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Fall 2024

Pei, Chuankang

Frazil ice particles and flocs can adhere to underwater structures causing blockage to water intakes and large accumulation of frazil ice in the channel may cause flooding and property damage. After frazil floc rises to the water surface the resulting surface ice profoundly impacts river...

Fall 2024

Ma, Zhiyao

Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a degenerative joint disease that impacts all structures within the knee joint, often leading to chronic pain and disability. The meniscus, a crucial fibrocartilaginous structure within the knee, plays a key role in joint biomechanics. It is well established that...

Fall 2024

Yousef, Malaz AE

Given the numerous benefits of oral administration, this thesis investigates two key phenomena influencing the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of orally administered active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs): lysosomal trapping and intestinal lymphatic uptake via chylomicrons, with a...

Fall 2024

Sumner, Megan J.

Video game development is a highly technical practice that traditionally requires programming skills. This serves as a barrier to entry for would-be developers or those hoping to use games as part of their creative expression. While there have been prior game development tools focused on...

Fall 2024

Wang, Haoxiang

Bio-oil (BO) is a promising and renewable energy source that could alleviate dependence on fossil fuels, but its direct use faces challenges due to low thermal stability and high corrosiveness. Co-processing BO with vacuum gas oil (VGO) in existing refineries offers a solution without requiring...

Fall 2024

Saini, Arashdeep S

In response to hypoxic conditions, tumours secrete pro-angiogenic factors that stimulate the development of new blood vessels. Given the critical role of angiogenesis in tumour progression, therapies counteracting cancer neovascularization have been developed. However, clinical studies have shown...

Fall 2024

Banerjee, Arghasree

Artificial neural networks have become a popular learning approach for theirability to generalize well to unseen data. However, misclassifications can still occur due to various data-related issues, such as adversarial inputs, out-of-distribution samples, and model-related challenges, such as...

Fall 2024

Nader, George

Efficiency and accuracy are crucial in offsite panelized construction, including in the production of light-gauge steel frames. Maintaining consistent screw fastening is an ongoing challenge in the construction industry, and defective screw fastening can lead to quality problems in panelized...

Fall 2024

Proctor, Ethan

Shoaling and schooling play crucial roles in survival for over half of all vertebrate fish taxa. Social behaviour in fish reduces stress, increases collective vigilance towards predators, increases foraging productivity, and enhances communication between those electing to remain with the group....

Fall 2024

Ghajar, Solmaz

Background: Maternal COVID-19 infection during pregnancy has raised prominent public health concerns - especially the possibility of long-term child health outcomes. Epigenetic changes induced by inflammatory environment in the placenta caused by anti-infection response in pregnant mother’s body,...