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Tensor Methods for Joint Analysis and Fusion of Brain Imaging Data: Application to fMRI and MEG Analysis and Fusion
(2023-01-01)Brain imaging has been playing an increasingly important role in clinical diagnosis and exploratory biomedical research. Imaging biomarkers are useful in diagnosing neurodegenerative disorders and guiding personalized ... -
Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems In Fluid Dynamics And Fluid-Structure Interaction
(2023-01-01)In Part 1 of this thesis, three results are presented : (1) A sufficient condition, \emph{based solely on the observed velocity data}, for the global well-posedness, regularity and the asymptotic tracking property of a ... -
What if we prayed more? Discrimination, religious and spiritual coping, and cardiovascular disease risk among African American women and men
(2023-01-01)Interpersonal discrimination is a chronic stressor for many African American (AA) adults and is implicated in racial disparities in cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). AAs, and particularly AA women, often turn to religion and ... -
The Impact of Racial Discrimination on Chinese American Parenting and Adolescents? Psychological and Behavioral Adjustment
(2023-01-01)Chinese Americans have historically experienced various forms of racism and xenophobia in the United States. These negative sentiments have been refueled by the racialized COVID-19 pandemic and pose challenges to the ... -
The Role of Maternal Psychological Well-being and Child Difficult Behaviors in Chinese American Mothers? Parenting Attributions and Practices
(2023-01-01)This study assessed whether: (a) the link between mothers? attributions and parenting practices was mediated by mothers? psychological well-being; and (b) the relation between mothers? attributions and psychological ... -
Numerical Study of Heat Transfer Enhancement Using Nano-encapsulated Phase Change Slurries (NPCS) in Wavy Microchannel Heat Sinks
(2023-01-01)In past decades, researchers have attempted to further improve the heat transfer performance of mini/microchannel heat sinks by dispersing nano-encapsulated phase change slurry (NPCS) materials in the base coolant. In this ... -
Improving Vertical Axis Turbine Performance with Active Blade Pitch Control: Mechanism Design and Fundamental Physics Analysis
(2023-01-01)Compared to their horizontal counterparts, vertical-axis turbines (VATs) have several advantages, such as low manufacturing, installation, operation and maintenance costs, low noise emission, and are less harmful to birds ... -
"PUTTING ON THE POSH" RETAIL, CRIME, GENDER, CLASS, AND THE FORTY ELEPHANTS IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY LONDON
(2023-01-01)For over 100 years, the Forty Elephants, an all-female working-class shoplifting gang, terrorized the streets and shops of nineteenth-and twentieth-century London. Their operation included over 75 members, who participated ... -
Tensor Methods for Static Malware Analysis
(2023-01-01)Tensor decomposition methods have been used in many fields to find latent factors among data. Recent developments have made automatic decomposition feasible and has shown practical use in a network intrusion context. This ... -
"More Enduring Structures": The Oil Industry's Effects on the Social and Economic Transformation of Pennsylvania's Oil Region, 1850-1865
(2023-01-01)This study examines the social and economic changes that occurred throughout Pennsylvania?s oil region following the introduction of the commercial oil industry in 1859. By connecting the history of the oil industry to the ... -
FROM BLACK HOLES TO QUANTUM COMPUTERS: THE UNIVERSALITY OF INFORMATION DYNAMICS
(2023-01-01)Establishing a thermodynamic cost due to the manipulation and processing of information led to Landauer?s famous statement ?information is physical?. This thermodynamic view of information hints at a more fundamental ... -
Fracture Fatigue Life Prediction of Geometrically Varied Multi-scaled 5083 H116 Welded Aluminum Structures: A Numerical Analysis using Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) and Experimental Verification using Digital Image Correlation (DIC)
(2023-01-01)Numerical computational methods to predict fracture fatigue life of functional materials are cost effective when compared to experimental-based prediction approaches. However, the validity of a numerical fracture fatigue ... -
Achieving Multiple Conservation Goals with Satellite-Based Monitoring and Alert Systems
(2023-01-01)Conservation early warning and alert systems (CEAS) provide substantial opportunities to improve awareness of global change and deliver time-sensitive information to users taking measures to avert the loss of ecosystems ... -
A Closer look at the Adversarial Robustness of Deep Networks for Visual Recognition
(2023-01-01)Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been the catalyst for great progress over the years for computer vision tasks such as Image classification, Object detection, Semantic Segmentation, Few-shot Learning etc. However ... -
The Effects of a Premixed Electrolyte in Zn-MnO2 Alkaline Rechargeable Batteries
(2023-01-01)Zinc-Manganese Dioxide (Zn-MnO2) batteries have been at the forefront of rechargeable battery research due to their low cost, increased safety, and high capacity for use in small electronic devices and wearable technology. ... -
"The First but Not the Last": An Exploration of Community Cultural Wealth Among First-Generation Master's Students
(2023-01-01)This dissertation explored the experiences of 14 first-generation graduates who had recently completed a master?s degree, analyzing the saliency of their first-generation identity with a strengths-based focus. Much literature ... -
ANALYSIS OF A FUNCTIONALLY GRADED INTERFACE BETWEEN A NOVEL TITANIUM CARBIDE SURFACE AND TITANIUM ALLOY SUBSTRATE
(2023-01-01)Osteoarthritis (OA) is a painful and frequently debilitating affliction affecting millions of adults in the United States alone. Historically, treatments for OA focused on relieving symptoms through the employment of drug ... -
Spatio-Temporal Multivariate Weather Data Clustering Using DBSCAN And K-MEDOIDS Methods
(2023-01-01)This thesis focuses on the examination of the efficacy of well-known data clustering techniques, namely DBSCAN and K-Medoids, in categorizing spatio-temporal multivariate weather data obtained from various disciplines such ... -
Role of transfer RNA post-transcriptional modification on translational misreading errors in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
(2023-01-01)Post-transcriptional modification of tRNAs modulates the behavior of tRNAs in several ways. Anticodon loop modifications alter details of codon-anticodon interactions either stabilizing or destabilizing interactions with ... -
HOW LINEAR ELASTIC MATERIAL PROPERTIES AFFECT LUNG TUMOR MOTION AND DEFORMATION: A FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS.
(2023-01-01)Respiratory motion is a complication for radiation treatment (RT) of lung cancer. A moving and deforming tumor is difficult to radiate with a stationary beam. The tumor will not receive the entire radiation dose and healthy ...
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