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Path of Least Resistance: Barriers and Strategy Construction Process for Black Entrepreneurs
(2020-07-21)
This dissertation addresses: (1) The strategies Black entrepreneurs construct to navigate racist and discriminatory barriers in the market; (2) The role race, ethnicity, and other aspects of identity play in the strategy ...
Engineering Heterarchy and Hierarchy in Metal-Organic Frameworks
(2020-05-27)
Complex natural systems usually have a hierarchical organization of multiple components at various scales. The well-defined hierarchical modules and their sequences in natural systems, such as brain networks, enable ...
Deciphering the Role of TET2-mediated DNA Methylcytosine Oxidation in Cancer Immunotherapy
(2020-07-09)
Immunotherapy is one of the fastest growing fields in cancer research and treatment. It largely relies on the immune system and is impacted by tumor infiltrated immune cells, which perform an important function in the tumor ...
The Cell Origins and Tumor Products in Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumor
(2020-07-01)
The purpose of this project was to determine the cell origins and to investigate the histochemical properties of the products present in adenomatoid odontogenic tumor (AOT). In 1992, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
Examining Mathematics Achievement: An Analysis of Fourth and Eighth Grade TIMSS 2015 U.S. Data by Ethnicity, Gender, Student Bullying, Parental Involvement, and Engaging Teaching
(2020-05-13)
The purpose of this study was to examine mathematic academic achievement of 4th and 8th grade African American, Latinx, and Asian students by gender and content domains of TIMSS mathematics assessment, and to expand the ...
Human-Centric Co-Adaptation for Optimal Human-Machine Coordination
(2020-06-29)
In this paper, we investigate the optimal co-adaptation strategy between humans and machines in order to maximize the performance outcome in completing a coordinated task. Although prior works identified the optimal machine ...
Intergenerational Communities: The Role of Neighborhood Environments in Older Adults’ Social Interactions and Walking Behavior
(2020-07-21)
Background: Demographic aging has brought serious economic and health challenges. The population aged 65 and over in the US is estimated to almost double from 47.6 million in 2015 to 86.5 million in 2050. Aging in place ...
Autonomous Vehicles, Travel Behavior, and Urban Structure
(2020-07-29)
The advent of autonomous vehicles presents both opportunities and challenges to planners who might see the potential of new technologies in supporting more compact cities but worry about the potential downsides of ...
Durability of Non-Proprietary Ultra-High-Performance Concrete for Pretensioned Bridge Girders
(2020-07-17)
Proprietary ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) has predominantly been used in bridge applications in the United States in connections, overlays, and girders. To facilitate further implementation, the Texas Department ...
Identifying, Mapping and Overcoming Genomic Impediments to Intraspecific Genetic Improvement of Upland Cotton Through Interspecific Hybridization and Introgression
(2020-07-16)
Cotton, the leading natural textile fiber, develops as modified seed trichomes, produced in copious amounts by genetically elite cultivars of two domesticated New World Upland tetraploid (2n=4x=52) species, Upland cotton ...