We consider investment problems involving the continuous time stochastic optimization models. The dissertation consists of two parts. In the first part, we consider a real options problem, which is posed as a stochastic ...

This dissertation emphasizes the importance of evolutionary theory and its accompanying mode of thinking—functionalism and developmentalism—for attempts by social scientists, novelists, and filmmakers to biologize erotic ...

Episodic memory – memory for unique personal events – is essential to our daily life. Relative to other forms of memory, episodic memory declines disproportionately with advancing age. One prominent account of such decline ...

My dissertation examines the social construction of affect and empathy in postmodern literature from 1968 to 2003. I explore the ways in which Philip K. Dick, Salman Rushdie, Khaled Hosseini, and Margaret Edson construct ...

This dissertation consists of three induvial projects that focus on the application of paleomagnetism and rock-magnetism to decipher the magnetic mineralogy and magnetic remanence carrier, magnetization acquisition processes, ...

A plethora of cutting-edge computer vision and graphic applications, such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), automatic vehicles, and robotics, require rapid creation and access to abundant 3D data. Among ...

Electronics have become a fundamental aspect of modern society and smaller, even more efficient, transistors form the backbone of the electronics industry of the future. Laterally Diffused Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (LDMOS) ...

The levels of outsourcing in the U.S. federal government have increased substantially over the last two decades. The U.S. government now relies on outsourcing to provide many of its products and services. Prior research ...

The Internet of Things (IoT), with its widespread applications is increasingly transform- ing society and becoming an integral part of our The Internet of Things (IoT), with its widespread applications, is increasingly ...

The existence of periodic solutions to second order differential systems is a classical problem that has been studied by many authors using different methods and techniques. In this Thesis, the existence and spatio-temporal ...