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Perturbation Theory for Steady-State Laplacian Models of Biological Systems
(2017)A fundamental problem in fields such as systems biology and pharmacology is to determine how biological systems change their dose-response behaviour upon external or natural perturbations. A comprehensive understanding of this relation through the effects of topologies, reactions, and parameters on the response is invaluable when designing, analysing, and identifying biological processes. However, the characterisation of said relation is ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Quantitative Genetics of Larval Starvation Resistance in Drosophila melanogaster
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Nanocrystal Growth from the Inside and Outside: Theory of Cation Exchange and Nanoplatelet Formation
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Flow Sediment Interactions in Managed Rivers: Influence on Ecosystem Structure and Function
(2017)Flow and sediment regimes are two of the main abiotic factors driving riverine ecosystems, interacting at different temporal and spatial scales. These interactions have a strong influence on habitat composition, ecosystem processes and community composition. Nowadays, flow and sediment regimes are highly altered due to anthropogenic modifications of rivers and floodplains, such as dams or river channelization, which disrupt the main ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Void safety
(2017)Null pointer dereferencing is a well-known issue in object-oriented programming, and can be avoided by adding special validity rules to the programming language. However, just introducing a single rule is not enough: the whole language infrastructure has to be considered instead. The resulting guarantees are called void safety. The thesis reviews, in detail, engineering solutions and migration efforts that enabled the transition from ...Doctoral Thesis