Masters Theses
Duke migrated to an electronic-only system for theses between 2006 and 2010. As such, theses completed between 2006 and 2010 may not be part of this system, and those completed before 2006 are not hosted here except for a small number that have been digitized.
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Characterizing European Dependence on Russian Natural Gas
(2022)Russia's war in Ukraine in 2022 has put a new spotlight on Europe's overall reliance on Russian energy resources. As the subsequent international sanctions and Russia's weaponization of energy have caused an energy crisis ... -
Rural Villages, Urbanization, and Female Villager’s Social Status: Fieldwork in a Shenzhen Urban Village.
(2022)In 2004, the Shenzhen Municipality announced that Shenzhen would become the first city without rural areas and rural villages in China, a milestone in the process of urbanization. Officially, rural villages in Shenzhen have ... -
A Feasibility Study of Noninvasive Intracranial Pressure Monitoring for Adults After Traumatic Brain Injury in Uganda
(2022)Introduction: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) accounts for the majority of Uganda’s neurosurgical disease burden, but invasive intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring is infrequently used. Noninvasive monitoring through tools ... -
Non-Synchronous Vibration: Lock-in Region and Unsteady Pressure Analysis on NACA0012 Airfoil
(2022)Non-synchronous vibration (NSV) in turbomachinery is a complex phenomenon of interest that has been studied but not yet fully understood. The interaction between fluid dynamic instabilities and natural vibration of the blades ... -
A Comparison of the Attitudes of Human Resource (HR) Executives and HR Practitioners on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Enabled Tools in Recruiting
(2022)As part of the technological growth in HR, companies are developing and adopting AI-enabled solutions for recruitment of qualified talent for a job opening. AI-enabled recruiting tools provide a variety of potential benefits ... -
Machine Learning for Ophthalmologic Predictions
(2022)With the advent of Machine Learning and the existence of Electronic Health Records, with most non-federal acute care hospitals a large number of office-based physicians already having opted for having a certified EHRs, each ... -
Sir Christopher Wren’s Towers of London: The Affordances of ArcGIS Spatial Analysis for Studying Visibility in the Early Modern London Skyline with the Spire of St. Bride’s Church
(2022)After the Great Fire of 1666 decimated London, Sir Christopher Wren was commissioned to oversee the reconstruction of parish churches, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and numerous infrastructure and architecture projects in the city. ... -
The Impact of Time, Region, and Income Level on Stillbirth and Neonatal Mortality
(2022)Background: Neonatal mortality and stillbirth remain prominent global health issues. The majority of these perinatal losses occur in low- and middle-income countries and are related to lack of quality care around delivery. ... -
Experimental Study on Geomaterial’s Moisture Content Distribution and Deformation During Drying Process
(2022)Knowledge of the drying process of geomaterials is meaningful and helpful in the field of geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering. This experimental study focuses on drying tests on geomaterial samples with monitored ... -
Chinese Cloud Players: How Proxy Play Develops From the Game Live Streaming
(2022)The term “Cloud Player” (云玩家) has been widely used as a put-down of the alleged pseudo-players who actively engage in online game discussion but seldomly play games themselves, and game live streaming is considered as the ... -
Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Alkylation of Heteroarene N-oxides with Azadienes
(2022)Heteroarenes bearing nitrogen centers such as pyridines and quinolines are ubiquitous in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and other small molecules of medicinal interest. Among them, quinoline derivatives belong to a significant ... -
Developing a Culturally Relevant Community Centered eHealth Smoking Cessation Intervention (CCeSCI): a Qualitative Study on the Beliefs and Attitudes of Chinese Smokers and Community Workers
(2022)Background: The prevalence of smoking among Chinese men has been one of the highest globally despite decades of smoking cessation efforts. Previous studies suggest that smoking cessation interventions could be more effective ... -
Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease with Distributed, Proportional plus Integral Control
(2022)Continuous deep brain stimulation (cDBS) of either subthalamic nucleus (STN) or globus pallidus (GP) is an effective therapy in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) but is inherently limited by lack of responsiveness to dynamic, fluctuating ... -
A Corpus-Driven Project: How does Mainland China News Media Cover Comfort Women (2016-2021)
(2022)During WWII, Japan forced women from China, Korea, and other countries in Asia to become military sex slaves. They were called ianfu (慰安婦) in Japanese, or comfort women. The comfort women's history was neglected in post-war ... -
Structure–Functional Selectivity Relationship Studies of Apomorphine Analogs to Develop Beta-arrestin Biased-D1/D2R Ligands
(2022)Dopamine receptors (D1-5R), responsible for cognition and locomotion, are involved in several neurological diseases. Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder wherein patients suffer from the loss of dopaminergic ... -
Commissioning a State-of-Art Small Animal Irradiator and Novel Mini-GRID Treatment Technique
(2022)Purpose: To validate commissioning results associated with the Xstrahl Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP) installed at Duke University in October 2021, verify the accuracy of the Xstrahl Point Dose Calculator ... -
Assessing China’s Economic and Political Power Play
(2022)How effectively has China utilized its economic power to gain political support worldwide? This paper aims to answer this question, which is vital to understanding the new dynamics of the international order, through a more ... -
Developing a stigma responsive educational program to promote uptake of HPV-based cervical cancer screening and treatment in Kisumu, Kenya
(2022)Background: Despite increasing availability of preventative HPV vaccines and screening strategies, uptake of these effective measures in Kisumu, Kenya is limited by cultural and logistical barriers. Limited understanding ... -
Altered Stakes: identifying gaps in the psychedelic-assisted therapy research informed consent process
(2022)Nearly 60% of the US population experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder have not received a meaningful clinical response from traditional interventions (Akiki & Abdallah, 2018). Early research using psychedelics in tandem ... -
Blood Pressure Control by Multi-Component Intervention: An Exploratory Mediation Analysis of the SingHypertension Trial
(2022)Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death and disease burden globally. Hypertension, one of CVDs’ most important risk factors, becomes a global health challenge due to its growing prevalence and severe ...
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