Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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(2024-06-18)Department: AnthropologyThe relationship between stress and health is evident: individuals who experience chronic exposure to stressors are at an elevated risk of adverse health outcomes. However, the underlying biological mechanisms of how social ...
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(2024-06-17)Department: HistoryThis dissertation explores the many aspects of what it meant for beer to be a cultural commodity in German and Czech societies of postwar Central Europe. By demonstrating how leaders and ordinary individuals treated this ...
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(2024-06-25)Department: Computer ScienceMobile privacy and security can be a collaborative process where individuals seek advice and help from their trusted communities. To support such collective privacy and security management, we designed and developed a ...
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(2024-06-27)Department: Health Policy & Health Services ResearchBuprenorphine is one of the most effective treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD), but it is largely underused despite rising trends in opioid-related mortality. We investigated three aims to address the treatment gaps ...
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(2024-06-17)Department: Computer ScienceDeep learning has revolutionized the field of medical image analysis in the past decade. The success of deep learning can be attributed to the availability of fully annotated medical image datasets. However, the real-world ...
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(2024-06-12)Department: MathematicsIn this work, we will provide a key result on the relativistic Euler equations with an ideal gas equation of state and a physical vacuum boundary. More specifically, we will prove a priori estimates for the linearized ...
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(2024-06-26)Department: PsychologyMultiple-view visualization is a type of data visualization that includes multiple charts (views) in one screen. One of the key goals of multiple-view visualization is to support the investigation of a topic from different ...
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(2024-06-13)Department: ReligionIn the context of white North American evangelicalism, a phenomenon known as Christian “deconstruction” is gaining prominence, wherein a significant number of individuals, both current adherents and former members, are ...
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(2024-06-24)Department: Cancer BiologyInterleukin 4 (IL4) is a Th2 cytokine initially discovered as a B-lymphocyte proliferative factor. In the context of cancer IL4 is largely studied for its role in promoting an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. The ...
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(2024-06-03)Department: Electrical and Computer EngineeringIn this dissertation, I develop deep learning methods for robust medical image segmentation, transitioning from data-driven to data-centric approaches. This shift highlights the critical importance of data quality in ...
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(2024-07-30)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsUropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is a genotypically and phenotypically diverse bacterial species and is the overwhelming etiological agent of bacteriuria. Unlike diarrheagenic strains of E. coli, UPEC does not have a ...
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(2024-07-22)Department: Computer ScienceGraph-structured data is ubiquitous in real-world applications (e.g., social networks, infrastructure, biomedical) and Graph Machine Learning (GML) has become a prominent method for handling such data. However, despite ...
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(2024-07-22)Department: Computer ScienceGraph-structured data is ubiquitous in real-world applications (e.g., social networks, infrastructure, biomedical) and Graph Machine Learning (GML) has become a prominent method for handling such data. However, despite ...
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(2024-07-22)Department: Computer ScienceGraph-structured data is ubiquitous in real-world applications (e.g., social networks, infrastructure, biomedical) and Graph Machine Learning (GML) has become a prominent method for handling such data. However, despite ...
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(2024-07-22)Department: Computer ScienceGraph-structured data is ubiquitous in real-world applications (e.g., social networks, infrastructure, biomedical) and Graph Machine Learning (GML) has become a prominent method for handling such data. However, despite ...
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(2024-07-17)Department: Cancer BiologyMetastases of breast cancer is a prevalent problem with common sites including the brain, lymph nodes, liver, lung and bone. In the bone microenvironment, metastatic breast cancer cells can form osteolytic lesions and ...
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(2024-07-16)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation explores the impact of prosthetic ankle-foot dynamics on individuals with lower limb loss across several activities of daily living. Most lower limb prosthesis users use a passive device that has a fixed, ...
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(2024-07-08)Department: PharmacologyThis study investigates the function of the metabotropic glutamate receptor 8 (mGlu8) in the brain and its impact on behavior using mouse models with targeted genetic modifications. mGlu8 is a receptor involved in regulating ...
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(2024-07-17)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesMy dissertation adds evidence to three understudied elements of high school and postsecondary career and technical education (CTE). Globalization and technological advancement continue to change the landscape of jobs in ...
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Establishing Thresholds for Swing Transparency at the Knee During Gait to Inform Exoskeleton Design (2024-06-13)Department: Mechanical EngineeringKnee exoskeletons have been developed to assist, stabilize, or improve human movement or recovery over a range of locomotion tasks. However, exoskeleton designers must implement transparency (i.e., get out of the way) modes ...