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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 ... -
Lorentz Invariance in Loop Quantum Gravity
(2020-04-28)From the principle of relativity, where the laws of physics is presumed to be the same in all inertial reference frames, we have Lorentz invariance. This invariance leads to rotational and boost invariance. These invariances ... -
Marriage and Motherhood in American Film
(2019-12-06)The American family has diversified significantly in the past century as women have assumed greater roles outside of the home, and film has been shown to illuminate common societal beliefs and the changing nature of social ... -
Media influence on perception of crime
(2020-01-29)Media outlets’ influence on individual perceptions of crime has increased over the years. Crime related events have become a way to increase ratings and revenue. This is a study of the (1) relationship between media ... -
METHOD OF USING BLOCKCHAIN FOR HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
(2022-05-10)Modern microprocessors contain many millions of gates and finding any hidden malicious Hardware Trojan (HT) is difficult. Additionally, HTs may not need any additional external input pins to activate. Multiple solutions ... -
Microsoft Kinect based real-time segmentation and recognition for human activity learning
(2017-12-05)Lower body pain and injury have become common in this technical world, especially in elderly people. It is quite difficult to recover from these injuries leading to problems in performing daily routine activities like ... -
Modelling the Growth Of Atlantic Rangia, Rangia Cuneata, in Response to Freshwater Inflow, Trinity River Delta, Galveston Bay
(2020-05-11)Rangia cuneata, commonly known as Atlantic Rangia, is an oligohaline clam found in abundance along the northern Gulf of Mexico. Rangia cuneata was selected as one of a suite of indicator species for establishing freshwater ... -
Mutation testing using time-shift operator
(2018-05-02)Functional verification plays a critical role in ensuring that a digital integrated circuit (IC) meets the design specification. Dynamic verification uses a large number of test vectors. To analyze and improve the quality ... -
Nekton community characterization of the lower Brazos River with an emphasis on larval Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, trophic dynamics
(2019-05-17)From December 2016 – October 2017, 50 collections of 150 replicate otter and beam trawls were collected at five different sites, three different seasons, and three different flow tiers along the Brazos river estuary. A ...
