Browsing UTD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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 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 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 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 Neural Network Approach for Argument Reasoning Comprehension
(2019-05)The dream of enabling machines to think like humans has emerged ever since the invention of computers. Over the years people have tried to build machine-based systems that can parse and understand natural languages like ... -
A novel approach to automate measurement and training of hand and wrist motor functions
(2018-08)Millions of people around the world suffer chronic upper extremity disability. Reliable measurement of arm function is critical for development of therapies to improve recovery after impairment. In this study, we report a ... -
A Pipeline-Based Task-Oriented Dialogue System on DSTC2 Dataset
(2019-05)Dialogue systems have attracted a lot of attention since some conversational products like Google Assistant and Amazon Echo smart speaker have achieved big successes recently. In this work, we try to build a pipeline-based ... -
A Re-Appropriation of Jerzy Kosinski's Moral Universe in Light of Emmanuel Levinas' Ethical Demand for the Stranger
(2017-08)Jerzy Kosinski’s novel The Painted Bird has been described as a work built on the “unhallowed ground” of “evil” and “ruled” thematically “by cosmic terror.” Many argue that the work identifies the human condition as ... -
A Spatial Evaluation of Groundwater Quality Salinity and Underground Injection Controlled Wells Activity in Texas
(2019-05)Uncertainty around the relationship between underground injection-controlled wells and groundwater quality has spurred conversations around the potential environmental and societal impacts oil extraction may have on ... -
A Spatial Optimization Approach to Finding Locations for Wildfire Fuel Treatments
(2017-12)Wildfires are a major concern in many parts of the world. In order to minimize the threat posed by wildfires, prior to the ignition of a wildfire forest managers use fuel management activities to modify the volume and ... -
A Study in Atmosphere Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Electrode Catalytic Effect Using Oxygen and Nitrogen
(2018-05)Atmospheric dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma creates a gaseous environment conducive to the generation of reactive species. DBD plasmas have a variety of applications in the clinical and industrial fields. During ... -
A Study of Abell 2146: Dark and Luminous
(2018-05)The universe is a highly dynamic system. Under the primary influence of gravity, matter in the universe clumped together to create the structure we currently observe with our telescopes. Gravity formed objects on vastly ... -
A Systematic Comparison of the Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) and Anisotropy of Remanence (ARM) Fabrics of Ignimbrites: Examples from the Quaternary Bandelier Tuff, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico and Miocene Ignimbrites near Gold Point, Nevada
(2017-08)Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) has been widely used to define petrofabrics in silicic, elevated-temperature pyroclastic deposits (i.e., ignimbrites) and these fabrics have been successfully utilized to infer ... -
A Theoretical Exploration of Psychological Grit in the Context of Criminology
(2018-05)Psychological theory and theoretical criminology have unavoidable parallels. However, despite this reality, there has not been any research attempting to discover whether there is a relationship between psychological grit ... -
A Unified Relativistic Treatment of Tidal Disruption Events and a New Model for Self-Intersections Involving Tidal Debris Streams for Schwarzschild Black Holes
(2018-08)This dissertation concerns the astrophysical phenomena known as tidal disruption events~(TDEs), where stars are ripped apart by gravitational tides from their host galaxies' central supermassive black hole~(SBH). Stars are ...