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The Ideology of Feminine Beauty in Twenty-first Century China
(2021)This thesis focuses on the mediation of Chinese females with ideals of feminine beauty in twenty-first century China, including cosmetics, cosmetic surgeries and beauty cameras. Through analyzing the generalized social phenomena ... -
Follow and Tweet: The Partisan Tilt and Political Ideology Preferences of Army Officers on Social Media
(2021)This study seeks to describe the political profiles of Army officers through data scraping the Twitter Application Programming Interface (API) and LinkedIn platforms. After creating and analyzing a database of 500 Army officers, ... -
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Depression Among Middle-Aged and Older
(2021)Background and Aim: Depression is a growing burden in China. There is limited national data on epidemiological studies of depression in China, as well as consistent estimates on the prevalence of depression. Therefore, we ... -
Multi-scale graph principal component analysis for connectomics
(2021)In brain connectomics, it is common to divide the cortical surface into discrete regions of interest (ROIs), and then to use these regions to induce a graph. Nodes correspond to regions of interest and edges encode summaries ... -
Judicial Transparency in China: Principal-Agent Problem and Firm Characteristics
(2021)The thesis discusses the principal-agent problem in authoritarian countries during the practice of judicial transparency. In specific, it studies what motivates Chinese courts to be partially obedient under mandatory disclosure ... -
The Influence of Spatio-Temporal Factors on Small Mammal Trapping and Species Distribution in the SAVA Region of Madagascar
(2021)As deforestation occurs, the contact between humans and wildlife is expected to increase, resulting in increased risk of disease spillover to humans. Landscape modification and other spatio-temporal variables will influence ... -
Analysis of spherical, rolling magnet generator for passive energy harvesting
(2021)In this thesis, a spherical, rolling magnet generator for passive energy harvesting is investigated. It was designed for gathering energy from human motion. This thesis focuses on the analysis of the dynamics of this device ... -
Influence of Material Properties and Fracture Properties on the Crack Nucleation and Growth
(2021)In this thesis, we studied the influence of spatial variations in the fracture property and the elastic property on the resulting crack patterns during soil desiccation. Young's modulus is selected as the representative ... -
Killing Me Softly in a Metropolis: Tales of Murder and Murderous Passion in Republican Shanghai (1911-1937)
(2021)The relationship between metropolitan cities around the world and tales of murder has encompassed the complicated nature of modern life, and such is also the case of Shanghai in the Republican era. The prosperity of the ... -
Association Between Major Non-communicable Diseases, Healthcare Use, Financial Burden and Socioeconomic Factors in China: A Cross-Sectional Study
(2021)Background Four major noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—cardiovascular diseases (CVD), diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, and cancer—have become the leading causes of disability-adjusted life-years in China. Curbing these ... -
Hierarchical Signal Propagation for Household Level Sales in Bayesian Dynamic Models
(2021)Large consumer sales companies frequently face challenges in customizing decision making for each individual customer or household. This dissertation presents a novel, efficient and interpretable approach to such personalized ... -
Association Between Diet Quality and Metabolic Syndrome in US Adolescents Aged 12 to 18 Years
(2021)Background: Metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors that, if unaddressed, can lead to various non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Previous studies have shown that there is ... -
Quantification of Plasmodium falciparum Cyclophilin 19B Transcripts Via qPCR in Normal and Sickle-Trait Hemoglobin Genotypes
(2021)The sickle-cell trait hemoglobin genotype (HbAS) is known to protect against severe malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum. However, the biological mechanisms behind this protection are not well understood. Cyclophilin ... -
Comparison of Bayesian Inference Methods for Probit Network Models
(2021)This thesis explores and compares Bayesian inference procedures for probit network models. Network data typically exhibit high dyadic correlation due to reciprocity. For binary network data, presence of dyadic correlation ... -
Fulfilling the Specialist Neurosurgery Workforce Needs in Africa: a SWOT Analysis of Training Programs and Projection Towards 2030
(2021)Background/ObjectivesAfrica has only 1% of the global neurosurgery workforce, despite having 14% of the global population and 15% of the global neurosurgical disease burden. Also, neurosurgical training is hampered by paucity ... -
Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: Reconciling the Myth of Killer Robots and the Reality of the Modern Battlefield
(2021)In the past two decades there has been a significant interest in the ethical and legal concerns surrounding the development of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS). These arguments are principally based on a killer robot ... -
Factor Associated with Treatment Initiation of Multidrug Resistance Tuberculosis in Jakarta, Indonesia: A Mixed-Method Study
(2021)Background: Indonesia has one of the highest TB burdens in the world and is one of ten countries that accounted for 77% of the global gap between treatment enrollment and the estimated number of new cases of MDR/RR-TB in ... -
The Impact of the Internet on Social Capital
(2021)In this paper I explore the impact of the Internet on social capital. I measure social capital in two ways: membership in social groups and trust in the news. To reveal the causal relation between the Internet and social ... -
Artificial Intelligence Powered Direct Prediction of Linear Accelerator Machine Parameters: Towards a New Paradigm for Patient Specific Pre-Treatment QA
(2021)Purpose: Traditional pre-treatment patient specific QA is known for its high workload for physicist, ineffectiveness at identifying clinically relevant dosimetric uncertainties of treatment plans, and incompatibility with ... -
Narrating China: Reading Li Ziqi and Fangfang from a Nationalist Perspective
(2021)This thesis is a study of the possibility and boundaries of narrating contemporary China, a country in which nationalism is one of the dominant ideologies. It revolves around the dichotomy—the hypervisibility and invisibility ...
