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(2014-07-16)Department: Civil EngineeringA coupled Eulerian- Lagrangian (CEL) formulation is presented to model moving interface problems and damage transport in hyperelastic materials when subjected to large deformations. This formulation is based on Eulerian ...
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(2022-02-10)Department: EpidemiologyPostpartum contraceptive uptake reduces short interpregnancy intervals, unintended pregnancies, and their negative sequalae: poor maternal and fetal outcomes. Healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy in people with HIV also ...
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(2016-04-21)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyDespite being the racial/ethnic group that is disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, African Americans are underrepresented in HIV/AIDS clinical trials. The reasons for the inadequate participation of African Americans ...
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A Critique of Christian Development as Resolution to the Crisis in U.S. Protestant Foreign Missions (2009-12-02)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that development has failed in fulfilling one of the primary tasks that it set for itself as an expression of Christian mission. Christian development failed to resolve the crisis in Christian ...
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(2015-03-23)Department: Computer ScienceCyber-security for Internet-connected applications has become a critical area of research. Applications are continually under attack and finding ways to better defend them is a critical concern. This thesis explores a newer ...
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(2020-09-18)Department: BiostatisticsIn observational studies, the propensity score method is often used as an approach to handle the confounding by indication bias. Among other methods, inverse probability of treatment weighting uses weights based on the ...
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(2011-12-09)Department: Computer ScienceMobile devices, such as smartphones, are becoming increasingly common in everyday life, and enable the development of dynamic, data driven applications which weren’t possible prior to the advent of the smartphone. This ...
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(2019-07-17)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe decision to migrate is complex and is often influenced by a combination of economic, social, political, and environmental pressures. Seasonal, internal migration is a common strategy for livelihood diversification in ...
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(2021-07-16)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: <Major>Extracting biological knowledge from experimental data continues to be one of the main challenges toward a mechanistic understanding of cellular processes. Mathematical models can provide mechanistic insights into the ...
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(2018-01-17)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe growing advances in information technologies have led to a new generation of systems known as cyber-physical systems (CPS). CPS are multi-discipline engineering systems, which integrate computational and physical ...
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(2015-07-23)Department: Computer ScienceIn the era of “Big Data”, a variety of data processing and analysis frameworks (such as MapReduce/Hadoop, Dremel/Impala, and Storm) have emerged as a solution to support large-scale data processing and analysis tasks. The ...
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(2020-07-20)Department: Biomedical InformaticsAsynchronous messaging through the electronic health record (EHR) provides care team members a secure means of communication to reach other care stakeholders, regardless of role or location. Despite reports that communication ...
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A Decision Tree Based Approach to Filter Candidates for Software Engineering Jobs Using GitHub Data (2015-04-08)Department: Computer ScienceA challenge for companies hiring software engineers is the large number of candidate profiles on LinkedIn, Monster.com, and other job websites and the inability to easily filter top candidates from these lists. In this ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: Electrical EngineeringLung cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in the world today, and it is the leading cause of cancer death, accounting for 1 in 4 cancer deaths (Gatsonis et al.,2011). Various automatic lung cancer detection ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: Computer ScienceImage segmentation has been increasingly applied in medical settings as recent developments have skyrocketed the potential applications of deep learning. Urology, specifically, is one field of medicine that is primed for ...
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(2006-03-02)Department: Computer ScienceThe fact that all software has defects is one of the few things that are true across all software projects. Traditionally, few proprietary software project managers would risk cultivating a reputation for producing ``buggy' ...
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(2019-08-21)Department: PhilosophyWhile blame is not a difficult practice to defend, in part because of its ineradicability in our moral lives, angry blame has been a tougher sell. Critics of angry blame cast it as an unnecessary, punitive, or unproductive ...
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(2016-06-24)Department: PhilosophyDrawing on empirical evidence in medicine, economics, law, and anthropology, I argue that a market is uniquely capable of meeting the demand for transplantable kidneys, and that it may be arranged so as to operate safely. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)We develop a general equilibrium search model with endogenous health accumulation and a unique feature of the US tax code, that exempts employer-provided medical benefits from taxation, to jointly account for US long term ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Nursing ScienceThere is limited information that describes health services research variables that relate to patients receiving moderate sedation in interventional radiology (IR). In order to direct the future study of outcomes for this ...