1. Topic Modeling as an Approach to Deduce Tissue-Specific Regions in the Human Genome Open Access Author: Patel, Radha Title: Topic Modeling as an Approach to Deduce Tissue-Specific Regions in the Human Genome Area of Honors: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Keywords: Topic ModelingTranscription Factor BindingLatent Dirichlet AllocationRegulatory DNA SequencesTissue-Specific RegionsHuman Genome File: Download final_draft_thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Shaun Mahony, Thesis SupervisorSanthosh Girirajan, Thesis Honors Advisor
2. REITs and Inflation: The Recent Performance of REITs During the Periods of Varying Inflation Open Access Author: Patel, Yash Title: REITs and Inflation: The Recent Performance of REITs During the Periods of Varying Inflation Area of Honors: Finance Keywords: REITREITSReal EstateReal Estate Investment TrustInflationHedgeAssetReturnsCPIConsumer Price IndexRegressionOLSOrdinary Least SquaresPrivatePublicInvestmentInvestingCorrelationMarketStocksTrading File: Download Yash_N_Patel.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Eva Steiner, Thesis SupervisorBrian Spangler Davis, Thesis Honors Advisor
3. Effect of Over-The-Counter Drugs on DNA Analysis of Blood Ingested by Medicinal Leeches Open Access Author: Patel, Dipesh Title: Effect of Over-The-Counter Drugs on DNA Analysis of Blood Ingested by Medicinal Leeches Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: DrugsDNA AnalysisLeechesAspirinIbuprofenCaffeineHPLCDNA ExtractionDNA Quantification File: Download Patel_Dipesh_Effect_of_Over-The-Counter_Drugs_on_DNA_Analysis_of_Blood_Ingested_by_Medicinal_Leeches.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Reena Roy, Thesis SupervisorCharles T Anderson, Thesis Honors Advisor
4. Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of the Effect of Selenium on Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa) Restricted Author: Patel, Aayushi Title: Comparative Transcriptomic Analysis of the Effect of Selenium on Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa) Area of Honors: Biology Keywords: Industrial HempTranscriptomicsSeleniumAgricultureEnvironmentHuman Health File: No files available due to restrictions. Thesis Supervisors: Shobha Devi Rudrabhatla, Thesis SupervisorSairam V Rudrabhatla, Thesis Honors Advisor
5. Formal verification of approximate differential privacy via the characteristic function Restricted (Penn State Only) Author: Patel, Aaryan Title: Formal verification of approximate differential privacy via the characteristic function Area of Honors: Computer Science Keywords: Differential PrivacyFormal VerificationProgramming Languages File: Login to Download Thesis Supervisors: Danfeng Zhang, Thesis SupervisorDanfeng Zhang, Thesis Honors AdvisorJohn Joseph Hannan, Faculty Reader