UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Governing forward : thinking through law and governance to enable wider use of nature-based solutions in cities
(2022-05-06)Climate change and accelerating urbanization of human populations are increasing uncertainty and creating additional challenges to environmental and social well-being in cities. These changes require new and different ... -
Fusible alloy electrodes and multi-cation interfacial chemistry in alkali metal batteries
(2022-05-02)Increasing need of portable and efficient energy storage technologies that delivers higher energy and higher power density became one of the most urgent tasks in this century. Lithium metal as one of the most promising ... -
Estamos en la lucha : revealing and resisting racism and linguicism in mathematics education
(2022-05-02)This dissertation reveals dominant narratives of Raza learners in mathematics education research and challenges these narratives through composite counter-storytelling. Our society, and consequently mathematics education ... -
Perceptual quality prediction of social pictures, social videos, and telepresence videos
(2022-07-01)The unprecedented growth of online social-media venues and rapid advances in technology by camera and mobile device manufacturers have led to the creation and consumption of a limitless supply of images/videos. Given ... -
Inference and uncertainty characterization in complex structures
(2022-04-22)The common theme of the projects in this thesis is statistical inference and characterizing uncertainty for complex structures, including networks and separately exchangeable data matrices. In the first two projects, we ... -
Coerciveness, well-posedness, and Banach norms propagation of solutions to the system of Boltzmann equations for a monatomic gas mixture
(2021-12-02)In this thesis dissertation we focus on the Cauchy problem for the unique vector-valued solution to a system of full non-linear space homogeneous Boltzmann equations, describing multi-component monatomic gas mixtures with ... -
Fragile liquidity : analysis of the mutual fund liquidity risk management rule
(2022-04-18)This dissertation studies the unintended consequences of the Liquidity Risk Management Rule adopted by the SEC in 2016. The rule imposes an upper bound for illiquid assets and a lower bound for liquid assets in mutual fund ... -
Perceptual quality assessment of user-generated-content images and videos
(2022-07-01)Because of the increasing ease of image and video capture, many millions of consumers create and upload large volumes of User-Generated-Content (UGC) images and videos to social and streaming media sites over the Internet. ... -
Quantifying the reliability and resiliency benefits of distributed energy resources in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
(2021-08-12)This paper quantifies distributed energy resources (DERs) reliability and resiliency benefits in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Adjuntas is a rural area that is electrically radial to Puerto Rico’s bulk electric system. Customers ... -
Does the match matter? : considering student- and teacher-centered outcomes of teacher-student racial congruence
(2022-05-09)Racial disparities persist between Black and White student populations in the United States, especially in the domains of STEM achievement and exclusionary discipline. Research suggests that racial congruence, or match, ... -
On the motion and action prediction using deep graph models
(2022-07-01)Motion and action prediction is a crucial component of autonomous systems and robotics. This component is vital for accidents predictions or prevention, motion planning, surveillance systems and behavior analysis. Typically, ... -
Exploring synergies between program synthesis and machine learning
(2022-07-01)Program synthesis is a term that describes a family of techniques that enables automatic generation of code according to user-provided specifications. Search-based program synthesis offers numerous benefits in developing ... -
Effective porosity estimation from 3D seismic reflection data : Marco Polo Field, Gulf of Mexico
(2007-05)Seismic inversion is a geophysical tool that uses geologically constrained physical models to infer elastic interval properties (e.g., P-velocity, S-velocity, and density) from seismic interface data (e.g., reflection ... -
Whose threat is it anyway? : addressing cyber economic espionage in law, policy, and practice
(2021-05-07)Cyber economic espionage is a threat to national security. But unlike typical national security threats, economic espionage is also–and perhaps most immediately–a threat to American businesses. The frontline against economic ... -
Theoretical and computational studies of growing tissues
(2022-02-22)Life around us, from the micron to macroscopic scale, is multi-cellular. One of the major drivers of multicellularity is growth and subsequent division of cells. Typically, the cells require energy to undergo growth and ... -
Politicizing necessities : the fight for affordable housing in the southern United States
(2021-05-05)Cities in the Southern United States, hereafter referred to as “the South”, are increasingly grappling with housing affordability issues. As a student of urban policy, and as a lifelong resident of the South, I often hear ... -
Some Onsager’s conjecture type results for a family of odd active scalar equations
(2022-02-28)In this document we present a new application of convex integration to the surface quasi-geostrophic equations (SQG) to construct non-unique weak solutions. We also discuss how to generalize the convex integration scheme ... -
The interactions between hand pattern, shoulder pain and upper extremity demand in manual wheelchair users
(2022-03-04)Manual wheelchair users rely on their upper limbs for independent mobility, which requires frequent loading of their upper extremities. This loading often results in shoulder pain and injuries, which leads to decreased ... -
Reactivity and interfacial properties of phosphonium phosphate ionic liquid on steel surfaces
(2022-01-27)In the last two decades, ionic liquids (ILs) have emerged as a new class of functional materials with potential applications in several fields, including lubrication. Compared to traditional non-ionic lubricant additives ... -
A kinematic investigation in the Cripple Creek District, central Colorado : implications regarding the structural controls influencing the location and distribution of gold ore zones
(2004-05)The Cripple Creek epithermal deposit is a historic gold camp located at the southern end of the Colorado Front Range in central Colorado. Mineralization in the Oligocene-aged alkaline volcanic center is characterized by ...