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Direct measurement of membrane dipole field in complex model membranes via vibrational stark effect spectroscopy coupled with molecular dynamics simulations
(2016-09-13)The heterogeneous composition of a biological membrane creates a complex electrostatic environment that regulates membrane structure and function. In this work, we investigated the magnitude of the membrane dipole field, ... -
The role of religion and gender in shaping STEM education and workforce participation
(2016-08-12)To many, STEM jobs offer tremendous economic opportunities. However, women and girls move away from STEM at multiple points in the education-to-work pipeline and are underrepresented in STEM employment. Researchers have ... -
Graph theoretic results on index coding, causal inference and learning graphical models
(2016-07-29)Exploiting and learning graph structures is becoming ubiquitous in Network Information Theory and Machine Learning. The former deals with efficient communication schemes in a many-node network. In the latter, inferring ... -
Strong lower bounds on generic convex relaxations
Despite significant successes in understanding the hardness of computational problems based on standard assumptions such as P != NP, there are important settings where the gap between what the best known algorithms achieve ... -
Regularity estimates for some free boundary problems of obstacle-type
(2016-06-09)We study regularity estimates for solutions to implicit constraint obstacle problems and penalized boundary obstacle problems. We first prove regularity estimates for the solution and the free boundary in the classical ... -
Predicate detection for parallel computations
(2016-05-18)One of the fundamental problems in runtime verification of parallel program is to check if a predicate could become true in any global state of the system. The problem is challenging because of the nondeterministic process ... -
The use of extra-galactic star formation tracers on star forming regions in the Milky Way
We studied three groups of star forming clouds in the Milky Way: 5 clouds from Spitzer c2d Legacy survey, 10 clouds from Gould Belt survey, and 32 massive dense clumps. We determined the total diffuse 24[Greek letter mu] ... -
Informing the carbon frontier : economics and landscape in the western Amazon
(2016-08-16)In recent years, forestry carbon offset projects have been on the rise. While praised for their ability to offset emissions inexpensively, these programs are also criticized for their tendency to overlook other important ... -
Mapping race and belonging in the margins of Europe : Albanian, Romani, and Egyptian sentiments
(2016-08-12)Racialization and belonging are deeply complex and imbricated processes. Drawing from more than 28 months of ethnographic research with Albanian, Romani, and Egyptian communities, this dissertation maps sentiments, scenes, ... -
Emotions when reading foreign literary texts : the "lived through" experience of Korean adolescent students reading English short stories
(2016-09-12)Although previous studies have addressed affective aspects of second language (L2) reading, little research has explored the full range of emotions that readers experience as they read texts in a second language. This study ...
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