Pulsed ultrasound (US) energy can be used to activate a phase-change contrast agent (PCCA) from a liquid nanodroplet state to form a larger highly echogenic microbubble (MB). PCCA activation is dependent on the ambient ...

Human trafficking is a crime that effects people all over the globe but due to the nature of human trafficking, questions about the magnitude of the problem and why such a problem occurs remain. The news plays an integral ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by progressive cognitive decline. Presence of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain are hallmark AD pathology, which ...

This thesis concerns the study of Machine Learning based methods for detecting vulnerable code. Various Neural Network models have been trained to detect specific vulnerabilities on a programming language dataset. This ...

There has been a rising trend of drug addiction in the United States and criminal sanctions and social policies have worked to ameliorate this issue. Previous research has looked at drug addiction as an “adaptation” to ...

This study provided a county-funded reentry resource management center located in Texas with evaluative strategies to ensure the implementation of evidence-based practices and effective use of funds. This research explored ...

Brooks Range orogeny initiated in response to the collision of Arctic Alaska with an oceanic arc in Jurassic to early Cretaceous, and the Colville basin formed as a result of loading from the range topography. In this ...

Many emerging applications require simple controllers that run the exact same application continuously. These include medical devices and IoTs of different nature. Because of the nature of these applications, they have ...

The central focus of this dissertation “Haitian Vodou: Pwen (Magical Charge) in Ritual Practice” is to elucidate a central component of Haitian Vodou ritual, known as pwen, which literally means “point” or magical charge. ...

This dissertation has two essays which lie at the intersection of household finance and corporate finance. The topics include household leverage and human capital investment, and cross-holding and corporate borrowing. ...