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Constructing Permutation Arrays of Known Distance
(May 2023)A permutation array (PA) is a set of permutations on n symbols. A PA is said to have distance d (under some metric) if every pair of distinct permutations in the array has distance at least d. Commonly used distance metrics ... -
Essays on Mutual Funds
(May 2023)This dissertation consists of two essays on mutual funds. The first essay, included in Chapter 1, is “Trump Tweeting Sentiment, Mutual Fund Portfolio, and Investor Preference”. I show that online social media affects how ... -
U.S. Income Volatility and Interstate Migration
(May 2023)This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter explores how U.S. male income has evolved, ranging from 1979 to 2017. The research aims to decompose the income into the permanent component − the long-term ... -
Variant Influence Maximization: Approximation Algorithm and Deep Solution
(May 2023)In recent two decades, online social platforms have become more and more popular, and the dissemination of information on social networks has attracted wide attention of the industries and academia. The users of these ... -
Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Ranging Accuracy in IoT Networks
(May 2023)We consider an IoT network and try to address some of the issues and limitations of this new wireless system paradigm. Some of the issues come from the design requirements of IoT devices such as low cost, low energy ... -
Essays on Novelty in Online Reviews
(May 2023)The popularity of electronic word-of-mouth (e.g., online reviews and ratings) has increased dramatically over the years. Consequently, it has become important to understand the various ways in which online reviews impact ... -
Morals for Human Development in the Art of Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller: How Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller, Became Seminal to the Spread of Western Autonomy
(May 2023)Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, introduced a naturally occurring, non-heteronomous, independence and morality to the common man through their literary ... -
SPACs and Risk Factor Disclosures
(May 2023)During 2020 and 2021, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (“SPACs”) became a popular alternative to going public, especially for young and risky firms. This study investigates the informativeness of risk factor disclosures ... -
Liminal Bodies: the Grand Narratives of Myth, Magic, Religion, and Science in the Evolution of Speculative Literature
(May 2023)Which hybrid forms have historically divided societies and why is this stratification dangerous? What defines which liminal bodies are met with hostility and social rejection and which are met with adulation and reverence? ... -
Bayesian Statistical Methods for Urinary Microbiome Data Analysis
(May 2023)Microbiome data is generated by high-throughput next-generation sequencing technology. These data are typically characterized by zero inflation, overdispersion, high dimensionality, sample heterogeneity, non-linearity, and ... -
Cultural Modulation of Moral Regulation: Prescriptive vs. Proscriptive Morality
(May 2023)Morality is an integral part of our life to foster social integration and group living. To behave morally, individuals must be attentive to two types of moral regulation—(a) prescriptive morality (“what people should do”) ... -
Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance
(May 2023)This dissertation consists of two essays on empirical corporate finance. The first essay, included in Chapter 1, is “Product Market Decisions and Subprime Lending by Captive Finance Companies”. I study whether companies ... -
Spatially Explicit Machine Learning Approaches for House Price Models
(May 2023)Spatial data or georeferenced data are special in that it has spatial reference, meaning that it is linked with geographic coordinates on Earth. The spatial component allows for the identification of spatial patterns, ... -
Chronic IL-1 Exposure Drives Prostate Cancer Progression
(May 2023)Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths among American men. Androgen Receptor (AR) transcriptional activity is required for PCa tumor growth. Androgens regulate normal prostate tissue ... -
The Queer Future: Re-imagining Community in Queer Asian North American Literature, 1994–present
(May 2023)My dissertation examines how queer Asian diasporic authors reconstruct ideas about race, gender, and sexuality in their literature and its film adaptations. Directly speaking to harassment that Asian men and women have ... -
Multi-antenna Millimeter-wave Radars: Algorithms and Performance Analysis
(May 2023)Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radars with multi-antenna systems have become popular in numerous automotive and industrial sensing applications. For these applications, target estimation is a crucial function. However, accurately ... -
Multi-channel Acoustic Signal Processing on Edge Devices
(May 2023)Microphone arrays are useful in determining the space-time structure of an acoustic field. They are widely employed in many popular acoustic signal processing applications, including speech enhancement, speech separation, ... -
Existential Baudelaire in Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre
(May 2023)This dissertation reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Jean-Paul Sartre, Walter Benjamin, and Benjamin Fondane over their philosophical readings of Charles Baudelaire, ... -
Three Chapters on Water Resource Management in Texas
(May 2023)These three chapters on water resource management in Texas highlight how water consumption may change in response to the various management and conservation efforts. These observations of water consumption across different ... -
Diamonds in the Rough: an Outcomes Evaluation of a Juvenile Sexual Exploitation Court
(May 2023)Commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) affects many people across the globe. Of utmost concern is that many children become victims, or are at risk of becoming victims, of sexual exploitation and are often only identified ...
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