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Chemical Physics and Applications of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization-enhanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
(2019-04-23)Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of nuclei with low magnetic moments such as 13C spins can be quite challenging and time-consuming. Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) via the dissolution method greatly alleviates ... -
Growth Factor Enriched Multi-luminal Conduits for Axonal Regeneration and Maturation Across Critical Nerve Injuries
(2019-04-26)In the United States, about 900,000 peripheral nerve repair surgeries are performed every year, to treat traumatic and iatrogenic injuries. Despite the robust regenerative capacity of peripheral axons, studies have found ... -
Calculated Re-Vision: Kennedy, Johnson and African American Views of Their Civil Rights Legacies
(2019-04-22)Since the 1960s, there has been broad scholarly interest in the civil rights legacies of President John Kennedy and his successor, President Lyndon Johnson. Examinations have emerged from a wide range of disciplines, but ... -
DALI: A Collaborative, Agent-Based Traffic Signal Timing System
(2019-04-29)In this dissertation, we present DALI (Distributed, Agent-based traffic LIghts), a smart collaborative traffic signal timing system. With DALI, intersection controller agents communicate with each other through direct links ... -
Consumer Store Choice in Online and Mobile Retail Environment
(2019-04-16)In my dissertation, I study customer behavior in a multi-channel retail environment, such as the impact of mobile-shopping-channel adoption for grocery items and the grocery-store-choice decision, and customers’ strategic ... -
Individual and Relational Social Impairments in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2019-04-10)Psychosocial interventions aimed at improving social interaction in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have produced small effects and often fail to generalize to improvement outside the laboratory (Gates, Kang, & ... -
Three Essays on Digital Business: Prescriptive Analytics for Novel Operational and Strategic Challenges
(2019-04-16)My dissertation provides prescriptive solutions and managerial implications for three novel operational and strategic challenges faced by firms or platforms in online business. The first problem arises from the need to ... -
Giantess and Other Stories: A Creative Dissertation
(2019-03-13)This creative dissertation comprises a short story collection titled Giantess and Other Stories and a scholarly component that provides background for the creation of the collection. The story collection, which accounts ... -
Perception of Novel Sounds in the Presence of Background Noise : Comparison Between Individuals with Normal Hearing, Cochlear Implant Users, and Recurrent Neural Networks
(2019-01-30)The goal of this dissertation is to investigate how listeners and learning machines cope with the ambiguity caused by interfering multiple novel sound sources. Starting from an ambiguous auditory scene with competing sound ... -
Essays on Taxation: Capitalization and Efficiency
(2019-04-22)This dissertation includes three essays investigating the effect of taxation and tax policies on income inequality, housing values, and excess burden from homeownership, separately. Chapter 2 estimates the degree to which ... -
Characterization of Uniform Momentum Zones in Atmospheric Boundary Layer Using Lidar Measurements
(2019-01-23)Wind velocity measurements have been performed with a scanning Doppler wind LiDAR in order to characterize the morphology of the turbulent velocity field within the atmospheric surface layer (ASL). This experiment has been ... -
Vulnerable Narcissism and Romantic Conflict
(2019-02-14)Individuals high in vulnerable narcissism often encounter difficulties in their interpersonal relationships. (Lannin et al., 2014; Zeigler-Hill & Besser, 2013). However, the literature on vulnerable narcissism has rarely ... -
Development of a Multifunctional Biosensing Platform with Applications Across Various Consumer Markets and Industries
(2019-01-14)The purpose of this work is to develop a point-of-use affinity-based biosensing platform capable of detecting biomarkers across complex matrices – ranging in electrolyte and macromolecule composition – with applications ... -
Digital Elevation Model and Drainage Basin Delineation
(2019-01-09)Drainage basin delineation is a very important process in hydrology models. The accuracy of drainage basin delineation affects the accuracy of the hydrologic model tremendously. Digital elevation models (DEMs) are the main ... -
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 ...
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