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Cornell Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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ENABLING STABLE LITHIUM NUCLEATION AND GROWTH VIA CROSSLINKED POLYMER ELECTROLYTES AND ELECTRODE/ELECTROLYTE INTERPHASES
(2021-05)The rapid rise of electric drive vehicles has accelerated research aimed at developing energy storage technologies with high gravimetric and volumetric energy densities. Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) are considered ... -
WRITING ROADS: WORKER STORYTELLING, KARMIC HAUNTING, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF CONSTRUCTION IN CHINA
(2020-08)On the edge of a sparsely-populated area in China’s countryside, a young worker with an excavator was shoving an unclaimed corpse out of the way of a highway under construction. Afraid of being seen by the nearby villagers, ... -
Group Versus Individual Variations in the Narrative Content of College Student Autobiographical Memories
(2022-08)Autobiographical memories (AM) are a subset of memories that pertain specifically to events in an individual’s own past. Using simple predictor models, this paper perturbed the narrative content of 117 Cornell students’ ... -
Self-Timed Length-Adaptive Arithmetic
(2020-12)Diminishing returns in technology scaling has motivated a resurgence of exploration into new computer architectures. While Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Arrays show promise in accelerating commonly used complex operations, ... -
Alternative Antimicrobial Agents Against Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria
(2022-08)The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is outpacing the discovery and development of new antibiotics, and this phenomenon poses a global health crisis and exemplifies the need to develop alternative antibacterial ... -
Chain Scissionable Resists Based on Poly(acetal) Motif for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
(2022-12)Scissionable polymers are polymers that will depolymerize under different stimuli including acid, base, and free radicals. These polymers have been investigated in the development of photoresists and other degradable ... -
Advances in Sparse and Bayesian Optimization for Autonomous Scientific Discovery
(2022-12)Scientists are increasingly leveraging modern computational methods for the analysis of experimental data and the design of new experiments in order to enable and accelerate scientific progress. Particularly valuable to ... -
Do Formal Workers Use Informal Search Methods? Investigating Labor Search in Mexico.
(2022-12)This study examines how formal sector employment affects the worker’s job search methods in Mexico. It studies how each worker and workplace characteristic is associated with the probability of using each job search method ... -
Sustainable thinking in a digital era
(2022-12)This essay explores current environmental problems within the context of the digital age. By using several studios and elective works in MS.AAD program at Cornell as case studies, the essay connects environmental issues ... -
Time in the minds of Spaniards and Moroccans: Evidence from spontaneous gestures
(2022-12)People use space to conceptualize time, but the specifics of the space-time mappings in people’s minds vary across cultures. Here we investigated whether people with different reading and writing systems in their native ...
