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Detection and mitigation of biases in large language models through diverse lenses and methods for fairness

Shrestha, Ingroj

Advancements in language models have significantly improved the generation of coherent text. These models, alongside other neural network-based systems, have found success in various downstream applications within Natural Language Processing (NLP), including text classification and chatbot systems, thereby being integr...

Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Activator-Mediator Interactions in Transcription Regulation

Farheen, Nida

The experiences of self-management in Omani community-dwelling older adults with chronic illness

Jaboob, Saida M

Most participants lived with multiple conditions, most commonly hypertension (78.9%), hyperlipidemia (78.9%), and diabetes (73.7%)—and nearly one-fifth were illiterate. Self-management was shaped by process factors, including beliefs, self-regulation skills, and social facilitation. Family support, religious faith, and...

Designing the designer solvent

Lasar, Colleen Barbara

Ionic liquids (ILs) are liquid molecular salts which have melting points below 100 °C that have gained significant attention due to their advantageous physicochemical properties for industrial applications such as chemical separations, anti-corrosion, tribology, drug delivery, energy storage, and fuel cells. IL propert...

THE GLAMOROUS WORKING BODY

Sinha, Arpita

This dissertation investigates the labor of female fashion models in India through a combination of ethnographic and autoethnographic approaches, with particular attention to gendered precarity, health and bodily management (specifically, menstruation), and complicit participation. It traces the emergence of India’s co...

CENTRAL CARBON METABOLISM AND OBGE-MEDIATED CONTROL OF CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS DEVELOPMENTAL TRANSITIONS

Monahan, Colleen Ceja

Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that causes significant disease in humans. Within the species, serovars A-C are associated with blinding ocular infections while serovars D-L are associated with sexually transmitted infections. Blinding ocular infections, known as trachoma, are a pu...

Examining the role of organizational and contextual factors on school counselors’ perceived social determinants of health competency

Middleton, Tevin

Adverse social determinants of health, such as poverty, racism, trauma, and other systemic inequities, negatively impact K-12 students' mental health and educational success. In alignment with other helping professions, there is an explicit call to integrate the social determinants of health across the practice, identi...

Commit to Be Fit: Antecedents and Consequences of Goal-Directed Health and Fitness Technology Use

Li, Yafang

My third essay focuses on understanding individuals' discontinuance and habitual use of fitness trackers from the perspectives of fitness tracker identity and exercise identity. Drawing on Carter and Grover's (2015) theoretical model of IT identity, this research investigates how the technological, personal, and social...

Identification and evaluation of putative pathogens of treponeme-associated hoof disease in free-ranging elk (Cervus canadensis)

Goldsmith, Elizabeth Willis

Treponeme-associated hoof disease (TAHD), an emerging disease causing lameness and apparent increased mortality in free-ranging elk (Cervus canadensis), is characterized by ulceration, hoof overgrowth, and undermining of the heel bulb. TAHD diagnosis and surveillance relies on identification of grossly abnormal hooves...

MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF HOST DEFENSE TO POTATO POWDERY SCAB DISEASE

Jayasinghe, Samodya Kushani

Powdery scab is a significant disease in potato, caused by the obligate biotrophic pathogen Spongospora subterranea f. sp. subterranea (Sss). This pathogen not only causes substantial yield and quality losses but also vectors the potato mop-top virus (PMTV), the causal agent of tuber necrosis. No effective chemical con...