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Model reference adaptive control for nonminimum phase aerospace systems
(2016-08-12)Adaptive control techniques are often avoided in aerospace systems due to stringent plant structural requirements and validation difficulties. This dissertation seeks to broaden the range of aerospace engineering applications ... -
Improving asthma management : patient-pharmacist partnership program in enhancing therapy adherence
(2016-08-16)Adherence to long-term asthma controller medications is an important factor in effective asthma management. Suboptimal adherence to asthma controller medications is prevalent. This three-study dissertation presents a ... -
Transcription factor networks and chromatin remodeler function in gene regulation on the eukaryotic genome
Numerous events – from histone modification and transcription factor binding to gene expression – take place on eukaryotic chromatin, while cells are constantly exposed to dynamic stimuli ranging from spatial and temporal ... -
Differential metal enrichment and dust synthesis in the aftermath of supernova explosions
(2016-08-12)Emerging from the Big Bang, the Universe contained hydrogen, helium, and lithium. Heavier elements were synthesized in stars and stellar explosions. The first stars formed when the Universe was about a hundred million ... -
Reconstruction of tensor product spline surfaces to integrate surface-surface intersection geometry and topology while maintaining inter-surface continuity
(2016-08-12)In the field of Computer-Aided Geometric Modeling (CAGD) stands one critical problem that plagues not only users of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) applications, but all downstream uses of a geometric model, namely, computational ... -
The roots of legislative durability : how information, deliberation, and compromise create laws that last
The central question of this dissertation is “What makes law last?” I argue that when legislators seek out diverse sources of information, engage in deliberation, and reach a substantive compromise, they pass the most ... -
“The most famous Indians in all the Indies are those from Chile, called Araucos. The next in New Spain, called Guachichiles or Chichimecs, who are now conquered.” : pacification projects in two frontiers of the New World’ Spanish Empire : New Galicia and Chile (1529-1626)
This dissertation seeks to unravel some of the most interesting and least known characteristics of the early Spanish Empire in the New World borderlands: the origin and application of the first policy of non-violent ... -
Psychopathology, alcohol use, deployment history and IPV : the mediating effects of adverse childhood experiences and allostatic load
The phenomenon of family violence is complex and multidimensional; to date prevalence rates show a rise in cases of family violence despite significant efforts on behalf of practitioners, researchers, and the criminal ... -
The politics of prioritization
Political agenda-setting research primarily studies how political institutions direct policy attention and gives little consideration to individual decision-making (Baumgartner and Jones 2009; Kingdon 1995; Baumgartner et ... -
People like you : the culture wars and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
In the half-century since Lyndon Johnson’s creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), no other Great Society program has been so bitterly and perpetually contested. PBS and NPR, the two institutions founded ... -
Three songs for Hindustani vocalist, soprano and sinfonietta
(2018-06-25)This musical work by Tara (Akshaya) Avril Tucker was premiered on March 21, 2018 by Saili Oak, Suzanne Lis and the prismatx ensemble. The three songs each explore a different melody from Hindustani Khyal singing, interpreting ... -
Guitar concerto
"Guitar Concerto" is a three movement piece exploring the interaction between classical guitar and a small ensemble. -
The robosax : for saxophone quartet
(2018-06-25)While composing “The Robosax”, I reflected on how I would find myself entirely surrendered by computers and other types of technological devices. I realized how dependent we are, on technology in our contemporary times, ... -
Ode to a nightingale
(2017-12-08)“Ode to a Nightingale” is a piece for solo baritone and chamber orchestra set to the poetry of John Ketas. It explores the struggle between life and death through the vehicle of the nightingale’s song, the subliminal beauty ... -
Chamber suite no. 1 : "Outburst
(2017-12-07)Chamber Suite No. 1: “Outburst” represents the culmination of my musical education at the University of Texas at Austin. Rather than being programmatic music, the title refers to an ‘outburst’ of thoughts, feelings and ... -
The effect of identifying intangible assets in an acquisition on investors’ judgments
Standard setters struggle with the costs and benefits of requiring separate recognition of intangible assets in business combinations. Scholarly research on the consequences of separately identifying intangible assets ... -
When New Orleans becomes a brown sea : a chamber opera in four parts
Musical score for a chamber opera in four parts. -
Graph analytics and subset selection problems in machine learning
In this dissertation we examine two topics relevant to modern machine learning research: 1) Subgraph counting and 2) High-dimensional subset selection. The former can be used to construct features for performing graph ... -
Avengers of Zumbi : the nature of fugitive slave communities and their descendants in Brazil
(2018-07-24)In 1988, Brazil ratified Article 68, a constitutional provision that granted land rights to rural black communities descended from fugitive slaves known in Portuguese as “quilombos.” This dissertation argues that Article ... -
Identifying and modifying negative self-referent cognition in individuals with depressive symptoms
(2018-06-12)Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and other depressive disorders are associated with serious impairment. A greater understanding of the factors and biases that help maintain current depressive symptoms is important in helping ...
