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Kinematic Modeling for Control of Agile Powered Prosthetic Legs Over Continuously Varying Speeds and Inclines
(2020-07-10)People with above knee amputations face many unique challenges during their activities of daily living. Conventional passive prosthetic legs are not optimal for the range of ambulation tasks amputee users face daily, ... -
Knowledge Based Speaker Analysis Using a Massive Naturalistic Corpus : Fearless Steps Apollo-11
(2020-08)Apollo-11 was the first manned space mission to successfully bring astronauts to the moon and return them safely. As part of NASA’s goal in assessing team and mission success, all voice communications within Mission ... -
Knowledge Production in the United States: An Analysis Using the Theoretical Frameworks of Marx and Weber
(2017-05)The increased reliance of knowledge in the United States has led to what is often referred to as an emerging knowledge-based society. Knowledge is important to several aspects of society (Campbell, 2006) and is produced ... -
Knowledge-Rich Event Coreference Resolution
(2021-05-04)Information extraction, a key area of research in Natural Language Processing (NLP), concerns the extraction of structured information from natural language documents. Recent years have seen a gradual shift of focus from ... -
Landscapes of Mothering: Creating Maternal Identity Through Story
(2018-05)This creative dissertation is comprised of a photographic exhibit entitled “Landscapes of Mothering” and a scholarly apparatus that situates the exhibition in the evolution of contemporary photography theories. The ... -
Language and Justification: Richard Rorty’s Therapeutic Philosophy
(2018-05)Framed within Richard Rorty’s understanding of how language and social practices serve as the ground for human knowledge, this dissertation explores the problems of language, justification, and truth. First I examine ... -
Large Receptive Field Convolutional Neural Networks for Robust Speech Recognition
(2020-08-18)Despite significant efforts over the last few years to build a robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for different acoustic settings, the performance of the current state-of-the-art technologies significantly ... -
Large-Eddy Simulation Study of Turbulent Flow over Dune Field
(2019-12)The interactive feedback between turbulent flow and dune morphology is significant to understand the formation of dune field and turbulent flow physical attributes. Different kinds of deductions and formulas are proposed ... -
Late Cenozoic Displacement Transfer Analysis Within Deep Springs Valley, Eastern California With Gravity Modeling
(2019-05)The northern segment of the Eastern California Shear Zone (ECSZ) is characterized by rightlateral transtension accommodated on a network of north-northwest and northwest striking dextral transcurrent faults connected by ... -
Late Cenozoic High-Angle Transtensional and Low-Angle Detachment Faults in the Eastern Mina Deflection, West-Central Nevada
(2018-08)The region in west-central Nevada underlain by the Mina deflection, a belt of curved east-northeast and north-northwest high-angle faults linking the Eastern California Shear Zone and southern Walker Lane to the central ... -
Late Oligocene to Early Miocene North-South Extension in the Western Great Basin
(2018-08)In the central and southern Walker Lane, a network of six east-northeast east-west, and westnorthwest trending half-grabens, spanning an area of 15,000 km2, controlled the spatial distribution and thickness of late Oligocene ... -
Layered Metal Dichalcogenides Thin Films Deposited by Pulse Laser Deposition
(2017-12)Layered metal dichalcogenides (LMDs) have outstanding intrinsic properties and are considered potential candidate electronic materials for emerging devices in the fields of optoelectronics, piezoelectronics, and lately in ... -
LDPC Coded Visible Light Communication
(2018-08)Visible light communication (VLC) using the visible light band in the electromagnetic spectrum (EM) promises an opportunity to reach a significantly large and unregulated part of the EM spectrum. Therefore, this modality ... -
Learn DNA: An interactive VR application for learning DNA structure
(2018-05)Education is one of the important applications of Virtual Reality (VR). VR learning environments are engaging for students, and increase their interest in education. One reason for the success of VR in education is its ... -
Learning Based Algorithms for Speech Applications Under Domain Mismatch Conditions
(2019-05)Recent years have experienced a tremendous growth in the use of voice based virtual assistants. Communicating with the digital world via voice is becoming a very easy and pleasant experience, since this mode of interaction ... -
Left Orderability of Dehn Surgery on Odd Classical Pretzel Knots
(2020-08)A non-trivial group G is called left-orderable if there exists a strict total ordering < on its elements such that g < h ⇒ fg < fh for all f, g, h ∈ G. Wallace and Lickorish independently proved that every closed, ... -
Leveraging the Advantages of High-Level Synthesis : From Hardware Security to Low-Power Design
(2020-11-18)Today’s integrated circuits (IC) are more complicated than ever before, leading to extreme long development times. Therefore, many companies have began to rely on high-level synthesis (HLS) to increase their design ... -
Liberal Peace in East Asia? A Study of China-Taiwan Relations
(2019-05)According to the concept of democratic peace, the more democracies emerge, the less conflict will occur. However, a mature democracy is not built and can not be consolidated in one day. In fact, an immature democratic ... -
Linear and Star-Like Substituted Polycaprolactones for Enhanced Delivery of Doxorubicin
(2017-08)Doxorubicin is a poorly water soluble chemotherapeutic drug used in the treatment of many cancers. However, due to its toxic side effects, there has been a lot of effort to develop better delivery methods for this drug ... -
Lingual Speech Motor Control Assessed by a Novel Visuomotor Tracking Paradigm
(2021-04-28)Like other types of human motor control, speech production is thought to be accomplished through the process of receiving sensory feedback and continually refining predictive feedforward models to achieve the desired ...