Browsing UMBC Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Halogenated Nucleobases And Flexible Nucleosides: Synthesis And Biological Investigation
(2019-01-01)Nucleoside chemistry has provided a valuable framework for the development of medicinal compounds, as natural nucleosides, nucleotides, and nucleobases are essential to living organisms and play a major role in cellular ... -
Heads and Hearts: Interactive Relations of Left Ventricular Mass and Sociodemographic Factors on Cognitive Outcomes in Urban Dwelling African American and White Adults.
(2020-01-20)Degree of hypertrophy of the left ventricle, indexed by greater LVM, is a measure of subclinical CVD that is prognostic of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Much is known about the relations of select subclinical CVD ... -
Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease: The Role of Illness Intrusiveness and Perceived Control
(2019-01-01)Adults living with sickle cell disease (SCD) appear to have compromised health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that may be due to the disruptions they experience in their daily lives. While researchers have identified ... -
Heating Induced Nanoparticle Redistribution in PC3 Tumors: In Vivo Experiments and MicroCT Imaging Analyses
(2019-01-01)The focus of this dissertation research is to evaluate how intensive local heating or mild whole-body heating alters transport properties in tumors, therefore, leading to nanoparticle redistribution or enhanced delivery. ... -
Heterogeneity in Asian Immigrant Mothers’ Socialization Goals and Relations with Preschoolers’ Social-Emotional School Readiness in the U.S.
(2018-01-01)Maternal socialization goals can significantly impact preschoolers’ socioemotional school readiness, which is essential for their future academic achievement and adjustment in formal schooling. Asian immigrant mothers in ... -
Heterogeneous and Scalable Sketch-based Framework for Big Data Acceleration on Low Power Embedded Cores
(2017-01-01)Ever-growing IoT demands big data processing and cognitive computing on mobile and battery operated devices. However, big data processing on low power embedded cores is challenging due to their limited communication bandwidth ... -
Hierarchical Clustering for Enhanced Elastic Behavior in Clustered Shape Matching
(2020-01-01)One of many popular approaches for physics-based animation of deformable objects is clustered shape matching. In this approach, each object is broken into overlapping clusters of particles. At each timestep, a best-fit ... -
Hierarchical, Low-Cost Person Detection System for Rescue and Relief
(2015-01-01)In recent times, intelligent, unmanned vehicles with onboard computers and sensors have been used in many ways for better serving humanity. An important use case of such vehicles is the deployment in the field of Disaster ... -
HIGH MOBILITY GROUP BOX 1 (HMGB1) ENHANCES IMMUNE SUPPRESSION BY REGULATING MYELOID-DERIVED SUPPRESSOR CELL (MDSC) DIFFERENTIATION, FUNCTION, AND SURVIVAL
(2015-01-01)Chronic inflammation is associated with malignant transformation and tumor progression. The immune system also plays a role in tumor progression, with tumor immune escape recognized as a hallmark of cancer. During tumor ... -
High Performance Thermoelectric Generator Using an Energy Efficient Fabrication Method
(2020-01-01)This work presents a cost and energy efficient method to manufacture thermoelectric generators (TEGs). Thermoelectric performance enhancement, cost and energy efficient manufacturing methods, and novel composite materials ... -
HIGH SCHOOL MATH COURSE ENROLLMENT AMONG HIGH MATH ABILITY STUDENTS: GENDER, RACE/ETHNICITY, MOTIVATION, AND CONTEXT
(2020-01-20)National goals to increase the STEM workforce and representation of minorities in the STEM workforce underscore the need to consider secondary pathways into such fields. This study examined the motivational (competence ... -
High-fidelity Fluid-structure Interaction Study of the Turbine-based Renewable Energy Harvesting Mechanism
(2020-01-01)Understanding unsteady fluid dynamics is an indispensable step when designing and analyzing the turbine-based renewable energy harvesting mechanism. In this study, we have developed and adopted advanced simulation and ... -
Higher Order Asymptotics: Applications to Mixed Models and Bioassay
(2010-01-01)Likelihood based tests and confidence intervals typically require large sample sizes for their validity. For small sample problems, higher order asymptotics (or small sample asymptotics) appear to be an attractive option ... -
Higher order regularity, long term dynamics, and data assimilation for magnetohydrodynamic flows
(2018-01-01)First we consider various inviscid equations of fluid dynamics and show that if the initial data is analytic in the space variables, then the resulting flows extend as analytic functions of both space and time variables, ... -
Historical Simulations and the Mechanics of Conquest: How Game Mechanics Tell Stories About the Past
(2020-01-20)Over the past decade, historical simulations have become one of the most popular genres of video games. With audiences in the millions, these historically themed games represent mass-market works of popular history. This ... -
Homing in the Benthos: Navigation and Orientation in a Mantis Shrimp
(2020-01-20)Stomatopods, better known as mantis shrimp, are crustaceans which commonly inhabit holes in benthic marine environments for use as burrows. Many stomatopod species forage at extended distances before returning to their ... -
Homogenization of Mixed Horizontal LCPs and Applications
(2009-01-01)In optimization, a homogeneous model is an artificial transformation of a given problem. The transformation is done such that the homogeneous problem has always a solution even if the original problem does not. Moreover, ... -
How we talk about race: Interracial family communications on race, identity and the role of social context
(2018-01-01)The population of mixed-race children and interracial families in the United States continues to grow at a rapid rate and multiracial children represent one of the fastest growing youth groups in the country. The past ... -
Hue, Intensity, Value
(2017-01-01)My thesis exhibition, Sibling Portraits and this text, Hue, Intensity, Value, are the result of nine months of writing and three years of making art. I identify my three areas of focus: elements of design, face perception, ... -
Human-machine Intelligence: A Design Paradigm
(2019-01-01)In this age of artificial intelligence, we are witnessing the power of human-machine collaboration in transforming the way we live, work, and solve different problems. Humans and machines can complement each other in ...