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The Effects of Disruption of Synaptic Signaling on Neuronal Networks
(2020)
The brain is an organ that acts as the conductor of an orchestra – it governs all vital body functions and assures that all organs operate in harmony. Moreover, it plays a crucial role in various tasks such as memory ...
Efficient Output-Based Adaptation Mechanics for High-Order Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods
(2018)
As numerical simulations are applied to more complex and large-scale problems, solution verification becomes increasingly important in ensuring accuracy of the computed results. In addition, although improvements in ...
Development & Application of Constant pH Molecular Dynamics (CPHMD ) for Investigating pH-mediated Transient Conformational States and Their Effects on Nucleic Acid & Protein Activity.
(2015)
pH is a ubiquitous regulator of biological activity, with widespread impact ranging from its role in catalysis to carcinogenesis. Traditionally, a combination of biophysical and computational methods are used to measure ...
An Experimental Investigation of Premixed Combustion in Extreme Turbulence
(2017)
This work has explored various aspects of high Reynolds number combustion
that have received much previous speculation. A new high-Reynolds number
premixed Bunsen burner, called Hi-Pilot, was designed to produce ...
Probing Ultrafast Dynamics of Bacterial Reaction Centers Using Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy
(2017)
In the initial steps of photosynthesis, solar energy is converted to stable charge separated states with high efficiency. Understanding the relationship between structure and function in the photosynthetic reaction centers ...
Spectroscopic Studies on the Molecular Structural Changes of Plastics and Plasticizers at Model Environmental Interfaces.
(2015)
The mainstream introduction of plastics poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) and poly(styrene) (PS) has been integral to the formation of modern urban infrastructures and the advancement of medical, electronic, and industrial ...
Electronic and Vibrational Properties of Colloidal Nanocrystals
(2019)
Semiconductors of reduced dimensionality have continued to attract intense interest for both fundamental research and practical applications. Semiconducting colloidal nanocrystals (CNCs) are prime examples of such ...
Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
(2022)
Metalinguistic awareness encompasses what a language user knows about the relation of social factors (such as age, gender, or race) to linguistic usage, distribution, meaning, or context of occurrence variance. Such embodied ...
Cholinergic Modulation of Network Activity and Applications in Sleep, Memory and Anesthesia
(2023)
In the nervous system, neurons work in tandem with a full range of complex signaling chemicals known as neuromodulators which tune neuron function to fit different behavioral tasks by varying temporal firing of the neurons. ...
Discovery and Simulation of Solar System Bodies in the Age of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
(2023)
As science enters an era defined by big data, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence (AI), we have an opportunity to fundamentally change the way we study our solar system. In this thesis I leverage ...