Dual-phase (DP) steels have been widely applied in automobile industry, and are famous for continuous yielding in their corresponding stress-strain curves. The appearance of yield-point phenomena, or discontinuous yielding, is considered undesirable for DP steels. Herein, we take advantage of the undesirable appearance of yield-point phenomena in DP steels as...
This dissertation examines the role of the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, created in 1817, in shaping the practice of colonial agriculture in the Netherlands East Indies. It explores how Buitenzorg and its surrounding highland environs were an ideal place for botanical investigations and agricultural experimentation. The initial task of the...
Liquid 3He is the paradigm system for studying exotic quantum mechanical phenomena observed in nature. The normal state of 3He is a strongly-correlated Fermi liquid with strong ferromagnetic spin fluctuations. However, as we cool 3He down to T = 0K, we find something fascinating and unexpected. This exotic fluid remains...
In the absence of any significant federal policy to mitigate climate change, many (though not all) U.S. states have stepped in to fill the void. But the policies these states have adopted vary considerably in their quality. For example, California’s economy-wide greenhouse gas policy was significantly stronger than Massachusetts’, which...
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, progressive disease associated with physical, financial, and psychological burdens. Depression and anxiety, common comorbidities, are associated with poor outcomes including worse disease course, higher disability, decreased health related quality of life and reduced medication adherence. Prevention of psychological comorbidities and promotion of well-being...
This dissertation considers a rich and diverse material record pertaining to the dynamic between art and the relic treasury in the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire from c. 1100 into the sixteenth century. Across this broad period and region—and even well beyond—real and imagined collections of relics...
Recently, a myriad of applications take advantage of deep learning methods to solve regression/classification problems. Although deep neural networks have shown powerful learning capability, many deep learning applications suffer from the extremely time-consuming training of the neural networks. In order to reduce the training time, researchers usually consider parallel training...
My dissertation identifies the causes of inequality traps - i.e., high and persistent levels of economic inequality - in Latin America and explains how and why some countries manage to escape such traps and embark on paths of diminishing inequality. I argue that the Redistributive State Power shapes the main...
This dissertation examines the effects of phase transfers with thiol ligands on the optical properties of quantum dots (QDs) in water by investigating two systems: i) dihydrolipoic acid (DHLA)-capped PbS QDs and ii) thiolated DNA-capped core/shell CdSe/CdS QDs. QDs are bright, monodisperse, and tunable hydrophobic nanoparticles with high photoluminescence (PL)...
The objective of this dissertation is to examine the mutually constitutive relationship between historiography, collective memory, and cultural narratives in the representation of the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) in present-day France and Algeria. Taking the turn of the twenty-first century as its point of departure, this study analyzes modern...