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3-Day Dietary Manipulation in Multiple Sclerosis: Impact on Exercise Performance and Fatigue
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease characterized by inflammation of the central nervous system (CNS) leading to tissue damage. Symptoms of MS are vast and can lead to a sedentary lifestyle, fatigue, reduced exercise ... -
3D Freeze Nano Printing for Multiscale, Multifunctional Porous Materials
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Hierarchical porous structures are ubiquitously around us (e.g., bamboo, wood, bone, bird wings). They exhibit many exceptional properties such as light weight, large surface area, and multi-functionality. It would be ... -
A Genetic Record of Admixture Between Humans and Ancient Hominins
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)Recent studies showed that admixture between modern humans and ancient hominin species was a ubiquitous phenomenon in the past. We now know that modern humans admixed with Neanderthals as well as Denisovans, an extinct ... -
A MULTISCALE STUDY OF CONCRETE SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURES
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)Low aspect ratio, shear-critical, reinforced concrete walls are used in nuclear power plants to resist gravity and lateral forces, and some serve a containment function. Beyond design basis earthquake shaking has the ... -
A NOVEL CROWD SENSING FRAMEWORK FOR URBAN COMPUTING APPLICATIONS
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Driven by the proliferation of sensor-rich mobile devices, crowd sensing has emerged as a new paradigm of gathering information about the physical world. In crowd sensing applications, humans work as the sensor carriers ... -
"A Paradise Within": Spiritual Responses to Modernity in Four Novels of the Global South
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)This dissertation examines the explicit and spectral presence of religion in four novels of the Global South: Machado de Assis’ The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood, Walker Percy’s Lancelot, ... -
A Preliminary Investigation of the Effectiveness of High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) Programs Using SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Study Data
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)The main objective of this dissertation is to assess the effectiveness of High-Visibility Enforcement (HVE) programs in terms of reducing aggressive driving behavior, with focus on speeding and tailgating. Using SHRP2 ... -
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy - Second Edition in Children with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HFASD) are known to exhibit deficits in facial-emotion recognition (FER). However, research regarding FER in individuals with HFASD has yielded mixed results, ... -
A Retrospective Study of the Last Year of Life for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Community Residences
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Death is inevitable for all; however, the nature of that death varies significantly across subsets of the American population with the opportunity to die well often reserved for the privileged and abled. In the last ten ... -
A Survey of Knowledge, Competence, and Training Needs of Substance Abuse Treatment Professionals
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Treatment professionals providing substance abuse treatment under the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services were surveyed regarding knowledge, competence, and training needs surrounding emerging ... -
A Temperature-Aware Approach to Managing Smartphone Efficiency and Power Consumption
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)Given the slow advance of battery technology, battery lifetime continues to be a primary concern on energy-constrained devices such as smartphones. Moreover, to enable reasonable lifetimes, tomorrow’s phone will need to ... -
A Theory of Consent
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)This dissertation defends a robust, scalar theory of consent, and uses that theory of consent to rehabilitate consent theories of political legitimacy. To do so, I argue first that non-consent justifications of the power ... -
Aberrant immune states of the inner ear resultant of aging and lower level noise
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Cochlear immunity is an important process for cochlear homeostasis and diseases. Over the past twenty years, numerous researchers have investigated cochlear immunity as it pertains to inner ear stresses. However, the vast ... -
Access to Mental Health Treatment for Youth in the U.S.: Predisposing, Enabling, and Need Determinants
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)With one in five youth in the United States (US) having a diagnosable mental illness in a given year and fewer than seven percent receiving needed treatment, a tremendous burden has been placed on the US economy and society. ... -
Active Targeting for Cancer Phototherapy
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)Cancer is the one of the leading cause of deaths in both economically developed and developing nations. Chemotherapy is an established treatment modality for cancer treatment. One of the frequently used targeting mechanism, ... -
Activity-dependent changes at the auditory nerve synapse
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Information transfer at chemical synapses occurs when vesicles fuse and release neurotransmitter. This process is tightly regulated and must maintain stable function when faced with different levels of activity. Three main ... -
Adaptive and Intelligent Software-Radio Design for Robust Wireless Communications in Challenging Environments
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)The proliferation of wireless devices and the communication networks that enable them has created profound societal impact in recent years. As engineers and researchers look to build more capable and reliable communication ... -
Adaptive Visual Slam for Indoor Environments
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)A fundamental building block for autonomous robots is Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Beyond robots, many wearables (such as smart glasses) provide augmented reality and virtual reality applications that could ... -
ADHD in the Workplace: Comparing Evaluations of Self Versus Evaluations by Others
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)Social, academic, and occupational impairments are just a few of the many challenges that are experienced by individuals with ADHD. Among children with ADHD, there is evidence of a clear bias by which children report that ... -
ADOLESCENT MARIJUANA USE AND ADULT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2019)An increasing number of states in the United States (U.S.) today are legalizing marijuana for adult recreational consumption (Robinson et al., 2018), and nearly 40% of American 12th graders have used marijuana in the past ...