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Observing Negative Events at Work and Their Relationship to Job Stress and Well-Being
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05-08)Although changes in employment status have long been recognized as important life events in relation to psychological well-being (e.g. Holmes & Rahe, 1967), there has historically been a deficit in research on additional ... -
Observing the Change in Southeastern Species’ Habitat Areas Due to Climate Change
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-18)The southeast United States is a critical place to study the effects of climate change on biodiversity because it contains the highest richness of plants and amphibians in the contiguous U.S. and has high levels of habitat ... -
Odanacatib as a Potential Drug to Reduce the Risk of Stroke in the Context of Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle cell disease is a genetic mutation of hemoglobin in red blood cells that causes them to become more rigid, aggregate and block blood vessels, and also to prematurely lyse and die releasing inflammatory contents into ... -
Ohmic Contacts for Wide Bandgap Devices
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-05)Bipolar devices based on GaN and SiC have gained tremendous popularity as an alternative to Si based devices, primarily due to the ability to sustain high temperature and high voltage operations that can be attributed to ... -
On cyclodextrin inclusion complexes as shift reagents in traveling-wave ion mobility spectrometry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-05-07)Detection of lipids and lipid/cyclodextrin complexes is a nontrivial aspect in novel treatments of Niemann-Pick disease type C. Recently, the FDA approved Hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin as a treatment for the condition, as ... -
On Formula Embeddings in Neural-Guided SAT Solving
Branching heuristics determine the performance of search-based SAT solvers. We note that recently, Neural Machine Learning approaches have been proposed to learn such heuristics from data. The first step in learning a ... -
On the Rank of Random, Symmetric Matrices over Z_2 via Random Graphs
It is well-known that the game of \textit{Lights Out} on a graph $G$ with $|V(G)| = n$ is universally solvable if and only if the sum of the adjacency matrix of $G$ and the identity matrix $I_{n}$ is invertible over $\Z_2$. ... -
One-shot Learning for Semantic Image Segmentation
Image segmentation has been one of the central topics in computer vision. Recent progress in deep learning methods and large-scale datasets provides opportunities for learning high level semantic representation of images. ... -
The Online Community Grid Volunteer Grid Computing with the Web Browser
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-05-12)Current community grid projects, such as IBM's World Community Grid (www.worldcommunitygrid.org), have successfully developed standalone applications to connect thousands of clients to one huge network of users. Each client ... -
Optimal State-Feedback and Output-Feedback Controllers for the Wheeled Inverted Pendulum System
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-05-12)Vehicles characterized as wheeled inverted pendulums have received recent attention in the robotics community. This thesis illustrates the process of designing optimal state-feedback and output-feedback controllers for the ... -
Optimal-horizon model-predictive control with differential dynamic programming
We present an algorithm, based on the Differential Dynamic Programming framework, to handle trajectory optimization problems in which the horizon is determined online rather than fixed a priori. This algorithm exhibits ... -
Optimization of Point Absorber Design in Ocean Wave Energy
The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors that affect the efficiency of a wave energy conversion device and design an optimal point absorber float geometry considering the various factors. Factors to be analyzed ... -
Optimized communications protocol for low earth orbit cubesat
The purpose of this document is to describe and analyze the implementation of a communications protocol to transfer data between a CubeSat and ground station. The mission of the CubeSat is to track debris in low earth orbit ... -
Optimizing Pressure in Compressive Textiles and Utilizing Smart Sensors to Monitor Patient Recovery
This study was designed to examine how to better monitor patients throughout compression therapy. Compressive wraps are used to optimize blood flow in patients in order to encourage proper healing and decrease the likelihood ... -
Optimizing the thermal stability of influenza vaccine for microneedle delivery
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-18)The purpose of this study was to create a thermally stable formulation of influenza vaccine that can be delivered transdermally using a microneedle patch. By altering drying conditions, storage conditions, and formulation ... -
Optogenetic Manipulation of Caenorhabditis elegans Pharyngeal Muscles Inhibit Food Consumption
Obesity, a complex condition that arises from a host of interwoven environmental, cultural, social, and genetic factors, is associated with many devastating diseases. However, resolving the intricacies of obesity-related ... -
The origin of eye size differences in cichlid fish ecotypes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05-08)The evolutionary mechanisms that act upon brain and eye development are not well known. Here, we investigate the causes of the adult eye size difference of the two cichlid fish ecotypes from Lake Malawi, and demonstrate ... -
Osmotic Pressure of Microgel Suspensions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05-08)Microgels are used in applications ranging from optics to medicine. Due to their ubiquity, a better understanding of their mechanical properties is desired. In these systems, the softness of individual constituents plays ... -
Overgeneral autobiographical memory in depression: a three-level meta-analysis
Overgeneral Autobiographical Memory (OGM) is a frequently studied phenomenon in major depressive disorder (MDD). Although there exist several meta-analyses on OGM and MDD, their emphasis on clinically diagnosed current ... -
Overlapping Clustering of Contextual Bandits with NMF techniques
We introduce a novel approach to recommendation based on item clustering using non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) techniques. We propose a new algorithm, OCB (Overlapping Clustering Bandits), that groups items into ...