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With the development of lithography techniques, microfluidic systems have drastically evolved in the past decades. Digital microfluidics (DMF), which enables discrete droplet actuation without any…

In the first chapter of this thesis, my co-author and I study the tradeoff resulting from delegation of authority. Delegating decisions to an agent may benefit the principal if the agent is more…

This thesis locates the success and influence of modern yoga in the shared space of popular culture, neoliberalism and post-feminism. By focusing on the representations and discourse of the modern…

There is an explosive growth in the size of the input and/or intermediate data used and generated by modern and emerging applications. Unfortunately, modern computing systems are not capable of…

Aquifers in mountainous regions can be susceptible to periods of drought, but the aquifer response to drought is complex due to groundwater – surface water interactions. In this study, early season…

The thesis focuses on applying contrastive loss in learning joint embeddings over multimodal data and proves the effectiveness at a downstream task (retrieval). Previous work on joint representation…

The Atlantic salmon aquaculture industry uses anti-sea lice chemotherapeutant treatments to control sea lice, a damaging endemic ectoparasite. These treatments are then released into the receiving…

Fuel cell membrane durability remains one of the key challenges limiting the wide scale adoption of fuel cell technology. Degradation in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells limits the…

Asymmetric cell division is one mechanism that generates cellular diversity in multicellular organisms. In C. elegans, a variation of the Wnt pathway, the Wnt/βcatenin asymmetry pathway, regulates…

Today, the use of touchscreen text entry extends from short text messages to longer emails and blog posts, where the latter activities require more formal writing and text entry errors are less…

Many problems in combinatorics and computer science use algebraic methods in their solutions, even if they do not look inherently algebraic. Polynomial methods [49], rank arguments [16], and spectral…

Analyzing optical remotely sensed imagery has numerous applications, including climate studies, weather forecasting, urban planning, agriculture, and natural resource/disaster management. All these…

Hop has separate female and male individuals, and self-fertilization cannot be used to generate plants homozygous for recessive alleles and traits, inhibiting breeding efforts. A long-sought trait is…

Most academic programs experience attrition, and radiography is no exception. What happens when former students attempt to return to their hands-on studies after a lapse of time? There is a dearth of…

Little is understood about motivational or cognitive factors that might contribute to the often documented poor relational and sexual functioning among women with borderline personality disorder (BPD…

Increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide are forcing climate, which in turn are forcing wildfire activity and amplifying uncertainty in wildfire management. Fire management organizations need to…

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, and is a multi-faceted disease that is characterized by oxidative stress, metal-ion dysregulation, and the formation of intracellular…

Nickel (Ni(SalCF3)) and copper (Cu(SalCF3)) complexes of an electron-poor salen ligand were prepared, and their one-electron oxidized counterparts were studied using an array of spectroscopic and…

Salen ligands are ubiquitous in inorganic chemistry with utility in applications ranging from materials to catalysis. Additionally, salen ligands have the potential for redox-activity due to…

In this thesis, we report the results of theoretical and numerical investigation of three different classes of unconventional superconductors. In the first part of this thesis, we use a dirty-limit…