UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Examining Latine belonging, motivation, and student organization involvement in higher education
(2022-12-01)As Latine undergraduate enrollment rates rise within the United States, retention continues to be a key issue affecting the academic achievement of these students. A key mechanism for ensuring student retention has to do ... -
Interlocking affirmations : self-affirming individual and intersecting minoritized identities among sexual minority people of color
(2022-08-19)This report will review relevant literature regarding the experiences of sexual minority people of color and how they might navigate their intersected racial/ethnic and sexual identities and its associated experiences. ... -
Russia in Serbia : development partner or Balkan ghost?
(2022-05-05)This master’s thesis examines how Russian development and media activities influence and interact with politics in Serbia. As a candidate for the European Union, Serbia receives most of its official development assistance ... -
Performance analysis of tensor-oriented runtimes for database workloads
(2022-12-01)Artificial Intelligence workloads have grown in popularity over the last decade, but database query processing runtimes are also evolving to keep up with increased demand. This report investigates whether the memory and ... -
Evaluating climate change mitigation efforts in California and how to secure significant and equitable co-benefits
(2022-10-06)Limiting global warming to 1.5°C, or even 2°C, will require a sharp reduction in fossil fuel use over the next decade. A rich body of research quantifies the human health benefits from the improved air quality that will ... -
Being a person : a brief unpleasant history
(2022-04-27)A collection of poems inspired by music, relationships, aging, memory, and place. -
Entangled optical state creation and characterization
(2022-08-11)We describe a typical type-I phasematched Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC) crystal setup and characterize the quality of the source as a function of state fidelity and strength of Bell's inequality violation. ... -
Ion beam deflection and ion source heat modeling for the advancement of electromagnetic isotope separation
(2022-10-06)EMIS technology has about a 10% efficiency for mass input to collection per pass through the machine. Current generations can only heat source material to 1000 °C, so molecular species are used for their higher vapor ... -
General education teachers' perceptions of inclusive education in Trinidad and Tobago
(2019-12-05)Teacher perceptions of inclusive education can have a significant impact on the educational opportunities for students with disabilities. Teacher perceptions will ultimately affect the manner in which teachers teach students ... -
The use of plastome data to infer phylogenies, systematics and biogeography of Vochysiaceae
(2019-11-11)This dissertation comprises three chapters that explored relevant questions in modern biology and biodiversity in order to understand better the tree of life and the patterns and processes that affect diversity. The first ... -
Interactions of negation with other categories in varieties of Arabic
(2019-02-06)This dissertation describes and analyzes interaction of negation with aspect, tense, quantifiers, and sensitive polarities in standard Arabic and modern Arabic dialects. The reasons behind this study are (i) to provide ... -
Live and let DAI : characterizing the execution of anti-viral necroptotic cell death
(2018-12-06)Programmed cell death plays a critical role in host defense against viruses. Infected cells detect the intruder and execute signaling cascades resulting in cell death, thus thwarting the spread of infection to neighboring ... -
The intersection of pain, fatigue, and cardiovascular risk in teens with juvenile arthritis : a biobehavioral case-control pilot study
(2021-04-06)Teens with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) live with chronic pain and fatigue. They are at higher risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality than the general population. Yet there is little evidence about the ... -
Putting together the pieces : excerpts from Rolle, Gower, Chaucer, and Lydgate in fifteenth-century miscellanies
(2022-08-03)Excerpts copied in miscellanies occupy a significant place in the literary culture of late-medieval England. This dissertation surveys manuscripts excerpting Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Rolle’s Commentary on the Song of ... -
Socializing and emotional arousal : an analysis using biological signals and self-reported surveys
(2023-01-02)Emotions, and emotional responses, are fundamental to human growth and development. Considering how feeling both positively and negatively can lead to increased risk-taking behavior, it is important to consider the effects ... -
The role of parental monitoring behaviors on adjustment problems among non-Hispanic White and Hispanic early adolescents
(2017-12-08)Previous research indicates that parental monitoring behaviors may act as promotive factors to decrease the risk for the development of subsequent early adolescent adjustment problems. However, limited research has examined ... -
Biography of the city of Houston as an international city
(2016-11-29)My dissertation is a history of the city of Houston with particular emphasis on the factors, people and events that helped shape it as an international city, as well as an examination of same for Houston’s role as a global ... -
An ethnography of environment in the Indus Delta, Sindh, Pakistan
(2015-12-11)This study focuses on how the life of ordinary people living in the Indus River Delta in Pakistan has changed due to the building of the modern irrigation system, dam construction, and the development of water use ... -
Raising Argentina : family, childhood and civil justice in Buenos Aires, 1871-1930
(2015-08-27)This dissertation, examines how ordinary men, women and children brought about a dramatic shift in legal notions of family and childhood in turn-of-the-century Argentina. In 1871, Argentina was an oligarchic republic ... -
Strangers from here : local politics, frame displacement, and the case of Beirut Madinati
(2023-01-02)Attempts to introduce new collective action frames can prove challenging for activists whose mission, goals, and campaign tactics appear novel or unfamiliar to local audiences. Even if organized and directed by area ...