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Sodium Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Evaluation of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disorder caused by lack of dystrophin, and is characterized by progressive muscle degeneration and weakness. Preliminary magnetic resonance image (MRI) studies have reported ... -
Multivariate Analysis Applied to the California Health Interview Survey
Objective: Identify if principle components analysis and multiple correspondence analysis are suitable dimension reduction techniques for the California Health Interview Survey. Identify which health risk behaviors, mental ... -
Cameras in the United States Supreme Court: Judicial Transparency & the Obligation Thereof
The sources utilized in this thesis each serve a particular function in relation to the theoretical framework. They are organized by the extent to which they contribute to the three dominant disciplinary approaches found ... -
Electrospinning Optimization for Fabrication of Flexible Transparent Electrodes
Flexible, transparent electrodes (FTEs) can be used in many applications, such as wearable electronics, flexible touch screens, and semitransparent solar cells. Researchers have successfully created stretchable, bendable, ... -
Building a Better Machine Learning Hardware Accelerator with HARP
As machine learning is applied to ever more ambitious tasks, higher performance is required to be able to train and evaluate neural nets in reasonable amounts of time. To this end, many hardware accelerators for machine ... -
Research Ethics and Sexuality: The Influence of Personal Ideologies
The purpose of this study is to determine the degree to which participants maintained their original ideologies after being exposed to a synopsis of an unethical experiment. The study primarily screened for anti-gay ... -
The Abundance of the Long LSD1/KDM1a Isoform in Alcohol Treated Brains
Alternative splicing is a eukaryotic mRNA processing mechanism in which exons within a pre-RNA transcript are joined differently or skipped entirely, yielding multiple protein isoforms from a single gene. This project ... -
Source-to-Source Transformations for Parallel Optimizations in STAPL
Programs that use the STAPL C++ parallel programming library express their control and data flow explicitly through the use of skeletons. Skeletons can be simple parallel operations like map and reduce, or the result of ... -
Race and Ethnicity in the Coach-Athlete Relationship: Coaching Attributes Effect on Athletes
The quality of a coach-athlete relationship has been found to predict on field performance, as well as levels of academic self-efficacy, self-regulation, and aggression in athletes (Jowett, 2017; Nicholls et. al., 2017; ... -
Statistical Robustness Analysis of Random Sampling Consensus Method
One of the most vocalized applications of computational interactivity today stem from our biological sense of perception, both in its promise for automation and heeding of its still prevalent weaknesses. Computer vision, ... -
An Implantable Glucose Sensor Comprised of Optical Assays and a Self-Cleaning Hydrogel Membrane
An implantable continuous glucose monitor (iCGM) is necessary for diabetic patients to keep their glucose levels within a safe range. To build a more accessible iCGM with a longer lifetime and cheaper cost, we propose to ... -
Analyzing “Hot Spots” Created by Electron Beam (eBeam) Technology
Electron beam (eBeam) technology is commonly used to sterilize food and food ingredients to inactivate microbial pathogens. In eBeam processing, electrons are accelerated to the speed of light in a linear accelerator, ... -
Michelle or Michael or Whatever
This creative piece was written to explore self-discovery in a new age. College has become an experience that more and more people are going through as they attempt to invent or reinvent themselves, and the protagonist of ... -
Optical Pick and Place Machine
The current market does not contain a low-cost machine capable of building optical surface mounted devices (SMDs). This project attempts to design a machine capable of handling optical parts which are highly sensitive ... -
Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Connections to Syria
This thesis will be examining the policies enacted in the contemporary period - contemporary defined as the time period after the events of the Cold War - and will do so empirically. This thesis will analyze contemporary ... -
Mysticism in Science Fiction: Science Fiction As a Vehicle for Mystical Thought and Experience
Literature Review: Much of the current available scholarship on science fiction and its engagement with the spiritual centers about religious tropes in science fiction, such as aliens as deities, gnosticism, the “personhood” ... -
Bipartisanship Through the Eyes of the Supreme Court
My project has produced the first act of a written play examining the concept of judicial lockjaw and bipartisanship’s positive and negative effects on the Supreme Court. My work contributes to the genres of “Theatre of ... -
The Duality of Subjectivity and Objectivity: How That Effects Humanity
For this project, I will build upon previous work on phenomenology and the interconnectedness of the world. By utilizing past works on phenomenology, the relation of space, and subjectivity vs. objectivity, I will analyze ... -
Textbook Dependency Web
After a textbook has been written and published, one may want to customize it for a particular audience; it may be desirable to delete or reorder some of the chapters or sections. However, there may be dependencies among ... -
Construal Level, Self-knowledge and Academic Motivation: Knowing Why You Pursue Your Goals Promotes Academic Motivation
This study was based on the interaction between two theories, one of which describes how individuals conceptualize their goals (Construal Level Theory) and the other addresses the understanding of the self (Self-knowledge). ...
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