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Predictive Control, Estimation and Sensor Placement of Large-Scale Transport-Reaction Systems
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Advanced process control and monitoring rely on the accurate description of complex processes and their dynamic behaviors. Typically, numerous industrial processes are characterized by either partial differential equations (PDEs) or ordinary differential equations (ODEs), depending on whether...
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The Collection of Dongpo's Joy of Chan: Su Shi's Buddhist Writings and Their Resonances in the Late Ming
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This thesis investigates the text and context of The Collection of Dongpo’s Joy of Chan (Dongpo chanxi ji 東坡禪喜集), a collection compiled in the late Ming 明 (1368-1644) in two editions that mainly contains Buddhist writings of Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101). Su Shi was one of the most prominent poets and...
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Fall 2023
Recent work has shown that by approximating the behaviour of a non-differentiable black-box function using a neural network, the black-box can be integrated into a differentiable training pipeline for end-to-end training. This methodology is termed "differentiable bypass," and a successful...
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Fall 2023
The endoplasmic reticulum serves as a center for protein quality control, where chaperones and foldases facilitate protein folding. IRE1 is a transmembrane protein that transduces proteotoxic stress signals by forming clusters and activating the unfolded protein response (UPR). Recent research...
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Soil Microbial, Physical, and Chemical Response to Cattle Grazing Management in the Northern Great Plains
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Globally, 25% of the terrestrial surface is covered by grasslands, 40% of which is used for grazing livestock and is estimated to hold 30% of global soil carbon. Native grasslands in the Canadian prairie cover 12 million hectares and are used extensively for grazing cattle. Livestock grazing...
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Methylmercury production and export across the terrestrial-aquatic continuum in permafrost peatland catchments
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Ongoing permafrost thaw in northern peatland catchments may increase the production and downstream delivery of neurotoxic methylmercury (MeHg) across the terrestrial-aquatic continuum. Peatlands in boreal-Arctic regions have large stocks of mercury (Hg) in frozen soils, accumulated through...
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Fall 2023
Metabolomics is a rapidly growing field that focuses on identifying and measuring the collection of chemicals present within a biological system. These chemicals, known as metabolites, play a crucial role in the functioning of the body and can provide valuable insights into various...
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Fall 2023
The multidimensional nature of family life can make navigating relationships across distance and time complex. As families become more mobile there is acknowledgment of a knowledge gap in understanding how family dynamics and bonds extend across borders. Issues of continuity and change within...
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Fall 2023
This is a comprehensive examination of the diagnostic landscape in psychiatry and the role precision psychiatry might play in redefining how we classify illnesses. This thesis delves into three areas that currently exist in psychiatry today and is divided into five chapters. The first and second...
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Examining the First Uses of Pottery by Northern Great Plains Peoples During the Time of Besant and Sonota
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Highly successful pedestrian era communal bison hunters of the Besant and Sonota archaeological phases were the first to use pottery on the northern Great Plains. While the Besant phase is widely distributed across this region, the Sonota phase is confined to North and South Dakota. The Sonota...