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(2021-10-20)Department: Electrical EngineeringSilicon avalanche photodiodes (Si APDs) are semiconductor p-n junction devices that convert photons into amplified electrical current by enhancing generated charge via avalanche. They are intrinsically immune to magnetic ...
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(2011-12-06)Department: Electrical EngineeringSingle Event Effects (SEE) in combinational logic circuits, caused due radiation particle strikes are a major concern for modern high-speed devices. The frequency dependence of SEE in state-of-the-art 40 nm circuits is ...
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(2013-12-09)Department: Biomedical EngineeringTuberculosis infects one out of three individuals worldwide. In order to control tuberculosis infection, accurate diagnostics are needed at the point-of-care. An ideal point-of-care diagnostic for tuberculosis would include ...
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(2019-09-16)Department: Electrical EngineeringSensitive volumes are useful models for predicting error rates of devices in radiation environments. A heavy ion and pulsed laser induced collected charge sensitive volume is developed for an epitaxial silicon diode from ...
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Comparison of Interfacial Shear Strength measurements for Bonded materials and Composite materials (2008-09-23)Department: Civil EngineeringComposite materials play an important role in today’s engineering structures. These types of materials are made of two or more individual material components with weak interfaces in-between different material types. Since ...
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(2008-07-30)Department: Special EducationThe present study examined the effectiveness and efficiency of two instructional arrangements using the progressive time delay (PTD) procedure with 5 young children with autism. An adapted alternating treatment design was ...
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(2005-07-23)Department: Biomedical InformaticsTrait heterogeneity, which exists when a trait has been defined with insufficient specificity such that it is actually two or more distinct traits, has been implicated as a confounding factor in traditional statistical ...
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(2014-03-29)Department: Special EducationThe association made between the meaning, spelling, and pronunciation of a word has been shown to help children remember the meanings of words. The present study addressed whether the presence of a target word in braille ...
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(Neurobiology of Disease, 2020-02)Over 1250 mutations in SCN1A, the Navl.1 voltage-gated sodium channel gene, are associated with seizure disorders including GEES +. To evaluate how a specific mutation, independent of genetic background, causes seizure ...
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(2009-04-20)Department: Biomedical EngineeringMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is unique in its sensitivity to a wide array of contrast mechanisms in soft tissue. Unfortunately, the physiological and/or microanatomical characteristics that give rise to this contrast ...
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(2016-07-14)Department: Political ScienceMy dissertation uses several different methods to examine the role of compassion in politics, both at the citizen and elite level. I explore elite appeals to compassion through a content analysis of a selection of ...
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(The American Economic Review, 1998)Women have largely been excluded from analyses of compensating differentials for job risk since they are predominantly employed in safer, white-collar occupations. New data reveal that their injury experience is considerable. ...
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(American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2011)This paper provides evidence of the relation between the risk of sexual harassment and wages. While one approach to detecting the effect on wages of sexual harassment would be to estimate wage equations controlling for ...
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(2017-03-24)Department: PsychologyDo speakers adjust their expectations of a conversational partner when said partner is inattentive, and if so, how are their utterances to the inattentive partner modulated? Here we test the hypothesis that speakers only ...
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(2010-08-02)Department: GermanCOMPETING GERMANIES: THE FREIE DEUTSCHE BUEHNE AND THE DEUTSCHES THEATER IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, 1938-1965 ROBERT VINCENT KELZ Dissertation under the direction of Professor Meike G. Werner Based on extensive archival ...
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(2018-12-12)Department: HistoryThe establishment of Liberia as a nation in 1847 was one of the first opportunities for black Americans to rule themselves. This dissertation studies how African American emigrants worked to become a national people and ...
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(2022-12)Every Child Oregon is an initiative of The Contingent, a non-profit which collaborates with government agencies, faith communities, and business partners to aid children and families impacted by foster care. Often in ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-07)How does the need to signal quality through price affect equilibrium pricing and profits, when a firm faces a similarly-situated rival? In this paper, we provide a model of non-cooperative signaling by two firms that compete ...
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(2014-07-21)Department: HistoryThis dissertation explores the roles Gold Coast Africans played in the various challenges to Dutch and English monopoly in the Atlantic slave trade from 1621 to 1720. Using a close reading and corroboration of archaic ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)We show that, in competition between a developed country and a developing country over standards and taxes, the developing country may have a 'second mover advantage.' A key feature of standards is that, unlike public goods ...