Browsing Masters Theses by Issue Date
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Evaluating the Impact of the North Carolina Art Therapy Institute’s Newcomer’s Program
(2019)Refugees and asylum seeking children (Newcomers) enter the U.S.A. with little psychosocial support, despite having consistently higher rates of mental health problems. Art therapy has been seen as a potentially powerful ... -
Wake Turbulence of the 2017 Qatar-GCC Diplomatic Crisis
(2019)The international linkages between autocratic regimes have gained increasing attention in recent years but remain poorly understood. This literature is often limited by a selective focus on a specific set of international ... -
The Alife Bestiary: An AR Object Recognition Project on the Archivolt of Alife
(2019)The archivolt of Alife being exhibited as a part of the Brummer Collect in the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is an enigmatic artifact with many unknown elements. Specifically, the iconography, one of the aspects ... -
Challenging Advaitic and Universalist Notions of Hinduism
(2019)Within the academic study of Hinduism, there is a tendency to misrepresent Indian religion by portraying it as entirely Advaita Vedānta, the monistic ideology commonly associated with Śaṅkara. By looking at reasons for Advaita ... -
Rethinking Nonlinear Instrumental Variables
(2019)Instrumental variable (IV) models are widely used in the social and health sciences in situations where a researcher would like to measure a causal eect but cannot perform an experiment. Formally checking the assumptions ... -
Dynamic Analysis of a Cantilever Beam with an Offset Mass
(2019)This thesis investigates the dynamic characteristics of a cantilever beam with an offset mass. Starting with a linear system consisting of a cantilever beam with a tip mass, Hamilton's principle is utilized to derive the ... -
Non-Instrumental Value of Epistemic Democracy: A Republican Argument
(2019)Proponents of epistemic democracy defend democracy’s capacity to harness people’s wisdom and produce better results than its rivals (Cohen 1986; Goodin and Spiekermann 2018; Landemore 2012). Yet contemporary democracies ... -
The Potential Impact of the We Care Solar Suitcase on the Quality of Care Health Workers Deliver in The Gambia
(2019)Background: In The Gambia, a woman has a 1/24 lifetime chance of dying during childbirth and there are approximately 706 deaths per every 100,000 births, one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world. These ... -
Cross-District Coordination and Party System Fragmentation -- Evidence from Polish Municipal Council Elections
(2019)The conventional wisdom in electoral studies links proportional representation to multi-party systems and plurality rules to bipartism. Although this prediction fits the dynamics of political competition well at the district ... -
Radiogenomics for Radiation Treatment Assessment of Advanced Lung Cancers
(2019)Background: Radiomics describes the study of converting medical images into high-dimensional quantitative features and following analysis for further decision making and genomics focuses on the understanding genomes of individual ... -
Stack Music: Spotify and the Platformization of the Digital Music Commodity
(2019)Digital platforms play an increasingly prevalent role in 21st century capitalism. They shape our search results, facilitate our communication habits, structure our workdays, reinforce our communities, and increasingly impact ... -
A Collimator Setting Optimization Algorithm for Dual-arc Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy in Pancreas Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
(2019)Purpose: To develop an automatic collimator setting optimization algorithm to improve dosimetric quality of pancreas Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) plans for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT). Methods: ... -
Changes in U.S. Residential Monthly Energy Use per Capita: 1990-2017
(2019)Residential energy consumption represents a large share of total end use energy and shows strong correlation with monthly cooling and heating degree days. This study focuses on quantifying temporal change in the relationship ... -
Nothing Left to Lose: Political Inequality and Conflict Recurrence
(2019)What are the causes of conflict recurrence in states recently coming out of a civil war? Various theories focus on how the conflict ends, the development issues the states faces post-war, or the effect of a third-party ... -
Feasibility, Acceptability, and Effectiveness of a Peer Youth Leader Model to Deliver a HIV Curriculum in Routine HIV Adolescent Clinic and Impact on Youth Leader Resilience: a Mixed-Methods Study
(2019)Background: Youth living with HIV have worse health outcomes compared to adults or children. Few interventions have been developed engaging youth in their care to promote resilience. Peer-led education is one potential way ... -
Generation of Functional Hepatocyte-Like Cells (HLCs) from Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells (ADSCs) in 2D and 3D
(2019)Mortality and morbidity rates caused by acute liver failure (ALF), acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) and chronic liver disease continue to rise because of drug induced failure or viral hepatitis, currently with 2,000 ... -
Forecasting the Term Structure of Interest Rates: A Bayesian Dynamic Graphical Modeling Approach
(2019)This thesis addresses the financial econometric problem of forecasting the term structure of interest rates by using classes of Dynamic Dependence Network Models (DDNMs). This Bayesian econometric framework defines structured ... -
Optimal Sparse Decision Trees
(2019)Decision tree algorithms have been among the most popular algorithms for interpretable (transparent) machine learning since the early 1980's. The problem that has plagued decision tree algorithms since their inception is ... -
Bayesian Density Regression With a Jump Discontinuity at a Given Threshold
(2019)Standard regression discontinuity design usually concentrates on the causal effects by assigning a threshold above or below which an intervention is assigned. By com- paring the real values of observations near the threshold, ... -
The Perceived Role and Value of Community Health Workers in Addressing Family Planning Uptake in a Rural District in Ghana
(2019)Community health workers (CHW) play an important role in providing healthcare services in resource-deprived settings. In 2016, Ghana Health Services initiated a national CHW program to expand health services to rural populations. ...
