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Browsing Masters Theses by Issue Date
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A COST-SENSITIVE, SEMI-SUPERVISED, AND ACTIVE LEARNING APPROACH FOR PRIORITY OUTLIER INVESTIGATION
(2023)This master’s thesis presents a novel approach to address the problem of balancing the cost of investigating suspected cases with the potential gain of detecting an outlier, particularly in the context of fraud detection. ... -
Improvements in Small Animal Dosimetry: CIX3 Irradiator Characterization, Novel Phantom Investigation, and Shepherd Cs-137 Irradiator Dose Uniformity Analysis
(2023)Project 1 (Chapter 2): X-Strahl CIX3 CharacterizationPurpose: In Fall 2021 Duke University purchased an Xstrahl CIX3 Cabinet Xray Irradiator. A characterization of this machine was performed to determine its dosimetry ... -
Applying the Three-Delays Model to Assess the Perceived Barriers to Surgical Care in Robeson County, North Carolina
(2023)Background: Robeson County, North Carolina was ranked as the least healthy county in the state, in 2020. In Robeson, accessing surgical care is a health challenge, and two known risk factors are its rural location and high ... -
Investigation of Occupational Dose to Interventional Radiologists
(2023)AbstractProject 1: Measuring the Effects on Operator Dose of Changing Clinical Settings Purpose: This study was initiated as part of a multi-faceted investigation of occupational dose to Interventional Radiologists consequential ... -
Towards Alternative Queerness: on the Photographic Work of Chinese Artists Chen Ronghui and Ren Hang
(2023)This thesis examines the works of Chinese photographic artists Chen Ronghui and Ren Hang and reflects upon and expands the ways in which queerness is commonly approached and understood in photography. Rather than be simply ... -
The Moon is Rounder on the Other Side: Foreign Vloggers and Chinese Nationalism
(2023)This paper seeks to explain the phenomena of popular foreign vloggers in domestic Chinese media by using existing theories in propaganda, nationalism, and social identity theory. Selecting six videos from domestic Chinese ... -
THE IMPACT OF RAINFALL ON LANDSLIDE DYNAMICS: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS ON MOUNTAINOUS AREA IN NORTHERN ITALY USING MACHINE LEARNING ASSISTED APPROACHES
(2023)Landslides are a very common type of disaster. It happens in every state of the U.S and is defined as the movement of the mass of rock, debris, or earth down a slope. Debris flows, sometimes referred to as mudslides, mudflows, ... -
“Sky Eye”: Infrastructure, Politics and Livelihood in Southern Guizhou
(2023)This thesis sheds light on rural life in Kedu Town, southern Guizhou. Drawing from the idea of “doubling of infrastructure” (Muehlmann 2019), I see the FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) project as a ... -
Maternal Health FemTech: A qualitative exploration of how companies serve minoritized populations in the U.S. and what prevents them from doing more
(2023)Background: The U.S. maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births. This ratio is the highest among high-income countries. Women of color (Black, Alaska Native, and American Indian women) disproportionally ... -
Boosting the Sensing Granularity of Acoustic Signals by Exploiting Hardware Non-linearit
(2023)Acoustic sensing is a new sensing modality that senses the contexts of human targets and our surroundings using acoustic signals. It becomes a hot topic in both academia and industry owing to its finer sensing granularity ... -
A Virtual Reality Application: Creating an Alternative Immersive Experience for Dunhuang Mogao Cave Visitors
(2023)As the largest cave of Buddhist art with thousands of murals spanning ten dynasties, the Dunhuang Mogao cave has been described as a “peerless cave” because of its fabulous frescos and handcrafted delicate sculptures. However, ... -
The Logic of Government’s Response to Protests in China New Evidence from Protests Recorded in Social Media
(2023)Scholarship on protests in China, though prolific in recent years, faces serious data issues. Since there is no comprehensive dataset for a systematic analysis of protests in China, previous scholars can only quantitatively ... -
Anything For Views Parenting: Framing Privacy, Ethics, and Norms for Children of Influencers on YouTube
(2023)Children who appear as the main characters or primary consumers of YouTube content have been the focus of emerging academic literature and public debate (Feller & Burroughs, 2022; Ferguson, 2018; Kumar, 2021). Sharenting, ... -
Online 3D Qilou: The Distribution of Heritage with VR and Mapping
(2023)Given the growing digitization of cultural heritage, there is an opportunity to leverage digital technologies in order to better serve visitors, against the limitations of people’s traditional approaches to heritage in museums ... -
Investigating the association between adolescents’ attitudes and food preferences with their eating behaviors: Inspiration from the FLASHE study
(2023)Background: Nutrition plays an integral role in the development and growth for the adolescent populations. Nutrition education programs promotes healthy dietary behavior changes by increasing the nutritional knowledge of ... -
Meshroom: Choreographing Communities
(2023)My research project focused on the creation and contextualization of Meshroom, a performance environment with an open dance floor, occasional performances, and live music. It aims to gather interdisciplinary thinkers and ... -
(Self-)Representation of Migrant Workers in Chinese Smaller-Screen Visual Practices: From DV-made Documentaries to Short Videos
(2023)This thesis examines the representation of migrant workers in smaller-screen visual practices within the Chinese mediascape, using DV-made documentaries and short videos as case studies. By conducting a content analysis ... -
Using Patient Size as an indicator for Prostate MRI without use of Endorectal Coil
(2023)MRI has emerged as a promising modality for detecting, staging, and monitoring treatment of prostate cancer in patients. Often prostate MRI exams make use of the endorectal coil (ERC) to improve the SNR on the prostate. ... -
A Radiomics-Incorporated Deep Ensemble Learning Model for Multi-Parametric MRI-based Glioma Segmentation
(2023)AbstractPurpose: To develop a deep ensemble learning model with a radiomics spatial encoding execution for improved glioma segmentation accuracy using multi-parametric MRI (mp-MRI). Materials/Methods: This radiomics-incorporated ... -
Moving New Futures: Embodied Movement for a Just Society
(2023)My Moving New Futures workshop uses improvisatory movement to help social justice practitioners—organizers, activists, civil rights lawyers, and others—imagine new possibilities for a just society. The workshop grew out ...
