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Dissertations from 2022
Hierarchical microstructures to overcome the conflict between strength and toughness of hard coatings: TiN/Ni as a model system, Ignacio Lopez Cabanas
Identifying Loss, Animating Melancholy: Asian-American Narratives in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Spirited Away, and Bao, Jered Connery Mabaquiao
Signatures of Genome Evolution in Two Divergent Lizard Species from Texas, Jose A. Maldonado
ELEVATED CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK IN BLACK FEMALES: THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND NOVEL PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES, Zachary Thomas Martin
The effects of digital civic engagement training on the political knowledge and internal political efficacy of social work students, Christian Andrew Mason
Data Fusion for Non-motorized Volume Estimation: A Machine Learning Approach, Md. Mintu Miah
What is the state of the literature about robotic animal use among older adults receiving hospice or palliative care?, Allyson Miles
CHANDRA EJECTA KINEMATICS STUDIES AND AN ISO SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SUPERNOVA REMNANTS, Matthew James Millard
Asian Modernities: The Historical Unconscious in Asian and Asian American Literatures, Amanda Brooke Monteleone
Reducing Disparities in Physical Activity and Early Child Development: A Systematic and Observational Approach, Samantha Moss
Experimental Study of Flow Characteristics and Geometry of Scour Hole Around Cylindrical Piers Subject to Wave and Current, Qazi Ashique E Mowla
Experimental Study of Flow Characteristics and Geometry of Scour Hole Around Cylindrical Piers Subject to Wave and Current, Qazi Ashique E Mowla
Niche and dispersal effects on biodiversity, community composition and species co-occurrences in stream ecosystems, Joseph Leonardo Mruzek
Interactions of Vortices with Differing Creation Mechanisms in the Wake of a Normal Flat Plate-Delta Flat Plate Couple: A Numerical Study., Cheruvateth Vivek Nair
Investigating the Short-term and Long-term Impact of COVID-19 on Cardiovascular Health, Damsara Nandadeva
Three essays on international mutual fund flows, Anh Tuan Nguyen
NOVEL NANOPARTICLES TO STIMULATE THERAPEUTIC ANGIOGENESIS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASES, Tam Phung Nguyen
Designing Better Experiences Through Storytelling: Two Essays Examining the Application of Storytelling in Service Design and its Impact on Customer and Service Offering-Related Outcomes, Olamide Temitope Olajuwon Ige
Positive Ageing and Death or Dying: A Scoping Review, Robin Otto
Model Development for User Behavior While Adopting Autonomous Vehicles as Their On-Demand Transportation Mode, Ronik Ketankumar Patel
Abrading the enigma of the wound healing process: Modeling the inflammation, proliferation, and maturation stage, Amanda Patrick
Pressure Ulcer Risk Factors Associated with Level of Paralysis in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury: Analysis of the National Spinal Cord Injury Database, DonnaLee Pollack
Towards high performance cancer staging from histology images, Ashwin Raju
HAND ANALYSIS FROM DEPTH IMAGES, Mohammad Rezaei
Infrared and Fluorescent Thermal Imaging and Thermal Transport Characterization of Engineering Devices and Systems, Swapnil Suryakant Salvi
Integrating Environmental Contamination Perceptions of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining into Environmental Responses across Spatial Scales, Michelle Schwartz
Cold Plate Based Dynamic Liquid Cooling at Data Center and Chip Level, Pardeep Shahi
EVALUATION OF DECISION-MAKING PREDICTION MODELS FOR SEWER PIPES ASSET MANAGEMENT, Salar Shirkhanloo
Female Labor Force Participation and Intimate Partner Violence among Married Women in Nepal, Nibedita Shrestha
Design of Crack Attenuating Mix using Waste Plastic, Shruti Singh
INVESTIGATING GENE EXPRESSION CHANGES IN DAPHNIA: THE ROLE OF EMS-INDUCED MUTATIONS AND REPRODUCTIVE MODES, Marelize Snyman
MULTI-OBJECTIVE AERO/MECHANICAL DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF GP TURBINE BLADES PLATFORM CONTOUR USING ADJOINT SOLVER AND IMPACT ON SECONDARY LOSSES, Mostafa Soliman
ADVANCING THE RADIATION ONCOLOGY CLINIC WITH MOTION MANAGEMENT AND AUTOMATIC TREATMENT PLANNING, Damon Anton Sprouts
What is the current state of literature regarding the effectiveness of Buprenorphine for opioid use disorder among African American men?, Tamiko L. Stanley
Sustainable and Inclusive Engineering: The Use of Mentors and Sustainable Remediation to Increase the Presence of Underrepresented Groups in Engineering, Nathaniel L. Steadman
Mind Broadening: Cognitive States and Traits Associated with Intrapersonal Creativity and Diverse Cultural Experiences, Jessica J. Stephens
Development of Multi Criteria Decision-Making Model to Evaluate the Adoption Effectiveness of Electronic Ticketing (e-Ticketing) in Highway Construction Projects, Karthik Subramanya
A HYBRID SYSTEMS MODEL FOR EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT BOARDING MANAGEMENT, Eniola Oluwasola Suley
Engineering Elastic and Functional Electrospun Nano-Fibers for Potential Heart Repair, Alan Mark Taylor
CUSTOMER MISTREAMENT, THIRD PARTY OBSERVERS, AND EMOTIONAL LABOR: AN EXPLORATION OF THE PHENOMENON OF BREAKING CHARACTER, Nicolina LeeAnn Taylor
AGE, PROVENANCE AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS OF LATE PALEOZOIC VOLCANIC TUFFS IN SOUTHWEST LAURENTIA, Hepeng Tian
ACADEMIC INTEGRATION AND SELF-REGULATION STRATEGIES IN PRECALCULUS AND CALCULUS I, Kyle Russell Turner
Researching Appointment Robbery: Voices from the Street, Arthur Gregory Vasquez
Researching Appointment Robbery: Voices from the Street, Arthur Gregory Vasquez
LASSO Based State Transition Modeling with Interactions in Adaptive Interdisciplinary Pain Management, Amith Viswanatha
CHIRALITY IN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND ITS ROLE IN THE STANDARD MODEL AND BEYOND, Timothy Blake Watson
An Intimate Relationship: Medical Theory, The Environment, And Hospitals, Devin Williams
Artificial Operators: Function and Use in English, Emily AE Williams
Post-Factum Studies in Trans-corporeal Rhetoric: Triangularities of Genre, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Kenneth Burke and Michel Foucault, Hubert Woodson
TOWARDS SECURITY AWARE CROWDSOURCING, Mingyan Xiao
Effective Sequence Models and Graph Neural Networks for Molecular Data Analysis, Chaochao Yan
Stimuli-Responsive Peptide Self-Assembly for Therapeutic Delivery, Su Yang
THE ROLE OF TEMPORARY INSTALLATIONS TOWARDS PERMANENCY IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, Paul D. Spittle
Affordable Autonomous Vehicles for Deployment after Disastrous Events, Shannon Abolmaali
Quantized Enveloping Superalgebra of Type P, Saber Murad Ahmed
NURSING STUDENTS’ CULTURAL AWARENESS AND HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATION SKILLS, Shorok Hamed M Alahmedi
Spaced Retrieval Improves Retention And Transfer Of Foreign Vocabulary, Durna Alakbarova
THE INFLUENCE OF DARK AND POSITIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS ON DYADIC AND INDIVIDUAL CREATIVITY, Shaikha Salman Aldousari
LEARNING CAUSAL BOUNDS USING MARGINAL INDEPENDENCE INFORMATION WITH APPLICATIONS TO GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS, Borzou Alipourfard
Using antipatterns to improve database code fragments, and utilizing knowledge graphs and NLP patterns to extract standardized data element names, Bader Alshemaimri
Investigation of F420-dependent glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase variants using pH profiles and stopped-flow spectrometric ligand-binding methods, Ana Laura Alvarez
The Frames and Tactics of the Women's Representation Movement, Desiree Alvarez
Shared Decision-Making Decision Aid Intervention to Improve Diabetes Medication Adherence, David Baba
Evaluation and Modeling of Power System Components, Zachary Ryan Bailey
Asset Management of Wastewater Interceptors Adjacent to Bodies of Water, Mohammad Bani Fawwaz
EARNINGS MANAGEMENT IN RESPONSE TO FAIR TREATMENT: THE ROLES OF ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY AND MORAL IDENTITY, Kimberly M. Bates
COMPUTATIONAL RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF BLIND MICRO-VIA WITH 3D AND AXISYMMETRIC MULTI-LAYER PCB, Jayendra Bazaru
Evaluating Headstarting as a Conservation Strategy for Anegada Rock Iguanas (Cyclura pinguis), Kelly Allison Bradley
You are What you Turk: Empirically Testing an eLance Work Design Model, Traci Megan Bricka
Charles Griffes's Piano Sonata as Emblematic of Mature Style, Jacob A. Browning
Development of Algorithms to Analyze Electrogastrography (EGG) for Neonatal Gastrointestinal Development and Electroencephalography (EEG) for Effects of LED-based Pre-frontal Light Stimulation, Akhil Mahendra M Chaudhari
POWER ALLOCATION AND MASSIVE MIMO CHANNEL MODELING FOR 5G WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, Zhangliang Chen
NOVEL NANOCOMPOSITES FOR THE TREATMENT OF LUNG INFECTIONS, Uday Kumar Chintapula
Camp Wolters: A History of the US Army's Relationship with Mineral Wells, Texas, Stacy E. Croushorn
DISTRACTION DETECTION AND INTENTION RECOGNITION FOR GESTURE-CONTROLLED UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE OPERATION, Debayan Datta
Synthesis and Function of Ion-Selective Single-Molecule Fluorescent Imaging Molecules and Materials, Alena A. Denisenko
Exploring Deep Learning in Finance, Abhijit Anand Anand Deshpande
The Medicalization of Communication: An Analysis of the Policies and Educational Practices Surrounding Patient and Physician Interaction, Ramona JewelMaria Dorough
Sexual Consent: Conceptualizations, Practices, and Education Among Texas High School Students, Erica Joy Favor
UNCERTAIN TIMES IN AN ALREADY UNCERTAIN CONTEXT: FOSTER PARENTING STRESS & RESILIENCE DURING COVID-19, Erin M. Findley
Making Selves as We Make Scholars: The Many Uses of Life Writing in College English, Lindsey Rose Gendke
Human Behavior Modeling in Long Videos: Drowsiness Detection and Action Segmentation, Reza Ghoddoosian
INVESTIGATION OF THE CELLULAR UPTAKE AND CYTOTOXICITY OF RUTHENIUM(II) POLYPYRIDYL COMPLEXES AS A FUNCTION OF LIPOPHILICITY, Matthew Guerrero
The timing of insider trading and management forecast credibility, Xiaozhe Gu
SURFACE FLASHOVER UNDER VARIOUS SURFACE CONDITIONS, Bradley A. Hannum
Working for Peanuts: Labor, Geography, and Class Composition in the American Circus Industry, 1872-1938, William James Hansard
RESILIENT OR VULNERABLE? THE GEOGRAPHY OF CRIME AND ITS IMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH IN URBAN COMMUNITIES, Qian He
THE EVOLUTION OF NEUROSENSORY STRUCTURES: EVALUATING ECOLOGICAL DRIVERS OF BRAIN AND EYE SIZE VARIATION, Kaitlyn J. Howell
Quantitative Non-Destructive Evaluation of Rebar Corrosion in Concrete, Khadiza Binte Jalal
VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF POWER CONVERTERS FOR USE IN FUTURE POWER SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES, Alexander Johnston
Does Experiencing and Witnessing Violence Negatively Impact Delinquency throughout the Life Course?, Treshure Dene Jones
HYDRODYNAMIC FORCES ON STREAM-CROSSING BRIDGES – CONSIDERATION OF FLOW PARAMETERS, BRIDGE GEOMETRY, AND DEBRIS, Shah Md Imran Kabir
Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers, Akhil Raj Kumar Kalapala
Mechanistic insights into Gram-negative envelope remodeling for protection against severe outer membrane defects, Katie N. Kang
AUTONOMOUS AERIAL VEHICLES DISTRIBUTED CONTROL AND INTERACTIVE GAMES, Yusuf Kartal