Browsing Masters Theses by Submit Date
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Genome-wide Metabolic Reconstruction and Flux Balance Analysis Modeling of Haloferax volcanii
(2018)The Archaea are an understudied domain of the tree of life, and consist of single-celled microorganisms possessing rich metabolic diversity. Archaeal metabolic capabilities are of interest for industry and basic understanding ... -
Knowledge, Cultural, and Structural Barriers to Thalassemia Screening in Migrant Populations in Thailand
(2018)Background: Thalassemia is a devastating inherited hematological disorder, and as a result of population migration, has become a global public health problem. Thailand has one of the highest burdens of thalassemia in the ... -
The Impact of Skill-based Training Across Different Levels of Autonomy for Drone Inspection Tasks
(2018)Given their low operating costs and flight capabilities, Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles(UAVs), especially small size UAVs, have a wide range of applications, from civilian rescue missions to military surveillance. Easy control ... -
Urban water, sanitation, and hygiene access and the presence of Escherichia coli in the urinary tracts of women in Ahmedabad, India
(2018)Introduction: Municipalities often struggle to build and maintain basic infrastructure for informal slums in urban cities for its most vulnerable populations. One impact of inadequate water and sanitation access is the ... -
Exploiting Common Structures Across Multiple Network Propagation Schemes
(2018)PageRank is arguably the most popular graph-node ranking algorithm which has been used to analyze large networks. This paper presents how to utilize common structures across multiple damping schemes in PageRank algorithm ... -
Enhancing and Validating Modern Radiosurgery for Intracranial Metastases
(2018)The recently-developed single-isocenter multi-target volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) provides several clinical benefits including significantly decreased treatment time and cost-effectiveness compared to other ... -
Development of a method for automatic brain surface registration and its visualization application in the Automated Tumor Resection Device
(2018)This thesis describes the development of a visualization system to the first version of a novel surgical device which uses laser technology for neurosurgery. Specifically, this work combines two systems: The surgical robotic ... -
Impact of a formal antenatal breastfeeding education program on the acceptance and attitudes towards exclusive breastfeeding among mothers and grandmothers in rural Haiti
(2018)Background: Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life reduces infant mortality and morbidity. A systematic review concluded that when an infant’s grandmother had a positive attitude towards breastfeeding, the ... -
Variable Damping Effect on Network Propagation
(2018)In modern network analysis, the PageRank algorithm has been used as an indispens-able tool to determine the importance and relevance of the network nodes. Inspiteof extensive research conducted to accelerate the algorithm ... -
Challenges and Facilitators of Transition from Adolescent to Adult HIV Care among Youth Living with HIV in Moshi, Tanzania
(2018)Background: AIDS is the leading killer of adolescents in Africa, the continent most impacted by the AIDS pandemic. The East African nation of Tanzania is one of the top five countries with the highest burden of HIV in the ... -
The Persistent Effect of Language on Preference for Income Redistribution: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
(2018)Is there any long-term factor that shapes individual preference for income redistribution and corresponding economic or political behavior? I document the persistent effect of language structure, specifically word order ... -
Microphase Separation of Stimulus-Responsive Block-co-Polypeptides on Surfaces
(2018)Among soft matter materials, block copolymers can form ordered structures with high regularity by microphase separation, triggered by the selective incompatibility of the blocks with each other. Many current studies of ... -
Bayesian Inference Via Partitioning Under Differential Privacy
(2018)In this thesis, I develop differentially private methods to report posterior probabilities and posterior quantiles of linear regression coefficients. I accomplish this by randomly partitioning the data, taking an intermediate ... -
Characterizing Epilepsy Treatment and Patient Outcomes in Uganda: A Prospective Hospital-Based Cohort Study
(2018)Background: Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders globally, and an overwhelmingly high number of people who suffer from epilepsy reside in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where access to care ... -
Capillary Water Behavior During Evaporation of Granular Media
(2018)Intense studies on evaporation in fluid systems have been conducted over the past decades, mainly on sessile droplets which are the simplest bodies to simulate. In this thesis, the evaporation process of a water bridge ... -
Dosimetric and radiobiological fitting of xerostomia and dysphagia 12 months after treatment for head and neck tumors
(2018)Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OPSCC) is by far the most predominant form of head and neck cancer in the United States. The survival rate for OPSCC is very high, which, while fortunate, yields many patients who are ... -
Feasibility of Cardiac rehabilitation in Patients with Heart Failure at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital
(2018)Background: Cardiovascular diseases form a large part of a growing pandemic of non-communicable diseases afflicting Sub-Saharan Africa(1–3) Heart failure is one of the most debilitating of these diseases. The global 5-year ... -
Development and Implementation of Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy for Small Animal Irradiator
(2018)Translational cancer research has been around for many years and has resultedin many advancements in cancer treatment. Preclinical radiation therapy is an importanttool used in some studies to better understand the biological ... -
The Effect of Setup Uncertainty on Optimal Dosimetric Margin in Linac-based Stereotactic Radiosurgery with dynamic conformal arc technique
(2018)Purpose: Using a simulation study 1) to estimate the effect of setup uncertainty on optimal dosimetric margin by analyzing dose distribution and biological effect of LINAC-based stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) with a dynamic ...
