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The Effect of Thickness and Continuity of Motorcycle Helmet Shells on Performance
(2018)Road accidents are the leading cause of death within the 15-29 years age range worldwide and the risk of death for motorcyclists is 20 times that of car occupants. As such, 31% of over 10,250 annual road traffic deaths in ... -
Nucleic Acid Scavengers as Novel Regulators of Autoimmunity and Viral Infection
(2017)Nucleic acids released from dead and dying cells can be recognized as damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) or pattern-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) by the innate immune system. Unregulated activation of the ... -
Applying GIS to the Logistics of Material Transportation for Constructing the Baths of Caracalla in Rome
(2017)The purpose of this thesis is to visualize the economic system (supply, production, and transportation) and the logistics of the movement of marble in the Roman Empire in an effort to better understand the larger system ... -
Gold(I)-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Hydroamination of Methylenecyclopropanes with Aniline Derivatives
(2017)Methylenecyclopropanes (MCPs) are highly strained and serve as useful building blocks in organic synthesis. When activated by a gold catalyst, subsequent nucleophilic attack can result in ring opening (ring-expansion) of ... -
Design, Evaluation and Implementation of a Novel BME Instrumentation course at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
(2017)Uganda is increasingly dependent upon imported biomedical pieces of equipment to support patient care and health related research. Most of this equipment arrives without the accompanying documentation, maintenance and ... -
Differentially Private Verification ofPredictions from Synthetic Data
(2017)When data are confidential, one approach for releasing public available files is to make synthetic data, i.e, data simulated from statistical models estimated on the confidential data. Given access only to synthetic data, ... -
Barriers and Facilitators for Including Village Health Workers (VHW) in Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) Prevention and Control in Chi Linh District, Hai Duong Province, Vietnam
(2017)The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) continues to grow in Vietnam. Recently, Vietnam government initiated a new national plan with a strong focus on NCD prevention and control in the community. This study is ... -
A Cross-Sectional Study Comparing Torque Teno Virus Infection and Bushmeat Exposure Among Pneumonia Patients: Sarawak, Malaysia
(2017)Background: Torque Teno Virus (TTV) is ubiquitous, possibly zoonotic, and has potential for clinical and global health research application. The goals of the current study were to determine prevalence of TTV among pneumonia ... -
Micro-Fabrication Methods and Experimentation of Liquid-Solid Triboelectric Nanogenerators
(2017)This study is an exploration of the liquid-solid electrication phenomena in tribo-electric nanogenerator devices, its fabrication and assembly, as well as notable resultsand analysis on all aspects of the nanogenerator ... -
Intimate Partner Violence among Female Students at a Rural University in Limpopo Province, South Africa: A Mixed Methods Study with Intervention Implications
(2017)Background: Limpopo Province has the highest rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) in South Africa, with data suggesting that over half of women experience IPV in their lifetimes. However, data among young, university-attending ... -
A Comprehensive Needs Assessment to Identify Priority Program Targets for Mosquito Vector Control and related Diseases in Belmopan, Belize
(2017)This was a mixed-methods study aimed to comprehensively assess factors associated with mosquito control in Belmopan, Belize, in order to better inform stakeholders on the effectiveness of their efforts. A knowledge, ... -
The Revelation Principle for Mechanism Design with Signaling Costs
(2017)The revelation principle is a key tool in mechanism design. It allows the designer to restrict attention to the class of truthful mechanisms, greatly facilitating analysis. This is also borne out in an algorithmic sense, ... -
The Lid-Driven Cavity's Many Bifurcations - A Study of How and Where They Occur
(2017)Computational simulations of a two-dimensional incompressible regularized lid-driven cavity were performed and analyzed to identify the dynamic behavior of the flow through multiple bifurcations which ultimately result in ... -
Surveillance for Respiratory Viruses Among Patients Hospitalized with Pneumonia in Sarawak, Malaysia
(2017)Introduction: Pneumonia, despite its stereotype as a routine disease, remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children under five worldwide, responsible for nearly 16% of all childhood deaths(1). With ... -
Surveillance for Swine Respiratory and Diarrheal Pathogens at the Human-Animal Interface in Sarawak, Malaysia
(2017)Introduction: An estimated 75% of emerging infections in humans are zoonotic, posing a serious risk of future pandemics. The large livestock operations and dense human population of Southeast Asia are considered a hot-spot ... -
A Bayesian Strategy to the 20 Question Game with Applications to Recommender Systems
(2017)In this paper, we develop an algorithm that utilizes a Bayesian strategy to determine a sequence of questions to play the 20 Question game. The algorithm is motivated with an application to active recommender systems. We ... -
The Evolution of Property Rights in China: A Breakthrough in Shenzhen City
(2017)This essay adopts a bundle-of-rights approach that allows the examination of the gradual and incremental change in a specific stick: the right to transfer land in China. This study investigates the recent policies on urban ... -
The Timeliness of Childhood Vaccinations in Tanzania: A Literature Review and Analysis of Demographic Health Surveys Data
(2017)Background: Routine immunization is the most effective way to prevent mortality from vaccine preventable diseases. Though vaccination coverage rates have improved over the past decade, vaccinations still fail to be delivered ... -
Effect of Lower-energy Source on the Tumor Representation in Neutron Stimulated Emission Computed Tomography: An Evaluation Study
(2017)Proposed is an investigation into the effect of lower-energy source on the tumor representation of an image acquired by a neutron-based spectroscopic imaging modality, Neutron Stimulated Emission Computed Tomography ... -
Testing for A Loss of Homozygosity and Compound Heterozygosity Using Human Standing Variation
(2017)Homozygosity indicates the state of possessing two identical alleles of a particular gene, one inherited from each parent. Homozygous genes are these where both copies share identical alleles at one specific site, this can ...
