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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Bullying in Nigerian Secondary Schools: A test of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime
(2018-05)Gottfredson and Hirschi’s General Theory of Crime’s claim to explain crime, at all times, and in all places, has received considerable empirical support using Western, Scandinavian, and Asian samples. However, the theory ... -
Bulwarks of Unbelief: A Phenomenology of Atheism and Divine Absence in Late Modernity
(2019-05)In this dissertation, I attempt to account for the fact that God’s absence or invisibility has, since at least the middle of the 19th century, been seen as plausibly accounted for by the fact that God does not exist. ... -
Business-Government Relationship and Foreign Market Entry in Transition Economies
(2017-07-19)My dissertation encompasses of three essays: 1) Political Market Competition in Transition Economies, 2) How Does Home Country Bribery Change Firms’ Foreign Market Focus? 3) Divergent Learning Effects from Alliance ... -
But the Crowd was not Satisfied: Blackface Minstrelsy and Lynching as Fandoms of the Remediated Black Body
(2017-08)But the Crowd was not Satisfied argues that the black body is a remediated textual object, which has inspired the creation of two attendant fandoms: blackface minstrelsy and lynching. Since slavery, images of the black ... -
CAD Flow for Hotspot Management in FPGAs
(2017-08)Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are used not only for rapid prototyping but also for implementing very high-performance computing engines. Advancements in big data, machine learning, and neural network are increasing ... -
Calibration Techniques for High Speed Time-Interleaved SAR ADC
(2017-08)The emerging applications such as Internet-of-Things (IoT), self-driven car and artificial intelligence (AI) trigger rapid increase in bandwidth demand in data centers and telecommunication infrastructure. The data traffic ... -
Can Social Diorganization Theory Explain Violent Crime in Seoul, South Korea?: A Longitudinal Cross-Cultural Examination
(2018-05)A large body of work has applied social disorganization theory to crime in Western cultures, but minimal research examines how the theory operates within Eastern cultures. This study seeks to fill this gap through an ... -
Capacity Fade Estimation for Li-ion Battery Packs
(2017-12)As the electric vehicle market is growing at a rapid pace, the need for accurate state of charge (SOC), state of health (SOH) estimation of the battery pack is required. Moreover, the battery management system should be ... -
Catalase Immobilization in Wrinkled Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles
(2018-05)Wrinkled mesoporous silica (WMS) has been shown to be a promising material for enzyme immobilization. The WMS possesses a unique wrinkled structure with conical shaped pores which radiate from the center to the surface ...