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High Resolution MRI Coil for Rat Brain at 7 Tesla
(2018-07-26)Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a very powerful, non-ionizing, non-invasive clinical and research modality for soft tissue imaging. MRI applications such as, real-time cardiac imaging, functional brain imaging and ... -
Analysis of the Sedimentary and Geomorphic Signature of Retreating Tidewater Glaciers in Western Antarctic Peninsula Bays
(2018-05-07)The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) is the northernmost extent of the Antarctic continent. Due to the location of this small ice cap, it is being subjected to warming earlier than the Antarctic mainland and serves as a natural ... -
Device Free Activity Recognition using Ultra-Wideband Radio Communication
(2018-05-01)Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a fundamental building block in many Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Although there has been a lot of interest in HAR, research in non-intrusive activity recognition is still in ... -
Phases and Critical Phenomena in 3D Topological Superconductors and Semimetals
(2018-04-23)In this dissertation, we have studied the effect of disorder and interaction on some classes of topological superconductors and semimetals. In the superconducting phase, we studied various phases and critical phenomena ... -
Influence of Light Exposure on the Melanopsin Driven Pupil Response and Circadian Rhythm
(2018-05-14)Exposure to increasing amounts of artificial light during the night may contribute to the high prevalence of reported sleep dysfunction. Release of the sleep hormone melatonin is mediated by the intrinsically photosensitive ... -
Heterogeneous Wireless and Visible Light Communication for the Internet of Things
(2018-05-07)Connecting sensor, control, and edge devices to the Internet in a reliable and robust way is critical to the success of many big data and IoT applications. Wireless technologies enable such connectivity but have come under ... -
Occupant Detection and Tracking in Smart Buildings using Unobtrusive Sensing
(2018-05-10)Non-intrusive occupant identification enables numerous applications in smart buildings such device-free climate control and adjustment in buildings which would not only enhance occupants' comfort but also save energy. To ... -
Esport: Professional League of Legends as Cultural History
This thesis offers a preliminary cultural-historical investigation of professional League of Legends using Tygielian sport history methodology. League’s massive popularity brought esports greater visibility, and laid bare ... -
The Voice Onset Time Productions in Monolingual and Bilingual Children with Cochlear Implants
(2013-09-11)The voice onset time (VOT) values of word-initial, singleton, stressed voiced and voiceless stop consonants were compared in the productions of monolingual English speaking and bilingual Spanish-English speaking children ... -
Can Exercise Reverse Binge Alcohol-Induced Brain Damage?
Binge pattern drinking is characterized by excessive alcohol intake, combined with multiple periods of intoxication and withdrawal. This excessive consumption produces gray and white matter cell loss and cognitive impairments, ... -
Exploring the Construct Validity of Two IRT-Derived Scales of the PAI-A
The Personality Assessment Inventory – Adolescent (PAI-A) is a 264-item self-report instrument designed to assess various facets of psychopathology and of personality in adolescents. Three studies were used to examine the ... -
History, Hollywood, and the Crusades
This thesis discusses the relationship between film and history in the depiction of the Crusades. It proposes that film is a valuable historical tool for teaching about the past on several levels, namely the film’s ... -
Biography of a Technology: North America's Power Grid Through the Twentieth Century
(2018-07-17)North Americans are among the world’s most intense consumers of electricity. The vast majority in the United States and Canada access power from a network of transmission lines that stretch from the East Coast to the West ... -
Shared Determinants Within the Typology of Morality Policy
Although many political science scholars have studied morality policy and its determinants, few have aggregated the data to examine the presence of common determinants throughout the morality policy typology. This is ... -
HIV Testing, Information Spillovers, and Peer Behavior
This dissertation consists of two chapters. In the first chapter, I study the effect of HIV testing the risky behaviors of peer groups. Empirical studies to date offer mixed evidence on whether HIV testing prevents the ... -
Structural studies of Campylobacter jejuni: Virulence proteins (Cj0977 and JlpA) and novel lipoproteins
(2013-05-03)Campylobacter jejuni is a major cause of human gastroenteritis worldwide; however, its pathogenesis is not understood well. Cj0977, a cytoplasmic protein regulated by the flagellar promoter s28, and JlpA, a cell-surface ... -
Visual Force-Feedback Interfacing for Image-guided Telemanipulated Robotic Surgical Systems
(2013-03-11)Robot-assisted procedures are perpetually evolving due to potential improvement in patient management and reduction in the overall cost. Integration of an imaging modality intraoperatively further strengthens these procedures ... -
Extracting Polar Anisotropy Parameters from Seismic Data
(2013-04-29)With Vp, Vs, and density well logs, we can do isotropic AVO forward modeling, using isotropic Zoeppritz equations or its approximations, and a wavelet extracted from the seismic data, to get synthetic seismic data. Compared ... -
Love Wave Tomography of the Central Tien Shan from Ambient Seismic Noise
(2013-04-26)The Tien Shan is the world’s largest and most active intracontinental orogeny. Despite numerous geological and geophysical studies conducted in the Tien Shan, the mountain-building mechanisms remain debatable. There are ... -
Integrating a Preprocessor Based on Unification in the Laboratory for Rapid Rewriting
(2013-04-30)In normalization, traversing the term to find a match with a rule costs most of the time. This thesis presents the design, implementation, and integration of a unification-based preprocessor into the Laboratory for Rapid ...
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