The one-stop shop for all UTA theses and dissertations written by masters and PhD students for their degree requirements!
Theses from 2020
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
BACKSTEPPING APPROACH FOR DESIGN OF CASCADED PID CONTROLLER WITH GUARANTEED TRAJECTORY TRACKING PERFORMANCE FOR MICRO-AIR UAV, Yusuf Kartal
Are smarter neighborhoods, more walkable?, Golnaz Keshavarzihaghighi
Deep Representation Learning for Clustering and Domain Adaptation, Mohsen Kheirandishfard
At the Nexus of Dallas' Neighborhood Arts Districts and Tax Incremental Financing Zones: the Question of Affordable Housing in a Socially Just Economy, Katherine M. Kosut
Static Response Calibration of 3D Printed Thin Walled Structures Using Fused Deposition Modelling, Akhilesh Ravindra Kulkarni
Pulsed Detonation Engine Nozzle Design and Analysis, Rahul Kumar
AUTONOMOUS CARRIER LANDING OF A FIXED-WING UAV WITH AIRBORNE DECK MOTION ESTIMATION, Metin Kus
I, Gamer: Addressing Toxic Ludology and Narratology in the Gamer Discourse Community Through Reinterpreting Video Games as Hypertexts, Andrew S. Latham
Mathematical Modeling of a Network of Neurons Regarding Glucose Transport Deficiency Induced Epileptic Seizures, Ariel N. Leslie
AN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REGULARIZED EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD IN ABAQUS, Yu-Jui Liang
PERFORMANCE MODELING AND RESOURCE PROVISIONING FOR DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS, Zhongwei Li
PERFORMANCE MODELING AND RESOURCE PROVISIONING FOR DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS, Zhongwei Li
ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED CURVED BEAM WITH AND WITHOUT DEFECTS AND IMPERFECTIONS, Wei-Tsen Lu
KERNELS AND BEYOND FOR DATA SIMILARITY LEARNING IN DATA MINING, Akshay Malhotra
DESIGN OF A CLC TESTBED TO STUDY HIGH VOLTAGE CAPACITORS, Christopher Francisco Martinez
Some Quadratic Regular Algebras on Four Generators Wtih A 1-Dimensional Nonreduced Line Scheme, Anthony IV Mastriania
Planning Practices for the Public Mental Health, Kaitlin A. Mcbride
Evaluation of the Structural Performance of Bridge MSE Retaining Walls, Zaid SM Momani
SEISMIC RESPONSE AND DEFORMATION ANALYSES OF EARTHEN DAMS, Leila Mosadegh
Nano-petrophysical study of the Dean, Wolfcamp, and Canyon formations of the Midland Basin, Texas, USA., Benton M. Mowrey
Assessing the impact of Principal Component Analysis on accurately predicting melanoma diagnosis applied on different classification models, Juan Cristobal Olmedo Rivera
A ROBUST CONTROLLER DESIGN FOR A TAILLESS UAV WITH EFFECTIVE CONTROL ALLOCATION, Ethem Hakan Orhan
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT? THE IMPACT OF FACE RECOGNITION SERVICES ON PRIVACY, James Richard Ortega
Leveraging the dynamic repeat element landscape of squamate reptile genomes to understand broad patterns of Vertebrate genome evolution and transposable element biology, Giulia IM Pasquesi
DROPLET-BASED MICROEXTRACTION OF DNA ENABLED BY ELECTROWETTING-ON-DIELECTRIC DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS, Shubhodeep Paul
EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE LEADS YOUTHS CONVICTED OF SERIOUS OFFENSES TO SUBSEQUENT CRIMINAL OFFENDING AS ADULTS, Nicolette Perez
Social Media Text Analysis using Multi-kernel Convolutional Neural Network, Anna Philips
DIRECT FUNCTIONALIZATION OF INERT C-H AND C=C BONDS USING COPPER AND ZINC CATALYSTS SUPPORTED BY FLUORINATED LIGANDS, AND THE CHEMISTRY OF Fe(CO)5 AND ITS ANALOGS WITH COINAGE METAL IONS, Tharun Teja Ponduru
PARSING CODE-SWITCHED TAGLISH LANGUAGE BY CREATING CONSTITUENTS, Fadiah Qudah
Development and Testing of a Control strategy for dynamic cooling at Rack level in Data centers, Amrutha Valli Rachakonda
Distributed Deep Neural Networks Training For Brain Imaging Applications, Sudheer Raja
Hypertension Self-Management Intervention: Text Messages to Improve Blood Pressure and Medication Adherence Among African American Older Adults, Elesha R. Roberts
EXAMINING THE INFLUENCE OF SKELETAL MUSCLE OXYGEN METABOLISM ON MICROVASCULAR REPERFUSION IN RESPONSE TO ACUTE ISCHEMIA, Ryan Phillip Rosenberry
Identification and Characterization of Gate Oxide Defects Responsible for Low Frequency Noise in MOSFETs, A. S. M. Shamsur Rouf
The Impact of Toxic Replies on Twitter Conversations, Nazanin Salehabadi
SYNTHESIS OF METAKAOLIN-BASED GEOPOLYMER AND ITS PERFORMANCE AS SOLE STABILIZER OF EXPANSIVE SOILS, Rinu Ann Samuel
TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF LOOPING IN RELATION TO THEIR PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT, Staci Sellers
Development of a Machine Learning-based Prediction Model for Construction and Environmental Costs of Trenchless Spray-applied Pipe Linings, Cured-in-place Pipe, and Sliplining Methods in Large Diameter Culverts, Ramtin Serajiantehrani
Lost in Translation? Assessing the Intercultural Sensitivity Levels of Planners in the Dallas- Fort Worth Area, Eihua Corinne Olivia Shaw
Material Characterization and Fracture Prediction of FDM Printed Parts, Sanchita Sheth
Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Asthma Hospitalizations and Associated Factors in Eastern Texas, 2005-2012, Sadananda Silwal