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Development of Decision Support Tools for Water Energy Food Infrastructure Management of Sri Lanka
(2020-01-17)
The energy and food sectors of the economy heavily rely on water resources. All nations face challenges of meeting increasing demand for water, food, and energy due to limited and uncertain resources, complex multisector ...
Rising from the Ashes: Remaking Community Around Conflict and Coal
(2020-03-26)
When autonomous rural people are forced to reorganize their lives to accommodate extractive capitalism, they remake their families, communities, and identities. In Colombia’s La Guajira region, the Cerrejón Coal Company ...
DecisionTogether ©: Integrating Life Cycle Assessment and Multicriteria Decision Analysis to Engage Diverse Stakeholders in Environmental Decision-making
(2020-04-02)
Environmental decision making is difficult and complex, especially in the planning stages of a project. There are a variety of perspectives, data limitations, and uncertainties that hinder the ability to frame and evaluate ...
The Transfer of Educational Policies and Practices Across International Borders
(2020-03-03)
Educational transfer by way of isomorphism is the inspiration for this dissertation. In the course of three papers, I study three aspects of the policy making process: adoption, adaptation, and evaluation. In the first ...
Characterizing Rare Disease-Causing Mutations in Genes Affecting Cation-Coupled Chloride Cotransport
(2020-03-27)
Several human diseases have been associated with mutations in genes affecting cation-chloride cotransporters. My dissertation characterizes two single clinical cases with mutations in genes encoding protein kinase D1 (PKD1) ...
An Integrated Approach to Magnesium Hydroxide Use In Water and Wastewater Treatment
(2020-03-31)
Magnesium hydroxide has the potential to develop into an essential component of water and wastewater treatment. Its non-hazardous classification and low cost makes it a preferable source of alkalinity for existing processes. ...
Walking Tall and Unashamed: An Ethical Examination of Women's Bodies as the Place of Sin, Shame, and Violence in Monotheistic Development
(2020-04-02)
The female body has historically been a site of struggle in western society. The dualism of the mind and the body, or flesh and spirit, has generally associated the female body with lesser nature or matter while associating ...
Analyzing Exoplanet Survey Methods Using Massive Datasets: Transit and Microlensing Light Curves
(2020-04-03)
The light curve has taken on a new importance in the field of astrophysics in the 21st century. Next generation telescopes such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will ...
The Role of Symbolic Experience in Learning to use Scale Models
(2020-03-26)
Children begin to use symbolic objects and symbol systems in the preschool period. Experience interpreting and using a relatively simple symbolic artifact can lead young children to become sensitive to a more difficult ...
Enhancing the Robustness of Deep Neural Networks Against Security Threats Using Radial Basis Functions
(2020-03-25)
The ability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to achieve state-of-the-art performance on complicated tasks has increased their adoption in safety-critical cyber physical systems (CPS). However, DNNs are susceptible to a variety ...