Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Energy Efficient Hybrid Display for Embedded and Mobile Systems
(2013-08)Embedded and mobile devices, such as smartphones, e-books, and tablets, have limited battery capability because of the constraint of battery size and mobility requirement. However the large color display on those devices ... -
Energy Measurements and Analysis to Understand Computing Systems and Networks
(2014-12)In this work, we design techniques to use energy instrumentation to study the health and workloads of a computing system. Analysis of energy consumption with the goal of understanding the computing system in an uncontrolled ... -
Engineering and Characterization of Cas9 Nuclease
(2017-10-20)The widespread use of CRISPR-associated nucleases has invigorated the field of site-specific nucleases. The success of Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) has led to the discovery of several other CRISPR-associated ... -
ENGLISH LEARNERS: QUALITY INDICATORS OF EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY LITERACY FOR TEACHERS AND COACHES
(2014-05)To compete in global markets American children need the opportunity to develop critical educational skills that will be necessary to enter an ever-changing workforce. Many times the first chance educators encounter children ... -
ENHANCED 3D STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION OF THE EASTERN ARKOMA FOREDEEP
(2012-12)The Arkoma Basin is a foreland basin located in the southern midcontinent of the United States along the Ouachita Fold and Thrust Belt. This study focuses on a portion of the foredeep depozone in the eastern portion of the ... -
Enhanced Debugging of Data Races in Parallel Programs Using OpenMP
(2016-12)Parallel computing is pervasive. The variety and number of parallel hardware architectures increase daily. As this technology evolves, parallel developers will need productivity enhancing tools to analyze, debug, and ... -
Enhancement of EPIR Switching Characteristics of PCMO RRAM Using Oxygen Deficient Al2Ox Diffusion Barrier
(2014-05)Resistive random access memory has gained lots of interest in the last decade as a promising replacement for non-volatile memory. Device retention stability and electric pulse induced resistance switching (EPIR) ratio ... -
ENHANCEMENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE SCOTIAN BASIN BY THE APPLICATION OF SPECTRAL INVERSION, OFFSHORE NOVA SCOTIA
(2013-05)Reflections from the top and bottom of beds thinner than λ/4 cannot be distinguished from one another due to the limit of seismic resolution. It would be advantageous for geoscientists to image thin beds below resolution, ... -
Enhancing Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation in MRI Images
(2012-12)Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that causes damage to the insulating myelin sheaths around the axons in the brain. It affects over 2.5 million people world-wide. The disease ... -
Enhancing the Expressivity of OpenMP API through Task-to-Task Synchronization
(2013-12)OpenMP is an application programmer interface that provides a parallel program- ming model that has been successfully used to parallelize sequential applications on shared-memory systems. The current OpenMP specification ... -
ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF CARBON-BASED NANOMATERIALS
(2013-08)In recent years, carbon-based nanomaterials have advanced significantly in terms of synthesis and chemical modifications for diverse applications in nanotechnology. Among the carbon-based nanomaterials, single-walled carbon ... -
EOCENE PALEOGOEGRAPHY OF THE ABIQUIU EMBAYMENT IN NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
(2015-05)Geologic models describing Cenozoic uplift and erosion of the southern Rocky Mountains predict a topographic inversion in the Four Corners region (i.e., present day basins were previously topographic highs and vice versa) ... -
Epidemiology of Controlled Substance Prescription Drug Utilization in Texas: an Analysis of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Data
(2016-03-31)Background: Prescription drug abuse has reached epidemic levels, leading to dire health outcomes and economic implications. Both patient-level and environmental-level factors are believed to contribute to higher rates ... -
EPITAXIAL GROWTH AND REAL-TIME ELECTRON DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS OF ADVANCED III-V SEMICONDUCTOR-BASED QUANTUM DOTS
(2015-05)The impact of growth kinetics on structural properties significantly affects optical and electronic performances of self-assembled Stranski-Krastanov (SK) quantum dots. Here and within the framework of the synthesis of ... -
Essays in Empirical Economics: Bank Access and New Technology Adoption and States' Management of Unemployment Insurance Finance
(2012-05)This dissertation is composed of three essays. The first essay examines the effect of bank branch expansion on High Yielding Variety (HYV) seed adoption by Indian households using the Additional Rural Incomes Survey (ARIS) ... -
Essays in Empirical Law and Economics
(2016-12-20)Federal judicial vacancies are an ever increasing issue in the public sphere with 14% of federal judgeship positions currently unfilled concurrently with increases in aggregate levels of caseloads. Despite concerns as to ... -
Essays in political economy and applied econometrics
(2014-05)This dissertation is comprised of two essays in political economy and one in micro-econometrics. Each of them proposes an alternative methodology to improve on the estimation of a specific economic phenomenon. The first ... -
Essays in State Funding for Higher Education
(2014-01-11)This thesis is a combination of two papers studying the effect of state funding for higher education on the price of education and student enrollment at institutions. The first paper evaluates the effectiveness of student ... -
ESSAYS IN URBAN ECONOMICS AND LOCAL LABOR MARKETS: THE ROLE OF CONCENTRATIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
(2012-05)This dissertation consists of two essays exploring the often noted dispersion of economic activity within cities. Focusing in particular on the phenomenon of polycentricity, these essays explore the relationship between ... -
Essays of Political and Cultural Institutions
(2015-05)This dissertation comprises two essays. The first examines the role of a bureaucratic institution—the civil service system—in dampening political budget cycles across U.S. state governments. Using new data on state-specific ...