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During each cell cycle, eukaryotic cells must faithfully replicate their genome, ensuring exactly one full copy is made. Both under-replicating or over-replicating the genome can have deleterious consequences including ...

Collaboration in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) has existed since the inception of CAD tools. The established norm in multi-user CAD work has been to use top-down modeling techniques wherein a complex model is divided into ...

3D organ property mapping has gained a considerable amount of interest in the recent years because of its diagnostic and clinical significance. Existing methods for 3D property mapping include computed tomography (CT), ...

Synthetic biology is an emerging field of research aimed to engineer biological systems by inserting programmed DNA molecules into living cells. These DNAs encode the production and subsequent interactions of biomolecules ...

As the cost of renewable energy falls below fossil fuels, the key barrier to widespread sustainable electricity has become availability on demand. Energy storage can enable dispatchable renewables, but only with drastic ...

This thesis is a collection of three chapters that investigate burgeoning empirical issues in industrial organization. In the first chapter, I study platform fee policy with a specific focus on two-sided online marketplaces. ...

First two chapters of this thesis study the wholesale and retail tier of the beer supermarket sales. In the first chapter, I am interested in consolidation of distributors in the beer industry and its interaction with the ...

Teaching machines to understand human language is one of the most elusive and long-standing challenges in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Driven by the fast development of deep learning, state-of-the-art NLP models have ...

Stochastic traffic simulators are widely used in the transportation community to model real-world urban road networks in applications ranging from real-time congestion routing and control to traffic state prediction. Online ...

This thesis contains two chapters on the Electricity Markets and a chapter on Matching Markets. In the first chapter, I study how an energy storage affects the wholesale electricity market. The transition to a low-carbon ...