The acid-catalyzed conversion of biomass-derived molecules into value-added chemicals requires a detailed understanding of the pathways governing selectivity, stability of the catalyst, and degradation of products/reactants. ...

Crowdsourced clustering aims to partition n items into K clusters using noisy human input. This thesis explores both active and passive approaches to this challenge. For active crowdsourced clustering using pairwise queries ...

Rotational stocking may reduce weed populations in pastures. However, this effect is dependent on management practices such as the length of stocking and rest periods and grazing pressure, which in turn affect animal ...

Social media and narcissism are closely linked during adolescence, a period when teenagers often seek validation and connection online—factors that play a critical role in their well-being. This study examined whether ...

In recent years efforts have been underway to improve accident tolerance of Light Water Reactor (LWR) components in loss of coolant accident (LOCA) scenarios. The primary focus thus far has been on the development of ...

Water quality is critical to lake ecosystem and human health. Increasingly, long term water quality data is becoming available which enables new modes of understanding water quality dynamics. Limnology has, as a field, ...

From a learning sciences perspective, this paper explores concreteness fading (Fyfe & Nathan, 2018) as a theory of instruction designed for facilitating cognitive grounding (Glenberg, de Vega, & Graesser, 2008) in academic ...