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Translation of my memories into unprecedented thresholds
Acknowledgement Page
I want to thank Honors program staffs, Jared Diener and Philip Frana, who were so supportive and helpful throughout this project. I also want to thank my professors in Architectural Design who dedicated their time and effort to make this project incredibly strong and unique. Also, I want to thank my parents who supported me undoubtably throughout my whole college career. This project would not have happened if it weren’t for these people that I mentioned above and I am forever thankful.
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This project is about how my memories, experiences, and emotions from my grandmother’s house can be translated into new unprecedented thresholds in the future.
Why Thresholds?
Because architects, engineers, and designers do not think at all about threshold while designing. Thresholds these days are just wooden doors and metal handles. It is sad and unfortunate because the most important element in architecture is threshold. It is the first space that you enter, the first thing you touch, and the first thing you see before you enter into this mysterious space that exists beyond. Thresholds should hint what kind of space lies beyond to people who have no idea. It is like meeting people for the first time. The first impression is the strongest impression that you can possibly make.
Why my grandmother’s house?
My grandmother’s house is special not only to me but in Korea. It is designed and built by my great grandfather. It has been in my family for generations and it is one of the few traditional Korean houses that is still privately owned. Korean government wants to make it a national treasure so it could be open to public. Also, thresholds in my grandmother’s house is well thought and designed successfully to portraits what lies beyond them.
I picked 10 specific spots from my grandmother’s house that I love the most. From my memories, experiences, and emotions from those 10 spots, I designed 10 new thresholds that would exists in the future
The Future Self: Promoting Prosocial Decision-Making Through Motivated Episodic Simulation
Vividly imagining the future self can help inform our present decisions. Given that most attempts aimed at understanding the prosocial effect of imagining future episodes have focused on sensory properties, little is known about how prosocial motivations can explain the link between episodic simulation and helping intentions. Here, the current research investigated whether altruistically and reputationally motivated simulation of helping behavior promote a willingness to help a person in need. The study found that imagining helping episodes increased willingness to help relative to a control manipulation, especially when reputational concerns were made salient. Path modeling analyses revealed that the prosocial effect of motivated simulation was mediated by future self-continuity (i.e., the perceived connectedness to the future self). These results shed light on a previously unexplored mechanism underlying the relationship between episodic simulation and prosocial intentions. Implications for future research in prosocial behavior, future-oriented cognition, and moral self-concept is discussed
Study of the Top-quark Pair Production in Association with a Bottom-quark Pair from Fast Simulations at the LHC
A large number of top quarks will be produced at the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) for Run II period. This will allow us to measure the rare processes from
the top sector in great details. We present the study of the top-quark pair
production in association with a bottom-quark pair (ttbb) from fast simulations
for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. The differential distributions
of ttbb are compared with the top-quark pair production with two additional
jets (ttjj) and with the production in association with the Higgs (ttH), where
the Higgs decays to a bottom-quark pair. The significances of ttbb process in
the dileptonic and semileptonic decay mode are calculated with the data
corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 10 fb-1, which is foreseen to be
collected in the early Run II period. This study will be an important input in
searching for new physics beyond the standard model as well as in searching for
ttH process where the Yukawa coupling with the top quark can be directly
measured.Comment: 12 pages, 12 figure
Single-Copy Certification of Two-Qubit Gates without Entanglement
A quantum state transformation can be generally approximated by single- and
two-qubit gates. This, however, does not hold with noisy intermediate-scale
quantum technologies due to the errors appearing in the gate operations, where
errors of two-qubit gates such as controlled-NOT and SWAP operations are
dominated. In this work, we present a cost efficient single-copy certification
for a realization of a two-qubit gate in the presence of depolarization noise,
where it is aimed to identify if the realization is noise-free, or not. It is
shown that entangled resources such as entangled states and a joint measurement
are not necessary for the purpose, i.e., a noise-free two-qubit gate is not
needed to certify an implementation of a two-qubit gate. A proof-of-principle
demonstration is presented with photonic qubits.Comment: 8 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1812.0208
Petrositis With Bilateral Abducens Nerve Palsies complicated by Acute Otitis Media
Petrous apicitis is a rare but fatal complication of otitis media. An infection within the middle ear can extend within the temporal bone into the air cells of the petrous apex. With only the thin dura mater separating the trigeminal ganglion and the 6th cranial nerve from the bony petrous apex, they are vulnerable to inflammatory processes, resulting in deep facial pain, lateral rectus muscle paralysis, and diplopia. In 1904, Gradenigo described a triad of symptoms related to petrous apicitis, including acute suppurative otitis media, deep facial pain resulting from trigeminal involvement, and abducens nerve palsy. It has traditionally been treated with surgery, but recent advances in imaging, with improved antibiotic treatment, allow conservative management. In this case report, we describe a clinical and neuroradiological evolution of a child with a petrous apicitis after acute otitis media, which was managed medically with a positive outcome
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