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Rigid And Non-Rigid 2d-3d Pose Estimation Using The Bhattacharyya Coefficient And A Locally Linear Embedding, Jeremy Neil Lerner
Rigid And Non-Rigid 2d-3d Pose Estimation Using The Bhattacharyya Coefficient And A Locally Linear Embedding, Jeremy Neil Lerner
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
There are many segmentation algorithms in the computer vision field whose general purpose is to separate between object and background in an image. In this work, we take advantage of extra knowledge prior to run-time to speed up the segmentation. Specifically, in the rigid case, we have a three dimensional model of the entire object, and we use the Bhattacharyya coefficient from information theory to segment an image containing a two dimensional projection of that object as well as determine its location relative to the camera. This framework can be particularly advantageous for noisy images and partially hidden objects because …
Role Of The Van1 Mannosyltransferase In Candida Albicans Protein Glycosylation, Justin Gino Dasilva
Role Of The Van1 Mannosyltransferase In Candida Albicans Protein Glycosylation, Justin Gino Dasilva
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
The outer layer of the cell wall of Candida albicans contains glycoproteins made up of mannose-rich glycans that are critical for host-fungal interactions, including adhesion, virulence, and drug resistance. Asparagine (N)-linked glycans are added to a core oligosaccharide by mannosyltransferases in the Golgi to create the long outer chain α1,6-linked mannose “backbone” that branches with α1,2-, α1,3-, and β1,2- linked mannoses. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the mannosyltransferases responsible for these modifications have been well studied and characterized. Orthologs of these mannosyltransferases have been identified in C.albicans and in this study we examine VAN1, a mannosyltransferase that acts very early in elongation …
Development Of Novel Synthetic Strategies For Carbon-Carbon And Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation, Katarzyna Natalia Lee
Development Of Novel Synthetic Strategies For Carbon-Carbon And Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation, Katarzyna Natalia Lee
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
Carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond-forming reactions lie at the heart of synthetic organic chemistry. They allow construction of complex molecular frameworks and introduction of new substituents. Despite the tremendous progress in the area over the past decades, there has been a growing demand for development of novel methods to construct C–C and C–X bonds under mild and eco-compatible reaction conditions. In order to form a new C–C bond without using stoichiometric amounts of toxic and unstable reagents, we developed a photocatalytic protocol for the coupling between alkenylpyridines and carbonyl derivatives with a Lewis acid co-catalyst. Our synergistic catalytic system facilitates the …
The Calcium Dependence Of Glycopolymer-Induced In Vitro Acrosome Reaction, Ye Zhang
The Calcium Dependence Of Glycopolymer-Induced In Vitro Acrosome Reaction, Ye Zhang
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
Sperm acrosomal exocytosis plays an important role in mammalian fertilization. This exocytosis process can be triggered by a subset of terminal carbohydrate residues on the zona pellucida around the mouse egg. Although acrosomal exocytosis (AE) has been successfully induced in vitro using purified mouse zona pellucida protein, the mechanism of AE is unclear. Previous studies in the Sampson laboratory used a series of glycopolymers that mimic the sugars displayed by the zona pellucida and applied these polymers in an in vitro acrosome assay. The Ca2+-selective ion channel subunits (CatSper) were thought to be the essential ion channel for regulating Ca2+ …
Bayesian Filtering Estimation Of Statistical Dynamic Factor Model, Yu Mu
Bayesian Filtering Estimation Of Statistical Dynamic Factor Model, Yu Mu
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
Statistical factor analysis has been widely used in many areas of investment science such as risk management, portfolio selection, trading strategies, ect.. This dissertation mainly investigates the estimation of dynamic factor model in the Bayesian framework, using the techniques of particle filter with online parameter learning such as marginalized particle filter and particle learning. We also compare our results with the offline conventional method such as Kalman filter combined with EM algorithm in root mean squared error criterion. In the real data analysis, regime switching or structure break in the factor structure will make the estimation of static model difficult …
A Library Operating System For Compatibility, Chia-Che Tsai
A Library Operating System For Compatibility, Chia-Che Tsai
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
Compatibility challenges occur when sharing an application across system interfaces such as Linux and Windows APIs, or reusing an application on a disruptive hardware such as Intel SGX. Existing approaches require either exhaustively porting applications to new APIs or preserving all previous APIs for backward compatibility. Since both approaches are time-consuming, developers urgently need a solution to the compatibility issues on innovative OSes or hardware, to promptly benefit average users. This thesis demonstrates a library OS approach for reusing unmodified applications on a new OS or hardware. The approach starts with defining a host ABI which is simple to port …
Studies In Experimental Population Genetics Of Drosophila Melanogaster, Spencer Arran Koury
Studies In Experimental Population Genetics Of Drosophila Melanogaster, Spencer Arran Koury
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
Population genetics is a model based science with three complementary approaches: theoretical, empirical, and experimental. The last of these employs complex experimental designs to directly estimate model parameters or, when possible, tests causal hypotheses through direct manipulation. Building on the long tradition of experimental population genetics in Drosophila species I propose new mechanisms in evolution of chromosomal rearrangements (Chapters 1-3) and then describe a series of experiments directly testing the role of metabolic genes in temperate adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster (Chapters 4-6). In phylogenetic series of gene arrangements, younger chromosomal inversions tend to be distal to older inversions. After Chapter …
Hermit-Neutics: Textualism In H. D. Thoreau's Walden, Eleftherios Mastronikolas
Hermit-Neutics: Textualism In H. D. Thoreau's Walden, Eleftherios Mastronikolas
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
According to Joseph North’s Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History, the titular discipline is today the site of a hegemonic historicist/contextualist practice. It ascended to this hegemony by edging out a different literary practice, what I call textualism, first thought through by the New Critics but also yoked by them to religious themes. North argues that since historicism/contextualism transforms literary criticism into a site of knowledge production and the commodification of literature as part of the “neoliberalization” of the university, the time has come to return to textualist practice so as to combat this trend, if only at a discursive …
The "Narrative Impulse" And Literary Intervention In The Public Science Discourse, Lauren Kilian
The "Narrative Impulse" And Literary Intervention In The Public Science Discourse, Lauren Kilian
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
My dissertation examines diverse perspectives that literary authors, popular science writers, and academics bring to bear on the question of who can contribute to public science discourse. That discourse has a vexed history; it inherits assumptions of incompatibility from debates about a “Two Cultures” divide, and has been the battleground of the “Science Wars” between scientists and cultural theorists. I move beyond discord and valuation, in favor of a “participatory model,” where both scientists and nonscientists promote the scientific literacy of the lay public. My project juxtaposes popular science alongside literature, which illuminates narrative's alternately constructive and destructive role in …
Adaptive Search Algorithms For Simulation Optimization In Discrete And Continuous Domains, Qi Fan
Adaptive Search Algorithms For Simulation Optimization In Discrete And Continuous Domains, Qi Fan
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
This thesis includes some newly-proposed adaptive search algorithms for simulation optimization in discrete and continuous domains. We first consider the ranking and selection problem of allocating a given simulation budget among a set of design alternatives in order to maximize the probability of correct selection. Previous research used to take static approaches to allocate certain number of simulation budget on different designs, i.e. pre-calculating the allocation plan before simulation, and among them, sequential optimal computing budget allocation (OCBA) shows the best allocation efficiency so far. Our approach, Dynamic Simulation Budget Allocation (DSBA), allocates this sampling budget dynamically by formulating this …
Diet Analysis Of Loggerhead Sea Turtles In New York Waters, Julia Donaton
Diet Analysis Of Loggerhead Sea Turtles In New York Waters, Julia Donaton
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
This thesis examines the diet of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in New York between 1995 – 2014 using stomach contents analysis. Loggerheads are one of four sea turtle species that occur in the temperate waters of New York during summer months. Estuaries of Long Island provide foraging habitat for juvenile loggerheads from June to November. In order to quantify loggerhead diet, I examined individual and inter-annual variation in the stomach contents of 123 individual turtles that stranded along Long Island. Prey items were identified to the lowest possible taxonomic level, and the minimum number of prey items was assessed …
The Role Of Hemocytes In The Early Interactions Between The Oyster Crassostrea Virginica And Its Alveolate Parasite Perkinsus Marinus, Yuk-Ting Lau
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
The eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, is an economically- and ecologically-valuable species. Both commercial fisheries and ecological services are impacted by disease-associated mortality. Perkinsosis, caused by the protozoan parasite Perkinsus marinus, is one of the major diseases that cause mass mortalities. This dissertation aimed to investigate the role of oyster blood cells (hemocytes) in P. marinus infection. Hemocytes associated with mucosal surfaces lining the pallial (shell) cavity were characterized through functional assays and cell surface epitope labeling in conjunction with flow cytometry. Bi-directional transit of hemocytes across mucosal pallial epithelia was also evaluated using flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy. In-vitro studies …
Ice Nucleation Potential And Chemical Composition Of Laboratory-Generated And Field-Collected Organic Particles, Joseph Charnawskas
Ice Nucleation Potential And Chemical Composition Of Laboratory-Generated And Field-Collected Organic Particles, Joseph Charnawskas
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
Ice particles are ubiquitous in the atmosphere, either coexisting with supercooled water droplets in mixed-phase clouds or existing as the sole inhabitant of cirrus clouds. Aerosol particles act as heterogeneous ice nucleating particles (INPs) and influence ice crystal formation, affecting both cloud radiative properties and climate. Heterogeneous ice nucleation is not a well understood process and is cause for great uncertainty in climate models. Organic aerosol is ubiquitous in the atmosphere. However, the effect organic aerosols on ice nucleation is not well established. This thesis investigates the propensity of organic aerosol to form ice. Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles generated …
Development Of Next Generation Of Nano-Catalysts Prepared By Novel Methods For Environmental And Energy Applications, Qiyuan Wu
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
Supported metal nanoparticles (NPs) catalysts play a critical role in modern chemical industries. Catalytic performance of supported metal NPs, including activity, selectivity, and stability, is influenced by many different factors. These factors include properties of NPs and support materials. In the first part of this project, supported Rh nanocatalysts were produced by a novel doping-segregation method. Different ex-situ and in-situ characterization techniques were utilized to systematically investigate the doping-segregation process in order to gain fundamental knowledge on this phenomenon. This knowledge was employed to produce supported Rh nanocatalysts with outstanding catalytic performance. In the second part of this project, supported …
Engineering Of Semiconductor Photocatalysts For Solar Water Splitting, Danhua Yan
Engineering Of Semiconductor Photocatalysts For Solar Water Splitting, Danhua Yan
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
Driven by a strong desire for clean and renewable fuel, effective methods of hydrogen production have been sought after for a long time. Solar water splitting within a photoelectrochemical (PEC) cell has been one of the most promising methods. The key component of a PEC cell, the semiconductor photoelectrode, is responsible for carrier generation through light absorption, which initiates redox reactions in water to produce hydrogen and oxygen. An optimal photoelectrode is believed to meet these requirements: a small semiconductor bandgap for visible solar light absorption, suitable band positions that straddle the water re-dox potentials, and high conversion efficiency of …
Improved Methodology Of Dna Fragmentation Using Micro-Patterned Pdms Stamps To Apply Cutting Enzymes, Donald Liu
Improved Methodology Of Dna Fragmentation Using Micro-Patterned Pdms Stamps To Apply Cutting Enzymes, Donald Liu
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
The development of sequencing since the Human Genome Project has greatly advanced. Current Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) platforms can produce more cost-effective sequencing in a shorter amount of time by using massively parallel sequencers. However, current NGS platforms have limitations in that only DNA fragments of size 100-300 bases may be analyzed. When producing these fragments of DNA, the positional order is often lost due to random fragmentation. Additionally, with repeats, insertions, and deletions of the genome, it further complicates the construction of contigs. Although companies such as Pacific Biosciences have developed longer-read technologies which sequences longer fragments (10 kilobases), …
Food From Stein, Christopher Kovarik
Food From Stein, Christopher Kovarik
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
The genesis of Food from Stein was a commission from an ensemble in Vancouver, British Columbia. While that concert ultimately did not take place, it nonetheless dictated the instrumentation of the piece: flute, viola, harp and voice. This genesis also informed the structure of the piece. The commission required that the work reflect the concept of biodiversity (the performance was to occur in the Beatty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia). I chose to do this by using the theory of evolution to determine the work’s basic structure. Sections would be longer at the beginning and become shorter …
New Masses Magazine And The Birth Of A New World: Illustrating A Revolution, Stephanie Desimone
New Masses Magazine And The Birth Of A New World: Illustrating A Revolution, Stephanie Desimone
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
This thesis takes as its central object of analysis The Birth of a New World – A Cooperative Tribute, an illustration spread featured in the November 1926 issue of New Masses, a notable leftist magazine in the United States during the interwar period of the 1920’s and 1930’s. As a collaborative piece by the artists Hugo Gellert, William Gropper, I. Klein, Louis Lozowick and William Siegel, this illustration demonstrates how a model for artistic collaboration and a collective vision for an alternative society emerged during this period by drawing inspirations from political and artistic revolutions elsewhere. One such source was …
When The Signals Come Home, Jordan E. Franklin
When The Signals Come Home, Jordan E. Franklin
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
“When the Signals Come Home” is a hybrid poetry and prose collection in which I explore complex familial bonds alongside race, gender, culture and community. A majority of the pieces in the manuscript are ekphrastic poems inspired by music, art, film, mythology and literature. The poems, in turn, are broken up by brief memoir pieces, or “interludes.” There are three books that I credit with inspiring the overall conception of the book. They are: 1. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine, which also demonstrates a blending of forms. 2. Boy With Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis uses ekphrastic poetry to …
Elusive Numbers. State Knowledge And Bureaucratic Organization In Chile (1750-1911), Andres Estefane-Jaramillo
Elusive Numbers. State Knowledge And Bureaucratic Organization In Chile (1750-1911), Andres Estefane-Jaramillo
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
This dissertation explores the trajectory of the Chilean State’s statistical projects from the mid-eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. It begins in a moment when the scientific concerns of the Enlightenment dovetailed with the State’s demand for knowledge after the dissolution of the Spanish Empire. It analyzes the construction of a specialized bureaucracy entrusted with the mission of producing the statistical information the Chilean State required for effective government. Due to the relational and spatial implications of producing official numbers, these inquiries opened up permanent spaces of interaction between the central institutions and the administrative peripheries of …
Big Picture, Karl Hinze
Big Picture, Karl Hinze
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
Big Picture is a contemporary Broadway-style musical comedy with a story adapted from Claudio Monteverdi’s 1643 opera L’incoronazione di Poppea (“The Coronation of Poppea”). Monteverdi’s opera is a story of lust, power, and corruption, set in the imperial Roman Empire. The opera follows the love affair of Emperor Nero and his mistress Poppea as they conspire to banish Nero’s wife, the empress Ottavia, and crown Poppea queen. Meanwhile, Ottone, who is also in love with Poppea, becomes wrapped up in the empress’s plan to have Poppea killed. In this adaptation, with a book by Susan Murray and lyrics by Patrick …
Please See, Caitlin Mullen
Please See, Caitlin Mullen
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
“Please See” is a work of literary fiction and is partially based on a cold case from 2007, when the bodies of four prostitutes were found in a drainage easement in the salt marsh behind an Atlantic City motel. I’ve set the novel over the course of one summer in Atlantic City in 2016, when the city is in the throes of a deep recession, still struggling to recover from the damage wrought by Storm Sandy, and dealing with the constant devastation brought on by the influx of heroin in town. The book reimagines the murders through the eyes of …
Ancestral Bellows: Sound Art At The End Of The Anthropocene, Paul Thomas Rubery
Ancestral Bellows: Sound Art At The End Of The Anthropocene, Paul Thomas Rubery
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
This thesis examines recent theories of sound art and ecoacoustics, with an emphasis on object-oriented ontologies and new materialism. Following Timothy Morton’s suggestion that, toward the end of the Anthropocene, subjects are implicated in object systems that are non-local, temporally protracted, and viscous, it explores the deployment of sonic resonances to structure an encounter with the nonhuman cosmos. In keeping with the critique of Western ocularcentrism, which prioritizes vision over other sense modalities in epistemic claims, it argues that a materialist rhythmicity, or a manipulation of exhibitionary or auditory limits, introduces radical materialist and structural alterity to the spectatorial subject. …
Adopting The Principles Of Universal Design Into International And Global Studies’ Programs And Curriculum, Kimberley Brown, Rosa David, Shawn Smallman
Adopting The Principles Of Universal Design Into International And Global Studies’ Programs And Curriculum, Kimberley Brown, Rosa David, Shawn Smallman
International & Global Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
The ideals of universal design have profoundly impacted instruction, policy, and infrastructure in course architecture and design within elementary education and at some universities. Within international and global studies, however, these principles have not deeply affected either pedagogy or scholarship despite the fact that classes in international studies may include more international students and third culture kids than classes in other programs. Instead, in North America (as well as in much of Latin America and Europe), the current pedagogical model calls for students either to develop strategies on their own to succeed in class or to self-identify with documented disabilities …
Cmss Colloquium | Shift Current In Twodimensional Ferroelectrics, Dec. 7, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences
Cmss Colloquium | Shift Current In Twodimensional Ferroelectrics, Dec. 7, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences
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Physics Colloquium | Measuring Correlated Structural Distributions In Non-Crystalline Materials With Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Dec. 8, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences
Physics Colloquium | Measuring Correlated Structural Distributions In Non-Crystalline Materials With Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Dec. 8, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences
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Shale Innovation Project Webinar Severance Taxes Wealth Retention In Shale Country, Dec. 6, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences
Shale Innovation Project Webinar Severance Taxes Wealth Retention In Shale Country, Dec. 6, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences
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