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Towards superior cancer drugs by modeling approaches: Modification and prediction of the mode of action
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Cancer is a leading cause of death that imposes significant economic and social suffering on a global scale. Based on the projected growth and ageing of populations, the global burden of cancer is set to increase. Despite the vast investment in cancer research, the rate of translation of research...
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Towards Supervisory Control for Remote Mobile Manipulation: Designing, Building, and Testing a Mobile Telemanipulation Test-Bed
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This dissertation has two main contributions, a modular design of a mobile manipulator and a set of tele-operation performance experiments using this platform. To experimentally evaluate system performance and operator preferences, several tests were designed: 1) Which robot camera placement...
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Uncalibrated Vision-Based Control and Motion Planning of Robotic Arms in Unstructured Environments
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Many robotic systems are required to operate in unstructured environments. This imposes significant challenges on algorithm design. Particularly, motion control and planning algorithms should be robust to noise and outliers, because uncertainties are inevitable. In addition, independence from...
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Fall 2021
In Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), humans perform thousands of arm and hand object manipulation tasks, such as picking, pouring and drinking a drink. Interpreting such tasks and grasping the underlying concepts of manipulation from vision is straightforward for humans, but difficult for...
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Unveiling the pathway for the nuclear translocation of the large mitochondrial enzyme Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex (PDC)
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Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) is a mitochondrial enzyme that links glycolysis to oxidative phosphorylation by decarboxylating glucose-derived pyruvate to produce acetyl-CoA that is used in the Krebs cycle. PDC was initially thought to reside only in the mitochondrial matrix but we recently...
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Versatile Polymer-Based Nanomedicines for Drug/Gene Delivery and Cell-based Therapy Applications
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Advances in polymer science and nanotechnology have allowed the development of biomaterials for cell-based applications, such as the delivery of a variety of drugs and genes, as well as supporting technologies, such as stem cell therapies, tissue engineering and cryopreservation. The progress in...
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Fall 2023
In this work, a novel visual navigation method is proposed to estimate the state of mobile and fixed cold-spray material deposition systems using a stereocamera sensor installed in the workspace. Unlike other visual localization algorithms that exploit costly onboard sensors such as LiDARs or...
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Spring 2017
Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (qMRI) is occupying an increasingly prominent role in the study of the brain, by virtue of its sensitivity to physiological and anatomical changes. However, because qMRI techniques tend to suffer from long scan durations and/or post-processing times, as...