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(2022-07-22)Department: Civil EngineeringA 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 ...
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(2022-03-28)Department: Computer ScienceAdaptive 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 ...
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Deepening Understanding of Parents' Role Construction for Involvement in Their Children's Education (2008-06-12)Department: PsychologyThis 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 ...
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(2003-12-09)Department: PhysicsThis 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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(2023-12-01)Department: Computer ScienceDeep 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, ...
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(2020-03-28)Department: Political ScienceThe 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 ...
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(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 ...
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(2022-08-14)Department: Political ScienceThis 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 ...
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(2009-06-16)Department: EnglishIn 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 ...
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(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 ...
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(2023-08-31)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyThe 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 ...
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(2023-07-11)Department: Biomedical InformaticsPolygenic scores (PGS) aim to capture a person’s genetic predisposition to a disease or trait. There is substantial interest in applying PGS to clinical settings to identify patients at elevated risk for disease. Given its ...
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(2022-11-18)Department: Microbe-Host InteractionsViruses with multi-segmented genomes are unique in their capacity to readily exchange large amounts of genetic information via a process known as reassortment. Reassortment requires a considerable amount of genetic ...
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(2023-01-20)Department: Cell & Developmental BiologyMicrovilli are actin-bundle-supported surface protrusions that play essential roles in diverse epithelial functions, from nutrient absorption to mechanosensation. Despite the importance of microvilli for proper epithelial ...
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(2014-11-26)Department: Biomedical InformaticsElectronic Health Records (EHRs) allow for the digital capture of patient information and have proven to be a valuable tool for patient treatment. In this dissertation, I explore reuse of EHR data for clinical and genomic ...
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(2018-03-22)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyCeliac disease is an immune-mediated intestinal disorder that occurs in genetically predisposed individuals exposed to dietary gluten. Viral infections are associated with the induction of celiac disease. However, not all ...
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(2023-05)Texas Tech University (TTU), the largest comprehensive higher education institution in the western two-thirds of the state, opened its doors in 1925 and boasts a rich history of research programs designed to enrich lives ...