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Excarnation: A Phenomenology of Technology and Religious Experience
(2019-06-03)This work explores the contours of technology and its philosophical relationship to ethics and responsibility from a phenomenological perspective. It suggests that technology, understood in a Heideggerian sense, carries ... -
Southern Baptist Expository Preaching Homiletic Theory: Biblical Interpretation, Values, and Politics in Twentieth-Century America
(2019-05-30)This study addressed the influence and role of the Southern Baptist (SB) expository preaching methodology by examining the role of expository preaching, its innate characteristics, and its espousal by SB pastors and ... -
Deep Neural Networks and Model-Based Approaches for Robust Speaker Diarization in Naturalistic Audio Streams
(2019-05-24)Speaker diarization is an unsupervised task that determines "who spoke and when" within input audio stream. It consists of four sub-systems: (i) speech activity detection (SAD); (ii) speaker segmentation and modeling; (iii) ... -
Towards Robust Approximate Computing
(2019-05-21)Many classes of applications exhibit significant tolerance to inaccuracies in their computations. Some examples include image processing, multimedia applications, and machine learning. These inaccuracies can be exploited ... -
Supervised Battery Capacity Estimation
(2019-05-21)Evaluation of capacity fade in Li-ion batteries in the ballparks of energy research has assumed significant importance in recent times extensively owing to growing demand and need for portable power supplies and electric ... -
Mitochondria Dysfunction Induces Synapse Loss via Microglia Activation in AD Mice Model
(2019-05-08)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a chronic cognitive impairment disorder associated with synapse loss. The synaptic sites are enriched in mitochondria to provide energy for synaptic transmission/ neurotransmission. During a ... -
Novel Ways to Reduce Income Inequality: Financial and Digital Inclusion
(2019-05)Income inequality has been constantly increasing throughout the world in recent times. Countries are implementing novel ways of reducing inequality through financial and digital inclusion. The main challenge lies in the ... -
Analysis of GPR Data for Time and Frequency-Dependent Effects of Changing Water Table Levels
(2019-05)Frequency-dependent ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data are acquired every 2-3 years from 1998 to 2017 at a single location on an exposure of the Lewisville Member of the Woodbine Formation along the shore of Grapevine ... -
Editing MicroRNA: mRNA Complementarity Using CRISPR-Cas9
(2019-05)MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small noncoding RNAs that are approximately 20-22 nucleotides in length and have a prominent role in regulating gene expression. miRNA-based regulation has been shown to significantly ... -
Automated Essay Scoring: Argument Persuasiveness
(2019-05)Despite being investigated for over 50 years, the task of Automated Essay Scoring (AES) is far from being solved. Nevertheless, it continues to draw a lot of attention in the natural language processing community in part ... -
Illicit Financial Outflows Through Trade Misinvoicing in Developing Countries: the Influence of Market Concentration
(2019-05)This master’s thesis examines the effect of market concentration on illicit financial outflows in developing countries. It argues that firms are more willing to shift funds illicitly abroad using the channel of trade ... -
Thesis Statement Annotation and Identification in Student Essays
(2019-05)Automatic essay scoring (AES) is the task of using computer technology to evaluate the quality of written essays and give feedback. AES systems are one of the most important educational applications of natural language ... -
The Effects of Corruption, Female Political Participation and Youth on Political Stability
(2019-05)Political stability is vital for ensuring safety and security of people. Both the material and intangible losses caused by political instabilities include human lives, GDP decline, increased inflation rates, higher poverty ... -
Auxiliary Inverter Configuration for Energy Efficiency Improvement and Cost Effectiveness of Electric Vehicle Inverter
(2019-05)Wide band gap (WBG) based power switches have improved the efficiency and power density in the power electronic systems. The higher cost compared to silicon switches is the road block for large scale adoption of SiC ... -
Closed Loop dv/dt Control for Equal Voltage Sharing Between Series Connected SiC MOSFETs
(2019-05)An efficient and cost-effective Medium-Voltage (MV) power semiconductor switch, which is capable of high switching speed, is highly desirable for many existing and emerging high power MV power conversion applications, ... -
Paleomagnetic and Rock Magnetic Analysis of an Ignimbrite Sequence, the Yellowstone Huckleberry Ridge Tuff, Southeast Idaho
(2019-05)Paleomagnetic data collected at four sites in ignimbrite members A and B of the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff in the Teton River Valley area of southeast Idaho, USA, yield ChRM directions in in situ coordinates of south-southwest ... -
A Neural Network Approach for Argument Reasoning Comprehension
(2019-05)The dream of enabling machines to think like humans has emerged ever since the invention of computers. Over the years people have tried to build machine-based systems that can parse and understand natural languages like ... -
Proof of the Strong AJ Conjecture for the Figure 8 Knot
(2019-05)The AJ conjecture, formulated by Garoufalidis [7], relates the A-polynomial of a knot and the colored Jones polynomial of a knot. The strong AJ conjecture first proposed in [6] and then modified by Sikora [14], relates ... -
Modeling and Experimental Verification of Aging Process in Wide Bandgap Devices
(2019-05)Time dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) is the leading cause of MOSFET failure in the field. Currently, the only information circuit designers are provided with on this aging mechanism is the gate voltage rating on ... -
Maximum Torque per Ampere Control of Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor via Optimal Current Excitation
(2019-05)This research focuses on the optimal current excitation of interior permanent magnet synchronous motors (IPMSM) with non-sinusoidal back electromotive-force (BEMF) for maximum torque per ampere (MTPA) control. In this ...
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