Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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(2016-04-12)Department: ReligionRELIGION Dissertation under the direction of Professor Herbert R. Marbury Biblical daughters - female members of the household who are not yet mothers - execute particular tactics to navigate antagonistic systems ...
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(2017-12-04)Department: Civil EngineeringDamage mechanics approaches are developed for the numerical modeling of fracture evolution along sharp (i.e., zero-thickness) and diffuse (i.e., finite-thickness) interfaces and applied to investigate ice sheet fracture ...
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(2011-08-03)Department: Civil EngineeringMany of the steel and concrete bridges built in the 20th century are reaching the end of their planned service life in the early part of the new century. Corrosion and fatigue fracture of steel, and cracking, spalling, ...
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(2020-06-17)Department: EnglishDamaging Intimacy reimagines the history of selfhood in early modernity. Whereas scholars traditionally regard the bounded self and the individuated body as the basic unit of interpersonal relations, I trace the risks and ...
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(2012-03-28)Department: GermanMy project addresses the representation of dance, dance-like, and pedestrian movement within the urban space in German literature around 1900. The dynamic cosmopolitan centers of Berlin and Paris not only attracted authors ...
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(2017-08-24)Department: FrenchThis study explores the depiction of female bodies in three works of francophone literature in the late 20th and 21st centuries: Standard (2014) by Nina Bouraoui, Sitt Marie Rose (1977) by Etel Adnan, and La répudiée (2000) ...
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(2015-04-14)Department: HistoryThis study investigates the form and function of early, mass-produced visual representations of British society in Calcutta during the last two decades of the eighteenth-century, a time when the English East India Company's ...
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(2013-06-24)Department: GermanThis dissertation explores the representation of masses in the works of Austrian exile author Hermann Broch. I argue that the largely indirect representations of the mass in Broch’s work are indicative of a persistent ...
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(2013-12-15)Department: GermanThe depiction of the orient in the German literature during the Enlightenment and the Romantic period is unsurpassed in terms of its diversity. Intercultural communication and the representation of multicultural societies ...
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(2018-03-28)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversitySince the enactment of No Child Left Behind, U.S. education has been dominated by test-based accountability policies and subsequent calls for data-driven decision-making (DDDM). DDDM is often framed as a method for making ...
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(2023-09-13)Department: Computer ScienceThis dissertation focuses on computational approaches for the design and implementation of real-time transportation systems. We focus on demand-responsive transportation, which can be thought of as any transit solution ...
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(2020-03-02)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Systems EngineeringThis dissertation work investigates data-driven approaches for concrete structures health monitoring by considering multiple monitoring techniques and quantifies the uncertainty in the diagnosis result of each method. ...
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(2018-04-06)Department: Environmental EngineeringWater flows in the Earth system are complex and difficult to quantify. Using data without recourse to an underlying physical theory has been a hallmark of hydrologic science for many years. Currently the expanding ability ...
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(2020-03-18)Department: Civil EngineeringMotivated by the increased traffic and network capacity constraints of freight railroads in the United States, and the increased availability of operational data, this dissertation addresses the development of new methods ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe amount of radiological imaging data being generated is growing at an unprecedented pace. Concurrently, analytical tools in image processing and big data are making it feasible to study large amounts of data to better ...
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(2016-11-21)Department: Biomedical InformaticsThe widely used American Society of Anesthesiologist’s’ (ASA) Physical Status classification is subjective and requires time-consuming clinician assessment. Machine learning can be used to develop a system that predicts ...
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(2023-01-12)Department: Chemical & Physical BiologyThe ocular lens is responsible for focusing of light onto the retina and must maintain transparency to effectively transmit light. Age related nuclear cataract is the most common cause of blindness worldwide, and cataract ...
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(2014-10-07)Department: SociologyThis thesis examines the relationships among day-to-day discrimination, family social support, and depressive symptoms in a sample of African Americans, Latinos, and whites. Utilizing micro-aggression theory supplemented ...
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(2006-04-13)Department: Civil EngineeringThis study investigates day-to-day dynamics in an urban traffic network induced by internal and external factors under real-time information. A robust cost network optimization algorithm to account for the randomness of ...
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(2010-11-29)Department: Electrical EngineeringIndium Arsenide (InAs) channel High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs) with Aluminium Antimonide (AlSb) barriers are an exciting option for low power RF applications due to excellent quantum well confinement and very ...