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Mobile Security: A Systems Engineering Framework for Implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Security Through the Combination of Policy Management and Technology
With the rapid increase of smartphones and tablets, security concerns have also been on the rise. Traditionally, Information Technology (IT) departments set up devices, apply security, and monitor them. Such approaches do not apply to today's mobile devices due to a phenomenon called Bring Your...
Zahadat, Nima
BYOD, Mobile Device Management, Mobile Security, BYOD Framework, Mobile Policy, and Bring Your Own Device
Blessner, Paul
Committee Member(s):
Blessner, Paul, Sarkani, Shahram, Mazzuchi, Thomas A, Wasek, James, and Murphree, E. Lile
A Comparative Case Study of Tax Policy Decisions in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia
This dissertation examines how state policymakers develop, evaluate, and select tax policy options, based on case studies of tax policy decisions in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia from 2007 to 2010. States have been the main locus of tax policy change in the U.S. in recent...
Juffras, Jason Nicholas
policy formulation and adoption, state tax policy, and institutions and public policymaking
Public Policy & Administration
Cordes, Joseph J
Kasdin, Stuart and Brunori, David
Transnational, Trans-Sectarian Engagement: A Revised Approach to U.S. Public Diplomacy toward Lebanon
AbstractTransnational, Trans-Sectarian Engagement: A Revised Approach toU.S. Public Diplomacy toward Lebanon Broadly, public diplomacy is governmental engagement directly with global publics in pursuit of national interests. Public diplomacy engagement involves outreach, listening, informing,...
Trent, Deborah Lee
diaspora, network, public diplomacy, U.S., Lebanon, and collaboration
Newcomer, Kathryn E
Gregory, Bruce, Bernstein, David, Harmon, Michael, and Zaharna, Rhomda
The Social Fitness of Insurgencies: The Organizational Payoff for Legitimated Power
An organization that seeks to transform persons, places or things needs resilience to achieve its goals. In their effort to transform their societies, political organizations compete "not just for resources and customers (followers), but for political power and institutional legitimacy, for...
Dallas-Feeney, Christopher Paul
Legitimated Power, Hamas, Resilience, Hezbollah, Legitimacy, and Provisional IRA
Brown, Nathan J
Schmidt, Holger, Biddle, Stephen, Wehery, Frederic, and Lebovic, James
Essays on the Delivery of Public Infrastructure Projects: Empirical Analyses on Transportation Projects in Florida
A common goal of two essays in this dissertation is seeking to answer the question how to enhance performance of public-sector infrastructure projects. The first essay focuses on project control after the outset of a project. Based on production theories, construction process is interpreted in...
Park, Jane
Transportation projects, Public infrastructure projects, Project delivery methods, Change management, and Project management
Kwak, Young Hoon
Cioffi, Denis F., Wirtz, Philip W., Khamooshi, Homayoun, Jain, Sanjay, and Lee, Gwanhoo
Late Life Identity: An Examination of the Relation Between Wisdom and Ethics of Care Enactments in Late Life
The primary purpose of the current study was to examine the relation between wisdom and ethics of care enactments in an older adult population. Theorists and researchers have shown that finding a largely positive identity in late life calls for a unique combination of ego strengths. The older...
Barone, Carrie Elizabeth
identity development, ethic of care, wisdom, and late life
Hoare, Carol Hren
Witmer, Elizabeth, Gilbert, Roberta, Schwallie-Giddis, Pat, and Duff, Paul
Extreme value estimators: Their long memory feature and forecasting performances in the U.S. stock indexes
This dissertation studies long memory and forecasting performances of extreme value volatility estimators which are constructed with the highest and lowest intraday prices. Several comparative studies (Rogers et al., 1994; Bali and Weinbaum, 2005; Shu and Zhang, 2006) show that extreme value...
KWON, YONGJAE
STRUCTURAL BREAK, VOLATILITY, LONG MEMORY, and FORECASTING
SAVICKAS, ROBERT
JOSTOVA, GERGANA, HWANG, MIN, SOYER, REFIK, and JOUTZ, FREDERICK L.
User Interface Issues in Bimanual Dual Object Control
While many facets of two handed tasks are encompassed in human-computer interaction, there are still several forms of interaction which remain underdeveloped in the virtual world. Specifically, controlling two objects simultaneously has not been examined as closely as it could be. Bimanual dual...
Covington, Chris
Dual object control, Bimanual asymmetry, Bimanual symmetry, User interfaces, and Unimanual
Sibert, John L
Simha, Rahul, Lavine, Robert, Heller, Rachelle, and Philbeck, John
An Analysis of the Coordinated Implementation of Digitally-Aided Close Air Support: An Integrated Systems Engineering and Test & Evaluation (T&E) Approach
"The rise of systems of systems (SoS), increasingly prevalent fiscal constraints, and the continued difficulty for the armed services to deliver interoperable solutions for the SoS environment, highlights the need for a new approach that addresses end-to-end functionality, prioritized...
Ott, Jr., Walter H.
Interoperability, Systems Engineering, Systems of Systems, Integrated Systems Engineering and Test & Evaluation, Close Air Support, and Test & Evaluation
Blessner, Paul and Olson, Bill
Olson, Bill, Sarkani, Shahram, Murphee, E. Lile, Mazzuchi, Thomas, and Blessner, Paul
Systematics and Reproductive Evolution in the Family Characidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi)
Internal fertilization and its necessary precursor, insemination, are uncommon among teleost fishes. External fertilization, in contrast, is the reproductive mode for the vast majority (97%) of teleost fishes. Histological studies indicate that more than 60 species in the family Characidae are...
Javonillo, Robert
phylogenetics, Neotropical, Characiformes, reproduction, Otophysi, and fishes
Burns, John R and Weitzman, Stanley H
Packer, Randall K, Lipscomb, Diana L, Vari, Richard P, and Clark, James M
Measuring to Improve vs. Measuring to Prove: Understanding Evaluation and Performance Measurement in Social Enterprise
Social enterprises develop innovative and financially viable approaches to addressing social problems, and exist between the public sector and private markets. In recent years, there has been increasing attention on measuring the social value created by these organizations However, despite its...
Lall, Saurabh Ajay
Evaluation, Social Entrepreneurship, Impact Investing, Performance Management, Social Enterprise, and Performance Measurement
Newcomer, Kathryn
Koch, James L, McGinnis-Johnson, Jasmine, Dietz, Nathan, and Barnow, Burt
Investigation of Reconfigurable Pipelined Architecture for On-the-fly Processing of Big Data Streams
Real-time processing is one aspect of the Big Data situation, and it requires an unconventional approach to solving the recent problems that may appear at both software and hardware levels. The continuous increase of data velocity has placed a tremendous pressure on the existing systems, and the...
Algemili, Usamah
FPGA Design, Big Data Processing, On-the-fly Processing, Streams Processing, Reconfigurable Computing, and Computer Architecture
Berkovich, Simon Y.
Liao, Duoduo, Berkovich, Simon, Cheng, Xiuzhen, Choi, Hyeong-Ah, and Narayana, Vikram
Concrete Solutions: Architecture of Public High Schools During the "Urban Crisis"
This dissertation documents and contextualizes the creation of fortified, yet programmatically innovative, high schools designed between 1960 and 1980 in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. The striking nature of the school designs - avant-garde in materiality, scale, programming, and...
Wiley, Amber N.
community politics, city planning, historic preservation, educational policy, architectural history, and urban renewal
Longstreth, Richard
Vlach, John, Osman, Suleiman, Sies, Mary Corbin, and Miller, James
Explaining Variability in Youth's Responses to Adverse Life Events: An Examination of Specificity in Urban African American Adolescents
Experiences of adverse life events can lead to a range of adjustment difficulties in youth, including internalizing and externalizing symptoms (Cicchetti & Toth, 1998; Compas et al., 1994: Cooley-Quille et al., 2001; Hankin & Abramson, 2001; Jackson & Warren, 2000). Low income, urban African...
Sanchez, Yadira M.
life events, depression, African American, adolescents, specificity, and aggression
Lambert, Sharon F.
Ganiban, Jody M., Gee, Christina B., Lanthier, Richard P., and Howe, George W.
Applications of Micro- and Nanoparticles in Activating Photodynamic Therapeutic Agents within Deep-seated Targets
Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is a therapeutic method that uses photo-sensitizers that can be preferentially localized in pathological tissue [1-3]. The dominant mode of photodynamic therapy (PDT) action is through the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). When the photo-sensitizer in tissue...
Abliz, Erkinay
Nano-particles, Up-and Down-conversion, Fluorescence Quantum Yield, cancer, Photodynamic therapy, and Photofrin II
Zara, Jason and Tata, Darrel
Ilev, Ilko, Loew, Murray, Zara, Jason, Tata, Darrel, and Ahmadi, Shahrokh
Functional Studies and Population Genetic Studies of a 25kb Haplotype Upstream of the AKT1 Gene Associated with Metabolic Syndrome
We report here the identification of a highly conserved haplotype, denoted H1 (ancestral) and H2 (derived), of three SNPs in high linkage disequilibrium present upstream of the AKT1 gene and within the coding region of a novel zinc finger gene. Haplotype H2 is associated with lower insulin...
Devaney, Stephanie Anne
Z-FAMS, AKT1, Linkage Disequilibrium, Positive Selection, Haplotype, and Metabolic Syndrome
Hoffman, Eric P
Rose, Mary C, Goldman, David, Haydar, Tarik, Burnett, Mary Susan, and Nagaraju, Kanneboyina
Secular Spiritual Quests in Modern American Novels, 1922-1960
In this dissertation, I investigate the ways that spiritual narratives have been represented in secular modernist novels and examine and deconstruct the secular/spiritual binary commonly used in their critique. In light of revised theories of secularization that suggest the so-called secular age...
Grannis, Kerry Searle
religion, modernism, secular, spiritual, and postsecular
Soltan, Margaret
Miller, James A., Duff, Paul, Wald, Gayle, and Seavey, Ormond
Blueprinting Migration Analysis: Why Theoretical Applications of Migration Analysis are Not One-Size-Fits-All
Researchers typically conceive international migration to be from a developing country to a developed country, which is often coined South-North migration. International migration is not confined, however, to migration from developing countries to developed countries. Rather, international...
Larrison, Jennica A
developing countries, economic theory, migration, public policy, and migration theory
Sell, Susan, Murrugarra, Edmundo, Agnew, Hugh, and Brainard, Lori
The role of Akt1 in G1/S checkpoint bypass and cell migration after genotoxin stress
A growing body of evidence underscores the central role of the Akt pathway in the pathogenesis of lung cancer. Akt has been documented to play a role not only in cell survival but also in cell migration and invasion. Certain forms of hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] are human respiratory carcinogens...
Lal, Madhu Aruna
migration, Chromium, and cell cycle
Ceryak, Susan M
Bouscarel, Bernard, O'Brien, Travis J, Kennedy, Katherine A, Patierno, Steven R, and Stepp, Mary Ann
Locality-Driven Power Optimization Techniques for High-Performance Parallel Systems
The computational capabilities of high-performance computing (HPC) systems continue to improve, but at a cost of increased electrical power consumption. The environmental and economic impact of this increasing power consumption is motivating research in techniques that can reduce HPC power...
Newsom, David K.
DVFS, Power Efficiency, PGAS, idle-power management, and Locality-Driven
Harrington, Robert and El-Ghazawi, Tarek
Gaber, Jafaar, Narayana, Vikram K, and Subramaniam, Suresh
Essays on China's Macroeconomic Fluctuations
The dissertation contributes to the understanding of the properties of China's macroeconomic fluctuations through applying advanced econometric methods to China's quarterly real GDP, which have been investigated little due to the shortage of data. The first essay provides quarterly real GDP...
Jia, Yueqing
Business cycle, China, Unobserved components, Economic growth, and Temporal disaggregation
Sinclair, Tara M
Chen, Maggie X, Joutz, Frederick L, Ericsson, Neil, and DeWeaver, Mark
The Role of Polo-like kinase 1 in Cell Cycle Progression after Genotoxic Insult: Consequences of Forced Checkpoint Bypass
Exposure to carcinogens significantly increases the risk of developing cancer. Occupational and environmental exposure to genotoxic agents can lead to DNA damage and carcinogenesis. Some hexavalent chromium compounds [Cr(VI)] are occupational/environmental human respiratory carcinogens....
Chun, Gina
Cell cycle, Chromium, G2/M cell cycle checkpoint, Protein tyrosine phosphatase, and Polo-like kinase 1
Patierno, Steven R
Kennedy, Katherine, Bouscarel, Bernard, O'Brien, Travis J, and Ceryak, Susan
A Synthesized Conceptual Framework for the Design of User Interfaces of Interactive Information Products
The primary purpose of an interactive information product (IIP) is to display information developed/selected by the producer to have some mental impact on the user (e.g., to educate or to persuade) rather than facilitate user tasks (e.g., online stock trading) via the user interface (UI).IIP UI...
Haneef, Nuzhat Jehan
information product, conceptual synthesis, information architecture, user interface design, interaction design, and design framework
Martin, Carol D
Price Jones, Rhys, Scholtz, Jean, Kruempel, Kari, and Heller, Rachelle
External and Internal Agency Characteristics as Determinants of Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) Scores
EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL AGENCY CHARACTERISTICS AS DETERMINANTS OF PROGRAM ASSESSMENT RATING TOOL (PART) SCORES	In this dissertation I explore why some federal agency programs received better Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) scores than others during the Bush administration. PART scores served...
Sayasithsena, Jennifer Deets
Agency, Federal, Bureaucracy, Performance, and Assessment
Balla, Steven J.
Newcomer, Kathryn, Wahlbeck, Paul, Maltzman, Forrest, and Stoker, Robert
Three Essays on Economic Development Incentives: Explaining the Usage, Effects, and Abandonment of Economic Development Activities
This dissertation contains three essays on state and local economic development incentives. The primary mission of state and local governments is to reduce unemployment and bolster tax revenues. One way in which governments accomplish these goals is by using economic development subsidies and...
Stokan, Eric James
Policy Abandonment, Economic Development Incentives, Economic Development, Policy Termination, and Earned Income Tax Credit
Wolman, Harold (Hal) L. and Brooks, Leah
Rigby, Elizabeth D., Dempwolf, Christopher, Cordes, Joseph J., and Young, Gary
The Generalized Relative Pairs IBD Distribution: Its Use in the Detection of Linkage
In this research we adopt the incompletely penetrant model and develop the allelic identical by descent (IBD) distributions at marker locus given dichotomous disease affectional status for siblings, uncle-nephew, grandparent-grandchild, half-sibs, and first cousin pairs. We first show that the...
Zou, Quan
quantitative trait locus (QTL), Linkage Analysis, ITO method, allele identical by descent (IBD), and Relative Relationship
Li, Zhaohai
Barut, Emre, Hu, Feifang, Bose, Sudip, Wu, Colin O, and Pan, Qing
Computable Isomorphisms of Directed Graphs and Trees
One of the main goals of computable model theory is to classify mathematical structures up to computable isomorphism. Two computable structures A and B are computably isomorphic if there exists a computable bijection from A to B that preserves all of the functions and relations in the structure....
Walker, Hakim Jamal
Logic, Collatz conjecture, Computable categoricity, 3n+1 conjecture, Computability, and Graph isomorphism
Harizanov, Valentina
Alekseyev, Max, Calvert, Wesley, Robinson, E Arthur, Przytycki, Jozef, and Eskandarian, Ali
A Mobile Robot with Modular and Reconfigurable Mobility and Manipulation
This dissertation explores modular and reconfigurable mobility and manipulation in field robotic applications. The motivations of this work stem from the need to develop mobile robotic systems capable of adapting their shape to changes in the terrain layout and to the nature of the assigned task....
Moubarak, Paul M.
Dynamics, Modular Re-configurableRobotics, Mobile Fields Robotics, Robot Learning, Rigid Active Docking, and Dual-Rod Slider Rocker Mechanism
Ben-Tzvi, Pinhas
Lee, James D., Melek, William W., Parmer, Gabriel, Lee, Taeyoung, and Shen, Yin-Lin
LIGO GRB searches in the aLIGO Era: An Optimized Burst Database and a New Method for Detecting Intermediate-Duration GWs
Starting in the Fall of 2015 the "advanced" Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) will come online and progressively reach a design sensitivity that will enable important discoveries. Initial detections will confirm Einstein's the- ory of general relativity, and greatly...
Coyne, Robert Reid
LIGO, GRB, and Gravitational waves
Lee, Frank X and Corsi, Alessandra
Barthelmy, Scott D, van der Horst, Alexander J, Kargaltsev, Oleg Y, and Dhuga, Kalvir S
Next Generation Hardware Monitoring Infrastructure for Multi-core Resource Auditing
Continuous advances in semiconductor technologies have enabled the integration of billions of transistors in modern multicore processors. This offers software applications with abundant hardware resources to use. To realize more parallelism and higher performance, software developers are...
Chen, Jie
debugging, optimization, energy, power, security, and profiling
Venkataramani, Guru P.
Huang, Hao H., El-Ghazawi, Tarek A., Parmer, Gabriel, and Subramaniam, Suresh
Competitive Food and Beverage Availability in School: Implications for Adolescent Consumption Patterns
Nationwide, one in five children are obese--over twice the prevalence rate of past decades. Schools have come under fire for their potential role by selling competitive foods (foods not sold as part of the National School Lunch Program) that are low in nutritional quality and high in energy...
Vericker, Tracy Christina
competitive foods, childhood obesity, and nutrition
Levi, Jeff, Cellini, Stephanie, Gleason, Philip, and Conger, Dylan
Epitope Scaffolds and the HIV-1 gp41 2F5 Neutralization Determinant
More than 25 years of research after the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the causative agent of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are testimony to the great challenge of obtaining an efficacious HIV vaccine, thus far unresolved. Classic vaccine concepts...
Guenaga, Francisco Javier
Antibody, HIV, Immunogen, and Vaccine
Wyatt, Richard T and Hu, Valerie W
Bukrinsky, Michael, Kashanchi, Fatah, Berger, Edward A., and Kumar, Ajit
Essays on Financial Markets and Macroeconomic Performance in Less Developed Economies—Evidence from Egypt
The objective of my dissertation research is to contribute to the quantitative-based research and policy discussion concerning the links between macroeconomics, monetary policy, and the financial sector. My dissertation is motivated by the fact that financial intermediation plays a critical role...
Rostom, Ahmed Mohamed
Time-Series Models, Macro-Finance Models, Life Cycle Hypothesis of Saving, Monetary Policy, Money Demand, and Monetary Transmission Mechanisms
Pelzman, Joseph and Joutz, Frederick L.
El-Shazly, Alaa, Askari, Hossein G., and Samaniego, Roberto
The Color of Wealth: Decomposing The White-Black Wealth Gap
This dissertation analyzes the differences in wealth between White individuals and Black individuals and examines the reasons behind the differences. Chapter 4 analyzes the effect of income and earnings, among other variables, on the level of wealth for individuals with the same age, education,...
Waid, Mikki
Assets, Economics, Wealth, Race, and Finance
Trost, Robert P
Foster, Irene, Sinclair, Tara, Grefer, James, and Joutz, Frederick L
Engendering Empathic Development and Prosocial Responses in Elementary School Students Through a Humane Education Program
This study examined the impact of the Washington Animal Rescue League's (WARL) Humane Education Program (HEP) on 4th grade students. The objective was to develop models for best practices in humane education and to serve as the impetus for future empirical research studies. Of the 59...
Hargreaves-Cormany, Holly
Steen, Sam
Lanthier, Richard and Weiss, Brandi A
Ultrasound-enhanced Delivery of Antibiotics and Anti-inflammatory Drugs into the Eye
Delivery of sufficient amounts of therapeutic drugs into the eye in treatment of various ocular diseases is often a challenging task. This research describes applying ultrasound for increasing corneal permeability for several ocular drugs. As part of my PhD dissertation research, I have worked on...
Nabili, Marjan
Zderic, Vesna
Kay, Matthew, Geist, Craig E, Zara, Jason M, Zaghloul, Mona, and Myers, Matthew R
Under Siege: The Discursive Production of Embattled Suburbs and Empowered Suburbanites in America, 1976-1992
My dissertation details a new era of American suburban life marked by endangerment, defense, and empowerment. In the period from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s, real events, news media narratives, and popular culture representations associated suburban life and space with endemic hazards...
Riismandel, Kyle
space and culture, suburban studies, Suburb, productive victimization, popular culture, and 1980s
Heap, Chad
Anker, Elisabeth, Osman, Suleiman, McAlister, Melani, and Schiavo, Laura Burd
The Role of Counseling Theory in the Implementation of Counselor Supervision: A Qualitative Examination of Supervisors' Perspectives
Qualitative research methods will be used to explore the role that counseling theory plays in the overall philosophical perspective and implementation of supervision from the perspective of counselor supervisors. Of interest is how counselor supervisors perceive counseling theory to impact the...
Roberts, Jared L.
Counseling Theory, Counselor Supervision, Clinical supervision, Counselor Education, Counseling, and Supervision Theory
Steen, Sam L
France, Kharod A, Madison, Octavia, Schwallie-Giddis, Pat, and Vereen, Linwood G
Comparative Forefoot Kinematics and Bone Architecture in Extant Hominids
Habitual bipedalism is a key hominin adaptation. Traditionally, functional assessments of the external structure of the bones of the lower limb have been at the center of debates over whether early hominins walked with a modern human-like gait and whether climbing was an important part of their...
Griffin, Nicole Louise
pedal phalanx, humans, dorsiflexion, metatarsophalangeal joint, hallux, and great apes
Hominid Paleobiology
Richmond, Brian G
Ryan, Tim M, Wood, Bernard A, D'Août, Kristiaan, and Nakatsukasa, Masato
Migration, Remittances, and Household Health: Evidence from South Africa
This dissertation investigates the role of private transfers in influencing household consumption and the household's ability to smooth consumption in South Africa. It examines the general relationship between remittances and household health promoting expenditure patterns including health care...
Nagarajan, Subha M.
Insure Consumption, South Africa, Poverty, Health Shock, Migration, and Remittances
Dor, Avi
Carrillo, Paul E, Richard, Patrick, Infeld, Donna Lind, and Cellini, Stephanie R
Estimation of ROC Curve with Complex Survey Data
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve analysis has gained an increased interest in past decades. It has been widely used to evaluate the performance of diagnostic tests. The area under the ROC curve (denoted by AUC) is the most commonly used summary index of a ROC curve. A larger AUC...
Yao, Wenliang
Li, Zhaohai and Graubard, Barry I
Katki, Hormuzd, Lai, Yinglei, Larsen, Michael, and Pan, Qing
Temperature Variation of Magneto-Optical Properties in Nanostructured Ferromagnetic Thin Films
The effect of temperature on magnetic properties of ferromagnetic materials has been a subject of research for many years. The Bloch T 3/2 law provides a quantitative description of the temperature dependence of magnetization but neglects the contribution of the chemical potential. Research by...
Nwokoye, Chidubem Arthur
Della Torre, Edward and Bennett, Lawrence H
Narducci, Frank A, Lang, Roger H, and Ahmadi, Shahrokh
Spectrum and Factors of Substitution Dynamical Systems
This dissertation studies topological factors substitutions, especially substitutions with constant length p. If p is prime we show that any factor is topologically conjugate to a substitution of length ps. This extends a previous result on the relationship between substitutions of constant...
Herning, Joseph
Robinson, Edward A
Goodson, Geoffrey R, Ullman, Daniel, Conway, John B, and Rong, Yongwu
Applying Metalloligands, Postsynthetic Metalation and Direct Assembly to the Synthesis of Bimetallic Uranium Containing Hybrid Materials
The primary focus of this dissertation has been the synthesis and study of bimetallic uranyl (UO22+) containing coordination polymers. These materials were synthesized under hydrothermal conditions, with various organic ligands, metalloligands, or coordination polymers as reagents. We have...
Kerr, Andrew Tyler
Postsynthetic Metalation, Metalloligand, Bimetallic, Uranyl, Coordination Polymer, and Hybrid Materials
Cahill, Christopher L
Teng, H. Henry, Wagner, Michael J, King, Michael, and Chan, Benny
The Genetics of Germ Layer Patterning in Zebrafish
In vertebrate embryology, the formation of three distinct cellular populations during gastrulation, termed germ layers, is critical for the proper patterning of the embryo as well as the formation and placement of most of the tissues of the adult animal. Understanding the genetics of the initial...
Diemer, Jamie Lynn
germ layer, gastrulation, BMP, mxtx2, and Kaede
Moody, Sally A and Feldman, Benjamin
LaMantia, Anthony, Sargent, Thomas, Zohn, Irene, Chiaramello, Anne, and Liu, Paul
Single-Case Analysis of Sand Tray Therapy of Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescence
Sand tray therapy has been used in the treatment of a wide variety of mental health problems in children, adolescents, and adults since the 1920s, but attempts to demonstrate its value have been limited largely to qualitative case studies. This study used a more rigorous design, a single-case...
Dawson, Linda Sue
sand tray, psychotherapy, adolescence, single-case design, and depression
Marotta, Sylvia
Rice, Elisabeth K, Garcia, Jorge, Lambert, Sharon, and Steen, Samuel L
Innovation Under Fire: Politics, Learning, and US Army Doctrine
In the face of defeat, national militaries occasionally exhibit the ability to engage in doctrinal innovation in an attempt to alter the course of a war. In Vietnam, the US Army was unable to achieve the objectives for which the war was being fought and suffered strategic defeat. In Iraq, it...
Clark, Joseph Roger
organizational learning, bureaucratic politics, us army, and military doctrine
Lebovic, James H
Griffith, Thomas E, Saunders, Elizabeth N, Nagl, John A, and Deering, Christopher J
Regulation and Trafficking of 5-HT3A Receptors
Serotonin or 5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) is a major neurotransmitter in the central and peripheral nervous systems that regulates diverse functions such as mood and gut motility. The 5-HT type 3 receptor is unique among the 5-HT receptors because it is the only ligand-gated ion channel for this...
Morton, Russell A.
Serotonin, Agonist-induced up-regulation, Fluorophore assisted light inactivation, and Cys-loop
Hales, Tim G and Lovinger, David M
Perry, David C, Ono, Fumihito, Alvarez, Veronica A, Chiappinelli, Vincent A, and Mendelowitz, David
A Preliminary Framework For Test and Evaluation of Systems of Systems
Modern systems are becoming exponentially more complex and interconnected, particularly in software-intensive systems. Department of Defense (DoD) mandates for net-centric capabilities have greatly complicated the challenges for testing new and legacy systems that are employed in a system of...
McDermott, Edwin Peter
Evaluation, Systems, System, Test, and Framework
Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas A
Holzer, Thomas, Sarkani, Shahram, Stankosky, Michael, Mazzuchi, Thomas A, and Murphree, Edward L
The Measurement of Occupationally-Related Stress Response Syndromes in Counseling Graduate Students
The primary aim of this study was to explore the existence of Occupationally-Related Stress Response Syndromes (OSRS) in a population of counseling graduate students in an attempt to better understand how novice clinicians respond to working with trauma. The second goal was to utilize the data...
Hatchuel, Elizabeth Edmonds
Secondary Traumatic Stress, Counselor Education, Vicarious Trauma, Supervision, Compassion Fatigue, and Measurement
Marotta, Sylvia A
Beauregard, Janet, Lanthier, Richard, Deitch, Cynthia, and Stafford, Susan
FORMALIZATION AND REFINEMENT OF A FORMAL APPROACH TO ECLECTIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Over the last 10 years the private sector has shown considerable interest in agile software development methods, the same can be said of the government sector. However, agile methods present limitations for the environment of government software development. The Eclectic Software Development...
LEE, MINGU
Software Engineering Process Life Cycle and Software Process Models
Jefferson, Theresa
Ryan, Julie J.C.H. J.C.H., Stankosky, Michael A, Harrald, John, and Kang, Don-In
The Lived Intersectional Experiences of Privilege and Oppression of Queer Men of Color in Counselor Education Doctoral Programs: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
The advent of the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (Ratts, Singh, Nassar-McMillan, Butler, & McCullough, 2016), the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics (2014), and a more comprehensive emphasis on multiculturalism and social justice (Haskins & Singh, 2015;...
Chan, Christian D.
intersectionality, counselor education, social justice, counseling, multiculturalism, and Queer Men of Color
Steen, Sam L.
Ali, Arshad I. and Howard, Lionel C.
"From the Cracks in the Sidewalks of N.Y.C.": The Embodied Production of Urban Decline, Survival, and Renewal in New York's Fiscal-Crisis-Era Streets, 1977-1983
This dissertation argues that New York City's 1970s fiscal crisis was not only an economic crisis, but was also a spatial and embodied one. During the crisis era, the news media, residents, and public officials fought to define who could inhabit certain types of spaces and what kinds of practices...
Matassa, Elizabeth Healy
1970s, performance studies, fiscal crisis, urban decline, New York City, and public space
Osman, Suleiman
Kosek, Joseph Kip, Dent, Alexander S., Peña, Elaine, and Chacko, Elizabeth
Constructing and Contesting Color Lines: Tidewater Native Peoples and Indianness in Jim Crow Virginia
Constructing and Contesting Color Lines: Tidewater Native Peoples and Indianness in Jim Crow Virginia Indian peoples in the United States have faced many challenges to their group and individual identities as Native Americans over centuries of cultural exchange, demographic change, violence, and...
Feller, Laura Janet
race, Virginia, African American, and Native American
Horton, James O.
Vlach, John M., Alexander, Adele, Hoxie, Frederick, and Murphy, Teresa A.
A FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING TECHNOLOGY READINESS, SYSTEM QUALITY, AND PROGRAM PERFORMANCE OF U.S. DOD ACQUISITIONS
The purpose of this study is to characterize the current state of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) Technology Readiness Assessment (TRA) practice and enabling engineering activities within the DoD acquisition programs. Further, this study examines the extent of correlation between...
Azizian, Nazanin
Department of Defense, System Quality, Cost and Schedule, Technology Maturity, Acquisition, and Technology Readiness
Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Murphree, Lile, Mandelbaum, Jay, and Holzer, Thomas H
Essays on Firm Behavior in Developing Countries
This dissertation studies firm behavior and adaptation of firms in developing countries using firm-level data. Chapter 2 analyses the impact of business group membership on a firm's economic performance when operating in a suboptimal legal environment. The specific null hypothesis is that Indian...
Kolasa, Artur
management, Econometrics, industrial, and Development
Moore, Michael
Chen, Maggie X, Blit, Joel, Sinclair, Tara, and Chen, Wenjie
Numerical Study of Reacting Flows in Porous Burners
Numerical Study of Reacting Flows in Porous BurnersSustaining combustion within a porous medium is a technology that could potentially improve thermal performance while reducing emissions of gases, such as nitrogen oxides, that are harmful to the environment. Compared to conventional combustion...
Li, Yuan
porous media, numerical, and combustion
Tong, Timothy W.
Keidar, Michael, Myers, Michael K., Miller, John H., and Garris, Charles A.
Improving Zoonotic Disease Outbreak Detection Practice in the United States
Zoonotic diseases are a serious threat to public health; 75% of all emerging infections are zoonotic. There have been few efforts to describe or understand the practice of zoonotic disease outbreak detection and reporting practice in the United States, which is complicated by the federal and...
Allen, Heather A.
zoonoses, detection, infectious disease, reporting, United States, and public health
Katz, Rebecca L and Newcomer, Kathryn E
May, Larissa, Atchison, Chessley, Balla, Steven J, and Brainard, Lori
Acoustic studies on Nanodroplets, Microbubbles and Liposomes
Microbubbles and droplets are nanometer to micron size biocompatible particles which are primarily used for drug delivery and contrast imaging. Our aim is to broaden the use of microbubbles from contrast imaging to other applications such as measuring blood pressure. The other goal is to develop...
Kumar, Krishna Nandan
nanodroplet, echogenicity, vaporization, nucleation, microbubbles, and liposome
Sarkar, Kausik
Kay, Matthew, Mallik, Sanku, Leng, Yongsheng, Sarkar, Kausik, and Solares, Santiago
A CONTINUOUS MONITORING FRAMEWORK TO MANAGE CYBERSECURITY AGAINST INSIDER THREATS
In today's "Cyber-Society," an enterprise faces numerous Cybersecurity challenges as Cybercriminals, hackers, and insider threats constantly threaten to compromise the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of the enterprise's assets and data. This research presents a Dynamic...
Shariati, Behnam
Security, Information security, and System security
Murphree, Lile and Mazzuchi, Thomas A
Murphree, Lile, Stone, Michael, Sarkani, Shahram, Narahari, Bhagirath, and Mazzuchi, Thomas
Domestic-International Linkages on China's Periphery: The Foreign Economic Liberalization of China's Border Regions (2000-2015)
Why and how have China's late-developing border regions responded differently to the shared challenges of economic globalization? Theories of political economy and accounts of China's integration into the world economy remain divided on the relative significance of internal and external forces of...
Byun, See-Won
Asia, border regions, economic liberalization, political economy, regional integration, and China
Shambaugh, David
Sell, Susan, Kaplan, Stephen, Sutter, Robert, and Mochizuki, Mike
Three Essays In and Tests of Theoretical Urban Economics
This dissertation consists of three essays on urban economics. The three essays are related to urban spatial structure change, energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and housing redevelopment. Chapter 1 answers the question: Does the classic Standard Urban Model still describe the growth...
Zhao, Weihua
Energy Consumption, Standard Urban Model, Minimum Lot Size Zoning, Telework, Urban Spatial Structure, and Housing Redevelopment
Yezer, Anthony Marvin
Steinbucks, Jevgenijs, Jedwab, Remi, Carrillo, Paul, and Joshi, Sumit
Coping with Late Stage Software Integration: A Grounded Theory Study to Understand How Knowledge Processes Contribute to Shared Situational Awareness
Previous research on knowledge management have predominantly focused on either the development of knowledge management tools such as a knowledge repository or abstract theoretical understanding of knowledge management. These studies have not specifically addressed how to apply knowledge...
Lewis, Ariyapong
Grounded Theory and Late Stage Software Integration
Murphree, Edward L
Allario, Frank, Wright, Robert, Mazzuchi, Thomas A, and Sarkani, Shahram
Concordant Integrative Analysis of Multiple Gene Expression Data Sets
Microarray is an experimental method by which tens of thousands of genes can be printed on a small chip. This technology enables us to measure genome-wide expression profiles. The cost of a microarray experiment is still relatively high. Therefore, the sample size of a microarray experiment is...
Zhang, Fanni
data integration, mixture model, gene expression, microarray, and concordance
Lai, Yinglei
Liang, Hua, Albert, Paul, Pan, Qing, and Larsen, Michael D
Producing the Projects: Atlanta and the Cultural Creation of Public Housing, 1933-2011
The history of Atlanta's public housing and its eventual demise is as much a story about representation as it is one of architectural design, funding, and policy. In order to educate the public about slum clearance and public housing, have the early program viewed as successful, and eventually...
Schank, Katie Marages
Atlanta, urban studies, race, visual culture, and public housing
Klemek, Christopher, Anker, Elisabeth, Goodyear, Frank, and Osman, Suleiman
Finite Element Modeling of Pretensioned Concrete Girders: A Methodological Approach with Applications in Large Strands and End Zone Cracking
Two issues pertaining to the current state of pretensioning industry are investigated in this research: spacing of 0.7-in. diameter strands and effectiveness of end zone reinforcing details. Given the current economic constraints and the limitation of testing facilities, there is a great need for...
Arab, Amir A.
End Zone Cracking, 0.7-in. Diameter Strands, Pretensioned Concrete, Elastoplastic, Finite Element, and Transfer Length
Manzari, Majid T and Badie, Sameh S
Roddis, Kim, Dekelbab, Waseem, and Silva, Pedro F
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Federal Job Training Investments in Community Colleges
Community colleges, which are public, two-year institutions of higher education, have become a major provider of education and training that directly leads to a job in a particular occupation. To help community colleges build capacity to provide job training, the federal government has funded...
Eyster, Lauren
cost-benefit analysis, community college, and job training
Nightingale, Demetra S. and Barnow, Burt S.
Essays on Corporate Behavior: Managerial Discretion and the Disclosure of Financial Misstatements
In response to a series of high profile financial accounting scandals, regulations were passed to create a uniform reporting environment for publicly traded companies. Although the intent of these regulations is to require firms to release value relevant information in a prominent and timely...
Mitler, Morris
Klock, Mark
Savickas, Robert, Pirinsky, Christo, Zhang, Yun, and Gore, Angela
Essays on Education Policy and Student Achievement in Colombia
Abstract of the Dissertation:Essays on Education Policy and Student Achievement in ColombiaThe main objective of this dissertation is to analyze the impact that two notable school reforms have had on student achievement in Colombia. The dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay lays...
Hincapie, Diana Patricia
instructional time, education policy, quality of education, Colombia, multigrade classrooms, and student achievement
Cellini, Stephanie R.
Barnow, Burt, Barrera, Felipe, Wolman, Hal, and Conger, Dylan
Application of a Hidden Naïve Bayes Multiclass Classifier in Network Intrusion Detection
With increasing Internet connectivity and traffic volume, recent intrusion incidents have reemphasized the importance of network intrusion detection systems for combating increasingly sophisticated network attacks. Techniques such as pattern recognition and the data mining of network events are...
Koc, Levent
intrusion detection systems, multiclass classification, Denial-of-Services (DoS), Hidden Naïve Bayes (HNB), and data mining
Holzer, Thomas, Murphree, Lile, Sarkani, Shahram, and Mazzuchi, Thomas A
Size and Morphology Controlled Synthesis of Nanomaterials by Alkalide Reduction
AbstractSize and shape control of nanocrystals attract more and more attentions and become one of the most interesting research areas. Tailored nanomaterials with desirable size and shape play important roles in catalysis, magnetic refrigeration, MRI contrast agents and information storage due to...
Yan, Chao
shape control, alkalide reduction, MRI contrast agents, size control, core-shell nanomaterials, and nanomaterials synthesis
Wagner, Michael J.
Cahill, Christopher L., Popratiloff, Anastas, Ramaker, David E., and Dowd, Cynthia
Multiple Grid Multiple Time-Scale (MGMT) Simulations in Linear Structural Dynamics
The work presented in this dissertation describes a general algorithm and its Finite Element (FE) implementation for performing concurrent multiple sub-domain simulations in linear structural dynamics. Using this approach one can solve problems in which the domain under analysis can be...
Ruparel, Tejas
Multiscale Simulations, Multiple Sub-domain Analysis, Lagrange Multipliers, Finite Element Analysis, Structural Dynamics, and Domain Decomposition Methods
Lee, James and Eskandarian, Azim
Li, Tianshu, Manzari, Majid, and Lee, Kunik
Heterogeneous Design Approach for Ground Control Stations to Marginalize Human Factors Mishaps in Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) allow operators to conduct high-risk military missions without putting humans in harm's way. The United States Department of Defense's (DoD) usage of UASs increased six-fold from 2005 to 2011, while the DoD UAS budget has increased four-fold during the same...
Waraich, Qaisar Raza
unmanned aircraft systems, remotely piloted aircraft, human factors, interface design, human- machine interface, and cognitive engineering
Holzer, Thomas H and Murphee, Lile
Phylogenetic Systematics of the Supragenus Rasbora (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
The fishes of the supragenus Rasbora, with 104 valid species, comprise among the most species-rich and widespread lineages of cyprinids that live throughout a vast expanse from the subcontinent India through Southeast Asia as far south as Sundaland. Despite its remarkable diversity, high...
Lumbantobing, Daniel Natanael
Phylogenetics, Cyprinidae, Molecular data, Rasbora, Systematics, and Morphological data
Burns, John R and Parenti, Lynne R
Hernandez, Patricia, Orti, Guillermo, Hilton, Eric J, and Vari, Richard P
Material Symbolism and Ochre Exploitation in Middle Stone Age East-Central Africa
This dissertation project sought to integrate multiple analytic and experimental methods to study the use of ochre pigments in Middle Stone Age (MSA) Africa. Ochre is a diverse category of iron-containing earth pigments, the appearance of which in MSA archaeological sites broadly coincides with...
Zipkin, Andrew Michael
Adhesive, Mass Spectrometry, Ochre, Neutron Activation Analysis, Middle Stone Age, and Pigment
Brooks, Alison S
Forster, Catherine A, Lucas, Peter W, Hanchar, John M, and Thompson, Jessica C
Stable Alluvial Channel Geometry
This study numerically computes stable alluvial channel geometry by finding a bank profile for known water and sediment discharges and uniform sediment size. The sediment concentration along curving banks is found by solving numerically the steady state diffusion of sediments in the bank regions...
AHMAD, NAVID
Alluvial channels, Alluvial rivers, and Stable geometry
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Haque, Muhammad I
Eskandarian, Azim, Garris, Charles A, Roddis, W. M. Kim, and Akhtar, Imran
The role of mitochondrial dysregulation in cellular death-resistance: Survival following a single genotoxin exposure
Death-resistance and mitochondrial dysfunction may be two of the earliest events in carcinogenesis. It is well known that tumor cells utilize the glycolytic pathway to produce energy, even in the presence of sufficient oxygen levels. This has been termed the Warburg effect, and has been...
Nickens, Kristen Patrice
Bioenergetics, Mitochondria, Carcinogenesis, and Death-resistance
Kennedy, Katherine, O'Brien, Travis J, Patierno, Steven R, and Constant, Stephanie
Development of a Novel Steering Control Collision Avoidance System
In this research development of a steering collision avoidance system was investigated. First, different control approaches to perform an evasive collision avoidance maneuver using active steering was presented. Both linear and nonlinear controllers to control the combined lateral and...
Soudbakhsh, Damoon
Linear controller, Neighboring Optimal Control, Collision avoidance, Optimization, Collocation, and Sliding Mode Controller
Eskandarian, Azim and Roddis, Kim
Bared, Joe, Eskandarian, Azim, Roddis, Kim, Manzari, Majid, and Hamdar, Samer
Modeling the Correlation Structure of RNA Sequencing Data Using A Multivariate Poisson-Lognormal Model
High-throughput sequencing technologies have been widely used in biomedical research, especially in human genomic studies. RNA Sequencing (RNA-seq) applies high-throughput sequencing technologies to quantify gene expression, study alternatively spliced gene and discover novel isoform. Poisson...
Jia, Liyi
Block Compound Symmetry Correlation Structure, Average Weighting Strategy, Multivariate Poisson-Lognormal Model, and RNA-seq Data
Barut, Emre, Pan, Qing, Liu, Aiyi, and Gastwirth, Joseph L
Comparative Analgesic Effects Of Prepulse Inhibition And Reduced Voltage Waveforms In Defibrillation
Pain caused by internal cardiac defibrillation has been associated with increased patient morbidity and the technique's lack of acceptance for atrial defibrillation. Several methods of pain reduction have been proposed including prepulse inhibition and reduced-amplitude defibrillation waveforms....
Moulder, John Christopher
Intracardiac, Defibrillation, Pain, Waveform, and Cutaneous
Loew, Murray H
Kroll, Mark W, Mercader, Marco, Zara, Jason M, Zagloul, Mona, and Kay, Mathew W
A Methodology for Evaluating Technical Performance Parameter Design Margins to Control Earth and Space Science Instrument Cost.
Costs of aerospace missions have increased over the last twenty years, placing the future of the space program in jeopardy. A potential source for such growth can be attributed to the complex multidisciplinary and challenging nature of earth and space science instrument development. Design...
Jones-Selden, Felicia
Design Margin, Space Science Instruments, Cost Estimation, Technical Performance Parameters, Earth Science Instruments, and Regression Analysis
Holzer, Thomas H and Eveleigh, Timothy
Holzer, Thomas, Sarkani, Shahram, Mazzuchi, Thomas, Murphree, E. Lile, and Eveleigh, Timothy
Adaptive Convex Enveloping for Multivariate Convex Dynamic Programming
We propose a new method, called Adaptive Convex Enveloping, for solving convex stochastic dynamic programs (DP) with multidimensional continuous state and decision variables. The new method approximates the value functions with supporting hyperplanes, which is convexity-preserving. As a result,...
Yu, Sheng
dynamic programming, adaptive convex enveloping, supporting hyperplane approximation, and battery exchange station
van Dorp, Johan R
Shaw, Gregory L, Abeledo, Hernan G, Campos-Nanez, Enrique, Ryan, Julie JCH, and Lejeune, Miguel
Dynamics, Structure and Evolution of Biological Networks
We study the interplay between dynamics and structure of biological networks to gain understanding on their design principles and evolution pathways.We first studied issues in the structure inference of biological networks from binary time series data. A message-passing algorithm called belief...
Du, Chenghang
Phase Transition, Network Evolution, and Boolean Network
Zeng, Chen
Simha, Rahul, Lan, Ganhui, Rong, Yongwu, Peng, Weiqun, and Wang, Xujing
Triangle Test and Triangle Data Depth in Nonparametric Multivariate Analysis
A triangle statistic is proposed for testing the equality of two multivariate continuous distribution functions (DFs) in high-dimensional settings based on sample interpoint distances. Given two independent d-dimensional random samples, a triangle can be formed by randomly selecting one...
Liu, Zhenyu
two sample problem, quantile test, data depth, nonparametric analysis, multivariate analysis, and statistically equivalent blocks
Modarres, Reza
Mahmoud, Hosam M., Lai, Yinglei, Zheng, Gang, and Stroud, Jonathan
Managing Managed Care Plans to Promote Physical-Behavioral Health Integration in States
One option that state Medicaid programs interested in better integration of physical and behavioral health services have is to align payment of these services by using one Medicaid managed care contract. This option is consistent with a national trend toward moving more services and populations...
Palmer, Ashley
Medicaid, managed care, integrated care, behavioral health, and Weiss
Infeld, Donna
Rosenbaum, Sara and Markus, Anne
Functional Nanomaterials Useful for Magnetic Refrigeration Systems
Magnetic refrigeration is an emerging energy efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration technology. The principle of magnetic refrigeration is based on the effect of varying a magnetic field on the temperature change of a magnetocaloric material (refrigerant). By applying a magnetic...
Aslani, Amir
Entropy change, Magnetic Refrigeration, Nanoparticle, Optimization, Heusler alloy, and Magnetocaloric Effect
Ghahremani, Mohammadreza, Nagel, David, Della Torre, Edward, Bennett, Lawrence H, and Ahmadi, Shahrokh
Challenges in Plasma Spectrometry for the Analysis of Limited, Expensive, and Toxic Materials: From Aerosol Generation, Diagnostics, to Practical Applications
This research is centered on fundamental studies to improve the analytical performance of plasma based spectrometries with an emphasis on the development of liquid sample introduction devices suitable for the analysis of limited, expensive, and toxic materials. The use and improvement of a...
Brennan, Ryan Garrett
Electrospray, direct injection, Phosphorus, limited sample, DNA, and Plasma spectrometry
Turk, Gregory C and Montaser, Akbar
Teng, Henry, Nagel, David, Vertes, Akos, Ramaker, David E, and King, Michael M
Using Robust Statistical Methodology to Evaluate the Performance of Project Delivery Systems: A Case Study of Horizontal Construction
The objective of this study is to demonstrate the application of the bootstrapping M-estimator (a robust Analysis of Variance, ANOVA) to test the null hypotheses of means equality among the cost and schedule performance of the three project delivery systems (PDS). A statistical planned contrast...
Charoenphol, Dares
Planned Contrast, Robust ANOVA, Construction Manager/General Contractor, Project Delivery System, Design-Build, and Design-Bid-Build
Stuban, Steven M.F. and Dever, Jason R.
Mazzuchi, Thomas A., Murphree, Edward L., and Sarkani, Shahram
Erin's Inheritance: Irish-American Children, Ethnic Identity, and the Meaning of Being Irish, 1845-1890
This dissertation explores the concerns and discussions about lessons of Irish identity for the children of Irish immigrants in mid to late nineteenth-century New York and New England. The author argues that there were recurrent efforts to maintain Irish identity by ensuring the young would...
Keljik, Jonathan
Irish, immigration, ethnicity, childhood, and history
Anbinder, Tyler
Guglielmo, Thomas, Meagher, Tim, Stott, Richard, and Joselit, Jenna
Models and Algorithms for Portfolio Optimization Under Uncertainty
This dissertation consists of four papers addressing different aspects of financial portfoliooptimization problems. The first paper studies an extended set of Mean-Gini models andexplores the properties of the reward-to-variability Mean-Gini Ratio performance measure. Compared to other mean-risk...
Ji, Ran
Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Optimization, Boolean Threshold Solution Method, Stochastic Risk-Budgeting Multi-Portfolio Model, Multicriteria Interactive Procedure, Gini's Mean Difference, and Portfolio Optimization
Lejeune, Miguel A
Prasad, Srinivas Y, Stroud, Johnathan R, Abeledo, Hernan G, Kettunen, Janne S, and Delquie, Philippe
Essays on Financial Crises and Banking: International, Domestic and Systemic Approach
Most of the largest economic crises in recent history have been bank related. This dissertation contributes to improve our understanding of the causes and implications of financial crises because it approaches the study from a holistic perspective. It covers international, domestic, and systemic...
Martinez, Regina
Financial crises, Capital flows, Systemic risk, Contagion, Global banking, and Banking networks
Shambaugh, Jay C.
Kaminsky, Graciela L., Sinclair, Tara, Labadie, Pamela A., and Goldberg, Linda
Reliability Growth of Multi-Stage Single Shot Systems
Traditionally, reliability growth models are used during development to project growth as the system proceeds through the Test-Analyze-And-Fix (TAAF) stages, and do not continue to be utilized once the system is fielded. In most cases, demonstrated reliability replaces predicted reliability at...
Nicholls, Jennifer
Reliability, Single Shot System, Reliability Growth, and Multi-Stage System
Rancace, Robert, Murphee, Edward L, and Holzer, Thomas H
"What Citizens are Being Trained Here?" The (Lacking) Administration of Children
In this dissertation, I expose an absence of Public Administration scholarship that considers children within the context of the administrative activities and functions of government. While most social science fields have contemplated the unique nature of children as different from adults within...
Collins, Mariglynn
public administration, children, social policy, and history
Brainard, Lori
Love, Jeannine, Rigby, Elizabeth, Harmon, Mike, Connors, Catherine, and Infeld, Donna
Role of Epigenetic Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) (polymyositis [PM], dermatomyositis [DM], and inclusion body myositis [IBM]) are a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by chronic muscle weakness, muscle fatigue, and mononuclear cell infiltration into skeletal muscle. The etiology of these...
Boehler, Jessica Fineran
Biochemistry & Systems Biology
Nagaraju, Kanneboyina
Manzini, Chiara, Hathout, Yetrib, and Chen, Yi-Wen
Vreme Je! It's Time! Mobilization and Voting for Regime Change, The Serbian Elections of 2000
In Milosevic's Serbia, after going to the polls more than seven times in seven years, citizens had no success in achieving regime change through the ballot box despite the fact that surveys repeatedly showed that those favoring the opposition were increasingly in the majority. Over this span of...
Meyers, Nancy L.
Emotions, Framing, Mobilization, Serbia, Contentious Politics, and Elections
Wolchik, Sharon L
Curry, Jane L, Bunce, Valerie J, McClintock, Cynthia, and Brown, Nathan
Why is Michael Vick so fast and Peyton Manning so smart? Understanding Racial Portrayals on ESPN's Sportscenter
Research examining racial portrayals in the sports media show that a physical-psychological racial dichotomy exists where black athletes receive praise for physical attributes and white athletes garner acclaim for cognitive attributes. But, many of these studies are limited because they focus on...
Coogan, Daniel
Race, Sportscenter, Racial portrayals, Sports, and Media
Squires, Gregory D
Zamoff, Richard B, Wenger, Michael R, Gross, Kimberly, and Tuch, Steven A
DESIGN OF LOW-LOSS ONE-POLE SYNCHRONOUS LINBO3 SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE RESONATORS FOR SENSING APPLICATIONS
The surface acoustic wave (SAW) device has been used in many applications, such as using as resonators, to replace the inductance-capacitance (LC) filters, chemical or gas sensors . Our objectives is this work is to increase insertion loss (IL) and Q factor. The new improved device have...
Ou, Hsu-Cheng
LiNbO3, Sensor, MEMS, Resonator, and SAW
Zaghloul, Mona E. and Korman, Can E.
Nagel, David, Wu, Jerry, and Ahmadi, Shahrokh
Development and validation of new algorithms to improve contact detection and robustness in finite element simulations
Approximately half of all numerical problems in crashworthiness analysis involve impact dynamics, and accurate contact algorithms are critical to capture the structures' behavior. Conventional contact algorithms use the principle of preventing ' slave ' nodes from penetrating 'master' segments....
Mahadevaiah, Umashankar
contact algorithm, FEM, Contact mechanics, contact detection, Finite element analysis, and contact search
Eskandarian, Azim and Marzougui, Dhafer
Badie, Sameh S, Kan, Cing-Dao, Opiela, Kenneth, and Manzari, Majid T
Unification of Randomized Response Designs and Certain Aspects of Post-Randomization for Statistical Disclosure Control
We discuss two closely related topics - randomized response (RR) surveys and post-randomization - that are concerned with survey respondents' privacy protection. We present a common framework for various RR surveys of dichotomous populations with polychotomous responses. The unified approach...
Adeshiyan, Samson A.
PRAM, Statistical Disclosure Control, Invariant Post Randomization, Confidentiality, and Randomized Response
Nayak, Tapan K
Bose, Sudip, Larsen, Michael, Modarres, Reza, and Chandhok, Promod
Essays on housing space analysis
This dissertation demonstrates that the standard urban model (SUM) has important, previously unknown, and rather counterintuitive predictions about the determinants of housing consumption in cities. For example, the SUM predicts that, as higher wages in the CBD prompt city growth, the housing...
Liu, Yishen
Yezer, Anthony M.
Boulier, Bryan, Jedwab, Remi, Selod, Harris, and Carrillo, Paul
Thesis or Dissertation1,671
Li, Yuan2
AHMAD, NAVID1
ALABDULJADER, NAWAF1
ALJAWAH, MOHAMMAD J.1
Abliz, Erkinay1
Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering146
Public Policy & Administration116
Political Science102
Biomedical Sciences95
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Sarkani, Shahram107
Mazzuchi, Thomas A65
Mazzuchi, Thomas27
Mazzuchi, Thomas A.24
Cheng, Xiuzhen16
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HIV16