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Essays on Network Effects, Service Pricing Plans and Online Message Virality
(2019-08)
The first part of my dissertation investigates information technology and examines the matching
between buyers and sellers in IT outsourcing markets, and how the social network between firms
explains the observed matches. ...
Reexamining the "Constitutional Revolution of 1937": Evolution, Revolution, or Restoration and the "Fall" of Economic Due Process
(2019-08)
The familiar story of President Roosevelt’s triumphant victory over the Supreme Court in the
Spring of 1937 has become legend. In this story, the threat posed by the President’s “courtpacking” plan caused the Supreme Court ...
Supervised Battery Capacity Estimation
(2019-05)
Evaluation of capacity fade in Li-ion batteries in the ballparks of energy research has assumed
significant importance in recent times extensively owing to growing demand and need for
portable power supplies and electric ...
Auxiliary Inverter Configuration for Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Effectiveness of Electric Vehicle Inverter
(2019-05)
Wide band gap (WBG) based power switches have improved the efficiency and power density
in the power electronic systems. The higher cost compared to silicon switches is the road
block for large scale adoption of SiC ...
Editing MicroRNA: mRNA Complementarity Using CRISPR-Cas9
(2019-05)
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small noncoding RNAs that are approximately 20-22
nucleotides in length and have a prominent role in regulating gene expression. miRNA-based
regulation has been shown to significantly ...
Thesis Statement Annotation and Identification in Student Essays
(2019-05)
Automatic essay scoring (AES) is the task of using computer technology to evaluate the
quality of written essays and give feedback. AES systems are one of the most important
educational applications of natural language ...
The Effects of Corruption, Female Political Participation and Youth on Political Stability
(2019-05)
Political stability is vital for ensuring safety and security of people. Both the material and
intangible losses caused by political instabilities include human lives, GDP decline, increased
inflation rates, higher poverty ...
High Price, High Importance: Examining Demand for High-Priced Credit
(2019-05)
For 4,000 years those in position to influence policy have attempted to protect consumers from
loans with terms they consider harmful. This continues today with attempts to address loans from
payday lenders, pawnshops, ...
Approximating the Geometric Edit Distance
(2019-05)
Edit distance is a measurement of similarity between two sequences such as strings, point sequences, or polygonal curves. Because many matching problems from a variety of areas, such as signal analysis, bioinformatics, ...
Analogical Reasoning in Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury: An Evaluation of Similarity Judgments, Eye-Tracking, and Clinical Sequelae
(2019-05)
One of challenges of conditions like chronic mild-to-moderate traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is
identifying and measuring cognitive deficits associated with the condition. It is not uncommon
for individuals in the chronic ...