Along this dissertation, I carry out a broad analysis of monetary policy in Mexico during the last two decades. Specifically, I investigate the impact of a contractionary monetary policy on bank credit to the private sector, ...

The success of mechanical exfoliation on graphene has paved a new field of research in two-dimensional (2D) materials. As one of the transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) has attracted a ...

We extend the method of Controlled Lagrangians to Euler-Poincaré mechanical systems with broken symmetry, and find asymptotic stabilizing controls of unstable equilibria of such mechanical systems. Our motivating example ...

Information extraction, a key area of research in Natural Language Processing (NLP), concerns the extraction of structured information from natural language documents. Recent years have seen a gradual shift of focus from ...

This dissertation examines how analog and digital history games complicate and challenge the dominant discourse of teaching American History through Texas state high school-focused texts and these texts complicity in ...

The development of various online platforms such as social media provide users platforms to share their thoughts, feedback and their daily lives. With the widespread of microblogs such as Twitter and the tremendous increase ...

Modeling networks as different graph types and discovering novel route finding strategies, as well as avoiding congestion in dense subnetworks via graph-theoretic approaches, contribute to overall blocking probability ...

Reading comprehension can be analyzed from three points of view: Semantics, Assessment, and Cognition. Here, Semantics refers to the task of identifying discourse relations in text. Assessment involves utilizing these ...

Stellar-mass binary black-holes (BBHs) can form in one of two main ways: either the black holes (BHs) form first from single stars and then form a binary through dynamical interactions in a dense cluster, or the BHs form ...

This thesis focuses on the potential of mass-production of spin-capable carbon nanotubes (SCNTs), which produce carbon nanotube sheets (CNTSs). A CNT forest (CNTF) that satisfies the specific conditions, such as CNT diameter, ...