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Improving long-term vascular graft viability using peritoneal pre-implantation and epsin-mimetic peptides
(2020-12)The primary goal of this project was to produce and develop a tissue-engineered small-diameter vascular graft which can replace the arteries and function well for long-term grafting. Implanting an electrospun tubular conduit ... -
Improving STB Devices' Parental Control
(2018-07)In this dissertation, an IPTV system was designed with new viewer parental control authentication method. People deal with traditional IPTV systems that use simple authentication numeric passcodes, and this topic did not ... -
Improving the Classification of Tiny Images for Forensic Analysis
(2019-12)Forensics can be defined as the approach that connects with and uses in governments and different organizations in order to detect any malicious activity. Digital forensics has become an essential approach to cyber ... -
Improving the Efficiency of Coupled Hydrodynamic Predictions by Implementing a Fetch-based Parametric Wave Model
(2020-08)Within a restricted estuarine environment, the use of third-generation wave models for predicting wave heights can be computationally expensive, signaling a need for model development that reduces the computational costs ... -
Improving Wake-Up-Word and General Speech Recognition Systems
(2020-05)Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), a technology that allows a machine to recognize the utterances spoken into a microphone by a person and then converts it to text, is commonly used for different types of applications, ... -
Increasing User Confidence in Privacy-Sensitive Robots
(2019-05)As the deployment and availability of robots grow rapidly, and spreads everywhere to reach places where they can communicate with humans, and they can constantly sense, watch, hear, process, and record all the environment ... -
Influence of NDBC Buoy Design on Sea Surface Temperature Trends in the Coastal United States
(2016-12)The sea surface temperature (SST) record is the one of the oldest climate records, stretching back to 1662. Since that time, voluntary observing ships (VOSs) have been including these data in their ship‘s log. Due to the ... -
Information Densification of Social Constructs via Behavior Analysis of Social Media Users - A Study on Twitter
(2017-12)We live in a digital era where everyday activities are increasingly being replaced by online interactions. In addition, technology advances and data availability are changing the way we expand our knowledge about ourselves, ... -
Infrared Detection and Waveguiding Using Metasurfaces
(2020-05)The goal of this work is to be able to detect thermal radiation in the long-wave and mid-infrared spectrum to a reasonable efficiency. In order to aid this effort, antenna arrays with large collection apertures are coupled ... -
Infrared Leaky-Wave Antenna Coupled Bolometer
(2014-05)A four-element infrared leaky-wave antenna coupled bolometer was investigated with the goal of characterizing signal extraction as a long wave infrared (LWIR) detector. Simulations were carried out using Ansys HFSS. ... -
Infrared Resonant-Coupled Metamaterial Sensing and Phonon-Polariton-Enhanced Infrared Interconnects
(2018-05)Coupled-mode theory has been applied to various fields of endeavor from waveguide splitters/combiners and molecular sensing to light-matter interactions. Metamaterials, engineered periodic or aperiodic structures, are ... -
Infrastructure-Based Access Policy Enforcement Using Software-Defined Networks
(2018-12)This thesis describes a method to enhance network security using software defined networks. Standard networks use perimeter-based defenses to block attackers from gaining access to internal systems. A key problem with ... -
Initial-Boundary and Nonlocal Boundary Value Problems for Higher Order Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations with Two Independent Variables
(2017-05)Boundary value problems in a characteristic rectangle for nonlinear hyperbolic equations of higher order are considered. The concept of strong well–posedness of a boundary value problem is introduced. For initial–boundary ... -
Initiation of Streamers from Thundercloud Hydrometeors and Implications to Lightning Initiation
(2015-05)Electric field values measured inside thunderclouds have consistently been reported to be up to an order of magnitude lower than the value required for the conventional electrical breakdown of air. This result has made ... -
Instructional Approach and Mathematics Achievement: An Investigation of Traditional, Online, and Flipped Classrooms in College Algebra
(2016-05)The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship three different instructional models had with students’ mathematics achievement. The research factors included group membership (flipped, online, and traditional), ... -
Integrated Representation and Discrimination Models for Functional Data Classification
(2019-05)The modus operandi for machine learning is to map functional data to numerical summaries, filter the data, and/or subject it to global signature extractions with the objecive of building robust feature vectors that ... -
Integrating a Modified Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM4) Scheme with Two Spatially Multiplexed Channels in Optical Fiber Communication Systems
(2019-07)A multi-input multi-output (MIMO) based optical fiber multiplexing architecture known as Spatial Domain Multiplexing (SDM) adds a new dimension to optical fiber communication systems by spatially reusing the optical ... -
Integration of Inboard Propulsion in Shock Mitigating Membrane Hull Technology
(2019-12)Membrane Hull Technology is a strength based marine vessel design concept that seeks to utilize the in-plane properties of fiber reinforced composites to generate a lighter weight vessel with inherent shock mitigation ... -
Interaction between Fragments of Tau Protein Investigated by Force Spectroscopy Using AFM
(2017-12)Over the last couple of decades, there has been rapidly growing interest in research of natively unfolded proteins. Some proteins from this group are implicated in a number of neurodegenerative diseases. One group of ... -
Intermittency Scaling Laws in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence: Theory, Simulations and Observations
(2021-10)The main objective of this dissertation is to investigate intermittency of Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasmas by means of high-resolution numerical simulations and large sets of solar wind data. Understanding intermittency ...