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The Automaton within Man Ray's Films: From Mechanical to Darwinian
(2020-12-03)This thesis explores two films within Man Ray’s oeuvre: Le Retour à la Raison (1923) and L’Étoile de Mer (1928). These films seem wholly unrelated to one another – Le Retour emphasizes avant-garde filmmaking techniques and ... -
Torque Profile Improvement of Double Stator Switched Reluctance Motor Through Mechanical Offset Between Inner and Outer Stator
(2020-12-04)The double stator switched reluctance motor is a derivative of the traditional SRM, using a segmented rotor and two coaxial stators to increase flux density in the machine and improve torque density. Switched reluctance ... -
Ghosts and Hauntings of Western Imperialism The Art of Michael Rakowitz
(2020-12-04)This thesis analyzes the art of Michael Rakowitz, contextualizing it within an array of subjects including but not limited to: Western Imperialism, immigrant communities, social sculpture, museum history, and collective ... -
Design Improvement of Pumping Mechanisms in Daily Necessities for Efficient Recycling
(2020-11-30)This thesis concerns the design methodology that replaces metallic springs with plastic ones, which will improve the recycling rate of plastic products. Although metallic compression springs are inexpensive and widely used ... -
Does Race Matter? Testing Parameters for Collaboration Benefits on Face Identification Accuracy
(2020-11-30)The wisdom-of-crowds phenomenon refers to the greater accuracy for judgments made in pairs or groups, compared to individual judgments. These effects have been found also for face identification tasks. Collaborative decision ... -
The Diveristy of the Human Experience in LatinX Literature
(2020-12-07)There are two major components in this dissertation. First, you will find an analysis of specific texts written by authors I consider having the most significant influence on my writing. In addition, you will find a ... -
Signal Design and Processing for Grant-Free Access
(2020-11-19)Grant-free access is an attractive approach to enable spectrum-efficient low-latency access for systems with massive number of users. In this dissertation, we investigate the pilot design and beam alignment techniques for ... -
Patient Ambulation Assessment Using Depth Cameras
(2020-11-30)In the field of medical care, effective assessment of human activities is essential for understanding the patient's physical state in general and postoperative recovery, in particular. Detecting human joints by using depth ... -
Exogenous Responses and Endogenous Recovery: How Federal Disaster Relief Affects Disaster Recovery
(2020-11-17)Natural disasters have become increasingly severe and frequent in the United States. The result of this has been an outpouring of federal aid to support communities impacted by these disasters. However, there has been ... -
Global Bifurcation of Periodic Solutions in Symmetric Reversible Second Order Systems with Delays
(2020-11-17)Global bifurcation and spatio-temporal patterns of periodic solutions (with prescribed period) to second order reversible equivariant autonomous systems with commensurate delays is studied using the Brouwer O(2)×Γ×Z2-equivariant ... -
Efficient Combination of Neural and Symbolic Learning for Relational Data
(2020-11-23)Much has been achieved in AI but to realize its true potential, it is imperative that the AI system should be able to learn generalizable and actionable higher-level knowledge from lowest level percepts. Inspired by this ... -
Exploration of Podcast Corpora, Summarization, and Search
(2020-11-17)Podcasts have emerged as an increasingly ubiquitous form of media. This new medium carries several idiosyncrasies, such as multiple speakers, varying audio quality, oscillating topics, (etc.). As podcast consumption grows, ... -
Integrated Circuit "Astrolabe" Angular Displacement Sensor Using On-Chip Pinhole Optics
(2020-11-30)An integrated circuit sensor capable of tracking the angular displacement of an object tagged with a quasi-point source of light, such as a light emitting diode (LED), is designed, developed, experimentally characterized ... -
Exploiting Mobile Edge Computing to Improve Efficiency of 360◦ Video Streaming
(2020-11-23)The upsurge in the use of mobile devices to watch video necessitates efficient and scalable strategies for content providers and cellular service providers to produce and stream high quality video to end users. Serving ... -
Perspective Bias and Attitudes Toward the Police- An Analysis of Video-Recorded Citizen and Police Interactions
(2020-11-13)Police officers across the United States face an onslaught of change, driven primarily by social upheaval in a country whose citizens are increasingly skeptical of the government and its institutions (Pew Research Center, ... -
The Functions and Roles of the Copper Chaperone of Superoxide Dismutase 1
(2020-12-01)Superoxide dismutase 1 is a vital antioxidant that catalyzes the dismutation of radical oxygen to water and hydrogen peroxide. It is present in all known aerobic life, with a structural and functional homologue present in ... -
Facial Emotion Perception and Recognition in Adolescents with Cochlear Implants
(2020-12-02)This dissertation compares visual emotion perception and processing in adolescents with cochlear implants (CI) and adolescents with typical hearing (TH) to investigate if differences in emotion recognition underlie ... -
Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms for Security and Safety in Vehicular Applications
(2020-11-18)Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) have witnessed a significant growth in the last decade. To complement the ADAS technologies, wireless vehicular communications emerged as a promising solution providing vehicles ... -
Three Essays on the Economics of Financial Aid
(2020-11-17)The Toward EXcellence, Access, and Success (TEXAS) grant is the largest source of financial aid for higher education in Texas, created in 1999. In fiscal year 2017, it provided 72% of the total grants awarded by the state ... -
Quantum Phases of Time-Reversal Invariant Bose-Einstein Condensates
(2020-11-17)Recent experimental realization of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for ultracold atomic gases with the use of synthetic gauge fields provides a powerful platform for the study of novel quantum phenomena and the simulation of ...
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