The Human Immunodeficiency Virus -1 (HIV-1) has been the source of
substantial human misery since it was first discovered in the early 1980s.
Despite remarkable progress that has been made towards understanding HIV-
1, there is no cure, no vaccine and life-prolonging therapies are beyond the
reach of millions in...
Gut microbiota plays an essential role in health and diseases, a fact already established. With the explosive increase in obesity and its main complication, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2D), there is an immediate need for novel methods of diagnosis, prevention and treatment of these conditions. In the last one and...
Artificial Intelligence has gained resurgence in popularity through machine learning methods. This thesis investigates the current use of AI, the impact it will have on the economy and the ethical considerations for developing this technology. In the coming decade AI could increase global economic output over $10 Trillion. AI will...
The NASA Ames Mars general circulation and boundary layer models are used as guides to forecast the meteorological environment of the Pathfinder lander site. Based on these models we predict that for a Viking-like atmospheric dust loading, significant vertical wave structure will be seen in the entry temperature profile above...
Humans and viral disease are inextricably intertwined. Viral disease plays an immeasurable role in human life, from the disease and economic burden associated with every facet of contending with human viral disease, to managing the consequences of viral disease in organisms important to our food supply, economy, and entertainment. The...
Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV), bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) and bovine parainfluenza virus Type 3 (BPI3) are ubiquitous respiratory pathogens of cattle, which contribute to causation of bovine respiratory disease complex. As these respiratory viral pathogens cause very similar clinical symptoms, differential diagnosis of the pathogens is required in one...
Pseudocapillaria tomentosa is a nematode that parasitizes Danio rerio, causing major disease that affects the economic commodities of fish industries and destroys experimental results at research facilities. There is a critical need for a rapid and sensitive diagnostic assay to test for P. tomentosa in D. rerio populations. PCR primers...
Spectrum overcrowding, ever increasing demand for high data rate and increased mobility requirements are three major challenges 5G-technology is trying to address. In this thesis I start with a RF front-end technique that deals with blocker interference arising from spectrum overcrowding both across frequency bands and within the same frequency...
There are a number of well known techniques for extracting parallelism from a
given program. They range from hardware implementations, building restructuring
compilers or reorganizing of programs so as to specify all the available parallelism. The
success rate of any of the known techniques is rather poor over all types...