Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations (Fall 2015 - Present) by Title
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Factors Affecting Black, Hispanic, and White Females to the Superintendency
(2022-05-06)The purpose of this study was to examine the perceived barriers and strategies held by Black, Hispanic, and White women with regard to the position of school superintendent. This study will include a review of data collected ... -
Factors affecting early adoption of technology
(2016-08-24)The study examined preservice teachers’ personal use of technology, self-efficacy with technology, attitude about technology, perceived usefulness of technology, and knowledge and skills with technology related to early ... -
Factors contributing to high school completion in pregnant teens
(2018-11-12)The purpose of this study was to determine factors that may contribute to school completion for pregnant and parenting teens versus choosing the option of dropping out of school. The sample included participants who were ... -
Factors that impact the implementation of secondary dual language programs in three school districts in the State of Texas
(2019-11-07)Research has demonstrated that dual language education is the most powerful for school reform. Most of the research has focused on the outcomes of elementary programs. As dual language programs continue to expand from the ... -
Factors that Impede the Enrollment of Black Students in Dual Credit Programs
(2021-04-05)The number of students enrolled in Dual Credit programs in the state of Texas continues to grow, however, there are disparities in Black student enrollment rates. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that ... -
Factors That May Lead Instructional Coaches to Leave That Role: A Mixed-Method Case Study
(2016-05-13)In many school districts across the United States, initiatives geared toward improving classroom instruction now include instructional coaching models. The utilization of instructional coaches (ICs) is becoming more prevalent ... -
Factors Which Influence Success for Female Veteran Students in Higher Education
(2023-09-27)When female veterans return to college, they bring a different experience to the institution. Administrators must be aware of the challenges that students encounter as they make the transition from the military to higher ... -
Family Structure and Emotional Expressiveness
(2020-07-29)There is a potential relationship between gender roles and emotional expressiveness. The central hypothesis is that the households that present high levels of both masculine and feminine gender roles will have higher levels ... -
Federated Learning to Build Sentiment Analysis Models for Amazon Review Datasets without Labels
(2023-05-09)In Natural Language Processing, one of the most popular tasks is sentiment analysis which aims to predict the sentiment of a text. It has many practical applications in industries such as marketing and customer service. ... -
Flood Risk and Mitigation Analysis of the Brays Bayou
(2019-12-03)Flooding has been a problem of Houston since it was established in 1837. However, over the past 60 years Houston has gone from a city of about a 900,000 people in 1960, to over four million today. This dramatic increase ... -
For Sex or Marriage: The Commodification of Women in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Aphra Behn's The Rover
William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and Aphra Behn’s The Rover emphasize the effect on women of being treated as commodities. When the plays were written, marriage was the most common means by which women were ... -
Foraging Ecology of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus) in Galveston Bay, Texas
(2022-05-31)The overall goal of this research was to develop a better understanding of the trophic ecology of the Galveston Bay common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) stock that would provide critical data needed to manage ... -
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 ... -
Fractional Fluxon Dynamics in Long Josephson Junctions
(2020-12-16)In this thesis, I investigate the dynamics of fractional fluxons in two-gap Long Josephson Junctions (LJJs). Due to time reversal symmetry (TRS) breaking within the LJJ, a single fluxon may split into a bound pair of ... -
From Their Perspective: A Qualitative Study Examining Black Boys' Relationship with Reading in Grades 3-5
(2023-05-05)The purpose of this study was to examine the reading experiences of Black boys in grades three through five, gain insight into what they felt contributed to their reading success, explore the relationships that influenced ... -
Functional Characterization of Pol-dUT Fusion Enzymes from Pyrococcus Furiosus
(2018-05-10)Although polymerase chain reaction is a powerful technique, often polymerizing errors can jeopardize the whole experiment especially when to study a cloned gene product. Long PCR with conventional Taq DNA polymerases is ... -
Fundamentals of axis-symmetric boundary reconstruction for ideal tokamak plasmas: using toroidal harmonics to match poloidal flux measurements in the surrounding vacuum
(2018-07-30)With the development of tokamaks in the 1950s to control and sustain fusion reactions, a large amount of theory regarding associated plasmas has accumulated. Much of this theory is out of reach for the uninitiated, and ... -
Gender ideology and influencing society: Destabilizing the normalization of gender-based violence through infographics
(2021-12-08)Informing individuals about how gender ideology influences society is vital in today’s world. Changing the conversations about sexual assault and rape can help destabilize the normalization of gender-based violence. It is ... -
Genre and Audience Reception in The Rake's Progress
(2019-05-13)W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman’s libretto for Igor Stravinsky's 1951 opera The Rake's Progress has challenged audiences' expectations since its premiere, especially concerning its narrative arc. These frustrations resolve ... -
Geometric Spinors
(2021-08-02)Geometric Algebra is a unique variant of what is otherwise known as Clifford Algebra. In this work we show that the geometric algebra provides better tools to visualize physical problems, benefited by our natural geometric ...
