Browsing Masters Theses by Issue Date
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A History of the North Carolina College for Negroes
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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 iin ... -
Stiffness and frequency of slender structures: An experimental study utilizing 3D printing
(2018)This study analyzes the effect of geometric changes to the stiffness and frequency of slender structures. Geometric changes were made by altering the width and length of the structure as well as adding structural componeents. ... -
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 bbetween ... -
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 dynnamic ... -
Realtime Image Processing for Resource Constrained Devices
(2018)With the proliferation of embedded sensors within smartphone and Internet-of-Things devices, applications have programmatic access to more data processing than ever before. At the same time, advances in computer vision aand ... -
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 contrrol ... -
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 understaanding ... -
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, thhe ... -
PET Image Quality in the Vicinity of the Bladder with Fluorine-18 and Gallium-68
(2018)Gallium-68 labeled compounds have shown an important role in PET imaging of detecting neuroendocrine tumors and prostate tumors. As the prostate exists near the bladder, image quality of prostate tumors can be challengedd ... -
Compare the Universal Health Coverage in China and Vietnam
(2018)Background. Since the late 2000s, universal health coverage (UHC) has been identified as an important goal, which is to ensure people’s access to needed health services without suffering from financial hardships. Many coountries ... -
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 ... -
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 algorithhm ... -
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 aare ... -
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 intermeediate ... -
Examining Trends in Birth Location and Birth Attendance Among Women in the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve
(2018)Despite global improvements in maternal mortality rates, preventable maternal deaths are still an issue for many populations. Indigenous populations, especially those in Latin America, often do not utilize delivery serviices ... -
Testing Gender as a Moderator of Associations between Pain and Depressive Symptoms in Advanced Cancer Patients: A Cross- Sectional Study in Singapore
(2018)Pain and depressive symptoms are prevalent in cancer patients with previous studies showing that pain increases the risk of depressive symptoms among cancer patients. Though researchers have identified gender differencess ... -
Elucidating Slit-Independent Mechanisms of Robo Receptors Regulating Neural Circuit Formation and Head Morphogenesis in C. elegan
(2018)Robo receptor is a central component in multiple stages of neural development. Accumulating evidence also suggests that it functions in organogenesis, regulation of stem cells, and cancer. Despite its diverse functions, ... -
The Maintenance of High Primary Production in the Absence of Ekman Upwelling: The Supply of Nutrients to the Intergyre North Atlantic
(2018)Ekman suction and pumping are often invoked to explain the observed difference in primary production and chlorophyll a between the North Atlantic subpolar and subtropical gyres. Between the gyres, the intergyre region caan ...
