore’s purpose-built wildlife corridor by Sivaraman Sivanantham

“…Findings highlighted that occupancy of Macaca fascicularis (long-tailed macaque) and Sundasciurus tenuis (slender squirrel) differed across sites. …”
Get full text

Teaching the woman of colour and transatlantic women — a roundtable on The Woman of Colour (1808) : pedagogic and critical approaches (Roundtable) by Krueger, Misty

“…This course focuses on long eighteenth-century women writers who traveled transatlantically and the women travelers they portray in their writings. …”
Get full text

Platelet activation studies on polymeric surfaces by Suzliana Sulaimi

“…Platelets are important in the thrombogenicity of biomaterials in blood contacting applications. For long term implantation, polymeric materials need to acquire minimize non-thrombogenic properties and reduction of platelet activation is determinant for the success of any application. …”
Get full text

Online matching with its applications to ridesharing by Wang, Hao

“…Matching is a well-known problem with a long history and significant impact on both theoretical computer science and practice. …”
Get full text

All-weather thermal regulation coatings by Hippalgaonkar, Kedar

“…In a recent issue of Science, Junqiao Wu and coworkers as well as Long Yi and coworkers take this one step forward by using Tungsten-doped Vanadium Dioxide to build a thermal regulatory structure. …”
Get full text

Application of reusable PZT sensors for monitoring intial hydration of concrete by Lim, Parry Weixiong.

“…To avoid any significant long term ill effects on the structures, nondestructive structural health monitoring methods such as Electro Mechanical Impedance (EMI) sensing technique, which uses lead zirconate titanate (PZT) sensors, are employed as a built in monitoring system for strength gain monitoring of early age concrete. …”
Get full text