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Background Analog and Digital Calibration Techniques for Pipelined ADC’s
(2017-05)A digital background calibration technique to treat capacitor mismatch, residue gain error and nonlinearity in a pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) based on the split-ADC architecture (J. McNeill et al., “Split ... -
Band Topology and Moire Physics in Layered Materials
(2021-04-23)The study of electronic properties of materials is of great interest to condensed matter physicists. Since the discovery of quantum Hall effects, band topology has attracted much attention. In this dissertation, the roles ... -
Bayesian Nonparametric Probabilistic Methods in Machine Learning
(2018-12)Many aspects of modern science, business and engineering have become data-centric, relying on tools from Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Practitioners and researchers in these fields need tools that can ... -
Behavioral Language Converter to Improve HLS Quality of Results
(2019-05)High Level Synthesis (HLS) is one of the most emerging fields of research that is helping the industries to reduce the time-to-market constraint. With the advancement of the HLS, till now approximately 100 companies have ... -
Bespoke Behavioral Processors
(2020-05)Many emerging applications require simple controllers that run the exact same application continuously. These include medical devices and IoTs of different nature. Because of the nature of these applications, they have ... -
Between Politics and Aesthetics: Red China through the Lens of Western Leftist Filmmakers
(2018-05)This dissertation is a cross-cultural study of Western leftist filmmakers’ portrayals of communist China. It focuses on four movies: Chris Marker’s Sunday in Peking (1956), Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise (1967), Michelangelo ... -
Beyond Motive: Situational Influences in Student Perpetrated Shootings
(2019-12)Due to the reactive nature of school policies surrounding school shootings, such as the increased implementation of various security measures, it is important to understand whether these new approaches make a meaningful ... -
Bi-layer and Hybrid Single Crystal Materials for Radiation Detection Applications
(2021-03-09)There is a growing need for radiation sensors, particularly in the fields of national security, nuclear medicine imaging, and monitoring of environmental radioactivity. These applications require sensors that are small, ... -
Big Data Sanitization Using Scalable In-Memory Frameworks
(2017-05)As more and more data is collected, it is growing beyond the scale humans could ever have imagined. Not only data but also data collection and analysis techniques have evolved and have enabled researchers to advance many ... -
Binary Black-Hole Spin Precession: Dynamical Evolution and Gravitational-Wave Parameter Estimation
(2019-12)Einstein’s general relativity predicts the existence of black holes. A binary black hole is a system of two black holes orbiting each other. During the inspiral of a binary black hole, the separation between the two black ... -
Bio-Inspired Nacre-Like Ceramic Matrix Composites
(2018-12)Understanding the role of the ductile polymer phase in mechanical behavior of bioinspired hybrid composites is an important step toward development of materials with damage tolerant properties. In this dissertation,fabrication ... -
Biochemical Studies of Regulatory Heme-Protein Interaction and Heme Regulation in Yeast
(2018-08)Heme is a small biomolecule produced and used by living organisms from bacteria to humans. Heme consists of an organic porphyrin ring that coordinates an iron ion, Fe(II) or Fe(III), in its center. Heme can be in an ... -
Biomechanics of Breastfeeding: Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation of Milk Expression
(2020-07-16)Breastfeeding is a highly dynamic and complex mechanism. There are two theories for the dynamics of milk expression by the infant. One hypothesis is that milk expression is due to negative pressure applied by infant sucking; ... -
Bivariate Logistic Bayesian LASSO for Detecting Rare Haplotype Association with Two Correlated Phenotypes
(2020-11-20)Multiple correlated traits/phenotypes are often collected in genetic association studies and they may share a common genetic mechanism. Joint analysis of correlated phenotypes has well-known advantages over one-at-a-time ... -
Black Gold or Black Hole? The Effects of Oil on the Informal Economy
(2020-11-20)Does oil revenue enlarge or diminish the size of a country’s informal economy? I examine the effects of oil revenue on informal economy size for all available countries and by studying the case of Ghana, which had little ... -
Bolder than BOLD: Changes in Neurophysiologic Underpinnings of fMRI Signal With Age and Task Demand
(2020-04-21)Many theories of mechanisms involved in brain aging are based on age differences in bloodoxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal as measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The contour of the hemodynamic ... -
Brain Amyloidopathy in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Pathology
(2020-05)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by progressive cognitive decline. Presence of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain are hallmark AD pathology, which ... -
Brandishing the Gun: Representations in Early American Literature, 1500-1800
(2019-12)This dissertation explores early American literary representations of firearms, both pistols and rifles. Its primary purpose is to provide an overview of a few samples of early American perceptions of guns and explore ... -
Breast Cancer Detection by Magneto-Thermal Modeling of Biological Tissues
(2016-12)Breast cancer has adversely influenced women’s lives for many years. Yet, the current cancer detection methods come with disadvantages such as lack of reliability, health concerns, and high operational costs. This research ... -
Building Recognizability in Urban Environments
(2019-05)One of the main scopes of geospatial information sciences is providing the necessary tools and techniques to better understand the interaction between humans and their surrounding environments. As the recognition of buildings ...