Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

 

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Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Religious consumption: Inside the minds of Apple and Catholic devotees, Yi-Chia Wu

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Distributed coordinate tracking control of multiple wheeled mobile robots, Yifan Xing

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Secondary complications among person's with spinal cord injury and best practices for life care planners, Noel A. Ysasi Jr.

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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An empirical study of some branching processes with upper barrier, Alejandro Aguilar

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Preliminary transcriptome analysis and Homeobox gene isonlation for Tomocerus minor (Entomobryomorpha: Tomoceridae), Alejandro Alaniz

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Seeds of Solutions™: An economical & efficient approach towards power engineering education, Eli Alvarez

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A Través De La Neblina, Monica Alvarez Suarez

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Mirrors of Mechanized Man: Capitalism and Intertextuality as Represented in the Works of Herman Melville, Franz Kafka and Don Delillo, Samantha J. Amberson-Dominguez

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Assessment and Treatment of Elopement in Young Children with Autism, Ivette Andrade

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Acute effects of whole body vibration exercises with various frequencies and amplitudes on arterial stiffness in males, Omar Apodaca

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Recruitment patterns of juvenile fish at an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico, Rachel Noel Arney

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Effects of vapor grown carbon nanofibers on electrical and mechanical properties of a thermoplastic elastomer, Daniel Thomas Basaldua

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The Best Bullies: A Critical Analysis of Young Adult Anti-Bullying Novels, Nina Marie Bone

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Developing the modern heroine of fantasy literature: An examination of Lyra from "His Dark Materials" and Clary from "The Mortal Instruments", Diana Aileen Borghols Herrera

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Herman Melville and Richard Wright: Camaraderie and Revolt, Linda Braune

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An evaluation of alternative methods for online survey recruitment: the equivalency of data collected through amazon mechanical turk and second life to traditional undergraduate student samples, Elizabeth M. Briones

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Investigating Determinants of Employer's Perspectives to Hire and Willingness to Accommodate Individuals in Addiction Recovery: A Mixed Method Approach, Alicia D. Brown

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Does optimism pass on to the employees? the impact of supervisor optimism on employees in small and medium sized businesses, Roger S. Brown

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Strategy, politics and Latino graduate education: A descriptive policy analysis of the South Texas/border initiative, Emily Calderon Galdeano

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The construction and performance of masculinity through the voice of Mexican American male authors: Arturo Islas' "The Rain God" and Rigoberto González's "Men Without Bliss", Edna Elizabeth Camacho

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Sign me up! Determining motivation for high school chemistry students enrolling in a second year chemistry course, Nilda N. Camarena

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Rates of evolution and point mutations of bacterial plant pathogens compared to bacterial vertebrate pathogens, Alejandro Cantu

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A historical analysis of the reasoning and rationale behind the federal prohibition of marijuana, Carlos Caro

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La Intencion Pictorica en Tres Novelas de Corte Realista de Ana Maria Matute, Viviana Carvajal

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Cluster computer simulation of buffer sharing schemes under bursty traffic load, Javier Castillo

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Personality and socio-institutional predictors of self-employment intentions among people with disabilities: An empirical investigation, Yuleinys A. Castillo

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Isolation and characterization of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) degrading bacteria isolated from a PCB contaminated reservoir in Donna, TX, Sergio Cepeda

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Expression and functional characterization of MTP genes from Arabidopsis thaliana in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Yessica E. Cerino

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Distributed formation tracking control of multiple car-like robots, Chunyu Chen

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Probabilistic Shortest Time Queries Over Uncertain Road Networks, Yaqing Chen

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Management of silverleaf whitefly, Bemisia argentifolii bellows and perring (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), using non-crop companion plants in organically-managed cantaloupe systems in South Texas, Ruth Renee Colyer

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An examination of G10 carry trade during non-crisis and crisis period (2007-2009), Charles Kwame Armah Danso

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A digital backend for the low frequency all sky monitor, Louis Percy Dartez

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Is Texas measuring up to federal expectations? An examination of the No Child Left Behind legislation on Texas Region One Education Service Center district schools, Maricela De Leon

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A decision support system to measure product suitability for additive manufacturing processes, Cynthia De Vasconcellos Barros

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Factors that contribute to Hispanic English Language Learners' high academic performance in high school science in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: A multicase study, Antonio Elizondo

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Landing: On The Other Side, Marianita Escamilla

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Applications of magnetostrictive materials in the real-time monitoring of vehicle suspension components, Raul Estrada

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The relationship between institutional ownership and firm performance, Javeria Farooqi

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The feminization of the literary voice and the rhetorical tradition in The Lais of Marie de France, The Mirror of Simple Souls, and The Book of the City of Ladies, Elisa B. Filippone

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A comparison of fish communities over different reef configurations in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Catheline Y. M. Froehlich

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Postmodern and posthuman literature, John P. Gallagher

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A 129NW Neural Amplifier and Gm-C Filter for EEG Using gm/ID Methodology, Samuel A. Gallegos

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Can I Smile with Spirit? Towards a Process Model Associating Workplace Spirituality and Emotional Labor, Ashwini Gangadharan

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Benefits of using reading strategies in elementary bilingual classrooms, Diana Arely Garcia

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Mímesis, Ficción y ética: El Dinero En Los Cuentos De Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Karen Garcia Escorcia

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On toroidal knots, chirality, and molecules, Ramiro Garza

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Role-identity prominence of the 'migrant' role-identity in migrant college students, Raul Garza

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Characterization of GaN thin films grown by RF Magnetron Sputtering for fabrication of an AlGaN/GaN HEMT biosensor, Rocio Yolanda Garza

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Posmodernismo e identidad en la narrativa de Juan Villoro, Jonathan Godinez Perez

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GPS-MIV: The General Purpose System for Multi-display Interactive Visualization, Irving A. Gonzalez Garza

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Premenstrual experiences: The simultaneous examination of the association of self-perceived stress, college-related stress, and sleep quality, Sara Julia Gonzalez

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Two dimensional mathematical model of fluid flow in a growing solid tumor, Adriana Gracia

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Sedimentation and barnacle recruitment and growth in a shallow coastal lagoon of south Texas, John Jack Gray

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Snow monkeys in South Texas, a thirty year study of behavioral adaptation, Lou E. Griffin

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Narrative structure in the works of Frederic Rzewski, Bree K. Guerra

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A Screening Platform for Identification of Compounds That Inhibit Protein Synthesis in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Yanmei Hu

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Conocimiento de los padres acerca del programa de educación bilingue [Parental knowledge about bilingual education programs], Eliaber Jimenez

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Globular cluster simulations by MOCCA code, Dongming Jin

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Exponential replication of patterns in the Signal Tile Assembly Model and experimental non-deterministic assembly of lines in the Probabilistic Tile Assembly Model, Alexandra B. Keenan

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Study of creative processes that lead to successful visually narrative art products, Denissa U. Kiehl

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Bicultural self-efficacy, student achievement, and persistence of Mexican American college students, Richard Kirk

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Bilingualism and age of onset of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia in Hispanic Americans, Deborah M. Lawton

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Language attitudes, ideologies, maintenance, and Spanish Heritage Learners in the South Texas border, Hyanghee Lee

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Nanostructured Transition Metal Oxides for Energy Storage and Conversion, Qiang Li

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Radar Image Processing and Its Applications Based on Convolution Back Projection, Qitong Li

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Stakeholders' perceptions of parental involvement and home-school connections in a South Texas border town, Cynthia A. Lopez

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Monitoring citrus nutrition in the Rio Grande Valley for fertilizer recommendations, Iram Lopez

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"But, Whatever The Reason, His Heart or His Shoes, He Stood There on Christmas Eve, Hating the Whos": Dr. Seuss' The Grinch as The Racialized Other in American Culture, Marina Malli

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School Principals' Perceptions of Bilingual Education and Their Relation to English Language Learners' 8th Grade Reading Performance on STAAR, Imelda Mares

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Tejanos and the Texas Revolution: Their reaction to the Centralist threat, Michael Marino

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The role of app development and mobile computing in motivating the secondary mathematics classroom, Jennifer Lee Marquez

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The Born approximation, multiple scattering, and the butterfly algorithm, Alejandro F. Martinez

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Pulsar J0453+1559, the 10th double neutron star system in the universe, Jose Guadalupe Martinez

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A decision support model for process planning in remanufacturing using fuzzy set theory and genetic algorithm, Juan C. Martinez

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Resaca ecosystem development: colonization and succession of the macroinvertebrate community, Leah M. McIntosh

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A dual band high impedance antenna for RF Harvest applications, Andres J. Medina

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Balanced modular parameterizations, Esteban J. Melendez

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Mispricing, Speculation and Real Activities Manipulation, Cristhian R. Mellado-Cid

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Los años sin causa, Victor Adolfo Menco Haeckermann

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Creating an information systems security culture through an integrated model of employees compliance, Mohammad I. Merhi

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Studies of a mathematical model for generating rhythmic behavior with a simple brain, Juan C. Morales

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Organizational Culture and Generation Cohorts: A Comparative Analysis Between A Public and Private Organization, David A. Morgan

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Cubic B-spline: Derivation with two applications, Maria Mungia

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Transylvania, Texas, Joshua Murray

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Topological pressure and fractal dimensions for bi-Lipschitz mappings, Hugo E. Olvera

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"Yes, we are Latino women but very proud to have serve[d] our country": Ethnic Mexican women's contributions to World War II, Laura L. Oviedo

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Effects of Climate Change on The Potential Distribution of 12 Endemic Lizards of The Genus Plestiodon of Mexico, Mayra Oyervides

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Factors affecting attitudes towards individuals with schizophrenia: Perceptions of Mexican American college students, Valerie Paredes

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Difference in the perception of political art inside and outside the art gallery, Jose Maria Parga

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The relationship between course design, sense of community, and student achievement of students in online courses, Maria Eugenia Perez-Butron

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The acute effects of different blood flow restriction settings on blood lactate, electromyography and leg strength during bilateral knee extensions, Guillermo Eduardo Perez

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Manuel Guerra and the politics of Starr County, Texas 1880-1920, Jesus Perez

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A study comparing the pedagogical effectiveness of virtual worlds and of traditional training methods, Benjamin Peters

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Corrosion assessment and enhanced biocompatibility analysis of biodegradable magnesium-based alloys, Luis Enrique Pompa

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Influence of Surface Modification on Corrosion and Biocompatibility of Titanium Alloys, Zia Ur Rahman

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Companies' Responses to Negative Online Reviews, Claudia L. Ramos

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From Laredo to Matamoros: The Constitutionalist Battles Along the Rio Grande 1913-1914, Jesus Ramos

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Del Norte: A collection of short stories y El corrido de Dani, Jesus Alfredo Reyna

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Underpricing and buy and hold abnormal returns in venture capitals' portfolio firm IPOs, Abdelhamid Riani