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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 ... -
Gender Disparities in Decision Making in Agriculture: A Case of Study of Small Producers in Peru
(2021-03-08)This study uses data from agricultural producers collected by the Group of Analysis for Development (GRADE) in one hundred thirty-two households from four departments, eleven provinces, and twenty-one districts of Peru. ... -
Genealogy of Racism in Mexico: Technological Devices of Race and their Transformation in Modern Mexico
(2019-11-19)The genealogy of racism in Mexico can be traced to colonial times. This dissertation argues that the framers of the modern Mexican nation-state found useful social practices that I identify as technologies to carry the ... -
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 ... -
Geometric and Combinatorial Properties of Nets in Plane and Higher-Dimensions
(2019-08)This work belongs to a broad area of geometry of discrete integrable systems. The main objects of our study are nets which are configurations of affine subspaces limited to certain geometric and combinatorial constraints. ... -
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 ... -
Gestural Coordination of Modern Greek Consonant Clusters : Kinematic Analysis and Use of Supervised Learning Methods
(2021-07-01)Consonant clusters are groups of consonants not interrupted by a vowel and are produced by a set of articulatory gestures that coordinate in time. Little is known about which factors affect the temporal overlap of these ... -
Getting Inside the "Black Box" of Deterrence : Does Communication of Focused Deterrence Deter Crime?
(2021-05-03)A large body of evaluations has found that the focused deterrence programs, also known as pulling levers policing, generate significant crime reduction effects. Although the mechanisms believed to underlie the focused ... -
Ghosts and Hauntings of Western Imperialism The Art of Michael Rakowitz
(2020-12-04)This thesis analyzes the art of Michael Rakowitz, contextualizing it within an array of subjects including but not limited to: Western Imperialism, immigrant communities, social sculpture, museum history, and collective ... -
Ghrelin System Deficiency and Hippocampal Lesions in Alzheimer's Disease
(2020-12-02)Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder that primarily affects the senior population and is characterized by insidious onset and progressive cognitive decline. AD is neuropathologically defined by ... -
Giantess and Other Stories: A Creative Dissertation
(2019-03-13)This creative dissertation comprises a short story collection titled Giantess and Other Stories and a scholarly component that provides background for the creation of the collection. The story collection, which accounts ... -
Global Bifurcation of Periodic Solutions in Symmetric Reversible Second Order Systems with Delays
(2020-11-17)Global bifurcation and spatio-temporal patterns of periodic solutions (with prescribed period) to second order reversible equivariant autonomous systems with commensurate delays is studied using the Brouwer O(2)×Γ×Z2-equivariant ... -
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 ... -
Globalization and New Bollywood's Hat-ke (Different) Directors: Nation, Gender, and Identity in the Films of Vishal Bhardwaj, Anurag Kashyap, and Abhishek Chaubey
(2019-04-23)The linked impact of globalization, economic liberalization policies, and the introduction of cable television in India introduced major changes in the popular and largely unregulated Mumbai-based Hindi film industry in ... -
Glutathione-Mediated Biotransformation in the Liver Modulates Nanoparticle Transport in Vivo
(2019-07-11)Glutathione-mediated biotransformation in the liver is a key and well-known detoxification process for the body to eliminate small xenobiotics but its impacts on nanoparticle retention, targeting and clearance are much ... -
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 ... -
Grant's Third Charge : a Tale of Scapegoating, Atonement, and Affirmation During the Era of Reconstruction (1863-1877)
(2020-01-09)This dissertation serves to shed new light on the continued effort by historians to reassess Ulysses S. Grant’s reputation as the eighteenth president of these United States. Even though historical evidence supports the ... -
Graph Theoretic Approaches for Analyzing Routes, Flows, and Subnetworks in Communication Networks
(2021-04-22)Modeling networks as different graph types and discovering novel route finding strategies, as well as avoiding congestion in dense subnetworks via graph-theoretic approaches, contribute to overall blocking probability ... -
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 ...