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Paleomagnetic and Rock Magnetic Analysis of an Ignimbrite Sequence, the Yellowstone Huckleberry Ridge Tuff, Southeast Idaho
(2019-05)Paleomagnetic data collected at four sites in ignimbrite members A and B of the Huckleberry Ridge Tuff in the Teton River Valley area of southeast Idaho, USA, yield ChRM directions in in situ coordinates of south-southwest ... -
Parameter Tying and Dissociation in Graphical Models
(2019-12)Understanding the implications of today’s deluge and high velocity of data is a challenging problem facing researchers across multiple disciplines and domains. Data are typically highdimensional, unstructured, and noisy; ... -
Passive Time-Lapse Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) Data Recorded in an Open-Hole, Production Well
(2021-04-29)Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is a method that utilizes the Rayleigh backscattering of laser light pulses generated at numerous randomly spaced scattering points along a fiber optics cable, and then recorded by an ... -
Passively Addressable Electrochemical Sensor for Detection of Chloride Ions in Ultra-Low Volumes of Human Sweat
(2019-12)Sweat chloride serves as the gold standard biomarker for diagnosis of Cystic Fibrosis (CF), a lethal progressive, genetic disorder of childhood. Quantification of chloride concentration in human sweat can also be used ... -
Patient Ambulation Assessment Using Depth Cameras
(2020-11-30)In the field of medical care, effective assessment of human activities is essential for understanding the patient's physical state in general and postoperative recovery, in particular. Detecting human joints by using depth ... -
Peering into the Blackbox [:] the Role of Digital Game Development in Game Studies
(2020-10-01)Digital game development is a critical tool in game studies due to its ability to communicate and its academic value as a mode of understanding the medium. Understanding digital game development and gaining some appreciation ... -
Perception and Production of Emotional Prosody in the Speech of Mandarin-Speaking Adults with Cochlear Implants
(2018-12)Emotional prosody, which refers to the process of expressing emotions through spoken language, is essential for correctly recognizing speakers’ emotional states during spoken communication. Previous research has shown ... -
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 ... -
Perceptions of Success in Serious Juvenile Offenders: A Group-Based Trajectory Approach
(2017-12)Despite having implications for several theoretical frameworks in criminology, most notably Robert Agnew’s General Strain Theory (1992), few researchers have assessed the impact of how serious offenders’ perceptions of ... -
Performance Analysis and Techniques for Wireless Systems with Unmanaged and Managed Interference
(2017-12)In the past few decades, the world has witnessed enormous advances in wireless communication systems introducing unprecedented applications and services. Such advances brought the idea of Internet of Things (IoT) to life, ... -
Performance Analysis of an Onshore Wind Farm Through LiDAR, SCADA And Meteorological Data
(2017-12)This thesis focuses on the development of techniques for detection of wind turbine wakes and their consequential impact on wind farm efficiency. Performance in power production of an on-shore wind farm is investigated ... -
Permutation Arrays with Large Hamming Distance
(2017-08)A permutation array (PA) is a set of permutations on a set Z_n = {0,1,...n-1} symbols. The Hamming distance between a pair of permutations in a PA is the number of disagreements between them. The Hamming distance of a PA ... -
Perovskite Materials for Radiation Detection
(2018-08)Semiconductor materials currently used in radiation detectors are very expensive and require processing at high temperatures. Perovskites, CH₃NH₃PbX₃ (X=Br, I), were chosen to be evaluated for this application due to ... -
Personalization of Noise Reduction and Compression for Hearing Enhancement
(2021-03-02)Noise reduction and dynamic range compression constitute two main signal processing modules for hearing enhancement in modern digital hearing aid devices. This dissertation covers personalization solutions for both of these ... -
Perspective Bias and Attitudes Toward the Police- An Analysis of Video-Recorded Citizen and Police Interactions
(2020-11-13)Police officers across the United States face an onslaught of change, driven primarily by social upheaval in a country whose citizens are increasingly skeptical of the government and its institutions (Pew Research Center, ... -
PH-Responsive MRI Agents that can be Activated Beyond the Tissue MT Window
(2017-05)Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) has emerged as a novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) contrast mechanism and gained increasing attention in applications. The image contrast is obtained by utilizing slow ... -
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 ... -
Phase Resolved Optical Emission Spectroscopic Measurements and Results of Pulsed Capacitively Coupled Radiofrequency Discharges Through Argon and Tetrafluoromethane-Argon
(2020-05)The experimental results and discussion presented in this dissertation contribute new findings for pulsed capacitively coupled radiofrequency (rf) discharges at low pressures during the re-ignition of the plasma using the ... -
Photoinactivation of Proteins by Molecular Hyperthermia
(2020-04-17)Spatiotemporal control of protein structure and activity in biological systems has important and broad implications in biomedical sciences as evidenced by recent advances in optogenetic approaches. However, it is challenging ... -
PHY Security of Wiretap Channels: From Point-to-Point to Multiple Access
(2018-05)Information secrecy is crucial to a wireless communication system due to the broadcast nature of radio-frequency transmissions. Traditionally, secrecy has been provided by designing upper-layer sophisticated protocols. ...