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Configurations of a southern place: a postcolonial, southern urban inquiry into place-making in Norwood, Johannesburg.
(2023-05-12)
Place theory in geography has largely been a northern scholarly endeavor. Yet there is much to learn about place-making in global south cities. Southern urban scholars argue that understanding cities of and from the vantage ...
Study of hot carrier dynamics and relaxation in metal halide perovskites
(2023-05)
Metal halide perovskites are a promising class of solution-based semiconductors
with significant potential for optoelectronic devices, including hot carrier solar cells
that are proposed to achieve higher efficiency than ...
Uncovering the Potential of Federated Learning: Addressing Algorithmic and Data-driven Challenges under Privacy Restrictions
(2023-12-15)
Federated learning is a groundbreaking distributed machine learning paradigm that allows for the collaborative training of models across various entities without directly sharing sensitive data, ensuring privacy and ...
Synergistic and Competitive Behavior of Anisotropic Particles and Surfactant Molecules at Fluid Interfaces
(2023-08-04)
Colloidal systems are a common feature in different application domains, from complex underground frameworks such as petroleum recovery and water remediation to industrialized consumer products such as cosmetics and paint. ...
The role of personality in television streaming-related motivations and parasocial behaviors
(2023-05-12)
This paper explores the relationship between personality traits and motivations for using streaming video on demand (SVOD) services. The study aims to fill a gap in the literature on the individual differences and uses and ...
Essays In Finance
(2023-08-04)
In my dissertation, I exhibit three studies in Finance. In Chapter 1, I provide a new perspective on the optimal call policy for corporate callable bonds by evaluating the proportion called in call exercises. My data ...
Modeling Stellar Surface Features with High-Precision Photometry
(2023)
Starspots are a major source of stellar contamination in transmission spectroscopy of exoplanet atmospheres, and the correction for exoplanet analyses depends on the temperature of the starspots and the covering fraction. ...
Machine learning assisted molecular simulations / mass spectrometry data analysis and rational design of antibacterial Co3O4 nanowires flagella
(2023-05-12)
In chapter one, inspired by the recent work from Noé and coworkers on the development of machine learning based implicit solvent model for the simulation of solvated peptides [Chen et al., J. Chem. Phys. 155, 084101 (2021)], ...
Identifying Preferred Neighborhood Attributes Among Individuals 50 Years and Older, and Analyzing Their Access to the Physical Environment: A Case Study on Age Friendliness of Norman, Oklahoma
(2023-12-15)
The number of people aged 65-and-older has been growing worldwide and in the United States. The needs of these aging individuals will affect the communities in which they live. Faced with this drastic shift in the older ...
Boundary breaking: how principals impact student engagement
(2023-05-12)
The purpose of this study was to understand the impact site principles have on student engagement in the classroom through a sitewide art integration program with the outcome of increased knowledge in content areas. ...