ScottyActivity: Mixed Discrete-Continuous Planning with Convex Optimization by Fernandez Gonzalez, Enrique, Williams, Brian C, Karpas, Erez

“…Unlike other continuous time planners, ScottyActivity can solve a broad class of robotic planning problems by supporting convex quadratic constraints on state variables and control variables that are jointly constrained and that affect multiple state variables simultaneously. …”
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Triviality Results and the Relationship between Logical and Natural Languages by Khoo, Justin Donald, Mandelkern, Matthew

“…We suggest that this strategy has broad application and teaches an important lesson: in theorizing about the logic of natural language, we must pay careful attention to the translation between formal languages, in which logical results are typically proved, and natural languages, which are the subject matter of semantic theory.…”
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Bias sputtered NbN and superconducting nanowire devices by Dane, Andrew Edward, McCaughan, Adam N, Zhu, Di, Zhao, Qingyuan, Kim, Chungsoo, Calandri, Niccolo, Agarwal, Akshay, Bellei, Francesco, Berggren, Karl K

“…The optical coupling to these devices was not optimized; however, integration with front-side optical structures to improve absorption should be straightforward. …”
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The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) – I. Overview and the diverse environments of Lyman limit systems at z < 1 by Chen, Hsiao-Wen, Zahedy, Fakhri S, Boettcher, Erin, Cooper, Thomas M, Johnson, Sean D, Rudie, Gwen C, Chen, Mandy C, Walth, Gregory L, Cantalupo, Sebastiano, Cooksey, Kathy L, Faucher-Giguère, Claude-André, Greene, Jenny E, Lopez, Sebastian, Mulchaey, John S, Penton, Steven V, Petitjean, Patrick, Putman, Mary E, Rafelski, Marc, Rauch, Michael, Schaye, Joop, Simcoe, Robert A, Weiner, Benjamin J

“…Our study shows that LLSs originate in a variety of galaxy environments and trace gaseous structures with a broad range of metallicities.</jats:p>…”
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The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) – I. Overview and the diverse environments of Lyman limit systems at z &lt; 1 by Chen, Hsiao-Wen, Zahedy, Fakhri S, Boettcher, Erin, Cooper, Thomas M, Johnson, Sean D, Rudie, Gwen C, Chen, Mandy C, Walth, Gregory L, Cantalupo, Sebastiano, Cooksey, Kathy L, Faucher-Giguère, Claude-André, Greene, Jenny E, Lopez, Sebastian, Mulchaey, John S, Penton, Steven V, Petitjean, Patrick, Putman, Mary E, Rafelski, Marc, Rauch, Michael, Schaye, Joop, Simcoe, Robert A., Weiner, Benjamin J

“…Our study shows that LLSs originate in a variety of galaxy environments and trace gaseous structures with a broad range of metallicities.</jats:p>…”
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Coordinated motion planning: Reconfiguring a swarm of labeled robots with bounded stretch by Demaine, Erik

“…Problems of this type can be traced back to the classic work of Schwartz and Sharir (1983), who gave a method for deciding the existence of a coordinated motion for a set of disks between obstacles; their approach is polynomial in the complexity of the obstacles, but exponential in the number of disks. Despite a broad range of other non-trivial results for multi-object motion planning, previous work has largely focused on sequential schedules, in which one robot moves at a time, with objectives such as the number of moves; attempts to minimize the overall makespan of a coordinated parallel motion schedule (with many robots moving simultaneously) have defied all attempts at establishing the complexity in the absence of obstacles, as well as the existence of efficient approximation methods. …”
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Nano-scale Glucose Fuel Cells for Energy Harvesting in the Human Body Based on Proton Conduction in Cerium Oxide by Simons, Philipp

“…This thesis demonstrates fabrication, fundamentals and the performance of the first ceramic-electrolyte glucose fuel cells, with a power density of up to 43 µW cm−2, and shows unusually broad performance statistics across 150 devices thanks to a custom-designed measurement apparatus. …”
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Essays in Financial Economics by Elias, Leonardo Ariel

“…The moments we match capture the joint dynamics of stock returns, bond returns, bond yields, and macroeconomic fundamentals. …”
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Capacity Management for Low Cost Storage by Kahil, Omar

“…The growth that Amazon is projecting brings implications on the supply chain network, mainly, increasing capacity needs that can be addressed by adding Amazon Robotics (AR) Sortable Fulfillment Centers (FC), which require significant investment. …”
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Computing Big-Data Applications Near Flash by Xu, Shuotao

“…We believe BlueCache and AQUOMAN can bring down the cost of acquiring and operating high-performance computing systems for data-center-scale Big-Data applications dramatically.…”
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A decision model on optimising cybersecurity controls using organisation preferences by Ansaria, Afra

“…The work of this thesis will involve looking at the trade-offs of security controls, which are influenced by the organisation's priorities, with respect to the cost and value they bring to the organisation. We will be representing the organisation's priorities as preferences. …”
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Probing the Nature of High-redshift Weak Emission Line Quasars: A Young Quasar with a Starburst Host Galaxy by Andika, Irham Taufik, Jahnke, Knud, Onoue, Masafusa, Bañados, Eduardo, Mazzucchelli, Chiara, Novak, Mladen, Eilers, Anna-Christina, Venemans, Bram P, Schindler, Jan-Torge, Walter, Fabian, Neeleman, Marcel, Simcoe, Robert A, Decarli, Roberto, Farina, Emanuele Paolo, Marian, Victor, Pensabene, Antonio, Cooper, Thomas M, Rojas, Alejandra F

“…The quasar is also observed as a pure point source with no additional emission component. The broad-line region (BLR) emission is intrinsically weak and not likely caused by an intervening absorber. …”
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Regulation of miRNA degradation by Kingston, Elena Ruth

“…The subsequent discovery that the protein ZSWIM8 mediates TDMD, and the identification of many miRNAs that are stabilized upon loss of ZSWIM8, confirmed that this pathway broadly shapes miRNA turnover dynamics. We investigated whether other classes of small RNAs might too be regulated by this pathway, and found that loss of the Drosophila ZSWIM8 homolog, Dora, has no discernible effect on the levels of small-interfering RNAs (siRNAs). …”
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Nanoscale Engineering for Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructure Growth and Integration by Lee, Sangho

“…Recent attempts to create van der Waals (vdW)-bonded heterostructures of distinct twodimensional (2D) crystals has opened new avenues for research, from the fundamental studies of emergent phenomena to the development of practical applications with unique functionalities, which are attributed to a wide variety of configurations attainable with no lattice and processing limitations. …”
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Machine Learning-Augmented Spectroscopies for Intelligent Materials Design by Andrejevic, Nina

“…While we develop analysis frameworks with specific applications in mind, the proposed methodologies are expected to apply more broadly to diverse scattering and spectroscopic techniques.…”
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Algorithmic Approaches to Nonparametric Causal Inference by Cohen, Peter L.

“…The resulting procedure achieves the maximal design sensitivity over a broad class of procedures. Second, we examine the role of feature information in drawing high-precision inferences of effects in completely randomized experiments. …”
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Overcoming challenges of fundamental electrochemical kinetic studies under dilute-reagent conditions by Williams, Kindle Shea

“…Such mixtures are often used to bring organic substrates into contact with water as a co-reactant, for example in O-atom transfer chemistries. …”
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Essays in Spatial Economics by Levy, Antoine Boris

“…Using quasi-random spatial variation across municipalities, and an instrumental variables strategy exploiting formulaic real estate assessments established in the 1970s, I show that a promise to repeal a broad-based housing tax accounted for a substantial share of Emmanuel Macron's electoral success in the 2017 French presidential election. …”
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Evaluating Fluoride Molten Salt Thermophysical Properties with Transient Grating Spectroscopy by Robertson, Sean Gunn

“…Reliable property data has far-reaching consequences for the size of heat exchangers, response to accident scenarios, or more broadly, the safe and efficient deployment of molten salt-based energy technologies.…”
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Nanosystems: From the Lab to the Fab by Srimani, Tathagata

“…As a case-study, this thesis focuses on carbon nanotubes and monolithic threedimensional integration as the specific implementation of a nanosystem, yet the lessons and conclusions from this work are applicable to a broad set of emerging nanotechnologies and nanosystems. …”
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