Due to recent advances in sequencing technologies, genomics has emerged as a powerful tool for combating viral outbreaks. In this dissertation, I show how genomic data can be used to understand the transmission, as well ...

We present a simple but effective technique for measuring angular variation in R_V across the sky. We divide stars from the Pan-STARRS catalog into Healpix pixels and determine the posterior distribution of reddening and ...

In this thesis we examine several different approaches for deducing observable signals of new physics. First, we outline a technique to extract useful information about the pattern a neural network has learned to recognize, ...

This thesis investigates the relation between the catalytic activity and catalyst material to develop a predictive framework for the rational design of catalytic systems. More specifically, catalyst morphology, surface ...

In the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) capable of silencing genes can be introduced anywhere in the animal and will subsequently travel throughout the body and enter most cells, including ...

This dissertation consists of three chapters related to the testing of hypotheses implied by models in macroeconomics and financial economics. Chapter 1, coauthored with Ned Augenblick, develops and implements tests of the ...

Kinship provides the major framework for social organization, but when do infants and children develop understanding of these social relationships and how they affect social behaviors? This dissertation proposes that ...

The ability to integrate services across settings and time is increasingly important for healthcare delivery organizations. This dissertation explores the organizational structures and social behaviors that enable service ...

Soft actuators are the components responsible for producing motion in soft robots. Although soft actuators have facilitated a variety of innovative applications of soft robots, there is a need for design tools that can ...

In the last several decades, the growth of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and the incorporation of investment provisions into regional trade agreements has led to the development of an international legal regime ...