Browsing UTD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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3-D Geometrical Reconstruction and Flexural Modeling of Colville Foreland Basin, Northern Alaska
(2020-05)Brooks Range orogeny initiated in response to the collision of Arctic Alaska with an oceanic arc in Jurassic to early Cretaceous, and the Colville basin formed as a result of loading from the range topography. In this ... -
3D Travel Techniques for Virtual Reality Cyberlearning Systems
(2019-08)Cyberlearning is the use of new technology to create effective learning experiences that were never possible or practical before. Among those technologies, virtual reality (VR) attracts many people’s attention and interests ... -
A 0.1 PS Resolution Coarse-Fine Time-To-Digital Converter with 2.21 PS Single-Shot Precision
(2018-05)This dissertation proposes a new type of time-to-digital converter based on a resistor-capacitor (RC) delay line that offers low power consumption, high speed and high resolution with error-correction circuitry. The 14-bit, ... -
A 12-Bit Two-Step SAR ADC with Linearized Open-Loop Amplifier
(2017-05)Successive approximation register analog to digital converter (SAR ADC), which mostly consists of digital components, is becoming more and more popular in recent years as it is power efficient and friendly to process ... -
A Bayesian Hierarchical Framework for Pathway Analysis in Genome-Wide Association Studies
(2018-08-31)The genome-wide association studies (GWAS) aim to identify genetic variants, typically single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), associated with a disease/trait. A commonly used analytic strategy in GWAS is to test for ... -
A Bayesian Modeling for Paired Data in Genome-Wide Association Studies with Application to Breast Cancer
(2020-12-02)Many complex human diseases are associated with genetic factors. Identifying genetic markers is the key step to account for disease heritability, and develop disease diagnosis, risk prediction, prevention and therapeutic ... -
A Class of Implicit Transmission Techniques for Throughput Enhancement
(2018-12)Throughput enhancing techniques are very valuable to keep up with the fast increasing data rates in communication systems. Implicit transmission is particularly attractive as it can transmit information without physically ... -
A Comprehensive in Vitro and in Vivo Failure Analysis of Titanium Dental Implant Systems
(2018-08)This dissertation provides a novel approach to understand failure modes and evaluate the surface performance of commercially pure (cp) titanium (Ti) dental implants (DI). It is based on the hypothesis that multiple oral ... -
A Content Analysis of Sex Trafficking Between 2010 and 2019
(2020-05)Human trafficking is a crime that effects people all over the globe but due to the nature of human trafficking, questions about the magnitude of the problem and why such a problem occurs remain. The news plays an integral ... -
A Dialogic Reading of Alejo Carpentier’s the Kingdom of This World
(2019-05)This dissertation examines Alejo Carpentier’s novel, The Kingdom of This World, by using Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogic theory. To do this, the first chapter of my dissertation focuses on Carpentier’s interaction with and ... -
A Digitally-Assisted Blocker Resilient RF Receiver for Wideband SAW-less Applications
(2018-08)The demand for integrated wideband surface acoustic wave (SAW)-less receivers that support various wireless communication bands stipulate stringent linearity requirements. Local oscillator (LO) harmonic interferers and ... -
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 ... -
A Generalization of the Community Detection Problem via Side Information
(2019-07-17)The standard community detection consists of observing a graph and detecting its node labels. However, many practical problems offer further information about the individual node labels, which we denote side information. ... -
A Grammatical Framework for the Generation and Verification of Tractable Designs
(2020-05)Automatically generating designs with given requirements have been widely studied in computer science. Researchers either propose approaches to generate designs by given rules or develop computer-aided software helping ... -
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 ... -
A Method to Use a Cylindrical Langmuir Probe in Pulsed Plasma
(2017-08)The use of pulsed plasmas is currently being studied for integrated circuit fabrication as it may reduce defects and allow for processing optimization. It is therefore necessary to study pulsed plasmas, gaining understanding ... -
A Multi-DOF Soft Robot Mechanism for Patient Motion Correction and Beam Orientation Selection in Cancer Radiation Therapy
(2019-08)Accurate patient immobilization in conformal radiation therapy is crucial for efficient cancer treatment. Good treatment outcomes require accurate patient immobilization and a good choice of beam orientations. State-of-the-art ... -
A Multimodal Analysis of Synchrony During Dyadic Interaction Using a Metric Based on Sequential Pattern Mining
(2017-05)In human-human interaction, people tend to temporally adapt to each other as the conversation progresses, changing their intonation, speech rate, fundamental frequency, word selection, hand gestures, and head movements. ... -
A Multiscale Model of Leukocyte Transendothelial Migration During Atherogenesis
(2018-05)A vast amount of work has been dedicated to understanding the role hemodynamics and cytokines play in leukocyte adhesion, trans-endothelial migration (TEM) and subsequent accumulation of leukocyte-derived foam cells in the ... -
A Natural Origin for Arsenic and Iron Rich Seeps from a Chalk in the Vicinity of Unlined Landfills, North-Central Texas, USA
(2018-12)Seepage of suspicious iron, arsenic and sulfur rich waters from streambanks down-gradient from unlined landfills in North Texas has led to sharp public concern. Seep waters exhibit somewhat low pH (6.3), reduced state ...