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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Taming"”.
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Taming the impossible
The semantic paradoxes and other statements about impossibilities have proved to be obstacles to a satisfactory theory of conditionals. In my dissertation, which consists of two parts, I propose a new approach to the impossible that yields an improved theory of conditionals. A prominent response to …
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Taming the city wilderness
The City Wilderness (1898), a settlement study conducted in Boston's South End neighborhood. The study was greatly influenced by European values of settler colonialism, and subsequently shaped traditional methods of early planning efforts. This process is now ingrained in the institutional …
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Taming of Complex Dynamical Systems
… global results. In this thesis we focus on a taming method to achieve this goal and apply taming to modeling and numerical problems. The method is also applied to a class of nonlinear differential equations with conservative nonlinearities and to Burgers’ Equation with Neumann boundary …
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Taming implicit synchronizations in concurrent programs
Synchronization takes an important role in multi-threaded programs. Due to the non-deterministic nature of concurrency, it is always difficult for developers to make synchronizations correct. As a consequence, concurrent programs are vulnerable to concurrency bugs and fail during run-time. Many …
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Detecting, characterizing, and taming flaky tests
… rates for different test orders. Lastly, for taming flaky tests, this dissertation presents (1) the first automated techniques to reduce the number of spurious failures from OD tests, reducing such failures by 73%; and (2) the first automated techniques to speed up AW flaky tests while also …
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Organic Synthesis: Taming Chemistry using Enabling Technologies
This thesis describes the application of flow chemistry to discovery and development of medicinal compound synthesis and new chemical methodologies respectively. It is divided into three distinct sections. The first section addresses a brief introduction to flow chemistry, highlighting the …
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Taming Biological Complexity Through the Use of Symmetries
<p>The study of biological systems is, inherently, the study of very complex systems. This is essentially due to the fact that they are made up of numerous, often very complicated, interactions between an extensive number of components. Often necessitating an abundance of quantitative parameters …
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Taming Consumer Culture: A Contractarian Ethic for Advertising
This work proposes three principles and one imperative as the philosophical foundations for an ethic in advertising based on the social contract of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762) and the contemporary work of John Rawls (1971). The central claim is that advertising is a social institution of import …
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Taming TinyML: deep learning inference at computational extremes
The advanced data modelling capabilities of neural networks allowed deep learning to become a cornerstone of many applications of artificial intelligence (AI). AI can be brought into our environments by deploying neural models to ubiquitous Internet-of-Things (IoT), wearable and embedded devices to …
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Taming Torridity New Housing Forms for Heat Resilience
Intervening on the contemporary US housing typology of the single-family home, this work imagines new building forms that foster resilience to extreme heat through social proximity, housing heterogeneity, and novel space cooling strategies. As we move into a new climate paradigm of increased …
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"Taming" Feminism: Tracing Women and Culture Through Adaptation
… in this thesis is film adaptations of <i>The Taming of the Shrew</i> and the messages that these adaptations send about cultural responses to feminism. The staging of the play--and the nature of Kate and Petruchio's relationship--acts as a barometer of sorts, measuring cultural attitudes about …
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Taming reactive phosphorus intermediates with organic and inorganic carriers
Complexes (THF)₀-₂E[P₃Nb(ODipp)₃]₂ (E = Sn, Pb; Dipp = 2,6-iPr₂C₆H₃) were prepared and characterized as potential precursors to new tetrel phosphides. Treatment of (THF)Sn[P₃Nb(ODipp)₃]₂ with pyridine-N-oxide effected the formation of ONb(ODipp)₂(py)₂ and a new tin phosphide, [(THF)SnP₆]x, …
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Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew: A Structural and Theatrical Analysis
… purpose of this dissertation is to show that The Taming of the Shrew is a richer, more complex, more finely crafted, and more meaningful play than has ordinarily been thought, even by those who profess admiration for it. My critical approach is to look at the play with "performance," both real and …
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Taming the Inverse and Forward Problems in Density Functional Theory
The `forward problem' of ground-state density functional theory (DFT) constitutes finding the ground-state density $n(x)$ that minimises a Kohn-Sham total energy functional defined using some exchange-correlation (xc) functional $E_\text{xc}[n]$. Towards this end, the associated Euler-Lagrange …
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Taming Quantum Noise in the Open: Spin Biophysics under Optimal Control
The quantum control of spin-correlated radical pairs (SCRPs) holds promise for the targeted manipulation of magnetic field effects (MFEs), with potential applications ranging from the design of noise-resilient quantum information processors to genetically encodable quantum sensors. However, …
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Taming Contingency: Photography at the Crossroads between Collections, Archives and Atlases
My practice-based PhD investigates how the gathering of visual information through the photographic camera, together with the visual strategies involved in the organisation and configuration of specific groups of images are key processes in the constitution of meaning. I use my own practice to …
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A study into identity formation : troubling stories of adults taming mathematics
… narrative inquiry of stories of adults (not)taming mathematics. As an iterative study into identity formation it puts theory to work in unusual ways. In bringing together internal and external processes (and the intersection of biography, aspiration and discursive practice), I unmask how …
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Taming the tiger: the political ecology of prawn production in Tanzania
This dissertation explores the social-ecological dynamics and consequences of global shifts in the prawn farming industry from Southeast Asia to East Africa. The main contribution of my dissertation research is its integration of ecological theory with social theory through a political ecology …
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