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To my wife Raji, for always being there when it mattered the most Acknowledgments Getting a Ph.D. is incredibly hard, and I could not have done it without the help and support of many people. First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisor, Paul Wilson, who originally encouraged me to transfer from the master's program to the doctoral program. Over the last six years, I have learned many l...

(NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the nation's measurement and standards infrastructure. ITL develops tests, test methods, reference data, proof of concept implementations, and technical analysis to advance the development and productive use of information technology. ITL's responsibilities include the development of technical, physical, a...

By Mudita Singhal, Ph.D. Washington State University December 2007 Chair: John H. Miller The response of biological systems to external stimuli is ruled by their cellular interaction networks. This makes the problem of inferring cellular interaction networks essential to decipher the basic operational principles of biological systems. Knowing which proteins exist in a certain organism or cell t...

Two important optimization problems in the analysis of geometric data sets are clustering and sketching. Here, clustering refers to the problem of partitioning some input metric measure space into k clusters, minimizing some objective function f . Sketching, on the other hand, is the problem of approximating some metric measure space by a smaller one supported on a set of k points. Specifically...

The web is a vast repository of knowledge, but automatically extracting that knowledge, at scale, has proven to be a formidable challenge. A number of recent evaluation efforts have focused on automatic knowledge base population (Ji, Grishman, and Dang 2011; Artiles and Mayfield 2012), and many well-known broad domain and open information extraction systems exist, including the Never-Ending Lan...

We study the complexity of geometric problems on spaces of low fractal dimension. It was recently shown by [Sidiropoulos & Sridhar, SoCG 2017] that several problems admit improved solutions when the input is a pointset in Euclidean space with fractal dimension smaller than the ambient dimension. In this paper we prove nearly-matching lower bounds, thus establishing nearly-optimal bounds for var...

As already elaborated in the previous chapters of this volume, serious games have been acclaimed for playing an increasingly important role in learning, psychological development, and social change (see Ratan & Ritterfeld, this volume, chapter 2; Ritterfeld, Cody, & Vorderer, this volume, chapter 1). Serious games represent the effort to facilitate education through digital entertainment media,...

To cite: Chandra P, Gangawe A, Singhal D, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015213484 DESCRIPTION A 12-year-old girl presented with a history of repeated headaches (with no ocular symptoms) for 3 years. There was no history of ocular trauma or surgery. On ocular examination elsewhere, she was diagnosed as having intravitreal cysticercosis aft...