UIC Dissertations and Theses
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This community contains the collections for dissertations and theses produced at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
If you are a graduate student depositing your thesis or dissertation, please do this through the Graduate College at http://grad.uic.edu/cms/?pid=1000916. If you deposit electronically, once your degree is conferred, your dissertation or thesis will appear in this collection.
If you have authored a dissertation or thesis in the past at the University of Illinois at Chicago and would like to see it appear here, please contact indigo@uic.edu for more information.
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A Longitudinal Study of Reward Functioning and Symptom Fluctuation in Mood Disorders
(2019-07-19)Mood disorders represent a major public health and economic burden in the United States. Major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BP) are chronic, debilitating diseases and existing strategies for relapse ... -
Inhibitory Function in the Olfactory Cortex of a Mouse Model of Fragile X Syndrome
(2019-03-08)Presented here are a series of four single-cell electrophysiology experiments detailing the function of inhibitory and excitatory processes in the anterior piriform cortex. The normal function and neurophysiology of this ... -
Effects of Social Context on Social Judgments in People with Schizophrenia
(2019-05-15)It is well established that people with schizophrenia experience deficits in social cognition but much less is known about the effects of social contextual information on social judgments. Deficits in understanding social ... -
MOSAIC: Modeling Online Sharing of Animal Image Collections
(2019-04-23)Predicting how people share images on social media is crucial in understanding the bias that affects any image collection found online. For this reason, this work aims at providing a better understanding of how animal ... -
Hand-Eye Coordination for Robotic Grasping using Deep Learning for Frame Coordinate Transform
(2019-04-19)Coordinate Frame Transformation, or Reference Frame Transformation, is a process that is used to effectively locate a target, detected in a robot's field of view, in three-dimensional Cartesian space. Being able to evaluate ... -
Impact of Surgical Orthodontics on Facial Attractiveness and Perceived Age
(2019-05-13)Orthodontic treatment involving orthognathic surgery has become a widely used combined treatment approach in correcting severe dentofacial discrepancies. Motivation to undergo treatment is often influenced by expectations ... -
Animal Wildlife Population Estimation Using Social Media Images Collections
(2019-04-19)We propose a method to estimate the number of animals of a given species using social media images collections. Traditional methods used to provide this estimate are expensive and time-consuming. Our solution aims at solving ... -
Reproducing Whiteness in Sign Language Interpreter Education: A Critical Examination of Curriculum
(2019-05-13)This study examines how sign language interpreter curriculum functions to reinforce and reproduce white dominance in the field of sign language interpreting. At more than 90% Caucasians since the field’s inception, sign ... -
Ceramic Heads in Total Hip Replacements: Surgical Impaction Force and Retrieved Implant Damage Assessment
(2019-04-17)Total hip replacement (THR) is commonly performed to relieve arthritis or traumatic injury. However, implant failure can occur from loosening or crevice corrosion resulting from inadequate seating during implantation. ... -
Oral Appliance and Pharmacological Agents in the Treatment of Sleep Apnea: A Pilot Clinical Study
(2019-04-15)Hypothesis: Augmentation of a mandibular advancement oral appliance (OA) by pharmacotherapy (ondansetron+fluoxetine) will increase therapeutic efficacy in moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients. Methods: ... -
Impact Of Maternal Pre-pregnancy Obesity On Placental Iron Transporter Protein Expression
(2019-05-13)Iron is an essential micronutrient for all living organisms and especially important in human pregnancy. Although essential, iron deficiency is the most common deficiency globally with pregnant women at an exceptionally ... -
Influences Of Aquaculture Water Additives On The Larval Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) Skin Microbiome
(2019-04-18)The skin microbiome of marine fish aids in their health and survival and is thought to come from bacteria in the surrounding water, particularly during the larval stages. However, it’s not clear how shifting the microbial ... -
Towards Self-Tracking Personal Pollution Exposure using Wearables
(2019-04-15)Recent epidemiological studies have shown that long-term exposure to air pollution is positively associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Although interest in pollution monitoring is proliferating, self-tracking ... -
A Deep Learning Framework for Air Pollution Forecasting and Interpolation
(2019-04-22)Air pollution has been identified as the world's largest single environmental health risks by the World Health Organization. Real time air-quality information is necessary, to pretect humans against from the damage casused ... -
Interface Phonons in Semiconductor Heterostructures and Phonons in Molybdenum Di-sulphide
(2019-04-24)The systematic collective vibrations of the constituent atoms of a crystal poessess energy which is quantized – the quantum of energy is referred to as phonons. The presence of phonons in the semiconductor lattice introduces ... -
Creating An Interactive Aid to Mediate Obesity Diagnoses and Management Through Visualization
(2019-04-22)The purpose of this research is to discover if an app was the best method of delivering nutrition and exercise facts and obesity information to a patient with obesity. This study also emphasized usability testing and ... -
The Relationship Between Obesity and Mandible Size in Children and Adolescents
(2019-04-17)Hypothesis: We hypothesize that there is a significant relationship between obesity and mandible size and shape in children and adolescents. Objective: To investigate the relationship between craniofacial morphology and ... -
A Sensor System to Track Individual and Social Animal Behavior in the Wild
(2019-04-15)Nowadays, biologists and social scientists are interested in understanding fundamental evolutionary, ecological, and population processes, such as decision making and activity recognition in a group of individuals. Collective ... -
Investigation of the Dynamic Behavior of Underplatform Dampers
(2019-04-11)Vibrations in turbines, due to high-speed flows through its vanes, are of critical importance since they can lead to high-cycle fatigue failures when their frequency is close to the natural frequency of the system. Therefore, ... -
Collaborative Project Planning Using Large Format Displays
(2019-04-10)Large format displays’ popularity is constantly increasing in universities and workplaces due to their prices showing a constant decrease over time. Many studies have demonstrated their benefits on several kind of tasks, ...
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