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U.S. Power Politics and the United Nations: Vote Buying in the Security Council
(2018-05)This article examines the phenomenon of vote buying in the United Nations (UN) and its consequences for the international community. Expanding on the robust link the literature draws between UN Security Council (UNSC) ... -
U.S. Supreme Court Use of Social Science Research to Inform Constitutional Criminal Law and Procedure Opinions Throughout the 2001 – 2015 Terms
(2017-05)The call for policies supported by evidence based research have increased over the past few decades. The United States Supreme Court is one of the entities that influence criminal procedure/civil liberties through their ... -
Uncertain Tax Benefits and the Persistence of Earnings
(2019-06-04)I examine the relationship between uncertain tax benefit accruals (UTB accruals) and earnings persistence. I posit that the two competing forces that make up UTB accruals could lead to no relationship between UTB accruals ... -
Understanding and Mitigating Privacy Risks Raised by Record Linkage
(2020-11-30)Record linkage is the process of combining data belonging to the same entity but possibly lacking a common identifier and often dispersed in multiple repositories. Despite having its legitimate usage in data de-duplication ... -
Understanding and Optimizing Vagus Nerve Stimulation Directed Cortical Plasticity
(2018-05)Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is a tool that has been used to treat epilepsy, depression and enhance memory. In the last few years VNS has been observed to direct cortical plasticity when paired with a sensory or motor ... -
Understanding Daily Adolescent Disclosure: Associations with Mother and Adolescent Daily Mood
(2019-08)Adolescent disclosure is important to foster a healthy parent-adolescent relationship and has implications for reducing adolescents’ involvement in risky behaviors. However, the adolescent literature has not considered ... -
Understanding Influences and Biases in Decision Making: Three Meta-Analyses on Information Processing
(2017-12)In this dissertation, I conduct three meta-analyses exploring how consumers process information in the presence of marketing appeals meant to influence their decision-making. In Essay 1, I undertake a meta-analysis of 26 ... -
Understanding Lochner: Testing Three Rival Theoretical Perspectives
(2017-05)The Lochner v. New York case initiated a great debate among judicial scholars. Conventional wisdom surrounding Lochner is that Justice Holmes’ dissent exposed unwarranted judicial activism by the majority, while some ... -
Unique Architectures Built on Chiral Polycarbodiimides
(2017-05)The helix is a very fascinating and unique macrostructure that can be found in biological systems, as well as, throughout nature. The ability to transfer this basic structure into synthetic architecture will offer many ... -
Universal, Ultra-low Volume Cortisol Biosensor: From Point-of-care to Point-of-need Applications
(2019-12)Frequent shift work by an individual causes disruption of the circadian rhythm and potentially, in the long run, result in increased health risks. Current biomarkers evaluating the presence of circadian rhythm disturbance ... -
University Presidents and Performance: Testing the Theory of Publicness Fit
(2019-08)For more than half a century, scholars have examined the qualities that distinguish public organizations from their private sector counterparts with the goal of understanding how and whether these distinctions influence ... -
Unraveling Alzheimer's Disease: Relations Between Neuroimaging and Neuropsychological Measures
(2017-05)Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a multifaceted disease that includes psychiatric, cognitive, and neurologic components. To better understand the progression of AD it is important to investigate how cognition and neuroimaging ... -
Unraveling and Designing Biomolecular Interactions Using Direct Couplings From Global Probabilistic Models
(2019-11-20)Coevolution plays a fundamental role in determining folding, structure, interactions and functionality of proteins. Structural or functional related residues coevolve during the evolutionary history to maintain similar ... -
Unraveling the Operational Landscape of Engineered Genetic Regulatory Networks
(2019-11-20)The operation of all living cells is executed by a collection of complex biomolecular regulatory networks. Naturally occurring networks exhibit remarkable properties as they robustly operate in an ever-changing cellular ... -
User Customizable Real-Time Single and Dual Microphone Speech Enhancement and Blind Speech Separation for Smartphone Hearing Aid Applications
(2018-05)Speech Enhancement (SE) is a vital algorithmic component in the Hearing Aid pipeline. Over the years, several algorithms have been developed to work in real-time and to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech. ... -
Using a Comprehensive Characterization of the Physical Environment and Machine Learning to Forecast the Abundance of Airborne Pollen
(2019-05)It is known that approximately 50 million Americans have allergic diseases. Airborne pollen is a significant trigger for several of these allergic diseases. Among all sources, Ambrosia (ragweed) is known for its abundant ... -
Using infrared spectrometry to deduce fluid history from a geothermal energy exploration core at Emigrant Peak Geothermal Prospect, Northern Fish Lake Valley, Nevada, U.S.A.
(2016-12)The purpose of this study was to test the possibility of using infrared (IR) spectrometry in mineral identification from a core (EM 17-31), from the Emigrant Peak geothermal prospect in northern Fish Lake Valley, Nevada. ... -
Using Machine Learning Techniques for Prediction and Data Generation with Applications to Data Privacy
(2019-12)Increasingly, machine learning (ML) applications are developed and become an integral part of many real-world applications. Especially, ML techniques are heavily used in research and industry to help make effective ... -
Utility of Betti Sequences as Persistent Homology-based Topological Descriptors in Application to Inference for Space-Time Processes and Time Series of Complex Networks
(2019-07-19)Everything we see around us has a shape. In the age when data are being collected at unrepresented rates and volumes, we often come across data types having inherent shape structure. Rapidly developing field of topological ... -
Utilization of 3D Photorealistic Virtual Models of Outcrop Geology and Implementation of Customized Graphic User Interfaces
(2020-05)This research demonstrates the use of 3D Photorealistic Virtual Models of Outcrop Geology. The primary goal of this research is to combine 2D geologic analysis and investigation with 3D virtual technology in order to ...