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Dissertations from 2017
DEVELOPMENT OF CONE TESTING DEVICE FOR IMPROVED DEEP FOUNDATION DESIGN PROTOCOLS, Hai Minh Nguyen
DEVELOPMENT OF CANCER TRAP FOR CAPTURING CANCER CELLS THAT METASTASIZE IN THE PERITONEAL CAVITY: A PRELIMINARY STUDY, Chuka I. Okpokwasili
T-CELL MEMBRANE CAMOUFLAGED NANOPARTICLES FOR TREATMENT OF MELANOMA, Gizem Oter
Video-based Face Recognition using Deep Learning for Single Sample Per Person (SSPP) Surveillance Applications, Mostafa Parchami
AG NANO-DENDRITIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING (SERS) SUBSTRATE FOR IN-SITU LIQUID MEDIA DETECTION, Milind Mansing Pawar
Incidence of suicidality and restraint and seclusion in inpatient psychiatric care for people with schizophrenia, Heather L. Peterson
COMPOSITE PLATE OPTIMIZATION WITH STRUCTURAL AND MANUFACTURING CONSTRAINTS, Deepak Polaki
A STUDY OF CONSENSUS AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE IN A PLATOON OF VEHICLES USING ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL, Audrey Devin Porter
TECHNOLOGY INCREASES EFFICIENCY IN THE WORKPLACE, BUT OFTEN CREATES CHAOS IN THE PROCESS, Kathleen Merz Prester
FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND EVERYDAY ETHICAL COMPORTMENT IN PRE-LICENSURE BACCALAUREATE NURSING STUDENTS: A GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH, Kristen D. Priddy
“In a Way It’s a Violation”: Pap Smear Knowledge and Beliefs Among Underserved Women in Substance Abuse Treatment, Amberly R. Prykhodko
Executive Compensation, Corporate Tax Aggressiveness and Financial Reporting Aggressiveness: Evidence from SFAS 123R, Bonnie R. Quillin
STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION & RELIABILITY OF 3D PACKAGE BY STUDYING CRACK BEHAVIOR ON TSV & BEOL & IMPACT OF POWER CYCLING ON RELIABILITY FLIP CHIP PACKAGE, Unique Rahangdale
Crowd Data Analytics and Optimization, Habibur Rahman
PERSON IDENTIFICATION AND ANOMALY DETECTION USING GAIT PARAMETERS EXTRACTED FROM TIME SERIES DATA, Suhas Mandikal Rama Krishna Reddy
Risk Assessment and Analysis of Pharmaceutical Industry due to Recalls, Sowmya Dinamani Rao
MULTI-OBJECT DETECTION AND TRACKING IN SENSOR NETWORKS AND VIDEO SEQUENCES, Guohua Ren
Modeling ETR1 with Isolable Coinage Metal Complexes Supported by Partially Fluorinated, and Methylated Scorpionates, Shawn Glen Ridlen
UNDERSTANDING AGING WELL FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF HOMEBOUND OLDER ADULTS, Debra Lynn Rogers
Latinos with Diabetes: How do Social, Psychological, and Cultural Factors Affect Health Outcomes?, Erika Ruiz
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Cooperative Control and Estimation, Pengkai Ru
NUMERICAL STUDY OF MARANGONI CONVECTION AND MASS TRANSPORT IN MICRODROPLETS, Viraj Parag Sabane
URBAN FORM AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY IN NEIGHBORHOOD-LEVEL, Ayeh Sajjadieh Khajouei
Performance of Cement Treated Recycled Aggregates under Wetting-Drying Cycles in Pavement Base, Saif Bin Salah
“I DON’T WANNA SOUND PARANOID BUT I’M NOT LIKELY TO TRUST PEOPLE”: UNDERSTANDING WORK AND LIFE STRESSORS IN A SAMPLE OF FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS, Stephanie Sanford
Effect of Manure and Enzyme on the Degradation of Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste in Biocell, Anuja Sapkota
A CHANDRA STUDY OF SUPERNOVA REMNANTS IN THE LARGE AND SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUDS, Andrew Corey Schenck
Military-Related Posttraumatic Emotional Numbing: A Three-Article Dissertation, Donna L. Schuman
Capturing the Impact of Career and Technical Education Participation on Graduation Likelihood, Jeffrey Shawn Seeton
An improved method for measurement of radial thermal conductivity of cylindrical bodies, Salwa Shaik
A Probabilistic Approach to Crowdsourcing Pareto-Optimal Object Finding by Pairwise Comparisons, Nigesh Shakya
Existence of Exact Zero Divisors and Totally Reflexive Modules in Artinian Rings, Basanti Sharma Poudyal
THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF HIGH POWER MULTI CHIP MODULE BY DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF SEGREGATED SERPENTINE FLOW COLD PLATE, Krishna Chaitanya Siripurapu
Induced emotions on shoot decisions, Audrey Kaye Snowden
GEOCHEMICAL AND PETROPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HORN RIVER FORMATION: BRITISH COLUMBIA, CA, Joseph Anthony Sortore
Unravelling the Mysteries of Cognitive Decline in Cancer Survivors Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Dhivya Srinivasan
ADVANCES IN SEPARATION AND DETECTION IN OPEN TUBULAR CHROMATOGRAPHY, Brian Nicholas Stamos
Ideological and Legal Determinants of U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges' Voting in K-12 IDEA Reimbursement Cases Involving Children with Learning Disabilities, Tara L. Stephens
Productivity Improvement and Cost Optimization of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, Unmesh Vishwas Tamhankar
Disabling Sex Education: Science, Narrative, and the Female Body in Feminist Medical Fiction, 1874-1916, Stephanie P. Tavera
SOLDER JOINTS DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF QFN PACKAGES FOR DIFFERENT BOARDS BY INVESTIGATING SOLDER JOINT RELIABILITY, Rishikesh Vilas Tendulkar
Stellar Observations: Star Employee Productivity, Compensation, and Reputation, Ryan Patrick Terry
Essays on product market dynamics and corporate cash holdings across countries, Trang Thuy Thai
MANUFACTURING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A 3D-PRINTABLE, ANTIBACTERIAL, MAGNESIUM OXIDE NANOPARTICLES REINFORCED ABS FILAMENT, Saket Thapliyal
COMPARISON OF MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF METALLIC AND COMPOSITE FRONT DOOR OF A STANDARD AUTOMOBILE CAR BY FEA, Aniket Chandu Thosar
Crowdsourcing for Decision Making with Analytic Hierarchy Process, Ishwor Timilsina
Colonial Shame and its Effect on Puerto Rican Culture, Alison Torres Ramos
New Graduate Nurses and Transition to Practice, Regina Wilder Urban
CHARACTERIZATION OF VERTICALLY SPLIT DISTRIBUTION-WET COOLING MEDIA USED IN DATA CENTERS, Mullaivendhan Varadharasan
EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF THE ACCLIMATION OF NEW IT EQUIPMENT, Neil Johnson Vazhappilly
A DEEP LEARNING BASED PIPELINE FOR METASTATIC BREAST CANCER CLASSIFICATION FROM WHOLE SLIDE IMAGES (WSI), Arjun Punabhai Vekariya
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WOODEN AND COMPOSITE CROSSARM OF AN ELECTRIC UTILITY POLE, Amith Venkatesh
ADOPTION DISSOLUTION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ADOPTIVE PARENTS FROM THE USA WHO ADOPTED CHILDREN INTERNATIONALLY, Olga Vladimirovna Verbovaya
SOFTWARE DEFINED LOAD BALANCING OVER AN OPENFLOW-ENABLED NETWORK, Deepak Verma
A Cultural Landscape Assessment of Glen Garden Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, Anthony Joseph Wade
Effectiveness of Suicide Prevention Programs to Reduce Suicide Ideation and Behavior in Older Adults: A Systematic Review of the Literature from 2009-2016, Marissa Steen Wallace
THE IMPACT OF SHARED LEADERSHIP ON A CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION CAMPUS, Samantha Lee Ward
SPARSE SAMPLING AND ARRAY IN SIGNAL PROCESSING, Na Wu
AUTO-ROI SYSTEM: AUTOMATIC LOCALIZATION OF ROI IN GIGAPIXEL WHOLE-SLIDE IMAGES, Shirong Xue
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS AND CROSS-BORDER MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS: THE 2000-2012 PERIOD, Jinsuk Yang
USE OF GENERALIZED GAMMA DISTRIBUTION IN MODELING, Hongbo Yu
Machine Learning: Several Advances in Linear Discriminant Analysis, Multi-View Regression and Support Vector Machine, Shuai Zheng
Theses from 2016
The Impact of Projected Climate Change on Bioswales in North Texas, Joann Paris Leavell
INVESTIGATION OF FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETE CRACK WIDTH MEASUREMENT BY FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, Sina Abhaee
Automated System for the Characterization of the Biomechanical Properties of Human Soft Tissue, Michael R. Abraham
APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK FOR EVAPORATIVE COOLING IN DATA CENTRES, Feyisola Adejokun
FINITE ELEMENT MODELING AND STRESS DISTRIBUTION OF UNIDIRECTIONAL COMPOSITE MATERIALS UNDER TRANSVERSAL LOADING, Pavan Agarwal
MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION EFFICIENCY AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS OF BIOREACTOR LANDFILL OPERATIONS, Md Zahangir Alam
Women's Experiences During an Acute Myocardial Infarction, Dena R. Allen
IMPLICATIONS OF LITHOFACIES ASSOCIATION AND ARCHITECTURE FOR LOW AND HIGH-ACCOMMODATION SYSTEM TRACTS FROM THE SANDSTONE DOMINATED ZONE ( THE BARREN SERIES) OF THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOCENE RATON FORMATION, TRINIDAD, COLORADO, Yaqoub Y Y S M Alsayed Alrefaei
EFFECT OF VISCOELASTIC MODELING OF PCB ON THE BOARD LEVEL RELIABILITY OF WAFER CHIP SCALE PACKAGE (WCSP) IN COMPARISON TO ORTHOTROPIC LINEAR ELASTIC MODELING, Avinash Anaskure
Extracting and Modeling Useful Information from Videos for Supporting Continuous Queries, Manish Kumar Annappa
Non-Invasive Measurement of the Internal Temperature of Heat-Generating Bodies, Dean Raymond Anthony
THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION (3DIRECT) OF SPARSE SIGNALS WITH MRI APPLICATION, Melinda M. Au
CONVOLUTIONAL AND RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS FOR PEDESTRIAN DETECTION, Vivek Arvind Balaji
EVALUATING INCREASING HOSPITAL CLOSURE RATES IN U.S: A MODEL FRAMEWORK AND A LEAN SIX SIGMA DEPLOYMENT APPROACH FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES TO PREVENT FURTHER CLOSURES IN RURAL AND DISADVANAGED LOCATIONS, Soma Sekar Balasubramanian
Recipients of Major Scientific Awards a Descriptive and Predictive Analysis, Andrew Calvin Barbee
EXPERIMENTAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE MICROMECHANICS OF BRITTLE FRAGMENTATION DURING EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE, Troy J. Barber
HYDROCARBON POOL FIRE PERFORMANCE OF FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER (FRP) STRENGTHENED AND THERMALLY INSULATED BRIDGE GIRDERS, Eyosias Solomon Beneberu
NEWS NARRATIVES ABOUT THE HPV VACCINE FOR ADOLESCENT MALES, Katherine E. Bennett
AN EXPLORATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUPERVISION AND JOB SATISFACTION FACTORS AMONG RESIDENCE DIRECTORS AND RESIDENT ASSISTANTS, Stephen A. Berg
COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF IMPACT OF THERMAL SHADOWING IN NON-DIRECTED FLOW FOR AIR AND OIL COOLED SERVERS. FORM FACTOR STUDY AND CUSTOMIZATION OF HEAT SINK FOR DATA CENTER APPLICATION, Chinmay Hemantkumar Bhatt
MAVROOMIE: AN END-TO-END ARCHITECTURE FOR FINDING COMPATIBLE ROOMMATES BASED ON USER PREFERENCES, Vijendra Bhogadi
Computational Study and Optimization of Wet Cooling Media in Direct Evaporative Heat Exchanger, Tejas Vijay Bhongale
Integrative Approaches for Large-scale Biomedical Data Analysis, Ashis Kumer Biswas
MUNICIPAL GOLF FACILITIES AND THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF GOLF: DOES GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE MAKE A DIFFERENCE?, Clifford Smith Blumberg
POLICY RECOMMENDATION FOR INTEGRATING SMALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS WITH AVIATION FACILITIES IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS, Mike Branum
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT PERCEPTION IN THE ABILITY TO IDENTIFY THE PRIMARY AGGRESSOR IN A FAMILY VIOLENCE DISPUTE BY GENDER, RACE, AND RANK?, Sheri Denise Brock
FABRICATION, CALIBRATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MICRO-SCALE RESISTANCE TEMPERATURE DETECTORS, Kunjan Anilkumar Chaudhari
Specific Emotions and Altruistic Decision Making - A Study in Relational Perspective, Srinwanti Hazra Chaudhury
Solder Ball Reliability Assessment of Wafer Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP) Through Power Cycling, Bhavna Conjeevaram
A FRAMEWORK FOR EMPLOYING FEMTOSATELLITES IN PLANETARY SCIENCE MISSIONS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED MISSION CONCEPT FOR TITAN, Tracie Renea Conn Perez
The Case for Student Appropriation of University-Proximate Land Value, Robyn Curts
AUTOMATED LATTICE OPTIMIZATION OF HINGE FITTING WITH DISPLACEMENT CONSTRAINT, Vignesh Dakshnamoorthy
An Open Source APP-HARDWARE setup to control the system for DATA CENTER COOLING, Anay Satish Darekar
PILOT DEMONSTRATION BASED REINFORCEMENT LEARNING WITH APPLICATION TO LOW SPEED AIRSHIP CONTROL, Onur Daskiran