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Designing evanescent optical interactions to control the expression of Casimir forces in optomechanical structures
(AIP Publishing, 2011)We propose an optomechanical structure consisting of a photonic-crystal (holey) membrane suspended above a layered silicon-on-insulator substrate in which resonant bonding/antibonding optical forces created by externally ... -
Designing for Incentives: Better Information Sharing for Better Software Engineering
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2010)Software-reliant systems permeate all aspects of modern society. The resulting interconnectedness and associated com- plexity has resulted in a proliferation of diverse stakeholders with conflicting goals. Thus, contemporary ... -
Designing herpes viruses as oncolytics
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015)Oncolytic herpes simplex virus (oHSV) was one of the first genetically-engineered oncolytic viruses. Because HSV is a natural human pathogen that can cause serious disease, it is incumbent that it can be genetically-engineered ... -
Designing Incentives for Online Question and Answer Forums
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2009)In this paper, we provide a simple game-theoretic model of an online question and answer forum. We focus on factual questions in which user responses aggregate while a question remains open. Each user has a unique piece ... -
Designing incentives for online question-and-answer forums
(Elsevier BV, 2014)We provide a game-theoretic model of sequential information aggregation motivated by online question-and-answer forums. An asker posts a question and each user decides when to aggregate a unique piece of information with ... -
Designing informative securities
(AUAI Press, 2012)We create a formal framework for the design of informative securities in prediction markets. These securities allow a market organizer to infer the likelihood of events of interest as well as if he knew all of the traders’ ... -
Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States
(American Economic Association, 2008)The explosion in the 21st century of terrorist activities by Islamic radicals in the United States, Europe and Asia requires reforming the institutions for domestic counterterrorism (CT) and new international relations ... -
Designing large, high-efficiency, high-numerical-aperture, transmissive meta-lenses for visible light
(The Optical Society, 2016)A metasurface lens (meta-lens) bends light using nanostructures on a flat surface. Macroscopic meta-lenses (mm- to cm-scale diameter) have been quite difficult to simulate and optimize, due to the large area, the lack of ... -
Designing Markets For Prediction
(Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2010)We survey the literature on prediction mechanisms, including prediction markets and peer prediction systems. We pay particular attention to the design process, highlighting the objectives and properties that are important ... -
Designing Novel Semiconductor Nanowire Structures: Synthesis and Fabrication for Localized Photodetection and Sensing
(2015-05-06)Semiconductor nanowires display a wide range of structural and functional diversity, and as such provide a platform for nanomaterials research. At present, a number of nanowire structural motifs have been discovered and ... -
Designing Responsibility: The Problem of Many Hands in Complex Organizations
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Designing Scalable Biological Interfaces
(2014-06-06)This thesis presents the analysis and design of biological interfacing technologies in light of a need for radical improvements in scalability. It focuses primarily on structural and functional neural data acquisition, but ... -
Designing singularities in electronic dispersions
(2018-09-16)This dissertation is devoted to the study of singularities in electronic dispersions and their implications for electronic systems. First, we consider two-dimensional interacting electrons at a monkey saddle with dispersion ... -
Designing Verbal Autopsy Studies
(BioMed Central, 2010)Background: Verbal autopsy analyses are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality rates (CSMR) in the vast majority of the world without high quality medical death registration. Verbal autopsies — survey interviews ... -
Designing Viscoelastic Bioelectronic Interfaces: From the Organ to Cell Scale
(2022-06-06)Living tissues are non-linearly elastic materials that exhibit viscoelasticity and plasticity. Man-made, implantable bioelectronic arrays mainly rely on thin films of ductile metals encapsulated by rigid plastic or hydrophobic ... -
Designing walkable cities and neighborhoods in the era of urban big data
(2019)In this paper, we discuss walkable cities from the perspective of urban planning and design in the era of digitalization and urban big data. We start with a brief review on historical walkable cities schemes; followed by ... -
Desired and feared — What do we do now and over the next 50 years?
(Informa UK Limited, 2009)An intense debate about Harvard University’s General Education Curriculum demonstrates that statistics, as a discipline, is now both desired and feared. With this new status comes a set of enormous challenges. We no longer ... -
Desired Machines: Cinema and the World in Its Own Image
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)In 1895 when the Lumière brothers unveiled their cinematographic camera, many scientists were elated. Scientists hoped that the machine would fulfill a desire that had driven research for nearly half a century: that of ... -
Desiring Athletes: The Meaning of Athletic Imagery on Red-Figure Athenian Symposium Pottery
(2023-09-05)This dissertation explores the iconography of athletes on Athenian red-figure pottery of the late sixth and fifth centuries BCE, a period in which athletic imagery pervaded the homes, marketplaces, and sanctuaries of ancient ...