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Effects of creep on the interaction between TBM, lining and rock
(2024)Mechanised tunnelling through squeezing ground is very demanding because the space available to accommodate ground deformations is limited. If the converging ground closes the shield gap in the machine area, a pressure starts to develop upon the shield and the tunnel boring machine (TBM) might get stuck. Behind the machine, if ground deformations are prevented by a stiff lining, a prohibitively high rock pressure develops, and the lining ...Doctoral Thesis -
Kinetic Field Theory: a new formalism for microscopic perturbation theory
(2024)This thesis provides a general construction of the Kinetic Field Theory (KFT) framework and its microscopic perturbation theory for any classical physical system which can be described by a Hamiltonian. The generating functional of KFT is constructed based on a definition of phase space in terms of the cotangent bundle of configuration space and utilizing methods borrowed from the path integral formulation of classical mechanics. From it, ...Doctoral Thesis -
Sweet answers to the decades-long debates on the sucrose retardation
(2024)In the cement and concrete industry, the use of chemical admixtures is essential to improve either the properties for fresh pastes or the hardened concrete. However, many chemical admixtures cause cement hydration retardation in addition to their main effects. Among them, sugars are a family of retards which work specifically to extend the open time by delaying the onset of cement hydration. According to early studies, sucrose is a very ...Doctoral Thesis -
Modes of fitness increase during the aggregative multicellular development program of Myxococcus xanthus
(2024)In nature, environmental conditions are in constant flux. Organisms must dynamically respond and adapt to the presence of other biological entities as well as abiotic factors in order to survive and reproduce. Both cooperative and competitive interactions between organisms are common. Cooperation involves the expression of a trait that enhances the fitness of other individuals, and usually is costly to express. Conflict arises when the ...Doctoral Thesis -
Receptor-Mediated Lysosomal Clearance of Endoplasmic Reticulum and Outer Nuclear Membrane
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Modern Adaptive Experiment Design: Machine Learning Perspective
(2024)A key challenge in science and engineering is to design experiments to learn about some unknown quantity of interest. Optimal experimental design is a branch of statistics addressing the most informative allocation of experiments in order to infer an unknown quantity of interest. In this thesis, we fundamentally revisit and extend the methods and approaches of optimal design of experiments when our unknown quantity is a member of a ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Dark Sector Searches Weakly Coupled to Muons with the NA64μ Experiment at CERN
(2024)Many fundamental problems associated with the Standard Model of particle physics remain open today, among which are notable the strong CP problem, neutrino oscillations, or the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe. One of the foremost open questions is the fundamental nature of Dark Matter, its origin, and its constituents. In this regard, particular interest has emerged in the explanation of its particle nature assuming mass ranges ...Doctoral Thesis -
Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification and 3D Point Cloud Generation Using Explicit Generative Models
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