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Electronic theses and dissertations of masters and doctoral students submitted to the Graduate School.
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(2021-05-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringTwo-dimensional (2D) materials, from graphene to transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), have attracted tremendous attention from researchers in various fields owing to their exceptional properties. This dissertation ...
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(2021-05-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringGaN-based HEMTs are increasingly popular for use in space-based, high-power, high-voltage and high temperature applications due to the large band gap, high breakdown electric field, low carrier generation rate by thermal ...
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(2021-05-17)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceOptical biosensors are devices that employ light to detect the presence or concentration of a biological analyte. These devices play an important role in modern society in areas that include medical diagnostics, infectious ...
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(2021-05-11)Department: Mechanical EngineeringEngine health monitoring is an emerging technology with economic and environmental benefits in automotive, marine, and industrial diesel engines applications. Engine oil quality is a strong marker of engine health and ...
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(2021-05-13)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyThe body of work presented in this dissertation details the characterization of a novel human-cell derived model of the understudied, non-canonical cullin scaffold CUL9. Unlike other cullins, previous efforts to characterize ...
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(2021-05-12)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyTranscranial focused ultrasound (FUS) is being studied for a number of research and clinical applications in the brain. Transcranial FUS is able to generate bioeffects with minimal invasiveness on a millimeter-scale. It ...
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(2021-05-06)Department: Mechanical EngineeringHuman thermoregulation models, where metabolic rate is used to maintain thermal homeostasis, have been of interest to anticipate human physiological changes in extreme temperatures as well as to predict comfort. Existing ...
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(2021-05-06)Department: PsychologyChildhood maltreatment is associated with various adverse outcomes in later stages of life including non-specific forms of psychopathology, deteriorated physical health, and poor psychosocial functioning. The developing ...
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(2021-05-04)Department: Spanish & PortugueseThis dissertation examines the presence of fossils in nineteenth-century literature of the Americas. It argues that human and nonhuman ancient bones are more accurately understood if analyzed at the intersection of museum, ...
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(2021-05-17)Department: Biological SciencesThe immune and circulatory systems are functionally integrated in the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. This functional integration is exemplified by a subpopulation of hemocytes called periostial hemocytes that ...
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(2021-05-05)Department: ChemistryNatural products have a long history of serving as therapeutic leads (e.g. taxol and compactin) and biological tools (e.g. rapamycin and oligomycin). Bielschowskysin is a rare and structurally complex marine diterpene, ...
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(2021-05-07)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe desire to marry surgical robotics with surgical image guidance can be seen as a natural response to the limitations imposed by minimally invasive surgery. Compared to the human hand, surgical robots can offer reduced ...
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(2021-05-11)Department: Biomedical EngineeringLoss of parathyroid function (hypoparathyroidism) is an unintended consequence of endocrine neck surgeries. This leads to an inability of the patient to maintain healthy levels of blood calcium, as the parathyroid glands ...
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(2021-05-10)Department: BiochemistryUpon pathogen detection, the innate immune system triggers signaling events leading to upregulation of pro-inflammatory and anti-microbial mRNA transcripts. RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) interact with these critical mRNAs ...
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(2021-05-12)Department: SociologyOver the past few decades, multiple actors, including clinicians, researchers, activists, intersex adults, and parents of intersex children, have engaged in debates over what intersex is and how—or whether—it should be ...
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(2021-05-17)Department: ReligionRead together as a narrative whole, the parables and stories in Luke 18:1-30 illustrate various examples of humanity’s call to respond to and participate in the kingdom of God. For generations, biblical scholars interpret ...
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(2021-04-29)Department: PsychologyThe comorbid, dimensional nature of psychopathology seems to be mirrored in related neural substrates, as studies have found similar neural mechanisms to be shared across multiple mental health disorders. While the traditional ...
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(2021-05-03)Department: PsychologyAlthough exposure therapy is an efficacious treatment for anxiety disorders, a common shortfall is that fear often returns after treatment. From an inhibitory learning perspective, long-term improvement depends not only ...
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(2021-05-03)Department: ReligionThe preaching of Black women has long been ignored. This is due, in part, to a persistent narrowing of the definition of preaching to include only preaching sanctioned by ecclesiastical institutions and taking place in ...
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(2021-05-17)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyCancer is a disease in need of selectively cytotoxic agents – ‘magic bullets’ which target cancerous cells while sparing healthy cells. Microbial secondary metabolites represent a rich source of clinically useful compounds ...