Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations (Fall 2015 - Present) by Title
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Changes in culture and values among Saudi students' families in the United States, and their impact on the centrality of financial management and purchasing decisions within the family
(2019-05-17)Saudi Arabia and the United States of America have a strong relationship both politically and economically. This is exemplified by the number of Saudi students sent on scholarship to study in the US. Roughly, there are 70 ... -
Charles H. "Chuck" Laubach Collection
(2017-12-05)This project details the organization, preservation and digitization of the Charles H. “Chuck” Laubach collection, which includes a process narrative, a detailed finding aid, and a sample selection of digitized sources ... -
Chrome, Neon, and Cyborgs: The Cyberpunk Genre in the 1980’s United States
(2021-12-08)This project was done to prove the viability of fiction as a crucial source of historical artifacts by focusing on the genre of cyberpunk, a genre localized in the 1980s United States, to show how the cultural anxieties ... -
Classification of Cocaine Addicted Patients Using 3D to 1D Hilbert Space-Filling Curve Ordering of fMRI Activation Maps
In analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), transformation of the 3D brain imaging data to 1D is required for further analyses, which often includes the classification of different groups of participants. ... -
Classification of fMRI Brain Activation Maps by Using Space Filling Curves
(2019-12-04)Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) is a brain imaging technique which is used to measure brain activity by detecting changes associated with the blood flow and oxygenation, which are indirect ... -
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 ... -
Classroom management self-efficacy and burnout of teachers who began their career during the 2020/2021 school year
(2022-12-07)The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine the difference in classroom management self-efficacy (CMSE) of year one taught virtually and year two taught in-person for beginning teachers and if this transition ... -
Closing the advanced placement opportunity gap for traditionally underrepresented students
(2018-04-10)Exposure to rigorous curriculum is a significant predictor of college persistence and success. Traditionally underrepresented students, those who are African American, Hispanic, and identified as economically disadvantaged ... -
Collective teacher efficacy: Its influence on teacher beliefs and behaviors in classroom instruction
(2019-08-09)The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine the influence of collective teacher efficacy (CTE) on teacher beliefs and behaviors that result in engagement of all students and persistence with those who struggle ... -
College readiness variables for African American high school seniors
(2022-08-05)This sequential mixed methods study examined the variables of attendance, discipline, school feeder patterns, economically disadvantaged, and extracurricular activity participation on the college readiness of African ... -
Comparative study of decelluralized extracellular matrix from porcine derived tissues as a substrate for in-vitro mouse mesenchymal stem cell culture
(2018-12-14)The main goal of this research is to create a 3-D natural scaffold for the Mouse Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to carry out in-vitro growth without losing its physiological and morphological characteristics. MSCs are ... -
Comparison of Texas and Finnish Education Systems
(2020-05-29)The Finnish education system is widely considered to be one of the best in the world (Chung, 2019). Educators from many countries have examined Finland’s system to determine what makes it so successful (Nieme et al., 2012). ... -
Computational Analysis of Various Reactions Between Hydroxyl Radicals and Organic Mercury Species
(2021-07-29)The interactions between hydroxy radicals and both dimethylmercury and methylmercury hydroxide have been studied using ab-initio methods. The density functional theory (DFT) method M06-2X was used to optimize the structures ... -
Correlation of Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning as a Writing Framework and Students’ Success Rates in High School Science District Standardized Tests
(2020-04-15)The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine the relationship between science writing and student science achievement and how teachers implement the writing strategy claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) in their ... -
Creating belonging for minority university students through multicultural organizations
(2019-05-14)This study explores how minority students who participate in multi-cultural student organizations find belonging on their university campuses. Using focus groups from students across the University of Houston system and ... -
Cultural Competence for Health Care Providers: Undocumented Immigrant Latino/a Patients
(2022-08-05)The United States’ relationship with immigrants is complicated. Economically the country utilizes the labor and services many immigrants provide at an unethically reduced cost. Historically labor has been imported from ... -
Cultural Differences in Heart Rate Variability and Stress Response
(2022-08-04)It is well established that cultural values influence stress, however, very little research has investigated the psychophysiological underpinnings of these processes. The current study investigated whether differences due ... -
Current Perceptions of Science as a Career Choice of Underrepresented 11th and 12th Grade Students in a Low Socioeconomic Area High School
(2020-05-13)The United States has a shortage of qualified workers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields (Zhang & Barnett, 2015). There is a critical shortage of underrepresented students seeking science ... -
Data Visualization in Augmented Reality
(2019-05-12)During critical procedures with limited resources, astronauts are expected to operate at a high level of efficiency and effectiveness. Recently, NASA has begun development of an advanced space suit design with many ... -
Dearest Rhia
(2022-05-06)Dearest Rhia is an autoethnographic documentary film that explores whether humans have psychic abilities. It places the researcher (myself) as the subject of this autoethnographic documentary, defined as a type of ...
