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The Genesis Vent: Blower and Valve Based Ventilator Design for COVID-19 Patient
(2020-08-06)During a time where COVID-19 is spreading across the globe, mechanical ventilators are sought to help those in respiratory distress caused by the coronavirus, and different low-cost mechanical ventilators have been extensively ... -
Biomechanics of Breastfeeding: Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation of Milk Expression
(2020-07-16)Breastfeeding is a highly dynamic and complex mechanism. There are two theories for the dynamics of milk expression by the infant. One hypothesis is that milk expression is due to negative pressure applied by infant sucking; ... -
Kinematic Modeling for Control of Agile Powered Prosthetic Legs Over Continuously Varying Speeds and Inclines
(2020-07-10)People with above knee amputations face many unique challenges during their activities of daily living. Conventional passive prosthetic legs are not optimal for the range of ambulation tasks amputee users face daily, ... -
Extremum Seeking Control for Autonomous Periodic Systems with Applications to Lower Limb Wearable Robots
(2020-07-10)This dissertation describes the development and implementation of model-free extremum seeking control (ESC) algorithms for lower limb wearable robots in order to improve their performance. The optimum control parameters ... -
Quantifying Environmental Risks Using a Fusion of Statistical and Machine Learning Methods
(2020-05-12)There is growing scientific evidence that adverse weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity. Such natural hazards can be largely separated into two groups. The first group comprises extreme events and natural ... -
Investigation of Effects of Multiple Implantations on Healing Abutments: Characterization, Microbial Analysis and Soft Tissue Compatibility
(2019-07-29)The dental implant healing abutment (IHA) is a temporary component placed either immediately after the implant body or after the first healing phase. Very few studies have investigated dental implant components involved ... -
Self- Commissioning of Sensorless AC Motor Drives
(2019-07-18)For higher energy efficiency and greater motion control flexibility, inverters are used to drive electric motors. High-performance operation of motor drives requires complicated control algorithms and corresponding motor ... -
Renal-Clearable Gold Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery Systems
(2019-07-19)Engineered nanoparticles (NPs) have demonstrated unprecedented physiological understandings and versatile biomedical applications. However, clinical translation of cancer nanomedicines remains slow due to limited tumor ... -
Size-Dependent in Vivo Transport and Interactions of Ultrasmall Nanoparticles
(2019-07-10)The past decade has witnessed the accelerating development of ultrasmall nanoparticles (NPs) in disease diagnosis and treatment. Fundamental understanding of the in vivo transport and nano-bio interactions of ultrasmall ... -
Glutathione-Mediated Biotransformation in the Liver Modulates Nanoparticle Transport in Vivo
(2019-07-11)Glutathione-mediated biotransformation in the liver is a key and well-known detoxification process for the body to eliminate small xenobiotics but its impacts on nanoparticle retention, targeting and clearance are much ... -
Nonmarket Strategy: Motivation and Value
(2019-07-17)This dissertation focuses on the theme of nonmarket strategy. Nonmarket strategy involves managing corporate interactions with various types of stakeholders within social, political, and legal environments to achieve better ... -
"I Triumph": Poe as Moralist
(2019-07-19)Poe’s short stories frequently are divided into neat categories: (1) tales of ratiocination; (2) humorous tales; (3) phantasmagorical and science fiction tales; (4) adventure or fantastic voyage tales; and (5) terror/horror ... -
Phase Current Reconstruction and Peak Prediction for Switched Reluctance Generators
(2019-07-17)The threat of rising temperatures and increasing sea levels due to the high carbon emissions and greenhouse gases, has prompted a worldwide push towards the production of clean energy through renewable sources. Renewable ... -
Utility of Betti Sequences as Persistent Homology-based Topological Descriptors in Application to Inference for Space-Time Processes and Time Series of Complex Networks
(2019-07-19)Everything we see around us has a shape. In the age when data are being collected at unrepresented rates and volumes, we often come across data types having inherent shape structure. Rapidly developing field of topological ... -
Analyzing and Synthesizing Healthcare Time Series Data for Decision-Support
(2019-07-11)Even though the healthcare industry is one of the biggest data generating industries of current time, researchers often do not enjoy the availability of large volume of good quality data. However, state-of-the-art techniques, ... -
Three Essays on Traffic Crashes: Global Health Burdens and Policy Implementations
(2019-07-12)The three studies that compose this dissertation explore important issues relating to road traffic accidents in three different geographical areas in the world. The first study in Dallas County, Texas examines community-level ... -
Uncertain Tax Benefits and the Persistence of Earnings
(2019-06-04)I examine the relationship between uncertain tax benefit accruals (UTB accruals) and earnings persistence. I posit that the two competing forces that make up UTB accruals could lead to no relationship between UTB accruals ... -
Holocaust Aftermath and Memory in Brazil
(2019-07-25)This dissertation identifies publications of post-Holocaust Jewish narratives as a new emerging field in Holocaust Studies in the largest country of Latin America. By examining eight memoirs written in Portuguese and ... -
Powerline Feature Detection and Extraction Using Photon Lidar Point Clouds
(2019-06-04)Remote sensing technologies are a critical component for managing utility infrastructure. Utility companies rely on GIS data for planning, engineering design, operations, severe weather response, vegetation management, ... -
Individualizing a Powered Prosthetic Leg Over Continuously-Varying Tasks
(2020-05-05)On a day-to-day basis, able-bodied people traverse a number of different terrains, moving at a self-selected speed and walking up and down inclines in reaction to the environment around them. The transition from one task ...
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