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Novel Strategies to Improve the Effectiveness of Field of View - Aware Edge Caching for Adaptive 360° Video Streaming
(2021-08-04)Virtual Reality (VR) and 360° Video Streaming have attained a lot of popularity recently. Streaming 360° video to Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) over the internet is extremely demanding owing to its huge size, desirability ... -
Data Generation for AI Fairness
(2021-08-03)The use of machine learning in some capacity in decision making processes has been increasing over the years. The focus of these models has been on improving accuracy which might be why they are being increasingly used. ... -
Assessment of Psychopathy in the Caribbean : a Puerto Rico Case Study
(2021-08-02)Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of empathy and concern for others. This disorder represents a particular issue for the criminal justice system because, as previous research has demonstrated, ... -
Multiscale Sampling for Subsurface Characterization
(2021-07-21)In this work we are interested in the (ill-posed) inverse problem for absolute permeability characterization that arises in predictive modeling of porous media flows. We consider a Bayesian framework combined with a ... -
A Study of HVAC Channel for 60 GHz Indoor High-Speed Wireless Communications
(2021-07-21)With the deployment of the fifth generation (5G) wireless communications systems, research and practical implementation work on millimeter wave (mm-wave) technology has gained tremendous momentum. With the evident advantages ... -
Drivers of Organizational Change at USAID After 9/11: A Qualitative Inquiry Using the Burke-Litwin Model
(2021-07-22)The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) operates in a dynamic environment that forces the organization to maintain its ability to change and adaptability to change. The politics of the U.S. government, ... -
Transdisciplinary Intelligence : Linking Factors of Knowledge Production and the Cultural Dimensions of Industries
(2021-07-23)This research project developed metrics, tools, and a training program that help experts from different fields and diverse publics to collaborate on finding hidden insights for future-making and on solving the wicked ... -
Towards Improving Resilience of Network Slices Through Protection and Localization
(2021-07-20)The scope of the telecommunication industry is expanding due to the inclusion of a diverse range of applications that requires a dynamic resource provisioning mechanism to accommodate the changes over time while also ... -
Some Topological Aspects of Integral Rigid Body Dynamics
(2021-07-21)The main aim of this dissertation is to describe topology of isoenergy manifolds of the classical Kirchhoff case of Kirchhoff equations of rigid body motion in an ideal, incompressible fluid. The first chapter introduces ... -
Existence and bifurcation of sub-harmonic solutions in reversible non-autonomous differential equations
(2021-07-22)We study the existence of subharmonic solutions in the system ¨u(t) = f(t, u(t)) with u(t) ∈ R k , where f(t, u) is a continuous map that is p-periodic and even with respect to t and odd and Γ-equivariant with respect to ... -
Neural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Trait Mindfulness and Their Relationships to Negatively-Valenced Emotional Reactivity
(2021-07-21)Mindfulness, an attentive non-judgmental awareness and focus on present moment experiences (Kabat-Zinn, 1994), can be used to refer to a particular type of meditation practice, a state achieved during meditation practice ... -
The Political Economy of Immigrant Health : An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Social Capital and the Immigrant Paradox
(2021-07-23)This dissertation is framed as a body of interdisciplinary, multilevel and multisectoral approaches to explore immigrant health. First, I clarify the public policy environment through which immigrant health is regulated ... -
White Matter Changes Associated with Computerized Cognitive Training in Healthy Aging
(2021-07-23)As our population grows ever older, the physical and mental declines associated with age contribute to a lower quality of life and present an escalating burden to our health care system. Academic researchers and private ... -
Correlation Diversity in MIMO Broadcast and Coherence Diversty in the MIMO Relay Channel
(2021-07-21)The links in wireless networks may have non-identical spatial correlation or coherence times when nodes have different scatters around them or they have unequal mobility. This phenomenon can occur in massive MIMO and ... -
Design Considerations for Improving the Chronic Functionality and Behavioral Outcomes Associated with Intracortical Microelectrode Arrays
(2021-07-16)Implantable recording devices such as intracortical microelectrode arrays can be used to provide bi-directional communication with the nervous system through the recording and stimulation of individual neurons. This enables ... -
Applications of Mean Field Theory in Management Science
(2021-07-20)The main objective of my PhD study is to understand an aggregate effect arising from a large number of agents who have a similar aspect of decision markings and objectives. The primary idea of mean field approach is that ... -
The Effects of Trauma-informed Yoga on Men and Women Who Are Incarcerated: A Program Evaluation
(2021-07-15)This research project explores the effects of a trauma-informed yoga program on men and women who are incarcerated. Utilizing data from the Yoga 4 Change organization, this study captures the internal changes of individuals ... -
Sparse Partial Least Square Correspondence Analysis (SPLA-CA): Applications to Genetics and Behavioral Studies
(2021-07-21)Most research questions in modern cognitive neuroscience relate two sets of variables collected from the same observations (e.g., participants). A popular multivariate method for such research questions is the partial least ... -
Resource Booms, Industrial Busts, and Cross-Border Spillovers in Post-Colonial Africa
(2021-07-22)Resource-rich nations have been found to experience slower economic growth than their resourcescarce peers. This phenomenon is known as the Dutch disease. The theory of the Dutch disease posits that when an economy discovers ... -
Robustness of Quantum Control in Noisy Environments
(2021-07-23)Driving can be used as an effective tool in engineering quantum states of matter and producing states that can not otherwise be seen. In this PhD dissertation, I first discuss our research exploring the stability of ...
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