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Are Refugees and Immigrants Different? Gauging the Correlation Between Refugee Status and Economic and Educational Success
(2015-12-15)Little previous research has analyzed the long-term economic and educational trajectories of refugee and immigrant arrivals in the U.S. Studies have found that refugees outperform immigrants in long-term earnings and economic ... -
LOW DOSE CT ENHANCEMENT USING DEEP LEARNING METHOD
(2021)Purpose:Deep learning has been widely applied in traditional medical imaging tasks like segmentation and registration. Some fundamental CNN based deep learning methods have shown great potential in low dose CT (LDCT) enhancement. ... -
Photo-Enabled Synthesis of Carbon–Nitrogen and Remote Carbon–Carbon Bonds
(2021)Recent advances in photo-driven reactions have dramatically expanded thescope of transformations no longer exclusively dependent on thermal energy to drive cross-coupling activity of transition metal catalysts. Of these ... -
A Deep-Learning-based Multi-segment VMAT Plan Generation Algorithm from Patient Anatomy for Prostate Simultaneous Integrated Boost (SIB) Cases
(2021)Introduction: Several studies have realized fluence-map-prediction-based DL IMRT planning algorithms. However, DL-based VMAT planning remains unsolved. A main difficult in DL-based VMAT planning is how to generate leaf sequences ... -
Models To Derive the Resonant Frequency of a Liquid in a Rectangular Tank With a Curved Bottom
(2021)This thesis investigates the resonant frequency of a partially-filled rectangular tank of water with a curved bottom that is subject to a horizontal harmonic excitation. The primary goal was to find a model that can accurately ... -
Simulation-based Partial Volume Correction for CT-Guided PET/ SPECT imaging of Nasal Cavity Bone
(2021)Paranasal sinus cancers account for 3% of all head and neck cancers. Of these cases, only 15% cases are ethmoid sinus cancers (Harari et al., 2014). Cancer in these regions may spread rapidly to the adjacent areas, especially ... -
SOCIAL DNA NANOROBOTS
(2021)DNA nanorobots are molecular-scale synthetic devices composed primarily of DNA, that can execute a variety of operations. In the last decades, there have been considerable advances in DNA nanorobots, which have been demonstrated ... -
Numerical Transfer Matrix Method of Next-nearest-neighbor Ising Models
(2021)In statistical physics, the exact partition function of simple (quasi)-one-dimensional models can be obtained from the numerical transfer matrix (TM) method. This method involves solving for the leading eigenvalues of a ... -
Consistency and Adaptation of Gaussian Process Regression, Bayesian Stochastic Block Model and Tail Index
(2021)Bayesian methods offer adaptive inference via hierarchical extensions and uncertaintyquantification automatically with corresponding posterior distribution. Frequentist evaluation of Bayesian methods becomes a fundamental ... -
From Crisis to Restoration: Technical Intellectuals and the Politics of Italy's Post-war Development
(2021)Development has been studied as a project pursued by imperialist nations to strengthen the social and economic order of empire and to curb communism. It was deployed just as frequently, however, in sovereign spaces. This ... -
Flood Risk Analysis on Terrains
(2021)An important problem in terrain analysis is modeling how water flowsacross a terrain and creates floods by filling up depressions. This thesis examines a number of flood-risk related problems. One such problem is answering ... -
Micro-Viscoelastic Properties of the Human Conventional Outflow Pathway and Their Evolution in an Early Ocular-Hypertension Model.
(2021)Primary OAG (POAG) is the second leading cause of irreversible blindness in the US and its prevalence is expected to worsen in the coming years. Major pathological changes have been attributed to the Juxtacanicular Tissue ... -
Variable wordforms, adaptable learners: evidence from real-time word comprehension and naturalistic corpora
(2021)When learning a language, typically-developing infants face the daunting task of learning both the sounds and the meanings of words. In this dissertation, we focus on a source of variability that complicates the one-to-one ... -
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Statistical Analysis of Response Distribution for Dependent Data via Joint Quantile Regression
(2021)Linear quantile regression is a powerful tool to investigate how predictors may affect a response heterogeneously across different quantile levels. Unfortunately, existing approaches find it extremely difficult to adjust ... -
Can a Hindu be Black?: A Study of Black Americans and Hinduism
(2021)Nearly half a century ago, acclaimed jazz musician Alice Coltrane (1937-2007), marital partner of saxophonist John Coltrane, began disseminating Hindu (Vedanta) teachings and jazz-inflected bhajans (songs of praise) in her ... -
Art in the Interregnum: The Aesthetics of Transition, 1973-Present
(2021)Art in the Interregnum: The Aesthetics of Transition, 1973-Present adopts the interregnum, a concept imported into critical usage by Antonio Gramsci, as a periodizing framework for understanding cultural production today. ... -
Differential Geometry Tools for Data Analysis
(2021)The thesis is divided into two parts: the moving anchor parameterization method and the comparative morphology through Willmore-type functionals. In the first part we show that parametrizing points on curves or surfaces ... -
Paul’s Philonic Opponent: Unveiling the One Who Calls Himself a Jew in Romans 2:17
(2021)This dissertation offers a solution to several interpretive problems arising at the beginning of Paul’s letter to the Romans, particularly from Rom 1:18–3:20. Why do these chapters evince a distinct account of the knowledge ... -
Multimodal Probabilistic Inference for Robust Uncertainty Quantification
(2021)Deep learning models, which form the backbone of modern ML systems, generalize poorly to small changes to the data distribution. They are also bad at signalling failure, making predictions with high confidence when their ...
