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Theses from 2021
STUDIES ON ENANTIOSELECTIVE DESYMMETRIZING ALKYNE HYDROSILYLATION, Yao Chung Chang
PHOTOCATALYTIC AND PHOTOCHEMICAL DECOMPOSITION OF VARIOUS PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS) IN WATER, Nusrat Chowdhury
MECHANISTIC STUDIES OF F420-DEPENDENT ENZYMES BY KINETIC ANALYSIS, Lindsay A. Davis
DESIGN AND CFD ANALYSIS OF BIMETALLIC BASED PASSIVE DYNAMIC COLD PLATE FOR HIGH POWER DIRECT-TO-CHIP LIQUID COOLING, Apurv Pravin Deshmukh
PARENT ENGAGEMENT IN AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES: PRE-COVID AND PERI-COVID PERSPECTIVES OF SCHOOL EFFORTS, Arin D. Dixon
ASSESSMENT OF THE POTENTIAL OF SELF-INCORPORATION AS A SOLUTION TO ROADWAY MAINTENANCE IN TEXAS COLONIAS, Moise Dzogolo
INVESTIGATING THE MICROEVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES THAT PROMOTE AND MAINTAIN BIODIVERSITY AND TRAIT NOVELTY, Thomas Joseph Firneno
AGENT-BASED MODEL SIMULATION FOR POLICE DEPLOYMENT DECISION-MAKING IN PATROL OPERATIONS, Yasaman Ghasemi
EFFECT OF THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY, REYNOLDS NUMBER, ASPECT RATIO AND PACKING ARRANGEMENT ON RADIAL HEAT TRANSFER IN PACKED BEDS, Nishith Gorla
DEVELOPMENT OF VIRTUAL SIMULATION FOR EVALUATION OF ROBOTIC ASSISTIVE ENVIRONMENT, Shubham Raosaheb Gunjal
STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE OF DISTRESSED CAST-IN-PLACE CONCRETE BRIDGE RETAINING WALL, Karzan MS Habeeb
A NEW GEOTHERMAL BRIDGE DE-ICING SYSTEM WITH ATTACHED HYDRONIC HEATING LOOPS: FIELD TESTS, NUMERICAL MODELING, AND ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT, Omid Habibzadeh Bigdarvish
Modeling of hydrogen sulfide generation and rates of microbial induced concrete corrosion in manhole shafts, Sunakshi Hada
A STUDY OF DISPROPORTIONALITY IN DISCIPLINE FOR BLACK GIRLS IN TEXAS: DOES DISTRICT TYPE MATTER?, Tonelli L. Hatley
MICROPOLITAN VS METROPOLITAN: AN EXAMINATION OF CITY SIZE AND POLICE FUNDING IN TEXAS, William Casey Heath
DETERMINATION OF THE KINETIC ROLES OF THE MEMBRANE IN THE CATALYSIS OF RASGEFS BY USING AN ENGINEERED MODEL PROTEIN, Hanh My Hoang
REPRESENTATION AND STRATEGY LEARNING FOR VARIABLE-SIZE TREE TRANSFORMATION USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING, Shirin Hosseini Shirvani
FORMATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN CONTRACT: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT, Lei Hua
HAPTIC INTERFACE OPTIMIZATION FOR VIRTUAL ANASTOMOSIS SURGERY TRAINING, Kangji Huang
WORKING COLLEGE STUDENTS: HOW WORK DEMANDS, PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS, AND HEALTH IMPACT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, Ryan Paul Hulla
SELF-REGULATION OF BOUNDARIES FOR THRIVING, ENRICHMENT, AND BALANCE ACROSS THE WORK-NONWORK INTERFACE, Shelia A. Hyde
WI-FI-BASED INDOOR LOCALIZATION USING MODEL-BASED AND DATA-DRIVEN APPROACHES, Ayoub Idelhaj
DOMAIN ADAPTIVE TRANSFER LEARNING FOR VISUAL CLASSIFICATION, Ashiq Imran
REUSING OF RECYCLED PLASTIC AS PAVEMENT BASE AND SUB-BASE MATERIALS, Tanvir Imtiaz
EFFECTIVENESS OF RECYCLED PLASTIC PIN FOR IMPROVING BEARING CAPACITY OF EMBANKMENT OVER SOFT SOIL, Md Azijul Islam
IMPROVED FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS BY THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF THE CATALYST, Seyed Amir Jafari Ghoreshi
MACHINE LEARNING METHODS TO IMPROVE FAIRNESS AND PREDICTION ACCURACY ON LARGESOCIALLY RELEVANT DATASETS, Bhanu Chaturvedi Jain
PRINCIPAL RETENTION: THE PERCEPTIONS OF VETERAN SECONDARY PRINCIPALS WHO REMAIN IN THEIR ROLES AS INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERS, Coletha Tucker Johnson
THE VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MILLENNIALS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY, Kapreta J. Johnson
COMPRESSIVE DECONVOLUTION OF MRI IMAGING VIA ℓ1 − ℓ2 REGULARIZATION, Talon Johnson
MODELING CAPACITY: MULTIPLE WEAVING AREAS, Sheida Khademi
OPTIMIZING THE DEMAND AND DISTRIBUTION OF POWER IN SMART GRIDS, Saifullah Khalid
STRESS ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS, Nilabh Krishna
Causes of Driver Distraction and Incidents at Signalized Intersections, Zannatulferdous Labony
HEALING THE TRAUMA OF SEX TRAFFICKED WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES: A SCOPING REVIEW, Erin Marie Laney
Development of a Model to Prioritize Inspection and Condition Assessment of Gravity Sanitary Sewer Systems, Karthikeyan Loganathan
SCHUBERT AND HIS ILLUSTRIOUS REPETITIVE NATURE, Nathan Edward Lowe
NEW FLEXIBLE MOLDABLE ION-EXCHANGE POLYMERS AND THEIR ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS, Fereshteh Maleki
TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL SUPPORTS THAT HELP BRIDGE THE SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT GAP FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY, Monica Esquivel Manning
URBAN HOMICIDE IN GLOBAL SOUTH: A STUDY ON HOMICIDE CHANGES OF CAPITAL DHAKA OF BANGLADESH, Syed Mahfujul Haque Marjan
OBJECT CLASSICATION, DETECTION AND STATE ESTIMATION USING YOLO V3 DEEP NEURAL NETWORK AND SENSOR FUSION OF STEREO CAMERA AND LIDAR, Kamalkumar Bharatkumar Mehta
Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Nanoparticle Delivery of Notch Intracellular Domain Plasmid to Restore Notch Signaling, Victoria L. Messerschmidt
GENETIC INNOVATION THROUGH GENE DUPLICATION IN DROSOPHILA, Seyedeh Mirsalehi
THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF THERMAL CONDUCTION IN ELECTROCHEMICAL AND LATENT HEAT ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS, Amirhossein Mostafavi
DECOUPLING-BASED APPROACH TO CENTRALITY DETECTION IN HETEROGENEOUS MULTILAYER NETWORKS, Kiran Mukunda
HOW DOES GLOBAL-LOCAL IDENTITY IMPACT CONSUMER DECISION-MAKING, Xiaodong Nie
LIUTEX AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR FLUID TRANSITION, Charles Matthew Nehemiah Nottage
A MULTIFACETED VIEW OF CAREER CHOICE AND WORK OUTCOMES OF NURSES IN HEALTHCARE, Ifeyimika Oluwadamilola Ogunyomi
DECONVOLVING KERNEL REGRESSION FUNCTION ESTIMATION BASED ON RIGHT CENSORED DATA, Erol Ozkan
LOCALIZED BANDS AND THEIR EFFECTS IN THE STRONGLY CORRELATED d AND f ELECTRON SYSTEMS: A FIRST PRINCIPLES STUDY, Hori Pada Sarker
DESIGNING REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES PRODUCING MATERIALS FOR CANCER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENTS, Nil Kanatha Pandey
PORCINE NEONATAL HEART EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX AS A REGENERATION PLATFORM, Karla Perez
Mediating Effect of Cognitive Function on Health-Related Quality of Life Among Older Adults with Cardiovascular Disease in the United States, Julie K. Peterson-Newman
MODELING THE EFFECT OF IN SITU NOZZLE-INTEGRATED COMPRESSION ROLLING ON THE MECHANICAL AND FRACTURE BEHAVIOR OF FUSED FILAMENT FABRICATION (FFF) 3D PRINTED PARTS, Momen Mohammad Qasaimeh
CHEMICAL AND GENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE, Mustafi Raisa Amin
ADAPTIVE ACTIVATIONS AND SHIFT INVARIANCE IN SHALLOW CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS, Chinmay Appa Rane
CHARACTERIZATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES IN THERMOPLASTIC FFF PARTS USING IN-SITU ANNEALING, Rhugdhrivya Rane
Machine Learning Framework for Nonlinear and Interaction Relationships Involving Categorical and Numerical Features, Shirish Mohan Rao
TARGETED AND UNTARGETED CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY METHODS FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE ANALYSIS, Hailee Elizabeth Ratcliffe
TUNING THE SOLUBILITY, CELLULAR-UPTAKE AND ACTIVITY OF MICROTUBULE STABILIZING RUTHENIUM POLYPYRIDYL COMPLEXES, Melissa Marie Reardon
GENOMIC STRUCTURE AND DIVERSITY IN NEOTROPICAL HERPETOFAUNA: THE ROLE OF DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY AND GENE FLOW, Danielle George Rivera
THE MODERATING EFFECT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ESSENTIALISM ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERGROUP CONTACT WITH ATHEISTS AND OUTGROUP ATTITUDES, Brock C. Rozich
Ontological (Free) Agency: the Erasure, Commodification, and Autonomy of Black Athletes, Abraham Yabar Salinas
LAMINAR SWEPT AND CROSS SHOCKWAVE/BOUNDARY-LAYER INTERACTIONS, Jiss Jacob Sebastian
DEVELOPMENT OF NON-PRESTRESSED UHP-FRC GIRDERS FOR LONG-SPAN BRIDGES WITH DCSR DESIGN CONCEPT AND COLLAPSE ASSESSMENT OF SMFS WITH CALIBRATED RC AND UHP-FRC COLUMNS BASED ON FULL-SCALE EXPERIMENTS, Seyed Missagh Shamshiri Guilvayi
LIUTEX-BASED VORTEX IDENTIFICATION METHODS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN DNS STUDY OF FLAT PLATE BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITION, Pushpa Shrestha
DESIGN, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS IN DATA CENTER THERMAL MANAGEMENT, Ashwin Siddarth
A NOVEL SUPERVISED DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION METHOD: INTEGRATING PCA WITH SVM, Faezeh Soleimani
Computational Investigation of Energy Dissipation through Progressive Failure in Tailored Composite Structures via Explicit Finite Element Analysis, Anirudh Srinivas
GLUCOSE GEL AS A TREATMENT FOR NEONATAL HYPOGLYCEMIA, Karen Christine Stanzo
A BEHAVIORAL OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT STUDY OF MARKET POWER AND FUZZY RETURN, Jingjie Su
Crip Mothering: Representation of Disability and Motherhood in Post-1980 American Films, Mohammed Ali H. Sumili
KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, SKILLS, AND SOCIAL IDENTITY: EXPERIENCES OF SOCIAL WORK FACULTY IN MANAGING CONTROVERSIAL CLASSROOM DISCUSSIONS, Tiara Anice Thomas
POSTHUMAN NURTURING IN AMERICAN LITERARY FUTURITIES, Andrew Ryan Tolle
EVALUATION OF A PERSONAL MOBILE TRAINER SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR FACILITATING EXERCISE THERAPY FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY PATIENTS, Ahmad Fawzi G Turki
PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SILVER AND COPPER VANADATES, Abbas Vali
ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF MINE TAILING-BASED CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS IN DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES: CURRENT PRACTICES AND WAYS FORWARD, Jose Raul Velasquez Vasquez
ON DIFFERENT COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS FOR BOX-COX TRANSFORMATION CURE RATE MODEL, Pei Wang
TOP LEGAL EXECUTIVES AND MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS PROCESS AND OUTCOMES, Suye Wang
FROM HUMBLE BRAGS TO INSINCERE FLATTERY: AN EXAMINATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT, Julia Hylton Whitaker
CONTINUOUSLY RENEWED COPPER ELECTRODE FOR AMPEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF CARBOHYDRATES, Shane R. Wilson
MACROMODELING AND ACCELERATED SIMULATIONS OF ELECTRIC MACHINES, Ajay Pratap Yadav
SHAPE-BASED TIME SERIES MINING FOR PROCESS MONITORING AND ANOMALY DETECTION, Li Zhang
TREATMENTS OF CONTAMINANTS FROM HYDRAULIC FRACTURING: A STUDY OF THE ATTITUDES OF PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS THE USE OF PHYTOREMEDIATION METHODS IN TARRANT COUNTY, Melissa Rubi Lemuz
EVALUATING DALLAS COUNTY LANDFILLS FOR PUBLIC AMENITY: REPURPOSING THE CITY OF GRAND PRAIRIE LANDFILL THROUGH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, Elena E. Naccari
CLASSIFYING DESIRE PATHS UTILIZING A CAMPUS MASTER PLAN STUDY: A METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING URBAN DESIGN FLAWS, Michael Shuey
CULTIVATING A SENSE OF PLACE THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL LANDSCAPES: THE REDESIGN OF DOWNTOWN PROSPER, TEXAS, Nicole Palmer Simonini
TRANSFORMING A TYPICAL FLEA MARKET INTO A MORE VITAL THIRD PLACE THROUGH EXPRESSIONS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY, Nusrat Jahan Nipu
PREDICT BEHAVIOURAL SCORES IN SLEEP APNEA PATIENTS FROM RESTING STATE NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY (fNIRS), Amnah Abdelrahman
THERMAL DESIGN ANALYSIS OF SERVER CHASSIS MANIFOLDS FOR LIQUID COOLED SERVERS USING CFD, Kaustubh Kantilal Adsul
ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF VACCINATION AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE ON OUTBREAKS OF EMERGING RESPIRATORY DISEASES, Mohammed Hameed Alharbi
DEEP LEARNING METHODS FOR IMAGE RESTORATION AND RECONSTRUCTION, Zahra Anvari
METAL NANODENDRITES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS AS 3D SURFACE ENHANCED SCATTERING (SERS) SUBSTRATES, Aseem Athavale
CHARACTERIZATION OF MSW AND PLASTIC WASTE VOLUME ESTIMATION DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Sehneela Sara Aurpa