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Why Wiki Works: Peer Production And Making Knowledge The Wiki Way, Michael Andrew Restivo Dec 2014

Why Wiki Works: Peer Production And Making Knowledge The Wiki Way, Michael Andrew Restivo

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

With the widespread adoption of advanced information and communication technologies, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of online organizations that aim to create public goods through voluntary collaboration among self-organized, networked individuals. This form of online collective action has been termed peer production. One of the most successful examples of peer production, and the most widely studied, is the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which is written in a collaborative fashion by hundreds of thousands of volunteers and used by millions of people daily. In this dissertation, I use Wikipedia as a strategic case site to critically reflect on the …

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The Ritualistic And Theatrical Elements Of Ashura, Nooran Abdulkareem Fattah Al-Salihi Dec 2014

The Ritualistic And Theatrical Elements Of Ashura, Nooran Abdulkareem Fattah Al-Salihi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Ashura (also spelled Ashoura) takes place on the tenth day of Muharram when Shia Muslims commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Husayn that took place in 61 AH/ 680 AD. It is a socio-religious phenomenon that combines ritualistic and theatrical behavior. My objective is to shed light on the interaction between ritual and theatrical behavior and how these work together to form the overall event. The first section introduces the historical background of Ashura, the second section explores the ritualistic and theatrical characteristics of Ashura, and the last, concluding section talks about the relation between the two aspects and how they …

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Place Self: Identity At The Crossroads Of Place And Time In Catherine Opie's Los Angeles Landscape Seires, 1988-2004, Kim Woltmann Dec 2014

Place Self: Identity At The Crossroads Of Place And Time In Catherine Opie's Los Angeles Landscape Seires, 1988-2004, Kim Woltmann

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Catherine Opie achieved success and notoriety during the 1990s for several controversial photographic series of herself and members of her LGBT community that explored themes of sexuality, gender, and identity. She also, however, built a contemporaneous body of work throughout the 1990s comprised of landscape series. These images embraced a cool stoicism and deadpan aesthetic that contrasted the intimacy and dissidence of Opie's portraits, as well as the early branding of her as a contemporary provocateur. They therefore received little scholarly attention. More recent renewed interest in Opie's landscapes is largely inspired, retrospectively, because images of place have now overtaken …

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Validating The Use Of Fluorescent Proteins As Molecular Probes In Vivo And In Vitro, Laura Elizabeth Dougherty Dec 2014

Validating The Use Of Fluorescent Proteins As Molecular Probes In Vivo And In Vitro, Laura Elizabeth Dougherty

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Fluorescent proteins are widely used in cell biology as molecular probes to observe a protein of interests location and movement and also to study protein-protein interactions. The study of protein-protein interactions is observed using a technique called fluorescent resonance energy transfer (FRET). FRET is used as a way to approximate distances between proteins in vivo and requires at least two fluorescent proteins in order to utilize the process. The most popular pairing is enhanced cyan and yellow fluorescent (eCFP/eYFP) proteins. To view protein localization, fluorescent proteins are attached to the protein of interest. PSD-95, a scaffolding protein in the post …

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Surface Modification Of Adenovirus Type 5 Vectors Via Two-Step Metabolic Labeling For Pet Imaging, Jai Inder Pal Dec 2014

Surface Modification Of Adenovirus Type 5 Vectors Via Two-Step Metabolic Labeling For Pet Imaging, Jai Inder Pal

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Surface modification of viruses is of great interest for therapeutic gene delivery. Numerous viruses have been, and continue to be engineered in an attempt to optimize them for targeted in vivo gene therapy. Adenovirus has been shown by a myriad of publications to be the most efficient delivery vehicle in different cell types. But while it is the preferred delivery agent in many gene therapy studies, drawbacks such as off-targeting, immune response and toxicity still hinder it from being used in clinical studies. In an attempt to modify the surface of Adenovirus efficiently, our lab developed a simple two-step labeling …

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Orbitofrontal Cortex And The Decision-Making Process, Youran Wu Dec 2014

Orbitofrontal Cortex And The Decision-Making Process, Youran Wu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is situated at the ventral floor of the prefrontal cortex region. OFC and some of its related structure (ventral striatum, ventral tegmental area, basolateral amygdala) are considered to be part of the valuation system that is essential to the decision-making process. In order to understand the exact role OFC plays in the decision-making process, we sought to find out how decision variables are represented in different OFC projections, and what will happen if OFC projections were disrupted. The first specific aim of this project is to find out whether projections to OFC related structures are originated from …

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Alterations To The Unique Dna Binding Mode Mediated By Mterf1 Have Implications Of Pathogenesis In Mitochondrial Disease, James Byrnes Dec 2014

Alterations To The Unique Dna Binding Mode Mediated By Mterf1 Have Implications Of Pathogenesis In Mitochondrial Disease, James Byrnes

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Human mitochondria are found in all eukaryotic cells. They are dynamic double membrane organelles that can vary in shape, size and amount depending on cell types. In humans, mitochondria contain a 16.5 kb genome that encodes for 22 tRNAs, two rRNAs and 13 proteins that make up the mitochondrial contribution of the oxidative phosphorylation system (OXPHOS). This system produces the majority of energy used by the cell in the form of ATP and is critical for cell viability. In order for the OXPHOS system to produce ATP, it is dependent on the proper expression of the mitochondrial genome. Thus, errors …

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Analysis Of Principal Structural Orientation Of Trabecular Bone Using Quantitative Ultrasound, Liangjun Lin Dec 2014

Analysis Of Principal Structural Orientation Of Trabecular Bone Using Quantitative Ultrasound, Liangjun Lin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) has been accepted widely as a non-invasive, economic, non-radioactive and portable modality for assessing bone heath status. This technology utilizes the basic physical mechanism of interaction between ultrasound wave and bone structure to provide mechanical and structural information of bone. Instead of only evaluating the quantity of bone like other traditional techniques such as duel energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), QUS is also capable of measuring the quality of bone such as anisotropy, microarchitecture and microfracture. This advantage of QUS is beneficial for treating the patient suffering from osteoporosis or other bone health deterioration, long term bed-rest patient …

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The Role Of Beta Activity In Blink Abnormalities In A Rat Model Of Parkinson's Disease, Jaime Kaminer Dec 2014

The Role Of Beta Activity In Blink Abnormalities In A Rat Model Of Parkinson's Disease, Jaime Kaminer

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that causes difficulty initiating voluntary movements among other symptoms. Electrophysiological work highlights the presence of exaggerated synchronized beta band (10-30 Hz) oscillations throughout the cortico-basal ganglia network in PD. Although a causal role of beta oscillations in PD symptoms has not been established, many hypothesize that beta activity is " antikinetic" and the source of Parkinsonian motor symptoms. This relationship remains unclear because the strength of beta oscillations changes dynamically with cues that initiate movement and because the voluntary motor symptoms of PD are often not present in animal models of PD. …

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High Resolution, Frequency Comb-Referenced Measurements Of Spectral Line Shapes, Matthew James Cich Dec 2014

High Resolution, Frequency Comb-Referenced Measurements Of Spectral Line Shapes, Matthew James Cich

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Spectroscopic methods for retrieval of atmospheric data such as pressure, temperature, and concentration depend on the accurate characterization of spectral line shapes. As a model system, the P(11) line of the υ 1+υ 3 band of acetylene, near 1.5 µm, was explored in great detail using a high resolution spectrometer based on a frequency comb-referenced continuous wave laser. This spectrometer is capable of measurements with frequency accuracy better than 1 part in 1011. This allows for unprecedented accuracy in experimental data exploring the effects contributing to a spectral line shape. Direct absorption measurements on acetylene in a cell capable …

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Structural And Computational Study On The Interaction Of Bacterial Cell Division Protein, Ftsz, With Its Inhibitors For New Antibacterial Drug Discovery, Edwin Ottoniel Lazo Dec 2014

Structural And Computational Study On The Interaction Of Bacterial Cell Division Protein, Ftsz, With Its Inhibitors For New Antibacterial Drug Discovery, Edwin Ottoniel Lazo

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Filamenting temperature-sensitive mutant Z (FtsZ) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is an essential bacterial cell division protein that polymerizes into a structure called the " Z-ring" . Here it has been targeted for drug discovery. Compounds that exhibit anti-tuberculosis activity have been synthesized and used in crystallization conditions. Four crystal structures of MtbFtsZ have been determined, of which two are similar to the published dimer (PDB 1RQ7) which exhibits lateral interactions; they belong to P65 space group and crystals diffracted to about 2.6Å. The other two structures had two trimers in the asymmetric unit. The crystals diffracted to approximately 3.5Å and …

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The Other Half Of The Protein Folding Equation Characterization Of The Protein Denatured State Ensemble (Dse): The Case Of C-Terminal Domain Of The Ribosomal Protein L9 (Ctl9), Bowu Luan Dec 2014

The Other Half Of The Protein Folding Equation Characterization Of The Protein Denatured State Ensemble (Dse): The Case Of C-Terminal Domain Of The Ribosomal Protein L9 (Ctl9), Bowu Luan

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Studies on the unfolded state of proteins are important for understanding the mechanism of protein folding. The protein unfolded state or protein denatured state ensemble (DSE) is the starting point for protein folding. It provides a thermodynamic reference state for protein stability, and it can be targeted by rational protein design. Studies of the properties of DSEs can also reveal the factors that impact protein misfolding and modulate the tendency for protein aggregation in vitro and in vivo, and amyloid formation. The 92-residue C-terminal domain of ribosomal protein L9 (CTL9) is used as a model to study protein DSEs. This …

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Structural And Optical Characterization Of Semiconductors For Solar Water Splitting, Andrew Charles Malingowski Dec 2014

Structural And Optical Characterization Of Semiconductors For Solar Water Splitting, Andrew Charles Malingowski

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Finding a clean and renewable source of energy that can compete commercially with fossil fuels is one of the great challenges facing the world today. Photoactive semiconductors that can be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gas by absorbing visible light are one means of harvesting the sun's abundant energy and storing it as chemical fuel. Although several photoactive semiconductor systems have demonstrated water splitting, one is yet to be found that has a high enough H2 production efficiency to be a commercially viable source of renewable energy. Water splitting using a photoactive semiconductor is a complex process …

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The Influence Of Biogenic Opal On 231pa/230th In Sediments From The Bermuda Rise And Its Implication For Paleocirculation Reconstructions, Theresa Marie King Dec 2014

The Influence Of Biogenic Opal On 231pa/230th In Sediments From The Bermuda Rise And Its Implication For Paleocirculation Reconstructions, Theresa Marie King

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Thermohaline circulation is responsible for the global transport of heat in surface waters of the ocean, and variability in this circulation has been linked to both short- and long-term climate change on time scales ranging from centuries to tens of thousands of years. Accurate reconstructions of past variability are thus critical to understanding modern and future thermohaline circulation changes and the response of the global climate system. The main circulation feature in the Atlantic is Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), and has been reconstructed using a variety of static proxies, but more recently through the use of sedimentary 231Paxs …

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The Effect Of Patch Dynamics And Nutrient Availability On The Production Of Zostera Marina Seeds Within Shinnecock Bay, Ny, Lisa Jackson Dec 2014

The Effect Of Patch Dynamics And Nutrient Availability On The Production Of Zostera Marina Seeds Within Shinnecock Bay, Ny, Lisa Jackson

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Exposing Zostera marina to fertilized porewater has been shown to increase vegetative shoot density and leaf growth rates, as well as affect morphological shoot characteristics including increasing leaf length, leaf area and the number of leaves per shoot. However, aside from changes in shoot density, records of morphological changes in reproductive shoots subjected to increased nutrient availability are lacking. To address this, five replicate ambient and nutrient enriched patches, each between 0.5 and 2.0 m2, were selected within a developing Z. marina meadow in Shinnecock Bay, NY. Fertilizer stakes, with a N:P:K of 15:3:3, were used to amend enriched patches …

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Achieving Regulatory Compliance In Data Management, Sumeet Vijay Bajaj Dec 2014

Achieving Regulatory Compliance In Data Management, Sumeet Vijay Bajaj

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Regulations mandate consistent procedures for information access, processing, and storage. In the United States alone, over 10,000 data management regulations exist in the financial, life sciences, health care and government sectors. A recurrent theme in data management regulations is the need for regulatory compliant storage to ensure data confidentiality, data integrity, audit trails maintenance, data retention, and guaranteed deletion. This thesis describes the design and implementation of several regulatory compliant relational databases and file systems. The systems increase efficiency and lower costs of regulatory compliance through the use of novel cryptographic and system security constructs. The first system described in …

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Website Fingerprinting Attacks And Defenses On Anonymity Networks, Xiang Cai Dec 2014

Website Fingerprinting Attacks And Defenses On Anonymity Networks, Xiang Cai

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Website fingerprinting attacks enable an adversary to infer which website a victim is visiting, even if the victim uses an encrypting proxy, such as Tor. As a result, researchers have proposed several defenses, most of which focus mainly on hiding packet size information. For example, Tor packs all data into 512-byte cells. Other packet padding schemes include padding to 2^k bytes, or padding all packets to MTU. In 2009, Wright, et al. | proposed traffic morphing, which alters the size of the packets transmitted so that the packet size distribution appears to be from a different web page. Recently researchers …

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A Scalable Physics-Based Data Modeling Framework To Unsupervised High-Dimensional Data Mining, Hao Huang Dec 2014

A Scalable Physics-Based Data Modeling Framework To Unsupervised High-Dimensional Data Mining, Hao Huang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Today's modeling and analysis of high-dimensional data is either based on human expertise to hand-craft a set of task-specific data, which suffers significantly from the ever-increasing complexity and the unknown patterns of the new data; or is based on simple data-driven approaches which tend to lose the fundamentally physical insights of real world datasets. Therefore, it is very difficult with today's modeling practice to efficiently, effectively, and unsupervisedly detect reliable patterns and information in high-dimensional data. In this dissertation, we developed a scalable data modeling framework that utilizes modern theoretical physics for unsupervised high-dimensional data analysis and mining. Not only …

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Multilingual Named Entity Recognition, Vivek V. Kulkarni Dec 2014

Multilingual Named Entity Recognition, Vivek V. Kulkarni

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

With the massive amounts of unannotated text available from myriad sources, learning representations useful for natural language processing(NLP) tasks is an increasingly popular research area. Using deep learning techniques, we learn distributed representations for words (word embeddings) using Wikipedia as the source of text for 40 languages. These distributed representations represent each word as a point in feature space and capture useful semantic and syntactic properties of words amd have been shown to be useful in NLP Tasks like Part of Speech Tagging(POS) etc. We have built 2 classes of word embeddings namely Polyglot and Skipgram for these languages. We …

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Greendm: A Versatile Tiering Hybrid Drive For The Trade-Off Evaluation Of Performance, Energy, And Endurance, Zhichao Li Dec 2014

Greendm: A Versatile Tiering Hybrid Drive For The Trade-Off Evaluation Of Performance, Energy, And Endurance, Zhichao Li

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

There are trade-offs among performance, energy, and device endurance for storage systems. These trade-offs become more complex in storage system comprising different storage technologies. Designs optimized for one dimension or workload often suffer in another. Therefore, it is important to study the trade-offs so as to be able to adapt the system to workloads. As different types of drives have different traits, tiering hybrid drives are studied more closely. However, previous tiering hybrids are often designed for high throughput, efficient energy consumption, or improving endurance--leaving empirical study on the trade-offs being unexplored. Past endurance studies also lack a concrete model …

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Theoretical And Practical Aspects Of Compact Data Structures For Range And Membership Queries In Sparse Sets, Pablo Montes Arango Dec 2014

Theoretical And Practical Aspects Of Compact Data Structures For Range And Membership Queries In Sparse Sets, Pablo Montes Arango

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

There is an increasing need for data structures that efficiently manipulate huge amounts of data. When the data to be represented does not fit into main memory all at once, data structures designed without taking this constraint into account fail to perform as expected. Data structures conceived specifically for this purpose fall into two, not necessarily exclusive, categories. The first consists of data structures designed and analyzed under a model of computation where the cost is given by the amount of data transferred between external and internal memory. The second comprises data structures that make the most out of the …

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Computational Modeling And Analysis Of Cardiac Excitation, Abhishek Murthy Dec 2014

Computational Modeling And Analysis Of Cardiac Excitation, Abhishek Murthy

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Modeling, analysis, and control of cardiac excitation, the biological process cardiac cells undergo on a periodic basis, is indispensable for understanding and countering life-threatening electrical disturbances of the heart, such as atrial and ventricular fibrillation. Modeling involves the derivation of a mathematical/computational representation of the dynamics of cardiac cells and their diffusivity. The key to effective modeling lies in striking a balance between i) precision, the ability of the model to replicate the underlying biological phenomena, and ii) performance, in terms of amenability to automated analysis techniques, such as simulation and formal verification. The techniques of abstraction and compositionality have …

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Gpu-Acceleration Of X-Ray Photon Scattering Simulation, Jaewoo Pi Dec 2014

Gpu-Acceleration Of X-Ray Photon Scattering Simulation, Jaewoo Pi

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Computed Tomography is widely used in numerous fields. To facilitate the development of an algorithm while avoiding additional radiation dose to the patient, the simulation of the CT imaging process is required. The scattering effect of X-ray photons impact on quality of output images. Thus, modeling the scattering is an important task to predict and eliminate the effects on energy. However, the simulation has been challenging task. Two approaches, deterministic and Monte Carlo method has been widely used, but both methods have to undergo trade-off between speed and sampling rate. In this research, the new algorithm which exploits Bi-directional ray …

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Learning To Read Recipes : Activity Diagramming With Narrative Event Chains, Ganesa Thandavam Ponnuraj Dec 2014

Learning To Read Recipes : Activity Diagramming With Narrative Event Chains, Ganesa Thandavam Ponnuraj

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In this work, we generate activity diagrams of the recipe text automatically, with the help of narrative event chains. Cooking recipes, that have predominantly imperative sentences, present unique challenges in the form of frequent argument drops and co-reference resolution over evolving (or merging) entities. Here, we introduce an unsupervised approach to automatically recover the recipe flow graphs. Then we illustrate the usefulness of our learned models via narrative cloze task; for the automatic evaluation of our learned models, we make use of one of the oft-used task in Discourse analysis, namely the sentence re-ordering and illustrate their utility. To report …

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Efficient Implementation Techniques For Block-Level Cloud Storage Systems, Dilip Nijagal Simha Dec 2014

Efficient Implementation Techniques For Block-Level Cloud Storage Systems, Dilip Nijagal Simha

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

A fundamental building block for an IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) cloud service such as Amazon's EC2 is a storage virtualization system that provides block-level storage services to individual virtual machines over the network. This dissertation addresses four major problems in such a block-level cloud storage system, in the context of an end-to-end IaaS solution called ITRI Cloud OS. First, to effectively eliminate redundancies in stored data blocks, we propose a scalable block-level deduplication engine called Sungem, which uses both sampling and prefetching to minimize the performance overhead of fingerprint accesses, and features a storage block garbage collection algorithm whose run- time overhead …

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The Role Of Developmental Mode And Population-Level Processes In Shifting Distributions: A Study Of Calyptraeid Gastropods, Abigail Eileen Cahill Dec 2014

The Role Of Developmental Mode And Population-Level Processes In Shifting Distributions: A Study Of Calyptraeid Gastropods, Abigail Eileen Cahill

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In benthic marine invertebrates with complex life cycles, dispersal happens primarily during the larval stage: sedentary, benthic adults produce larvae that live in the water column for a period of hours to months. The larval life stage is therefore critical to the ability of a species to expand or shift its range, including in response to climate change. Species with planktonic larvae are expected to show greater dispersal and gene flow than those with direct development. In contrast, reduced gene flow among populations of directly developing species increases the potential for local adaptation. Understanding not only larval traits, but population-level …

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Dividend Taxes, Financial Frictions, And The U.S. Great Depression, Lunan Jiang Dec 2014

Dividend Taxes, Financial Frictions, And The U.S. Great Depression, Lunan Jiang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

As shown by McGrattan (2012), an anticipated increase in dividend taxes plays an important role in explaining the dramatic investment decline during the U.S. Great Depression. The first chapter of this dissertation attempts to test whether this conclusion is still robust when household heterogeneity and precautionary saving motives are taken into consideration. I build an Aiyagari model with dynamic firms, dividend taxes, and labor productivity shocks that accounts for the U.S. earnings and wealth inequality using 1930s data. The conclusion is that the impact of anticipated increases of dividend taxes on the investment is very sensitive to the presence of …

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Parallel And Flexible Hardware Implementation Of Fletcher Checksum, Maria Isabel Mera Collantes Dec 2014

Parallel And Flexible Hardware Implementation Of Fletcher Checksum, Maria Isabel Mera Collantes

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Checksums are utilized in many contexts such as communications, storage and reliable processing. The balance between checksum strength, implementation cost and obtained throughput often pose a challenge for present day system designers. In this research we propose two new methods for implementing the Fletcher Checksum (FC) in a parallelized context. We determined an extended parallel definition from the original FC and applied it to two different hardware implementation approaches. We then created a generator that would automatically output parameterized designs. We controlled the input word length, number of parallel inputs and architecture of the designs, and we then synthesized these …

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Image Reconstruction Theory And Implementation For Low-Dose X-Ray Computed Tomography, Yan Liu Dec 2014

Image Reconstruction Theory And Implementation For Low-Dose X-Ray Computed Tomography, Yan Liu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The excessive X-ray radiation exposure during clinical examinations has been reported to be linked to increase lifetime risk of cancers in patients. Directly lower computed tomography (CT) dose without improving reconstruction technique will degrade the image quality and is not acceptable. The objective of this dissertation is investigating novel reconstruction methods to improve image quality in low-dose cases. In practice, it is usually more convenient to improve the conventional analytical methods by refining projection model and designing new filters due to the fast computing time and low computational complexity. However, the reconstructions from analytical methods are still sensitive to artifacts …

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Reconfigurable Architecture For Mixed Processing Elements With Buffer Based Representation, Sumit Suresh Tiwari Dec 2014

Reconfigurable Architecture For Mixed Processing Elements With Buffer Based Representation, Sumit Suresh Tiwari

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Modern reconfigurable logic devices are often multi-core and multi-processor architectures with complex intra-processor logic. To fully utilize the raw power of these devices is an arduous task; mapping design data-flows to such devices in a way that will maximize their performance involves careful consideration of a number of parameters, and is the subject of a good amount of research. This thesis presents a novel design, which uses the technique of buffer-based dataflow, a representation technique for realizing data-centric applications in reconfigurable platforms, to map complex logic systems with multiple processing elements to a reconfigurable target architecture having multi-core processors or …

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