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Reasons for love, reasons of love
(2023)Would it be irrational of you to love an inanimate object? Or would it be misguided to dedicate yourself to a random stranger on the street as opposed to, say, your partner or your child? I take it that such attitudes and ... -
Cell state changes during compensatory lung regrowth following pneumonectomy
(2023)Understanding the cellular and molecular dynamics of lung progenitors is necessary to achieve the ultimate therapeutic goal of tissue regeneration in the context of debilitating lung diseases. Alveolar type 2 cells (AT2s) ... -
Towards open-world image recognition
(2023)Deep neural networks can achieve state-of-the-art performance on various image recognition tasks, such as object categorization (image classification) and object localization (object detection), with the help of a large ... -
Deviance matrix factorization and its applications
(2023)Matrix factorization aims at summarizing the data matrix information with lower dimensional vectors. With reduced dimensions, those vectors can be leveraged to provide efficient data storage, to facilitate representative ... -
Buying a view: American landscape painting and Gilded Age vacation culture, 1870-1910
(2023)This dissertation investigates how late nineteenth-century American landscape painting encouraged development in areas of seasonal affluence. Through the collection and consumption of land and landscape paintings, I argue, ... -
Three essays in development economics
(2023)This dissertation consists of three chapters studying topics in education, labor market reforms, and gender inequality in China. The first chapter investigates the impacts of the largest primary school consolidation ... -
On the use of expert data to imitate behavior and accelerate Reinforcement Learning
(2024)This dissertation examines the integration of expert datasets to enhance the data efficiency of online Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms in large state and action space problems. The focus is on effectively ... -
Impact of neonatal activation of nuclear receptor constitutive androstane receptor on Cyp2 gene expression in adult mouse liver
(2023)Environmental exposures during a critical window of developmental plasticity can alter disease susceptibility later in life. The nuclear receptor CAR (constitutive androstane receptor) is a known xenobiotic sensor that is ... -
A search for flavor-changing neutral current interactions in leptonic final states using the CMS detector
(2023)The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator. In 2012, the LHC announced that a new particle had been observed with data collected from its two major experiments, including the Compact Muon ... -
Mendelian randomization with longitudinal data using functional data analysis approaches
(2023)In the past few decades, causal relationship evaluation has become more of an interest to help understand the underlying disease mechanism. Mendelian randomization (MR) is a useful approach that uses genetic variants as ...