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Dissertations from 2020
FINITE ELEMENT BASED METHODOLOGY TO PREDICT FATIGUE COMPRESSION FAILURE IN COMPOSITE BASED ON FIBER KINKING DAMAGE MODEL, Md Saddam Hossain
Analysis of Homeownership Outcomes in the Dallas-Fort Worth Region and Growing Disparities An African American Perspective, Gwendolyn Isokpan
SPATIAL AND DWELLING DETERMINANTS OF ADULT ASTHMA EXACERBATIONS IN THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS REGION, Jinat Jahan
THROUGH THE NARROW GATE: CONDUCT, CONVERSION, AND COMMUNITY IN NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY WOMEN'S NOVELS, Katherine Lee Jones
Why People Remain in Socially Disorganized Communities: A Critique of Social Disorganization Theory, LaSheyla Kajuan Jones
Predictors Of School Functioning And Problem Behaviors In Siblings Of Children With Autism, Sarah Elizabeth Jones
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF COUPLED THERMO-HYDRO BEHAVIOR IN UNSATURATED SOIL, Nice Kaneza
MOLECULAR LEVEL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ULTRA HIGH TEMPERATURE CERAMICS AND THEIR NANOCOMPOSITES, Md Riaz Kayser
ASSESSMENT OF MASS TRANSIT IN MEDELLIN COLOMBIA - A CASE STUDY, Francisco Wilfred Kessler
Variability and Temporal Trends of Semivolatile Organic Compounds in Biological and Environmental Media, Kyunghoon Kim
DEVELOPMENT OF A STRUCTURAL DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR POLYMERIC SPRAY APPLIED PIPE LININGS, Zahra Kohankar Kouchesfehani
NANOPARTICLE-BASED APPROACHES IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, Aneetta E. Kuriakose
The Perceived Benefits of Exposure to Nature Through Birds, Venieca Kusek
NANO-PETROPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OIL WINDOW OF EAGLE FORD SHALE FROM SOUTHWESTERN TO CENTRAL TEXAS, U.S.A., Chad Larsen
WRAITHS AND WHITE MEN: THE IMPACT OF PRIVILEGE ON PARANORMAL REALITY TELEVISION, Antares Russell Leask
EMOTIONAL DEMANDS-ABILITIES (ED-A) FIT, EMOTIONAL LABOR, AND RESOURCE DEPLETION, Joohan Lee
THE CHARISMATIC DOG AND PUBLIC SPACE: ARE DOG PARKS A THIRD PLACE?, Lori Dynette Lee
MODULATION OF PHYSIOLOGIC RESPONSES OF INSULIN SECRETING CELLS USING ELECTRICAL AND PHOTOSTIMULATION, Caleb Nathaniel Liebman
Targeting the Oligomannose Biomarker Present on Distinct Subsets of Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas, Butaek Lim
HYPOID GEAR NOISE AND VIBRATION CONTROL IN AUTOMOTIVE REAR AXLE SYSTEMS, Chia-Ching Lin
Searching for a Pair-Produced Supersymmetric Top Partner Using Recursive Jigsaw Variables and Boosted Decision Trees with 139 fb⁻¹ of Data From the ATLAS Detector, Jared David Little
Mathematical Modeling of Scavengers and Zebras on the African Savanna with Disease Dynamics, Crystal Dawn Mackey
A MOLECULAR SCALE STUDY OF CAVITATION GROWTH AND SHOCK RESPONSE IN SOFT MATERIALS, Khandakar Mahmud
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
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