In this thesis we present studies in the AdS/CFT correspondence that intend to push the present knowledge beyond the N = 4 super Yang-Mills (SYM) paradigm. The first part is concerned with the study of non-supersymmetric ...

Validity is more than a rich suite of empirical correlates. They have to be the right correlates. In the case of the Adult Attachment Interview, validation includes showing links to the secure base concept, the central ...

Aesthetics of Soft Focus examines the contested and mutually constituted discourses of masculinity and national imperial identity through the visual medium of photography in late Victorian and early Edwardian Britain. It ...

The Riemann Mapping Theorem states that for any proper, simply connected planar domain there exists a conformal mapping from the disk onto the domain. But can this map be explicitly described? For general domains, there ...

Task mapping has been explored intensively by computer and computational scientists for the purposes of maximizing utilization of computing resources by reducing communication and load imbalance. Task mapping is known to ...

We study optimization problems associated with routing multiple moving objects through a two- or three-dimensional geometric domain. We focus primarily on trajectories for moving disks, which can be used to model motion ...

Block copolymers are those that contain two or more homopolymer units connected together on a single chain. They are of great interest for their ability to phase-separate and form highly ordered structures on the nanometer ...