Studies of dynamic functional connectivity have demonstrated that anatomical linkage is related to persistent functional connectivity. Bayesian models can leverage this connection by regularizing estimates of functional ...

As surgery has become the standard-of-care for cancer, surgeons have been left underequipped to identify tumors in the operating room, causing many operations to end in positive margins and necessitating secondary treatments ...

Modern international relations is a system of hierarchically-organized sovereign entities interacting with each other in the absence of hierarchical structures between them. Building on this observation, Realists and -to ...

The purpose of this study is to provide a useful guide for choral conductors who wish to perform the music of Chen Yi (b. 1953). The goal of this study is to search for an understanding of Chen Yi’s unique musical language, ...

The purpose of this dissertation is threefold. Firstly, a brief presentation is given concerning the history of "composition with twelve tones related only to one another" and the basic techniques it adheres to. ...

The purpose of my study is to investigate how one museum in the Midwestern United States, the Oriental Institute, contextualizes its permanent collection of cultural artifacts in the Joseph and Mary Grimshaw Egyptian ...

Environmental interactions (e.g., file I/O, network communication, database querying) are common bottlenecks of software applications. These interactions are also prone to performance bugs because developers may not ...

Molecular Dynamics (MD) is an important tool to simulate flows at the nanoscale. The limitation of MD in simulating important biological and chemical systems having a large length and time scale, increased the interest in ...