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GaAsBi Synthesis: From Band Structure Modification to Nanostructure Formation
(2017)Research and development bismides have proven bismides to be a promising field for material science with important applications in optoelectronics. However, the development of a complete description of the electrical and ... -
Gabon’s Overlooked Carbon: A tropical forest study of coarse woody debris
(2013-04-26)Large dead trees and other large forest detritus (collectively known as coarse woody debris, or CWD) play an important role in the global carbon cycle. In tropical systems, CWD stocks (necromass) have been found to constitute ... -
Gaining Competitive Advantage from Human Capital: Role of Markets and Firm Structure
(2015)This dissertation develops new theory and evidence to show that human-capital based competitive advantage of firms varies with external markets, firm structure, and firm openness to factor markets. The dissertation includes ... -
Galactokinase is a Novel Modifier of Calcineurin-Induced Cardiomyopathy in Drosophila
(2014)Calcineurin is both necessary and sufficient to induce cardiac hypertrophy, an independent risk factor for arrhythmia, dilated cardiomyopathy, heart failure, and sudden cardiac death. However, current knowledge of the downstream ... -
Gallium-based Ultraviolet Nanoplasmonics
(2013)Nanometer-scale metallic structures have been widely and intensively studied over the last decade because of their remarkable plasmonic properties that can enhance local electromagnetic (EM) fields. However, most plasmonic ... -
Game-Theoretically Allocating Resources to Catch Evaders and Payments to Stabilize Teams
(2016)Allocating resources optimally is a nontrivial task, especially when multipleself-interested agents with conflicting goals are involved. This dissertationuses techniques from game theory to study two classes of ... -
Gamification for Behavior Change of Occupants in Campus Buildings to Affect Improved Energy Efficiency
(2014-04-23)In 2012, 40% of total U.S. energy consumption was attributed to residential and commercial buildings. However, in order to improve building energy efficiency, most conservation measures adopted today are based on technologies ... -
Gap Analysis of Five Orders in Great Smoky Mountain National Park: A Quantification of Inventory Gaps
(2016-04-21)Global biodiversity is currently in a state of crisis with human alterations to the environment exacerbating extinctions so that extinction rates now exceed 1,000 times normal background rates (Lees & Pimm, 2015, Nicholas ... -
Garbage to Gasoline: Converting Municipal Solid Waste to Liquid Fuels
(2013-04-25)Liquid fuels are in high demand throughout the United States and crude oil is a finite resource. With strain on conventional sources for liquid fuels, the unconventional sources and new technologies to create liquid fuels ... -
Garbage to Gasoline: Converting Municipal Solid Waste to Liquid Fuels
(2013-04-25)Liquid fuels are in high demand throughout the United States and crude oil is a finite resource. With strain on conventional sources for liquid fuels, the unconventional sources and new technologies to create liquid fuels ... -
Garnering Support for the Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax through Strategic Messaging
(2018-01-18)This project aims to gain insight into public opinion regarding the Sugar Sweetened Beverage (SSB) tax, and how framing of the SSB tax can influence public opinion. This empirical evidence is valuable, as the U.S. is on ... -
Gas Prices and Automobile Advertising Expenditures in U.S. Markets
(2009)I examine how automobile manufacturers change their advertising strategies when gasoline prices rise. In particular, I use a robust OLS regression to estimate how gasoline prices affect advertising expenditures on vehicles ... -
Gashes Creek: Christian Leadership Through a Narrative Lens
(2014)What follows is a novel. I had a two-fold purpose in choosing to work in narrative. My primary intention was simply to explore the nature of Christian leadership through a narrative lens. More specifically, I have attempted ... -
Gastric Fluid Aspiration-Mediated Pulmonary Allograft Failure
(2013)Since its first success in 1983, lung transplantation has become the treatment of choice for selected patients with end stage lung disease. However, long-term graft survival is relatively low compared to other solid organs, ... -
Gatecrashers: The First Generation of Outsider Artists in America
(2015)Although interest in the work of untrained artists has surged recently, appearing everywhere from the Venice Biennale to The New Yorker, the art world’s fascination with American autodidacts began nearly a century ago. My ... -
Gauge Boson Coupling Measurements in Final States of W Boson Produced with Additional Photons with The ATLAS Detector
(2015)A first measurement of pp -> Wγγ+X production cross section and the process of vector boson scattering producing Wγ, using the 20.3fb-1 dataset collected by the ATLAS detector from the proton-proton collisions ... -
Gaussian beta process
(2014)This thesis presents a new framework for constituting a group of dependent completely random measures, unifying and extending methods in the literature. The dependent completely random measures are constructed based on a ... -
Gaussian Process Kernels for Cross-Spectrum Analysis in Electrophysiological Time Series
(2016)Multi-output Gaussian processes provide a convenient framework for multi-task problems. An illustrative and motivating example of a multi-task problem is multi-region electrophysiological time-series data, where experimentalists ... -
Gaussian Process-Based Models for Clinical Time Series in Healthcare
(2018)Clinical prediction models offer the ability to help physicians make better data-driven decisions that can improve patient outcomes. Given the wealth of data available with the widespread adoption of electronic health records, ... -
Gender at Duke
(2007-05-04)This research paper will analyze both the growth and decline of women’s roles here on campus. Consequently, I will investigate how national events parallel the waxing and waning of female leadership in The Woman’s College ...
