Browsing 2018-09-01 UB Theses and Dissertations (public) by Title
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Machine Learning Model Selection for Predicting Properties of High Refractive Index Polymers
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)In the field of materials science and chemistry, machine learning has emerged as a promising technique in the recent times for the accelerated discovery of novel materials. This thesis focuses on one of the major aspects ... -
Macroevolutionary drivers of extinction and quantitative stratigraphy of graptolites
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)The last few decades have seen rapid expansion of large-scale paleontological databases that have allowed a much more methodologically rigorous approach to macroevolutionary patterns over geologic timescales. Studies have ... -
MACROSCOPIC STATE-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF PAVEMENT ROUGHNESS USING TIME-SPACE STATISTICAL MODELING METHODS
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)This thesis uses pavement condition data collected from FHWA between 2001-2006 aggregated by US state, to identify macroscopic factors affecting pavement roughness in time and space. To account for prior pavement condition ... -
Management and Exploitation of Pedestrian Traffic in Pompeii
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)This dissertation evaluates evidence for pedestrian care, management, and guidance in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. Major lines of inquiry are directed toward understanding the rights of pedestrians, the regulations ... -
Mechanical Properties of Selected CAD/CAM and Conventional Interim Fixed Restorative Materials
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Aim: To measure and compare flexural strength, modulus of elasticity and hardness of some of the commercially available CAD/CAM and conventional materials used to fabricate interim fixed dental prostheses.Hypotheses: The ... -
Mechanistic insights to the Ca2+-dependent inactivation of NMDA receptors by Calmodulin
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Calcium has evolved to be a ubiquitous second messenger that regulates many diverse and often opposing physiological processes in eukaryotic cells. In the central nervous system, NMDA receptors are glutamate and glycine-gated ... -
Mechanomorphology of Colloidal Gel Regulates Endothelial Cell Organization
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Colloidal gels have been established as a bottom-up strategy by infusing micro- or nanoparticles as building blocks to form functional scaffolds. Strong attraction between colloid particles over short distance leads to ... -
Mental Models for Cybersecurity: A Formal Methods Approach
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Failures in complex systems often result from problematic interactions between different system components, including human users. Furthermore, the complexity of these systems means that system designers may fail to ... -
Methods for Functional Module Detection with Application to Biological Networks
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Networks provide a mathematical representation of variables and their dependencies. Hierarchical organization and network structure are naturally occurring in many areas, e.g., biology, ecology and social settings. Thus, ... -
MODELING AND COMPARATIVE OPTIMIZATION OF PALLADIUM MEMBRANE REACTORS FOR THE WATER-GAS SHIFT REACTION
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)The kinetics of the water-gas shift reaction have been studied over a ferrochrome catalyst at high temperatures (300 – 500 °C) and a copper-zinc catalyst at lower temperatures (180 – 250 °C) in conventional reactors. The ... -
Modeling the Transport of Charges in Transition Metal Oxides using Small Polaron Theory
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Charge transport in semiconductor oxides bismuth vanadate (BVO), zirconium oxysulfide (ZOS) and zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) were successfully modeled using small polaron transport theory. We developed the software tool ... -
Modelling Social Preferences of Ride-sharing
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Ride-sharing also known as carpooling is sharing of journeys from one place to another so that more than one person can travel together and obviate others from driving to the locations themselves. By having more than one ... -
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Suppression of Neurodegeneration in the Drosophila model of Leigh Syndrome
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Background: Leigh Syndrome (LS) is an early-onset neurodegenerative disorder (ND) characterized by progressive loss of mental and movement abilities. Presently, the disease has no cure and usually leads to lethality. The ... -
Movement of our expanded selves
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)As humans, we have a strong relationship with visual and sensory perception, as well as particularspaces where memories were once made. This paper covers how our visual interaction, spatial memoryinformation and sensory ... -
My Feminism is Ratchet: A Black Feminist Review
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)From the time of our arrival in America, Black people have been forced to create protective strategies and employ tactics of survival against racism, sexism, and other systems of oppression put in place by the dominant ... -
Nanomaterials for Energy Applications: Cases of Precious Metal and Metal Chalcogenides
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Nanomaterials have been intensively explored over the past two decades for their broad potential applications in fields including energy conversion, energy storage, emissive materials, sensors, biomedical devices, and ... -
Neuroevolution in Control of Intelligent Systems: Benchmark Testing, Simulated and Physical Demonstrations
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)A majority of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) implementations in autonomous systems use a fixed/user-prescribed network topology, leading to sub-optimal performance and low portability. The existing neuro-evolution of ... -
New Computational Geometry Methods for Some Fundamental Machine Learning Problems
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Machine learning concerns the construction of techniques that can learn from and make predictions on data. The computational geometry can play a crucial and natural role in machine learning when exploring the data structure. ... -
Novel Ciprofloxacin-based Polymer-Antibiotic Conjugates as Antibacterial Additive in Dental Resin
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)As the most typical and widely affecting dental health issue, dental caries becomes the number one topic of our dental health, and innovative ideas are needed to develop new treatment approaches for overcoming the shortcomings ... -
Novel Statistical Methods: Quantile Estimation, Inference, and Related Applications in Medical Research
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)In this dissertation, selected topics with respect to the quantile estimation, inference, and relatedapplications in medical research are presented.First, new types of quantile estimators are developed. One is based on ...