RSS 1.0Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Electronic theses and dissertations of masters and doctoral students submitted to the Graduate School.
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(2022-08-16)Department: PharmacologyBackground: The KV11.1 potassium channel, formerly the human Ether-a-go-go-Related Gene (hERG)-channel, is important for repolarization of cardiac action potentials. Loss-of-function (LOF) KV11.1 variants cause Long QT ...
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(2022-08-15)Department: PsychologyA long-standing debate is whether awareness is dissociable from attention. Previous work in support of a dissociation between stimulus-driven attention and awareness has used spatial-cueing paradigms. A critical review of ...
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(2022-08-14)Department: Civil EngineeringThe dissertation develops a new reduced order homogenization model named “multiscale discrete damage theory” (MDDT) for failure analysis of composite materials. MDDT adopts discrete representation of fracture process within ...
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(2022-08-17)Department: PharmacologyDifferential expression of both Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells-2 (TREM2) and its soluble fragment have been linked to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk in animal models and humans. The TREM2 pathway represents ...
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(2022-08-14)Department: PsychologyPrior research has documented the association between parental depression and negative outcomes in offspring, such that parental depression is linked with emotional and behavior problems in their children. Depression is ...
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(2022-08-11)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesWe investigated functional reorganization for language processing in post-stroke aphasia, while making a concerted effort to ameliorate previously identified methodological challenges and implementing a novel method to ...
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(2022-08-10)Department: Chemical EngineeringThe brain exerts centralized control over a body’s other organs by receiving inputs from peripheral tissues and responding by regulating various sensations. It accounts for 2% of body weight but consumes 20% of glucose. ...
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(2022-08-14)Department: Civil EngineeringDigital Twin is one of the promising digital technologies being developed to support decision making and has gained considerable attention in both industry and academia in recent years. This has resulted in an increasing ...
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Failson (2022-07-28)Department: EnglishThe poems in FAILSON have to do with being an adolescent caregiver of a mother with early-onset Alzheimer's. Politics, parenting, mentoring, protection, guidance, nurturing – I'm working with these problems, often using form.
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(2022-08-01)Department: PsychologyThe current study explored individual and gendered differences in Black students’ motivation for learning mathematics using three key Situated Expectancy-Value Theory (SEVT) constructs (expectancies of success, utility ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Law & EconomicsThe disproportionately high price of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States has garnered significant attention and bipartisan agreement that drug prices are too high, particularly in the last several decades. This ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceAmmonia (NH3) is a vital chemical to the agricultural and explosives industries, and it may very well play a central role in the emerging hydrogen economy. The Haber-Bosch process has long been the method used to synthesize ...
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(2022-07-21)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyRace based stress, also known as racial trauma, is defined as significant distress due to real or perceived racial discrimination. These can include threats to harm and/or injure, shaming and humiliation, and being witness ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Political ScienceDespite growing interest in traditional leaders in Africa, studies have paid little attention to political competition and its role in service delivery and accountability for the unelected leaders. This dissertation focuses ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: Biomedical InformaticsSupporting public health research in identifying disease disparities and developing targeted interventions, as well as enabling the public’s situational awareness during a pandemic, requires regular dissemination of ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyWith the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global issue of vaccine hesitancy has become a significant concern for the public health community. The United States has been able to facilitate an expansive COVID-19 vaccine ...
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(2022-07-22)Department: Civil EngineeringA commercial civil aviation flight typically goes through multiple phases from flight planning to the final landing, including push back, takeoff, climb, cruise, descent, final approach, and landing. Among them, the final ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyOver the past century, grief has transformed from a necessarily non-pathological experience into an object of psy-discipline expertise to be clinically defined, tracked, diagnosed, and treated. Even as care for the painful ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Learning, Teaching & DiversityAcross three studies and empirical papers, this dissertation focuses on the ways embodied, choreographic sensemaking practices can expand the means and ends of STEM learning with respect to mathematics and computation. ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: PsychologyEmbodiment deficits were central to early theories of schizophrenia and remain at the phenomenological core of the disorder. Contemporary evidence confirms disturbances of the bodily self as central to schizophrenia and ...