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Power Allocation And Massive Mimo Channel Modeling For 5g Wireless Communications, Zhangliang Chen May 2022

Power Allocation And Massive Mimo Channel Modeling For 5g Wireless Communications, Zhangliang Chen

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

To meet the demand for wireless communication transmission rate to reach a thousand times of the existing system in 2021, the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication system was developed. Compared with Long-Term Evolution (LTE), the 5G mobile communication needs to be transmitted in wireless breakthrough innovation in technology to achieve the goal of ten times increase in spectrum efficiency and power efficiency. As a time series analysis tool based on vector autoregression, Granger causal analysis originated in the field of econometrics, and its staged generalized transfer entropy (TE) based on conditional co-information in information theory has been widely used in recent …

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Investigation Into The Relationship Between Posture And Psychology: The Psychological Ramifications Of Forward Head And Rounded Shoulder Posture, Samuel Thomas Lauman May 2022

Investigation Into The Relationship Between Posture And Psychology: The Psychological Ramifications Of Forward Head And Rounded Shoulder Posture, Samuel Thomas Lauman

Kinesiology Dissertations - Archive

Embodied cognition speaks to the notion that the mind and body are inherently linked, and directly influence one another. Nonverbal communication experts hold the thought that sustaining chronic postures can impact an individual’s psychological disposition and vice versa. Therefore, the potential to intervene on these postures from a musculoskeletal rehabilitation perspective provides the opportunity to improve not only an individual’s posture, but also their psychological state. Forward head posture (FHP) and rounded shoulder posture (RSP) are common postural adaptations that occur from musculoskeletal dysfunction, and often lead to acute and chronic changes that can be a precursor to etiological pathologies. …

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Investigation Of The Cellular Uptake And Cytotoxicity Of Ruthenium(Ii) Polypyridyl Complexes As A Function Of Lipophilicity, Matthew Guerrero May 2022

Investigation Of The Cellular Uptake And Cytotoxicity Of Ruthenium(Ii) Polypyridyl Complexes As A Function Of Lipophilicity, Matthew Guerrero

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses - Archive

Ru(II) polypyridyl complexes have been one of the focal points of investigation for inorganic anti-cancer drugs, as they are robust enough to remain chemically intact in vivo and many show potent cytotoxicty. In particular, the RPC [Ru(dip)3]2+, where dip is 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline, is noted for its high cytotoxicity (IC50 ~2-5 uM) across a broad spectrum of cancer cell lines and more recently has been implicated as targeting microtubules, which is an unusual target for metal-based drugs. While the cellular uptake for [Ru(dip)3]Cl2 is among the highest seen for RPCs, its solubility in water or buffer is limited and problematic. In order …

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Investigation Of F420-Dependent Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Variants Using Ph Profiles And Stopped-Flow Spectrometric Ligand-Binding Methods, Ana Laura Alvarez May 2022

Investigation Of F420-Dependent Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Variants Using Ph Profiles And Stopped-Flow Spectrometric Ligand-Binding Methods, Ana Laura Alvarez

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses - Archive

F420-dependent glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (FGD) from Mycobacteria tuberculosis, catalyzes a reaction the conversion of glucose-6-phosphate (G6P) to 6-phosphogluconolactone using the oxidized F420 cofactor, which is reduced to F420H2. The reaction is important within M. tuberculosis, the cause of tuberculosis disease (TB) due to its health relevance for treatment of multiple drug resistant and extreme drug resistant strains of M. tuberculosis. TB affects millions of people worldwide, and although treatable, multiple drug resistant and extreme drug resistant forms of TB adds strain on the current generation of drugs. Since this enzyme is not found in humans, is an ideal drug target. A …

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Consultation And Education For Adolescents And Young Adults, Maryrose Chinedu Obidiaku May 2022

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Consultation And Education For Adolescents And Young Adults, Maryrose Chinedu Obidiaku

Nursing Dissertations - Archive

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have drastically increased in recent years nationwide and worldwide. Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) ages 15-24 make up just over one-quarter of the sexually active populace. Additionally, AYAs account for half of the 20 million new sexually transmitted infections in the United States. Compared with older adults, sexually active adolescents aged 15–19 years and young adults aged 20–24 years are at higher risk of getting STDs. Lack of knowledge of risk and protective factors and high-risk sexual health practices and behaviors significantly contribute to AYAs' STD acquisition. Hence, increasing STDs awareness and prevention is essential in …

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Evaluating Headstarting As A Conservation Strategy For Anegada Rock Iguanas (Cyclura Pinguis), Kelly Allison Bradley May 2022

Evaluating Headstarting As A Conservation Strategy For Anegada Rock Iguanas (Cyclura Pinguis), Kelly Allison Bradley

Biology Theses - Archive

In an effort to combat the current extinction crisis, conservation biologists have developed a diverse set of tools, including conservation physiology. This scientific discipline applies physiological concepts and tools to generate conservation solutions for a broad range of species. The Anegada Rock Iguana (Cyclura pinguis) is a Critically Endangered species native to Anegada, British Virgin Islands. Feral cats depredate hatchlings within months of emergence, drastically reducing recruitment and population growth. By the 1990s, the population had declined by 80%. A headstart program was initiated in 1997 to combat this threat and increase the population. Wild collected hatchlings are reared in …

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Petrophysical Studies On Woodford Shale In Oklahoma And Wolfcamp Shale In Texas: A Multiple-Approach Methodology, Chen Zhao May 2022

Petrophysical Studies On Woodford Shale In Oklahoma And Wolfcamp Shale In Texas: A Multiple-Approach Methodology, Chen Zhao

Earth & Environmental Sciences Dissertations - Archive

The successful development of oil and gas from unconventional reservoirs in the United States proves the high petroleum potential that shale rock reserves. Petrophysical studies on shale rocks are an important part of reservoir characterization. Petrophysical studies investigate the basic properties and pore structures of the shale rock, including porosity, density, pore size distribution, specific surface area, wettability, pore connectivity, and permeability, to understand the storage and movement of oil and gas in shale rocks. Multiple experimental approaches were applied onto both outcrop and well-core samples from several U.S. shale plays. A range of complementary methodologies of X-ray diffraction, polarized …

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Shared Decision-Making Decision Aid Intervention To Improve Diabetes Medication Adherence, David Baba May 2022

Shared Decision-Making Decision Aid Intervention To Improve Diabetes Medication Adherence, David Baba

Nursing Dissertations - Archive

A quasi-experimental study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of a shared-decision-making (SDM) intervention using a decision aid (DA) with medication adherence and social support of African American/Black adults with type 2 diabetes. Orem's self-care theory and self-care deficit theory were the guiding frameworks to conceptually define and explain medication adherence as a self-care demand and shared decision making and social support as conditioning factors for promoting medication adherence. The medication adherence and social support levels of 31 men and women with diabetes were measured before and three months after implementing the SDM intervention. Participants' hemoglobin A1c test results were …

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Surface Flashover Under Various Surface Conditions, Bradley A. Hannum May 2022

Surface Flashover Under Various Surface Conditions, Bradley A. Hannum

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

Electrical insulators are critical components used in every high voltage application whether it is operated continuously or in a pulsed mode. Bulk dielectric breakdown and surface flashover must be prevented in all use cases, especially those that occur in polluted environments. Though electrical standards have been written as a guide to prevent insulator surface flashover, such as Underwriters Laboratories (UL) 840, they are not directly applicable to applications where size and weight are critical. UL 840 experimental design is vague, does not consider all environments, and is written primarily with the electric power utilities in mind. The research presented here …

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An Investigation Of The Texas All-State Process, Texas Honor Orchestra Process With Regard To Title I And Students In Urban School Districts From 2010-2020, And The Effect On The Social Emotional Learning Of These Students, Lacy Mccoy May 2022

An Investigation Of The Texas All-State Process, Texas Honor Orchestra Process With Regard To Title I And Students In Urban School Districts From 2010-2020, And The Effect On The Social Emotional Learning Of These Students, Lacy Mccoy

Music Theses - Archive

The Texas Music Educators Association annually recognizes the outstanding student musicians and selected school ensembles in the state through the All-State and Honor Orchestra processes. Students selected for the All-State Orchestras are from high schools from around the state. Ensembles chosen to be one of the Honor Orchestras come from both junior high and high schools. Selection for these ensembles comes after months of hard work on the part of both students and teachers, as well as a rigorous selection process. The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the equity of these processes as they pertain to Title I …

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Sexual Consent: Conceptualizations, Practices, And Education Among Texas High School Students, Erica Joy Favor May 2022

Sexual Consent: Conceptualizations, Practices, And Education Among Texas High School Students, Erica Joy Favor

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

This study investigates high school students’ understanding of sexual consent and healthy relationships. While many studies have investigated practices, concepts, and definitions of consent among college-aged students, this research focuses on adolescents. How do teenagers define consent? With the rise of the #metoo movement, has awareness of consent and its practice changed? This qualitative study interviewed fifteen high school students in Texas, ranging in age from 15 to 18 years old. The results of this study are clear: high school students participate in hookup culture despite a lack of education and curriculum of consent practices. This research also sheds light …

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Rhettech Wrtc Undergraduate Journal Volume 4 Full Issue May 2022

Rhettech Wrtc Undergraduate Journal Volume 4 Full Issue

RhetTech

No abstract provided.

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The Internet: Pornography’S Ally, People’S Nightmare, Katherine Peppiatt May 2022

The Internet: Pornography’S Ally, People’S Nightmare, Katherine Peppiatt

RhetTech

The Internet perpetuates the trauma of child pornography survivors. Every day, the Internet provides a space that continues the cycle of abuse for survivors. This essay explores how technological advancements have led to a skyrocketing number of survivors having to cope with the knowledge that individuals − strangers − exploit them every day. It addresses this issue from a legal perspective; by investigating previous court cases and current proposed legislation, it enforces a distinct need for stronger Internet regulations to prevent future generations of children from facing additional emotional turmoil when their abuse shared and distributed online.

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The Value Of Invisible Aid The Past And The Present, Hayden Miller May 2022

The Value Of Invisible Aid The Past And The Present, Hayden Miller

RhetTech

This is a personal essay of my experience with antisemitism along with descriptions of my family throughout WWII. It discusses the trials and tribulations of Anne Frank and the helpers of the secret annex, and those who helped my family escape.

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To The Bone: Starving For Accuracy, Vivian Norris May 2022

To The Bone: Starving For Accuracy, Vivian Norris

RhetTech

Popular media depictions of eating disorders, such as the portrayal of anorexia nervosa in Netflix’s 2017 film To the Bone, reinforce harmful stereotypes and build a culture that glorifies and fetishizes eating disorders. This article presents a review of eating disorder-focused films and argues that these dramatizations have created a false, sensationalized model of eating disorders that prevents access to proper diagnosis and care. To the Bone promised a raw, honest depiction of anorexia, but its use of graphic images of emaciated bodies and its inaccurate representations of eating disorder treatment made it a source of misinformation and a ubiquitous …

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Unsupervised Domain Adaptation With Deep Neural Networks, Jinyu Yang May 2022

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation With Deep Neural Networks, Jinyu Yang

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Deep neural networks (DNNs) demonstrate unprecedented achievements on various machine learning problems and applications. However, such impressive performance heavily relies on massive amounts of labeled data which requires considerable time and labor efforts to collect and annotate. To remedy this limitation, unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) has attracted more and more attention in the past decade, owing to its capability in transferring the knowledge learned from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. UDA has proved its wide applicability in various vision tasks, for example, image classification and semantic segmentation. Despite its impressive success, the limitations of existing UDA …

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The Pentest Method For Business Intelligence, P. Soma Reddy, Justin Pelletier May 2022

The Pentest Method For Business Intelligence, P. Soma Reddy, Justin Pelletier

Presentations and other scholarship

Information transactions and data retention comprise critical inputs to Business Intelligence processes. However, despite ongoing data-driven Business Intelligence process improvements, many companies only discover they are vulnerable to a cyber-attack after a breach materializes the risk. In this study, we propose that compliance regimes such as the global Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), the federal Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), and the regional 23-NYCRR-500 standard provide externally-imposed risk discovery opportunities that should be part of managerial decision-making. This paper describes the penetration test (pentest) method relative to those regulatory regimes. We then consider the potential for the pentest method …

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Learning Causal Bounds Using Marginal Independence Information With Applications To Gene Expression Analysis, Borzou Alipourfard May 2022

Learning Causal Bounds Using Marginal Independence Information With Applications To Gene Expression Analysis, Borzou Alipourfard

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

ABSTRACT: Discovering causal relations is a fundamental goal of science. Randomized controlled experiments were often considered to be the only reliable method for tackling this task. However, in recent years, various causal discovery methods have been proposed that are capable of identifying causal relations from purely observational data. While these causal discovery methods provide a theoretical framework for bridging the gap from statistical relations to causal conclusions, causal discovery remains a challenging task in practice; this challenge arises because many of the assumptions made in obtaining these theoretical results are often not met in practice. This is especially true when …

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Optimal Utility-Based Traffic Control For Datacenter Networks, Akshit Singhal May 2022

Optimal Utility-Based Traffic Control For Datacenter Networks, Akshit Singhal

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

As datacenter applications with diverse service requirements proliferate, it becomes imperative to enable datacenter network flow rate allocation that satisfies minimum user-utility requirements, while allowing for user-utility-based fair resource allocation. Multiple Path Transmission Control Protocols (MPTCPs) allow flows to explore path diversity of datacenter networks and multihoming to improve throughput, reliability, and network resource utilization. The work in this dissertation aims to develop optimal utility-based datacenter traffic control protocols to meet diverse service requirements for datacenter applications. Specifically, this dissertation makes contributions on four highly related research topics. First, we put forward a HOListic traffic control framework for datacenter NETworks …

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Institute Of Public Health Newsletter- Volume3, Issue2, Institute Of Public Health (Iph) May 2022

Institute Of Public Health Newsletter- Volume3, Issue2, Institute Of Public Health (Iph)

Institute of Public Health Newsletter (IPHNL) and Other Publications

Volume 3, Issue 2 (May August 2022)

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Patient Harm Associated With Illegal Online Sellers Of Covid- 19 Drug Products: A Year In Review, Kyla Rae Maloney May 2022

Patient Harm Associated With Illegal Online Sellers Of Covid- 19 Drug Products: A Year In Review, Kyla Rae Maloney

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

As the online marketplace continues to expand, more patients are turning to the internet for their needs, including COVID-19 pharmaceuticals. However, the current online marketplace is saturated with illegal sellers offering substandard and falsified (SF) products with the potential of causing harm to patients. The primary objective of this thesis is to identify documented cases of harm resulting from illegal online sale of SF COVID-19 related drug or vaccine products. This review utilizes reports by the Medicines Quality Monitoring Globe (MQM Globe) to assess patient harm associated with illegal online sales of COVID-19 marketed pharmaceuticals. This review found 28 references …

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An Examination Of The Statistics And Risk Management Concepts Behind The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act (Ppaca) Of 2010, Scott Sinclair May 2022

An Examination Of The Statistics And Risk Management Concepts Behind The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act (Ppaca) Of 2010, Scott Sinclair

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the overarching federal law that has impacted the intricacies of the health insurance market for more than a decade. Using the supervised learning method of multiple linear regression, the relationship between the medical loss ratio rebates and predictor variables such as the state, health insurance market, and the number of insurance companies owing rebates will be analyzed, along with the actuarial value of metal tiers and geographic rating area factors in terms of their relationship to the insurance premium for a standard family of four, defined as a forty-year-old couple with …

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Investigation Of The Analytical Utility Of The Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (Icp-Ms) For The Quantification Of Proteins Via Lanthanide Labeling, Caitlin Elizabeth Dunlap May 2022

Investigation Of The Analytical Utility Of The Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (Icp-Ms) For The Quantification Of Proteins Via Lanthanide Labeling, Caitlin Elizabeth Dunlap

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

The discovery and ability to provide an absolute concentration of biomarkers in the body can facilitate early diagnoses of diseases. This information can also be used for more accurate and unique treatments for those patients. While major advances in molecular mass spectrometry allows for a sensitive identification of these biomarkers, they are limited to only four orders of magnitude in their dynamic ranges. Due to this, detection and quantitation of low abundant proteins, which tend to make up these vital biomarkers, is very difficult. On the other hand, ICP-MS offers a wider dynamic range (up to 12 orders of magnitude) …

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Neither Here Nor There: Wire Fraud And The False Binary Of Territoriality Under Morrison, Jason Petty May 2022

Neither Here Nor There: Wire Fraud And The False Binary Of Territoriality Under Morrison, Jason Petty

University of Chicago Law Review

No abstract provided.

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An Empirical And Theoretical Analysis Of Leadership In Two Egalitarian Horticultural Societies, Edmond Seabright May 2022

An Empirical And Theoretical Analysis Of Leadership In Two Egalitarian Horticultural Societies, Edmond Seabright

Anthropology ETDs

Leadership is a central subject of interest in anthropology and the evolutionary social sciences more generally because of its ubiquity in human societies as well as its role in the evolution of cooperation, social complexity, and social hierarchy. Explaining the variation in the form and functions of leadership across different societies and settings remains a major challenge for social scientists. Although it is often associated with social hierarchy, here I argue that leadership can and does evolve even in egalitarian settings where leaders cannot hope to fully make up the burdens and expenses associated with their service. I further show …

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Covid-19 And Incidence Of Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Case Study, Tehreem Sajjad, Carmen Johnson, Janet Baatile-Ajrouche May 2022

Covid-19 And Incidence Of Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Case Study, Tehreem Sajjad, Carmen Johnson, Janet Baatile-Ajrouche

Posters

COVID-19 manifests as a flu-like respiratory infection affecting multiple organ systems. Symptoms range from mild viral illness to severe acute respiratory infection. There is no definitive relationship between COVID-19 and cellulitis, inflammatory myositis, vasculitis, or necrotizing fasciitis. It is interesting to note that angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (Receptor for SARS-CoV-2) is present on endothelial cells in multiple organs, including dermal blood vessels and arterial smooth muscle cells. There are several theories that have formed to explain the relationship between COVID-19 and a necrotizing fasciitis infection. This study presents one unique case of an unvaccinated COVID+ patient and the necrotizing fasciitis infection …

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Racial Discrimination From A Self-Determination Lens, Lindsey Shamp May 2022

Racial Discrimination From A Self-Determination Lens, Lindsey Shamp

Doctoral Dissertations

Despite significant advances toward equality, racism and discrimination have been a central feature of America’s culture. This inequality has been presented from the history of slavery to the present-day violence against unarmed Black men. Oppression and inequalities have led calls to action from the African American community and activist groups including the Black Lives Matter Movement. Many White individuals are unaware of the existing benefits of their Whiteness and are simultaneously unaware of the significant psychological, emotional, physical, and social consequences for African American individuals. While there are several established theories to address the psychological and social aspects of how …

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What Do Facial Products Have To Do With A Waterfall? The Role Of Remoteness, Social Comparison, And Envy In The Purchasing Effectiveness Of Sponsored Product Social Media Content, Louis J. Zmich May 2022

What Do Facial Products Have To Do With A Waterfall? The Role Of Remoteness, Social Comparison, And Envy In The Purchasing Effectiveness Of Sponsored Product Social Media Content, Louis J. Zmich

Doctoral Dissertations

Advertising has gone from magazines, to television, and now social media. However, unlike the robust advertisement literature, the influencer marketing literature has not caught up to explain how social media sponsored content can perform its best. While companies rely on follower count and interaction (i.e., likes) to determine who to partner with, the need for clarity on how to best predict digital advertisement success is needed. This study brings the literature of advertising and cognitive psychology, and applies the associative memory, visual persuasion, and remote conveyor theories into the influencer marketing context. This study specifically looks at how creativity through …

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Antifragility: Disorder As The Wind That Energizes The Fire Within Us, Abdulah Bajaba May 2022

Antifragility: Disorder As The Wind That Energizes The Fire Within Us, Abdulah Bajaba

Doctoral Dissertations

Today’s business world is more complex and uncertain than ever due to the unpredictable interdependencies caused by factors such as technology and globalization; accordingly, stress-inducing job demands have never been more prevalent. In order to cope with such demands, employees need to go beyond resilience and embrace disorder as a tool for growth. In this dissertation, I introduce the concept of antifragility to the workplace as a psychological resource that utilizes disorder to its advantage. In order to efficiently coincide with today’s complexity and uncertainty, an employee has to gain more than lose from disorder, simply put, s/he has to …

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Effective Lifestyle Modifications Pro Football Players Utilize To Prevent Future Complications Of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Matthew Nicolas May 2022

Effective Lifestyle Modifications Pro Football Players Utilize To Prevent Future Complications Of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Matthew Nicolas

Nursing | Senior Theses

The National Football League (NFL) is a billion-dollar entertainment industry that values itself on the physical and gritty sport of football. Even though these athletes are revered for their physical prowess and durability, at some point in their professional football careers these players are likely to sustain some variation of head injury—if not multiple. Each of the 22 players on the gridiron must physically wear out their matchup with tackles, stiff arms, bullrushes, rip moves, and any illegal hits the referee may not be able to see. The repeated blows these players sustain over the course of their career often …

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