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Theses from 2016
Geomechanical Analysis of Rock Brittleness with Comparisons to the Mineralogical Brittleness Index, Derek Bammel
COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF BLAST INDUCED DAMAGE ON NEURONS IN BRAIN DURING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, Divya Swamy Bandaru
COMPARISON OF METHANE PRODUCTION FROM HOUSEHOLD WASTE, Sunita Baniya
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE THERMO-MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF WCSP ASSEMBLY DUE TO DIFFERENCE IN PCBS’ LAYER THICKNESS, Trina Barua
The Nature of Kinship Care Relationships and Permanency Outcomes for Foster Children: Implications for Social Work Practice, Policy, and Research, Jolynne Batchelor
THE CINÉ “NEVER SETS…”: BRITISH CINEMA AS A TRANSATLANTIC CULTURAL COMMODITY, 1927-1938, Karen E. Beasley
Exergy Analysis of a Pulse Detonation Engine Linear Power Generator, Raheem Temitope Bello
COMPARISON OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS IN SUGGESTING CANDIDATE EDGES TO CONSTRUCT A QUERY ON HETEROGENEOUS GRAPHS, Rohit Ravi Kumar Bhoopalam
PROCESSING QUERIES OVER PARTITIONED GRAPH DATABASES: AN APPROACH AND IT'S EVALUATION, Jay Dilipbhai D. Bodra
A comparison of magnet schools to traditional schools: Application of critical education theory, Gregory Dale Cartwright
On the Quantum Spaces of Some Quadratic Regular Algebras of Global Dimension Four, Richard Gene Chandler
Regularized Canonical Correlations in Clustering Sensor Data, Jia Chen
SPARSE DECENTRALIZED PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS FOR DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION, Nanruo Chen
A Game Theoretic Framework for Temporal and Agent Abstractions in Multiagent Learning, Danielle Clement
The Design and Control of a Battery-Supercapacitor Hybrid Energy Storage Module for Naval Applications, Isaac J. Cohen
WHAT WAS THE MOCKINGBIRD’S SONG? REASSESING TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD THROUGH THE LENS OF GO SET A WATCHMAN, Leslie Erin Cook
Rethinking Resistance: Race, Gender, and Place in the Fictive and Real Geographies of the American West, Tracey Daniels Lerberg
A STUDY OF ELECTRICAL DOUBLE LAYER AT AN ALUMINUM SURFACE IN AN AUTOMOTIVE COOLING SYSTEM, Saurabh Deobhankar
CFD MODELLING OF WET COOLING MEDIA AND DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF HEAT SINK FOR DATA CENTER APPLICATION, Shivang Yogeshkumar Desai
Tensor Products of a Finite-Dimensional Representation and an Infinite-Dimensional Representation, Felicia Dewanaga
Engagement with activity and functional status among older adults, Thomas A. Dombrowsky
IMPACT OF WEATHER FACTORS ON GO-AROUND OCCURRENCE, Bharath Donavalli
CFD Analysis and Design Optimization of Heat Sink for Oil Immersion Cooling, Koushik Epuri
COMPRESSION ARTIFACT REDUCTION IN HEVC USING ADAPTIVE BILATERAL FILTER, Rohith Reddy Etikala
Payday Lending: A Value-Critical Analysis of Three State Solutions, Jocelyn Everett
THREE ESSAYS ON NETWORKS AND KNOWLEDGE VALUE, Mahmoud Ibrahim M Fallatah
Analysis of an Alternative High School's Graduates and Dropouts: A Phenomenological Study, Marina E. Flores
Climate change planning in Dallas-Fort Worth: Discourse and public participation in a politically conservative region, Ann W. Foss
Climate change planning in Dallas-Fort Worth: Discourse and public participation in a politically conservative region, Ann W. Foss
A Pilot Evaluation of Jail Programming, Laura Frank
POTENTIAL APPLICATION OF ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETE WITH WET-MIX SHOTCRETE SYSTEM IN TUNNELING, Jean Gamarra
DESIGN AND STIFFNESS OPTIMIZATION OF QUADRI-DIRECTIONAL COMPOSITE GRID LATTICE STRUCTURES, Gajendra Devanga Gangadara
An Exploratory Study on the Manifestations of New Public Management (NPM) in Teacher Education, Ricardo Garcia
MAXIMIZING USE OF AIR-SIDE ECONOMIZATION, DIRECT AND INDIRECT EVAPORATIVE COOLING FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT DATA CENTERS, Betsegaw Kebede Gebrehiwot
Discriminating Parkinson's disease using functional connectivity and brain network analysis, Daniel Gellerup
⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr AS A POTENTIAL FINGERPRINT FOR DETERMINING THE PROVENANCE OF TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS ASSOCIATED WITH HYDRAULIC FRACTURING ACTIVITIES IN THE BARNETT SHALE, TEXAS, Richard Brian Goldberg
Settlement House Scenes: Migrants and the Performing Arts in Transatlantic Perspective, Yevgeny Goldin
EFFECTS OF NUMERACY AND FINANCIAL LITERACY ON UNDESIRABLE FINANCIAL AND RELATED ACADEMIC OUTCOMES IN COLLEGE STUDENTS, Sriram Govindarajan
Representations of the Extended Poincare Superalgebras in Four Dimensions, John David Griffis
ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY BY USING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING APPLICATIONS IN PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, Harsha Vardhan Reddy Guduru Penusila
OGMA - LANGUAGE ACQUISITION SYSTEM USING IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY, Sanika Gupta
ANALYSIS OF ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER STRUCTURE FORMED DURING CORROSION OF STEEL PIPES CARRYING POTABLE WATER, Tanmay Sanjeev Gupte
Structural Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Circular Columns using CFRP, Ahmed Haider Mohiuddin
EXPLOITING HIGHER-ORDER STATISTICS IN RADAR DATA FOR SCATTERING CENTER ISOLATION, Jeffrey Brandon Hall
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PLASMONIC-MAGNETIC Au-Co MULTILAYERED NANORODS, Akshay Hande
Data Engineering in Aerospace Systems Design & Forecasting, Eric Haney
A DATA DRIVEN, HOSPITAL QUALITY OF CARE PORTAL FOR THE PATIENT COMMUNITY, Sreehari Balakrishna Hegden
LOCALIZATION AND CONTROL OF DISTRIBUTED MOBILE ROBOTS WITH THE MICROSOFT KINECT AND STARL, Nathan Hervey
Investigation of Additive Manufacturing Using Industrial Robots, Matt Heuser
The Power of Community: Building Social Networks Through the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) College Readiness System, Travis Wayne Horton
Sensitivity of the Younger Dryas climate to changes in freshwater, orbital, and greenhouse gas forcing in comprehensive climate models, Taylor Michelle Hughlett
Design and Resistance Factor Calibration of Pipe Piles in California, Yujie Hu
OPTIMIZATION OF AIR COOLED PORTION IN A SERVER WITH WATER COOLED MICRO-PROCESSORS, Neha Inamdar
EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF HYBRID COOLED CISCO SERVERS INCLUDING THE EFFECT OF WARM WATER COOLING, Md Malekkul Islam
SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION IN A LARGE SCALE SIGN DATABASE, Pat Jangyodsuk
TOWARDS BETTER USABILITY OF QUERY SYSTEMS FOR MASSIVE ULTRA-HETEROGENEOUS GRAPHS: NOVEL APPROACHES OF QUERY FORMULATION AND QUERY SPECIFICATION, Nandish Jayaram
E-LEARNING MODULES FOR NUCLEAR REACTOR HEAT TRANSFER, Praveen Bharadwaj Jayaram
HIGHLY FLUORINATED, COINAGE METAL COMPLEXES OF TRIS(PYRAZOLYL)BORATES WITH ADDITIONAL ELECTRON WITHDRAWING GROUPS AND PYRAZOLATE π-STACKINGS WITH ARENES, Naleen Bandupriya Jayaratna
A Study of Electrical Double Layer Structure over a Corroding Steel Surface in Sea Water, Pratik Babanrao Kale
ADWIRE: ADD-ON FOR WEB ITEM REVIEW SYSTEM, Rajeshkumar Ganesh Kannapalli
Computer Vision Algorithm Development and Biomedical Applications, Vasant Kearney
“THE GOD OF THE AGE”: RELIGION AND SERVITUDE IN THE WORKS OF AUGUSTA JANE EVANS, Jeffrey Warren King
COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT METALS AS ELECTRODES FOR A FLEXIBLE MICRO pH SENSOR, Pavan Kumar Kota
EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL BOARD LEVEL RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT OF THICK BOARD QFN ASSEMBLIES UNDER POWER CYCLING, Sumanth Krishnamurthy
MULTI-STAGE ENHANCEMENT SCHEME FOR LOW QUALITY FINGERPRINT IMAGES, Ramakrishna Vighna Venkata Lanka
Queering the Aftermath: Rethinking the Queer in Postcolonial and the (Post)colonial in Queer, Robert LaRue
HARVESTING OF WATER FROM FOG USING SPONGES, Jae Jun Lee
PLAUSIBILITY AND STRUCTURAL REANALYSIS, Ju-Young Lee
EFFECT OF STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS ON THERMAL DEFORMATION OF SINGLE CURVATURE COMPOSITE SANDWICH PANELS, Brady C. Lotz
Willing to Help, but Lacking Discernment: The Effects of Victim Group Size on Donation Behaviors, Devin Lunt
A SWITCHED CAPACITOR BASED TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER FOR DETECTION OF HAB THROUGH OPTICAL SENSING, Uthra Mahendran
Teachers' Perspectives on the Efficacy of Inclusion for the General Education Student, Valayne May
Strange and Unstable Bodies: Shifting Materialities in Early American Natural History Correspondence Networks, Julie Marie McCown
THE IMPACT OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE ON MENTAL HEALTH WELL-BEING AMONG WOMEN SEEKING HELP FROM A POLICE STATION, Cecilia Mengo
TRANSFER PRINTED SEMICONDUCTOR NANOMEMBRANES FOR HETEROGENEOUSLY INTEGRATED MULTI-BAND IMAGER ARRAYS, Laxmy Menon
Human Robot Interaction with 3D-Printed Whole Body Robotic Skin, Fahad Mirza
CFD ANALYSIS OF VAPOR CHAMBER WITH MICRO PILLARS AS HEAT SPREADER FOR HIGH POWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES, Yasir Aziz Modak
EXPLORING SEX DIFFERENCES IN MORPHINE WITHDRAWAL-INDUCED ALTERATIONS OF THE VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA, Samara Morris Bobzean
Reversible Data Hiding using Histogram Shifting, Sai Saketh Nandagiri
Wireless Power Transfer for Medical and Industrial Applications, Minh Quoc Nguyen
NUMBER SENSE IN HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS STUDENTS, Vi Le Nguyen
Smoking Perceptions Among Adult Cameroonian Men Who Smoke Cigarettes, Elvis N. Ngyia
Guided-mode resonant filters and reflectors: principles, design, and fabrication, Manoj Niraula
DYNAMIC CONSTRAINT OPTIMAL SELECTION TECHNIQUES FOR LINEAR PROGRAMMING, Alireza Noroziroshan
WOMEN’S ADOPTION OF EGALITARIAN ATTITUDES THROUGH EMPLOYMENT IN MEXICO, Jeyle Ortiz Rodriguez
INVESTIGATION OF PREFRONTAL COGNITION RESPONSES TO TRANSCRANIAL LASER STIMULATION IN PTSD USING FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY, Dev Rajanikant Patel
Parametric Cycle Analysis of Adaptive Cycle Engine, Harinkumar Rajendrabhai Patel
EVALUATION OF COOLING ARCHITECTURES AND CONTROL STRATEGIES IN AIRFLOW PROVISIONING A MODULAR DATA CENTER, Jaykishankumar Kunjbihari Patel
SAFETY ASPECTS OF BICYCLISTS IN A CONNECTED VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT, Ajaykumar Patil
COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF DIFFERENTIAL CAPACITANCE-DOUBLE LAYER RELATIONSHIP IN A SUPERCAPACITOR, Pranav Milind Phadtare
DEVELOPMENT OF PARAFFIN WAX AS A PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL FOR THERMAL MANAGEMENT IN ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, Aditya Pinto
DESIGN CONSIDERATION AND STEADY STATE STUDY OF THRUST BEARINGS IN HIGH SPEED SUBSONIC APPLICATIONS, Arvind Prabhakar