This thesis shares our experience in designing web crawlers that scale to billions of pages and models their performance. We show that with the quadratically increasing complexity of verifying URL uniqueness, breadth-first ...

The course of any infection depends upon the pathogenicity of a particular organism and the status of the host's defense mechanisms. Because most bacterial pathogens need iron to multiply, they must develop mechanisms to ...

Immigration detention in the U.S. has seen a recent surge in the post 9/11 era where concerns over terrorism and national security have materialized into key enforcement initiatives, that is increased border security (mostly ...

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At the turn of the 20th century, Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI) escalated both in incidence and severity. CDI is the leading cause of hospital-acquired antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD). Traditionally, ...