Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Mummy Issues: Representations of the Man of Science and the Monstrous Mummy in Bram Stoker’s the Jewel of Seven Stars
(May 2023)In this dissertation, I examine fictional representations of nineteenth-century men of science in conflict with a monster that emerged from Western meddling in Egypt: the mummy. While my primary focus is on Bram Stoker’s ... -
Comprop Computational Propaganda on Reddit.com (2013-2022)
(May 2023)This dissertation concerns the use of computational propaganda, or the use of bots, trolls, algorithms, disinformation, misinformation, and astroturfing campaigns on the social media website reddit.com. Simple heuristics ... -
Hardware-based Malware Detection in Modern Microprocessors: Formal and Statistical Methods in System-level Security Assurance
(May 2023)Previous studies in workload forensics have relied on retrospective assessments using comprehensive process execution profiles, hindering the ability to take prompt action against ongoing cyber threats. In this dissertation, ... -
The Politics of Making 3D Models and the Construction of Publics
(May 2023)The field of 3D model sharing platforms is a recently discovered space of knowledge production that is equivalent to textual analysis (Sullivan et al., 301). An important attribute of this knowledge production is that it ... -
Design and Synthesis of Polymer Nanocomposites for Additive Manufacturing
(May 2023)Additive manufacturing or 3D printing is a process where the materials are deposited in a layer- by-layer fashion according to a pre-designed computer aided file to fabricate required geometries. There are a wide range of ... -
Effects of Aluminum Plate Residual Stress on Machined-part Distortion
(May 2023)Dimensional tolerance requirements for high-speed-machined aluminum products continue to tighten due to strong demand for automated assembly of complex monolithic aluminum parts in aerospace and other industries. Understanding ... -
Examining Suicidal Ideation as a Mediator Between Stress and Aggressive Police Misconduct
(May 2023)Prior research links suicidal behaviors and aggressive forms of police misconduct to stress. However, no study examines whether suicidal cognition, specifically suicidal ideation, influences verbal and physical police ... -
Constructing Permutation Arrays of Known Distance
(May 2023)A permutation array (PA) is a set of permutations on n symbols. A PA is said to have distance d (under some metric) if every pair of distinct permutations in the array has distance at least d. Commonly used distance metrics ... -
Essays on Mutual Funds
(May 2023)This dissertation consists of two essays on mutual funds. The first essay, included in Chapter 1, is “Trump Tweeting Sentiment, Mutual Fund Portfolio, and Investor Preference”. I show that online social media affects how ... -
U.S. Income Volatility and Interstate Migration
(May 2023)This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter explores how U.S. male income has evolved, ranging from 1979 to 2017. The research aims to decompose the income into the permanent component − the long-term ... -
Variant Influence Maximization: Approximation Algorithm and Deep Solution
(May 2023)In recent two decades, online social platforms have become more and more popular, and the dissemination of information on social networks has attracted wide attention of the industries and academia. The users of these ... -
Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Ranging Accuracy in IoT Networks
(May 2023)We consider an IoT network and try to address some of the issues and limitations of this new wireless system paradigm. Some of the issues come from the design requirements of IoT devices such as low cost, low energy ... -
Essays on Novelty in Online Reviews
(May 2023)The popularity of electronic word-of-mouth (e.g., online reviews and ratings) has increased dramatically over the years. Consequently, it has become important to understand the various ways in which online reviews impact ... -
Morals for Human Development in the Art of Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller: How Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller, Became Seminal to the Spread of Western Autonomy
(May 2023)Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, introduced a naturally occurring, non-heteronomous, independence and morality to the common man through their literary ... -
SPACs and Risk Factor Disclosures
(May 2023)During 2020 and 2021, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (“SPACs”) became a popular alternative to going public, especially for young and risky firms. This study investigates the informativeness of risk factor disclosures ... -
Liminal Bodies: the Grand Narratives of Myth, Magic, Religion, and Science in the Evolution of Speculative Literature
(May 2023)Which hybrid forms have historically divided societies and why is this stratification dangerous? What defines which liminal bodies are met with hostility and social rejection and which are met with adulation and reverence? ... -
Bayesian Statistical Methods for Urinary Microbiome Data Analysis
(May 2023)Microbiome data is generated by high-throughput next-generation sequencing technology. These data are typically characterized by zero inflation, overdispersion, high dimensionality, sample heterogeneity, non-linearity, and ... -
Cultural Modulation of Moral Regulation: Prescriptive vs. Proscriptive Morality
(May 2023)Morality is an integral part of our life to foster social integration and group living. To behave morally, individuals must be attentive to two types of moral regulation—(a) prescriptive morality (“what people should do”) ... -
Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance
(May 2023)This dissertation consists of two essays on empirical corporate finance. The first essay, included in Chapter 1, is “Product Market Decisions and Subprime Lending by Captive Finance Companies”. I study whether companies ... -
Spatially Explicit Machine Learning Approaches for House Price Models
(May 2023)Spatial data or georeferenced data are special in that it has spatial reference, meaning that it is linked with geographic coordinates on Earth. The spatial component allows for the identification of spatial patterns, ...