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This thesis provides a reading of Thomas Bernhard’s prose understood as prosaic music. Comparing Ludwig Wittgenstein’s struggle to write philosophy with Bernhard’s use of literary-musical elements, I…

The advances of personal computing devices and the prevalence of high-speed Internet access have pushed video streaming services into a new era. One of its representative examples is crowdsourced…

Visual perception is one of the core building blocks of achieving general machine intelligence. Deep learning methods have expedited the progress of this field and advanced the performance of many…

A mixed methods study was conducted to examine the association between poor mental health and loneliness among widowed older adults aged 65 and over, accounting for differential effects of gender and…

Hyperpolarization and Cyclic Nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels regulate electrical activity in rhythmically firing cells of the brain and heart. Their voltage-gating is mediated by a transmembrane (TM…

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, representing 50-75% of all cases worldwide. AD is a multifaceted disease that is characterized by increased oxidative stress, metal-ion…

In “Black w/Holes” M. Nourbese Philip comments upon the psychic border that “prohibits or limits” the entry of racialized bodies into what she refers to as “wilderness spaces.” By focusing on…

There is a growing wave of new autonomous robots poised for use in human environments, from the self-driving car to the delivery drone. By leaving the confinement of factories and warehouses for city…

One of the largest but poorly understood tectonic boundaries in North America is the Snowbird Tectonic Zone (STZ), which separates the Rae and Hearne cratons. Significant tectonothermal reworking of…

VizInteract is an interactive data visualization tool for touch-enabled displays. It affords rapid construction of multidimensional data visualizations through multi-touch gestures, which supports…

There has been considerable attention on the term “computational thinking” (CT) over the past decade in the education community. With a global movement to include coding in the school curriculum,…

Ideal sleep duration has been a topic of debate for centuries. In industrialized nations, access to electric lighting has had impacts on our daily circadian rhythms and, consequently, our sleep.…

Confining the delocalized fields of electromagnetic waves to the nanometer scale of metallic surface regions by exciting surface plasmons enables new methods of information transfer, energy…

New multiferroic solid solutions of (1-x)BiFeO3-xBaHfO3 (BF-BaHf) with x = 0.05 - 0.95 has been prepared by conventional solid-state reaction in the form of ceramics. X-ray powder diffraction…

The ability to classify skin color based on images from bare skin is highly sought after in various industries and professions, including dermatology, cosmetics, skincare products, laser-based…

The thesis focused on the development of a wearable motion tracking platform employing fiber strain sensors and inertial measurement units through a data fusion algorithm. The development of a smart…

The primary focus of the research described in this thesis deals with the studies geared towards the total synthesis of biselide A and phormidolide A, two tetrahydrofuran containing natural products…

Dating violence is a prevalent issue among adolescents and refers to any physical, psychological, or sexual violence perpetrated by a partner in a close relationship (Centers for Disease Control and…

There is currently no safe, scalable cure for HIV-1 infection due to the persistence of a latent viral reservoir. The Block-and-Lock strategy to achieve drug-free HIV remission requires promotion of…

Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSC) increase invasiveness and metastatic potential in prostate cancer and may be a novel drug target for castration resistant prostate cancer. VGSC isoforms expressed…