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 ... -
4D Printing Liquid Crystalline Actuators toward Assistive Devices
(2020-10-16)Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are potential artificial muscle candidates within patientassistive devices. Their stimuli-responsive, shape-morphing properties can be controlled by various processes to produce a wide range ... -
82 Reflections
(2021-05-07)82 Reflections is a live streaming digital audio-visual experience shaped by and in response to deep social disruption caused by pandemic, ongoing demands for social justice, and the uncertainty, fear, and hope these ... -
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 Big Data Framework for Unstructured Text Processing With Applications Towards Political Science and Healthcare
(2021-12-01)Machine learning and deep neural networks have soared in popularity in recent years, allowing us to enhance many aspects of everyday life. While these methods are intuitive, they are very reliant on the dataset being used ... -
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 computational thermal model of breast cancer validated by clinical data
(2020-04-06)The present research study consisted of 1) a clinical study that collected data from female subjects with radiologic abnormalities associated with breast cancer, and 2) a computational thermal (or bioheat) modeling effort ... -
A Conservation of Resources Approach to the Multiple Dimensions of Sleep in Organizational Behavior
(2021-05-04)Sleep is an important organizational phenomenon with significant implications for employee attitude and behaviors at work. While the organizational literature on sleep has made remarkable theoretical strides regarding sleep ... -
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 Deterministic Model for Non-monotone Relationship Between Translation of Upstream and Downstream Open Reading Frames
(2021-12-01)The TASEP modeling was shown to offer a parsimonious explanation for the experimentally confirmed ability of a single upstream Open Reading Frames (uORFs) to upregulate a downstream translation during the integrated stress ... -
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 Drug Delivery Approach Using Zeolitic Imidazole Framework-8 and Biodegradable Polymer Composite
(2020-07-22)Zeolitic imidazole frameworks (ZIF)-8 and polymers are potential platforms for drug delivery purpose. In this thesis these two drug delivery platforms have been combined to develop two types of drug delivery tools. To ... -
A Federated Learning Framework For Medical Data
(2021-05-05)This thesis investigates the Federation of Medical Machine Learning Models. Medical data is by its very nature sensitive - which makes the free sharing of medical information difficult. This data often contains very useful ... -
A Fish Out of Water?: How Literary Theory Can Benefit Legal Interpretation
(2021-12-01)The correct theory of legal interpretation courts should apply to the cases and controversies before them has been the subject of long and often heated debate. Such argument has not progressed to any conclusion in over 200 ...