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Dissertations from 2018
FACTORS AFFECTING TRANSIT RIDERSHIP AND THE IMPACT OF INTELLIGENT TRANSIT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ITIS) - Case Study of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), Ahmed Ismail Daqrouq
FACTORS AFFECTING TRANSIT RIDERSHIP AND THE IMPACT OF INTELLIGENT TRANSIT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ITIS) - Case Study of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), Ahmed Ismail Daqrouq
STRUCTURAL SAFETY OF BRIDGE DECKS WITH VARIABLE REBAR COVER, Prem Egade
Truth and Strength in Vulnerability: Using Topoanalysis to Reveal the Need for Expanding the Modernist Literary Canon, Misty DawnMarie Falkenstein
PARENT INVOLVEMENT ACTIVITIES THAT LEAD TO INCREASED PARENT PARTICIPATION: A CASE STUDY, Sandra Patricia Fernandez
THE EFFECTS OF PRIMING PATRIOTISM ON ATTITUDES TOWARD IMMIGRANTS: DO ALL AMERICANS RESPOND TO PATRIOTIC IMAGES THE SAME WAY?, Norma Elizabeth Garza Reyes
Simulation Of Climate Across the Permian-Triassic Boundary with a Focus on Phytogeographical Data Analysis, Mitali Dinesh Gautam
LABORATORY AND FIELD STUDY OF A LIQUID IONIC SOIL STABILIZER, Sandesh Gautam
Evaluating the Impact of Age and Time on Sensory and Affective Levels of Pain Processing, Maxine Kaylen Geltmeier
UTILIZATION OF GEOCELL-REINFORCED RAP MATERIAL BASE LAYER IN FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS: EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDIES, Anu Muthumala George
Motivators of Prostitution Desistance, Shawn Nicole Guy
A Dynamic Policing Simulation Framework, Khan Md Ariful Haque
Thermodynamic and phase-field analysis of domain structures and switching kinetics of bismuth ferrite thin films, Ryan T. Hart
Inducing vibro-tactile sensation at mesoscale, Sudip Hazra
Development of the Urban Passenger Transportation Life Cycle Inventory for Comparison Across Modes Model (TransportLifeCAMM), Alma Angelica Hernandez Ruiz
ACCELERATED AGING OF A SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY PROTOTYPE, Michael J. Hibbard
Direct Numerical Simulation of Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence - A Methodology and Applications, Sarah Moussa Hussein
Stimuli-responsive nanoparticles for treatment of lung cancer, Roshni Iyer
UNDERDAMPED MOTION OF A MICROBEAD IN OPTICAL TWEEZER AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE REYNOLDS NUMBER, Vatsal Asitkumar Joshi
Predicting Academic Success of MSN Students, Cynthia L. Koomey
Deep Learning based Fast Mode Decision in HEVC Intra Prediction using Region Wise Feature Classification, Shiba Prasad Kuanar
FOIL THRUST BEARING WITH POCKET GROOVES AND TAILORED BUMP STIFFNESS DISTRIBUTION FOR IMPROVED STATIC PERFORMANCE, Nguyen Thao LaTray
Development of Particle Platforms for Delivery of Angiogenic Reagents to Treat Peripheral Arterial Diseases, Duong Quang Le
CLASSIFICATION OF CLINICAL NARRATIVES USING CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK, Nikit Rajiv Lonari
THE RESPONSE OF IONOSPHERE AND THERMOSPHERE TO THE HIGH LATITUDE ENERGY DEPOSITION, Yang Lu
Italian American Literature and Food: A Match Made in the Kitchen A Handbook, Monica Marchi
Process Calibration for Elastically Scaled 3D Printed Models using Fused Deposition Modeling, Edgar Bernardo Mares
MINDSET AS IT RELATES TO IMPLEMENTATION OF MOBILE DEVICES FOR INSTRUCTION, Mark Anthony Martinez
Optimal Control Methods for Chagas Disease, Francis Mastrome
Sensor Tasking for Satellite Tracking Utilizing Observability Measures, Mitchel T. McDonald
PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS FOR FEAR OF BIRTH IN PREGNANT WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES, Whitney Gray Mildren
Performance Modeling and Experimental Investigations of Rotating Detonation Engines, Andrew Ryan Mizener
TOPOLOGICAL AND FEATURE BASED IDENTIFICATION OF HOLE BOUNDARIES IN POINT CLOUD DATA AND DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN SURFACE AND PHYSICAL HOLES, Aaqif Muhtasim
Smartphone and Social Media use and its Health Associations, Cory Newell
TEXT MINING ON TWITTER DATA TO EVALUATE SENTIMENT, Srijanee Niyogi
Polarization and Nuclear Fear: How Partisan Message Processing Affects Public Trust in Government, Ian Trevor Owens
Meming and Enthymeming: Persuasion in the Age of Social Media, Taylor R. Parrish
Designing thermally stable ionic liquid stationary phases for gas chromatography and examining their structure-property relationships, Rahul A. Patil
ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE USING FERROFLUIDS SLUGS IN MICROCHANNELS, Omkar Amar Pawar
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF FLEXIBLE MEMS-BASED pH SENSOR FOR AGRICULTURAL AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS, Shardul Sonu Pawar
A CMOS SWITCHED CAPACITOR FILTER BASED POTENTIOMETRIC READOUT CIRCUIT FOR CHEMFET SENSOR, Revathy Perumalsamy
AN ANALYTICAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS METHOD FOR FATIGUE CONSTRAINED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF A 3D PRINTED STRUCTURE, Ashish Pokharel
Design principles for large foil bearings based on scaling laws: Analyses and Experiment, Srikanth Honavara Prasad
DATA SCIENCE APPLICATIONS IN HEALTH AN SOCIAL CARE, Maryuri Ariela Quintero
METHANE OXIDATION POTENTIAL OF UNCOMPOSTED YARD WASTE AS A LANDFILL BIOCOVER, Gomathy Radhakrishna Iyer
The Making of An Engineer: Examining the Planning Process and Educational Outcomes, Richard L. Raleigh
Enhancing Tensile Strength of FDM parts using Thermal Annealing and Uniaxial Pressure, Rhugdhrivya Rane
MONITORING OF SWT2 DATA CLUSTERS FOR THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT, Antara Ray
Fusulinid and conodont biostratigraphy of the Upper Pennsylvanian–Cisuralian Riepe Spring Limestone, Spruce Mountain Ridge, Elko County, Nevada, U.S.A., Michael Taylor Read
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
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
A City in Crisis: Communication Network, Ethics, and Power in the City of Dallas, Sana Salma Syed
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
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