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Title: Evaluating Risk Appeal Approaches Based on PMT Towards Making Secure Decisions
Author: AL Qahtani, Elham
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: To explain changes in users' security behaviors and behavioral intentions, we investigated the different messaging approaches that followed the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) design guidelines. These messaging approaches were used in different...

Title: Engineered Water Repellency for Frost Heave Mitigation: Decoupling the Relative Influence Of Matric and Osmotic Suction
Author: Abiodun, Uduebor
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Geotechnical engineering, Materials science
Description: This dissertation, stemming from a substantial research endeavor funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Award #1928813), stands as an essential exploration of Engineered Water Repellency (EWR) in mitigating frost heave. Combining laborato...

Title: Analysis of Respiratory Viral Material from Negative COVID-19 PCR Tests to Observe Effects of 2022-2023 "Twindemic" on University Campus
Author: Aboufoul, Lolo
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Tracking COVID-19 cases has been one of the most important aspects of controlling the pandemic and observing how the virus causing COVID-19 spreads between populations. Tracking cases of the disease helps epidemiologists understand the reason for ...

Title: Electrochromic, Electrofluorochromic, and Photoactive Properties of Thiazolothiazole-Based, Multifunctional Materials
Author: Adams, Tyler
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Nanoscience
Description: There have been an increasing number of materials developed that show multifunctional chromogenic properties (such as electrochromism, electrofluorochromism, or photochromism), but to date, few materials have shown all three properties. Materials ...

Title: Three Essays on Infant and Young Child Feeding and Child Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Epidemiology and Policy Analysis
Author: Ademu, Lilian
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Public health, Nutrition
Description: Exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of life and complementary breastfeeding up to 24 months is encouraged to ensure optimal infant and young child nutrition and health. The WHO and UNICEF emphasize these optimal Infant and Young Child ...

Title: Modeling and Evaluating Wastewater-Derived Pesticides in Surface Water
Author: Adjidjonu, Denise
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering
Description: Pesticide use has reached alarming levels globally, causing potential risks to human health and the environment. With its high population densities and rapid development, California emerges as one of the country's leading users of pesticides in th...

Title: Classification and Pixel-Level Segmentation of Asphalt Pavement Cracks Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Author: Adnan, Tamim
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: This study was conducted to answer two research questions. How do the chosen CNN models perform on publicly available asphalt pavement crack datasets for classification and segmentation? And how can these CNN models be fine-tuned to improve their ...

Title: Examining the Holistic Health of Urban African Americans Experiencing Continuous Traumatic Stress and Gun Violence in Chicago
Author: Adoma, Jabari
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology
Description: This study examined the holistic health of urban African Americans living on the West Side and South Side of Chicago who are experiencing continuous traumatic stress (CTS) due to gun violence. The qualitative research study utilized a phenomenolog...

Title: Performance Enhancement of LoRa Networks for Smart City Applications
Author: Aggarwal, Shobhit
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The Internet of Things (IoT) provides unlimited possibilities for smart city applications. However, energy efficiency and scalability continue to be key considerations for the development of low-cost wireless networks for meeting the needs of the ...

Title: Exploration of Structure-Property Relationship and Growth Mechanism of 1D Nanowires Using Transmission Electron Microscopy
Author: Akter, Manira
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Materials science
Description: One-dimensional (1D) nanostructured materials, e.g., nanowires (NWs) have fascinating properties and applications in various fields including electronic and energy conversion devices. Despite tremendous progress in the NW research field, a thoroug...

Title: Power System Oscillation Identification, Classification and Control Based on Subspace Identification
Author: Al Hasnain, Fahim
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Accurate knowledge and estimation of the electro-mechanical modes in the power system are of great importance since a system-wide outage can be caused by one single unstable mode of oscillation. Most of these unstable mode of oscillations are inte...

Title: Bidirectional Dual-Active Bridge DC-DC Converter using Matrix Transformer
Author: Alamri, Faisal
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Dual Active Bridge (DAB) converter is an advanced power electronics device with various applications in renewable energy systems, electric vehicles, and high-power energy conversion systems. Due to its versatility and critical role in modern power...

Title: The Use of Text Recognition, Lip Reading, and Object Detection for Protecting Sensitive Information from Shoulder Surfing Attacks
Author: Aldossari, Marran
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: The portability and convenience of laptops have propelled their use in public venues. However, the risk of unauthorized view of sensitive information displayed on these devices, including business data, emails, banking information, online trading ...

Title: Social and Emotional Strategies: The Perspectives of High School Gifted Students and AIG Directors
Author: Alhibs, Mashael
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Gifted children--Education
Description: Limited studies address high school gifted students' social and emotional needs (Knudsen, 2018; Kregel, 2015). Additionally, there is a lack of research regarding high school gifted students' and Academically or Intellectually Gifted (AIG) directo...

Title: Deep Learning-based Digital Human Modeling and Applications
Author: Ali, Ayman
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence, Biomechanics, Computer science
Description: Recent advancements in the domain of deep learning models have engendered remarkable progress across numerous computer vision tasks. Notably, there has been a burgeoning interest in the field of recovering three-dimensional (3D) human models from ...

Title: Small Magnet High School Support Staff Experiences With Student Mental Health Needs
Author: Allen, Joshua
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: Students struggle with mental health needs. Student support staff are, within the school, regularly the first employees to encounter and respond to the students’ specific mental health needs. It is not uncommon for students’ mental health needs to...

Title: When do Effect Sizes Actually Capture Effects? A Meta-Analytic Review
Author: Amari, Paul
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Effect size benchmarks are used as guidelines for conducting power analysis and Bayesian analysis, guiding theory, interpreting practical significance, and reviewing scientific progress. However, effect size estimates that are correlational direct...

Title: Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug Administration and Acute Kidney Injury after Robotic Enhanced Recovery Protocol Surgery
Author: Arias, Ana
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Application of enhanced recovery protocols with robotic surgeries has gained favor across the country because of improved patient recovery times. Acute kidney injury is the number one postoperative complication for a large, urban trauma center. Us...

Title: An Integrated Hybrid Thermal Dynamics Model and Energy Aware Optimization Framework for Grid-Interactive Residential Building Management
Author: Ariwoola, Raheem
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: This dissertation focuses on developing an integrated hybrid model for studying the thermal dynamic operations of passive buildings considering active power management. For this, the following methodology is designed. First, the hybrid model,inclu...

Title: The Impact of Technology Use and Acceptance on Healthcare Outcomes and Performance for Patient Encounters and Visits: An extension of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2)
Author: Atem, Magbor
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: Technology Usage has become an important topic because of disruptions in the healthcare space in recent years. Long wait times and service delivery times, reduced patient engagement and interaction on care plans, lack of access to just-in-time hea...