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Theses and Dissertations

The one-stop shop for all UTA theses and dissertations written by masters and PhD students for their degree requirements!

Theses from 2018 2018

SOCIETY DOES NOT R-E-S-P-E-C-T BLACK MOTHERS: HISTORICALLY RACIALIZED REPRESENTATIONS AND BLACK WOMEN’S COMPROMISED OBSTETRICAL CARE, Ashleigh Riley

A Staring Contest with the Self: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, and Explanatory Style, Colton Tyler Royle

A QUALITATIVE SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND NARRATIVE SYNTHESIS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVENTIONS FOR NON-INTIMATE PARTER, Scott Sainato

SUB-SYNCHRONOUS CONTROL INTERACTION – MODELING AND DETECTION, Farshid Salehi

THE EFFECTS OF TRAVEL TIME DELAY ON VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED AND TRAVEL MODE CHOICE BEHAVIOR: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SEATTLE METROPOLITAN AREA, Reza Sardari

FIELD SWCC MODELING AND SOIL WATER STORAGE EVALUATION THROUGH GEOPHYSICAL TESTING, Linkan Sarker

MINIMIZING STRUCTURAL JITTER IN OPTICAL SENSOR SYSTEMS USING PARAMETRIC DYNAMIC RESPONSE OPTIMIZATION, Richard Lynn Scott

Multiple Coulomb Scattering In the LArIAT Detector, Dalton Sessumes

DEEPSIGN: A DEEP-LEARNING ARCHITECTURE FOR SIGN LANGUAGE, Jai Amrish Shah

TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL CULTURE AFTER THE CHANGE FROM A SEMESTER SCHEDULE TO A TRIMESTER SCHEDULE: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY, Joseph Showell

Father Involvement: Conceptualizing, Synthesizing, and Testing the Effects on Children’s Behavioral, Socioemotional, and Educational Outcomes at Middle Childhood, Jamel T. Slaughter

BEHAVIORAL AND LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL CHANGES IN THE THALAMUS AND ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX OF BEHAVING RATS EXPERIENCING POST HERPETIC NEURALGIA, Jennifer Strand

DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF LOCAL IDENTITY AND GLOBAL IDENTITY ON TWO IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: PRICE-QUALITY JUDGMENTS AND CREATIVITY, Sijie Sun

A City in Crisis: Communication Network, Ethics, and Power in the City of Dallas, Sana Salma Syed

DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHLY POLAR STRUCTURALLY-TUNED IONIC LIQUIDS WITH UNIQUE SELECTIVITY FOR GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY, Mohsen Talebi

A Dynamic Multiple Stage, Multiple Objective Optimization Model With An Application To A Wastewater Treatment System, Prashant Tarun

EXAMINING HOW RACE MEDIATES TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIPS, Christa Tillman-Young

DWRELU : DOUBLE WEIGHTED RECTIFIER LINEAR UNIT AN ACTIVATION FUNCTION WITH TRAINABLE SCALING PARAMETER, Bhaskar Chandra Trivedi

MECHANISTIC STUDY OF THE INHIBITION OF RHO GTPASE-MEDIATED METASTASIS, Hope Gloria Umutesi

NONUPDATING METHODS FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF NONLINEAR STRESS-STRAIN AND DELAMINATION FRACTURE PROPERTIES OF FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITES, Bastiaan Corstiaan Van der vossen

Evaporative hotspot cooling of microprocessors using electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD), Arvind Venkatesan

PREPARATION OF DUAL FLUORESCENCE AGENTS-LOADED NANOPARTICLE AND ITS IN VITRO AND IN VIVO APPLICATION, Hong-Hao Thi Vu

Understanding the Transition: Principals' Perception of Coaching and Mentoring During Their First-Year, Dionel Clinton Waters

“Tie the Flags Together”: Migration, Nativism, and the Orange Order in the United States, 1840-1930, Cory D. Wells

FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES ON ULTRAFAST SEPARATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT OF GEOPOLYMER BASED BASE-STABLE STATIONARY PHASE MEDIA, Rasangi Madhumali Wimalasinghe K.K.D.G.

Geochemical Evolution of the Iron Ore Group -- A Mid-Archean Greenstone Belt of the Eastern Indian Craton, Jordan Kent Wright

RATIONAL DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF BIODEGRADABLE POLYURETHANE BASED BIOMATERIALS, Cancan Xu

LARGE-SCALE DEEP LEARNING WITH APPLICATION IN MEDICAL IMAGING AND BIO-INFORMATICS, Zheng Xu

Building a Versatile Deduplication System, Zhichao Yan

TOWARDS END-TO-END SEMI-SUPERVISED DEEP LEARNING FOR DRUG DISCOVERY, Xiaoyu Zhang

Strength, Tradition, and Adaptation: Native American Women in Pontiac's War, the Trail of Tears, and the Wounded Knee Massacre, Stephanie Renee Zwinggi

SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN, OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT, Kuldeep Singh

Yo Puedo Hacerlo! Diabetes Self-Management Education for Older Hispanic Women, Elizbeth Babalola

Intellectual Structure of Business Analytics and Data Driven Insights for Information Security Breaches, Rahul Dwivedi

Achieving novel functionalities in semiconductor-crystalline oxide heterostructures through electrical and structural coupling, Kamyar Ahmadi-Majlan

ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT FOR SEWER PIPE SYSTEM CONDITION ASSESSMENT USING MULTI-SENSOR (MSI) TECHNOLOGY, Mohammed Al Asadi

EVALUATION OF FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER (FRP) STRENGTHENING FOR DETERIORATED BRIDGE BENT CAPS, Yazan Almomani

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL TURBULENCES IMPACT ON TRAVEL AND TOURISM, Abeer Omar Almughrabi

BIO-INSPIRED ADAPTIVE TUNING OF HUMAN-ROBOT INTERFACES, Bakur Alqaudi

Mathematical Modeling of the Bone Remodeling Process, Iris Lizeth Alvarado

TWO TIMING WORK AND HOME, THE RELATIONSHIP OF INDIVIDUAL VALUES WITH BOUNDARY PERMEABILITY PREFERENCE AND BOUNDARY PERMEABILITY BEHAVIOR, Faezeh Amirkamali

TK-MARS: An Efficient Approach for Deterministic and Stochastic Black-Box Optimization, Hadis Anahideh

NEW STRATEGIES FOR CATALYTIC C-H AND OLEFIN HYDROSILYLATION, Parham Asgari

The Effects of Re-Framing and Respondent Personality on Psychometric Outcomes: A Replication and Extension Study, Meghan Joann Babcock

A study of effect of bond length on bond strength using transient heat transfer analysis, Junaid Mohamed Baig

An investigation of the plasma electrolytic oxidation mechanism for coating of alumina-zirconia nanocomposite, Nastaran Barati

EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BETA PARTICLE IMAGERS, Thomas Burwell Bates

Sex Differences in Balance Measures and Chronic Low Back Pain in Older Adults, Kelley Bevers

A DETAILED CHANDRA X-RAY STUDY OF THE GALACTIC CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVA REMNANT G292.0+1.8, Jayant Bhalerao

Three Essays on Marketing and Public Policies: An Analysis of Social Condition on Consumer Health Associations and Perceived Hypocritical Corporate Social Responsibility on Company Outcomes, Stephen Bok

STEM SUCCESS FOR ALL: HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS AND PRACTICE OF CULTURALLY RELEVANT EDUCATION IN SCIENCE AND MATH CLASSES, Stephanie Boyce

THIS IS AMERICA: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION INTO THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN ATTENDING A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE UNIVERSITY WHILE ON ACADEMIC PROBATION, Dante D. Bryant

Fabrication and In Vitro Characterization of an Implant for the Detection of Metastatic Cancer Cells, Carlos Martin Cantu

Using snake genomes to illuminate the patterns and mechanisms of rapid adaptation, Daren Carter Card

Obscured Leisure: Crafting as Leisure for Stay-At-Home Mothers, Christina Laura Carney

STATISTICAL META-MODEL FOR AIR TRAFFIC FLOW AND CAPACITY MANAGEMENT BASED ON AIRSPACE OPTIMIZATION-SIMULATION: THE CONTINUOUS CHALLENGE OF THE HUB OF THE AMERICA CONGESTION, Juan Marcos Castillo

EVALUATION AND STRENGTHENING OF ELEVATED SLAB ON GRADE WITH FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMER (FRP) LAMINATES, Natawut Chaiwino

A COMPREHENSIVE SEISMIC RESPONSE AND SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING THE STABILITY OF HYDRAULIC-FILL DAMS, Sayantan Chakraborty

Spectral-Domain Phase-Sensitive Interferometry for Real-Time Probing of Electrodeposition Processes, YuJen Chiu

INVESTIGATION OF SURFACE CONTAMINATION IN A Cu-BASED Al ALLOY OCCURRING DURING TEM SAMPLE PREPARATION, Kelly Claunch

Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee, Samantha Cornelius

Barriers to Self-sufficiency for Syrian Refugees After Resettlement, Alexi Ellen De Lathouder

A Phenomenological Approach to Understanding Residence Directors' Perceptions of a Departure of a Colleague, Mari Kathleen Duncan

SONGS OF SALVATION: SHAKESPEARE’S DEFENSE OF PERFORMING ARTISTS THROUGH SECULAR BALLADS IN THREE PLAYS, Latisha Dawn Fletcher

Artificial Intelligence For Cognitive Behavior Assessment In Children, Srujana Gattupalli

Exploring Predictors of Information Exchange: A Behavioral Validation of the ISSIE Scale, Ryan Thomas Gertner

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Concrete Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Box Culverts under Uniformly Distributed Load, Masoud Ghahremannejad

Religion and Resiliency Among Female Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Holders, Sahil K. Gilani

The Capacity of Postpartum Depression Resources in Underserved Communities, Brandie Green

A Calibration Chamber for Thermo-hydro-mechanical Studies of Soil Behavior via Resonant Column Testing, Daniel R. C. Green

CELL-FREE STUDIES OF CATALYTIC DNA CLEAVAGE BY RUTHENIUM POLYPYRIDYL COMPLEXES (RPCS) CONTAINING REDOX-ACTIVE INTERCALATING LIGANDS, ENANTIOMERIC SEPARATION AND SEMI-PREP SCALE PURIFICATION OF RPCS, Cynthia Ann Griffith

EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON THE PUBLIC ADOPTION OF SHARED AND PRIVATE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES : A CASE STUDY OF DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPOLITAN AREA, Hamid Hajjafari

Detection of Molecular Biomarkers involved in the Induction of EMT, migration and invasion, and drug resistance in breast cancer cells in 3D confinement, Tamara Nicole Hill

COMPUTATIONAL STUDY ON THE Cu-RICH SIDE OF ALUMINUM-COPPER PHASE DIAGRAM, Khaled Ahmed Hirmas

Predicting Perceived Wellness for Cisgender Women Utilizing the Social Determinants of Health Model: Testing Group Differences Between Sexual Minorities and Heterosexual Respondents, Kristen Leigh Hohn

Proposing a Sparse Weighted Directed Network Construction Method and a Novel Mutual-Information based Sparse Feature Selection Algorithm for Multivariate Time-series Analysis and its Application in Medical Diagnostic Problems, Rahilsadat Hosseini

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION OF A FAN DUNCTE FOR A VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING, Jie Hua

Improving Performance and Security in Anonymity Systems, Mohsen Imani

AN EXPLORATION OF NATIONAL FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT PROGRAMS SERVING INFORMAL GRANDPARENT CAREGIVERS: A DESCRIPTIVE PHENOMENOLOGY APPROACH, Dorothea LaGail Ivey

Modeling Plant Virus Propagation and an Optimal Control, Mark Jackson

Domestication of PIF transposable elements transposases as regulatory proteins in Drosophila melanogaster, Diwash Jangam

POSTERIOR NORMAL APPROXIMATION OF REAL-TIME DEGRADATION MODELING USING LAPLACE APPROXIMATION, Mahmoud Ali Jawad

Data Collection Technology in Social Work: Evaluating Barriers to Utilization, Cynthia Lynn Jewett

HYPHENATED AMERICANS: CHRISTIAN ARAB-AMERICANS’ IDENTITY STRUGGLE, Amanda Haddad Jobgen

Racial Disparity in Cardiovascular Disease and Oxidative Stress in African American Women, Auburn L. Johnson

Improving time and space efficiency of trie data structure, Nirmik Milind Kale

Assessing the relationship between acute and chronic health conditions and transportation disadvantage and quality of life among older adults in Tarrant County, Texas, James Craig Keaton

SHORT-TERM INTERMITTENT PARATHYROID HORMONE 1-34 ADMINISTRATION AND BONE VASCULAR ALTERATIONS IN C57BL/6 MICE, Seungyong Lee

NEW METHODS FOR DISCOVERY, FINGERPRINTING, AND ANALYSIS OF CANNABIS SATIVA NATURAL PRODUCTS, Allegra Leghissa

Characterization and Remediation of Wastewater from Unconventional Oil and Gas Development, Tiffany Michelle Liden

OPTIMIZATION OF BOARD LEVEL RELIABILITY OF MICROELECTRONIC PACKAGES AND MODULES, Alok Kumar Lohia

Masculinity and Chivalry: The Tenuous Relationship of the Sacred and Secular in Medieval Arthurian Literature, Kaci McCourt

ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY AND THE IMPACTS ON HOUSING VALUE, Somayeh Moazzeni

Middle Permian (Late Guadalupian) back-reef carbonate of Panther Canyon, Apache Mountains, Trans-Pecos Texas, Joshua Caleb Moore

FRACTURE DENSITY AND BRITTLENESS OF THE MESOZOIC FORMATIONS EXPOSED ON THE CANADIAN ESCARPMENT OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO, Scott Alexander Moore

NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SINGLE PHASE AND MULTIPHASE DROPLET DYNAMICS ON ELECTROWETTING-ON-DIELECTRODE DIGITAL MICRO-FLUIDICS, Mun Mun Nahar

Woods tire model, Priyank Vasant Nandu

NANOPARTICLES FOR GENE THERAPY AND PROTEIN DELIVERY TO INDUCE ANGIOGENESIS AS AN ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT FOR PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE, Linda Christellia Noukeu

Adjusting for Time Varying Confounding in Adaptive Interdisciplinary Pain Management Program, Nilabh Ohol

LINKING PETROPHYSICAL AND GEOMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION TO PRODUCTION BEHAVIOR IN THE HAYNESVILLE SHALE, Silas O'Silas