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Luminescence and Photolysis in Organic- Inorganic Hybrid Coordination Polymers
Keyword:
Coordination Polymers
,
Photolysis
, and
Luminescence
Creator:
Yan, Jingjing
Advisor:
Burdette, Shawn C
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2018-10-10
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biochemistry and Chemistry
A Surgical Planning Toolkit for Robotic Stereotactic Neurosurgery
Keyword:
3D Slicer
,
Surgical Planning Toolkit
,
Neuronavigation
, and
Neurosurgery Robot
Creator:
Kool Rajamani, Dhruv
Advisor:
Fischer, Gregory S.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-07-12
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Internal Cognitive Assurance Model for Autonomous Robotic Systems (ICAMARS)
Keyword:
Security
,
Vulnerability
,
Internal Assurance Model
,
Trust Metrics
,
Autonomous Robotic Systems
, and
Bayesian Networks
Creator:
Diluoffo, Vincenzo
Advisor:
Sunar, Berk
and
Michalson, William R.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-04
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Prediction and Observation Timing in Time Series Classification
Keyword:
Time Series
and
Deep Learning
Creator:
Hartvigsen, Thomas
Advisor:
Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-12-14
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Data Science
High Energy Manganese-Based Layered Oxide Cathodes for Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Batteries
Keyword:
Lattice doping
,
High-energy cathodes
,
Manganese-based layered oxide cathodes
,
Rechargeable batteries
,
Surface coating
, and
Oxygen redox
Creator:
Vanaphuti, Panawan
Advisor:
Wang, Yan
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-04-25
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
Visual Cross-Modal Mapping, Labeling and Localization
Keyword:
LiDAR
,
Localization
,
Camera
,
Mapping
,
Labeling
, and
Cross-Modal
Creator:
Elhousni, Mahdi
Advisor:
Huang, Xinming
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-10-28
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Novel Battery Systems with Advanced Manufacturing and Electrode Designs
Keyword:
Energy Storage
,
Manufacturing
,
Lithium-ion Battery
, and
Sodium-ion Battery
Creator:
Liu, Yangtao
Advisor:
Wang, Yan
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-12-05
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
The Lifecycle of Violence and Instability of Non-State Actors
Keyword:
conflict
,
simulations
,
radicalization
,
terrorism
,
insurgency
, and
system dynamics
Creator:
Clancy, Timothy
Advisor:
Saeed, Khalid
,
Pavlov, Oleg V
, and
Addison, W. A. Bland
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-09-26
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Social Science & Policy Studies
Control and characterization of microtubule kinesin active fluid behavior
Keyword:
Kinesin
,
Soft matter
,
Microtubule
, and
Active matter
Creator:
Bate, Teagan
Advisor:
Wu, Kun-Ta
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2023-04-26
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Physics
Modelling and Evaluating Financial Sustainability using Data Envelopment Analysis and Machine Learning Methods
Keyword:
benchmarking
,
data envelopment analysis
,
optimization
,
performance evaluation
,
banking
, and
machine learning
Creator:
Shi, Yu
Advisor:
Zhu, Joe
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-05-05
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Business Administration
NOVEL SMART POLYMER – SORBENT-BASED THERMAL BATTERY FOR LOW-TEMPERATURE ENERGY STORAGE APPLICATIONS
Keyword:
Thermal Energy Storage
,
Thermal Battery
,
Smart Polymer
,
Sorbent
, and
Cold Climates
Creator:
El Ouaragli, Jihan
Advisor:
Van Dessel, Steven
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2023-04-27
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
A Study of The Dynamic Behavior of Asphalt Material Under Milling Conditions
Keyword:
Dynamic Fragmentation
,
Impact Testing
,
RAP
,
Long-term Aging
,
Milling
, and
Asphalt Pavement
Creator:
Diouri, Kaoutar
Advisor:
Mallick, Rajib B.
and
El-Korchi, Tahar
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2023-04-27
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
The Role of Online Assignments and Feedback to Chinese Language Learning Efficiency
Keyword:
foreign language learning
,
computer-assisted language learning
,
online feedback
,
online assignment
, and
immediate feedback
Creator:
Lu, Xiwen
Advisor:
Heffernan, Neil
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2023-08-10
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Learning Sciences & Technologies
Visual Analytics for Smartphone Health Phenotyping
Keyword:
Interactive Visual Analysis
,
mHealth
,
Smartphone Phenotyping
, and
Visual Analytics
Creator:
Mansoor, Hamid
Advisor:
Agu, Emmanuel O.
and
Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-08-11
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
MANIRank: Multiple Attribute and Intersectional Fairness for Consensus Ranking
Keyword:
Bias
,
Consensus Ranking
, and
Fair decision making
Creator:
Cachel, Kathleen
Advisor:
Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-12-20
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Data Science
Functionalized Aptamers for Lead (Pb (II)) Biosensing and Therapeutic Applications
Keyword:
Heavy metals
,
Aptamers
,
Lead biosensing
,
Lead
,
Lead aptamers
, and
Therapeutic for acute lead poisoning
Creator:
Ramis de Ayreflor Reyes, Solimar
Advisor:
Farny, Natalie
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-04-27
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Biology & Biotechnology
Surface Science of Low-Dimensional Materials: Controlling Chemical and Optoelectronic Structure, Connecting Dissimilar Materials, and Improving Atmospheric Stability
Keyword:
Low-dimensional materials surface science
,
Titania titanium dioxide TiO2
,
MXene
,
XPS
,
BiOI
, and
UPS
Creator:
Martin, Julia
Advisor:
Grimm, Ronald
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2023-04-27
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Modeling Approaches to Understanding Bumblebee Behavior and Population Decline
Keyword:
Simulation
,
Pollinator Decline
,
Bumblebees
,
Memory
,
Deep Learning
, and
Agent-based model
Creator:
Heath, Kevin
Advisor:
Ryder, Elizabeth F.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-08-12
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Biological Discovery via Data Science: Multigranular Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Cells, Cerebra and Cruise Ships
Keyword:
Bioinformatics
,
Single-cell Transcriptomics
,
Artificial Intelligence
,
Data Science
,
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
, and
Neuropsychiatry
Creator:
Srinivasan, Suhas
Advisor:
Korkin, Dmitry
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-03-01
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Data Science
Non-Singular Anti-de Sitter Black Holes within Conformal Weyl Gravity and Black Hole CFT Duality
Keyword:
Quantum Gravity
,
Black Hole Thermodynamics
,
Black Hole CFT Duality
, and
AdS/CFT
Creator:
Suleiman, Raid
Advisor:
Ram-Mohan, L. Ramdas
,
Rodriguez, Leo L.
, and
Rodriguez, Shanshan
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2023-07-20
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Physics
Integrating omics into genome engineering workflows
Keyword:
Nonconventional yeast
,
Next generation sequencing
, and
Synthetic biology
Creator:
Collins, Joseph H.
Advisor:
Young, Eric Mosher
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-05-03
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Exploring the Influence of Anonymity and Prior-Performance on Teacher Grading Behavior.
Keyword:
Teacher Grading Behavior
,
Mistake Messages
,
Computer-Based Learning Platform
,
Fairness and Equity
,
Classroom Orchestration
, and
Instruction at Scale
Creator:
Gurung, Ashish
Advisor:
Heffernan, Neil
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2023-08-05
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Dissecting phospholipid metabolism pathways after glucose stress in C. elegans
Keyword:
Lipidomics
,
Phospholipids
,
Glucose
,
Fatty acids
,
Membrane
, and
C. elegans
Creator:
Vieira, Andre
Advisor:
Olsen, Carissa Lynn
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-11-04
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemistry & Biochemistry
MiseEnPlace : Fine- and Coarse-grained Approaches for Mobile-Oriented Deep Learning Inference
Keyword:
Mobile Deep Inference
,
Deep Learning
, and
Cloud Computing
Creator:
Ogden, Samuel
Advisor:
Guo, Tian
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-09-12
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Materials Recovery and Upgrade from Spent Lithium-ion Batteries
Keyword:
Lithium-ion battery recycling
,
Upcycling
, and
Single-crystal cathode
Creator:
Ma, Xiaotu
Advisor:
Wang, Yan
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-08-11
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
Fundamental and Applied Studies in Modular and System-Level Novel Drying Technologies
Keyword:
Computational fluid dynamics
,
system-level modeling
,
energy reduction
,
heat and mass transfer
,
drying
, and
porous medium
Creator:
Asar Sarikaya, Munevver Elif
Advisor:
Yagoobi, Jamal
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-11-13
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Integrating Personalized Learning into Online Education through Content Aggregation, Data Mining, and Reinforcement Learning
Creator:
Prihar, Ethan
Advisor:
Heffernan, Neil
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2023-03-30
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Data Science
THE EFFECTS OF PERCEPTUAL AND EMBODIED FEATURES ON STUDENT LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE IN ONLINE PLATFORMS
Keyword:
mathematics education
,
embodied cognition
,
perceptual learning
,
learning technologies
, and
worked examples
Creator:
Closser, Avery
Advisor:
Ottmar, Erin R
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-04-25
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Learning Sciences & Technologies
Securing Physical Layer Passband Signals Via Machine Learning
Keyword:
Modulation Classification
,
Physical Layer
,
Adversarial Perturbations
,
Machine Learning
, and
Localization
Creator:
McClintick, Kyle
Advisor:
Wyglinski, Alexander
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-01-25
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Enhancing Vehicular Networking Using Bumblebee Foraging Theory and Signals of Opportunity
Creator:
Gill, Kuldeep
Advisor:
Wyglinski, Alexander
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-05-04
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Microfluidic biosensor devices for disease monitoring and cancer study
Creator:
Zhou, Zhiru
Advisor:
Zhou, H Susan
and
Wen, Qi
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-04-26
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Roles of Impurities on Recovered Li-NCM Cathode Materials in Hydrometallurgy Recycling
Keyword:
ncm622 cathode
,
lithium-ion battery
,
electrochemistry
,
hydrometallurgy recycling
, and
impurity
Creator:
Zheng, Yadong
Advisor:
Wang, Yan
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2023-11-28
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
Design and Study of Collagen-Tethered LL37 for Chronic Wound Healing
Keyword:
Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation
,
chronic wounds
,
LL-37
,
Antimicrobial peptides
,
mechanism
,
wound healing
,
cCBD-LL37
,
collagen binding domain
,
fCBD-LL37
,
tether
, and
collagen
Creator:
Lozeau, Lindsay Dawn
Advisor:
Camesano, Terri Anne
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2018-01-23
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Towards Model Based Conformal Ablation using Robotically Driven Interstitial Ultrasound
Keyword:
Reinforcement Learning
,
Cancer Treatment
,
Robotics
,
Interstitial Ultrasound
,
Conformal Thermal Ablation
, and
MRI Surgical Robotics
Creator:
Gandomi, Katie Y.
Advisor:
Fischer, Gregory S.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-04-20
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
In Vivo Characterization of RIF-1 Tumors via Diffusion and Fluorine-19 NMR Methods
Keyword:
diffusion
,
NMR
, and
tumors
Creator:
Meiler, Michael Rudolf
Advisor:
Helmer, Karl G.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
1999-10-09
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Tailoring structure and properties of polyelectrolyte-based material via materials selection and post-assembly treatment
Keyword:
Relative humidity
,
Surface morphology
,
Polyelectrolyte complex
,
Chain rearrangement
,
Surface chemistry
,
Polyelectrolyte multilayer
, and
Humidity tempering
Creator:
Lyu, Xuejian
Advisor:
Peterson, Amy M.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2019-04-24
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
Product Deletion and Supply Chain Management
Keyword:
Supply chain management
,
Gibbs sampler
,
Product deletion
,
Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation
,
Bayesian analysis
, and
Product lifecycle
Creator:
Zhu, Qingyun
Advisor:
Sarkis, Joseph
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2019-04-25
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Management
Micro-architectural Threats to Modern Computing Systems
Keyword:
mobile security
,
DoS attacks
,
machine learning
,
cloud security
, and
side-channel attacks
Creator:
Inci, Mehmet Sinan
Advisor:
Sunar, Berk
and
Eisenbarth, Thomas
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2019-04-25
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Effects of Developmental Stage, Exogenous Sugar Composition, and Reactive Oxygen Species on Artemisinin and Related Compounds in Artemisia annua
Keyword:
reactive oxygen s
and
artemisinin, sugars, metabolism, development
Creator:
Arsenault, Patrick Ryan
Advisor:
Weathers, Pamela
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2010-04-27
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biology & Biotechnology
Development and Application of Reaction Route Graph Representation and Analysis of Catalytic Reaction Networks
Keyword:
reaction resistance
,
Water gas shift reaction
,
reaction affinity
,
catalytic reaction
,
Methane Steam Reforming
,
reaction route graph analysis
, and
oxygen reduction reaction
Creator:
O'Malley, Patrick Daniel
Advisor:
Datta, Ravindra
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-01-18
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Deterministic Object Management in Large Distributed Systems
Keyword:
Distributed Object Management
,
Object Relationships
,
Object Composition
,
Web Caching
,
Server Invalidation
,
Change Characteristics
, and
Cache Consistency
Creator:
Mikhailov, Mikhail
Advisor:
Wills, Craig E.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2003-03-05
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Similarity Reasoning over Semantic Context-Graphs
Keyword:
Robot Tasks
,
Plan Repair
,
Topic Modeling
,
Semantic
,
Analogy
, and
Similarity
Creator:
Boteanu, Adrian
Advisor:
Chernova, Sonia
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2015-08-26
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Electrically Conducting Biofibers: Approaches to Overcome the Major Challenges in the Clinical Translation of a Tissue Engineered Cardiac Patch
Keyword:
decellularization
,
plant scaffold
,
clinical translation
, and
cardiac tissue engineering
Creator:
Gershlak, Joshua R
Advisor:
Gaudette, Glenn R.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2018-08-30
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
An Introduction to Fire Performance Monitoring for Buildings
Keyword:
Fire performance monitoring
,
Building fire performance gap
,
Artificial neural network
,
Response surface method
,
Sensitivity matrix method
, and
Available safe egress time
Creator:
Wang, Honggang
Advisor:
Dembsey, Nicholas A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-01-03
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Fire Protection Engineering
The role of RNase E in Mycolicibacterium smegmatis
Keyword:
mRNA cleavage
,
RNA degradosome
,
mRNA degradation
,
Mycolicibacterium smegmatis
,
Transcriptome
, and
RNase E
Creator:
Zhou, Ying
Advisor:
Shell, Scarlet
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-01-25
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biology & Biotechnology
Pool Fire Burning Facilitated by Subcooled Nucleate Boiling Heat and Mass Transfer Processes
Keyword:
bubble visualization
,
heat and mass transfer
,
boiling
,
Finite Difference Method
,
pool fire
, and
oil spill
Creator:
Pi, Xiaoyue
Advisor:
Rangwala, Ali S.
and
Raghavan, Vasudevan
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-01-18
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Fire Protection Engineering
Cooperative Distributed Transmission and Reception
Keyword:
receive diversity
,
outage probability
,
interference alignment
, and
distributed reception
Creator:
Ni, Min
Advisor:
Brown, Donald R.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2013-07-15
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Spherical Tanks for Use in Thermal Energy Storage Systems
Keyword:
Sensible Heat Storage
,
Concentrated Solar Power
,
Thermal Energy Storage
, and
Desalination
Creator:
Khan, Fahad
Advisor:
Savilonis, Brian James
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2015-04-26
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Semi-autonomous robotic wheelchair controlled with low throughput human- machine interfaces
Keyword:
BCI
,
shared steering control
,
shared position control
,
Wheelchair
,
shared control
,
NoVeLTI
,
any-angle path planning
,
CWave
,
low throughput interface
,
brain-computer interface
,
Navigation
,
Adaptive Control
, and
assistive drive
Creator:
Sinyukov, Dmitry Aleksandrovich
Advisor:
Padir, Taskin
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-05-01
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Creating Systems and Applying Large-Scale Methods to Improve Student Remediation in Online Tutoring Systems in Real-time and at Scale
Keyword:
Bayesian networks
,
learnersourcing
,
Bayesian hypothesis testing
,
crowdsourcing
,
machine-learning
,
multi-armed bandits
,
Learning Maps
,
buggy messages
,
PeerASSIST
, and
real-time scalable systems
Creator:
Selent, Douglas A
Advisor:
Heffernan, Neil
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-06-08
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Deciphering the Role of Kekkon5 in BMP signaling and Cell Junction Biology
Keyword:
LIGs
,
Cellular adhesion
, and
BMP signaling
Creator:
Menon, Harita
Advisor:
Duffy, Joseph B.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2013-05-01
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biology & Biotechnology
Novel Nanostructured Metal Oxides for Efficient Solar Energy Conversion
Keyword:
nanotechnology
,
photoelectrochemical water splitting
, and
metal oxides
Creator:
Zhou, Lite
Advisor:
Rao, Pratap M.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2019-04-16
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
High-order numerical methods for integral fractional Laplacian: algorithm and analysis
Keyword:
stability
,
regularity
,
convergence
,
fractional laplacian
,
spectral method
, and
finite difference method
Creator:
Hao, Zhaopeng
Advisor:
Zhang, Zhongqiang
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-04-30
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mathematical Sciences
Defining the Multiscale Relationship between Subject-Specific Bone Strain and Structural Adaptation in the Distal Radius of Women
Keyword:
Quantitative Computed Tomography (QCT)
,
Finite Element (FE)
,
High Resolution Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography (HRpQCT)
,
Distal Radius
,
Exercise
, and
Bone Adaptation
Creator:
Mancuso, Megan E
Advisor:
Troy, Karen
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-08-07
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Communication Security in Wireless Sensor Networks
Keyword:
Attack
,
Defense
,
Wireless Sensor Networks
,
Security
, and
Communication
Creator:
Ren, Kui
Advisor:
Lou, Wenjing
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2007-04-06
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Inverse Synthetic Array Reconciliation Tomography
Keyword:
Navigation
,
indoor location
,
first responder technology
,
Signal Processing
,
Tracking
, and
multipath
Creator:
Cavanaugh, Andrew F
Advisor:
Cyganski, David
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2013-05-06
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Modeling Heterogeneous Users Behaviors in Online Systems
Keyword:
Neural Recommenders
,
Metric Learning
,
Consumer Behaviors
,
Quaternion Space
,
User Modeling
, and
Recommendation Systems
Creator:
Tran, Thanh D.
Advisor:
Lee, Kyumin
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-11-21
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Data Science
Microscopic conductivity and ultrafast photocurrents in chalcogenides from 2D to 3D and beyond
Keyword:
chalcogenides
,
ultrafast photocurrents
,
conductivity
,
carrier dynamics
, and
terahertz
Creator:
Kushnir, Kateryna
Advisor:
Titova, Lyubov
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-08-10
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Physics
Use of Accelerated Loading Equipment for Fatigue Characterization of Hot Mix Asphalt in the Laboratory
Keyword:
fatigue
,
Finite Element Method
,
performance curve
,
MMLS3
,
rutting
,
thermocouple
,
characterization
,
instrumentation
,
strain gauge
, and
test protocol
Creator:
Bhattacharjee, Sudip
Advisor:
Mallick, Rajib B.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2005-01-07
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Cryptographic Primitives from Physical Variables
Keyword:
Cryptography
,
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs)
, and
Physical Variables.
Creator:
Hammouri, Ghaith
Advisor:
Sunar, Berk
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2009-06-02
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
An Integrated System Design and Safety Framework for Model-based Safety Assessment
Keyword:
SysML
,
Fault Injection
,
Safety Analysis
,
Model-based Systems Engineering
,
Safety Assessment
, and
Simulation
Creator:
Krishnan, Rahul
Advisor:
Bhada, Shamsnaz Virani
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-12-13
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Systems Engineering
Constraint Bayesian Inference for Count Data from Small Areas
Keyword:
Small Area Estimation
,
Unimodal Order Restrictions
,
Bayesian Statistics
,
Constraint Inference
, and
Multinomial Data
Creator:
Chen, Xinyu
Advisor:
Nandram, Balgobin
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-12-04
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mathematical Sciences
Autonomous Driving Perception System on FPGA
Keyword:
FPGA
,
Deep Learning
, and
Autonomous Driving
Creator:
Bai, Lin
Advisor:
Huang, Xinming
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-11-23
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Automated whole-organism functional screening technologies and neurological disease models in C. elegans
Keyword:
Assay systems
,
C. elegans
,
Neurological disease
,
Biomedical engineering
, and
Neuroscience
Creator:
Lagoy, Ross Charles
Advisor:
Albrecht, Dirk
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2018-04-26
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Reinforcement Learning from Demonstration
Keyword:
rule learning
,
agents
,
rl
,
Machine Learning
,
Learning from Demonstration
,
transfer learning
,
Artificial Intelligence
,
policy learning
,
robot learning from demonstration
,
rlfd
,
Reinforcement Learning
,
robot learning
,
lfd
,
reward shaping
,
Robotics
,
robots
, and
User Study
Creator:
Suay, Halit Bener
Advisor:
Chernova, Sonia
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2016-04-25
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Synthesis, Integration, and Characterization of Functional Inorganic Nanomaterials
Keyword:
electrodeposition
,
AAO template-assisted nanofabrication
,
chemical vapor deposition
,
nanostructured electrode
,
1 D nanomateirals
, and
inorganic nanomaterials
Creator:
Duan, Huanan
Advisor:
Liang, Jianyu
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2009-05-28
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
DESIGN OF PORPHYRIN SOLIDS ZN···NO2 RECOGNITION, MULTI-STEP SINGLE CRYSTAL TO SINGLE CRYSTAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND COFACIAL DIMERS
Keyword:
coordination polymers
,
porphyrin
,
phase transitions
, and
Supramolecular Chemistry
Creator:
Adilov, Salimgrey
Advisor:
Thalladi, Venkat R.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-07-16
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Enabling 5G Technologies
Keyword:
software-define radio
,
wireless
,
communication systems
, and
Signal Processing
Creator:
Collins, Travis Fredrick
Advisor:
Wyglinski, Alexander
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-01-18
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Fundamental Limits of Poisson Channels in Visible Light Communications
Keyword:
ergodic capacity
,
sum-rate capacity
,
Poisson channels
,
multi-access channels
,
optimal power allocation
, and
outage probability
Creator:
Ain-Ul-Aisha, FNU
Advisor:
Lai, Lifeng
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-18
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Electrospun Separator for Structural Battery Applications
Keyword:
structural battery
,
separator
,
lithium-ion battery
,
electrospinning
, and
fiber
Creator:
Keaswejjareansuk, Wisawat
Advisor:
Liang, Jianyu
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2019-04-24
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Quantitative Multiscale Analysis of Topographical Anisotropy on Biological and Engineering Surfaces
Keyword:
Roughness
,
Anisotropy
, and
Surface
Creator:
Bergstrom, Torbjorn S.
Advisor:
Brown, Christopher A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2019-07-11
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Manufacturing Engineering
Incremental Maintenance Of Materialized XQuery Views
Keyword:
XML
,
Incremental View Maintenance
, and
XQuery
Creator:
El-Sayed, Maged F
Advisor:
Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2005-08-23
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Predicting the Response of Powder Metallurgy Steel Components to Heat Treatment.
Keyword:
Powder Metallurgy
,
Finite Element Modeling
,
Phase Transformations
, and
Heat treatment
Creator:
Warke, Virendra S
Advisor:
Makhlouf, Makhlouf M.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-07-28
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
Some Problems in the Mathematics of Fracture: Paths From Front Kinetics and a Level Set Method
Keyword:
variational fracture crack fronts level set
Creator:
Richardson, Casey Lyndale
Advisor:
Larsen, Christopher J.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-04-25
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mathematical Sciences
Integration of Heterogeneous Databases: Discovery of Meta-Information and Maintenance of Schema-Restructuring Views
Keyword:
data integration
,
schema restructuring
,
meta-data discovery
,
schema changes
, and
Data Mining
Creator:
Koeller, Andreas
Advisor:
Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2002-04-15
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Kinetics and Catalysis of the Water-Gas-Shift Reaction: A Microkinetic and Graph Theoretic Approach
Keyword:
microkinetics
,
water-gas-shift
,
reaction routes
, and
mechanism analysis
Creator:
Callaghan, Caitlin A.
Advisor:
Datta, Ravindra
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2006-05-04
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Why are some venture founders better at pivoting than others? The influence of motivation and identity on strategic change.
Keyword:
business model innovation
,
entrepreneurial motivation
,
founder identity
, and
business model change
Creator:
Worthington, Shari L.
Advisor:
Taylor, Steven S.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-07-28
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Business Administration
Making Sense of Human-generated Spatial-temporal Data from Urban Environment
Keyword:
human behavior analysis
,
spatial-temporal data
,
imitation learning
,
smart cities
,
explainable artificial intelligence
, and
data mining
Creator:
Pan, Menghai
Advisor:
Li, Yanhua
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-04-22
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Decoding Cognitive States from fNIRS Neuroimaging Data Using Machine Learning
Keyword:
mind-wandering
,
machine learning
,
Echo State Network
,
cognitive load
,
rule learning
, and
functional near-infrared spectroscopy
Creator:
Liu, Ruixue
Advisor:
Solovey, Erin
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-12-10
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Characterization and Functionalization of Lyophilized Silk Scaffolds for Use in 3D In Vitro Disease Modeling
Keyword:
Biomaterials
,
Kidney Cancer
,
Tissue Engineering
, and
Liver Disease
Creator:
Abbott, Alycia
Advisor:
Coburn, Jeannine M
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-07-16
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Analytical Workspace, Kinematics, and Foot Force Based Stability of Hexapod Walking Robots
Keyword:
Hexapod Walking Robot
,
Stability Margin
, and
Workspace
Creator:
Agheli Hajiabadi, Mohammad Mahdi
Advisor:
Nestinger, Stephen
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2013-04-24
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
A mechanism for the FGF2-mediated down-regulation of integrin alpha-11 identified through studying altered adhesome of human dermal fibroblasts undergoing early Mesenchymal-to-Epithelial Transition
Keyword:
FGF2
,
ECM
,
hESC
, and
ITGA11
Creator:
Grella, Alexandra R
Advisor:
Dominko, Tanja
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2015-01-29
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biology & Biotechnology
Developing and validating Fuzzy-Border continuum solvation model with POlarizable Simulations Second order Interaction Model (POSSIM) force field for proteins
Keyword:
Protein force field
,
Polarizable force field
,
Protein pKa
, and
Continuum solvation model
Creator:
Sharma, Ity
Advisor:
Kaminski, George A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2015-10-13
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Tutoring Students with Adaptive Strategies
Keyword:
decision tree
,
k-armed bandits
,
Student Model
,
contextual bandits
,
adaptive learning
, and
prerequisite
Creator:
Wan, Hao
Advisor:
Beck, Joseph E.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-01-18
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Synthesis, Annealing Strategies and in-situ Characterization of Thermally Stable Composite Thin Pd/Ag Alloy Membranes for Hydrogen Separation
Keyword:
Aluminum Hydroxide Surface Grading
,
High Temperature X-Ray Diffraction
,
Composite Pd and Pd/Ag Membranes
,
Hydrogen Separation
,
Electroless Plating Kinetics
,
Bi-Metal Multi-Layer (BMML) Deposition
,
Pd/Ag Barrier
,
Alloying
,
Porous Sintered Metal Supports
, and
Intermetallic Diffusion
Creator:
Ayturk, Mahmut Engin
Advisor:
Ma, Yi Hua
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2007-04-23
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
The VHP-F Computational Phantom and its Applications for Electromagnetic Simulations
Keyword:
Computational electromagnetics
,
Numerical modeling
, and
Human body modeling
Creator:
Noetscher, Gregory Michael
Advisor:
Makarov, Sergey N.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-30
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Investigating Learning in an Intelligent Tutoring System through Randomized Controlled Experiments
Keyword:
Intelligent tutoring systems
,
user models
,
randomized controlled studies
, and
human computer interaction
Creator:
Razzaq, Leena
Advisor:
Heffernan, Neil
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2009-08-28
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Assessment of cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) in Type I diabetic mice
Keyword:
akita mice
,
PDM
,
HRV
, and
cardiac autonomic neuropathy
Creator:
Yang, Bufan
Advisor:
Chon, Ki H.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2011-11-06
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Affective Motivational Collaboration Theory
Keyword:
Emotion Functions
,
Affect-Awareness
,
Appraisal
,
Human-Robot Collaboration
,
Affect
, and
Goal Management
Creator:
Shayganfar, Mohammad
Advisor:
Rich, Charles
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-01-25
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Opportunities and Challenges of LowCarbon Hydrogen via Metallic Membrane Reactors
Keyword:
Carbon capture
,
Steam methane reforming
,
Zeolite 13X
,
Techno economic analysis
,
Hydrogen
, and
Palladium
Creator:
Kian, Kourosh
Advisor:
Wilcox, Jennifer L.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-05-11
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Non-Submodular Combinatorial Optimization in Control Systems: Efficient Algorithms with Provable Bounds
Keyword:
robust optimization
,
combinatorial optimization
,
sensor placement
, and
submodular
Creator:
Hou, Qiqiang
Advisor:
Clark, Andrew
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2020-12-11
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Numerical Solution of a Transmission Problem with Prefractal Interface
Keyword:
Finite Element
,
singularities
,
transmission
,
Fractal
, and
prefractal
Creator:
Wasyk, Rebecca Dawn
Advisor:
Mosco, Umberto
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2007-12-04
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mathematical Sciences
Design, Development, and Evaluation of Scaffolds for Data Interpretation Practices during Inquiry
Keyword:
scientific inquiry
,
scaffolding
, and
data interpretation
Creator:
Moussavi-Aghdam, Raha
Advisor:
Gobert, Janice
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2018-04-26
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Learning Sciences and Technologies
Improving Human Performance in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Interaction
Keyword:
Multi-Robot Systems
,
Human-Robot Interaction
,
Multi-Human Interface
, and
Multi-Human Multi-Robot Interaction
Creator:
Patel, Jayam U.
Advisor:
Pinciroli, Carlo
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2021-02-09
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Indoor Cooperative Localization for Ultra Wideband Wireless Sensor Networks
Keyword:
Indoor geolocation
,
Time-of-arrival based ranging
,
ultra wideband
,
sensor networks
,
measurement and modeling
,
Cooperative localization
, and
cooperative localization algorithms
Creator:
Alsindi, Nayef
Advisor:
Pahlavan, Kaveh
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-04-23
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Using Bandwidth Estimation to Optimize Buffer and Rate Selection for Streaming Multimedia over IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
Keyword:
Bandwidth Estimation
,
Rate Selection
,
Playout Buffer
,
Wireless Networks
, and
Streaming Multimedia
Creator:
Li, Mingzhe
Advisor:
Claypool, Mark L.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2006-12-12
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Mathematical Principles for Deconstructing Deep Learning: Theory and Application to Electromagnetic Signals
Keyword:
Signal Processing
,
Activation Function
,
Electromagnetics
,
Neural Networks
,
Deep Learning
, and
Polynomial Activation
Creator:
Witz, Evan
Advisor:
Paffenroth, Randy Clinton
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-08-05
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mathematical Sciences
Enhancing the Resolution of Inkjet Printing Through Modification of Ink/Substrate Interaction
Creator:
Masroor Shalmani, Maryam
Advisor:
Rao, Pratap M.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-08-11
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Modular Continuum Mobile Robot: Design, Modeling, and Motion Planning
Keyword:
Bioinspired Locomotion
,
Motion Planning
,
Simulation
,
Soft Robotics
,
Continuum Robot
, and
Mobile Robot
Creator:
Sun, Yinan
Advisor:
Onal, Cagdas
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2022-08-10
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Biaxial stretch effects on fibroblast-mediated remodeling of fibrin gel equivalents
Keyword:
mechanobiology
,
matrix remodeling
,
fibroblast
, and
cyclic stretch
Creator:
Balestrini, Jenna Leigh
Advisor:
Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2009-08-14
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
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