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Fabrication and Characterization of Multifunctional Bio-Inspired Composites
(2017-08)This dissertation concentrates on a comprehensive study on bio-inspired (“Nacre”-like) composite materials. It involves the design and fabrication approaches and characterize properties of composite materials including ... -
Fabrication and Characterization of Nanomechanical Resonators as Highly Sensitive Mass Sensors
(2018-12)Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) resonators have been used to detect masses of organic or inorganic particles in nanoscale or even atomic level. A reduction in the resonator mass can increase its mass sensitivity (frequency ... -
Fabrication and Characterization of Thermoelectric Materials and Their Stable Contacts at Elevated Temperatures
(2017-12)Contact resistance plays an important role in maintaining high device performance in thermoelectric (TE) generators and coolers. In order to achieve 95% device efficiency, the contact resistance needs to be < 10% of the ... -
Fabrication of Core-Shell Bio-Nanocomposites via Biomimetic Mineralization of Metal Organic Frameworks
(2018-08)Biomineralization is one of the nature-owned masteries that the organisms have exploited for millions of years to produce organic-inorganic hybrid materials with highly customized compositions, microstructures, morphologies ... -
Fabrication of Polylactide Nanocomposite Filament Using Melt Extrusion and Filament Characterization for 3D Printing
(2017-05)Fused deposition modeling (FDM) technology uses thermoplastic filament for layer by layer fabrication of objects. To make functional objects with desired properties, composite filaments are required in the FDM. In this ... -
Face Scanning Patterns of Infants with Hearing Loss: Effects of Auditory Stimuli
(2018-07-24)Infants with typical hearing show consistent patterns while scanning a speaker’s face, focusing on the eyes at 4 months and transitioning to equal looking time to the eyes and mouth by 12 months. This scanning of a speaker’s ... -
Facial Emotion Perception and Recognition in Adolescents with Cochlear Implants
(2020-12-02)This dissertation compares visual emotion perception and processing in adolescents with cochlear implants (CI) and adolescents with typical hearing (TH) to investigate if differences in emotion recognition underlie ... -
Factors Affecting the Shingles Vaccination Rate in Seniors : the Shingles (Zostavax) and Tetanus Vaccination Comparison
(2021-05-03)Health status, demographics, financial factors, education status, internet literacy of seniors, and having a usual place for health care may affect the Shingles vaccination rate in seniors. While activity limitation and ... -
Fairness-Aware Multi-Task and Meta Learning
(2021-07-22)Nowadays, machine learning plays an increasingly prominent role in our life since decisions that humans once made are now delegated to automated systems. In recent years, an increasing number of reports stated that human ... -
Fast Response Model Predictive Control for Open-End Winding Induction Motors
(2017-12)In automotive testing systems such as chassis dynamometers and engine dynamometers, induction motor is used to provide load torque and to emulate propulsion motors for electrical vehicles. Fast current/torque response and ... -
Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis in Industrial Systems Using Machine Learning Techniques
(2018-05)This dissertation concerns the development and usage of advanced machine learning and signal processing methods for fault diagnosis and prognosis in industrial systems. It establishes a mathematical framework for ... -
Fault Tolerance in Hardware Accelerators: Detection and Mitigation
(2019-12)In the age of self-driving cars and space adventures, fault tolerance has become a first order design metric. Thus, it is vital to incorporate fault tolerance coherently into the Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) design ... -
Fault Tolerance in Motion Planning Applications
(2018-05)Presently, the technology advancement in batteries has come to a standstill. High performance computing systems requiring high power currently demand expensive cooling arrangements. Hence, while designing any portable ... -
Feature Engineering for Data Analytics
(2017-12)Data plays a fundamental role in modern science, engineering, and business applications. We investigate two important problems in data analytics. The first is feature selection, where we consider both the unsupervised and ... -
Feature Selection and Extraction - Algorithms and Applications
(2019-05)Feature selection is a very important process in statistics and machine learning. It removes redundant and irrelevant features and selects the most useful set of features from a given dataset. This tends to improve ... -
Feature Selection for Personalized EEG-Based Seizure Monitoring
(2020-11-23)Epilepsy refers to a group of neurological disorders characterized by neurons in brain that misfire and cause recurrent seizures. Epilepsy affects millions of people around the world. Epileptic patients who have intractable ... -
Film Formation Mechanisms and Interfacial Interactions Derived from In-Situ Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Ex-Situ XPS
(2018-08)There is a trend toward the miniaturization of devices for a multitude of industries (microelectronic, energy harvesting/collecting, sensing, etc.) to decrease production costs, increase yields and to optimize efficiencies. ... -
Finding Features Via Hull Approximation
(2021-05-03)With the recent explosion in data collection, big datasets are becoming more difficult to handle. The size of these datasets can cause algorithms to become intractable in time or space, but noise and outliers can also cause ... -
FINESSE: Foundations for Immersive Non-Fiction Narrative as Embodied/Situated Simulation Experiences -- A Conceptual Framework for Immersive Journalism Design
(2019-12)Immersive journalism is a term used to describe news presentations that use Extended Reality (XR) technologies that blend human-computer interactivity with real and virtual environments in order to create a first-person, ... -
Finger-Tip Recognition for 3D Mixed Reality Applications
(2018-08)Developments in depth sensors like Microsoft Kinect and Leap Motion, have lead to significant improvements in systems for Human Computer Interaction (HCI). One of the several areas benefiting from this advancement is the ...