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  • The paradox of Facebook : Interdisciplinary perspectives of social support online and face-to-face

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    Daley, Allison
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    The extensive adoption of social media has provoked widespread debate about how online communication impacts social relationships. An apparent paradox of Facebook is that people simultaneously express feeling more and less connected than ever before. Through perspectives from psychology and communication studies, this thesis addresses a question of public concern:...
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    disagreed on how much social information is conveyed online. Early models advocated a “cues filtered out

  • Open, online, interactive visualizations for learning about Gaussian mixture models

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    Allen, Stuart
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    We construct a website to explain how Gaussian mixture models can be optimized using the expectation maximization algorithm. Previous free, online material on this process has been extremely limited. All sources surveyed failed to entirely describe our identified criteria for an in-depth description and useful visualizations. After surveying a variety...
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    methods. The site is available at the following link: https://gmmthesissite.netlify.app/ Key Words

  • Experimental Investigation of Near-Critical Carbon Dioxide in Microchannels for High Flux Cooling Applications

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    Travers, Kristen
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    With the continued decrease in size and subsequent increase in power of computer processors, thermal management in electronics is becoming more important than ever before. The chip heat densities are reaching new peaks (> 100 W cm-2) that current cooling methods are not able to keep up with. However, some...
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    and cause problems. Electronic device failure rate is heavily related to the operating temperature

  • Analysis of the Feasibility of Thermoelectric Energy Harvesters used on the Human Body for the Powering of Wearable Electronic Devices

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    Smith, Richard I.
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    Wearable electronic devices are becoming increasingly widespread and are being used to fulfill a variety of needs. These devices range from purely infotainment type systems such as smartwatches and fitness oriented devices to specialized medical devices such as insulin pumps and heart-rate monitors. A challenge faced with all of these...
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    experiment. Overall, the rising popularity and utility of wearable electronic devices is the driving force

  • Material science in menstrual health and hygiene

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    Aduviri, Brooke
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    Menstrual health and hygiene insecurity is a global health issue people across the world face, particularly in developing countries. According to the World Bank, an estimated 500 million lack access to adequate menstrual products, and “to effectively manage their menstruation, women and girls require access to water, sanitation, and hygiene...
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    sheet material explored in prototypes for this study is the GLAD compost bags which are made from plant

  • Electrical Conductivity of Ceramic Material at High Temperature

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    Kangsathein, Parm
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    The electrical conductivity data of ceramic material at high temperatures can be useful in the application of modeling, solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD). The existing data is considerably lacking at extreme temperatures. Our research focuses on bridging this gap by reporting the electrical conductivity measurements of sets...
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    analysis with available literature aids the understanding of material conduction behavior. CeO2 exhibits

  • Thin-Film Dielectric Structure of Spin-Coated ZrO2 from Aqueous Inorganic Solution

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    Moreno Luna, Hidekel A.
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    An inorganic aqueous precursor for the deposition of ZrO2 thin films via spincoating was developed. Hydrolysis and condensation chemistries of ZrOCl₂·8H₂O were used as the principal reactions to guide the synthesis. Refractive index, n, for a film annealed at 300 °C at 550 nm was measured to be n=1.97 by...
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    electronic materials. Jiang showed excellent electronics results with MIM test structures and TFTs. It is

  • An Analysis of the Effectiveness of an Online Inclusive Design Curriculum Through the Lens of Inclusive Design PCKs

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    Vellanki, Aishwarya
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    The online computer science classroom is growing, but there is little research on how to teach inclusive design online. As a result, online CS students are graduating without learning how to avoid bias in their software designs. Through the lens of the Inclusive Design Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), this thesis...
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    science classroom is growing, but there is little research on how to teach inclusive design online. As a

  • TO PAY OR NOT TO PAY, THAT IS THE QUESTION

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    Oster, Sidney C.
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    The “why” of any situation is one of the most important questions to ask. Inventors have ideas every day. Some ideas are the brilliant ideas that lead to a better tomorrow. To protect these ideas, inventors turn to patents, a governmental grant of the right to stop others, for a...
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    teach the claimed invention, material prior art is not limited to the exact invention; references that

  • Ultra sonic SCUBA diver tracking device hardware

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    Lindsley, Christopher J.
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    Currently, there is no accurate, low-cost method to track divers. Watching bubbles can give you an approximate xy-location, and expensive underwater radios utilizing ultrasonic waves can work if the diver knows where they are. Traditional radio waves do not work well in water due to the conductive nature of water....
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    Currently, there is no accurate, low-cost method to track divers. Watching bubbles can give you an