• Offshore Oil and Gas and the Energy Transition: Assessing the Policy Future for Offshore Wind Energy in Texas 

  Debrah, Akua Asamoah (2022-07-27)

  The energy sector, including transportation, accounts for about 75% of greenhouse gas emissions nationally. As a result, national efforts in line with globally-centered climate mandates have set standards to ensure that ...
• Characterization of the Neuropathological Effects of Theiler’s Murine Encephalomyelitis Virus in a Genetically Diverse Mouse Panel 

  Lawley, Koedi Savannah (2022-07-28)

  A wide range of viruses cause immediate or delayed neurological manifestations in their hosts. Infection by neurotropic viruses as well as the resulting immune response can irreversibly disrupt the complex structural and ...
• False Confession in Wrongful Convictions: An Analysis of Age, Cognitive Disability and False Confession among Exonerees 

  Huey, Eileen Lanette (2022-08-09)

  Drawing from The National Registry of Exonerations that covers the known universe of U.S. exonerees (N=1,874), this study investigates the effect cognitive disability and age on the likelihood of false confession. Controlling ...
• Aerodynamic and Static Analysis of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine & Tower Structure Modeling Considering Design Wind Load 

  Guduk, Bulent (2022-07-27)

  In this study, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations were performed using the Fluent and Mechanic module of ANSYS application to characterize the aerodynamic and static behavior of a horizontal axis wind turbine ...
• Professional Development Models for Secondary Co-Teachers 

  Walloch, Victoria (2022-08-02)

  Throughout the years, special education has changed and evolved to best meet the needs of students on IEPs and with diverse learning needs. Teachers are put at the forefront to help students be successful in the 21st ...
• Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics 

  Pritchard, David (2022-07-26)

  This dissertation introduces three essays on the effects of various public policies on labor, education, earnings, and crime outcomes using quasi-experimental research designs. In the first essay, “Legal Access to ...
• Development of New PVT Correlations for Reservoir Fluids From Unconventional Reservoirs 

  Mejia Martinez, Nelson David (2022-08-08)

  The estimation of Pressure-Volume-Temperature (or PVT) properties is an extremely important aspect of oil and gas exploration and production as the parameters derived from these functions are used for reserve estimations, ...
• Compressive Creep of Porous Gamma Phase Uranium Metal 

  Stern, Karyn (2022-07-27)

  The compressive deformation behavior of unirradiated depleted gamma phase uranium metal was investigated in support of new metal fueled fast reactor designs. Extended core residence times have raised questions about long ...
• Against All Odds: Looking at Effects of Effort and Fatigue on Reward Sensitivity 

  Baldwin, Cassandra L (2022-07-27)

  Self-control failure is all too common. Research has found that people become less likely to engage self-control after expending self-control on a prior task. Theories of self-control have surmised that this disengagement ...
• An Observational Study of the Impact of Gustiness on Air-Sea Momentum Fluxes and Waves Using a Novel Gustiness Metric 

  Lyu, Meng (2022-07-29)

  As an integral component of the Earth system, the exchange of momentum at air-sea interface plays an important role in connecting the ocean and atmosphere. Thus, the parameterization for air-sea fluxes is essential for ...
• The Second Moment of Dirichlet L-Functions Along a Coset 

  Garcia, Bradford Alexander (2022-07-28)

  We compute the second moment of Dirichlet L-functions along a coset at the central point, achieving an asymptotic result in the q-aspect.
• Revisiting Byzantine Agreement and MPC in Bounded-Delay Networks 

  Elsheimy, Fatmaelzahraa (2022-08-01)

  Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is one of the most important and fundamental problems in distributed computing. MPC allows a set of parties to compute an arbitrary function of their (potentially private) inputs in a ...
• Raman Spectroscopy of Mold Conidia 

  Han, Zehua (2022-07-28)

  Fungi can be found everywhere in natural and domestic environments and their effects on human activity are numerous and vary widely. Fungi have been used to produce foods, beverages, biofuels, household items, biocatalysts, ...
• Strategic Integration of Insect-Plant Interaction Study, Natural Enemy Investigation, and Establishment of Callus-Induced Crapemyrtle Regeneration for Managing Crapemyrtle Bark Scale (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae) 

  Wu, Bin (2022-08-09)

  Crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia sp.) is the best-selling flowering tree and provides excellent pollen sources for pollinators in the U.S., especially when other resources are naturally scarce. However, the market’s most ...
• Porosity and Surface Functional Effects in Carbon Nanofiber Sensors for the Detection of Nitrogen Dioxide 

  Champagne, Christopher J (2022-07-28)

  Polyacrylonitrile based electrospun carbon nanofibers (CNFs) were used as a resistive type gas sensor to detect the adsorption of NO₂ gas. In an attempt to enhance the sensitivity CNFs to NO₂ for use in non-destructive ...
• A Wearable Transcutaneous Stimulator and Sensor System for Assessing the Effect of Stimulation On Postural Balance 

  Simons, Travis James (2022-07-08)

  Sensory feedback is critical in the body’s effort to maintain balance while walking or standing. Deficits in balance due to age or medical conditions are common and may lead to falls and injury in those with reduced or ...
• Laser-Induced-Fluorescence (LIF) Imaging Studies of the Oil-Film Thickness in a Thrust Collar 

  Gorman, Andrew Joseph (2022-08-03)

  Thrust collars (TCs) are widely used in turbomachinery such as integrally geared compressors (IGCs), gearboxes, and vehicle transmissions to transmit axial loads to a central shaft. The loading and speed capacity of TCs ...
• National Beef Tenderness Survey–2021: Assessment of Warner-Bratzler Shear Force and Consumer Panel Evaluation of Beef Steaks from U.S. Retail and Foodservice Establishments 

  Gonzalez, Ayleen Annette (2022-07-25)

  Beef retail steaks were sampled at stores across eleven U.S. cities, and beef foodservice steaks were purchased from six U.S. cities. Cities were chosen to represent a broad geographical range and upholding their historical ...
• Estimating Mixing Parameters Using Ocean Buoyancy Glider Hydrography and Vehicle Dynamics: Applications to Gulf Loop Current Structure 

  Mahmud, Sakib (2022-07-27)

  This dissertation has combined observations from four Slocum glider missions in the deep Gulf of Mexico to quantify the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) dissipation rates (ϵ) and diffusive mixing processes in the basin. The ...
• Observer Emotions, Attitudes, and Behaviors in Response to Witnessed Incivility 

  Hagen, Ellen Selma (2022-07-28)

  Witnessed incivility has been demonstrated to lead to negative job-related and affective outcomes for observers. To further examine the impact of witnessed incivility on observers, participants were recruited (N = 95) for ...

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