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Electrochemsense : Electrochemical Real-Time Pesticide Sensing System
(2019-05-07)Pesticide contamination of produce and water in the United States has been a drastic problem to address partly due to the high overhead costs of screening in produce samples, while the other being the inability to report ... -
Aqueous Anion Recognition: From Synthetic Polymers to Proteins
(2019-05-06)In the simplest sense, an anion is a negatively charged ion. Commonly associated with cations, anions are ubiquitous in Nature, yet the limited breadth and scope of research with anions stands in stark contrast to their ... -
Numerical Modeling and Simulation of Biomedical Devices and Underwater Biomimetic Robots
(2019-05-03)Numerical simulations are essential in different fields of engineering for several types of analysis. They help in solving complex mathematical equations that govern the behavior of physical systems whose analytical solutions ... -
Globalization and New Bollywood's Hat-ke (Different) Directors: Nation, Gender, and Identity in the Films of Vishal Bhardwaj, Anurag Kashyap, and Abhishek Chaubey
(2019-04-23)The linked impact of globalization, economic liberalization policies, and the introduction of cable television in India introduced major changes in the popular and largely unregulated Mumbai-based Hindi film industry in ... -
Managing Public Retirement Systems : Unions, Pension Reforms, and Public Sector Attractiveness
(2019-04-23)In three empirical chapters, this dissertation investigates the determinants and consequences of pension benefit generosity and pension reforms. Applying the cutback management framework, Chapter 2 examines the impact of ... -
Modeling Individual Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Risk with Proxy Metrics of External-Ear Amplification
(2019-04-26)Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) can be incurred from occupational or recreational noise exposure. Regardless, NIHL is a preventable form of hearing loss; with accurate knowledge of risk and protective strategies, it can ... -
Evaluating Family Preservation Programs in Juvenile Justice: A Propensity Score Matching Approach
(2019-04-23)This research project examined the impact of Family Preservation Program (FPP) services with adjudicated juveniles from the State of Texas. Family preservation models, used often in child welfare, aim to keep dysfunctional ... -
Collagen Films as Substrates for Flexible Electronics
(2019-04-24)With fast progress in the field of implantable electronics, pushing towards an integration of technology with humans, the biocompatibility of these electronics is a key issue. Collagen, one of the most abundant proteins ... -
Deformation and Failure of Nano-Interfaces in Bone
(2019-04-23)While non-collagenous proteins at nanoscale interfaces in bone are less than 2 – 3% of bone content by weight, they contribute to more than 30% of the fracture toughness. A major gap in the quantitative understanding of ... -
Circuit Performance and Security Enhancement Using Analog Floating Gates and Process Optimization
(2019-04-23)In this research we focus on applications of Analog Floating Gate (AFG) devices. These are programmable memory cells that are precisely adjustable over a wide range of voltage. They can be used to improve the performance, ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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