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GaN Driving Techniques and Circuits for High Performance and High Reliability Power Electronics
(2017-12)High frequency DC-DC converters have gained more popularity due to the ever-increasing demand on fast transient response, small solution size and high-power density in power systems. However, as the switching frequency is ... -
Genomic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Enterococcus Faecalis Responses to Cationic Antimicrobials
(2017-12)Over the last decade, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections have been occurring at an alarming rate and are an increasing risk to public health. Unfortunately, the pace of discovery and approval of new antibiotics is ... -
Geophysical Investigations of Southern Fish Lake Valley, Western Great Basin, California
(2016-12)Growth of the Cucomungo Canyon restraining bend along the Fish Lake Valley-Furnace Creek fault zone has resulted in localized uplift at the southern end of Fish Lake Valley in eastern California. This thesis is part of ... -
Geothermal Fluids and Detachment Faults
(2019-08)Movement of crustal fluids along large faults is a crucial part of the formation of geothermal systems, ore and petroleum deposits, and is related permeability changes in and adjacent to the faults. When these fluids are ... -
Global Variational Learning for Graphical Models with Latent Variables
(2018-05)Probabilistic Graphical Models have been used intensively for developing Machine Learning applications including Computer Vision, Natural Language processing, Collaborative Filtering, and Bioinformatics. Moreover, Graphical ... -
Government Issue and the Face of War: The Representation of Servicemen in American Literary and Visual Culture of the Second World War
(2016-12)Throughout the Second World War, a gulf existed between the experience of American civilians and that of the American combat soldier. Official propaganda posters sanctioned by the Office of War Information argued that the ... -
Gravity Analysis to Determine Geometry of Superposed Low-Angle Detachment and High-Angle Faults in the Western Silver Peak Range and Northern Fish Lake Valley, Nevada
(2018-12)Structures within the northern Eastern California shear zone (ECSZ) and central Walker Lane (CWL) are misaligned and have been kinematically linked since the mid-Miocene by a series of structural stepovers. Northwest ... -
Growth Trajectories of Grammatical Skills and Foundational Reading Skills in Spanish-English Dual Language Learners
(2019-12)This manuscript-based dissertation encompasses three studies that examine the dynamic growth of language skills and foundational reading skills in Spanish-English Dual Language Learners (DLLs). The studies applied Dynamic ... -
Guidance of Regenerating Peripheral Axon Subtypes Using Molecular Cues
(2017-05)There are approximately 1.9 million amputees in the USA, and approximately 185,000 new amputations occur every year. Recent progress in robotic limbs provides the possibility of interfacing with the peripheral nerve to ... -
Guidelines and Benchmarks for Deployment of Deep Learning Models on Smartphones as Real-Time Apps
(2019-05)In many pattern recognition or machine learning applications, deep learning models or deep neural networks have provided superior performance relative to feature-based classifiers. Although there exist a number of publicly ... -
Haptic Rendering in 3D Immersive Environments
(2017-12)Since haptic rendering brings more real, more immersive and engaging experience into the 3D immersive environment, it greatly catches people's attention in broad fields such as medical therapy, gaming industry, robotics, ... -
Hardware Implementation of Real-Time Beat Detection and Classification Algorithm for Automated ECG Analysis
(2018-08)The epidemics of diabetes and obesity, along with unhealthy and stressful lifestyles, have highly contributed to the increased number of patients with heart failure in recent times. As the saying goes, “Prevention is ... -
Hardware Trojans in Wireless Cryptographic ICs
(2017-05)Over the last decade, the problem of hardware Trojans in manufactured integrated circuits (ICs) has been a topic of intense investigation by academic researchers and governmental entities. Hardware Trojans are malicious ... -
Hardware Trojans in Wireless Networks
(2018-08)The area of hardware security has received intense scrutiny in recent years due to outsourcing of semiconductor device manufacturing, use of third party Intellectual Properties (IPs) in the fabricated design, Electronic ... -
Hardware-Based Workload Forensics and Malware Detection in Modern Microprocessors
(2018-12)Traditional computer forensics and/or malware detection methods are generally implemented at the operating system (OS) or the hypervisor level, which benefits from abundant software semantics and implementation flexibility. ... -
Heat Exchange Processes in the Topside Ionosphere at Low to Middle Latitudes
(2018-05)Plasma temperatures in the ionosphere are fundamental indicators of the heat balance between the charged and neutral species and are associated with both the dynamics and structure of the upper atmosphere. At low and middle ... -
High Mobility III-V Semiconductor Devices with Gate Dielectrics and Passivation Layers Grown by Atomic Layer Deposition
(2018-05)This dissertation focuses on the applications of atomic layer deposition (ALD) to high mobility III-V semiconductor devices. The first study is an in situ ALD-based interface passivation technique using ALD diethylzinc ... -
High Price, High Importance: Examining Demand for High-Priced Credit
(2019-05)For 4,000 years those in position to influence policy have attempted to protect consumers from loans with terms they consider harmful. This continues today with attempts to address loans from payday lenders, pawnshops, ... -
High-Speed and Low-Power Pipelined SAR ADCs with Passive Residue Transfer and Dynamic Amplifier
(2017-05)High speed analog to digital converters (ADCs) are critical blocks in wideband wireline and wireless communication systems. This dissertation presents the designs of two high-speed pipelined successive-approximation-register ... -
Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity-Associated Protein Expression in a Rat Model of Rett Syndrome
(2017-12)Rett syndrome is a rare X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder. Mutations in the methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MeCP2) gene is the leading cause for most cases of Rett syndrome, generating severe cognitive impairment in females ...