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Computational Harmonic Analysis and Prediction in the Bach Chorales
(2016-06-21)During his lifetime, the Baroque composer J.S. Bach harmonized more than 300 chorale melodies, which collectively have become a pivotal body of music in Western music history and exemplify the composer’s groundbreaking ... -
Computational Mechanism Design
(Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Singapore, 2008)Computational mechanism design brings together the concern in microeconomics with decision making in the context of distributed private information and self-interest and the concern in computer science with computational ... -
Computational Methods for the Analysis of Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data and Their Applications to Cancer
(2018-08-17)Single-cell sequencing methods have allowed for a closer view into the heterogeneity of cell populations, down to the level of the individual cell. In particular, single-cell transcriptomic data provides a detailed map ... -
A Computational Model of Music Composition
(2015-05-17)This thesis documents my research into formalized score control, in order to demonstrate a computational model of music composition. When working computationally, models provide an explicit formal description of what objects ... -
Computational Modeling and Design of Soft-Robotic Pneumatic Fingers for Functionality and Durability
(2022-07-19)Soft robotic actuators, such as pneumatic bending bellow actuators, have shown promise as grippers for robust, adaptive, gentle grasping. The effects of select geometric parameters on bellow actuator pressure-curvature ... -
Computational modeling of oscillating fins that “catch and release” targeted nanoparticles in bilayer flows
(Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2016)A number of physiological processes in living organisms involve the selective ‘‘catch and release’’ of biomolecules. Inspired by these biological processes, we use computational modeling to design synthetic systems that ... -
Computational Modeling of the Baryon Content of Galaxies and Clusters in Cosmological Simulations
(2021-07-12)Cosmological simulations aim to self-consistently model the physics that shapes the distribution of baryons in our Universe. Galaxy mergers and feedback from supermassive black holes are some of the most violent physical ... -
Computational Models of Discourse
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Computational Prediction of Alternative Translation Events
(2023-12-20)The regulation of gene expression is a fundamental and exquisitely orchestrated molecular process, ensuring the proper synthesis of proteins for cellular function. In the classic canon of molecular biology, mRNA is ... -
Computational Questions in Evolution
(2012-10-23)Darwin's theory (1859) proposes that evolution progresses by the survival of those individuals in the population that have greater fitness. Modern understanding of Darwinian evolution is that variation in phenotype, or ... -
Computational Social Science
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009)A field is emerging that leverages the capacity to collect and analyze data at a scale that may reveal patterns of individual and group behaviors. -
Computational Thinking and Assignment Resubmission Predict Persistence in a Computer Science MOOC
(Wiley, 2020-02-27)Massive open online course (MOOC) studies have shown that precourse skills (such as precomputational thinking) and course engagement measures (such as making multiple submission attempts with assignments when the initial ... -
Computational-Mechanism Design: A Call to Arms
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, 2003)Game theory has developed several powerful tools for analyzing decision making in systems composed of multiple autonomous actors. Given this fact, AI practitioners would like to exploit these tools when building software ... -
Computations and Algorithms in Physical and Biological Problems
(2014-06-06)This dissertation presents the applications of state-of-the-art computation techniques and data analysis algorithms in three physical and biological problems: assembling DNA pieces, optimizing self-assembly yield, and ... -
Computer Science on Campus: Technology, (Inter)disciplinarity, and the Transformation of the American University
(2022-05-12)This dissertation explores how computer science became a discipline in the United States and how this process of discipline formation and institutionalization shaped the content and culture of computer science. Like other ... -
Computer Simulations of Protein Folding and Evolution
(2013-10-14)Computer simulations for investigating protein folding and evolution are presented. In chapter 1, an all-atom model with a knowledge-based potential is used to study the folding kinetics of Formin-Binding protein. We study ... -
Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Comparative Politics
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015)Recent advances in research tools for the systematic analysis of textual data are enabling exciting new research throughout the social sciences. For comparative politics, scholars who are often interested in non-English ... -
Computing Complex Visual Features with Retinal Spike Times
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Neurons in sensory systems can represent information not only by their firing rate, but also by the precise timing of individual spikes. For example, certain retinal ganglion cells, first identified in the salamander, ... -
Computing Contrasts, Effect Sizes, and Counternulls on Other People's Published Data: General Procedures for Research Consumers
(American Psychological Association, 1996)We describe convenient statistical procedures that will enable research consumers (e.g,, professional psychologists, graduate students, and researchers themselves) to reach beyond the published conclusions and make an ... -
Computing cooperative solution concepts in coalitional skill games
(Elsevier BV, 2013)We consider a simple model of cooperation among agents called Coalitional Skill Games (CSGs). This is a restricted form of coalitional games, where each agent has a set of skills that are required to complete various tasks. ...