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A collection of electronic theses, dissertations, and graduate projects created by graduates at the University of Houston-Clear Lake
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Development and Evaluation of a Decision-Making Tool for Evaluating and Selecting Prompting Strategies
(2020-05-27)An extensive literature has demonstrated the successful application of various response prompts and prompt-fading strategies for teaching students with developmental and intellectual disabilities. However, few practical ... -
Using Behavioral Skills Training to Train Police Officers to Respond to Individuals with Autism
(2020-05-27)Research indicates that individuals with autism may be more likely to encounter law enforcement due to the various unusual behaviors associated with autism (e.g., stereotypy) (Osborn, 2008). Although individuals with autism ... -
The Impact of a School Developed STEAM Curriculum on First Grade Students’ Cognitive Development in the Mathematics, Language, and Literacy Domains
(2020-05-19)STEAM education can be defined as a transdisciplinary approach to learning that intentionally integrates concepts of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) with the arts (Gess, 2017). Students apply ... -
Role of Negative Personality on Sleep Quality and Emotion Regulation
(2021-05-10)The relationship between sleep and emotion regulation has been well-established. Worsened sleep quality is associated with a diminished ability to regulate emotions. However, research has yet to examine potential mediators. ... -
Drone Based Object Tracking with Camshift Algorithm and Neural Network
(2021-04-30)Integration of tracking system and the drone has been a novel research topic in recent years, especially when drones are required to implement complex tasks which cannot be done easily with human control. Usually, the drone ... -
Applying a Distributed Elasticsearch Cluster to Increased Security in IOT Devices
(2021-04-28)Internet of Things devices have permeated the daily lives of many by offering useful insights into their daily lives through the use of sensors and cameras to collect and display real-world data. Increasingly, these devices ... -
A Sliding Window Based Voting Classifier for Activity Sensor Based User Identification
(2021-04-30)Identification is the core of any authentication protocol design as the purpose of the authentication is to verify the user’s identity. The efficient establishment and verification of identity remain a big challenge. ... -
Build a Game-Theoretic Framework for Community’s Role in Counter-Terrorism
(2021-03-24)Terrorism poses a major challenge to the government whenever it surfaces in any nation. It degrades the economic, infrastructural and trading systems. Furthermore, it reduces international revenues from tourism and foreign ... -
Reflections of Fear: Mass Hysteria in Cold War Cinema 1946-1991
(2021-05-12)The Cold War was one of the longest and most complicated wars in American History. It lasted from 1946-1991 and was entrenched in every person’s life in the United States. It was a time of great fear and suspicion. Americans ... -
Elementary teachers' self-efficacy beliefs related to teaching students displaying externalizing and internalizing behaviors
(2019-08-08)The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if there is a relationship between teacher-reported self-efficacy beliefs when working with students displaying externalizing and internalizing behaviors and the ... -
Development of an Effective Organizational Performance Instrument to Facilitate Post-Secondary Institutional Change: A Variation on Likert's Management Systems 1-5
(2020-10-13)This study stemmed from the need to develop an instrument for assessing the characteristics of an organization in terms of internal consistency of leadership behavior, interaction-influences between colleagues, communication ... -
FPGA Acceleration on Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) Neural Network for Handwritten Digit Recognition
(2020-05-13)This dissertation presents a hardware implementation of a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) network used for the purpose of low-latency, high-accuracy digit recognition. The accuracy of various network designs was compared in ... -
Classification of Positive and Negative Stimuli Using EEG Data Functional Connectivity and Machine Learning
(2019-12-06)Electroencephalography (EEG) provides electrical measures of brain activity by monitoring voltage fluctuations of the collective neural activity in different parts on the cortex of the brain. Recently, there have been ... -
A Framework for Planetary Resource Classifications to Further Sustainability in Space Exploration Missions
(2020-12-21)The long-term impacts and overall sustainability of space exploration missions in the space environment were often unknown in past space missions. Historically, the space exploration vision of various space-faring agents ... -
The Impact of Teacher Perceptions About Student Socioeconomic Status on Grading Practices
(2020-12-04)The current study investigated if teachers’ perceptions of student socioeconomic status (SES) resulted in higher grades for high-SES students compared to low-SES students. Sixty-nine participants read one of two nearly ... -
The Role of Remorse and Gender in Juror Decision Making for Capital Punishment
(2020-12-03)While defendants are expected to show remorse for committing a crime (Sundby, 1998) and remorse is particularly important during the sentencing phase of a trial (Zhong et al., 2014), there is little systematic evidence to ... -
The Effects of Pimavanserin on Corticosterone Levels in a Rodent Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(2020-12-07)PTSD can affect individuals that have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, resulting in numerous physical and psychiatric symptoms. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and behavior therapy are often ... -
Exploratory Analysis of Delay Discounting and Cognitive-Affective Regulation Measures in Cocaine Users
(2020-12-04)Research investigating addiction across populations suggests that identifying high-risk behavioral factors within a population may help identify key areas to target during treatment. Delay discounting, the measure of the ... -
Exploiting Area-Speed-Power Tradeoff of FPGA Designs on Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) Neural Network
(2020-12-21)This dissertation presents four Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design architectures for handwritten digit recognition, in order to improve hardware efficiency in terms of resources, power, and speed of the neuromorphic ... -
Tradeoff FPGA Cost of Sobel Implementation Using Approximate Designs
(2020-12-21)This dissertation proposes a scalable algorithm for tuning the tradeoff of space, energy, and quality for the implementation on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). First, an approximate design library including exact and ...
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