Humans are remarkably adaptive. Over the course of a day, year, and lifetime, we consistently encounter new and complex environments, each with their own goals …
In the context of vast, complex, and dynamic social networks, strategic decision making relies on knowing how people are connected within their larger social communities. …
Radio-frequency interference detection and flagging is one of the most difficult and urgent problems in 21 cm Epoch of Reionization research. In this work, we …
Neocortical circuits respond with distinct sensitivity to unexpected ‘deviant’ stimuli, an amplification mechanism widely regarded as crucial for sensory processing. Despite extensive characterization of stimulus-evoked …
To enable a holistic and generalizable understanding of how signal inputs to primary somatosensory cortex (SI) are processed, transformed, and give rise to behavior, research …
This dissertation addresses two critical issues in the decision analysis of non-pharmacologic interventions for dementia. The first issue is the incompatibility of existing decision-analytic frameworks …
“After Disillusionment: The ‘Minor’ Idioms of Diasporic Life,” studies how diverse contexts of North American woman/queer of color subjects respond to and reimagine their shared …
Early research in tunneling devices led to the proposal of the hot-electron transistor (HET), an all-electron analog to the heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT). In a …
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are often considered the gold standard for investigating the effects of an intervention. However, selective recruitment criteria often exclude vulnerable populations …
Abstract of Advancements in Portfolio Methods for Optimal Multi-Agent Pathfinding, by Eric Ewing, Ph.D., Brown University, October 2024 Multi-Agent Pathfinding (MAPF) is a critical problem …
The human brain's intricate machinery relies on the seamless function of its neurons throughout the organism’s lifetime. However, when faced with genetic mutations or environmental …
This dissertation explores fluid and structure interactions in microfluidic environments using lubrication models to simplify the governing equations of low-Reynolds number flows. In addition, I …
Politics of Scatter: Dust and Forensic Media examines the media of forensics, with a focus on the importance of dust to the establishment of evidence …
The internet, high-speed communication, and biomedical imaging rely on the transfer of information by light, and thus depend on optical technologies. The fundamental problem of …
Diffusiophoresis and diffusioosmosis are the motion of a particle and flow near a stationary boundary, respectively, in the presence of a solute concentration gradient. They …
Metachronal locomotion, characterized by the sequential beating of appendages moving in a tail-to-head motion with a phase lag, is present across a wide range of …
Advancements in molecular diagnostics continue to revolutionize personalized medicine by enabling precise detection and analysis of biological markers through workflows such as next-generation sequencing (NGS) …
In this thesis, I present experimental results and theoretical models for the forces and torques experienced by a rigid helix in dilute suspensions. The theoretical …
