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Unmasking Global Education Industries and Their Capital Accumulation Strategies: On Materiality and Discourse
DownloadSpring 2021
The notion of education as being part of the “commons,” as a societal or public good, is slowly giving way to pressures of marketization, privatization, and commodification—and thus, re-imagined, reconfigured, and re-appropriated as an object of trade, increasingly for sale, based on individual...
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Unmasking the in vivo importance of STAT3 in multiple myeloma using three-dimensional culture and nanoparticle drug delivery system
DownloadSpring 2019
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a hematological malignancy which is caused by aberrant accumulation of monoclonal plasma cells (PCs) within the bone marrow. The oncogenesis of MM is mediated by chromosomal aberrations as well as the tumor microenvironment in the bone marrow. Signal transducer and...
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Unmasking the self as a fallible health professional: A grounded theory study on the psychosocial process of mitigating the negative effects of shame due to mistakes
DownloadFall 2015
This grounded theory study investigated the effect of shame on health professionals who make mistakes. Interviews with nurses, physicians, pharmacists and residents generated rich data from which to formulate a theory on the psychosocial process of making a mistake. The stories and experiences...
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Fall 2023
The recognition performance of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models can be sub-optimal when document images suffer from various degradations. Supervised learning-based methods for image enhancement can generate high-quality enhanced images. However, these methods require the availability of...
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Unraveling the relationship between trip chaining and mode choice using Structural Equation Models
DownloadSpring 2010
Trip chaining and mode choice are two important travel behavior decisions in activity-based travel demand modeling system. The hierarchy of these two decisions influences model’s predictive capability and policy sensitivity. This thesis is aimed at investigating the hierarchical relationship...