The study of electronic properties of materials is of great interest to condensed matter physicists. Since the discovery of quantum Hall effects, band topology has attracted much attention. In this dissertation, the roles ...

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 ...

The Voice Within is about a girl’s relationship with her parents through a plied yarn. It is a short story about our attachment to loved ones and the ability to accept the loss of someone we love. The story features a ...

Signal processing algorithms are extensively used in hearing aid applications to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech. The hearing aid device (HAD) signal processing pipeline consists of several key modules ...

In the context of the Holocaust, Technology, and Culture, my interest in digital artifacts led me to recognize three key factors that mutually influence aspects of knowledge and understanding across each of those area: ...

Adults with hearing loss perceive music through a degraded auditory filter initially designed for enhanced speech perception. Although they exhibit difficulty perceiving musical characteristics in research and clinic, ...

Established in 1516 on an abandoned manufacturing site, the Ghetto of Venice was an experiment in containment as a means of maintaining coexistence between the early modern Republic’s Christian and Jewish populations. The ...

This thesis examines the citizen science project and real-time online database eButterfly to investigate the limits and potential of digital citizen science as participatory media, and in particular, eButterfly’s relation ...

Religion affects politics at multiple levels and demonstrating those influences is vital to understanding religion's entanglement upon politics. This study uses both quantitative and qualitative data to shed light on this ...

Interactive storytelling games are an emerging genre that requires greater research, especially when they are made to teach subjects like computational thinking. The most promising avenue for development using neural ...