The one-stop shop for all UTA theses and dissertations written by masters and PhD students for their degree requirements!
Theses from 2019
THE BENEFITS of INTERACTION WITH ENVIRONMENTS CREATED FOR ATTRACTING BIRDS ON PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA, Mahsa Yari
SERVICE LIFE PREDICTION AND RISK ANALYSIS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE GRAVITY FLOW PIPES USING RELIABILITY THEORY, Khaled Saleh Abuhishmeh
INVESTIGATION OF GAS- AND LIQUID-PHASE SEWER ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS LEADING TO MICROBIALLY-INDUCED CONCRETE CORROSION, Aiswarya Acharath Mohanakrishnan
WHO CARES ABOUT MODELS WHEN YOU HAVE GENOMES?, Richard Hunter Adams
NANO-PETROPHYSICS OF AVALON SHALE OF THE DELAWARE BASIN OF WEST TEXAS & SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO, Arinze Collins Adon
History-matching and Forecasting of Three Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs Using Decline Analyses and Type Curves, Hammad Ahmed
UNDERSTANDING SCALP EEG IN RESPONSE TO NEWSVENDOR DECISION-MAKING AND FEEDBACK, Mobasshir Hossain Akash
BEHAVIORAL EXPLANATIONS OF INVESTORS’ TRADING IN FINANCIAL MARKETS, Mohammed Saad H Alhashim
BETTER, BUSIER, OR STRESSED OUT? EXPLORING SOCIAL MEDIA-INDUCED TECHNOSTRESS IN A SALES CONTEXT, Hayam Qasem Alnakhli
TRACING PALEOZOIC SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENT DISPERSAL TO THE FORT WORTH AND MIDLAND BASINS: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOGEOGRAPHY AND ORGANIC MATTER ACCUMULATION, Ohood Bader Al salem
Balancing the Theoretical Toolkit: A Quantitative Examination of Social Mobility and Culture, Nathan Cole Baggett
IMPLEMENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF XCACHE ON SOUTHWEST TIER 2 CLOUD CLUSTER FOR LARGE HADRON COLLIDER ATLAS EXPERIMENT, Priyam Banerjee
ECONOMICAL DESIGN OF COLD-RESISTANT BIOGAS DIGESTERS FOR DEGRADING HOUSEHOLD WASTE IN MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, Sunita Baniya
THERMAL DESTRATIFICATION OF AIR STREAMS TO IMPROVE THE COOLING PROVISIONING OF AIR-COOLED DATA CENTERS, Anto Joseph Barigala Charles Paulraj
A FIRST PRINCIPLES BASED APPROACH TO STABILIZE Cu2S FOR EFFICIENT SOLAR ABSORBER MATERIAL, Sajib Kumar Barman
SYNTHESIS AND REACTIVITY OF π-CONJUGATED TRIAZENES, Horacio Enrique Barragan Peyrani
The evolution of complexity: tests of the ecological drivers of eye size evolution in nature, Shannon Marie Beston
UAV: Trajectory Generation and Simulation, Neha Bhushan
On Optimizing the Sum of Rayleigh Quotients on the Unit Sphere, Aohud Abdulrahman Binbuhaer
PRODUCTION OF LIQUID FUELS FROM NATURAL GAS: SIMULATION OF SYNTHESIS GAS AND FISCHER-TROPSCH REACTORS, Saiedeh Arabi Bolaghi
Learning Representations Using Reinforcement Learning, Sourabh Bose
BLACK STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF CAMPUS CLIMATE AT A RACIALLY MIXED INSTITUTION, Melissa Ann Brown
DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF GERMANIUM-BASED GUIDED-MODE RESONANCE INFRARED REFLECTORS AND GOLD-BASED NANOCAVITY PLASMONIC ARRAYS, Daniel John Carney
DECODING THE JOLLY GREEN GIANT: AN ANALYSIS OF GREEN GENTRIFICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF RAILS-TO-TRAILS POLICY, Lorin R. Carter
TWO CRETACEOUS TALES OF THE LAND AND THE SEA, Puloma Chakrabarty
ELECTROEXTRACTION ACROSS DROPLET-DROPLET INTERFACE, Subhadeep Chakraborti
Nano-Petrophysical Properties of the Bone Spring and the Wolfcamp Formation in the Delaware Basin, New Mexico, USA., Ashley Chang
Say Sorry or Stay Quiet: The Effect of Leader Recovery Strategies on Followers, Pratibha Deepak
The Effects of Temporal Contraction and Temporal Dilation on Cognitive Performance, Amandeep Singh Dhaliwal
IDENTIFICATION OF LEGAL AND POLICY BARRIERS TO TIMELY POST-DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION AND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT FOR EFFECTIVE RECOVERY PROCESSES IN UNITED STATES, Vaibhav Dhamangaonkar
DESIGN, EVALUATION, AND MODELING OF MEDIUM VOLTAGE DC ENERGY CONVERSION TESTBED WITH EMPHASIS ON ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE, David Alan Dodson
Self-Solicitation of a Provisional Self: The Dark Triad and Spontaneous Self-Concept Content, Stephen M. Doerfler
The Impact of a Veteran Identity Among Key Personnel on Successful Outcomes in Veteran Treatment Courts, Jason D. Flake
COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS FOR THERMAL OPTIMIZATION OF SERVER FOR SINGLE - PHASE IMMERSION COOLING, Dhruvkumar Vimalkumar Gandhi
The Effects of the Stereochemistry of Ruthenium (II) Polypyridyl Complexes on Microtubules as Targets for Chemotherapy, Radhiyah Himawan
LEAF, BARK, THORN, ROOT: ARBOREAL ECOCRITICISM AND SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA, Jason Charles Hogue
PERFORMANCE OF CONCRETE SLABS WITH EMBEDDED HYDRONIC LOOPS FOR GEOTHERMALLY BASED BRIDGE DE-ICING APPLICATIONS, Mark Hurley
EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF N-MODEL METHODOLOGY, Mehrab Irani
Ethical Climate and Corporate Social Responsibility, Jelisa Jones
Dual Credit as a Key to Preparation: Exploring Dual Credit as a College Readiness Strategy, Rachel Elizabeth Jones
Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Portfolio Management, Nitin Kanwar
PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT AND THE PATH PLANNING OF SAFE TASK-AWARE AUTONOMOUS RESILIENT SYSTEMS (STAARS), Uluhan Cem Kaya
INVESTIGATION OF THE SURFACE TOPOLOGY CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH FATIGUE, Randall D. Kelton
Experimental investigation of concrete breakout strength of anchors in shear within fiber reinforced concrete, Mohammad Akram Khanfar
ULTRA-CONTEXT: MAXIMIZING THE CONTEXT FOR BETTER IMAGE CAPTION GENERATION, Ankit Khare
The Hip-Spine Effect: How Pathological Femoro-Pelvic Interactions Contribute to Abnormal Lumbar Spine Loading, Anthony Nicholas Khoury
SHALE GAS/OIL RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION AND MATURITY DETERMINATION BASED ON VARIOUS EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSES, Md Golam Kibria
FROM TRAINING TO REHABILITATION: ANIMAL-ASSISTED INTERVENTION FOR INMATES, Alan Kunz Lomelin
Community College Stigmatization: Perceptions of Vertical Transfer Students at the University Level, Melissa Laird
Community Ecology and Population Dynamics of the Nearshore Marine Fauna in the Middle Atlantic Bight (USA), Juan Carlos Levesque
ULTRA-SMALL GOLD NANOPARTICLES BY GALVANIC REPLACEMENT OF LARGER SILVER NANOPARTICLES, Chang Ting Lin
Spatial Decision Support Systems Use in Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Analysis: Spatial Analysis for U.S. Army Civil Affairs Civil Information Management, Earnest R. Lloyd
Cornflakes, God, and Circumcision: John Harvey Kellogg and Transatlantic Health Reform, Austin Eli Loignon
ClaimPortal: Building a Social Media Analytics System for Assisting Fact-Checking, Sarthak Majithia
Onboard Payload Mass Estimation and Electric Propulsion Modeling for Multicopters with Application in Unmanned Aerial Systems, Abel Martinez Martinez
Onboard Payload Mass Estimation and Electric Propulsion Modeling for Multicopters with Application in Unmanned Aerial Systems, Abel Martinez Martinez Martinez
BORN OR MADE: PROBLEMS OF PROSE STYLE & STYLISTIC IMPROVABILITY AT THE SENTENCE LEVEL, AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, Hope Petrash McCarthy
Real-Time Multi-Pulse Rectifier Models for Power Hardware-In-The-Loop Implementation in Medium Voltage DC Microgrid Applications, Brian J. McRee
Amat's "Guitarra Española" and its Influence on Music Theory, Ruben Melendez
TRANSPORTATION, SOCIAL SUPPORT, FAMILY VISITATION, AND DEPRESSION OF RESIDENTS IN NURSING HOMES: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY, Vivian J. Miller
Simulation Modelling of Thermal Runaway propagation in Li Ion batteries, Dhananjay Mishra
Directive/Facilitative Commenting in the Disciplines and its Effects on Student Revision, Christina Montgomery
Characterization of 3D printed PLA with the help of Mechanical, Di-electric and X-ray Diffraction techniques, Sai Sri Nidhi Munaganuru
Nano-petrophysics of the Marcellus Formation in Pennsylvania, USA, Christina Marie Munoz
NANO-PETROPHYSICS OF THE DEAN, SPRABERRY, AND WOLFCAMP FORMATIONS OF THE MIDLAND BASIN, Nabil Mzee
EVALUATION OF BEST PRACTICES FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF SLOPE REPAIR METHODS IN TEXAS, Milad Nabaei
DESIGNING HIGHLY-EFFICIENT DEDUPLICATION SYSTEMS WITH OPTIMIZED COMPUTATION AND I/O OPERATIONS, Fan Ni
A Comparison of Discrete Damage Modeling Methods: the Effect of Stacking Sequence on Progressive Failure of the Skin Laminate in a Composite Pi-joint Subject to Pull-off Load, Joseph Keith Novak
Electrochemical Energy Storage Integration Challenges Within High Voltage Distributed Generation Power System Architectures, Charles N. Nybeck
MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF ZIKA VIRUS TRANSMISSION AND MULTIPLE PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS, Omomayowa Olawoyin
TEEN DATING VIOLENCE VICTIMIZATION AND SCHOOL OUTCOMES: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIORS, Bernadette K. Ombayo
FROM BODY TO BRAIN: USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO IDENTIFY USER SKILLS & INTENTIONS IN INTERACTIVE SCENARIOS, Michalis Papakostas
ENHANCING ANAEROBIC OXIDATION OF METHANE IN LANDFILL COVER SOIL, Niloofar Parsaeifard
ON THE FEASIBILITY OF MALWARE UNPACKING WITH HARDWARE PERFORMANCE COUNTERS, Jay Mayank Patel
Modeling an M/M/1 Queue with unreliable service and a working vacation, Joshua Kent Patterson
Gasdynamic Phenomena and Propulsive Performance of Pulse Detonation Engines, James T. Pearce
SELF-INDUCED BACK ACTION ACTUATED NANOPORE ELECTROPHORESIS (SANE) SENSOR FOR MOLECULAR DETECTION AND ANALYSIS, Sai Santosh Sasank Peri
“Shame! Fury! Grief!”: Mozart’s “Hysterical” Arias, Renae Perry
ON THE ANALYSIS OF ON-BOARD SENSING AND OFF-BOARD SENSING THROUGH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FOR UAV PATH PLANNING IN WIND FIELDS, Murilo Augsto Pinheiro
Effective Crypto Ransomware Detection Using Hardware Performance Counters, John Podolanko
Structure Modeling and Property Calculations of Amorphous Materials, Ilia Ponomarev
El Castigo and El Perdón: TRACING MORALITY IN IMMIGRATION LAW AND HISTORY, Edith E. Porras
Probing Inter-Subunit Communication of F₄₂₀ NADP Oxidoreductase: A Kinetic Analysis, Denzel L. Pugh
Impact of Immersion Cooling on Thermo-Mechanical Properties of PCB's and Reliability of Electronic Packages, Shrinath Shrinivas Ramdas
A COMPREHENSIVE BEHAVIORAL STUDY ON LANE CHANGING MANUEVERS, Saeed Reza Ramezanpour Nargesi
Long Term Performance Monitoring of Shallow Slope Stabilization Utilizing Recycled Plastic Pins, Cory Alan Rauss
PREDICTING NCLEX-RN® FAILURE IN A PRE-LICENSURE BACCALAUREATE NURSING PROGRAM, Meagan Riley Rogers
The acute effects of a rotational medicine ball throw exercise on baseball pitching biomechanics, Avery Pierce Rogers Sullivan
FrameAnnotator - A Web-Based Frame Semantic Annotation Tool, Sarbajit Roy
N-MODEL METHODOLOGY FOR ENHANCEMENT OF OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE, Anam Sahoo
INTEGRATION AND VALIDATION OF POWER HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP GENERATOR MODELS FOR DEPLOYMENT IN A DISTRIBUTED GENERATION SOURCE TESTBED, Jacob Sanchez
Processing L2 scripts in highly-proficient bilinguals, Ehsan Shafiee Zargar
Effect of Dielectric Inter-layer in Performance of the Multi-functional Material in Mechanical, Thermal and Environmental Loading Conditions, Rauhon Ahmed Shaik
EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF A SERVER IN SINGLE PHASE IMMERSION COOLING, Pravin Ashok Shinde
THE TIME-DIMENSION IN STRATEGIC CHANGE AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE SOUTH KOREAN CONTEXT, Kilho Shin