UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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A CleanRoom approach to bring your own apps
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, ... -
'How do we evaluate this?' : Perspectives on evaluation criteria for digital scholarship from the digital humanities community
Since the advent of the World Wide Web, there has been an increasing influx of digital scholarship. Such scholarship is not always recognized as legitimate, in part because digital work is still in its 'incunabula phase' ... -
Characterization of voltage noise in big, small and single-ISA heterogeneous systems
Sensitivity of the microprocessor to voltage fluctuations is becoming a major concern with growing emphasis on designing power-efficient microprocessors. Voltage fluctuations that exceed a certain threshold cause "emergencies" ... -
Vignettes : deconstructing an organic compositional process
(2016-05-19)Vignettes is an original ten-part suite of music for a ten-piece ensemble written with accompanying projected visuals. In scope, the piece is essentially a work of chamber jazz, in this case referencing a medium size jazz ... -
A tragic rhapsody
(2016-06-23)A Tragic Rhapsody is a piece about a single character going through a series of emotional states. There are a series of six themes that permeate the piece. Each of these themes represents an emotional state of the character. ... -
Precarious paths to freedom : the United States, the Caribbean Basin, & the new politics of the Latin American Cold War, 1958-1968
(2012-05-02)At first glance U.S. policy towards Latin America between 1958 and 1968 appears to have been a failure. Initiatives intended to promote democracy and economic development, and to insulate the hemisphere from the ideological ... -
Experimentally determined external heat transfer coefficient of a turbine airfoil design at varying incidence angles
(2015-05-12)Predicting and measuring external heat transfer coefficients of hot gas path turbine components are important tools for gas turbine designers. Inlet temperatures often exceed the melting temperature of the materials used ... -
Ill communication : designing media, preventing risks, and defining responsibility
(2016-05-23)This dissertation investigates how health risks have historically affected the design of communications media in the United States. Concentrating upon the telephone from 1888 through 1913, and the cell phone from 1970 ... -
Buying support without brokers : conditional cash transfers in Turkey and Argentina
(2015-04-14)This master’s report examines how the implementation of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, which allocate benefits according to objective poverty criteria, affect entrenched patterns of clientelism, that is, the ... -
Magical mechanics : the player piano in the age of digital reproduction
(2016-06-20)By the early twentieth century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally transformed musical performance and listening practices. While numerous scholars have examined this ...
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