• Metabolic and Kinematic Effects of Medial Thighplasty and Myofascial Lengthening on Gait of Adults with Limb Loss and Children with Cerebral Palsy 

  Kunnappally, Jamie (2019-08)

  In the treatment and management of certain physical and neurological conditions affecting gait and quality of life, surgical intervention plays a key role in changing the foundation of the body in a way that can ultimately ...

• Essays on Network Effects, Service Pricing Plans and Online Message Virality 

  Zihagh, Fereshteh (2019-08)

  The first part of my dissertation investigates information technology and examines the matching between buyers and sellers in IT outsourcing markets, and how the social network between firms explains the observed matches. ...

• Weak Gravitational Lensing Shear and Magnification Analysis of Hydrodynamic Simulations and Application to Weak Lensing Data 

  Choi, Miyoung (2019-08)

  In the main part of this dissertation we study the impact of baryonic processes and massive neutrinos on weak lensing peak statistics that can be used to constrain cosmological parame­ters. We use the BAHAMAS simulations, ...

• The Neural Correlates of Recollection and Post-Retrieval Monitoring in Younger and Older Adults 

  Horne, Erin D. (2019-08)

  Episodic retrieval is not a homogeneous process, but rather involves the engagement of several dissociable cognitive processes. These processes include those specialized for memory functions, such as hippocampally mediated ...

• Efficient Scheduling and Analysis Techniques for Supporting Real-Time Cyber-Physical Applications and Systems 

  Dong, Zheng (2019-08)

  To guarantee predictable temporal correctness in multicore systems, a difficult problem is to analyze the execution behaviors of tasks that may access heterogeneous resources including both CPU cores and shared resources ...

• Reexamining the "Constitutional Revolution of 1937": Evolution, Revolution, or Restoration and the "Fall" of Economic Due Process 

  Price, Elisa F (2019-08)

  The familiar story of President Roosevelt’s triumphant victory over the Supreme Court in the Spring of 1937 has become legend. In this story, the threat posed by the President’s “courtpacking” plan caused the Supreme Court ...

• Excarnation: A Phenomenology of Technology and Religious Experience 

  Doucet, Troy (2019-08)

  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 

  Cross, Brenton Kevin (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 

  Dubey, Harishchandra (2019-08)

  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; ...

• Towards Robust Approximate Computing 

  Xu, Siyuan (2019-05)

  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 

  Pyne, Moinak (2019-05)

  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 

  Rughwani, Tripta (2019-05)

  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 

  Dahir, Araiz Murad (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 

  Amankwaa, Samuel Kwaku (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 

  Muttagi, Apoorva (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 

  Ke, Zixuan (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 

  Kohl, Martin Gregor (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 

  Lin, Hui (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 

  Baghdasaryan, Ani (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 

  Shinde, Saroj Sanjay (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 ...

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