Summary: Qualitative interviews were conducted to examine the dynamics of gender roles, tradition, culture, and parental expectations, often influenced by Confucian values, of Korean American first-born or only sons. ...

I ask how Husserl's phenomenological investigations into time-consciousness can contribute to the contemporary debate within analytic metaphysics about the reality of the passage of time. I contend that Husserl's work, ...

One of the challenges to understanding the relationship between genotype and phenotype is that complex phenotypes, such as learning and memory, emerge from interactions amongst groups of genes. Despite its widespread ...

The purpose of this thesis was to verify the Trajectory Pattern Method (TPM) based nonlinear system model parameter identification method for a two degrees of freedom closed loop planar robotic manipulator. The systematic ...

This work presents the design and test of an experiment system for studying a novel CT-guided robotic needle biopsy technique. CT-guided needle biopsy is a dominant method of obtaining tissue samples from lung nodules for ...