Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Identifying Teachers' Perceptions And Beliefs Of Dyslexia And The Inclusion Of Students With Dyslexia In General Education
(2018-07-20)The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of dyslexia and the beliefs of inclusion of students identified with dyslexia in the general education setting. The perceptions of general education and special ... -
Implementation of a graphical user interface for thread protocol using OpenThread platform
(2018-12-13)OpenThread is an open source implementation of Thread protocol. It uses command Line Interface. This research focuses on adding a GUI for OpenThread which makes visualizing Thread network using OpenThread very easy. -
Improving Aviation Data Communication and Storage Security using Blockchain Based Approach
(2020-05-04)Data Security and integrity remains a major challenge for the aviation industry data storage. Many data breaches have happened in the past which has directly caused financial loss to airlines and indirect losses to their ... -
Improving Reliability and Latency of High Critical Tasks in Mixed Criticality Systems through Task Rescheduling
(2019-12-10)A Mixed Criticality System (MCS) consists of various hardware and software components executing tasks with different criticality levels. The criticality of a task is determined by its impact on the overall system output ... -
Improving sentiment analysis of disaster related social media content
(2018-12-14)Social media platforms have become the most accessible public communication and broadcast channels. Recently, the world has witnessed the prevailing usage of social media for communication during disasters. Being able to ... -
Industrial Strength Dependency Parsing System
(2018-05-10)Dependency parsing is a useful task to help computer understand human language. By parsing the dependency grammar of a sentence automatically, dependency parser produces dependency-based syntactic representations which ... -
Influence of a district leadership development program on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year principals
(2016-12-07)The purpose of this sequential mixed methods study was to determine the influence of a district leadership development program on 2nd, 3rd and, 4th year principals. A purposeful sample of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year principals ... -
Influence of Freshwater Inflow in the Brazos River Estuary
(2022-05-24)The influence of freshwater inflow on estuarine ecology is a topic that receives a lot of attention due to estuaries acting as medians to oceanic and freshwater environments. Freshwater inflow has varying effects depending ... -
INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING: PERCEPTIONS, USE, AND BARRIERS FOR 6-12 SCIENCE TEACHERS
(2021-08-04)There are many reasons students fail to achieve in STEM related fields post high school. For example, students may spend too much time receiving teacher centered lessons that focus primarily on vocabulary building and ... -
Instream habitat use and management of invasive armored catfishes in the upper San Marcos River
(2018-12-12)The San Marcos River is a spring-fed aquatic system located in central Texas fed by the San Marcos Springs. This spring system is characterized by high water quality and relatively constant temperatures, pH, discharge and ... -
Instruction in the Fast Lane: The Impact of Accelerated Instruction through the Student Success Initiative on Student Achievement
(2018-05-01)High-stakes testing has been the dominant method for holding schools accountable since the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2002. The Every Student Succeeds Act, enacted in 2015, continues to build on ... -
Instructional Leader Practices: Are They Related to Student Achievement
(2020-04-10)The purpose of this sequential mixed method study was to examine the relationship between the four core leadership principles and student achievement in schools in a small region in Texas. This study included a review of ... -
Instructional Leader Practices: Are They Related to Student Achievement
(2020-04-10)The purpose of this sequential mixed method study was to examine the relationship between the four core leadership principles and student achievement in schools in a small region in Texas. This study included a review of ... -
Intelligent in-vehicle safety and security monitoring system
(2019-12-16)Dangerous situations such as children are left in vehicles, are dropped off at wrong stops, or take on wrong school buses usually caused by the negligence of drivers. This paper presents a real-time intelligent in-vehicle ... -
Investigating Various Stakeholders Perceptions of Strategies That May Be Used To Improve Attendance Among Secondary High School Students
(2020-10-19)ABSTRACT INVESTIGATING VARIOUS STAKEHOLDERS PERCEPTIONS OF STRATEGIES THAT MAY BE USED TO IMPROVE ATTENDANCE AMONG SECONDARY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Ronald Jackson University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2020 Dissertation ... -
IoT-Edge-Server Based Embedded System For Wide-Range Habitats
(2019-06-17)This thesis presents a hardware architecture, IoT-Edge-Server, of a diverse embedded system combining the applications of a smart city, smart building, or smart agricultural farm. First of all, we improve computation time ... -
John Howard Kimzey Collection
(2019-05-08)This project includes the organization and preservation of the John Howard Kimzey collection. Included are a process narrative, finding aid, and a selection of digitized material from the collection. John Kimzey was an ... -
Kinematic Redundancy Resolution for the Baxter Research Robot
(2020-05-05)Robotics is a brand of science and engineering which involves many other fields such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and bioengineering. Robotic engineers and scientists develop machines that can substitute ... -
KNOWLEDGE AND CLINICAL PRACTICE OF THERAPISTS TREATING COMORBID ANXIETY AND INSOMNIA
(2021-12-10)The purpose of this study was to explore the extent to which therapists who treat anxiety also treat comorbid insomnia. A survey was created to test therapists’ knowledge about insomnia and their expertise related to ... -
Locating Disaster Relief Facility Centers in Houston City
(2018-05-10)We study the problem of locating disaster relief facility centers (DRFCs) in the city of Houston which is prone to flood risk hurricanes. We propose a multi-objective optimization programming (MOOP) model for selecting the ...
