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Spring 2023
This dissertation seeks to examine the evolving politics of planning and governance of climate risks in Bhubaneswar city in India, by analyzing how climate risk governance has evolved and its implications on future adaptation possibilities. Southern cities such as Bhubaneswar have been at the...
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Investigating acid-catalyzed biomass reactions and solvent effects in humins formation, using multiscale molecular modeling
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The conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to produce chemicals has gained significant interest recently. A broad spectrum of specialty chemicals can be obtained from lignocellulose-derived molecules. One of the most promising reactions in this category is the dehydration of cellulose-derived...
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Fall 2023
Biomass burning, from wildfires to cooking stoves, is a major contributor to atmospheric pollution on a global scale, affecting the quality of the air we breathe. Emissions from biomass burning are both health and climate affecting, and vary considerably in composition depending on how the fuel...
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Fall 2023
The IceCube neutrino observatory is a gigaton Cherenkov detector located at the geographic south pole. The experiment is designed to detect neutrinos originating from the atmosphere and astrophysical objects over a huge energy range from 10 GeV to 10 PeV. Information about the interacting...
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Fall 2023
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are typically used to learn representations in partially observable environments. Unfortunately, training RNNs is known to be difficult, and the difficulty increases for agents who learn online and continually interact with the environment. Two common strategies...
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Effect of Consuming Dairy Fats on Obesity-Related Cardiometabolic Perturbations and Immune Function in Low Birthweight Swine
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Although dairy intake has been shown to have a neutral or some beneficial effect on major cardiometabolic risk factors, the impact of dairy, and especially dairy fat, on immune function remains to be investigated. To understand the effect of consuming dairy fat on cardiometabolic risk factors and...
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The Effect of the Dental Follicle Volume of Palatally Impacted Maxillary Canines on the Relative Position of the Adjacent Teeth
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Introduction: Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) has provided in-depth three-dimensional insight into the field of dentistry that were not readily available in the past. It is typically used as an adjunct with traditional imaging modalities to use as a diagnostic aid in orthodontics where...
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Moving Object Detection Using Unsupervised and Weakly Supervised Neural Networks in Videos with Illumination Changes and Dynamic Background
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Background subtraction is a crucial task in computer vision applications, such as video surveillance, traffic monitoring, autonomous navigation, and human-computer interaction. This approach involves acquiring a background model to separate moving objects and the background from an input image....
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Spring 2023
Wind farms are often concentrated geographically as they are cited in areas with strong resources. While this maximizes energy generation, it can decrease the value of that energy, particularly as the relative amount of wind increases in the overall system. Wind energy is growing rapidly in...