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Pupil-indexed arousal level dynamics during sleep and overnight changes in performance fatigability
(2024)If a lifetime were spent searching for the elixir of life, it would be overlooked every single night. Our mind and body spend one-third of our lives bathed in the elixir, restoring, regenerating, and consolidating the memories of our time spent away from it, all for the betterment of our mental health and our survival. The elixir is simply called sleep, but it is a complex, multidimensional continuum of brain and body states that dynamically ...Doctoral Thesis -
Improving ultracold neutron statistics for the n2EDM experiment
(2024)The n2EDM experiment, currently being commissioned at the UCN source at the Paul Scherrer Institute, aims to search for the neutron electric dipole moment (nEDM) with a sensitivity of 1.1 × 10^−27 e ⋅ cm. This requires improving both the statistical and the systematic uncertainties, compared to the previous experiment. The n2EDM experiment is a Ramsey experiment with ultracold neutrons (UCN). The statistical sensitivity depends on the ...Doctoral Thesis -
Beyond cell cycle control – the G1/S network regulates mitochondrial maintenance and mtDNA stability
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Enabling Rich Lightweight Verification of Rust Software
(2024)Rust is a novel programming language that is rapidly gaining adoption in the software industry thanks to its performance and safety properties. Among its strengths, Rust's type system is designed to detect at compile time certain kinds of memory-related bugs, such as dangling pointers and null dereferences. However, the language does not aim to detect functional errors; how to do this efficiently is in general an open topic in the field ...Doctoral Thesis -
Synthetic Strategies for Accessing Phosphorus-containing Polyesters
(2024)The work herein presented pertains synthetic strategies to access phosphorus-functionalized lactones and their use for production of polyesters via ring opening polymerization (ROP). Due to the literature scarcity in this area, we developed from the ground up an easy methodology for obtaining phosphorus-functionalized lactones via the phospha-Michael addition of secondary phosphine oxides and α, β-unsaturated lactones. A series of ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Cloud microphysical research using UAVs and glaciogenic cloud seeding: Aerosol plumes, rotor icing, and ice nucleation
(2024)Understanding microphysical processes in clouds is vital for our overall understanding of weather and climate. The ice phase in particular is important for precipitation, as most global precipitation occurs through the ice phase. The formation of ice crystals in clouds at temperatures warmer than -38°C requires aerosols that act as ice-nucleating particles (INPs), which are rare. Then, ice crystals can grow through vapor deposition, riming, ...Doctoral Thesis -
The assessment of rising and lying down behaviours of dairy cows in cubicle housing systems with regard to animal welfare
(2024)In cubicle housing systems for dairy cows, the lying area is divided into individual lying places called lying cubicles. In these cubicles, contamination of the bedding is limited to reduce resource and labour costs and to promote animal hygiene and health. However, lying cubicle design restricts cow behaviour and limits their freedom of movement. This can be particularly problematic as cows rise to the standing position and lie down ...Doctoral Thesis -
From Financial Bubbles to Extreme Events: Econometric and Statistical Methods
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High Order Extended Finite Element Methods for Wave Propagation in Damaged Media
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Data-Driven Modeling of the Temperature- and Rate- Dependent Large Deformation Behavior of Polypropylene
(2024)Polypropylene is a thermoplastics polymer that have seen growing usage for structural applications in industries such as the automotive sector. Its mechanical behavior under large deformation is characterized by a strong influence of the temperature and rate of deformation, which makes it challenging to model. Many constitutive formulations have been established to describe its salient features: some based on sound physical descriptions ...Doctoral Thesis -
Group-I-alloyed kesterite thin film solar cells with high process robustness
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