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Resistance is futile: taming the beasts of antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(2019)Tuberculosis (TB) has been declared a global public health emergency more than a quarter of a century ago and while significant progress has been made to reduce the mortality and infection rates, there is still a long way to go to the ultimate goal of eradicating TB. While we have efficient treatment regimens, even the shortest regimen for fully drug-sensitive TB is already 6 months long. This regimen, while effective at treating ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Photochemical Processes of Natural and Anthropogenic Contaminants Relevant to the Environment
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Semantic Segmentation and Mapping for Natural Environments
(2019)Research on reconstruction of objects and environments in three dimensions has made great progress over the past decade. Applications such as building maps of environments, creating 3D models for robot manipulation, and generating digital content for use in movies, games and virtual environments all benefit from techniques that can reconstruct objects with high fidelity and accuracy. Robustness of the reconstruction pipeline can be improved ...Doctoral Thesis -
Modeling of Subsurface Scattering from Ice Sheets for Pol-InSAR Applications
(2019)Remote sensing is a fundamental tool to measure the dynamics of ice sheets and provides valuable information for ice sheet projections under a changing climate. There is, however, the potential to further reduce the uncertainties in these projections by developing innovative remote sensing methods. One of these remote sensing techniques, the polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry (Pol-InSAR), is known since decades to have ...Doctoral Thesis -
Cardinal Characteristics of the Continuum Based on Asymptotic Density
(2019)A cardinal characteristic of the continuum is a cardinal number strictly greater than the cardinality of the natural numbers, and less than the cardinality of the continuum (i. e. the real numbers). In general, we are only interested in those cardinal characteristics of the continuum that consistently are strictly less than the continuum. Asymptotic density is a concept from number theory used to describe how large certain subsets ...Doctoral Thesis