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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!

Theses from 2015 2015

Estimation of Fracture Mechanics Parameters In 3D TSV Package During Chip Attachment Process, Mohammed Shahid Ali

Magnetic Field Enhanced Thermal Conductivity Analysis of Magnetic Nanofluids, Christopher Allen

Green Criminological Concerns & Philosophical Beliefs, Alexander Allen Anderson

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF LOW-DENSITY POLYMERIC MATERIALS WITH 3D MICROSTRUCTURES, Hakan Arslan

Material changes of bone following ishcemia of the immature femoral head, Olumide O. Aruwajoye

Material changes of bone following ishcemia of the immature femoral head, Olumide O. Aruwajoye

NO MAJOR CHANGES ON PALEOCLIMATE AND PALEOENVIRONMENT ACROSS THE EOCENE–OLIGOCENE TRANSITION IN THE CENTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAINS, Sara Ayyash

Finding Deaf Gain: Changing Languages, Changing Lenses, Changing Society, Edward Henry Bart

Regional Stratigraphy of the Marble Falls Formation and Underlying Late Mississippian to Early Pennsylvanian Deposits, Fort Worth Basin, North-Central Texas, USA, Beau Daniel Berend

NOVEL METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF POSTTRANSLATIONAL LIPID MODIFIED PROTEINS BY MASS SPECTROMETRY, Ruchika P. Bhawal

SPARSE SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION IN LINEAR INVERSE SCATTERING PROBLEM, Tanmoy Bhowmik

An Investigation Into the Efficacy of Mind Maps in Software Development Among Individuals and Pairs, Philip L. Bond

Intoxication and Empire: Distilled Spirits and the Creation of Addiction in the Early Modern British Atlantic, Kristen D. Burton

PREDICTORS OF PERSISTENCE IN ONLINE GRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS, Denise Cauble

EVALUATION OF CODING TOOLS FOR SCREEN CONTENT IN HIGH EFFICIENCY VIDEO CODING, Shwetha Chandrakant Kodpadi

SYNTHESIS OF MODIFIED RIBOSE SPIN-LABEL, Ke-wei Chang

The Impact of Community Resources on Violent and Property Crimes, Kingsley Uchechuwku Chigbu

A High Frequency Memristor Emulator Circuit, Manu Chilukuri

Becomes a Woman Best: Female Prophetic Figures in Shakespeare's Plays, Alan Morris Cochrum

Students At Risk: The Impacts of Self-Efficacy and Risk Factors on Academic Achievement, Candice L. Cooper

Bayesian Statistics and Information Fusion for GPS-Denied Navigation, Brian Lee Copp

Resources, innovative outcomes, and the symbolic and substantive performance of entrepreneurial firms: an examination of independent popular music artists, John A. Deleon

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL FOR STEADY STATE SIMULATION OF A PLATE-FIN HEAT EXCHANGER, Ajit Rajesh Desai

THERMAL ANALYSIS OF DISK BRAKE IN ORDER TO STUDY THE BRAKE FLUID VAPORIZATION PHENOMENON OF A FORMULA SAE CAR, Anurag Dey

Developing and Validating Thermodynamic Models for Evaporative Cooling Employed in Data centers, Niravkumar Prabhatsinh Dodia

Detecting Real-time Check-worthy Factual Claims in Tweets Related to U.S. Politics, Fatma Dogan

Comprehensive neural network forecasting system for ground level ozone in multiple regions, Gautam Raghavendra Eapi

LUNG CANCER SUBTYPE CLASSIFICATION FROM WHOLE SLIDE HISTOPATHOLOGICAL IMAGES, Dheeraj Ganti

Influence of the Volume-Contact Area Ration on the Growth Behavior of the Cu-Sn Intermetallic Phase, Venkatakamakshi Supraja Giddaluri

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SPATIAL-MODE-SELECTIVE FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION, Mohan Giribabu

CFD BASED DESIGN AND MODELLING OF WIND FENCE TO MITIGATE HIGH-SPEED WIND LOADING ON A MODULAR DATA CENTER, Devi Prasad Gorrepati

QP-SUBDUE: PROCESSING QUERIES OVER GRAPH DATABASES, Ankur Goyal

We Will Not Strike: The Black Revolt in the Chicago Teachers Union, Charles Grand

Experimental Study On Seismic Performance Of Reinforced Concrete Coupling Beams And Rectangular Squat Walls With Innovative Reinforcement Configurations, Poorya Hajyalikhani

A MODEL ANALYSIS OF SAND INSERTION IN HYDRAULIC FRACTURES, Ya Hao

Automatic Carrier Landing System For V/STOL Aircraft Using L1 Adaptive And Optimal Control, Shashank Hariharapura Ramesh

The role of platelets in the successful closure of the ductus arteriosus in premature infants after indomethacin treatment, Joan Heilskov

H.265 (HEVC) BITSTREAM TO H.264 (MPEG 4 AVC) BITSTREAM TRANSCODER, Deepak Hingole

AN INVASTIGATION OF BAND-LIMITED FLUID DAMPER CONFIGURATION USING LUMPED PARAMETER MODELING, Ye Hong

FLUID UPTAKE OF THE GODDARD SHALE IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA, USA, Paul Huggins

TBI induced rate dependent viscoelastic response of axon: Predictions from a mathematical model, Manikanta Jonnalagadda

Speaker Identification in Live Events using Twitter, Minumol Joseph

Additive Manufacturing and Stress Analysis of Naturally and Artificially Optimized Celullar Structures, Sachin Jose

Thermal Transgenerational Plasticity and Its Effect on Competitive Ability and Consumer-Resource Dynamics in a Population of Daphnia ambigua, Holmes Julian

PARAMETRIC STUDY OF AN IGBT COLD PLATE AND AFFECT OF DEVICE LEVEL MODELLING ON SYSTEM LEVEL THERMAL PREDICTIONS, Abhishek Raj Urs Kadaba Nagaraja Urs

TWO PHASE FLOW CFD ANALYSIS OF REFRIGERANTS IN A CONDENSER PIPE FOR PREDICTION OF PRESSURE DROP AND PUMPING POWER, Aniket Ramchandra Kalambe

Neural Network Modeling and Control of Data Center, Nachiket Rajendra Kansara

A Study on Evaporative Cooling for data centers & Artificial Neural Network Modeling, Pritam Karmokar

Presidential Speech and the Framing of Poverty: From the War on Poverty to the War on the Poor, Jamaica Kennedy

CAE ANALYSIS ON A FORD ECOBOOST MUSTANG CONNECTING ROD FOR FORGED STEEL, ALUMINUM 7075, Shiva Prasad Keralapura Basavaraju

Improving the Rainfall and Flood Frequency Analyses Using Stochastic Storm Transposition Method, Morteza Kiani

MERGING RADAR-ONLY QPE AND RAIN GAUGE DATA VIA CONDITIONAL BIAS-PENALIZED OPTIMAL ESTIMATION, Beomgeun Kim

“EVERY GOOD MAN IS A QUAKER, AND THAT NONE BUT GOOD MEN ARE QUAKERS”: TRANSATLANTIC QUAKER HUMANITARIANS, DISABILITY, AND MARKETING ENLIGHTENED REFORM, 1730-1834, Nathaniel Smith Kogan

Characterization and comparison of fresh and landfilled solid waste, Kavya Koganti

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS VALIDATING A CONTROL SCHEME TO DEVELOP A DYNAMIC COOLING SOLUTION FOR NON-UNIFORM HIGH POWERED ELECTRONIC DEVICES IN DATA CENTER, Ruturaj Kiran Kokate

DEVELOPMENT OF A METHODOLOGY AND SAMPLE PREPARATION TO EVALUATE RELIABILITY OF OIL COOLED DATA CENTER, Venkata Naga Indu Sravani Kota

ESTIMATION OF REBAR CORROSION IN CONCRETE USING GROUND PENETRATING RADAR, Rakesh Krishnarajapete Raju

Influencing Donor Decision-making: An Examination of Situational Determinants that Impact Donation, Floyd Kristopher

IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS FOR AUTOMATED DATA ANALYSIS IN MINERAL EXTRACTION COMPANIES, Richard A. Leach

New conductometric detection methods for sensitive ion chromatographic measurement of weak electrolytes, Hongzhu Liao

Studying An All-vanadium Photoelectrochemical Cell For Highly Efficient Solar Energy Conversion And Storage Via Photocatalytic Redox Reaction, Dong Liu

OVERCOMING THE LEARNING CURVE: THE USE OF FACEBOOK BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, Lucas J. Lothamer

INVESTIGATION OF SCALABLE HEVC AND ITS BITRATE ALLOCATION FOR UHD DEPLOYMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF HTTP STREAMING, Uma Sagar Madhugiri Dayananda

DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING, Akshay Malhotra

DATA VISUALIZATION IN EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS: AN OVERVIEW OF METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES, Yingsen Mao

DATA VISUALIZATION IN EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS: AN OVERVIEW OF METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES, Yingsen Mao

INTERFACE REACTION INDUCED STRESS DEVELOPMENT IN AN ALUMINUM THIN FILM COPPER BULK PLATE DIFFUSION COUPLE, Michael Codie Mishler

THE RELATIONSHIP OF LIFE PREDICTION FOR QUAD FLAT N0-LEAD PACKAGE (QFN )PACKAGES USING 4 POINT BEND TEST AND THERMAL CYCLE TESTING, Monisha Mohan

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATION BETWEEN SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION, Nazaneen Mousavi

Feasibility of Underground Freight Transportation (UFT) in Texas, Seyedeh Hosna Mousavipour

MULTI-STAGE PREDICTION SCHEME FOR SCREEN CONTENT BASED ON HEVC, Nagashree Mundgemane Nagaraj

NON THERMAL RELIABILITY CONSIDERATIONS FOR OIL COOLED DATA CENTERS AND ITS SERVICEABILITY, Sahithi Reddy Nagilla

INTERACTIVE DASHBOARD FOR USER ACTIVITY USING NETWORK FLOW DATA, Lalit Kumar Naidu

Structure-Activity Relationships of Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complexes with Redox-Active Intercalating Ligands: Correlation between Redox Activity, DNA Cleavage Capability and Cytotoxicity, Eugenia Soyo Narh

THE SEARCH FOR EXOMOON RADIO EMISSIONS, Joaquin P. Noyola

Evaluating and augmenting fuel-saving benefits obtained in aircraft formation flight, Wendy Awele Okolo

SMART BED AND CONTACT IMPACT OF FLEXIBLE BODIES USING ENERGY COMPENSATION METHOD, Pranav Parikh

DETERMINATION OF TOTAL AND D-AMINO ACID CONTENT IN MICE BRAIN TISSUE BY ACHIRAL-CHIRAL HEART-CUTTING TWO-DIMENSIONAL LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY: DIAGNOSTIC AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE AND A COMPARISON BETWEEN NON-PERFUSED AND PERFUSED TISSUE, Curran Parpia

CFD MODELING AND PARAMETRIC STUDY OF VAPOR CHAMBER AS HEAT SPREADERS FOR HIGH-POWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES, Dhanraj Arun Patil

THE EFFECT OF MATERIAL STRAIN HARDENING ON THE BUCKLING STRENGTH OF A PERFORATED PLATE UNDER UNIAXIAL LOADING, Mayuri Suresh Patil

Computational Analysis of Enhancing Heat Transfer in a 3-D stacked Die Using Different Finned Heat Sink, Deekshith Pittala

The Effect of Temperature and Relative Humidity on the Corrosion Rates of Copper and Silver in Electronic Equipment in the presence of Sulfur Environment, Kanan Pujara

ENHANCEMENT OF FOG-COLLECTION EFFICIENCY OF A RASCHEL MESH USING SURFACE COATINGS AND GEOMETRIC CHANGES, Mithun Rajaram

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF CEREBROVASCULAR REACTIVITY USING GAS INHALATION CHALLENGES, Harshan Ravi

IMPROVING WATER QUALITY FORECASTING USING DATA ASSIMILATION, Hamideh Riazi

QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF A THRUST VECTOR CONTROLLED TRANSPORT AT THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN PHASE, Vincent Patrick Ricketts

Characterization of the Constituent Mineral Components of North African Surface Dust Samples Utilizing Computer Controlled Scanning Electron Microscopy (CCSEM), Zakariah Edward Sabatka

Impact of Layer Thickness of QFN Package Mounted Printed Circuit Boards During Drop Testing, Sayalee Pradeep Sabne

MEDIUM-RANGE ENSEMBLE PRECIPITATION AND STREAMFLOW FORECASTING FOR THE UPPER TRINITY RIVER BASIN IN TEXAS VIA THE NWS HYDROLOGIC ENSEMBLE FORECAST SERVICE, Hossein Sadeghi

Development, Testing and Characterization of Electronic Skins for Robots, Ritvij Sahasrabuddhe

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHODOLOGIES FOR MULTI PROCESS AND MULTI MATERIAL SCENARIOS, Tushar Saini

GUANIDINIUM BASED ANION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES FOR SOLID POLYMER ALKALINE FUEL CELL APPLICATIONS, Syed Dawar Sajjad

THEORETICAL PREDICTION OF MATERIALS FOR EFFICIENT CONVERSION OF SOLAR ENERGY, Pranab Sarker

Mechanical Reliability Of Porous Low-k Dielectrics For Advanced Interconnect: Study Of The Instability Mechanisms In Porous Low-k Dielectrics And Their Mediation Through Inert Plasma Induced Re-polymerization Of The Backbone Structure, Yoonki Sa

Reducing Encoder Complexity of Intra-mode Decision using CU Early Termination Algorithm, Nishit Samirbhai Samirbhai Shah

STUDIES OF INFLUENCE OF ENERGY DISTRIBUTION ON THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE, Cheng Sheng

BOARD LEVEL FLEXURAL RELIABILITY TESTING AND FAILURE ANALYSIS OF PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS WITH WCSP PACKAGES, Guruprasad Shrikant Shinde

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON EFFECTS OF SEGREGATED COOLING PROVISIONING ON THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVERS IN AIR COOLED DATA CENTERS, Ashwin Venugopal Siddarth

Quantitative Analysis of Scalable NoSQL Databases, Surya Narayanan Swaminathan

SLOPE STABILIZATION AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING OF I-35 AND SH-183 SLOPES USING RECYCLED PLASTIC PINS, Sandip Tamrakar