Browsing UTD Theses and Dissertations by Issue Date
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Returning to Court: A Multi-Paper Dissertation on Failure to Appear and Commercial Bail Bonds
(2016-12)The early stage at which bail occurs within the criminal justice system necessitates the effective applications of both bail and pretrial release. An ineffective system of release has the potential to impact subsequent ... -
Essays on Consumer Credit Card Profitability and Risk
(2016-12)With three essays, this dissertation investigates risk and profitability of consumer credit cards. In the first essay (Chapter 2), I look at the customer profitability within the affinity program context. Specifically, I ... -
What Influences Cyberbullying: A Test of General Strain Theory
(2016-12)A great deal of research has evaluated the negative consequences of bullying victimization across traditional and online forms of bullying. However relatively little research has evaluated the potential causes for these ... -
Observations while attempting to fabricate a micro-electron detection system
(2016-12)Over the past 20 years, Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) influence typical daily activities and have become integrated in everyday life. Fabrication of such devices on the micro- and nano-scale is made possible with ... -
Design of Area- and Power-Efficient Dual-Output Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converters
(2016-12)Power management integrated circuits have found wide applications in all battery-powered electronic systems like smartphones, wireless sensors, etc., to convert a time-varying unregulated battery voltage to constant regulated ... -
The Impact of Word-Based and Situation-Based Knowledge on Reading Speed in Adults and Children: A Self-Paced Moving Window Study
(2016-12)The purpose of this study was to examine the manner in which word-based knowledge and situation-based knowledge affect reading speed in typically developing (TD) 3rd grade children and adults. Research has demonstrated ... -
A Flexible Software Platform for Disease Management
(2016-12)Chronic diseases afflict patients for many years. One way to decrease the burden of chronic disease care on the healthcare system is to have patients self-manage their disease. The ubiquity of smartphones presents a great ... -
Organizational Conflict in Public Service: Conflict Management, Contextual Factors, and Employee Outcomes
(2016-12)By expanding the conflict and conflict management literature to the public service environment, this study provides an insight into the role and aftermath of interpersonal conflicts for the organizational setting. Workplace ... -
Novel bidirectional single-phase single-stage isolated AC-DC converter with PFC for charging of electric vehicles
(2016-12)This thesis proposes a novel bidirectional single-phase single-stage AC-DC converter for Electric Vehicle (EV) charging application. AC side of the proposed converter consists of a current-fed half bridge converter. This ... -
X-ray Fluorescence and Total Organic Carbon Analysis of Delaware Basin Ordovician Age Sediments in the Ellenburger and Simpson Groups of West Texas
(2016-12)Ordovician age hydrocarbons have been drilled in the Permian Basin of West Texas since the early 1940s and have produced over a billion barrels of oil with additional natural gas. The source rock for these previously drilled ... -
A MEMS-Assisted Dual-Resonator Temperature-to-Digital Converter
(2016-12)Many applications demand precision oscillators, which are usually generated through employing resonators with high quality factor (Q). Quartz and MicroElectroMechanical systems (MEMS) are the most common precision resonators ... -
The Conflicted Relationships of the American Catholic Church with European Fascism
(2016-12)Faced with European Fascism, the American Catholic Church had no choice but to react to the changing political realities taking place in Europe and Latin America during the 1920s and 1930s. Because of fascist control over ... -
Geophysical Investigations of Southern Fish Lake Valley, Western Great Basin, California
(2016-12)Growth of the Cucomungo Canyon restraining bend along the Fish Lake Valley-Furnace Creek fault zone has resulted in localized uplift at the southern end of Fish Lake Valley in eastern California. This thesis is part of ... -
Study of PECVD Films Containing Flourine and Carbon and Diamond Like Carbon Films for Ultra Low Dielectric Constant Interlayer Dielectric Applications
(2016-12)Lowering the capacitance of Back-end-of-line (BEOL) structures by decreasing the dielectric permittivity of the interlayer dielectric material in integrated circuits (ICs) lowers device delay times, power consumption and ... -
Elastic and Acoustic Wavefield Decompositions and Application to Reverse Time Migrations
(2016-12)P- and S-waves coexist in elastic wavefields, and separation between them is an essential step in elastic reverse-time migrations (RTMs). Unlike the traditional separation methods that use curl and divergence operators, ... -
Does Studying Music and Sound Design Enhance Academic Abilities in Undergraduate Non-Music Majors? A Phenomenological Approach
(2016-12)Numerous studies show a correlational relationship between the study of music and academic achievement, but what principles of music study enhance the higher order learning skills required for academic excellence? This ... -
Multi-physics modeling of cold plasma reformers
(2016-12)Hydrogen, as a clean energy carrier, reduces carbon emissions. With the fast development of fuel cell vehicles, the demand for hydrogen is increasing. The mainstream production of hydrogen is through steam reforming, ... -
Silicon Nanocrystals and Defect States in Silicon Rich Silicon Nitride for Optoelectronic Applications
(2016-12)Research interest in silicon nanocrystals (Si-NC) has increased significantly as a result of the desire to improve the light emission efficiency of bulk silicon. Si-NCs embedded in silicon nitride have desirable characteristics ... -
Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Smart Grid Communications
(2016-12)Smart grid (SG) networks require a reliable communication infrastructure for bi-directional communication. The well-established network infrastructure which covers a vast geographical area motivates SG communications. The ... -
True for Bees: A Creative Dissertation
(2016-12)This creative dissertation is comprised of a novel titled True for Bees and a scholarly apparatus that offers background for the creation of the novel. The novel is a work of speculative fiction, set in the near future, ...