• The Interaction of Fast Magnetosonic Waves with Energetic Electrons in the Van Allen Radiation Belts 

  Maldonado, Armando A. (2018-08)

  The outermost region of our atmosphere (> 1000 km) is known as the magnetosphere. One sub region in the magnetosphere primarily contains highly energetic electrons (> 100 keV) and is known as the Van Allen radiation belts. ...

• Two Periods of Miocene to Contemporary Flattening Strain During Displacement on a Low-Angle Detachment and on Superposed Curved High-Angle Faults, Volcanic Hills, Southwest Nevada 

  Webber, Amy Rachelle (2018-12)

  The Eastern California Shear Zone (ECSZ) and central Walker Lane (CWL) form part of a tectonic boundary zone separating the Sierra Nevada and the central Great Basin. The ECSZ and CWL are misaligned and were kinematically ...

• Gravity Analysis to Determine Geometry of Superposed Low-Angle Detachment and High-Angle Faults in the Western Silver Peak Range and Northern Fish Lake Valley, Nevada 

  Ng, Melissa Kristin (2018-12)

  Structures within the northern Eastern California shear zone (ECSZ) and central Walker Lane (CWL) are misaligned and have been kinematically linked since the mid-Miocene by a series of structural stepovers. Northwest ...

• Perception and Production of Emotional Prosody in the Speech of Mandarin-Speaking Adults with Cochlear Implants 

  Pak, Cecilia (2018-12)

  Emotional prosody, which refers to the process of expressing emotions through spoken language, is essential for correctly recognizing speakers’ emotional states during spoken communication. Previous research has shown ...

• Theoretical and Experimental Study of Catalysis on Clean Energy Applications 

  Zheng, Yongping (2018-12)

  Catalysis is of pivotal importance to many aspects of modern society, from chemicals synthesis to energy production and to pollutants remediation. Along with the growing world population and industrialization scale, rapid ...

• Aqueous-Derived Thin Films and their Interfacial Interactions with Semiconductor Surfaces: A Spectroscopic Study 

  Thomas, Milana Cherie (2018-12)

  Metal oxide systems are well known for their high dielectric constants, which are important for advanced microelectronics applications. The microelectronics industry currently employs vacuum-based techniques, such as ...

• Predictable GPGPU Computing in DNN-Driven Autonomous Systems 

  Zhou, Husheng (2018-12)

  Graphics processing units (GPUs) are being widely used as co-processors in many domains to accelerate general-purpose workloads that are data-parallel and computationally intensive, i.e., GPGPU. An emerging usage domain ...

• Effects of Mobile Phone Use on Household Travel Behavior in Kumasi, Ghana 

  Okyere, Dennis Kwadwo (2018-12)

  This research addressed how the use of mobile phone affects travel behavior in a developing country context – Kumasi, Ghana – in light of the growing interest in research that seek to understand the relationship between ...

• Approximate Computing Through Bitwidth Optimization 

  Nagarad Dasavandi Krishnamurthy, Vinay (2018-12)

  In this thesis, we propose an approximate computing methodology based on bit width optimization that reduces the internal signal’s bit widths in behavioral descriptions for HLS, and in particular SystemC in order to trade-off ...

• On 3D Content Manipulation: Simplification, Modification and Authentication 

  Bahirat, Kanchan Anil (2018-12)

  With the rapid development in the area of computer graphics and depth sensing technologies, various tools have emerged for 3D content creation such as RGB-D cameras (e.g., Microsoft Kinect, RealSense), LiDAR sensors, CAD ...

• Action Recognition in Continuous Data Streams Using Fusion of Depth and Inertial Sensing 

  Dawar, Neha (2018-12)

  Human action or gesture recognition has been extensively studied in the literature spanning a wide variety of human-computer interaction applications including gaming, surveillance, healthcare monitoring, and assistive ...

• Relating Unpredictable Expectancies in Working Memory to Complex Tasks: Network Connectivity and Training-Related Transfer 

  O'Connell, Margaret Anne (2018-12)

  Complex tasks involve competing elements, have subtasks and/or varying information loads that involve working memory, include unspecified strategies for task completion, and are required when successfully navigating ...

• Distributed Formation Control of Autonomous Vehicles via Vision-Based Motion Estimation 

  Fathian, Kaveh (2018-12)

  Unmanned autonomous vehicles are starting to play a major role in tasks such as search and rescue, environment monitoring, security surveillance, transportation, and inspection. In these operations, two critical challenges ...

• The Figures of Narcissus and Faust in Literature and Film 

  Johnson, Jill A. (2018-12)

  The legends and myths of the past continue to dominate cultural thought and shared storytelling. Two of the most key figures in these myths are Narcissus and Faust. They continue to dominate stories that are told. When ...

• Modeling Trace Gas Sensors with the Coupled Pressure-Temperature Equations 

  Safin, Artur K (2018-12)

  Quartz enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) is a technique for detecting trace gases which relies on a quartz tuning fork resonator to amplify and measure the weak acoustic pressure waves that are generated when ...

• Adaptation and Learning in Social Networks 

  Kemp, Ayenda (2018-12)

  This dissertation broadly addresses the issue of learning in social networks. The dissertation builds on existing literature that leverages learning as a mechanism for predicting the performance effects of different ...

• The Role of Social Disorganization Theory in Explaining Where Sex Offenders Reside: Do Some Neighborhoods Get More Than Their Fair Share? 

  Williams, Angela Joy (2018-12)

  This study examines sex offender registration and residency in the city of Dallas, Texas. Exploration of where sex offenders live is interpreted within the framework of social disorganization theory. Traditional measures ...

• College Preparedness: The Problem in North Texas 

  Dean, Samantha (2018-12)

  In 2015, House Bill 5 went into effect and with that, college unpreparedness seemed to increase drastically. This mixed-methods study looks at the impact House Bill 5 had on total college unpreparedness and if it played ...

• Multiscale Simulation Method Development and Application in Two-Dimensional Functional Materials 

  Nie, Yifan (2018-12)

  The unique properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials make them the potential solutions to a wide variety of engineering challenges, especially in electronic device engineering. In order to realize their application ...

• The Role of Context on Face Identification Accuracy 

  Hahn, Amanda C. (2018-12)

  When a person is familiar, we are exceptional at recognizing and identifying them, even in difficult viewing conditions. How the frequency and quality of exposures to a given face improves the learning and identification ...

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