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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Digital Hydraulics Simulation in Mathematica on Sudden Expansion Flows
(2023)In this work, we offer readers the ability to numerically simulate flow through a sudden expansion themselves. We choose to study the sudden expansion due to its prevalence in engineered and natural water distribution networks ... -
Towards Alternative Queerness: on the Photographic Work of Chinese Artists Chen Ronghui and Ren Hang
(2023)This thesis examines the works of Chinese photographic artists Chen Ronghui and Ren Hang and reflects upon and expands the ways in which queerness is commonly approached and understood in photography. Rather than be simply ... -
Impact of Resource-Extractive Land Concessions on Malaria Incidence in the Peruvian Amazon: A 2015 to 2020 Retrospective Study
(2023)Malaria is a life-threatening vector-borne disease (VBD) that remains a major health concern for the northernmost region of Loreto, Peru. Increased malaria incidence has been connected to extractive industries such as mining ... -
A Radiomics Machine Learning Model for Post-Radiotherapy Overall Survival Prediction of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
(2023)Purpose: To predict post-radiotherapy overall survival group of NSCLC patients based on clinical information and radiomics analysis of simulation CT. Materials/Methods: A total of 258 non-adenocarcinoma patients who received ... -
Oral Health among Children and Adolescents with Disabilities in one Welfare School in Chengdu from 2018 to 2019
(2023)Background: To identify the oral health status of children and adolescent with disabilities in one welfare school in Chengdu. With several disabilities, physical and intellectual deficiency will affect disabled children’s ... -
Nishi Amane’s Reception and Translation of Political Thought in the Early Meiji Era
(2023)This project will explore Meiji Japan’s reception of right training its sights on Nishi Amane 西周 (1829-1897)’s discussion of the concept in Meiroku Zasshi. The importation of numerous western political concepts, which had ... -
Inference for Dynamic Treatment Regimes using Overlap Sampling Splitting
(2023)Dynamic treatment regime is a sequence of decision rules mapping patient informa- tion at a specific time to a recommended treatment, with the goal of maximizing long-term clinical outcome. However, the inference for the ... -
Making Enemies: Land Reform and State Violence in China
(2023)Scholars of comparative politics have long recognized that coercive capacity is critical to the resilience and survival of authoritarian regimes. What explains the subnational variation in coercive capacity and repression ... -
Validation of Attaining a Higher Threshold Using Double-Pass MWPM Decoding of CSS Codes Using X/Z Correlations
(2023)In this report we validate that Minimum Weight Perfect Matching (MWPM) decoding ofa surface code helps attain a higher code threshold than standard decoding by taking into account the correlations of errors that occur on ... -
THE IMPACT OF RAINFALL ON LANDSLIDE DYNAMICS: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS ON MOUNTAINOUS AREA IN NORTHERN ITALY USING MACHINE LEARNING ASSISTED APPROACHES
(2023)Landslides are a very common type of disaster. It happens in every state of the U.S and is defined as the movement of the mass of rock, debris, or earth down a slope. Debris flows, sometimes referred to as mudslides, mudflows, ... -
Arbitrary Acoustics Hologram Based on Structured OAM Beams
(2023)In this study, we present a novel on-chip 2D hologram device of an on-chip hologram device capable of generating both arbitrary 3D nodes and 2D microscale nodes. As the first true 3D hologram folded on chip, our approach ... -
Multiple Possibilities for the Realization of Immersive Worlds
(2023)In recent years, discussions about immersive experiences have become ubiquitous, but there have been vague definitions of immersion. This thesis aims to explore multiple possibilities to realize immersive worlds and conduct ... -
The Logic of Government’s Response to Protests in China New Evidence from Protests Recorded in Social Media
(2023)Scholarship on protests in China, though prolific in recent years, faces serious data issues. Since there is no comprehensive dataset for a systematic analysis of protests in China, previous scholars can only quantitatively ... -
The Moon is Rounder on the Other Side: Foreign Vloggers and Chinese Nationalism
(2023)This paper seeks to explain the phenomena of popular foreign vloggers in domestic Chinese media by using existing theories in propaganda, nationalism, and social identity theory. Selecting six videos from domestic Chinese ... -
Stable Variable Selection for Sparse Linear Regression in a Non-uniqueness Regime
(2023)This thesis presents a comprehensive investigation of the LASSO method in a non-uniqueness regime and its ability of stable variable selection. We characterize when LASSO may have non-unique solutions through a sufficient ... -
Anything For Views Parenting: Framing Privacy, Ethics, and Norms for Children of Influencers on YouTube
(2023)Children who appear as the main characters or primary consumers of YouTube content have been the focus of emerging academic literature and public debate (Feller & Burroughs, 2022; Ferguson, 2018; Kumar, 2021). Sharenting, ... -
“Sky Eye”: Infrastructure, Politics and Livelihood in Southern Guizhou
(2023)This thesis sheds light on rural life in Kedu Town, southern Guizhou. Drawing from the idea of “doubling of infrastructure” (Muehlmann 2019), I see the FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) project as a ... -
Arthritis and Physical Activity among Adults in the United States: Cross-sectional Analyses of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
(2023)Arthritis is a chronic condition affecting millions of older adults worldwide and a leading cause of pain and disability. Physical activity is effective and recommended in managing arthritis and promoting overall health ... -
Wearable Sensor-driven and Multi-biomarker Guided Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation System
(2023)This paper implements the first closed-loop adaptive deep brain stimulation (DBS) system for Parkinson’s patients that updates with multiple input streams from disparate data sources analyzed in real time. Input data streams ... -
Assessing Credibility: A Qualitative Analysis of Public and Private Signals in the Cuban Missile Crisis
(2023)Credibility has long been a subject of interest in international relations. However, recent works minimize some of the earliest and most intriguing credibility questions. To what degree is accuracy related to credibility, ...
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