Browsing 2018-06-01 UB Theses and Dissertations (public) by Type "Text"
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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 Magnetic Resonance Angiography Reconstruction Using Multi-channel Blind Deconvolution
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become one of the popular new tools of radiology in the past few years with the advantages of noninvasive and low radiation, compared with other radiography method like computed tomography, ... -
3D PRINTING OF BIO PARTS USING UV SLA
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)The purpose of this research is to design an illumination apparatus to project high quality images and cure them using Ultra violet beam. The developed apparatus is based on the concept of Projection based stereolithography ... -
A Comparison of Ultraviolet Light and White Light in the Detection of Adhesive During Orthodontic Debonding: An In-Vitro Study
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Purpose: To assess the accuracy and efficiency of UV illumination compared to conventional white light in the detection of adhesive during orthodontic debonding. -
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 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 ... -
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. ... -
Advanced polymeric membranes for hydrogen purification and carbon dioxide capture
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)CO2 capture, sequestration, and utilization is a critical path to mitigate the CO2 emissions to the environment. An important strategy is to decarbonize fossil fuels and produce H2 and CO2 at high temperatures. The resulting ... -
Against Infinite Grief: Mourning and Speculative Invention in Postbellum American Literature
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)This dissertation analyzes a contemporary disorder of mourning that began to take shape in the aftermath of the American Civil War, a time in which profound changes to material practices associated with death affected the ... -
Aggregation Behavior of 2D Nanomaterials Beyond Graphene
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)We report, for the first time, the aggregation behavior of the three most popular emerging 2D nanomaterials (NMs) beyond graphene viz., MoS2, WS2, and h-BN in aquatic media. These materials have been exfoliated in aqueous ... -
An Exploratory Study of Leithwood's Four Core Leadership Practices Enacted by Urban Secondary Principals
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)The United States has undergone a revamping of education standards in an effort to systematize rigorous learning standards across the country and prepare students to be college- and career-ready. In addition, new ... -
An Inquiry into the Necessary Organizational Conditions for Effective Human Service Delivery
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)The following three-article dissertation seeks to identify the organizational conditions necessary for effective human service delivery. The first article provides a conceptualization by examining existent literature on ... -
Application of smart materials in energy harvesting and wave propagation
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)This work studies two main applications for smart materials; Energy harvesting and wave propagation. For the first application, we look at utilization of piezoelectric materials in generating electricity at small scale and ... -
Aristocratic Capital: Democratic Ideology and Capitalist Practice from Charles Brockden Brown to Herman Melville
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Recent scholarship in both United States history and American literary studies has attempted to chart a fundamental shift in American politics and economics related to the ascendance of capitalism and its permeation of ... -
ASSESSMENT OF VARIABLE-DOSE SCHEDULING EFFECTS ON THE KINETICS AND HOMING OF ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC T CELLS IN CANCER VIA OPTICAL IMAGING
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Ovarian Epithelial cancer is the most prevalent form of ovarian cancer overall. It is the leading cause of gynecologic cancer mortality, partly due to its lack of distinctive symptoms. The mainstay for treatment for ... -
Association between plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin d concentrations and salivary cytokines in postmenopausal women
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Objectives: Vitamin D is hypothesized to prevent periodontal disease through its immune modulatory mechanisms and its role in calcium homeostasis. Few studies have investigated the association of vitamin D status and ... -
Attacking and Rewarding State Supreme Courts, The Causes of Court Targeting Legislation in U.S. States
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)The introduction of court targeting legislation happens with regularity in state legislatures. Understanding the causes of court curbing is critical because of the potential threat these bills pose to judicial independence. ... -
Ballistic Impact Simulations using the new Unified Mechanics Theory
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Ballistic Impact is a high velocity impact on a target by a projectile having a small mass and size. The aim of this thesis is to study ballistic impact using the new Unified Mechanics Theory. Numerical simulation of ... -
Basaltic ʻaʻā lava field emplacement of the intraplate Marcath volcano (central Nevada) from field and LiDAR data
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Many aspects of basaltic ʻaʻā lava emplacement remain poorly understood, particularly those related to intraplate, monogenetic volcanoes. Using field and high-resolution LiDAR data, lava emplacement of the monogenetic ... -
BASELINE STRESS FROM HOUSING TEMPERATURE ALTERS BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES TO HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT IN MICE
(State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018)Hyperthermia is an elevation of the core body temperature to above physiological levels that occurs during fever, intense exercise or heat exhaustion. Therapeutically, hyperthermia, by methods of local or whole body heating, ...