The one-stop shop for all UTA theses and dissertations written by masters and PhD students for their degree requirements!
Theses from 2022
The Latina Experience: Ethnic Markers & identity Building at an Hispanic Serving Institution, Tatiana Marie Rivera
PIF transposable elements domestication and genetic novelty in insects, Fatema Ruma
Evaluating and Addressing the Transportation Challenges of Small-Scale Farmers and Ranchers in Regional Food Systems, Narjes Sadeghiamirshahidi
Detection and classification of object presence and characteristics in a water container using high frequency ultrasound, Mehul Vishal Sadh
Efficient Algorithms and Human-in-the-loop Approaches for Attribute Design and Selection, Md Abdus Salam
GLOBAL MAPPING OF PROTEIN-NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION OF THE RLE LINE R2Bm, Dhamala Santosh
A NON-CONTACT BASED SYSTEM TO MEASURE SPO2 AND SYSTOLIC/DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE USING RGB-NIR CAMERA, Divya Saxena
Optimizing the Performance of Analytical Chemistry Instrumentation, Srividya Sekar
Challenges Experienced by Rural Informal Caregivers of Older Adults: A Scoping Review, Jon Shuffler
ROBUST NOISE-BASED ATTACKS AGAINST AUDIO EVENT DETECTION SYSTEMS, Rodrigo Augusto Silva Dos Santos
OPTIMAL UTILITY-BASED TRAFFIC CONTROL FOR DATACENTER NETWORKS, Akshit Singhal
Accurate or Aspirational? A Rhetorical Analysis of One University's Representation of Student Diversity, Kristen Coady Spaeth
(RE)FASHIONING GENDER: DRESS AS EMBODIED FEMINIST CRITIQUE IN MODERNIST WOMEN’S WRITING, Lauren Elizabeth Sperandio Phelps
DEVELOPMENT OF AN ELECTRO-PNEUMATIC SERVO CLUTCH AND INDUSTRY-LEVEL CONTROLLER, Timothy Stevens
I Kissed Shaming Goodbye: Mental Health Implications of Christian Purity Culture, Danielle Miriam Stillman
Job Satisfaction Through the Lens of Turnover Intentions and Burnout for Academic Faculty, Amrita Tharappel Thomas
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND SATISFACTION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HIGH-SCHOOL CHARTER SCHOOLS AND TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Nicholas Thompson-Davis
Twisting Systems and some Quantum P³s with Point Scheme a Rank-2 Quadric, Hung Viet Tran
Mapping of Electroencephalogram (EEG) Responses to Newsvendor Decision Model and Cerebral Hemodynamic Responses to Transcranial Photobiomodulation (tPBM) in Humans, Cong Dung Nghi Truong
A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for the Asymptotic Normality of the Quantile Estimator in the Deconvolution Problem, Jeremy R. Valdez
MULTI-SCALE AND MULTI-APPROCH INVESTIGATIONS OF PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND FLUID FLOW IN NATURAL ROCKS, Qiming Wang
A Cross Section Measurement of Muon Neutrino-Induced Charged-Current Coherent Positive Pion Production on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector, Zachary Glenn Randell Williams
Machine Learning Methods for Statistical Analysis and Representation Learning on Neuroimaging Data, Fan Yang
UNSUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION WITH DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS, Jinyu Yang
Pearl Chase and Thomas More Storke: Two Community Builders in Twentieth Century Santa Barbara, California, Jacqueline M. Zeledon
Microfluidic flow focusing platforms for optofluidic droplet laser development, Chen Zhang
Designing Large-scale Key-value Systems on High-Speed Storage Devices, Xingsheng Zhao
CEMETERIES, CONSTRUCTION, AND COMPLICITY TYLER’S UNIVERSE CEMETERY AS A BLACK BURIAL SITE UNDER DISTRESS, Anjelyque Easley
Dissertations from 2021
The Effects of Incubation Task Characteristics on Idea Generation, Adrian Abellanoza
Fast and Parallelizable Numerical Algorithms for Large Scale Conic Optimization Problems, Muhammad Adil
Study on Forming DNA-Mediated Nanoparticle Conjugates: Toward Detection of COVID-19, Chinmay Nitin Afzulpurkar
Evaluation of Geotechnical Parameters of Soil Using Electrical Resistivity Imaging, Md Asif Akhtar
Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Metal Doped Silicon-Carbide Fullerene-type Nanostructures, Hussain Jabreel Alathlawi
INVESTIGATION OF HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE OF DOUBLE PIPE COUNTER-FLOW HEAT PIPE USING THREE FLUIDS WATER, DOWTHERM, AND WATER-BASED NANOFLUID, Alaa Abed Harchan Al Hasseun
TEMPERATURE-PRESSURE PHASE DIAGRAMS OF METAL NITROGEN COMPOUNDS THROUGH DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY COMPUTATIONS AND THERMODYNAMIC CALCULATIONS, Hanof Alkhaldi
INVESTIGATION AND DISCOVERY OF NOVEL TRANSITION METAL CYSTEAMINE SYSTEMS WITH HALOGENS FROM THE FIRST PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS, Noura Dawas Alkhaldi
The Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on Pain Thresholds and Anxiodepressive Behaviors in a Pre-clinical Fibromyalgia Pain Model, Cassie Mae Argenbright
Energy Dissipation during Geomagnetic Storms, Fatemeh Bagheri
Language Pre-Training and Auxiliary Tasks for Vision and Language Navigation, Saumya Bhatt
A NUMERICAL STUDY OF WATER ENTRY PROBLEMS BASED ON OVERSET MESHES, Yanni Chang
Reverse Engineering to Create High Quality Polymer Parts Using Additive Manufacturing, Gurtej Singh Tarsem Singh Channa
Accelerated Performance Degradation of Single-Phase Cold Plates for Direct-to-chip Liquid Cooled Data Centers, Lochan Sai Reddy Chinthaparthy
Evaluation of Surface Asphalt Mixes containing Recycled Asphalt Materials in North-East Texas using Accelerated Pavement Testing, Ana Maria Coca
NONLINEAR MODE COUPLING COEFFICIENTS IN EXTRASOLAR HOT JUPITER SYSTEMS WITH NON-SOLAR TYPE HOST STARS, Niyousha Davachi
Autonomous Guidance of Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles in Basic Fighter Maneuvering, Jeffery G. Dean
The Cellular and Genetic Mechanisms of Stress Response Pathways in Caribbean Coral, Bradford Austin Dimos
ASSESSMENT OF STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MITIGATING FLOODING AND NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION, Helia Farzaneh
Decision Tool for Prioritizing Bridge Repair or Replacement, Nyoka Amy Florius
GUIDANCE LAWS FOR n-MOBILE AGENTS TO GRIP A MOVING TARGET, Pranay Gadiya
Development and characterization of novel a TCRm antibody and its application as an immune checkpoint blocker, Soroush Ghaffari
Improving Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting Using Machine Learning and Statistical Postprocessing Methods, Mohammadvaghef Ghazvinian
A MODULAR PLATFORM FOR INTRUSIVE DIAGNOSTICS AND TPS TESTING IN THE ONR-UTA ARC-JET FACILITY, Blake Anthony Hamilton
DESIGN FOR OLDER ADULTS – FUNCTIONAL LIMITATIONS AND HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING, Megumi Sato Hice
RAINFALL-INDUCED SLOPE FAILURE – AN EARLY WARNING SYSTEM, Md Aminul Islam
Reuse of Recycled Plastic for Plastic Road Design, Tahsina Islam
INTERNAL PRESSURE RESPONSE OF A HUMAN HEAD SURROGATE MODEL SUBJECT TO VARIABLE IMPACT LOADING WITH FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS, Aaron Ronald Jackson
An Examination of Parental Temperament and Rearrest Among a Sample of Serious Adolescent Offenders, Lina Maria Jackson
Learning to Swim: An Exploration of the Terrestrial to Aquatic Transition in Elapids (Squamata: Elapidae), Justin Lawrence Jacobs
Headspace-Solid Phase Micro Extraction – Gas Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS) Analysis for Oak Barrel Flavor Compounds in Whiskey, Hailey F. Jarzynka
Wretches, Rogues, and Rebels: Smugglers in English Print Culture 1660-1766, Jacob M. Jones
ROLE OF BINDER COMPOSITIONS AND CARBONATE POLYMORPHS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF CARBONATION ACTIVATED CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITES, Mohammad Rakibul Islam Khan
The Effects of SnAgCu Solder Interconnect Package’s Parameters on Electromigration Failure Mechanisms, Yi Ram Kim
RELATING LINEAR AND ROTATIONAL ACCELERATIONS WITH INTERNAL PRESSURES DEVELOPED INSIDE HUMAN HEAD SURROGATE MODELS, Arthur Thomas Koster
Fire Performance of Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Self-Consolidating Concrete (HFRSCC) with Glass Pozzolan, Rishabh Kumar
GPU-based Monte Carlo Applications in Radiation Medicine, Youfang Lai
Diversity of the Fanged-Frog Complex, Limnonectes kuhlii (Anura: Dicroglossidae) on the Mountainous Regions of Java and Sumatra, Indonesia, Thornton Robert Larson
In the Mood for Creativity: Exploring Exposure to Humor and Creative Output, Sarah Lee
DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION AND INVERSE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, Bosen Lian
Designing and advancing contrast agents for ultrasound-switchable fluorescence imaging, Yang Liu
Volatiles Characterization during Whiskey Production using Headspace - Solid Phase Microextraction - Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry, Robert H. Magnuson
One Step at a Time: Improving the Fidelity of Geospatial Agent-Based Models Using Empirical Data, Amy A. Marusak
Synthesis and Characterization of Graphene-Reinforced Polymer Filaments for Additive Manufacturing, Sean Menezes
A Quantification of Magnitude in the Writing of James Baldwin: A Digital Recovery Work, Robert Tate Morrison
Characterization and Enhancement of Fatigue and Fracture properties in Thermoplastic FFF Parts using In-Situ Annealing, Manjarik Mrinal
DETERMINATION OF GUIDANCE LAWS FOR UAV SYSTEMS IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS USING COLLISION CONE THEORY, Utsav Mudgal
THE ARECIBO OBSERVATORY AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR INVESTIGATING ORBITAL DEBRIS, James Isaiah Murray
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TECHNIQUES TO DISSECT THE GENETIC BASIS OF POPULATION-LEVEL VARIATION OF RECOMBINATION RATES IN THE DAPHNIA MODEL SYSTEM, Swatantra Neupane
Identification of Resilience Dimensions and Development of a Decision-Making System to Measure the Resilience Level of Highway Networks, Thahomina Jahan Nipa
EFFECTS OF A N2-FIXING BIOFERTILIZER ON THE RHIZOSPHERE MICROBIOME AND THE INFLUENCE OF BIOCHAR ON SOIL FERTILITY AND MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES, Sarbjeet Niraula
Translation of Array-based Loop Programs to Optimized SQL-based Distributed Programs, Md Hasanuzzaman Noor
Prenatal Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Child Neurodevelopment, Jiwon Oh
A Systematic Stakeholder-Driven Framework for Empirical Characterization and Parameterization of Human Agents for Agent-Based Modeling of Older Adults' Transportation, Nilufer Oran Gibson
Study of SAC Solder Interconnect Parameters in Microelectronic Semiconductor Packaging and their Effects on Electromigration Failure Mechanisms, Allison Theresa Osmanson
Buckling Load Optimization of Variable stiffness composite Plate Using FEM and Semi-analytical method, Jeegar Vallabhbhai Patel
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND TRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF Mo-DLC, Tirth Ashishbhai Patel
Multinuclear copper(I) and silver(I) pyrazolates: synthesis, luminescence, and catalysis, Monika R. Patterson
EFFECTS OF AGING ON MOUSE ROTATOR CUFF TENDON BIOMECHANICS, Chinmay Sagar Patwardhan
THEORETICAL PREDICTION OF MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF REGULAR AND CHIRAL HONEYCOMBS BASED ON LOADING OF SINGLE CELL., Sai krishna K. Pinnamaneni
Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation of Pure Titanium at Constant Applied Voltage, Hunter Pitts
SCALABLE OPTIMIZATION METHOD FOR GENERATOR SCHEDULING UNDER UNCERTAINTY, Edward Arthur Quarm JNR
Insights into the role and regulation of the mitochondrial unfolded protein response during pathogen infection, Mohammed Adnan Qureshi
Performance Evaluation and Retrofitting Options for an Impact Damaged Non-Composite Steel Girder Bridge, Mohd Mezanur Rahman
Barriers to Resource Access: The Need for Social Workers as Cultural Brokers in Hispanic Immigrant Communities, Leslie Noemy Reyna