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"I Triumph": Poe as Moralist
(2019-07-19)Poe’s short stories frequently are divided into neat categories: (1) tales of ratiocination; (2) humorous tales; (3) phantasmagorical and science fiction tales; (4) adventure or fantastic voyage tales; and (5) terror/horror ... -
i3DTI: Interactive 3D Tele-Immersion
(2017-05)3D Tele-Immersion (3DTI) approaches offer collaborative augmented virtuality, by immersing multiple geographically distributed users in a single virtual world. Multiple cameras are used to capture remote users and ... -
IC Laser Trimming Speed-up Through Wafer-Level Spatial Correlation Modeling
(2019-12)Laser trimming is used extensively to ensure accurate values of on-chip precision resistors in the presence of process variations. Such laser resistor trimming is slow and expensive, typically performed in a closed-loop, ... -
Iconic : Discerning Insightful Contexts in Image Captioning By Leveraging Commonsense Knowledge
(2020-08)One of the most remarkable qualities of a human is the ability to describe an image with numerous invaluable insights at will. These insights are the result of one’s background knowledge, as well as the ability to reason ... -
Identification of Ligands Selectively Targeting Breast Cancer Stem Cells via Combinatorial Chemical Library Screening
(2018-08)Cancer stem cells (CSCs), also known as tumor-initiating cells (TICs), play critical roles in the resistance to anti-cancer therapies, tumor metastasis and tumor relapse. An innovative synthetic binder to cancer stem ... -
Identification of Novel Pharmacological Targets For Pain Treatment Using Computational Analysis of RNA-seq Data
(2021-04-28)Chronic pain is a disease that impacts 1.9 billion people worldwide every year, which includes over 100 million in the United States alone. Despite the extensive efforts in preclinical research, only a few pain treatments ... -
Identifying Dangerous Places to Homeless People: An Application of Risk Terrain Modeling
(2019-05)Spatial analysis in criminology is an emerging area due to the rapid development of technology. The spatial analysis can forecast future crime locations by considering prior crime and risk factors that potentially lead ... -
Identifying Differences in the Neural Correlates Underlying Semantic and Syntactic Development
(2018-05)Language comprehension requires millisecond level processing of semantic and syntactic information, yet children seem to integrate and comprehend all of this information with relative ease. Although this is done effortlessly, ... -
iGrab Hand Orthosis: Design and Development Using Twisted and Coiled Polymer Muscles
(2017-12)Four million Americans are suffering from upper limb malformation due to various neurological disorders. Efforts have been made to develop orthosis and prosthesis to improve the quality of life of those individuals. This ... -
Illicit Financial Outflows Through Trade Misinvoicing in Developing Countries: the Influence of Market Concentration
(2019-05)This master’s thesis examines the effect of market concentration on illicit financial outflows in developing countries. It argues that firms are more willing to shift funds illicitly abroad using the channel of trade ... -
Image Classification Model for Edge Devices
(2020-08)Machine learning is a potentially powerful tool for medical diagnoses, when empowered by very deep neural networks and very powerful hardware. However, that hardware is expensive and other solutions rely on a steady ... -
Immigration Enforcement and Leader Image: President Trump and Support for ICE
(2020-04-16)If a political leader were to speak on immigration enforcement policies, such as President Trump has, would Americans be in more or less favor of immigration enforcement policies? Immigration studies have shown that ... -
Immiscible Polymer Blend Membranes for High Pressure, High Temperature H2/CO2 Separation
(2016-12)High pressure and high temperature separation of H2/CO2 is of great interest for clean energy generation in processes such as coal gasification. Flat and tubular membranes of the polybenzimidazole (PBI)/6FDA-DAM immiscible ... -
Impact of Manufacturing Imperfections and Extreme Thermal and Physical Stress on the Performance of Electrochemical Energy Converters
(2017-07-25)This thesis discusses important factors that affect the performance of a machine. These are categorized based on the manufacturing processes of the magnetic steel and effects of high-energy magnets on the rotor core of ... -
Impacts of Location Uncertainty on Statistical Modeling of Georeferenced Data
(2017-12)Uncertainty in data analysis has been a critical topic in numerous fields, such as public health, medicine, civil engineering, ecology and other natural sciences, and many of the social sciences, including geospatial ... -
Impacts of Physical Layer Impairments on Optical Network Performance
(2017-05)Nowadays, dynamic traffic demands --- including high-definition video streaming requested by mobile devices and large bulks of data transfers taking place between data centers --- continue to increase in volume over time. ... -
Implementing Appropriate Multivariate Methods for Higher Quality Results from Genetic Association Studies in Substance Abuse Populations
(2017-05)For nearly a century, detecting the genetic contributions to cognitive and behavioral phenomena has been a core interest for psychological research. Recently, this interest has been reinvigorated across many related domains ... -
Improving Business Processes Using Blockchain, Microservices, or Cloud Computing : a Goal-Oriented Approach
(2021-01-05)Business processes, which are collections of business activities and interactions by software, hardware, and peopleware to produce services or products for customers, act as the context in which software systems are to ... -
Improving Quality of Experience for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming: From Legacy to 360° Videos
(2019-05)Video streaming is driving the growth in Internet traffic. HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is the widely adopted solution for this purpose. When network conditions are highly variable, users experience low video quality, ... -
Improving Quality of Service in Emerging IoT and ML Applications through Fog Computing
(2019-12)The recent advances in the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and Machine Learning (ML) have contributed to the rise of a growing number of complex and intelligent applications. Examples of such applications are real-time ...