The one-stop shop for all UTA theses and dissertations written by masters and PhD students for their degree requirements!
Dissertations from 2020
OPTIMIZING L1 LOSS REGULARIZER AND ITS APPLICATION TO EEG INVERSE PROBLEM, Kiran Kumar Mainali
Space Opera: The Aesthetics of Personhood in the Works and Worlds of Philip K. Dick, Gabriel Francis Mamola
Toward Background-Free Methods to Search For Majorana Neutrinos in Xenon Gas, Austin Mcdonald
Nanoparticle-Mediated Controlled Myocardial Drug Delivery: A New Treatment for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Michelle Katherine McGrath Copeland
The Biomechanics of Cardiac Elastin and its Role in Bioengineering, Sara R. McMahan
Investigation of the Impact of Material Models on Reliability Assessment of Electronic Packages, Abel Misrak
QUANTIFYING SHALLOW DEPTH CONCRETE DELAMINATIONS USING IMPACT ECHO, Mantaka Mahjabin Momo
INVERSE PROBLEMS AND FORWARD PROPAGATION OF OPTICAL FLOW, John Montalbo
Mutual Funds: Governance and Holdings, Jason Morrison
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF IMMERSION COOLING ON A SERVER USING AL2O3/MINERAL OIL NANOFLUID, Prajwal Srinivas Murthy
Machine Learning and Deep Learning Applications in Neuroimaging, Gowtham Krishnan Murugesan
Evaluating the Accuracy of Gaze Detection for Moving Character, Sanath Narasimhan
Experimental and numerical study of open bath immersion cooling of microprocessors., Amirreza Niazmand
Classification of Factual and Non-Factual Statements Using Adversarially Trained LSTM Networks, Daniel Obembe
THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE HISTORIES AND PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY ACROSS ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS IN DAPHNIA SP., Michelle Renee Swan Packer
SYNTHESIS, STUDY, AND APPLICATIONS OF HIGHLY FLUORINATED COPPER PYRAZOLATE COMPLEXES OF SMALL ALKENE, ALKYNES AND CARBON MONOXIDE, Devaborniny Parasar
DEVELOPMENT OF REDUCTIVE/OXIDATIVE TREATMENT STRATEGY FOR THE REMOVAL OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS) IN WATER, Akshay Parenky
Theoretical Modeling of Heat and Mass Transfer Processes in Phase Change and Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems, Mohammad Parhizi
FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDIES ON THE PIEZOELECTRICITY AND FERROELECTRICITY OF KNN RELATED MATERIALS, Yuting Peng
An Investigation on the Corrosion Inhibition of Brazing Cu-Ag Alloy, Hooman Rahmani
A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF CO2 EMISSION BETWEEN GASOLINE, ELECTRIC, AND HYBRID VEHICLES: A WELL-TO-WHEEL PERSPECTIVE USING AGENT-BASED MODELING, Mdmamunur Rahman
CORRELATION AND EFFECT OF PROCESS PARAMETERS ON THE PROPERTIES OF INCONEL 718 PARTS FABRICATED BY SELECTIVE LASER MELTING USING RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD, Bharath Bhushan Ravichander
Combating Bacterial Infections with In-Situ Detection and Antibiotic Technology, Paul James Renick
ANALYSIS OF BARRIERS CAUSING DELAY IN POST-HURRICANE RECOVERY: EXPERTS’ VS. PUBLIC’S PERSPECTIVES, Behzad Rouhanizadeh
Strategies for enhancing chromatographic efficiencies in chiral and achiral supercritical and liquid chromatography, Daipayan Roy
A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SUCCESS OF POST-HURRICANE RECONSTRUCTION OF TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES, Elnaz Safapour
"How Good are They?" - A State of the Effectiveness of Anti-Phishing Tools on Twitter, Sayak Saha Roy
Analysis of Complex Data Sets using Multilayer Networks: A Decoupling-based Framework, Abhishek Santra
TAXONOMY, SYSTEMATICS, BIOGEOGRAPHY, AND CONSERVATION OF TOADS (ANURA: BUFONIDAE) IN THE SUNDA SHELF OF INDONESIA, Goutam Chandra Sarker
A study on factors influencing the status of the working poor in welfare states, Chang Hyun Seo
Shah-Dissertation2020-HumanCapitalOfUpperEchelons, Tushar R. Shah
In Situ Sensor Calibration Using Noise Consistency, Shriiesh Var Sharma
LEARNING EMBEDDINGS FOR WEARABLE-BASED HUMAN ACTIVITY ANALYSIS, Taoran Sheng
Microchannel technology in cancer cell confined-migration study and its application in drug screening, Qionghua Shen
On the syntax of West Kalimantan: Asymmetries and A'-movement in Malayic and Land Dayak languages, Carly Joann Sommerlot
OPTIMAL BANDWIDTH SELECTION FOR DECONVOLUTED KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION USING BOOTSTRAP METHOD, Souad Sosa
The Roles of Remote Positive Contact and Reciprocal Intimate Self-Disclosure in Reducing Intergroup Distinctiveness Motives, Jessica J. Stephens
Examining Health and Mental Health Disparities between Sexual Minority Youth and Heterosexual Youth in the United States, Savarra K. Tadeo
Automatic processing of tonal information during visual word recognition in L2 Chinese learners, Rongchao Tang
Experimental investigation of effect of support structure geometry on the microstructure and metallurgical properties of IN718 parts fabricated by selective laser melting, Sourabh Hemant Thakare
IMPACT OF MUSCULAR FATIGUE AND ITS MODULATION USING TRANSCRANIAL PHOTOBIOMODULATION (tPBM) ON THE HUMAN BRAIN MEASURED BY FUNCTIONAL NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY (fNIRS), Elizabeth Lyde Urquhart
Publicly Supported Rental Housing and Affordability for Very Low-Income Suburbanites: A Study of Metropolitan America, Eric Varela
US AND THEM: THE IMPACT OF DIFFERING FOUNDER MINDSETS ON FIRM STRATEGIC ORIENTATION, Manisha M. Vaswani
A Scaling Investigation of Feasibility and Hover Endurance for Electric Quasi Quadrotor Configurations, Budhyant Venepalli
Predictors of Organizational Decoupling in the Context of Corporate Sustainability, Ajith Venugopal
ATTRACTION, TRANSPORT AND RELEASE OF WATER FLEAS’ EPHIPPIA FOR MIGRATION, Xiang Wang
Whole-head functional brain imaging of economic risk decision making and transcranial photobiomodulation with fNIRS and EEG, Hashini I. Wanniarachchi Kankanamalage
Investigation of Computational Determination of Elastic Properties for Silicon Nitride and Silicon Carbonitride Materials, Timothy Aaron West
MAGNETIC HARDENING IN THE TRANSITION METAL NANOPARTICLES AND NANOWIRES, Meiying Xing
In vivo ultrasound-switchable fluorescence imaging and its applications, Tingfeng Yao
Novel Mechanisms of Peripheral Vascular Dysfunction in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Ben Earl Young
ADVANCING HYDROLOGIC AND HYDRAULIC UNDERSTANDING AND APPLICATION THROUGH INUNDATION MAPPING AND ESTIMATION OF LOSSES, Jiaqi Zhang
BRAIN HEALTH AND ACTIVE LIVING: A SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL APPROACH, Xiaoxia Zhang
EXPLORING IOT-BASED APPLICATIONS IN POWER SYSTEMS MONITORING, DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION, Long Zhao
Structured Deep Learning: Theory and Applications, Fangqi Zhu
Multiscale ionospheric electrodynamics and their impacts on the ionosphere-thermosphere system, Qingyu Zhu
Distributed Resilient Control of Multi-agent Systems with Applications to Microgrids, Shan Zuo
BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS IN OPERATIONAL DECISIONS. APPLIED FACTOR INVESTIGATIONS ON THE MICRO (INDIVIDUAL) AND MESO (CLUSTER) LEVELS, Lyudmyla Starostyuk
Business Analytics in the 21st Century from the Perspective of Academic Journals, Qiang Ruan
A Study of Public Parks, Equity, and the Creation of Single Member Council Districts in Dallas, Texas, Annabeth Webb
Inferring Big Five Personality Factors using Text Analysis Its Assessment and Impact on Prosocial Behavior and IS Security Compliance, Bouabre Jean Baptiste Koffi
INSERTION OF ‘GREEN WEBS’ – A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO URBAN TREE PLANTING IN DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, Niveditha Dasa Gangadhar
Public Art Master Planning for Small Towns: A Study in Pilot Point, Texas, Monty McMahen
ESSAYS OF THE POWER OF USER-GENERATED CONTENTS AND ONLINE COMMUNITIES, Yuan Zhang
CFD ANALYSIS ON LIQUID COOLED COLD PLATE USING COPPER NANOPARTICLES, Sarthak Agarwal
Experimental Study of Dynamic Cooling of Racks using Flow Control Devices, FNU Akash
Big Data In Single Player Games, Mohammad Khaldoun Farhan Aldaboubi
TOWARD A SEISMIC RESISTANT STEEL STAGGERED TRUSS FRAMING SYSTEM (STF), Ra'ed Al-mazaidh
Examining Current State of Practice of Enhancing Visibility of Winter Operations Vehicles, Wasiq Ameen
Population and reproductive dynamics of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) in Texas reservoirs: Predicting the sustainability of zebra mussel populations in warmer waters, Heather Mae Arterburn
Special Topics in Natural Languague Processing: MWE Indentification, Opinion Question Answering and Summarization, Aishwarya Ashok
Semi-supervised Learning using Triple-Siamese Network, Debapriya Banerjee
Randomized and Evolutionary Approaches to Dataset Characterization, Feature Weighting, and Sampling in K-Nearest Neighbors, Suryoday Basak
Examining the Concept Images of Function Held by Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers with Varying Levels of Prior Mathematical Experience, Janessa Michele Beach
Imperial Women of Darien: Scottish Migration and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1650-1740, Gina G. Bennett
The Effects of Debt on the Relationship to Psychological and Social Well-Being, Kelley Bevers
Experimental Study of Flexural Behavior of Preflex SFRC-Encased Steel Joist Composite Beams, Niraj Narendra BANKATLAL Bora
An Empirical Examination of Courts of Appeals Judges’ Voting in First Amendment Retaliation Cases Involving Police Officers, Mary Ann Boyd
Modelling PM2.5 concentrations and spatial correlation with weather conditions and adult asthma in north Texas in 2014, Jessica Bullock
FABRICATION AND EXAMINATION OF MAGNETIC BACTERIAL CELLULOSE AS A MATERIAL FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, Xi Chen
Quantification of Nocturnal Blood Pressure Oscillations in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients, Yao Shun Chuang
LIFE ON THE FRONT LINE: STAFF EXPERIENCES HANDLING DISTRESSED STUDENTS AND THEIR PERCEPTIONS ON JOB SATISFACTION, Delcenia R. Collins
Learning Abstractions for Planning, Brian Charles Cook
DAS page replacement algorithm, Ramya Danappa
The Effects of Knee Joint Loading on Dynamic Tasks in Individuals Several Years Post-ACL Reconstruction, Meredith Decker
BLACK SKIN, WHITE MONEY: THE TRANSATLANTIC PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN TO RECOLONIZE WEST AFRICA, 1786 - 1863, Daniel Jason Degges
MEASUREMENT OF CHANGE IN CTE OF PCBS DUE TO SINGLE PHASE IMMERSION COOLING AND IMPACT OF CHANGED PROPERTIES OF PCBS ON SOLDER JOINT RELIABILITY OF BGA PACKAGE, Sameer Hemant Dhandarphale
LEARNING TRANSFERABLE META-POLICIES FOR HIERARCHICAL TASK DECOMPOSITION AND PLANNING COMPOSITION, Predrag Djurdjevic
Engagement and Retention in Depression Treatment among Hispanics in an Integrated Health Care Intervention: A Mixed Methods Analysis, Brittany Hernandez Eghaneyan
THE EFFECT OF CRIME ON RIDERSHIP, AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF HOW TRANSIT STATION NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS PREVENT CRIME AND ENCOURAGE RIDERSHIP, Sahar Esfandyari
Food Affordability: Sustainable Food Center Increasing Food Access Through Double Dollars Incentive, Codie Freeman
PORTABLE ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSING PLATFORM: FROM HARDWARE TO SOFTWARE, Karthik Gangadhara
New Challenges in Social Media Marketing: Exploring the Interaction Effects of Age and Message Format on Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Outcomes, Daniela Chavez Garcia