The one-stop shop for all UTA theses and dissertations written by masters and PhD students for their degree requirements!
Theses from 2020
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
Trunk Function in Manual Wheelchair Users in Static and Dynamic Conditions, Tyler D. Garner
MATHEMATICAL MODELING APPROACHES IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS, Amin Gharehyakheh
Flexural Load Capacity of Heat-Treated Concrete Mixed with Recycled Glass Aggregate and Glass Pozzolan, Enrique Gonzalez Tapia
THE GEOGRAPHY OF CREATIVE CLUSTERS AND FIRM PRODUCTIVITY: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM 20 METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS (MSAs) IN THE UNITED STATES, Tahereh Granpayehvaghei
3D SKELETON CONSTRUCTION FROM MULTIPLE CAMERA VIEWS FOR QUANTIFYING GAIT PARAMETERS, Saket Gupta
STUDY OF UPREGULATION OF DRUG RESISTANCE IN H460 LUNG CANCER CELLS VIA MICROCHANNEL DEVICE, Nowmi Haider
DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF AN ELASTICALLY SUPPORTED MULTI-BEAM ROTORDYNAMIC SYSTEM TO MINIMIZE FLEXURAL RESPONSE WITH CONSIDERATIONS FOR ROBUSTNESS, Bret R. Hauser
Weight Bias and Mindset in Physical Educators, Abigail Caroline Heller
Photovoice to Improve Postsecondary Success Among Foster Care Emerging Adults, Dana Hill
Examination Of The Effects of Confined Migration on Androgen Resistant Prostate Cancer And Potential Treatment Option for Drug Resistant PC3 Cells with Calcitriol, Emily Torrey Ann Hills
ROBUST, TIME-CRITICAL, EVIDENCE-BASED ADAPTIVE DATA FUSION, Mohammad Amin Javadi
Rational Expectations or Behaviorally Inefficient Markets, Arati Devendra Kale
DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF THERMAL MANAGEMENT APPROACHES IN DATA CENTER APPLICATIONS, Rajesh Kasukurthy
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