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Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

The Dynamic Response and Damage Evolution of High-Strength Concrete, Mohamed Abbas

Fragmented Bodies, Lauren Careese Alexander

A Genetic Screen to Identify Cell-Specific Inhibitors of Microexon Splicing in the unc-13 Transcript in C. elegans, Saad Ali

I. Degradable Polymers and Networks Based on Furan-Maleimide Diels-Alder Reactions of Silyl Ether Derivatives and Maleimides, and II. The Michael Addition of Amines to 1,3,5-Triacryloylhexahydro-1,3,5-Triazine (TAT) as a Synthetic Route to Novel Chelating Agents, Reyad Alkhazalah

Atomically Precise Metal Nanoclusters: Tailoring Properties through Doping and Ligand Modifications, Rajamanthree Wedage Udumbara Nethmini Ariyarathna

Modeling of Light Filamentation for Nonlinear Imaging and Waveguiding, Nicholas Bagley

Statistical Approaches For The Early Detection Of Colorectal Cancer Using Longitudinal Biomarkers, Emily Berry

Social Support and Wellbeing Among Latinx Latter-day Saints in Dallas, Texas, Elizabeth Bingham Thomas

Noninvasive Electromagnetic Biomedical Sensing, Sen Bing

SCREEN FOR BENEFICIAL GENETIC AND CHEMICAL MODIFIERS IN DROSOPHILA MODELS OF ALS AND TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, Will Bonderer

Maximizing Legged Accelerations: A Matter of Force, Time, and Gravity, Lance Brooks

Regulation and Function of mec-2 Alternative Splicing in Single Cells, Canyon Calovich-Benne

MINIATURE AND FLEXIBLE pH SENSORS BASED ON IRIDIUM OXIDE FOR BIOFLUIDS APPLICATIONS, Khengdauliu Chawang and Khengdauliu Chawang

Experiments on Employer-Employee Relationships, Hang Chen

Moral Agency in Flux: Rohingya Refugees Envisioning and Establishing a “Good Life” in Dallas, Texas, Nusaiba Chowdhury

Hollywoodlandia: Celebrity Women, Movie Culture, And American Public Womanhood, 1916-1950, Skye Cranney

Countering (Infra)Structural Violence in Black Dallas: A Historical Archaeology of Infrastructures, Erasure, and Persistence in Oak Cliff's Tenth Street District (1888-1968), Kathryn Cross

Activity Map Generation and Event-Based Sensor Processing with Spiking Autoencoders and Sparse Dictionary Learning, jack easton

Participation in the Martyred Christ: Augustine of Hippo on Martyrdom and Martyr Veneration, Matthew Esquivel

Three Essays in Macroeconomics, Yunlong Fan

Empty State Electronics, Reza Farsad Asadi

Glacial Erosion Rates from the Last Glacial Maximum to Present in Southern Patagonia (50°S), Anastasia Fedotova

Dogs as Proxies for Forager-Farmer Interactions Along the Missouri River, North and South Dakota, Abigail Fisher

Testing the Effect of Autonomy-Supportive Instructions During Yoga on Autonomy, Competence, and Affective Response, Bree Geary

Improving Expressive Capacity of Deep Neural Networks, Clayton Harper

The Patterns and Structures of Information Technology Departments in Higher Education, Curt Herridge

Generation, Dynamics, and Interaction of Quartic Solitary Waves in Nonlinear Laser Systems, Sabrina Hetzel

Bayesian Variational Inference in Keyword Identification and Multiple Instance Classification, Yaofang Hu

Comparative Study On Rocking Dynamics And Energy Dissipation Of Rigid Bodies: A Microscale Framework, Idowu iitiola@smu.edu

Transport of Multi-Phase Multi-Component Fluids in the Shallow Subsurface Influenced by Soil and Surface Boundary Conditions: Experimental and Numerical Study with Application to Natural Gas Leakage, Navodi Jayarathne

Facets of Experiential Avoidance and Personality as Predictors of Internalizing Symptoms, Alexa Jimenez and Michael Chmielewski

Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics for Minimizing the Cost of Recidivism, Adreana Julander

Investigation of Surface Motion with Soft Alginate Microrobots at Low Reynolds Numbers, Gokhan Kararsiz

Numerical Investigation Of Particle Dampers As Structural Response Modifiers, Mehrdad Karimipetanlar

From the Alhambra to the Grammar of Ornament: Materiality and Process in the Work of Owen Jones, Rebecca Kendall

Discrete Element Method Investigation Of The Dynamic And Seismic Response Of Embedded Geotechnical Systems, Ahmed Khamiss and Usama El Shamy

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON MIXED HYDROCARBON GAS ON TRANSPORT THROUGH SUBSURFACE AND ATMOSPHERIC INTERFACES WITH APPLICATION TO NATURAL GAS PIPLINE LEAK DECTION AND QUANTIFICATION, Richard Kolodziej

Blind Evaluation Framework for Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning, Hunjae Lee

Essays on Economic Geography, Da Li

Constraints on Solar Axions Using the Profile Likelihood Ratio Method with the SuperCDMS Experiments, Shilun Liu

Reversing Cancer Multidrug Resistance in vitro, Jesiska Lowe

Epigenomics-Based Approaches to Predict Transcriptional Regulators, Zeyu Lu

Multisensory System for Probing Scattering Media, Muralidhar Madabhushi Balaji

INTEGRATION OF MACHINE LEARNING AND QUANTUM MECHANICAL CALCULATIONS FOR DE NOVO DRUG DESIGN, Ayesh Madushanka Mahamada Kalapuwage

Salt & Sand: Deep History in the Permian Basin, Austin Miller

Is Helping You Good for Me? Associations with Giving Capitalization Support and the Moderating Role of Closeness, Samuel Molli

College Students’ Recent Dating Violence Experiences and Reactions to a Campus Bystander Intervention Program for Preventing Dating Violence, Jamie Nguyen

Variability in Northeastern Early Paleoindian Period Basecamps: Implications for the Peopling of New Landscapes, Anne Parfitt

HARDWARE SECURITY ENHANCEMENT OF IEEE 1687 NETWORK, Parthivi Patil, Parthivi Patil, and Parthivi Patil

Dissecting The Tissue-Specific Contributions To Seizures, Cardiorespiratory Dysfunction, And Sudden Death In The Kv1.1 Mouse Model Of Epilepsy Using Conditional Knockout Approaches, Kelsey Paulhus

Essays on the Application and Improvement of the Geographical Economics Models to Policy Analysis: The Case of Road Infrastructure in Central America, Ignacio Penagos

The Tissue-Specific Role of smn-1 in C. elegans, Lindsey Philips

Adapting Weighted Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis for Next Generation Sequencing, Molly Robinson

Beyond the Horizon: Exploring Anomaly Detection Potentials with Federated Learning and Hybrid Transformers in Spacecraft Telemetry, JUAN RODRIGUEZ

Investigating Converted Phases in the Midland Basin, Texas, Using Synthetic Seismograms, Julia Rosenblit

Write It Out: How Does Journaling Positive And Negative Experiences Impact Borderline Personality Traits Over Time?, Sierra Rufino

“It’s Hard to Quantify Community Togetherness”: Exploring The Evolution Of Data Science Practices And Uncovering Critical Tensions, Marc Sager

Accounting for the Gift: Theology and Ethics in Accounting, Daniel Sebastian

Wrangling Pelicans: Military Life in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Texas, Timothy Seiter

Neuro-Symbolic Commonsense Reasoning with Resistance to Data Poisoning: A First-Order Logic and Sub-Symbolic Embeddings Framework, Bryce Shurts and King-Ip Lin

Predicting Biomolecular Properties and Interactions Using Numerical, Statistical and Machine Learning Methods, Elyssa Sliheet

Development Of A Nephelometer For Characterization Of Calcium Oxalate Crystal Concentrations Within Solution, Conrad Small

The Layers of A Mixture of Prints Representing the Events that Happened in 1713: Trompe-l'oeil, the Paris Print Market, and the War of the Spanish Succession, Chloe Smith

Radical Explorations Of Radical Empiricism: William James’s Transmissive Theory Of Mind In The Context Of Visionary Experience, Rita Spellman

Intelligent Resource Allocation for SDN/NFV-Enabled Networks through Reinforcement Learning, Jing Su

Stress-Induced Oxytocin Reactivity as a Predictor of Daily Support Seeking After Stress, Cecile Sunahara

UAV-X Communication: Empirical Characterization and Performance Optimization, Muhammad Hashir Syed

Childhood Maltreatment and the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity (CTRA): The Protective Roles of Social Support From Romantic Partners, Family, and Friends in Adulthood, Sumaiyah U. Syed

Unveiling the Nexus of Cellular Quality Control: Exploring the Interplay Between Ribosome-Associated Protein Quality Control and Mitochondrial Quality Control Pathways, Foozhan Tahmasebinia

The Chemistry of Heavy Elements: Probing Relativistic Chemical Bonding, Barbara Maria Teixeira Costa Peluzo

School Leaders Supporting Undocumented Asian and Black Students, Lorena Tule-Romain

Texas Gothic, Taryn Uribe Turner

Deformation Mapping and Modeling of the Aleutian Volcanoes with InSAR and Numerical Models, Jiahui Wang

Degradation Study Of Single Crystal Barium Titanate Capacitors Under Harsh Environment, Menglin Wang

New Improvements to Defend Against Power Analysis Attacks in IJTAG Access Protocol, Haoran Wei

Queerform/ing, Matthew Solon-Lee Weimer

A 1.1GS/s 12-bit single-channel pipelined-SAR ADC with an improved CDAC implementation and adaptive interstage redundancy, Xianshan Wen

Text and Commentary: Jewish Identity in Beryl Korot's Video Art, Emma Woods

The Geology And Geochemistry Of The Western Iron Ore Group Greenstone Belt, Singhbhum Craton, Eastern India, JORDAN WRIGHT

Computational Study of Protein Dynamics and Allostery through Molecular Modeling and Machine Learning, Sian Xiao

Supporting Service Composition through Service Usage-based Recommendation, Xihao Xie

Global Fits In The Supersymmetric Georgi-Machacek Model, Yingnan Xu

Tools for Biomolecular Modeling and Simulation, Xin Yang

Angular Deviation Diffuser: A Transformer-Based Diffusion Model for Efficient Protean Conformational Ensemble Generation, YI YANG

Bayesian and Deep Generative Modeling in Immunology, Yuqiu Yang

Mixed Reality Simulations and Teacher Practice: Exploring Teacher Candidates’ Writing Instruction and Pedagogical Reasoning, Murphy K. Young

Toward Improved Shared Micromobility Implementation: A Data-Driven Approach to Overcome Challenges and Explore Next-Generation Acceptance, Myriam Zakhem

Exploring Literacy and Translanguaging Practices to Support Palestinian Children and Their Families in the Diaspora, Mai Zaru

Wireless Power Transfer Using Cavity with Height Discontinuities, Linsheng Zhang

Advancing Coupled Cluster Methods: Tensor Factorization And Analytic Gradient Implementation, Tingting Zhao

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Assessment and Sourcing of Heavy Metal Contamination of Middle East Semi-Enclosed Marine Environs Via Near-Shore Sediment Analysis, Abdullah Alnasser

Examining the Association Between Social Anxiety and Social Cognition on Daily Interpersonal Stress, Talha Alvi

End to End Routing Algorithms in Arbitrary Networks, Nada Alzaben

An Undocumented Economy: Side Hustles, Gigs, Swap Meets, and Migration in the Imperial-Mexicali Valley, 1917-2000, Jonathan Angulo

Development of Bayesian Hierarchical Methods involving Meta-Analysis, Jackson Barth

Surviving the Lions’ Den: Preparing Statistics Graduate Students for Their Roles as Educators, Rachael N. Becker

Electromagnetically Actuated Modular Robots with Controlled Self-Assembly and On-Demand Disassembly, Anuruddha Bhattacharjee

Three Essays in Household Economics, Kristina Bishop

Optimizing Tumor Xenograft Experiments Using Bayesian Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Modelling and Reinforcement Learning, Mary Lena Bleile

The Geography of Altithermal Subsistence Adaptations on the North American Great Plains, Ryan Breslawski