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    • The Deconstruction of Society in Certain Feminíst Novels of the 1850's 
      Borghi, Liana (Instituto di studi storici, Facoltà di scienze politiche, Università degli studi di Milano, 1987)
    • Deconstruction Skilled Typing Performance: An Investigation of Key Selection and Keystroke Execution Processes 
      Snyder, Kristy Marie (2018-01-22)
      Department: Psychology
      For many, typing is ubiquitous and effortless. Nevertheless, it is a complex behavior that requires the cognitive system to direct specific fingers to specific keys in specific orders quickly and accurately. This study ...
    • Dee Davis soars on and off the court 
      Davis, Dee (Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-28)
    • Deep Characterization of Multimodal Brain Changes Across Pregnancy and the Postpartum: A Case Study 
      Ravi, Sanjana; 0000-0002-8248-9940 (2023-03-20)
      Department: Psychology
      Carrying a fetus to term results in physiological, cognitive, and socioemotional changes in pregnant individuals’ bodies. Past non-human animal studies indicate that the maternal brain undergoes structural and functional ...
    • Deep Learning for Brain Tumor Classification 
      Paul, Justin Stuart (2016-04-13)
      Department: Computer Science
      Deep learning has been used successfully in supervised classification tasks in order to learn complex patterns. The purpose of the study is to apply this machine learning technique to classifying images of brains with ...
    • Deep learning methods applied to modeling and policy optimization in large buildings 
      Naug, Avisek; 0000-0003-3253-7286 (2022-05-16)
      Department: Computer Science
      Developing an optimal policy for building energy management is a difficult problem because the system exhibits non-stationary behaviors and the target policy needs to evolve with changes in the state transition and reward ...
    • Deep learning models for aircraft landing safety assessment 
      Kong, Yingxiao; 0000-0002-1023-2767 (2022-07-22)
      Department: Civil Engineering
      A commercial civil aviation flight typically goes through multiple phases from flight planning to the final landing, including push back, takeoff, climb, cruise, descent, final approach, and landing. Among them, the final ...
    • DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR ADAPTIVE CONTROL IN ROBOTICS 
      Bhan, Luke; 0000-0002-6734-8314 (2022-03-28)
      Department: Computer Science
      Adaptive control of robotic systems is challenging due to nonlinear system dynamics and time-varying parameters that govern the system’s behavior. Naturally, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a suitable choice for the ...
    • Deepening Understanding of Parents' Role Construction for Involvement in Their Children's Education 
      Whitaker, Manya Catrice (2008-06-12)
      Department: Psychology
      This thesis examined the development of parents’ active role construction for involvement in their children’s education. Guided by cognitive, social, and cultural theories of development, this study investigated the influence ...
    • Defects in amorphous SiO2: reactions, dynamics and optical properties 
      Bakos, Tamas (2003-12-09)
      Department: Physics
      This thesis focuses on two main topics: the reactions and dynamics of water and oxygen interstitials and the optical properties and associated relaxation mechanisms of two selected defects in amorphous SiO2. The theoretical ...
    • Defects in COG-Mediated Golgi Trafficking Alter Endo-Lysosoma System in Human Cells 
      Lupashin, Vladimir V.); D'Souza, Zinia; Blackburn, Jessica Bailey; Kudlyk, Tetyana; Pokrovskaya, Irina D. (FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, 2019-07-03)
      The conserved oligomeric complex (COG) is a multi-subunit vesicle tethering complex that functions in retrograde trafficking at the Golgi. We have previously demonstrated that the formation of enlarged endo-lysosomal ...
    • Defects in COG-Mediated Golgi Trafficking Alter Endo-Lysosoma System in Human Cells 
      D'Souza, Zinia; Blackburn, Jessica Bailey; Kudlyk, Tetyana; Pokrovskaya, Irina; Lupashin, Vladimir V. (FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, 2019-07-03)
      The conserved oligomeric complex (COG) is a multi-subunit vesicle tethering complex that functions in retrograde trafficking at the Golgi. We have previously demonstrated that the formation of enlarged endo-lysosomal ...
    • Defects in COG-Mediated Golgi Trafficking Alter Endo-Lysosoma System in Human Cells 
      D'Souza, Zinia; Blackburn, Jessica Bailey; Kudlyk, Tetyana; Pokrovskaya, Irina D.; Lupashin, Vladimir V. (FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, 2019-07-03)
      The conserved oligomeric complex (COG) is a multi-subunit vesicle tethering complex that functions in retrograde trafficking at the Golgi. We have previously demonstrated that the formation of enlarged endo-lysosomal ...
    • Defending Model Extraction Attacks with Probabilistic Isolation 
      Baxter, Hunter Christian; 0009-0006-4390-2364 (2023-12-01)
      Department: Computer Science
      Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are an essential intellectual property for companies providing Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) due to their exceptional capabilities in domains such as text generation, generative graphics, ...
    • Defense Appropriations: The Process, Politics, and National Security Implications 
      Hagner, Richard Edwin; 0000-0002-5247-772X (2020-03-28)
      Department: Political Science
      The defense appropriations process is an understudied portion of American politics despite its importance for domestic and international politics. Much of this neglect is due to a lack of access to the process and those ...
    • A Defense of the Integrationist Test as a Replacement for the Special Defense of Insanity 
      Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (Texas Tech Law Review, 2009)
      This article, written for a symposium on "Criminal Law and the Excuses," defends the "Integrationist" approach to analysis of the exculpatory effect of mental disability that I developed in Chapter Two of my book, Minding ...
    • Defense Spending and Alliance Reliability 
      Conklin, Mark Emerson; 0000-0001-7958-8721 (2022-08-14)
      Department: Political Science
      This dissertation investigates the relationship between defense spending and alliance reliability. I begin with a formal, game theoretic model in which a targeted member of a military alliance anticipates a challenge and ...
    • Defensive Adaptation: Managing Social Anxieties in Literature and Film 
      Neckles, Christina Maria (2009-06-16)
      Department: English
      In this dissertation I examine the relationships between textual adaptation and social anxieties. By looking at work by artists as varied as Jane Austen and Michael Powell, Patricia Highsmith and Ellen Wood, Anthony ...
    • Deference and Democracy 
      Bressman, Lisa Schultz (The George Washington Law Review, 2007)
      In Chevron, U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., the Supreme Court famously held that judicial deference to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes is appropriate largely because the executive branch is ...
    • Defining a Role for Prostanoid Receptor EP4 in the Developmental Programming of the Ductus Arteriosus 
      Yarboro, Michael Thomas; 0000-0003-1915-1979 (2023-08-31)
      Department: Cell & Developmental Biology
      The ductus arteriosus (DA) is a muscular artery which helps to define the fetal pattern of the circulatory system. After birth, the DA undergoes muscular constriction and remodeling which establish the adult division between ...