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Towards Aquaponics 4.0: A Framework for Automation, IoT, and Smart Systems Implementations in Indoor Farming
DownloadFall 2020
Aquaponics is a farming method that promises to be a good alternative against the food and environmental problem the world is facing. It is a combination between aquaculture (farming of fish) and hydroponics (growing plants without soil), being a technique to grow plants with the aquaculture...
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Spring 2022
Radiology reports are the primary medium through which physicians communicate findings and diagnoses from patients' medical scans. Examples include radiology reports for chest radiographs, CT scans of the brain, medical reports of retinal images, and more. However, the process of writing medical...
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Fall 2013
Rosette nanotubes (RNTs) are bio-inspired nanomaterials generated from the self-assembly of a guanine-cytosine motif called the “G∧C” base. These nanotubular architectures are promising 2-D coating materials for bone tissue engineering applications, and delivery scaffolds for hydrophobic drug...
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Fall 2018
Surgical sutures are used for wound closure in surgeries and injuries by bringing the edges of an open wound together. Conventional way of applying surgical sutures is to secure the wound with surgical knots and tight stitches. Compared to conventional ones, braided sutures have advantages in...
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Spring 2023
Dialogue systems powered by large pre-trained language models exhibit an innate ability to deliver fluent and natural-sounding responses. Despite their impressive performance, these models fail to conduct interesting and consistent exchanges of turns and can often generate factually incorrect...
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Towards Care-Centered Leadership in Higher Education: A Narrative Inquiry into Care Ethics Experiences and Practices of Academic Leaders
DownloadSpring 2021
In the wake and work of present-day social movements, on our campuses and beyond, there is growing recognition that, as academics, we ought to care—not just for our research and our students, but also for each other and our communities more broadly. Indeed, it has been and remains critical that...
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Fall 2022
Medical Fake News is a pervasive part of the information that people consume on the internet. It may lead people to take actions which may put the lives of their family and community in danger - such actions include vaccine hesitancy, administering unverified and harmful treatments, etc. First...
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Towards Clinical Testing of Intraspinal Microstimulation for Restoration of Walking after Spinal Cord Injury
DownloadSpring 2019
The overall goal of this thesis was to advance intraspinal microstimulation (ISMS) towards clinical testing for the purpose of restoring walking after spinal cord injury. ISMS implants focus on restoring mobility after spinal cord injury by activating the intact spinal motor networks below the...