Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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(2024-03-11)Department: EconomicsIn this dissertation, I study some of the factors that determine schooling decisions in middle-income economies in Latin America. In the first chapter, I examine the impacts of a large-scale program in Colombia that installs ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: BiochemistryApurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites are one of the most frequent DNA lesions in mammalian cells. HMCES (5-hydroxymethylcitosine, embryonic cell specific) is an evolutionarily conserved protein found at replication forks that ...
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(2023-12-20)Department: Electrical EngineeringArbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) are not typically feasible as subsystems on integrated circuits due to their size and complexity, but they are versatile circuits that are broadly useful. The purpose of this work is ...
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(2024-03-15)Department: Biomedical InformaticsImproving health outcomes and achieving health equity requires that researchers have access to large and diverse datasets. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and other privacy legislation permit ...
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Effects of Particle Hydrodynamic Behaviors on the Electrochemical Performance of Slurry Electrodes (2024-03-15)Department: Mechanical EngineeringIn flowable slurry electrodes, charge is transferred from stationary electrodes to particle clusters through hydrodynamic interactions; however, so far little is known about the particle dynamic behavior under continuous ...
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(2024-03-15)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyAll organisms have developed strategies to respond to injury. Some tissues induce compensatory proliferation of surrounding cells which migrate into and invade the wound site. However, alternative strategies exist such as ...
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(2024-03-18)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThe identity and arrangement of atoms determine the properties of all crystalline solids, and when the identity of the atoms is the same, multiple arrangements and different crystalline structures can still exist. These ...
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(2024-03-18)Department: Civil EngineeringIn modern architectural settings, the resilience of reinforced concrete cladding panels is paramount, particularly in regions where they might be subjected to projectile impacts or blast loadings. This research is centered ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsThe B cell compartment of the adaptive immune system plays a critical role in the generation of antibodies in a variety of immune settings. As humans, we experience repeated exposure to viral antigens through infection and ...
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(2024-03-21)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a significant public health threat and the causative agent of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Studying the antibody response in the context of HIV-1 infection and multivalent ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: EconomicsIn today’s big data world, we have witnessed rapidly increasing popularity of machine learning methods in empirical studies, such as random forests, lasso, post-lasso, elastic nets, ridge, deep neural networks, and boosted ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsThis thesis explores the intricate mechanisms by which the human immune system generates antibodies to fend off diseases, focusing on the response to Influenza Type B virus. The ability of the immune system to produce ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: NeuroscienceAlcohol use disorder (AUD) and sleep disorders are commonly comorbid, where individuals with AUD frequently report insomnia, poor sleep quality and daytime sleepiness. The locus coeruleus (LC) promotes wakefulness via ...
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(2024-03-20)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsCoronaviruses (CoVs) are single-stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses that infect a wide variety of species including birds, reptiles, and mammals. SARS-CoV-2 is only the latest coronavirus to jump from animals into humans ...
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Defining the Relationship Between Channel Interaction and Outcomes in Adult Cochlear Implant Users (2024-03-25)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesPurpose: Cochlear implant (CI) recipients demonstrate deficits in performance on spectral-dependent tasks, such as speech understanding in noise and music perception. Channel interaction, or the stimulation overlap between ...
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(2024-03-28)Department: Computer ScienceDespite current AI's human-like behavior, super efficiency, and unbelievable ability to handle clearly-defined complex tasks, it shows no sign of creativity, originality, or novelty outside its training set when facing ...
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(2024-03-11)Department: Chemical EngineeringInspired by swarming motion of living organisms in nature, active particles use the stored energy in the environment to initiate self-propulsion. Successful use of active particles in different applications, including cargo ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Cancer BiologyClear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is characterized by dysregulated hypoxia signaling and a tumor microenvironment (TME) highly enriched in myeloid and lymphoid cells. Loss of the von Hippel Lindau (VHL) gene is a ...
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(2024-03-25)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesGeographic college access is inequitable in the United States, yet few studies examine how limited college options constrain students’ college choices and influence attainment. The first chapter of the dissertation examines ...
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(2024-03-12)Department: ChemistryPreterm birth (PTB) constitutes 10% of births and is the global leading cause of death in children under the age of 5. Unfortunately, a complete understanding of the mechanisms precluding PTB is lacking, making prediction ...