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A Novel 3D Printed Brace Manufacturing Process for the Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
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Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS) is a three-dimensional spinal deformity with lateral curvature and axial vertebral rotation affecting 1-3% of adolescents. Bracing is a proven non-surgical treatment aiming to stop curve progression. Literature has shown that brace wear time affects brace...
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Fall 2012
Quantification of the loads applied in biomedical applications has the potential to increase patient safety during surgical procedures and to improve the knowledge of the mechanical behavior of biological tissues. To capture the complexity of loads in biological systems, the acquisition of 3D...
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Fall 2013
Scoliosis affects 2.5% of adolescents and 90% of these adolescents have mild curves of less than 25°. These adolescents do not currently have any active treatments to prevent curve progression. Literature suggests that exercise-based treatment may be able to help patients with mild scoliosis....
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Fall 2020
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a spinal disorder causing abnormal curvature of the spine in three dimensions (3D), starting in the patient’s adolescence, and having no known cause. Bracing is the most common non-surgical method of treating AIS, but the brace design is heavily reliant on...
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Design of Asynchronous Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Scheme and Wideband Dynamic Spectrum Access Algorithm for Cognitive Radio Networks
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Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) is a promising solution for mitigating the problem of crowded radio spectrum and enhancing the utilization efficiency of spectrum resources, making it a hot research topic. In DSA, spectrum sensing is crucial and cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) is confirmed as a...
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Development of a Detection Model for Curve Progression in Adolescents with Idiopathic Scoliosis
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Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a three-dimensional (3D) structural spinal disorder recognized by lateral curvatures. The routine for monitoring of AIS is taking an X-ray every six months to check the curve severity and curve progression. Taking repetitive radiographs is not desirable...
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Development of an Efficient Quasi-3D Microfluidic Flow Model and Fabrication and Characterization of an All-PDMS Opto-Microfluidic Flow Cytometer
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In this thesis, development of a novel microfluidic flow model, and, fabrication and testing of microfluidic cytometer for potential cell detection and sorting applications are described. The model is formulated by decomposing the flow profile along the height of microfluidic device into a...
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Development of compact fluorescent spectrometers and field deployable optical solids content monitoring devices
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Two techniques were used to develop industrial and environmental sensing devices: fluorescence spectrometry and light scatter. The focus of the thesis is to develop real-time, portable and economical sensors using these techniques for environmental detection and management of tailings slurries. A...
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Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy for Probing Nanophotonic Excitations at High Energy and Momentum
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Strong nanoscale light-matter interaction is often accompanied by ultra-confined photonic modes and large momentum polaritons existing far beyond the light cone. A direct probe of such phenomena is difficult due to the momentum mismatch of these modes with free space light however, fast electron...
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Fall 2013
Signal shadowing and multipath fading are two challenging phenomena in wireless communications. The goal of this thesis is to improve the statistical models and the mathematical tools required for description and analysis of some specific fading scenarios, namely lognormal shadowing, two-wave...