Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Electronic theses and dissertations of masters and doctoral students submitted to the Graduate School.
Authors retain copyright to their works.
Recent Submissions
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(2023-12-20)Department: Electrical EngineeringArbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) are not typically feasible as subsystems on integrated circuits due to their size and complexity, but they are versatile circuits that are broadly useful. The purpose of this work is ...
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(2024-07-22)Department: Computer ScienceGraph-structured data is ubiquitous in real-world applications (e.g., social networks, infrastructure, biomedical) and Graph Machine Learning (GML) has become a prominent method for handling such data. However, despite ...
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Rest as a Site of Struggle: Reconsidering Sabbath (Non-)Transgression Narratives in the Hebrew Bible (2024-07-16)Department: ReligionThis dissertation revisits the liberative aspect of the Sabbath concept in the Hebrew Bible, particularly in the Sabbath-related narratives. It argues that despite the Sabbath’s liberative promise, the Sabbath-related ...
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(2024-07-16)Department: Nursing ScienceMidwives are recognized as a cost-effective solution for increasing skilled birth attendance and eliminating preventable maternal deaths, a global priority. However, the full potential of midwifery is often limited by a ...
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(2024-07-16)Department: Computer ScienceAbdominal computed tomography (CT) offers high-resolution tissue maps that facilitate the quantification of body composition. The existing longitudinal CT dataset from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA) enables ...
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(2024-07-16)Department: Spanish & PortugueseThe Afrofuturist movement has significantly impacted Latin American artists and scholars who seek to recover alternative understandings of the future and create spaces for counterhegemonic narratives within their nations. ...
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(2024-07-15)Department: Computer ScienceThere is growing concern regarding adolescent online risks posed by social media and emerging technologies. Prior work calls for a paradigm shift from restrictive approaches towards strength-based solutions that can empower ...
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(2024-07-15)Department: Chemical EngineeringThe cGAS/STING pathway is of paramount importance in healthy immune function due to its role in antiviral and antitumoral immunity. However, chronic or aberrant overactivation of cGAS/STING can cause tissue damage and ...
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(2024-07-16)Department: Computer ScienceWithin healthcare education, simulation-based training is a popular and successful approach that focuses on providing students with hands-on experiential learning in a controlled, safe, and repeatable environment. Debriefing ...
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(2024-07-15)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityResearch demonstrates that the dominant but narrow definitions of mathematical activity in school limit students’ opportunity to make sense of mathematics and to use mathematics to make sense of the world. Video games have ...
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(2024-07-15)Department: PsychologyOrientation-tuned surround suppression is important for figure-ground segmentation and object detection. This dissertation aims to understand the visual characteristics and neural mechanisms of orientation-tuned surround ...
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(2024-07-15)Department: Special EducationThis study investigated Treatment Effect Variation (TEV) in a reading intervention for struggling readers using an alternative analytic approach: Individual Treatment Effect (ITE). Prior Aptitude-by-Treatment Interaction ...
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Now that I Am So Miserable: Experiences and Representations of Old Age in Sixteenth-Century Germany (2024-07-16)Department: HistoryOld age in the sixteenth century was caricaturized as a painful experience that could only offer mental and physical suffering, and these narratives of unlucky elders had an important function in society. By using examples ...
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(2024-07-17)Department: Community Research & ActionAs part of human development, youth must learn to navigate the vulnerabilities, excitements, and risks associated with sexuality. In the United States, multiple organizations and practitioners are dedicated to supporting ...
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(2024-07-17)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe evolution from open surgery to laparoscopic surgery or minimally invasive surgery to robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery to the natural orifice and single port access surgery required more dexterous tools. The ...
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(2024-08-05)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyThe lymphatic system is responsible for clearing metabolic waste and fighting infection throughout most of the body, but in the central nervous system, however, there are no conventional lymphatic vessels. Recent evidence ...
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(2024-07-17)Department: Molecular Physiology & BiophysicsWe longitudinally assessed changes in metabolic parameters and feeding behaviors in male and female mice switched to obesogenic 45% or 60% high-fat diets (HFD) over multiple weeks. HFD fed mice experience chronic caloric ...
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(2024-07-16)Department: EnglishAlongside white supremacy’s long history of death and erasure is an equally long shadow history of its preserving black lives for its own economic and ideological ends. Drawing a line from nineteenth century artifacts ...
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(2024-07-17)Department: Human GeneticsCollectively, this work has centered around combining clinical and genetic information to provide insights about disease from various scopes of view. Specifically, it has addressed multimorbidity, comorbidity, and heritability ...
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(2024-07-24)Department: Biomedical EngineeringVisual impairment (VI) is a global health issue that is estimated to affect 2.2 billion people worldwide and cost nearly $3 trillion USD per year. While prevalence varies across patient demographics, prevalence rates due ...