• The Invisible Foreigner: European Women as the Eroticized Other in Later Iranian Art 

  Tashakori, Fatemeh (2020-05-01)

  This dissertation examines Persian murals and architectural decoupage decorations featuring nude and semi-nude representations of European women. I began my research of these littlenoticed images by traveling to Iran and ...

• Surface Electromyography Based Control of a Prosthetic Hand 

  Michael, Vikram Louis (2020-12-01)

  An ideal prosthetic hand should provide individual finger actuation in various states of flexion to achieve improved dexterity and functionality, instead of either fully open or closed positions as seen in many conventional ...

• A New Biomaterial for Vaccination: an Aqueous ZIF-8 Crystal Growth to Preserve Antigens and Enhance the Immune Activation 

  Luzuriaga, Michael A (2020-12-01)

  Biomaterials encompass a broad range of applications for medical treatment and can be on the macroscale, such as heart valves or hip implants, to the microscale and nanoscale, such as stitches, dental fillings or particles ...

• Pyrrole Based Donor-acceptor Building Blocks for Organic Field-effect Transistors 

  Gamage, Prabhath Lakmal (2020-12-01)

  The class of organic semiconductors is a definite contender for replacing high-cost silicon semiconductors owing to unique advantages such as solution processability, flexibility, lightweight, low cost, and the ability to ...

• Alpha-diimine Nickel (II) and Palladium (II) Complexes in Cross-coupling Reactions 

  Talukder, Md Muktadir (2020-12-01)

  Cross-couplings reactions are the most versatile synthetic tools and extensively applied for organic syntheses in the industrial production plants. Traditionally established cross-coupling reactions, including Suzuki–Miyaura, ...

• fNIRS and Pupillometry Correlates of Attentional States 

  Gunal, Mehmet (2020-12-01)

  This dissertation aims to examine the localization and function of BA 10 specifically looking into its role in maintaining and switching between attentional states using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and ...

• Tracking Dissemination of Plasmids in the Murine Gut Using Hi-C Sequencing and Bayesian Landmark-based Shape Analysis of Tumor Pathology Images 

  Zhang, Cong (2020-12-01)

  Starting from the experimental design and simple group result comparison using studentst test to the analysis need of explosively growing digital information in the big data era, extensive statistical approaches have been ...

• Multiscale Methods for Fatigue and Dynamic Fracture Failure and High-performance Computing Implementation 

  Zhang, Rui (2020-12-01)

  This dissertation presents several multiscale methods for material failure and implementations on high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. The work is motivated by the challenges in fully capturing the mechanics of ...

• Remote Sensing Videography: Potentials, Methods, and Applications 

  Shi, Fan (2020-12-01)

  In the last several years, new satellite sensors capable of capturing videos have been developed and launched. Unlike satellite images, the temporal resolution of a satellite video is determined by its frame rate. For ...

• Evaluation of Consonant Error Patterns in Speech Perception and Production of Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users 

  Peskova, Olga (2020-12-01)

  This dissertation uses the framework of the speech chain to examine the associations between perception/production and associated error patterns in children using cochlear implants (CIs), children with normal hearing (NH), ...

• Multidimensional Evaluation of Daily Device Use, Communication, and the Family System in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users 

  Wiseman, Kathryn Beverly (2020-12-01)

  This dissertation investigates samples of children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants (CIs) through a family systems lens. The aim is to understand the impact of pediatric hearing loss on the parents and siblings ...

• Robust and Adaptive Optimization 

  De, Partha (2020-12-01)

  Optimization is one of the most interesting and well-studied domains in Mathematics and Computer Science. It has attracted the interest of researcher communities from diverse backgrounds for centuries. Some of the optimization ...

• The Transition Metal Catalyzed Polymerization of Heteroallenes: Cholesteric Gels and Cyclopolymerizations 

  Namal Arachchilage, Chamni Udeshika Jayarathna (2020-12-01)

  From microscopic to macroscopic scale, the helix is a distinctive structure which can be found in nature. Synthetically prepared helices impart a wide variety of applications such as chiral separations, chiral sensing ...

• Preparation of Functionalized Graphenes and Their Performance for Corrosion Resistance and Synthesis of Vanadium Nitridecarbon Nanofiber Mats and Their Application for Asymmetric Supercapacitor Electrodes 

  Wunch, Melissa Ann (2020-12-01)

  Carbon materials have been researched in a wide range of applications, including energy storage, corrosion protection, catalyst support, etc. Though many people have studied properties of carbon with/without modification, ...

• Wind Farm Flow and Power Capture: Optimal Design of LiDAR Experiments, Flow Physics, and Mid-fidelity Modeling 

  Letizia, Stefano (2021-12-01)

  Nowadays there is an urgent need for wind farm flow models with increased accuracy and low computational costs for the prediction of turbine performances and wakes. An improvement of current standards of wind farm simulations ...

• Probing Dynamic Cellular Properties Using Genome Editing and Systems Biology 

  Nowak, Chance Michael (2021-12-01)

  Genome editing has revolutionized not only the future of biological research, but also holds the promise of being a powerful therapeutic for genetic diseases. When considering the multitude of genetic regulations that ...

• Advancements in Hardware/firmware and Applications for CCi-MOBILE: a Cochlear Implant Research Platform 

  Ghosh, Ria (2021-12-01)

  Hearing impairment is a pervasive problem which occurs due to the detrimental damage caused to the inner ear. Assistive Hearing Devices such as Cochlear Implants (CIs) and Hearing Aids (HAs) are designed to restore hearing, ...

• Stability of Softening Neural Interfaces With a-SIC Thin Film Interlayer 

  Duran Martinez, Adriana C (2021-12-01)

  Neural interfaces are implantable devices that enable communication between a computer and nervous tissue to read, write and block neural activity within targeted nerves. To improve the chronic use of neural interfaces, ...

• Magnetic Properties and Coordination Polymerization of Lanthanide Phosphate Complexes 

  Cue, John Michael (2021-12-01)

  The intrinsic properties of lanthanides give steric and electronic advantages in rare earth organometallics. Lanthanides have the potential to accomplish unique applications which cannot be done using transition metals. ...

• Thin-film Schottky Diodes on Softening Polymer Substrates for Radio-frequency Bioelectronics 

  Guerrero Ruiz, Edgar (2021-12-01)

  The next generation of implantable electronics for biomedical medicines must include features which minimize the impact of the chronic inflammatory response to improve operational lifetime and minimize discomfort in the ...

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