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Phantom-based Noise Assessment in 3D-PET Image Reconstruction
(2022)In addition to traditional iterative PET reconstruction methods like OSEM, some new algorithms take into account resolution recovery and regularization, has gradually gained attention. Comparing and evaluating these ... -
Development of a Photothermal Treatment Planning Workflow for use in Synergistic Immuno-Photothermal-Nanotherapy (SYMPHONY)
(2022)Approximately half of bladder cancer diagnoses are late stage/show metastatic spread. The current standard treatment option for these diagnoses is cisplatin chemotherapy, however 40% of patients are ineligible to receive ... -
Evaluation of radiation therapy produced Cherenkov light emissions used for photo-activation of psoralen (AMT)
(2022)Purpose: Radiotherapy Enhanced by Cherenkov photo-Activation (RECA) is a novel radiation treatment method that seeks an anti-cancer effect with the introduction of a psoralen compound administered for treatment. The goal ... -
Associations of Adverse Childhood Experiences With Key Health Outcomes and Viral Suppression Maintenance Among Tanzanian Youth Living With HIV
(2022)Background: Despite improved access to HIV testing and medication, AIDS remains a leading cause of death among youth living with HIV (YLWH) in Tanzania. YLWH are prone to worse HIV outcomes than other age groups, which may ... -
Computational Challenges to Bayesian Density Discontinuity Regression
(2022)Many policies subject an underlying continuous variable to an artificial cutoff. Agents may regulate the magnitude of the variable to stay on the preferred side of a known cutoff, which results in the form of a jump discontinuity ... -
Minor Mobilities: A Historical Analysis of Little Saigon through Oral History
(2022)After the Vietnam War ended in 1975 many Southern Vietnamese were displaced and forced to relocate. Many of those refugees settled into an area located in Orange County, California and for the past fifty years have worked ... -
Feminists without Feminism: Women’s Online Movement in Contemporary China
(2022)With the widespread stigmatization of “women’s rights” in China, I observed that young women increasingly reject the identification of “feminists.” In comparison, some of them voice their opinions on social media advocate ... -
Effect of 18F-FDG PET image discretization on radiomic features of patients undergoing definitive radiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer
(2022)Purpose: To characterize the effect of different discretization techniques (methods and values) on radiomic features extracted from positron emission tomography (PET) images of patients undergoing definitive radiotherapy ... -
The Striving Trap: Chinese 996 Work Culture, Online and Offline Perspectives
(2022)The concerns and questions of this paper focus on what happened when Chinese Internet tech companies initiated an overtime working schedule known as “996—working from 9am to 9pm a day, six days a week—in terms of the intertwined ... -
Numerical Approximation of Gaussian-Smoothed Optimal Transport
(2022)The Optimal Transport (OT) Distance, especially the Wasserstein distance, has important applications in statistics and machine learning. Though the optimal transport distance possesses many favorable properties, it is not ... -
Association of Parental Mental Health with Youth Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison between 2018 and 2020 in Chongqing, China
(2022)Background: Maladjustment, categorized as internalizing and externalizing behaviors, is a process whereby an adolescent is unable to satisfy the psychological needs successfully. Youth behavioral problems may strengthen ... -
Knowledge, Behaviors, and Attitudes Related to Gear Cleaning Among Central North Carolina Firefighters
(2022)Background: Persistent organic pollutants, combustion byproducts, and chemical contamination are just some of the occupational hazards that firefighters are exposed to both from dermal exposure when responding to fires and ... -
Neurosurgical Decision-Making and Ethical Considerations in the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury
(2022)Globally, disparities in the availability of surgical care are prevalent, and for specialty care such as neurosurgery, services are typically scarce to non-existent. In low-and-middle-income countries, most medical centers ... -
Universal Health Coverage for the Poor and Informal Sector in Africa: A Health Financing Policy Analysis
(2022)Background:In their pursuit of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), a challenge African countries face is extending health coverage to the poor and informal sector. This group accounts for a significant proportion of the population ... -
Tree-Burning: Yu Hua and Can Xue as Writers of the Rhizome
(2022)The thesis explores how Chinese avant-garde writers Yu Hua and Can Xue’s early short fictions pose a profound stylistic and structural challenge to existing conventions of realist fictions in China. It mainly uses the idea ... -
Novel Designs of Radiomics-Integrated Deep Learning Models
(2022)Purpose: To investigate the feasibility of integrate radiomics and deep learning in computer-aided medical imaging analysis Methods: Two different approaches were investigated to integrate radiomics and deep leaning on ... -
An Invisible Conundrum: Visualizing “Queer Immobility” in the Contemporary PRC
(2022)Until the end of the 20th century, with the deepening of the Opening-up and Reform movement under the context of globalization and advancement of communication methods, both culture and economy in the PRC have achieved ... -
A Differentially Private Bayesian Approach to Replication Analysis
(2022)Replication analysis is widely used in many fields of study. Once a research is published, other researchers will conduct analysis to assess the reliability of the published research. However, what if the data are confidential? ... -
Bayesian Decoupling: A Decision Theory-Based Approach to Bayesian Variable Selection
(2022)The spike and slab prior offers a canonical approach to Bayesian variable selection, with caveats known to be data dimension and correlation. Motivated by the pitfalls of the spike and slab prior on high dimensional correlated ... -
Development of a Media Awareness Campaign to Address Barriers to Childhood Cancer Treatment in Tanzania
(2022)According to Ward et al. 2019, there are 400,000 newly diagnosed pediatric cancer patients each year, with over 85% living in low-and middle-income countries. Even though some pediatric cancer types have more than 90% chance ...
