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Histone H4 lysine 20 methyltransferase SUV4-20H2 regulates mitotic fidelity

Keyword:: Chromatin, Aurora B, Methyltransferase, Mitosis, Histone Posttranslational Modification, and Centromere
Creator:: Hahn, Sabine
Advisor:: Manning, Amity L.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-11-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biology & Biotechnology

Intelligent Control of Soft Snake Robot Locomotion with Biomimic Vertebrate System

Keyword:: Bio-inspired control, Neural oscillators, Snake robots locomotion, Tactile sensors, Reinforcement learning, and Soft robot control
Creator:: Liu, Xuan
Advisor:: Onal, Cagdas D. and Fu, Jie
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-12-04
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Continuous and Forced Dynamic Operation to Achieve Kinetically Controlled Crystallization

Keyword:: Continuous Crystallization, Zeolite Synthesis, Micro-Reaction Engineering, Dynamic Crystallization, Augmented Reality, and Population Balance Modeling
Creator:: Crislip, Jacob
Advisor:: Teixeira, Andrew R
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-12-06
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Chemical Engineering

Advancing Myoelectric Prothesis Control via EMG-Force with Transfer Learning and via Wireless Sensor Time Synchronization

Keyword:: Electromyogram, Time synchronization, EMG-force, Filter design, Transfer Learning, and Bluetooth Low Energy
Creator:: Wang, He
Advisor:: Clancy, Ted
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-12-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Microfluidic High-Throughput Methods for the Induction and Characterization of Repeatable, Titratable Traumatic Neural Injury in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Keyword:: Neural Imaging, TRPV4, C. elegans, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Microfluidics
Creator:: White, Hamilton
Advisor:: Albrecht, Dirk
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-12-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Study of Earth-Abundant, Mn-Rich Cathodes for Vehicle Applications and Beyond

Keyword:: cathode materials, synthesis, manganese-rich, and Lithium-ion batteries
Creator:: Chen, Jiajun
Advisor:: Croy, Jason R. and Wang, Yan
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-12-10
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Materials Science & Engineering

Measurement and Modeling of Water in Porous Media Using Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Spectroscopy

Keyword:: Millimeter Wave, Effective Medium Modelling, Moisture Sensing, Terahertz, Porosimetry, and Spectroscopy
Creator:: Bouchard, Jacob
Advisor:: Petkie, Douglas Todd
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-12-12
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Physics

From Farm to Lab: The Potential of Decellularized Plant Leaves for Sustainable Meat Production

Keyword:: Skeletal Muscle, Cultured Meat, Decellularization, Cellular Agriculture, and Lab-grown Meat
Creator:: Jones, Jordan
Advisor:: Gaudette, Glenn and Dominko, Tanja
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-12-13
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

FEM Modeling for Biomedical Applications: RF Heating & Microwave Imaging

Keyword:: MRI, Surface Waves, Finite Element Method, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, FEM, and Microwave Imaging
Creator:: Serano, Peter
Advisor:: Makaroff, Sergey N.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-12-18
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Real-time and Customizable Inverse Kinematics for Extensible Multisection Continuum Robots: SLInKi and AMoRPH Algorithms

Keyword:: Continuum, Inverse Kinematics, and Soft Robotics
Creator:: Chiang, Shou-Shan
Advisor:: Onal, Cagdas
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-12-15
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Development of a Performance Based (Multi-characteristic) Tool for Wall Insulation System Optimization

Keyword:: performance-based design, insulation, multi-objective optimization, sustainability, and fire safety
Creator:: You, Young-Geun
Advisor:: Dembsey, Nicholas A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2018-04-22
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Fire Protection Engineering

Supply Chain Sustainability and Circularity: A Systems Perspective

Keyword:: System dynamics, Stakeholders, Case study, Theory development, Food waste, and Bullwhip effect
Creator:: Allen, Samuel
Advisor:: Sarkis, Joseph
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-08-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Business Administration

Robot Autonomy for Scrap Cutting in Metal Recycling

Keyword:: Human–robot collaboration, Robot autonomy, Future of work, Metal scrap recycling, Oxy-fuel metal cutting, and Environmental robotics
Creator:: Akl, James
Advisor:: Calli, Berk
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-15
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Strategies and Structures for Biological Datasets Integration and Knowledge Discovery

Keyword:: Single-cell RNA Sequencing, Data Integration, CCA, Network Analysis, Biology, and Feature Engineering
Creator:: Teeple, Erin
Advisor:: Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-07-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Data Science

IMPACT OF AN ORGANIZATION WIDE ELECRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEM ON CLINICALLY INTEGRATED PATIENT CARE

Keyword:: Clinical Integration, Primary Care Physician Engagement, Electronic Health Record (EHR) System, Inter-practice Communication, Affordance-Actualization Theory, and Care Coordination
Creator:: Finn, Amy
Advisor:: Johnson, Sharon
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-08-02
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Business Administration

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

Engineered blood vessels with spatially distinct regions for disease modeling

Keyword:: smooth muscle, bioreactor, microsphere, tissue engineered blood vessel, and disease modeling
Creator:: Strobel, Hannah A.
Advisor:: Rolle, Marsha Whitney
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2018-04-24
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Integrating Behavioral Economics into System Dynamics

Keyword:: Behavioral Lifecycle Hypothesis, Behavioral Economics, Discrete-time modeling, Quasi-hyperbolic Discounting, System Dynamics, and Continuous-time modeling
Creator:: Bah, Souleymane
Advisor:: Smith, Alexander D., Radzicki, Michael J., and Johnson, Sharon
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-05-30
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Social Science & Policy Studies

New developments in sequential change point detection for time series and spatio-temporal analysis

Creator:: Wang, Yanzhao
Advisor:: Zou, Frank
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-03-31
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD

Fundamental Understanding of Removal of Water from a Moist Porous Medium in the Absence and Presence of Ultrasound Mechanism

Keyword:: Energy Analysis, Water Removal, Multiphase, Ultrasound, Atomization, and Porous Media
Creator:: Noori O'Connor, Zahra
Advisor:: Tilley, Burt S. and Yagoobi, Jamal
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-03-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD

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

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

Domestication of Nonconventional Gram-negative Bacteria as Synthetic Biology Chassis

Creator:: Keating, Kevin
Advisor:: Young, Eric Mosher
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-20
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Chemical Engineering

Metal Leaching and G-METS Distillation for Neodymium Magnet Scrap Recycling

Keyword:: Liquid Metal Leaching, Gravity- driven Multiple Effects Thermal System (GMETS) Distillation, Recycling, Techno-Economic Analysis, Business Model Canvas, and Rare Earth Metals
Creator:: Chinwego, Chinenye
Advisor:: Powell, Adam Clayton
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Materials Science & Engineering

Heat Release Rate of Fires Using Point-Based Sampling

Keyword:: Emissions, Crude oil, Oil spill, Pool fire, Combustion products, and Calorimetry
Creator:: Ho, Hsin-Hsiu
Advisor:: Rangwala, Ali S.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-24
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Fire Protection Engineering

Human-Robot Interfaces to Enable Effective and Effortless Control for Remote Manipulation of Tele-nursing Robot

Keyword:: Remote Manipulation, Tele-nursing Robot, Human-robot Interaction, Workload Estimation, Control Augmentation, and Robot Reliability
Creator:: Lin, Tsung-Chi
Advisor:: Li, Jane
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Robotics Engineering

Enhancing STEM Learning in Pre-K-12 Education: A Multifaceted Approach to Supporting Students and Training Teachers

Creator:: Smith, Hannah
Advisor:: Ottmar, Erin R
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Learning Sciences & Technologies

A Holistic Framework of Synthesis and Characterization of Waste-based Geopolymers for Civil Engineering Applications

Keyword:: Sustainable Cementitious Material, Geopolymer, Chemical Volume Change, and Freeze-thaw Durability
Creator:: Zhao, Mengxuan
Advisor:: Tao, Mingjiang
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Family Influence, Entrepreneurial Passion and Gender: Multiple Case Studies of Saudi Family Businesses

Keyword:: Qualitative study, Family Business, F-PEC, Family Influence, Thematic Analysis, and Entrepreneurial Passion
Creator:: Khoja, Basma
Advisor:: Hoy, Francis and Garcia, Rosanna
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Business Administration

Entrepreneurship-Educated Black Entrepreneurs and Their Impacts Provided to Black Communities

Keyword:: Black Community, Black Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurship Education
Creator:: Rogers, Scorpio
Advisor:: Garcia, Rosanna
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Business Administration

Robust Representation Learning for Context Recognition on Weakly-supervised Mobile Sensed Data with Covariate-shifts

Keyword:: Human context recognition, Ubiquitous computing, Domain adaptation, and Adversarial machine learning
Creator:: Alajaji, Abdulaziz
Advisor:: Agu, Emmanuel O. and Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-26
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Data Science

Computationally Guided Design of Multiple Impurities Tolerant Cathode for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Applications

Keyword:: Accelerated testing, Multiple impurities, CALPHAD, Cathodes, Long-term degradation, and SOFC
Creator:: Wang, Rui
Advisor:: Zhong, Yu
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-26
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Materials Science & Engineering

The Effects of Immediate Feedback on Student Learning in Mathematics

Creator:: Razzaq, Renah
Advisor:: Heffernan, Neil
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-26
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Learning Sciences & Technologies

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

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

Human Behavior Analysis via Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning

Creator:: Zhang, Xin
Advisor:: Li, Yanhua
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-27
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Data Science

Design of a Molten Salt Metal-Air Battery with High-Energy Density – Proof of Concept, Modeling, and Recharging

Keyword:: Zero-emission shipping, Oxygen reduction, Directional solidification, Metal-air battery, and Clean Energy
Creator:: Shahabi, Mahya
Advisor:: Powell, Adam Clayton
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-27
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Materials Science & Engineering

Data Science for Improving Operations in Organizations that Serve Vulnerable Populations

Keyword:: Government and Nongovernment Agencies, Applied Analytics, Data Science, Immigration, Data Science for Social Good, and Anti-human Trafficking
Creator:: Dimas, Geri
Advisor:: Trapp, Andrew C and Konrad, Renata
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-04-27
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Data Science

Towards an End-to-End Training Data Management System for Machine Learning Models

Keyword:: machine learning, anomaly detection, active learning, big data manangement, human-in-the-loop, and semi-supervised learning
Creator:: Zhang, Huayi
Advisor:: Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2023-01-18
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Data Science

INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF APOPTOSIS IN CALCIFICATION OF THE AORTIC VALVULAR INTERSTITIAL CELLS

Creator:: Jebeli, Mahvash
Advisor:: Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-12-15
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

Advanced Control of Upper-Limb Prostheses with Time-Synchronized Distributed Wireless Electrodes

Creator:: Li, Jianan
Advisor:: Clancy, Ted
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-12-15
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Electrical & Computer 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

Understanding and Managing Emerging Fungal Infectious Diseases-Virulence Mechanisms, Drug Resistance and Discovery of Novel Antifungal Agents

Keyword:: Antifungal tolerance, Candida species, Fungal infectious disease, Novel treatment, Candida auris, and Antifungal resistance
Creator:: Yang, Bo
Advisor:: Rao, Reeta Prusty
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-12-21
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biology & Biotechnology

Educational Data Mining toward Personalized Tutoring: Exploration of Facial Behaviors, Thermal Comfort, and Relevant Content Search

Creator:: Jiang, Han
Advisor:: Whitehill, Jacob Richard
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-08-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Data Science

Interfacial Contact and Deformation: From All Solid State Li Batteries to the Cold Spray of Refractory Ta Powders

Creator:: Ahmed, Ridwan
Advisor:: Soboyejo, Winston
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-08-22
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Materials Science & Engineering

Developing Smart Agile Manufacturing System for Improved Sustainability: From Waste Steel to Matériel

Creator:: Wang, Yutao
Advisor:: Liang, Jianyu
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-09-30
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Manufacturing Engineering

The Novel Hybrid Model for the Design of Al-Co-Cr-Ni-Fe High Entropy Alloys (HEAs)

Creator:: Yang, Songge
Advisor:: Zhong, Yu
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-04-21
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Materials Science & Engineering

Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Approaches Reveal Novel Roles of Cortical Dynein in Spindle Dynamics and Centrosome Clustering

Keyword:: Mitotic Spindle, Model, Mitosis, and Centrosome
Creator:: Mercadante, Dayna
Advisor:: Manning, Amity L. and Olson, Sarah D
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-05-31
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

Modification, Design, and Degradation Mechanisms of Nickel-Rich Layered Oxide Cathodes for High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries

Creator:: Azhari, Luqman
Advisor:: Wang, Yan
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-07-19
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Materials Science & Engineering

Applications of Deep Learning in Brain Injury Biomechanics and Spine Image Registration

Keyword:: Spine Image Registration, Image-guided Surgery, Concussion, Deep Learning, and Brain Injury
Creator:: Wu, Shaoju
Advisor:: Ji, Songbai
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2022-08-03
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit (Department):: Biomedical Engineering

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