Browsing ETD -- Doctoral Dissertations by Title
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1492 Reconsidered: Religious and Social Change in Fifteenth Century Ávila
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2014-05-27)This dissertation is an assessment of the impact of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 on the city of Ávila, in northwestern Castile. The expulsion was the culmination of a series of policies set forth by Isabel ... -
2.5D Chiplet Architecture for Embedded Processing of High Velocity Streaming Data
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-01-16)This dissertation presents an energy efficient 2.5D chiplet-based architecture for real-time probabilistic processing of high-velocity sensor data, from an autonomous real-time ubiquitous surveillance imaging system. This ... -
20th and 21st Century Hispanic Settlement Sites: Three Essays on Place, Schooling, and Student Outcomes
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-06-29)The explosive growth of the U.S. Hispanic population since 1990 to newer and more non-traditional areas is the result of political, economic, and environmental instability across the world as well as a declining quality ... -
4D Image Reconstruction with Dual Respiratory and Cardiac Motion Correction for Cardiac PET
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-10-23)4D image reconstruction with motion correction is the solution to improve image quality and resolution degraded by respiratory motion (RM) and cardiac motion (CM) in cardiac PET scans. The improved image quality can ... -
A 10 year retrospective study of the National Rehabilitation Centre Abu Dhabi: Trends, population characteristics, associations and predictors of treatment outcomes
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-04)Data extracted from case notes of all NRC patients from February 2002 to August 2011were analyzed to obtain a descriptive profile and changes in trends during this period. The data were extracted manually using a template ... -
A Balanced Scorecard for Assessing the Quality & Provision of Health Services in UNHCR Refugee Camps
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-03-18)Background Worldwide, there are over 46.3 million individuals who are uprooted from their homes. For the 2014 mid-year report, the UNHCR population of concern included 13 million refugees, 26 million internally displaced ... -
A biochemical and cell biological characterization of TAFAZZIN in a novel Barth syndrome cell model
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-12-28)Barth syndrome (BTHS) is an X-linked disease characterized by cardio- and skeletal myopathy, hypotonia, growth delay, neutropenia, and 3-methylglutaconic aciduria. Patients have mutations in the TAZ gene on chromosome Xq28 ... -
A BIOINFORMATIC PIPELINE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN MICROARRAY DATA WITH APPLICATIONS TO MALARIA AND LUNG CANCER STUDIES
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-04-22)Bioinformatic pipelines are steps taken to transform data from a raw measurement to a form that enables direct biological inference. These steps vary across assays and different methods can have important impacts on ... -
A boson learned from its context, and a boson learned from its end
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-10-18)The Higgs boson was the last particle of the Standard Model of particle physics to be discovered. So far, its properties have been consistent with the Standard Model expectations. This thesis presents a series of analyses, ... -
"A breath of fresh air…literally and figuratively": Volunteering at three non-profit farms in Maryland
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-06-25)The literature about agricultural volunteering is growing, but there is a need for more qualitative research on the subject. Volunteering’s implications for volunteers, farms, and communities are especially important to ... -
A CALCIUM IMAGING APPROACH TO INVESTIGATE TYPE II COCHLEAR AFFERENT ACTIVITY AFTER TRAUMA
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-11-02)Auditory information is sent to the central nervous system from the cochlea through type I and type II cochlear afferents. While the function of the type I afferents is relatively well understood, definitive proof for the ... -
A Case Study Analysis about the Use of a Digital Transition Portfolio for Secondary Students with Mild to Moderate Disabilities in an Urban Inclusive High School Classroom
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-04-15)This qualitative single case study examined how one teacher used a digital portfolio in an inclusive urban high school career research and development (CRD) class over one semester. Specifically, this research described ... -
A Case Study Approach To Exploring Social Emotional Learning Program Implementation
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-10-25)Public schools in the United States are charged with meeting increasingly rigorous student accountability measures despite evidence indicating vast racial and socioeconomic disparities in student achievement across the ... -
A Case Study in Physical-Layer Steganography Applied to Multicarrier Transmissions
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2022-07-07)Covert communications can be a force for good, such as providing a means of message authentication to prevent malicious actors from spoofing networks. This dissertation explores the design of a covert signal to be hidden ... -
A CASE STUDY OF BISPHENOL A (BPA) RISK COMMUNICATION: GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, INTEREST GROUPS AND THE MEDIA
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2014-10-22)Bisphenol A (BPA) is a high-production chemical found in the food supply that has been the subject of public health concerns over the last decade. Government agencies, public health and environmental organizations, industry ... -
A case-control epigenome-wide study of schizophrenia
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-03-15)Schizophrenia (SZ) is severe neuropsychiatric disorder with significant costs to the individual and society. Accumulating evidence points to the role of DNA methylation (DNAm) in either pathogenesis or as a biomarker of ... -
A case-control study of household air pollution and tuberculosis in women and young children in urban India
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-01-12)Background: Household air pollution (HAP) is a known risk factor for many respiratory diseases, however the association between HAP and tuberculosis (TB) is still inconclusive. The purpose of this study is to characterize ... -
A CHARACTERIZATION OF NETWORK PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATION DIRECTIONALITY AND SYSTEM HETEROGENEITY
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-08-27)Networked dynamical systems’ ability to preserve the system equilibrium in the face of disruptive events or persistent disturbances can be an indication of the convergence efficiency and quantified as a measure of system ... -
A COMMUNITY OF BABBLERS: FAILURES OF COMMUNICATION IN THE RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH NOVEL, 1902-1925
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-08-24)A Community of Babblers: Failures of Communication in the British and English Novel 1902-1925 is a comparative study of Russian Symbolism and English modernism that investigates how the novels of these traditions address ... -
A Comparative Approach to the Development of Ancient Copper Supply Networks in Oman and Obsidian Supply Networks in Ethiopia
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-10-23)This dissertation adopts a comparative framework to the study of ancient raw material supply networks of copper in Oman (ca. 2500 BCE – 1800 CE) and obsidian in Ethiopia (ca. 800 BCE – 825 CE). A Social Network Analysis ...