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Announcing the Final Examination of Thi Tran Chau Truong for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Physics Advancements in laser technology over the last decades have allowed compression of laser light pulses to few-femtosecond durations. To obtain even shorter pulses, a new mechanism was required. The discovery of high-order harmonic generation, a non-perturbative nonlinear optical process, allowed the conversion …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Grace Waldfogle for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Psychology – Human Factors and Cognitive Psychology Previous research has highlighted key taxonomic factors that have been found to influence human performance on vigilance tasks. However, previous literature has focused on research conducted in laboratory settings but has not examined vigilance tasks in remote environments. The …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Dissertation Defense of Mr. Ngoc Ty Nguyen for the degree of Doctor of Big Data Analytics Abstract: The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is used to measure classification accuracy of tests which yield ordinal or continuous scores. Ordinal scores occur commonly in medical imaging studies and more recently in black-box studies on forensic identification accuracy (Phillips et …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Adrienne Mathews for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the department of Sociology. Originalism is a legal framework of constitutional interpretation that re-emerged in the United States in the 1970’s as part of the conservative legal movement. In the decades since, originalism has grown in prominence both in government institutions and interest groups. Using …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Ms. Emma R. Hayden for the degree of Master of Science HIV infection is a significant public health concern, particularly among young men who have sexwith men (YMSM). Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly effective in preventing HIVinfection among YMSM when taken as prescribed. However, there may be unintended behavioralconsequences associated with PrEP initiation, with previous …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Andre Von Zuben for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Recent advances in deep learning have greatly improved the ability to generate analysis models from medical images. In particular, great attention is focused on quickly generating models of the left ventricle from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) to improve the diagnosis and prognosis of millions …
Graduate Thesis and Dissertation