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Fall 2023

Bibi, Sana

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...

Fall 2023

Tkachuk, Volodymyr

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...

Fall 2023

Fan, Caixiang

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...

Fall 2023

Heales, Kylie

Entrepreneurial training programs promoting women’s entrepreneurship in low- and middle- income countries command significant global attention and concomitant resources. Despite this broad investment, many ventures in these contexts fail to grow. Prior research suggests that institutionalized...

Fall 2023

Singh, Katyani

The recognition performance of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models can be sub-optimal when document images suffer from various degradations. Supervised learning-based methods for image enhancement can generate high-quality enhanced images. However, these methods require the availability of...

Fall 2023

Valadao Alves, Rodrigo

This monograph broadens the scope of cultural entrepreneurship by exploring the link between entrepreneurial search activities and the level of institutionalization of fields. Cultural entrepreneurship involves manipulating cultural repertoires to gather support from relevant audiences, but this...

Fall 2023

Eriksen, Jessica

Decades of research revealed that effective psychological reports are those written at a lower reading level, are formatted by functional domain, and communicate the results in an integrated client-centered manner. However, psychological reports continue to be difficult to read for non-...

Fall 2023

Mellon, Pamela R

Sleep deprivation is a public health concern among school-aged children. Schools are an ideal setting to influence children's sleep behaviours as children spend a significant amount of time at school during key developmental periods, and programs that influence students' overall wellbeing also...

Fall 2023

Rouhani, Mohammadhadi

The adoption of electric vehicles has been growing steadily in recent years, and projections indicate that this trend will continue. However, the availability and capacity of charging stations have not kept pace with this growth, leading to long wait times and congestion at charging stations. The...

Fall 2023

Dong, Xiaoxiao

Through a comparative close reading of four Chinese animated films adapted from the story of Nezha, a Chinese patricide and child god best known from the Ming dynasty novel Creations of the Gods, this study examines how animated films about Nezha reflect changing ideologies about rebelliousness...