Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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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 ...
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(2024-06-26)Department: Biological SciencesProper mitochondrial function is essential for cell health and homeostasis. To maintain healthy mitochondria, protective mechanisms have evolved that sense mitochondrial stress and ameliorate it. Collectively these pathways ...
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(2024-05-22)Department: Biomedical EngineeringMagnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) enables the simultaneous acquisition of multiple quantitative parameter maps in a single acquisition, but still requires B0 gradients for spatial encoding. These B0 gradients cause ...
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(2024-06-17)Department: Electrical and Computer EngineeringAs the revolutionary advancement in computational power has facilitated the direct manipulation of vast amounts of data, researchers have explored many algorithms capable of discerning the intrinsic patterns within this ...
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(2024-05-09)Department: MathematicsA commuting square is a square of inclusions of finite dimensional C*-algebras that satisfy a notion of orthogonality. Commuting square subfactors are subfactors that can be constructed by iterating the basic construction ...
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(2024-06-10)Department: Cancer BiologyIn this dissertation, I demonstrate the utility of combining the discovery tools of iso- genic cell lines and molecular profiling by sequencing. This dissertation outlines findings made through the application of multiple ...
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(2024-07-17)Department: PsychologyEnsemble perception is the ability to extract summary statistics (e.g., mean, variance) from the aggregations of similar objects (Whitney & Yamanashi Leib, 2018). One common task used in ensemble perception studies requires ...
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(2024-05-13)Department: PsychologyThis dissertation investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of binocular integration in the primate primary visual cortex (V1) through a combined approach of laminar neurophysiology and computational modeling. The first ...
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(2024-06-10)Department: PharmacologyTriple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogenous and challenging to treat subtype of breast cancer characterized by lack of HER2 amplification and lack of expression of the hormone receptors, ER and PR. The introduction ...
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(2024-05-09)Department: Electrical and Computer EngineeringIn this dissertation, a novel collaborative augmented reality (AR) based framework was developed that will allow two users who are geographically separated to have naturalistic interactions with each other and their ...
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(2024-07-08)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines how geopolitical circumstances at the start of the Thirty Years War allowed English Catholics to imagine, and attempt to enact, radical changes to the existing post-Reformation religious settlement, ...
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(2024-06-17)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesThe study examines how a decidedly Black community-based education space (CBES) cultivates a sense of community and belonging among Black adolescents. Qualitative data indicate that site personnel, specifically the Servant ...
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(2024-05-07)Department: PsychologyLoneliness and social isolation are known to increase risk for various negative health outcomes. These constructs are understudied in disability populations such as Prader Willi Syndrome (PWS) where several risk factors ...
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(2024-07-12)Department: Cancer BiologyClonal hematopoiesis (CH) is an age-associated phenomenon in which there is an expansion of blood cells with an acquired mutation but no evidence of hematologic malignancy. Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential ...
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(2024-07-12)Department: Computer ScienceThis thesis addresses the challenges of efficient representation learning across three crucial categories of optical images: microscopic, pathology, and meta-optic images. Microscopic images, characterized by dense dynamic ...
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(2024-07-05)Department: BiochemistryAminolevulinic acid synthase (ALAS) is a conserved heme biosynthetic enzyme that catalyzes the first, rate-limiting step of heme biosynthesis in non-plant eukaryotes and alphaproteobacteria. Vertebrates evolved to have two ...
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(2024-06-17)Department: Earth & Environmental SciencesAs dynamic sculptors of landscapes, rivers present an interesting opportunity to explore how sediment transport at the particle scale informs macro-scale bedform evolution. Observations of river bedload transport rates are ...