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Dissertations from 2020
Completion of RLE LINE Integration Involves an Open "4-Way" Branched DNA Intermediate, Brijesh B. Khadgi
Prediction and Validation of Continuous Fiber Stiffened Plates Manufactured With Continuous Fiber Fabrication, Nabeel Ahmed Khan
Absent Father Timing, Criminal Behavior, and Arrest Across the Life Course, Krysta N. Knox
Using ChebConv and B-Spline GNN models for Solving Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch in a day ahead Energy Trading Market based on ERCOT Nodal Model, Yashodhan Kumthekar
IMPACT OF VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF LOW LOSS PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS (PCBs) ON RELIABILITY OF WCSP PACKAGES UNDER DROP TEST, Akshay Boovanahally Lakshminarayana
The Lived Experiences of Breathlessness In Adults With Chronic Heart Failure, Cecilia Cipriano Lijauco
Distributed Optimal Policies for Multi-Agent Systems under Uncertainties, Mushuang Liu
INTRINSIC CURIOSITY IN REINFORCEMENT LEARNING BY IMPROVING NEXT STATE PREDICTION, Paul Lewis Lobo
TaPIN: A Two-Factor User Authentication Scheme for Smartwatches through Secret Finger Tapping, Akash Lohani
The Battle Over Identity: Finnish-Americans and the Finnish Civil War, Christopher Malmberg
MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH AND KEETOOWAH WOMEN: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, December Maxwell
PHOTOBIOMODULATION AND STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION: APPLICATION TO MODULATE ADIPOGENESIS THROUGH CELLULAR AND NUCLEAR MORPHOLOGY, Andrew Redmond Mccolloch
Efficient Network Design for High Dimensional Data, Xin Miao
FEATURE SELECTION AND DATA RECONSTRUCTION VIA ROBUST AND FLEXIBLE LEARNING MODELS, Di Ming
Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Clutter in ISAR Imaging, Jon Mitchell
MR_QP: A Scalable Approach To Query Processing on Arbitrary-Size Graphs Using The Map/Reduce Framework, Harshit Ashokkumar Modi
Computational Study of Air-Cooled Servers with Improved Ducting and Chassis Re-design, Himanshu Girishchandra Modi
Some New Results on Statistical Information and Evidence, Maryam Moghimi
OPTIMAL TREATMENT STRATEGIES FOR CANCER PATIENTS IN TERMS OF SURVIVAL MONTHS AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS, Omer Mogultay
EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDY OF STEEL FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES SUBJECTED TO INTERNAL EXPLOSION, Nikhil Vasant Moon
Synthesis of nickel-titanium intermetallic surface coatings via electrolytic plasma processing, Brody Allen Moore
SINGLE STEP FABRICATION OF SHAPE MORPHING 3D SURFACES, Amirali Nojoomi
NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF CONCRETE BREAKOUT STRENGTH OF ANCHORS IN SHEAR WITHIN FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE, Yash Hitendrakumar Patel
HEAT TRANSFER MEASUREMENTS AND ENHANCEMENT FOR MATERIALS AND PROCESSES IN POLYMER EXTRUSION BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, Hardikkumar Mangaldas Prajapati
Catalogue of Computed Pseudo-Redshifts from BATSE GRB Data, Rebecca M. Proni
GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF POTENTIAL FLOODING FROM STORM SURGE AND SEA-LEVEL CHANGE ON THE TEXAS COAST BY 2100, Gennadii Prykhodko
Development of Text Analytics for Debriefing Reflection Essays, Md Shadekur Rahman
MLN-Subdue: Decoupling Approach-Based Substructure Discovery In Multilayer Networks (MLNs), Anish Rai
The Social Cut of Black and Yellow Female Hip Hop, Erick Raven
MEASUREMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF THERMAL TRANSPORT PHENOMENA FOR WELD STRENGTH IMPROVEMENT IN POLYMER EXTRUSION BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, Darshan Babu Ravoori
CEREBROVASCULAR FUNCTION IN ADULTS WITH DEPRESSION, Rauchelle Richey
IDENTIFYING AND ADDRESSING IMPROVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN PRIMARY CARE CLINICS, Mozhdeh Sadighi
Development and Clinical Application of a Novel Left Ventricular Diastolic Stress Test, Thomas Jake Samuel
International Compensation: An Examination of the Relationship Between Societal Culture and Preferred Compensation Policies, Divyanshu Vardhan V. Sharma
Forecasting Success: Using the Texas Risk Assessment System to Predict Early Discharge in a Large Sample of High, Moderate, and Low Risk Offenders, Carley Rene Shelton
DESIGNING THE CIVIC COMMONS: HOW DESIGN CAN FOSTER SOCIAL CAPITAL IN CIVIC SPACES IN THE CONTEXT OF URBAN SPRAWL, Jennifer Jean Sloan
Azul - Using multimodal sensors from mobile and wearable devices for assessment and monitoring of depression symptoms, Manu Srivastava
MODELING, FABRICATION, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POROUS INCONEL 718 STRUCTURES USING SELECTIVE LASER MELTING PROCESS, Srihari Srivathsan
PRECISION MEDICINE: GENE AND CLINICAL DATA ANALYSIS OF RENAL CANCER, Sumeyye Su
EXPLORING THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF RWANDAN REFUGEES RESETTLED IN THE USA: A DESCRIPTIVE PHENOMENOLOGY STUDY, Betty Chelangat Tonui
Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation of Titanium Under Constant Applied Voltage, Joshua Paul Twaddle
Extractive Summarization and Simplification of Scholarly Literature, Nilav Bharatkumar Vaghasiya
Reinitiation Mode Study of Highly Irregular Detonation, Nandakumar Vijayakumar
Ensemble and Consensus Species Distribution Modeling Approaches Applied to Freshwater Fish, Melissa Jean Walsh
SEMI-SUPERVISED DEEP LEARNING WITH APPLICATIONS IN SURGICAL VIDEO ANALYSIS AND BIOINFORMATICS, Sheng Wang
BASES OF INFINITE-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ORTHOSYMPLECTIC LIE SUPERALGEBRAS, Dwight Anderson Williams II
Impact of domestic animals on prevalence of vector-borne diseases in humans, MD Mondal Hasan Zahid
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ON-CHIP OPTOFLUIDIC DROPLET LASERS, Han Zhang
DEEP REPRESENTATION LEARNING ON GIGA-PIXEL WHOLE SLIDE IMAGES, Xinliang Zhu
MEMORIAL EARTH PARK © AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC SPACE: SYNTHESIZING BURIAL MOUNDS, FAMILY TREES AND HUMAN BODY COMPOSTING IN NORTH TEXAS, Gregory A. Craig
Special Topics in Natural Language Processing: MWE Identification, Opinion Question Answering and Summarization, Aishwarya Ashok
Nanoparticle-Mediated Controlled Myocardial Drug Delivery: A New Treatment for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Michelle Katherine McGrath Copeland
FORAMINIFERS OF THE ALBIAN-CENOMANIAN (CRETACEOUS) WASHITA GROUP IN NORTH-CENTRAL TEXAS, U.S.A., Jenny Rashall
Theses from 2019
RIDESHARE ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CURB MANAGEMENT, Brandon Leonard Utterback
IMPACTS OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL DELAY IN IRAQ, Omar Raad Abdullah
ASSEMBLY-SCALE AND WHOLE-BUILDING ENERGY PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF ULTRA-HIGH-PERFORMANCE FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETE (UHP-FRC) FAÇADE SYSTEMS, Bahram Abediniangerabi
THINK2ACT: USING MULTIMODAL DATA TO ASSESS HUMAN COGNITIVE AND PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE, Maher Abujelala
Development of a Flexible Pavement Design Protocol for the UAE Based on the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide, Ammar Hassan Alalkim Alzaabi
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF UTILIZING STEEL FIBER AS CONCRETE REINFORCEMENT IN BRIDGE DECKS, Samed Al Khafaji
SPATIAL SIMILARITY MEASURES WITH APPLICATIONS TO MAP INTEGRATION AND IMPROVING ACCURACY OF MAP DATA SETS, Mousa Alhajlah Almotairi
Feature Extraction In Noise-Diverse Environments For Human Activities Recognition Using Wi-Fi, Sheheryar Arshad
Communicating Death to Potential Military Recruits: A Terror Management Theory Approach, Amanda M. Augustine
Effect of sewage sludge and wastewater recirculation on the degradation of Municipal Solid Waste in bioreactors, Afroza Ayub
Driveability of Recycled Plastic Pin (RPP) in North Texas, Arif Mohammad Aziz
PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION OF A STOCHASTIC MULTI-PHASE MULTI- CRITERIA MULTI-ECHELON HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS NETWORK, A B M Mainul Bari
Pathophysiology of Exercise Intolerance in Breast Cancer Survivors Treated with Anthracycline Chemotherapy, Rhys I. Beaudry
DEDUPLICATION-AWARE PAGE CACHE IN LINUX KERNEL FOR IMPROVED READ PERFORMANCE, Venkata Satya Ravi Kiran Boggavarapu
Sub-synchronous resonance analysis and detection, Igor Brandao Machado Matsuo
Predicting Juvenile Delinquency in Texas Public Schools: Response to a Texas Legislator's Challenge, Wendy Brower
African American Women's Resistance in the Aftermath of Lynching, Lacey A. Brown-Bernal
FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ADULT ASTHMA RELATED EMERGENCY ROOM DISCHARGES IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS IN 2010 - 2014, Nguyen Cao
HIGH CONFIDENCE IDENTIFICATION OF CROSS-LINKED PEPTIDES BY MASS SPECTROMETRY CLEAVABLE CROSS-LINKING TECHNOLOGIES, Jayanta Kishor Chakrabarty
COMPARING AND CONTRASTING THE DYNAMICS INFLUENCING URBAN AND ECONOMIC LAND DEVELOPMENT SURROUNDING DALLAS-FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND DALLAS LOVE FIELD AIRPORT, Anthony K. Chandler
LIUTEX ANALYSIS BY POD AND DMD FOR VORTEX FORMATIONS IN BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITION, Sita Charkrit
FLEXIBLE pH SENSOR FOR SMART SENSING, Khengdauliu Chawang
Sense of Belonging and the Lived Experiences of Students of Color in a Racially Diverse Honors Program, Rebekah Joanna Chojnacki
Automated Testing of a Commercial Cyber-Physical System Development Tool Chain, Shafiul Azam Chowdhury
Nonlinear Optics and Bio-sensing with Silicon Nitride Waveguides, Subrata Das
Pathway to adopting learning analytics: Reconceptualizing the decision-making process of K-12 leaders in North Texas, Justin T. Dellinger
DETECT TRAFFIC SIGNS FROM LARGE STREET VIEW IMAGES WITH DEEP LEARNING, Zhifei Deng
MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES PATTERN RECOGNITION USING MACHINE LEARNING AND DEEP LEARNING METHODS, Sai Abhishek Devar
Dynamics of a pulse detonation engine driven linear power generator, Umang Umeshkumar Dighe
Numerical Study of Detonation flame Arrestor Performance and Detonation Interaction with the Arrestor Element, Hoden Ali Farah
Towards Location Free Movement Recognition with Channel State Information, Chunhai Feng
IT’S NOT ALL PARTISAN POLITICS: THE INTERACTION BETWEEN RELIGION AND EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS IN SHAPING ATTITUDES TOWARD ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE GREATER HOUSTON METROPOLITAN AREA, Gary J. Fitzsimmons
ApproxML: Efficient Approximate Ad-Hoc ML Models Through Materialization and Reuse, Faezeh Ghaderi
IMPROVING COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF HIGH MODULUS CARBON-FIBER REINFORCED POLYMERIC COMPOSITE WITH VARYING MODULUS FIBERS, Sarvenaz Ghaffari
A Critical State Approach to the Mechanical Behavior of Early-Age Cemented Paste Backfill, Amin B. Ghorbanpour
DEVELOPING APPROACHES THAT LEVERAGE NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING TO STUDY BROAD BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS, Nicole Hales
DEVELOPMENT, EVALUATION, AND APPLICATION OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT STRATEGIES, Garrett Hellinghausen
EFFECT OF CHICKEN MANURE ON METHANE PRODUCTION FROM MSW IN LAB SCALE ANAEROBIC REACTORS, Md Tauhidul Islam
Nanopetrophysical Characterization of the Wolfcamp A Shale Formation in the Permian Basin of Southeastern New Mexico, U.S.A., Ryan Z. Jones
ENHANCEMENTS OF SHEAR TESTS FOR ASPHALT CONCRETE, Yazeed Suleiman Jweihan
Physical characterization and evaluation of energy potential for mined waste from Irving landfill, Vijay Kakara