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Fall 2023
The increasing popularity of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) has led to their application to many domains, including Music Generation. However, these large DNN-based models are heavily dependent on their training dataset, which means they perform poorly on musical genres that are out-of-distribution...
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Fall 2023
Distributions of sequences modulo one (mod 1) have been studied over the past century with applications in algebra, number theory, statistics, and computer science. For a given sequence, the weak convergence of the associated empirical distributions has been the usual approach to these studies....
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Fall 2023
Model predictive control (MPC) is one of the most popular control strategies in modern control systems and has been used in a variety of applications due to its ability to handle hard constraints. As a significant branch of MPC, robust MPC is an effective strategy to deal with external...
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Measuring proteomic changes associated with viral infections and neurodegenerative diseases using mass spectrometry
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Viral infection and the resultant cellular stress can trigger significant changes to the cellular host proteome. Viral proteases essential to viral replication have been shown to cleave human host protein substrates as a mechanism of immune response evasion. The severe acute respiratory syndrome...
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The Development and Evaluation of a Frequently-Asked Question (FAQ) Answering Chatbot for an Online Mental Wellness Program for People with Chronic Disease
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Introduction: Chatbots are computer programs that interact with humans through natural language conversations. Chatbots are on the rise due to numerous benefits like convenience, 24/7, personalized support, and they show promise in healthcare to support people living with chronic diseases. While...
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Fall 2023
Given the roles of roots in water and nutrient uptake, anchorage, and storage of resources, root system architecture (RSA) can have a major impact on plant growth and development. The root systems of Brassica species, an important group that includes many field and horticultural crops, is...
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Fall 2023
The redevelopment of understories is an often-overlooked aspect of forest restoration following anthropogenic disturbances. In my research I explored the feasibility of actively restoring forest understories through seedling planting. First, I examined the quality of nursery-grown boreal shrub...
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Fall 2023
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that is triggered in genetically predisposed individuals by environmental insults. In MS, the body’s own immune cells attack and damage myelin and the myelin-producing cells, oligodendrocytes. Genetic factors...
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On Efficient Planning in Large Action Spaces with Applications to Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
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A practical challenge in reinforcement learning is large action spaces that make planning computationally demanding. For example, in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, a potentially large number of agents jointly optimize a global reward function, which leads to a blow-up in the...
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Fall 2023
With the emergence of renewable energy resources, such as solar panels, wind turbines and plugin electric vehicles, there is an increasing need for peer-to-peer energy trading (P2P-ET) among small-scale energy producers, known as prosumers. Many recent studies have suggested blockchain for P2P-ET...