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Stress Response Pathways and the Origins of Novelty: How Snakes Regenerate Organs and Regulate Venom
(2023-05-11)
Snakes have captured evolutionary biologists’ attention for decades as extreme examples of adaptive evolution models for studying how novel and extreme traits evolve in nature, but research has long overlooked or been ...
(UN)HIDDEN WHITENESS: A CRITICAL POLICY ANALYSIS ON RACE-RELATED EDUCATION POLICIES
(2023-04-19)
Over the last three years (2020-2023), many state legislatures responded to grassroots campaigns for social justice by enrolling legislation that explicitly and implicitly bans Critical Race Theory (CRT) and controls ...
UNCERTAIN TIMES IN AN ALREADY UNCERTAIN CONTEXT: FOSTER PARENTING STRESS & RESILIENCE DURING COVID-19
(2022-05-17)
This three-article, mixed-methods dissertation looked at the nature of U.S. foster parent stress and resilience both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first article employed a Qualitative Interpretive Meta-Synthesis ...
ENHANCING MICROSTRUCTURE, COMPOSITION HOMOGENEITY, AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES IN LASER POWDER BED FUSED METALLIC ALLOYS: DESIGN, FABRICATION, AND EVALUATION
(2023-05-12)
Over the past five decades, Nickel-based and Titanium-based alloys have become increasingly popular materials. As the manufacturing industry for these alloys has advanced, the demand for fabricating complex parts with ...
Job Satisfaction Through the Lens of Turnover Intentions and Burnout for Academic Faculty
(2022-05-12)
A recent advice article published by The Chronicle of Higher Education addressed how Tenure and Tenure-Track faculty members are leaving their academic positions at college and universities. Education underwent tremendous ...
EFFECT OF FINANCIAL FACTORS ON THE POSTSECONDARY PARTICIPATION AND CHOICE FOR FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS
(2023-04-19)
EFFECT OF FINANCIAL FACTORS ON THE POSTSECONDARY PARTICIPATION AND CHOICE FOR FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS
Deanna Pickney
The University of Texas at Arlington, 2023
Supervising Professor: Dr Maria Trache
As first-generation ...
HYDRODYNAMIC FORCES ON STREAM-CROSSING BRIDGES – CONSIDERATION OF FLOW PARAMETERS, BRIDGE GEOMETRY, AND DEBRIS
(2022-05-16)
This thesis examines the interaction of flood flow with bridge superstructures by considering the effects of the flow parameters, bridge geometry, debris, and bridge substructures. The hydrodynamic forces are expressed by ...
Performance of Density Estimators in Additive Measurement Error Models Based on Right Censored Data
(2022-05-09)
In the deconvolution problem for right censored data, one is interested in estimating the density of a contaminated variable X when X satisfies Z= X+ E, where E is a measurement error with a known distribution, and the ...
Pearl Chase and Thomas More Storke: Two Community Builders in Twentieth Century Santa Barbara, California
(2022-05-12)
Pearl Chase (1888-1979) and Thomas More Storke (1876-1971) are the main protagonists in this dissertation which analyzes Santa Barbara, California, and its twentieth- century development. These two individuals dedicated ...
A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for the Asymptotic Normality of the Quantile Estimator in the Deconvolution Problem
(2022-05-16)
In this study, we examine the estimation of a quantile function when we have n observations coming from the convolution model contaminated by additive measurement errors. Under certain assumptions, a kernel type deconvolution ...