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[M]form : Symbiotic Design and Fabrication for Casting of Modular Systems
(2012-09-13)Mechatronics is a concurrent field blending mechanical (mecha) and electronics (tronics) engineering used for the development of interactive design and manufacturing. It opens a portal for information to flow between the ... -
Ma: Space Where Flows Meet
Time is a critical factor in the construction of space. Renowned Japanese architect, Arata Isozaki, writes about “Ma, space-time,” the “natural distance between two or more things existing in a continuity … giving rise to ... -
Macaque Personality: Structure, Development, and Relationship to Social Behavior
In this work, we use behavioral observations to quantify individual differences in infant and adult macaques. We demonstrate that these differences, which we refer to as temperament in infants and personality in adults, ... -
Maccabees on the Baltic: the Biblical apologia of the Teutonic Order
(1989)This study examines the religious and historical literature of the Teutonic Order, the brotherhood of warrior-monks whose northern crusade subdued and converted the eastern Baltic region during the late Middle Ages.Chapter ... -
Macedonian Succession: A Game of Diadem
In this dissertation, I explore royal succession in Macedonia from the early Argead period until the fall of Macedonia to the Romans in 168 BCE. Particular attention is paid to the transition from the unstable, violent ... -
Machinability of Aerospace Tooling Materials for Composite Repairs
(2014-04-30)Tooling used to cure composite laminates in the aerospace and automotive industries must provide a dimensionally stable geometry throughout the thermal cycle applied during the part curing process. This requires that the ... -
Machine learning and data decompositions for complex networked dynamical systems
Machine learning has become part of our daily lives. Its applications include personalized advertisements, stock price predictions, and self-driving cars. The goal of this thesis is to study ways to apply machine learning ... -
Machine learning as massive search
(1997)Machine learning is the inference of general patterns from data. Machine-learning algorithms search large spaces of potential hypotheses for the hypothesis that best fits the data. Since the search space for most induction ... -
Machine Learning based Attacks and Defenses in Computer Security: Towards Privacy and Utility Balance in Emerging Technology Environments
The growth of smart devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) is driving data markets in which users exchange sensor streams for services. In most current data exchange models, service providers offer their functionality ... -
Machine Learning based Recommendations to aid Educational Planning and Academic Advising through the Virtual Academic Advisor System
The process of educational planning and academic advising are critical for supporting student retention rate and on-time graduation. Faculty-based advising has been widely adopted by several community colleges because it ... -
Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings: Attacks and Defenses
Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success over the last decade in a variety of tasks. Such models are, however, typically designed and developed with the implicit assumption that they will be deployed in benign ... -
Machine Learning of Amino Acid Composition Models for Protein Redesign
Proteins from thermophiles can preserve their basic structures and original functions at high temperature. However, most of the mesophilic proteins are vulnerable to such extreme condition due to their different amino acid ... -
Machine Learning of Spatiotemporal Bursting Behavior in Developing Neural Networks
Experimental investigation of the collective dynamics in large networks of neurons is a fundamental step towards understanding the mechanisms behind signal and information processing in the brain. In the last decade, the ... -
Machines for Living
This thesis describes A Machine for Living In, a digital media artwork using newly available computational and sensing tools to study the home as a site of intimate life. The title invokes Le Corbusier's modernist framing ... -
Machining of Metal-Composite Stacks and Hybrid Aerospace Materials through Milling and Abrasive Water Jet
Recent trends in aerospace industry towards reducing emissions, weight and buy-to-fly ratio has led to extensive use of high strength hybrid materials and structures. These materials range from brittle carbon fiber reinforced ... -
Macroeconomic Dynamics of Market Risk Capital Requirements and Credit Supply Interdependence
The 2008 global financial crisis revealed serious weaknesses in the worldwide banking system and financial regulatory regime. Concerns arose about the possible procyclical effects of risk-sensitive capital requirements ... -
Macrophage ADAM17 deficiency augments CD36-dependent apoptotic cell uptake and the linked anti-inflammatory phenotype
(2013-07-23)<italic>Rationale:</italic> Phagocytosis of apoptotic cells (efferocytosis) is mediated by apoptotic cell receptors and is essential for resolution of inflammation. In chronic inflammation, apoptotic cell clearance is ... -
Macrophage infiltration of human adipose tissue and its association with systemic inflammation, obesity, and metabolic disease
(2013-04-17)Macrophages accumulate in expanding adipose tissue where they produce and secrete inflammatory cytokines known to impair insulin action. "Classically activated" (i.e., pro-inflammatory) adipose tissue macrophages (ATM) are ... -
Macrophage interactions with biomaterial surfaces and their effects on endothelial cell activation
(1998)This research project focused on the development of in vitro models to study cell reactions with material surfaces and how materials exert their influence on cell-cell interactions. Macrophage inflammatory cytokine release ... -
Made in the Americas: How three lineages of flowering plants evolved and dispersed across the Neotropics and the World
Bignoniaceae is a flowering plant family of ca. 850 species. The family has the highest species diversity in the Neotropics, but taxa are also found in tropical Africa and Asia, as well as the temperate zones in both the ...