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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. ... -
Perceptions of Factors that Contribute to the Successful Reading Development of Young African American Male Students
(2020-02-07)The purpose of this qualitative research study was to determine the perceptions of administrators, reading teachers, librarian, and campus reading specialist of the factors that contribute to reading development of African ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Snapshot; Job Attitudes Within the HR Profession
(2019-12-16)The purpose of this project was to analyze job attitudes, specifically in the Human Resources (HR) department, using two samples. Sample 1 is comprised of HR employees in an organization located in Houston, Texas. This ... -
Environmental (in)justice and unequal burden: Race, income, and solid waste sites in Houston
(2019-12-06)Since the 1980s, the environmental justice (EJ) movement, academics, and advocates have raised much awareness for EJ issues and concerns. Many EJ studies have found that environmental burdens such as waste sites, polluting ... -
Examining instructor and instructional effects on students' statistics attitudes
(2019-12-13)A long-standing hypothesis in statistics education has posited that instructors could have a large impact on students’ attitudes toward statistics. This hypothesis remained untested over the years. Moreover, if instructors ... -
Examining the relationship between teacher self-efficacy and instructional style of community college stem faculty
(2019-11-11)The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between teacher self-efficacy and the instructional style of community college STEM faculty to explore a possible connection between teacher self-efficacy, instructional ... -
Science learners, science teachers, science courses, and curiosity: Information for teacher education programs
(2019-11-07)It requires a unique set of skills to teach science to young children. Not only do future elementary educators need the requisite content knowledge to address the broad base of science topics that fall under the innocuous ... -
Determining teachers’ reported implementation of newly acquired content knowledge and pedagogical strategies based on receptivity characteristics
(2019-08-08)Teachers play one of the most pivotal roles in successful student outcomes (Hattie, 2013; Kincheloe, Slattery, & Steinberg, 2000; Meijer, Geijsel, Kuijpers, Boei, & Vrieling, 2016). A major challenge for teachers is that ... -
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 ... -
Psychosocial risk factors predict prescription opioid usage after spine surgery
(2019-08-05)Outcomes associated with spine surgeries are not universal. Moreover, some patients continue to remain on prescription strength opioids after surgery. Pre-surgical psychological screenings (PPS) are conducted to assess for ... -
Racist nativism and nationalist rhetoric: Implications for the mental health and well-being of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) students
(2019-08-05)The political discourse since Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and election victory has focused increasingly on Latinx immigrants. This election victory and the campaign preceding it has been a historical moment ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Exploring K-5 STEM educators’ perceptions of a successful STEM elementary school
(2018-12-14)Exposure to integrated STEM curricula in K-5 elementary schools is critical to create equal economic opportunities for all students, meet the needs of the future STEM workforce, and build a stronger understanding of engaging ... -
Biometrics-based user identification with optimal feature evaluation and selection
(2019-12-16)Recently, biometrics-based identification algorithms have gained popularity as a means of identifying a person using their unique behavioral characteristics such as gait or hand movement pattern. Classifications based on ... -
Do wraparound services mediate academic achievement for "at risk” Latinx youth?
(2019-12-19)Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory provides the framework to examining the academic outcomes of at-risk students at a Latinx-serving Title 1 charter school in Houston, Texas which models itself as a Full Service Community ... -
Olivocerebellar connections in the Atlantic stingray
(2019-12-17)The morphology of the cerebellum in cartilaginous fishes varies from a smooth, relatively simple bi-lobed structure, to an undulated and complex multi-lobed configuration. Little is known about the anatomical connections ...
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