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Showing 1 to 20 of 304 for “"Frontiers"”.
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Contemporary urban frontiers
This thesis is a provocation; to the profession of architecture at large and every person who reads it. In reading this work, the manner in which our profession functions in society should be questioned. Architecture affords us the opportunity to conceive beyond the confines of formal design, …
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Frontiers of Conditional Logic
… addresses a number of these underdeveloped frontiers, producing new technical insights and philosophical applications.</p> <p>I contribute to the solution of a problem posed by Priest of finding sound and complete labeled tableaux for systems of conditional logic from Lewis' …
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Frontiers in zero knowledge
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Frontiers of Liouville quantum gravity
Abstract This thesis studies a universal model of random geometry in two dimensions called Liouville quantum gravity (LQG). LQG was originally described heuristically by physicists, and mathematicians have grappled with the challenge of defining it rigorously and analyzing its properties. We …
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New frontiers in diffusion modeling
Over the last fifty years, diffusion researchers have sought to explain why the rate of adoption of an innovation varies over time. Some innovations are adopted quickly as compared to others, which take decades for adoption. However, the rate of adoption of an innovation is observed to follow the …
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Precision frontiers of big bang nucleosynthesis
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented LMs
Language Models (LMs) have made significant progress by scaling training data and model sizes. However, they still face key limitations, including hallucinations and outdated knowledge, which undermine their reliability especially in expert domains like scientific research and software development. …
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Frontiers in Lattice Cryptography and Program Obfuscation
In this dissertation, we explore the frontiers of theory of cryptography along two lines. In the first direction, we explore Lattice Cryptography, which is the primary sub-area of post-quantum cryptographic research. Our first contribution is the construction of a deniable attribute-based …
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Frontiers of Consciousness: Tennyson, Hardy, Hopkins, Eliot
‘The poet’, Eliot wrote, ‘is occupied with frontiers of consciousness beyond which words fail, though meanings still exist’. This dissertation is an investigation into the ways in which four poets – Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot – imagine what it might mean …
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New frontiers in THz quantum cascade lasers
Terahertz (THz) frequencies (0.5-10 THz) are among the most underdeveloped electromagnetic spectra, even though their application potentials are great in imaging, sensing, and communications. This underdevelopment is primarily due to the lack of compact and powerful THz sources. The invention of …
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Production frontiers and efficiency measures : concepts and applications
Two major criticisms have been levelled against the statistical approach to measuring production efficiencies. First, the sampling distributional assumptions artificially imposed on the one sided-error term used to characterize inefficiency are somewhat restrictive. Moreover, alternative …
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Production frontiers and efficiency measures : concepts and applications
Two major criticisms have been levelled against the statistical approach to measuring production efficiencies. First, the sampling distributional assumptions artificially imposed on the one sided-error term used to characterize inefficiency are somewhat restrictive. Moreover, alternative …
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New frontiers in population-based multi-objective feature selection
Feature selection is a persistent challenge aimed at minimizing the number of features while maximizing accuracy of classification, or any other machine learning and data mining task, by mitigating the curse of dimensionality. We frame feature selection as a multi-objective binary optimization task …
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Galactonate Dehydratase: Exploring the Frontiers of the Enolase Superfamily
The crystal structure of GalD indicates that His 185 may serve as a general acid catalyst to facilitate the departure of the 3-OH leaving group and/or stereospecifically protonate the product in the subsequent tautomerization reaction. The function of His 185 was investigated by comparing the …
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Frontiers in alley cropping: Transformative solutions for temperate agriculture
… portion of the Midwest US. By exploring the frontiers in temperate AC, this dissertation highlights a multifunctional, transformative land-use alternative for temperate agriculture.
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Frontiers In Operations Research For Overcoming Barriers To Vehicle Electrification
<p>Electric vehicles (EVs) hold many promises including diversification of the transportation energy feedstock and reduction of greenhouse gas and other emissions. However, achieving large-scale adoption of EVs presents a number of challenges resulting from a current lack of supporting …
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Single-molecule junctions: Towards new frontiers for next-generation electronics
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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WASH OUT: FLUVIAL FORMS AND PROCESSES ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIERS
… and environmental politics, even as locatable frontiers shift, turn inward, or abstract themselves. All territory is finite, and any expansionism on finite ground is inherently unsustainable. Psychological analogy suggests that latent counterparts to the manifest—latent destinies—capable of …
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