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New insights into rapid magnetic phrenic nerve stimulation: optimization for transition into the ICU
(2024)In the intensive-care-unit (ICU), mechanical ventilation is often needed in the event of respiratory failure in a variety of patients with underlying pathophysiologies. Although mechanical ventilation serves to promote gas exchange and ultimately save lives, it is not without its own limitations. One such limitation includes ventilator induced-lung injury (VILI), which is characterized by lung tissue damage and inflammation as a result ...Doctoral Thesis -
Bioinspired suction patches for the transbuccal delivery of macromolecular drugs
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2D and 3D Generative Models under Real-World Constraints
(2024)Recent advancements in generative modeling have transformed visual content creation, showing tremendous promise in several applications in Computer Vision and Graphics. However, the adoption of generative models in everyday tasks is hindered by challenges in controllability of the generation process, data requirements, and computational demands. This thesis focuses on addressing such real-world constraints in 2D and 3D generative ...Doctoral Thesis -
Noise-Efficient Circuits and Systems for Biomedical and Environmental Sensing Applications
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Motor-Integrated Three-Phase Multi-Level Si/GaN Inverter Systems for Future Servo Drives
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Enabling Efficient and Scalable DRAM Read Disturbance Mitigation via New Experimental Insights into Modern DRAM Chips
(2024)Improvements in main memory storage density are primarily driven by technology node scaling, which causes DRAM cell size and cell-to-cell distance to reduce significantly. Unfortunately, technology scaling negatively impacts the reliability of DRAM chips by exacerbating DRAM read disturbance, i.e., accessing a row of DRAM cells can cause bitflips in data stored in other physically nearby DRAM rows. DRAM read disturbance 1) can be reliably ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Linear-Rotary Drive System for Novel Valveless Implantable Pulsatile Total Artificial Heart
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An Odyssey Through Political Space and Time: Tracing 130 Years of Swiss Legislative Work Through Computational Approaches
(2024)This thesis marks a significant advancement in the quantitative examination of the Swiss Parliament. By examining over 130 years of legislative work of the Swiss Federal Assembly, this work stands as the most comprehensive study conducted to date. Central to this thesis is the development of the DemocraSci relational graph database, a comprehensive database of over a century's Swiss parliamentary activities, ranging from 1891 to the ...Doctoral Thesis -
From Interactions to Persistence: A Multi-Level Perspective on Group Dynamics
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Magnetic Levitation Platform Featuring an Exceptionally Large Levitation Distance
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Redox Promoted Reactivity of Bimetallic Rhodium and Iridium Complexes with Non-Innocent Ligands
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Unterzuglose Decken
(2023)This research examines the shifts in scientific-technological work in reinforced concrete in the beginning of the 20th century provoked against the backdrop of the emergence, development, transformation and replacement of flat slabs. I an unclean, non-linear process and through multiple intermediate steps flat slabs emancipated themselves from conceptually one-dimensional girder structures and frameworks, without being at first fully ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Improving Network Failure Detection and Recovery with Programmable Data Planes
(2024)Since its creation, the Internet has grown exponentially in size and use cases, becoming an integral part of our society. Its seamless operation is often taken for granted; we only recognize its importance when disruptions occur. The current Internet’s complexity and scale make it prone to all sorts of failures, with each minute of downtime costing companies millions of dollars and damaging their reputation. In this thesis, we address ...Doctoral Thesis