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The Price of Personalization: An Application of Contextual Bandits to Mobile Health
(2018-06-29)
One goal in healthcare is to be able to accurately personalize treatments, including the ability to maintaining overall efficacy in treatment while minimizing the harm and quantity of mistreated patients. With the recent ...
Entire Surfaces of Prescribed Curvature in Minkowski 3-Space
(2018-05-16)
This thesis concerns the global theory of properly embedded spacelike surfaces in 3 dimensional Minkowski space with prescribed Gaussian curvature. We prove that every regular domain which is not a wedge contains a unique ...
A Graphical Theory of Musical Pitch Spelling
(2018-06-29)
Based on the conventions of staff-based music notation, musical passages that sound alike can often be written down in multiple ways, with each representation being considered a different "pitch-spelling". In this thesis, ...
Variations on a Nilpotence Theorem of Hopkins and Mahowald
(2018-05-08)
It is a theorem of Hopkins and Mahowald that the nilpotence of $p$-torsion classes in $\mathbb{E}_2$-ring spectra can be detected by the classical $H\mathbb{F}_p$-Hurewicz homomorphism. On the other hand, the May Nilpotence ...
Supply Chain for Fertilizer Distribution in Ethiopia
(2018-06-29)
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization in the world, with yearly operations in 80 different countries, providing humanitarian assistance to over 80million people in need. The ...
Universal Noise Models in Machine Learning
(2018-06-29)
We examine the problem of universal noise models in machine learning.
Stochastic Models of Evolutionary Dynamics
(2018-05-11)
Stochasticity is a fundamental component of evolution. Many essential evolutionary phenomena cannot be modeled without it. In developing and analyzing stochastic processes that model the dynamics of evolution, this ...
Money Illusion and Attitudes Toward Trade
(2018-06-29)
This paper argues that being susceptible to money illusion, namely the tendency to think of monetary values in nominal terms rather than real terms, may lead American consumers to hold less favorable impressions of ...
Zero Knowledge Proofs and Applications to Financial Regulation
(2018-06-29)
We consider zero-knowledge proofs, a class of cryptographic protocols by which an agent (a Prover) can prove to another agent (a Verifier) that a statement is true without revealing any additional information. For example, ...
Some Calculations of Cobordism Groups and Their Applications in Physics
(2018-05-11)
In this paper, we compute several cobordism groups. We use these calculations to classify invertible extended topological field theory with Hn structures and give a classification of Symmetric Protected Topological (SPT) ...