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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 2026 2026

Phonetic Attrition as an Outcome of L1-L2 Phonetic Interaction: Effects of L2 Exposure in Arabic-English Bilinguals, Dema Smadi

Artificial Intelligence Adoption in the Workplace. An Exploration of Augmentation, Oyinkansola O. Sodiya

Surrogate Optimization for Analytical Chemistry, Jaivardhan Vinodkumar Sood

Family Factors and Adolescent Behavior: How Parenting Practices and Parent-Child Relationships Shape Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors, Angela J. Spikes

The Rise in Height and Curb Weight of the Top-Selling Vehicles in the United States From 1991 - 2025: Implications for Engineering Design and Vulnerable Road Users, Samuel L. Steinman-Friedman

Understanding Culpability Factors in Traffic Crashes: Analyzing Causes and Policy Impacts Across the NCTCOG Region and a Comparative State-Level Evaluation, Jessica T. Suma

Navigating Academic Accommodations for Students with Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education: A Scoping Review, Lauren M. Sutton

Modeling, Analysis and Testing of Insect-like Wing Structure, Rui Suzuki

RACIAL DISPARITIES IN CEREBRAL VASCULAR RESPONSIVITY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE, Ziba Taherzadeh

Developing Design Principles for Multimodal Connection: A Case Study of the Commerce Bridge Corridor in Dallas, Texas, Panisa Thanpaisarnsamut

SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES TO CHARACTERIZING VULNERABILITIES AND ENHANCING ROBUSTNESS OF TEXT AND VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS, Poojitha Thota

Adversarial Robustness in Biomedical Time-Series Models, Rohan Tiwari

“NONE IN VELVET GOWNS”: CAMP FOLLOWERS AND WHITE WOMANHOOD IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ANGLO-AMERICAN WARFARE, Angelica LaBren Torres

Can Feedback Framing Improve Creative Problem-Solving? Examining the Effects of Valence and Format, Ellie H. Tran

GENESIEVE: A KNOWLEDGE NETWORK INTERFACE FOR GENE DISCOVERY ACROSS DIVERSE CROP SPECIES, Pranav Umakant Pujar

NUMERICAL AND MACHINE LEARNING BASED RECREATION OF DAMAGE MORPHOLOGIES OF BARELY VISIBLE IMPACT DAMAGE, Oscar A. Valdez

Characterizing Gut Microbial Communities and Symbiont-Mediated Detoxification in Herbivorous Insects, Rachel C. Vargas

Trustworthy Multimodal AI for Medical Imaging: Enhancing Diagnosis, Reasoning, and Human-Agent Interaction in Extended Reality, Jai Prakash Veerla

LINKING STRATEGY, CAPABILITIES AND VALUE CREATION IN AIRLINES: A MULTI-METHOD ESSAY-BASED DISSERTATION, Abhilash Vimal

NOVEL METHODS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL FLUORIDE MEASUREMENT, Cable Warren

A STUDY OF ADAPTIVE REUSE OF A DECOMMISSIONED GOLF COURSE THROUGH A NATURE-BASED APPROACH: WOODHAVEN GOLF COURSE, FORT WORT TEXAS., Justin B. Watson Mr.

PINKY EXTENSION IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: EVIDENCE FOR A LEXICALLY RESTRICTED MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESS, Laurel Whitsett

LLM-Driven Closed-Loop UAV Control with Obstacle-Aware Model Predictive Control, Halimcan Yasar

Multi-Modal Modeling of Preterm Birth Risk in an African-Ancestry Cohort, Budhachandra Singh Yumkhaibam

A PRODUCTIVITY RATE-BASED COMPARATIVE CARBON FOOTPRINT COST ANALYSIS OF SMALL TO LARGE-SIZED OPEN-CUT PIPELINE INSTALLATION ACTIVITIES FOR SANITARY SEWERAGE CONSTRUCTION: A SYSTEM BOUNDARY CONCEPT, Amir Reza Zakeri

Adaptive Synchronization in Digital Twin–Enabled IoT Systems: A Unified Framework for Energy, Fidelity, and Latency Trade-offs, Uzma Zehra

TOWARDS MULTIMODAL GUIDELINE-ALIGNED AGENTIC SYSTEMS, Wenliang Zhong

Flow Injection Determination of Fluoride for Total Organic Fluorine Analysis, Memona Zulafiqar

Dissertations from 2025 2025

ENHANCING WORKER SAFETY AND PERFORMANCE IN MANUAL ORDER PICKING WITH EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND IMMERSIVE TRAINING, Md Abdullah

ANIMAL TRIANGULATION – EXPANDING THE OPPRESSED/OPPRESSOR BINARY TO A TRIADIC CONSTITUENCY: THE OPPRESSOR, THE PROXY, AND THE OPPRESSED, Katherine A. Abelanet

Optimal Control Problems with Linear and Non-linear Damped Viscous Wave Equations, NAIF ABU QARNAYN

EVALUATE THE FEASIBILITY OF RECYCLABILITY OF THE PLASTIC MODIFIED RAP IN HOT MIX ASPHALT, Aashish Acharya

ENSEMBLE OF PHYSICS-INFORMED NEURAL NETWORK COUPLED WITH CAPACITANCE RESISTANCE MODEL FOR OIL PRODUCTION FORECAST AND INTER-WELL CONNECTIVITY – AN APPLICATION TO AN OFFSHORE GHANA FIELD, Steve K. Adjorlolo

BRIDGING THE DIGITAL EQUITY GAP: ENGAGING AND EMPOWERING GENERATION Z EMPLOYEES IN MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. A MULTIPLE EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY, Amuche L. Agu

ENGINEERED BIOMIMETIC MUSCLE GRAFT FOR SKELETAL MUSCLE REGENERATION, Julia O. Aguirre

USING CHATGPT TO GENERATE AND VALIDATE SYSTEMVERILOG CODE, Khaled H. Ahmed

Self-Tor Persistence of Modules over Determinantal Rings, Tatheer F. Ajani

Quantity Over Quality? What Pupil Dilations Tell Us About Cognitive Effort At Learning., Durna Alakbarova

Resilience and Reality: Exploring the Lived Experiences of People Living with HIV in Texas During the COVID-19 Pandemic – A Qualitative Study., Ahmed F. Alanazi

MODIFIED CORE-LINE TECHNIQUES FOR VORTEX IDENTIFICATION USING LIUTEX, Bassam Albalawi

DEVELOPMENT OF A MODEL TO OPTIMIZE PRODUCTIVITY OF CIPP BY USING A NEURAL NETWORK MODEL, Ghassan M. Al Khayyat

Therapeutic Strategies to Restore Vascular Function in Brain Injury and Cancer, Anne M. Alsup

SPATIAL TAILORING AND OPTIMIZATION OF BUCKLING PERFORMANCE IN ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED AND FIBER-PLACED STRUCTURES, Sandesh Amgai

MONITORING EARLY AGE CEMENT HYDRATION USING STATISTICAL APPROACH THROUGH RHEOLOGICAL AND ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS, Ramya Anandhan

Data-Driven Techniques For Dynamical Systems With Applications To Neuroscience, Khitam Zuhair Bader Aqel

Neurovascular Coupling Impairments in Acute Traumatic Brain Injury: An EEG-NIRS Analysis, Zachary Armstrong

Data-Driven Forecasting of Power Demand via Convex Optimization, Mersedeh Ashraphijuo

Distance-Based Statistical Methods and Outlier Detection in Large-Scale Electrophysiology Data, Zahra Asiri

STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCED MEG DATA ANALYSIS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE AND EMERGING FRONTIERS, Pegah Askari

pH-Responsive Peptide Nanostructures Incorporating Non-Natural Amino Acids: Design, Self-Assembly, and Functional Evaluation, Haritha Asokan Sheeja

Topology-Driven Performance Analyses in Consensus Algorithms for Multi-Agent Systems, Brandon Ayala

Centrality Algorithms For Weighted Homogeneous Multilayer Networks, Ayomide Ayowole-Obi

MULTIDIMENSIONAL FACTORS RELATED TO HOUSING AFFORDABILITY: A CASE STUDY OF THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH (DFW) METROPOLITAN AREA, Sally Ayuk

STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE OF HIGH-RISE RC BUILDINGS WITH SFRC COLUMNS AND SHEAR WALLS SUBJECTED TO SEISMIC LOADING, Ali Azzawi

Governance Matters: Evaluating the Drivers of County-Level Economic Resilience in Texas Using Panel Data from the Post-COVID Recovery (2013-2023), Omar Wesley Bailey

ASSESSMENT OF SINGLE-PHASE LIQUID COOLING IN DATA CENTERS- THERMAL PERFORMANCE, FLUID INTEGRITY, AND SYSTEM RESILIENCY, Anto Joseph Barigala Charles Paulraj

CASE STUDY EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF MENTORSHIP ON THE ATTRITION OF NOVICE PRINCIPALS IN URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS, Nikia Barnett

DEVELOPMENT OF A SPSS-BASED PREDICTION MODEL TO EVALUATE ‎VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS DURING TRENCHLESS CURED-IN-PLACE PIPE METHOD, Salar Bavili Nezhad

Warring Identities: The Transition from Servicemember to Civilian Employee, Michael Beeson

Attitudes and Perceptions of Financial Status and Course Outcomes Among Hispanic Nursing Students, Janeen M. Biggs

Microbial Mavericks: Turning hazards into snacks, Alison G. Blanton

INSIGHTS ON THE ROLE OF CO-CALCINING CLAY WITH ALKALI HYDROXIDES, Ishrat Baki Borno

INVESTIGATING SEX-SPECIFIC ROLE OF THE KYNURENINE PATHWAY IN OPIOID WITHDRAWAL, Blake Brady

School-Based Mental Health Professionals’ Perceptions of Cultural Competency and Awareness in Promoting Culturally Responsive Services, Aundraea Brown

Fabrication of Microscale Oxide Architectures on Silicon via a CMOS-Compatible, Deposition-Last Process, Jamal A. Brown

OPTIMIZING UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE DATA FOR ENHANCED SELECTION AND PLACEMENT OF PIPELINE CONDITION MONITORING TECHNOLOGY, Diego Calderon

Developing the Rural Older Adult Dementia prevention-Health Behaviors (ROAD-HB) Questionnaire: A Mixed Methods Approach to Instrument Development, Jessica Cassidy

UNMET FAMILY PLANNING CARE AND HEALTH-LITERACY NEEDS AMONG LOW-INCOME IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES, Priyanjali Chakraborty

PREDICTIVE MODEL DEVELOPMENT FOR USER BEHAVIOR IN SMART PARKING SYSTEMS ADOPTION, Sai Sneha Channamallu

A MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORK FOR VALIDATING STAGE-PROMOTING SELF-CONTAINED SLEEP MODELS WITH BROADER CLINICAL APPLICATIONS, Shreshtha Chaturvedi

STRESS ANALYSIS OF ANISOTROPIC INCLUSION PROBLEMS USING COMPLEX VARIABLES, Liming Chen

An Uncertainty-Guided and Failure-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model Control Framework for Robotics, Lingling Chen

GUIDED-MODE RESONANT NANOPATTERNS FOR RAMAN GENERATION AND PHOTONIC DEVICES, RenJie Chen

Photonic Crystal Devices for Chip Scale Sensing Systems, Yudong Chen

LAST-MILE FLEET ELECTRIFICATION AND COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPACTS, Jaesik Choi

THE ROLE OF SODIUM BUTYRATE AS AN INFLAMMATORY REGULATOR AND ITS EFFECT ON LONG NONCODING RNAS IN NEUROINFLAMMATION, Angel Covarrubias

Technology-Facilitated Abuse (TFA): Analyzing Trends, Tactics, and Victim Responses on Reddit, Solomon G. Dandekar

Intelligent Microfluidic Systems for Precision Manipulation and Real-Time Recognition via Dielectrophoresis and Deep Learning, Negar Danesh

Discrete Time Risk Processes with Stochastic Premiums and Dividends, Enoch J. Dangbe

Personalized Physics Learning through AI: Insights from Problem Generation, Chatbot Dialogues, and Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Atharva Dange

Between Worlds, Between Selves: Comparative Self-Presentation Under Social Expectation Uncertainty Among U.S. Students and Vietnamese International Students, Thu Dang

3D PERCEPTION, MAPPING, AND NAVIGATION FOR MOBILE COBOT, Tuan T. Dang

A MULTIMODAL PREDICTION FRAMEWORK FOR MOISTURE AGING ASSESSMENT IN POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES, Partha Pratim Das

IMPACT OF GLUFOSINATE ON SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY DYNAMICS, Sarobi Das

FLAME-RESISTANT RECYCLED POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES, Vitaliano Dattilo

PSYCHOTROPIC PRESCRIPTION USE AMONG FOSTER CARE ALUMNI MEDICATED WITH PSYCHOTROPIC IN CHILDHOOD, Zoe D. Daugherty

Statistical Analysis of Climate Trends and Variability in Tarrant County Using Annual, Decade, and Three-Decade Time Periods, Quinnton DeBolt

DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS IN THE TWITCH ECOSYSTEM: A MULTI-FACETED STUDY ON STREAMER POPULARITY, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND CONTENT VARIATION, Roopa Ramesh Desai

TOWARDS INTERPRETABLE AUTOMATIC FACT-CHECKING WITH FRAME SEMANTICS, Jacob Devasier

Studies Towards a Total Synthesis of Ageliferin and Construction of Fundamental Building Blocks of Pyrrole-Imidazole Alkaloids Using Thioacid-Azide Ligation, Nilakshi Dey

Genetic analysis of methionine restriction-associated mitochondrial unfolded protein response signaling., josh D. dodge

Multi-attribute Characterization of Polymeric and Lipid-based Drug Delivery Systems by Column Switching Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, Brady W. Drennan

Institutional Pressures and Nonprofit Executive Burnout: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Organizational Culture and Leadership Sustainability in Texas, Lenita R. Dunlap PhD

REDUCING FUTURE-ORIENTED THOUGHTS THROUGH INTENTION OFFLOADING, Connor Dupre

DESIGN STRATEGY FOR HYBRID THRUST AIR BEARINGS: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RIGID VS. FOIL BEARINGS CONSIDERING OPTIMUM TAPER ANGLE AND ORIFICE LOCATION WITH EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION, Ehiremen Ebewele

Statistical and Machine Learning Framework for Dynamic-to-Static Mapping: Applications in Neuroscience, Rodina Eladawy

Randomized Participant Compensation: An Early Investigation into Social Influence in Cheating Games, Anthony J. Emerick

BEYOND THE PLEDGE: UNVEILING KEY POST-CAMPAIGN DYNAMICS IN CROWDFUNDING, Stephanie B. Escudero

ASSESSING BIODIVERSITY FOR USER EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC PARKS: LEARNING FROM DOWNTOWN DALLAS, TEXAS, Amanda A. Esparza

The effects of family communication patterns on young adults’ healthcare encounters, Victoria Esquivel