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Education in the News Media
(2017-07)The dissertation examined the relationship between education and the news media. In particular, I examined educational policy and pedagogy in the news media. In this sense, education served as the subject of investigation, ... -
Changing Patterns of Water, Access, and Public Discourse in the Lower Colorado River Valley of Texas, 1970-2015
(2017-07)This mixed-methods study analyzes changes in water, access, and public discourse in the lower Colorado River valley of Texas from 1970 to 2015. The waters of the lower Colorado River have sustained urban populations and ... -
Pixelated Profiles: A Video Game Character Trait Analysis
(2017-07)The video game industry is one of the fastest growing forms of entertainment in recent years. Women and non-White gamers make up a substantial number of gamers, but are misrepresented within the video games themselves. ... -
Save the Princess: Depictions of Gender in Indie Video Games
(2017-07)Since their initial development in the 1960s, video games have grown to become one of the most economically and culturally significant forms of media in modern society. Due to the interactive nature of video games, where ... -
Hardware Accelerator for Elias Gamma Code
(2017-06)Elias Gamma code, developed by Peter Elias, is a universal lossless compression method applied to unbounded positive integers. Extensive research on this coding technique has led to the development of many derivatives. ... -
Evolving Mathematical Identity for Post-Secondary Students
(2018-05)Mathematics encompasses more than formulas, theorems and proofs. For many, mathematics can be a way of life or even a culture and like within any culture, an individual who associates with that culture has an identity: a ... -
Mechanisms of Cell Death Caused by Photothermal Ablation of Cancer Cells Mediated by Conductive Polymer Nanoparticles
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Specificity of TLS11a Aptamer Towards Hepatocellular Carcinoma as a Means of Detection and Targeted Drug Delivery
(2017-08)Liver cancer is the sixth most commonly occurring cancer and second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide with an estimated 75% of all liver malignancy cases being hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common ... -
A Fast Solver for the Expanded Mixed Finite Element Method
(2018-04-16)We present a fast solver for expanded mixed finite element method with a discontinuous coefficient. Our result is based on the auxiliary space preconditioning method and the Crouzeix-Raviart Finite Element Method. -
Participation While Symptomatic: The Sport-Related Concussion Conundrum
(2018-05)No abstract prepared. -
The Prevalence of Endoparasitic Helminths of the Small Indian Mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) on the Island of Puerto Rico
(2018-05)The small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus; hereafter mongoose) has been widely introduced to islands around the world as a biological control agent. Species targeted for control were various rodents and venomous ... -
Water in a Changing Cimate: Montana's Flathead Indian Reservation, 1961-2100
(2019-08)The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation (MT) have observed drastic changes in the quantity and quality of the water resources of the reservation over the last decades, which is ... -
Understanding Wind Energy Impacts to Bats and Testing Reduction Strategies in South Texas
(2019-08)Negative impacts from burning fossil fuels, including climate change, are promoting an increase in development of renewable energy alternatives. In response, wind energy development is expanding at an exponential rate ... -
Alkali Silica Reactivity of Blended Class C and Class F Fly Ash Systems
(2019-08)This study presents an assessment of the reactivity and performance of blended systems containing Class C and Class F fly ashes, including fly ashes produced from blended coal sources (bituminous and lignite). Seven fly ... -
Being at Home in One's House: Domestic Space, Memory, and Trauma in Three American Novels
(2019-08)No abstract prepared. -
A Facial Expression Recognition Application Development Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network For Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder To Help Identify Human Emotions
(2019-08)In this thesis, a novel idea is presented, which is to teach young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to recognize human facial expressions through the help of computer vision and image processing. Universally, ... -
Keep Austin Queer: Performativity of Queer Space in Austin, Texas
(2019-08)Queer spaces can be physical or conceptual spaces, depending on the people who are occupying them. Austin, Texas is a city known for its progressive nature, even while being a city in the middle of Texas. That being said, ... -
The Effects of Labor on the Biomechanical Properties of the Femora and the Humeri in the 19th and 20th Centuries
(2019-08)Bone is an adaptive tissue that can change in shape and size throughout the course of life due to loading regime through the modeling and remodeling process. Therefore, the cross-sectional geometry (CSG) of long bone shafts ... -
Accelerated Carbonation Assessment of High-Volume Fly Ash Concrete
(2019-08)This investigation deals with determining the effect of 57% relative humidity and 4% CO2 concentration on class C and class F fly ash concrete specimens under accelerated carbonation. Fly ash concrete specimens were ...
