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Building cluster control to enable grid reliability and efficiency support
(2022-08-04)
Power system operators are actively seeking solutions to increase electric grid power flexibility and inertia, to accommodate deeper renewable integration. Buildings account for 75% of the total electricity use in the US ...
Novel Computer-Aided Diagnosis Schemes for Radiological Image Analysis
(2022-05-13)
The computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) scheme is a powerful tool in assisting clinicians (e.g., radiologists) to interpret medical images more accurately and efficiently. In developing high-performing CAD schemes, classic ...
The Role of Social Media Motivation in College Students’ Social Media Behaviors and Adjustment
(2022-05)
As young adults continue to be the largest reported age group on social media (Auxier & Anderson, 2021), the need to understand why they go online and what they do online increases to better explain the associated ramifications ...
What can urban school systems learn about supporting and retaining African-American women leaders from African-American women leading in public charter systems?
(2022-05-10)
America is becoming more ethnically diverse, creating a significant demographic shift in the student composition in America’s public schools. To respond to the increase in student diversity, America’s systems and structures ...
Light Matter Interaction in A Rydberg Blockaded Ensemble
(2022-06-29)
This thesis presents a study of the interactions between two Rydberg atoms and Rydberg atomic ensemble with a monochromatic light field. The first part of the thesis covers the interaction between two Rydberg atoms. The ...
Fat Justice: Mitigating Anti-Fat Bias Through Responsible Aesthetic Agency
(2022-05-13)
In my dissertation I develop a series of guidelines for responsibly and respectfully navigating varying facets of aesthetic activity involving fat communities. I argue that fat people's engagement with the aesthetic can ...
Scaling up Labeling, Mining, and Inferencing on Event Extraction
(2022-05)
Numerous important events happen every day and are reported in different media sources with varying narrative styles across different knowledge domains and languages. Detecting the real-world events that have been reported ...
Single Cell Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics Study of Drug-resistant Cells
(2022-05-13)
Single cell analysis is an emerging area to reveal the heterogeneity of individual cells among all populations. Understanding the cell-to-cell variation can greatly promote the development of drug discovery, disease ...
Buddhist Poetics, Beat “Cosmo-Politics,” and the Maker Ethos: Asian Americanist Critiques of Whiteness in Midcentury American Beat Writing
(2022-05-13)
Buddhist Poetics, Beat “Cosmo-Politics,” and the Maker Ethos: Asian Americanist Critiques of Whiteness in Midcentury American Beat Writing employs Walter Benjamin’s notion of the “ruin”—which is not just a noun or notion, ...
Effect of Water on Catalytic Reactions over Brønsted Zeolites
(2022-09)
Water is present in both conventional chemical transformations and conversion of renewable emerging feedstocks such as biomass and plastic waste. Solid acids and zeolites, in particular, have been one of the most common ...