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Machine learning approach for relating conjugated polymer conformation to location of the exciton.
(2017)This project was completed with contributions from Lena Simine, Thomas Allen, and Peter Rossky from the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University. -
Machine Learning to Analyze fMRI Brain Activity Recordings
(2019-05-07)In recent years, data-driven machine learning (ML) algorithms have seen increased use to study brain activity fMRI time series. Giving mathematical solutions by constructing quantitative models has proved to be a reliable ... -
Macroeconomic Effects of Consumption versus Income Taxes
(12.2018)This paper adds to the empirical literature on the effects of tax structure on investment with a panel data analysis of up to 120 countries from 1980 to 2015. Specifically, this paper uses the relative percentage between ... -
Macrophages in Corneal Epithelial Wound Healing
(2019-09-16)Purpose: After corneal epithelial injury, the ensuing inflammatory response is necessary for efficient wound healing. While beneficial healing effects are attributed to recruited neutrophils and platelets, little is known ... -
Magnetic Hammer Actuation for Tissue Penetration using a Millirobot
(IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8/15/2017)Untethered magnetic navigation of millirobots within a human body using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner is a promising technology for minimally invasive surgery or drug delivery. Because MRI scanners have a large ... -
Magnetic Slippery Extreme Icephobic Surfaces
(2017)Here we report new magnetic slippery surfaces outperforming state-of-the-art icephobic surfaces with a ice formation temperature of 34 C, 2–3 orders of magnitude higher delay time in ice formation, extremely low ice adhesion ... -
MAGNETIC, SUPERCONDUCTING AND TOPOLOGICAL ORDERS IN IRON-BASED t2g SYSTEM
(2014-05)Iron-based superconductors (FeSCs) are a class set of high-temperature supercon- ductor (HTS) based on different crystal structure and pairing symmetry from the Cu- based HTS. The world’s physicists, chemists and scientists ... -
Magnetic, Superconducting Orders and Impurity Effect in 122 Iron-Pnictides
(2015-05)Iron-based high temperature superconductors (HTS) were discovered in 2008; many experimental and theoretical studies have been initiated since then. Driven by several interesting experiments and based on a phenomenological ... -
Magnetoelectromechanical Coupling Mechanisms in Soft Materials
(August 201)Soft materials are everywhere around and inside us. Because of their abundance, low cost and ease of fabrication along with interesting physical properties, they have numerous promising applications such as artificial ... -
Magnetotransport Studies on Topological Insulators
(2015-10-28)The present work describes the magnetotransport studies of topological-surface state (SS) in metallic topological compounds. We have chosen three different classes of topological insulators, Bi2Se2.1Te0.9 (BST), Bi2Te3 ... -
Maintaining a Satisfying Marriage: A Narrative Analysis of Communication Skills, Stories, and Meanings in Marriage Education
(2010-12)In this study I explore how FamilyLife, a Christian organization committed to marriage education, stories marriage and the communicative behaviors that are emphasized. I completed a review of the current communication ... -
Maintaining Legacy Metadata in CONTENTdm: The Metadata Upgrade Project at the University of Houston
(2015-02-12)To ensure robust, reliable, retrievable and sharable metadata, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries initiated a Metadata Upgrade Project in 2013 to systematically audit and refine the quality of the metadata in the ... -
Major centers of motion in the large ribosomal RNAs
(Nucleic Acids Research, 4/13/2015)Major centers of motion in the rRNAs of Thermus thermophilus are identified by alignment of crystal structures of EF-G bound and EF-G unbound ribosomal subunits. Small rigid helices upstream of these ‘pivots’ are aligned, ... -
MAKING AUSTRIAN: CULTURAL MEMORY, NATIONALISM, AND PERFORMING IDENTITY POLITICS IN LATE IMPERIAL VIENNA
(2016-05)Since Carl Schorske’s seminal Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, an explosion of scholarship has focused on the capital city’s years leading to the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s collapse. While the veritable Petrie dish of nationalism in ... -
Making evidence-based collection development feasible: Using R coding to automate analysis for action
(2016)Collection development practitioners face a complicated publishing environment with many new and developing purchasing models. Even with the new models in development, approval plans and firms orders are still commonly ... -
Making Space: The Case for Amatory Fiction
(2019-09-12)This dissertation explores amatory fiction as a genre significant to English literary history. I ground the study of amatory fiction in literary history, specifically exploring the ways that amatory fiction participates ... -
Malicious Apps May Exploit Smartphone's Vulnerabilities to Detect User Activities
(2017-04-25)In order to make apps functional, mobile operating systems, such as Android, allow applications to access some system data without asking for user permission. We demonstrate that by analyzing these system data and some ... -
Managerial Overconfidence and Bank Loan Contracting
(August 201)I study the effect of managerial overconfidence on bank loan contracting. I find empirical evidence supporting that overconfidence as a personal trait of borrowing firm’s manager impacts loan contracting terms. Specifically, ... -
Managing Role Boundaries with Low Value Congruence: An Examination of Work-to-Family Conflict, Conscientiousness, and Unethical Work Behavior Intentions
(2016-12)This study investigated the impact of segmentation/integration value congruence on work interference with family (WIF) and how WIF may influence employees’ intentions to engage in unethical work behavior (UWB). The scarcity ...