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A "heat pipe"-style recirculating lithium oven for entrainment into supersonic helium beams
(2017-12-07)This thesis presents the work on a new oven design optimized for the entrainment of lithium into a pulsed supersonic beam of helium. The proposed oven does not pollute the vacuum with lithium atoms that are not entrained, ... -
A 10-bit, 10Msps pipelined ADC with first stage conventional SAR ADC and second stage multi-bit per cycle SAR ADC
(2016-05-19)A pipelined ADC is generally used for high speeds and high resolutions in applications where latency is not a major concern. This project involves the design of a 10 bit pipelined ADC with a conventional SAR ADC as stage ... -
A 20,000 year flowstone record of Gulf of Mexico sourced moisture in Texas
(2016-05)Understanding how future atmospheric warming may affect moisture distribution in the American Southwest is becoming increasingly important. To this end, various paleoclimatic proxies have been used to investigate the range ... -
A behavioral choice model of the use of car-sharing and ride-sourcing services
(2017-05-04)There are a number of disruptive mobility services that are increasingly finding their way into the marketplace. Two key examples of such services are car-sharing services and ride-sourcing services. In an effort to better ... -
A Biography of Waller Creek, A Case Study in Urbanization and Environment
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A boy and his dog story : writing Bowhouse
(2017-08-11)The following report details the writing process of the feature script Bowhouse, involving but not limited to the project’s conception, outlining, writing, and rewriting stages. -
A bright source of cold atoms
(2019-05-03)This dissertation describes a general approach of generating a high flux of cold atoms that can be confined in a magneto-optical trap. As an alternative to the state-of-the-art laser cooling method, this approach widens ... -
A capabilities approach to understanding health disparities
Health disparities are pervasive in the U.S., and three of the greatest risk factors for poor health outcomes are race, rural residence, and disability. Individuals in these groups frequently experience poor health outcomes ... -
A case study of designing a mobile app prototype for seniors
(2019-06-27)As technology has advanced rapidly over recent decades, the aging population has also grown. Therefore, the importance of addressing senior users’ needs in using and learning technology deserves attention from the government ... -
A case study of designing, teaching, and learning racial literacy in an urban seventh grade reading and writing classroom
In the current educational environment of high stakes testing and curricular control (Au, 2007), it is necessary for literacy teachers to be creatively compliant and selectively defiant (Hoffman, 2011) as it suits the ... -
A case study of lean software practices in an IT application support department
(2011-12)The concept of lean manufacturing was formed at Toyota by Taiichi Ohno, who originated the system of “Just-in-Time” production with the goals of delivering high value and cutting down waste. These concepts were partially ... -
A case study of perspectives pertaining to academic accommodations for postsecondary students with learning disabilities
(2019-02-14)Increasing numbers of students with learning disabilities (LD) are entering into postsecondary education and seeking accommodations through the university’s disability service office. The academic success of students with ... -
A case study of the Franklin Lindsay Student Aid Fund and its intersection with Black college student access to higher education in Texas from the post-Civil War era to the present
(2016-05)The case study of the Franklin Lindsay Student Aid Fund is an historical examination of a sixty-two year-old private foundation originally created to help White Texas students pursue post-secondary education in the State ... -
A central Texas drying event identified at the Younger Dryas-early Holocene transition using coupled speleothem 𝛿¹³C-¹⁴C analysis
(2017-08-29)The Younger Dryas (YD, 12,900-11,700 years BP) is characterized by a return to near-glacial conditions in the northern hemisphere during the last deglacial period. Texas moisture proxy records support a general regional ... -
A CFD-informed model for subchannel resolution crud prediction
(2019-02-14)A physics-directed, statistically based, surrogate model of the small scale flow fea- tures that impact Chalk River unidentified deposit (crud) growth is presented in this work. The objective of the surrogate is to provide ... -
A clash of constructs? : re-examining grit in light of academic buoyancy and future time perspective
(2017-05)Grit, defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, has been found to be a powerful predictor of student success and persistence. Yet, it has been recently scrutinized construct due to weaknesses in discriminant ... -
A CleanRoom approach to bring your own apps
(2013-05)Today, on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, hundreds of thousands of software apps provide useful services to users. Users use these apps to search and browse the web, perform financial transactions, emailing, ...
