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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!

Dissertations from 2018 2018

STUDIES TOWARDS THE TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF IMIDAZOLE-CONTAINING NATURAL PRODUCTS, Lawton Anthony II Seal

A NEW APPROACH FOR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF BRIDGE INFRASTRUCTURE USING TERRESTRIAL LIDAR AND ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL MODELING, Ali Shafikhani

CHARACTERIZING CONTAMINATION TO EXPAND ASHRAE ENVELOPE IN AIRSIDE ECONOMIZATION AND THERMAL AND RELIABILITY IN IMMERSION COOLING OF DATA CENTERS, Jimil Manojbhai Shah

PLANNING, DESIGN, AND OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS OF UNDERGROUND FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS WITH INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES, Sirwan Shahooei

Teaching Elsewhere: Curating↔Calibrating Posthumanist Possibilities, Sarah Alice Shelton

Finding Representative Entities From Entity Graph By Using Neighborhood Based Entity Similarity, Ankit Anil Shingavi

DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK TO ESTIMATE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS OF TRUCK, RAILROAD, AND UNDERGROUND FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION, Amir Tabesh

Effects of Emotion and Social Desirability on Intuitive, Gist-Based Decisions, Wyn E. Taylor

Wireless Antenna Sensors for Boiler Condition Monitoring, Franck Tchafa

SEPARATION, DETECTION, AND QUANTITATION OF UNDERIVATIZED CARBOHYDRATES USING LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY- ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION-TRIPLE QUADRUPOLE- TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY, Jonathan B. Thacker

Redox and Non-Redox Reactions Catalyzed by Biomimetic Flavin-based Organocatalysts and the Discovery of Selective Oxidation Methods for the Preparation of N-Heterocycles, Pawan Thapa

In-Service Performance Evaluation of Fire and Impact Damaged Bridges with CFRP Laminate Strengthening, Santosh Timilsina

A META-ANALYTIC INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANTHROPOMORPHISM AND CONSUMERS’ RESPONSES: EFFECTS, MECHANISM, AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS, Franklin G. Velasco

LiFePO4 BATTERIES: IMPACT OF HIGHLY PARALLEL PACKS ON LOAD DISTRIBUTION AND CYCLE LIFE, Caroline Storm Westenhover

Organizational Socialization: The Role of Onboarding in Employee Longevity, Jaclyn T. West

Group heterogeneity influences complex and novel outcomes, Belinda Williams

SUPPORTING EFFICIENT LARGE-SCALE KEY-VALUE SYSTEMS WITH AN OPTIMIZED STORAGE HIERARCHY, Xingbo Wu

The rise of Twitter in presidential communication: An examination of the relationship between President Trump's Twitter feed and the media coverage of his first 100 days, Zedan Xu

Optimizing Krylov Subspace Methods for Linear Systems and Least Squares Problems, Mei Yang

SCATTER CORRECTION AND 4D RECONSTRUCTION OF CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CBCT) WITH A MOVING BLOCKER, Cong Zhao

Three Essays on Adoption and Continuous Improvement of Information Security Management in Organizations, Fereshteh Ghahramani

ASSESSMENT OF EXPANDING LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEMS VERSUS HIGHWAY SYSTEMS: INFLUENCE ON LAND USE CHANGE AND HABITAT FRAGMENTATION, Behnoud Aghapour

DEVICES TO STUDY CANCER CELL BEHAVIOR, Mohammad G. Abdallah

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HUMAN THUMB TRACKING DEVICE FOR TELEMANIPULATION, Abdul Hafiz Abdul Rahaman

A TWO STAGE EVENT BASED DATA DRIVEN CONTROLLER FOR IMPROVED GRASPING OF AN ARTIFICIAL HAND, Christopher Abrego

Emerging Grassroots Energy Communities: An Assemblage Theory Analysis, Ali Mohammed Adil

EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF VERTICALLY SPLIT DISTRIBUTION WET- COOLING MEDIA USED IN DIRECT EVAPORATIVE COOLING OF DATA CENTER, Ahmed Al Khazraji

STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF HUMIDITY ON THERMAL CYCLING OF A BALL GRID ARRAY (BGA) PACKAGE, Samuel Terrence Ambosta

Development and Validation of the Deliquescent Relative Humidity Test Method For the Accumulated Particulate Matter Found in a Data Center Utilizing an Airside Economizer, Roshan Anand

MavVStream: Expressing and Processing Situations on Videos Using the Stream Processing Paradigm, Mayur Arora

COMPARISON OF GROUND MOVEMENTS DURING TRENCHLESS TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS FOR PIPE AND BOX INSTALLATIONS BY NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, Taha Ashoori

OSTEOPROGENITOR CELL ADHESION AND GROWTH ON THE BIOACTIVE SILICON NITRIDE SURFACE FOR CRANIOFACIAL IMPLANTS APPLICATIONS, Kamal Awad

INVESTIGATION OF FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY AND NEUROVASCULAR COUPLING IN DIFFERENT VIGILANCE / BREATH-HOLD STATES OF THE BRAIN FROM SIMULTANEOUS EEG-fNIRS MEASUREMENTS, Olajide Babawale

MEASUREMENT OF THE THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF A SINGLE-PHASE IMMERSION COOLED SERVER AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES FOR PROLONGED TIME, Pratik Vithoba Bansode

Gentrification in Washington D.C.: A Tug-of-War Between Development and Displacement, Aabiya Noman Baqai

A study on the rotational b-family of equations, Emel Bolat

A STUDY OF THE GEOSPACE RESPONSE TO DYNAMIC SOLAR WIND USING THE LYON-FEDDER-MOBARRY GLOBAL MHD SIMULATION, Richard E. F. Bonde

Experimental investigation of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis with a modified catalyst support, Pawarat Bootpakdeetam

Sensitivity Study for Low Mass Dark Matter Search at DUNE, Garrett Brown

Sallie Brooke Capps: Education Trailblazer in North Texas, Joshua Vincent Chanin

OPTIMIZING A SYSTEM OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS, Ukesh Chawal

DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF MIXED IONIC-ELECTRONIC CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL FOR USE IN SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELL UTILIZING CARBON NANOTUBES, Shiuan Duo Chiang

Skeletal Muscle Oxidative Capacity in the Elderly, Susie Chung

Social Network and Black Students: Relative Effects of Member Expectations on Academic Achievement, Lester Robert Collins Jr

CROSSOVER YOUTH PREVENTION: PREDICTORS OF YOUTH CROSSOVER FROM CHILD WELFARE TO JUVENILE JUSTICE, Marcus R. Crawford

Monitoring Calcification in Rigid Wet Cooling Media Used in Direct Evaporative Cooling of Data Centers., Hemanth Narayan Dakshinamurthy

TRUST BASED TIME-VARYING NETWORK TOPOLOGY FOR DISTRIBUTED CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL OF MULTI-CLASS MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, Ankur Vipulkumar Dalal

CFD Analysis of Thermal Shadowing and Optimization of Heat sinks in 3rd generation Open compute server for single phase immersion cooling applications, Ravya Dandamudi

Assessment of Sustainability and Resilience in Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnics, Jasaswee T. Das

The Negative Impacts of Lead- Contaminated Superfund Sites and the Toxicological Effects on Children in Dallas County, Amber Davis

Mental Health Screening for Prisoners Upon Entrance to State Prisons, Illandra Denysschen

On the Development and Integration of Pneumatic Extrusion Module and a Methodology to Identify Process Parameters for Additive Manufacturing using Machine Learning, Kashish Dhal

WIRELESS POWERED FLEXIBLE GASTROSTIMULATOR, Souvik Dubey

ENABLING THIRD PARTY SERVICES OVER DEEP WEB DATABASES AND LOCATION BASED SERVICES, Yeshwanth Durairaj Gunasekaran

Accelerated Thermal Cycling of Printed Circuit Board for Single Phase Immersion Cooling systems, Surya Duraisamy Asokan

Scattering and Inverse Scattering on the Line for a First-Order System with Energy-Dependent Potentials, Ramazan Ercan

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ENHANCED NITRATE SALT NANOFLUIDS FOR THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE (TES) IN CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER (CSP) SYSTEMS, Vamsi Kiran Eruvaram

RECONFIGURABLE ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSOR ENABLED BY DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES, Ali Farzbod

Indexing, Querying, Prediction, and Integration for Network-constrained Moving Objects Databases, Mohammadhani Fouladgar

Disease in a Changing Ocean: Ecoimmunological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology, Lauren Elizabeth Fuess

Reliability of a 2.5D TSV package, Neha Vinayak Gaikwad

Comparison of steel and composite leaf springs using FEA, Prashik Sunil Gaikwad

Deep Learning for Recognition of Objects, Activities, Faces, and Spatio-Temporal Patterns, Amir Ghaderi

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE WATER BUFFER DRUM, Chinmay Shrikrishna S Godbole

FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN PHYSICS, Michael Alan Greene

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE-PHASE DIRECT LIQUID COOLED SERVER PERFORMANCE AT EXTREMELY LOW TEMPERATURES FOR EXTENDED TIME PERIODS, Gautam Gupta

A New Adaptive Multiscale Approach for the Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of Biomolecular Systems, Ashley Chase Guy

IDENTIFICATION OF PHASE-BASED KEY PERFORMANCE FACTORS AND THEIR BEST PRACTICES IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, Mohammadreza Habibi

FROM TEXT CLASSIFICATION TO IMAGE CLUSTERING, PROBLEMS LESS OPTIMIZED, Amirhossein Herandi

Approaches Toward the Total Synthesis of Oroidin Alkaloids:Nagelamide A, C and Ageliferin, Apsara Herath

Seismic Analysis and Petrophysical Evaluation of the Pennsylvanian Rasberry Reef Phylloid Algal Carbonate Mounds in the Knox-Baylor Trough, Knox County, Texas, William Hoffman

EVALUATION OF THE SEASONAL VARIATION IN HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY FOR AN EVAPOTRANSPIRATION COVER SYSTEM, Lucas Hoyos Cadavid

Firm-Specific Information Environment and Analyst Forecast, Wei Hsu

ASSESSING CUMULATIVE BARRIERS TO TRANSPORTATION: AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK OF EQUITY ANALYSIS FOR HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER FAMILIES IN THE DALLAS FORT WORTH REGION, Myriam Igoufe

PROSPECTS FOR OBSERVING DYNAMICALLY FORMED BINARY BLACK HOLES IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE WITH GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, Dongming Jin

Three Essays on Expanded Relationship Marketing, Ashish Kalra

IMPACT OF THERMAL AGING ON CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR OF LEAD FREE SOLDER INTERCONNECTS, Anuraag Girish Karnik

Simulation, Control and Testing of a Custom 5-DOF Robotic Manipulator System, Roopak M. Karulkar

FABRICATION OF SOLID POLYMERIC 3D SHAPES FROM PROGRAMMABLE FLAT HYDROGEL SHEETS, Ninad Vilas Khadse

Supercharging and Multiple Reaction Monitoring Optimization of High Molecular Weight Intact Proteins using Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry, Durga Devi Khanal

Creep Response and Adhesion Dynamics of Glioblastoma Multiforme Cells During Migration in Confined Environment, Ishan Kamal Khan

Diagnosis and Quantification of Post-Disaster Construction Material Cost Fluctuations, Niloufar Khodahemmati

Faculty Beliefs, Experiences, and Interactions with Students in the Context of Campus Carry, Joslyn Krismer

QUALITATIVE EVALUATION OF CFRP-CONCRETE BOND USING NON-DESTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE TESTING METHODS, Ankita Anil Lad

BENEFITS AND OBSTACLES TO INSTALLING WIND AND SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES: A TEXAS STUDY, Andrew G. Lafavers

3,5-Bis(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)pyrazolyl complexes of Coinage Metals, Jaspreet Singh Lakhi

REMOVAL OF PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID USING ZEROVALENT IRON BASED MATERIALS, Wasiu Adedapo Lawal

SUSTAINABLE SITES INITIATIVE CERTIFICATION IN TEXAS: OBSTACLES AND BENEFITS AFFECTING STAKEHOLDER PERCEPTION, Jamie Chism Leonie

Sparse Representation and Learning for Discriminative EEG Source Imaging, Feng Liu

DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SELF-PACKAGED, FLEXIBLE MEMS ACCELEROMETER AND ALUMINUM NITRIDE TACTILE SENSORS, Md Sohel Mahmood

Improved initialization for the multi layer perceptron, Abhishek Vinay Mainkar

DESIGN OF HAPTICALLY ENABLED WHEELCHAIR FOR ASSISTIVE AUTONOMY, Arjun Mani Gupta

CHARACTERIZATION OF A COLD PLATE BY EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS AND POWER SAVINGS CALCULATION OF DYNAMIC COLD PLATE, Barath Ragul Manimaran

IN THE MIDDLE: AN EXAMINATION OF THE FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO OVERAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS, Delma Martinez

Does the Death Penalty Deter Homicides?, Lorenzo A. Mendoza Valles

Finite Element Analysis of Composite Reactor Pressure Vessel, Tejas Vasant Mhetre

The Rhetoric of Academic Discourse: A Qualitative, Phenomenological Study of Students' Self-Investigation of the Acquisition of Academic Discourse in First-Year Writing Courses, Barbara E. Morgan

Decentering Neo-Bohemia in the Creative City: Cultural Marginalization, Economic Violence, and an Alternative Agenda of Diverse Cultural Scenes, James Murdoch

FACE DETECTION AND RECOGNITION USING MOVING WINDOW ACCUMULATOR WITH VARIOUS DEEP LEARNING ARCHITECTURE, Anil Kumar Nayak

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Commercial Space Transportation Activities in the United States, Shelia Scott Neumann