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A community assessment of food resources available to college students in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
(2018-08-08)After exploring the limited research available on food insecurity among college students, the goal of this study was to add in-depth information on the resources available to college and university students in the Dallas-Fort ... -
A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF CO2 EMISSION BETWEEN GASOLINE, ELECTRIC, AND HYBRID VEHICLES: A WELL-TO-WHEEL PERSPECTIVE USING AGENT-BASED MODELING
(2020-08-18)Road transports in the U.S. are almost entirely dependent on the consumption of fossil fuel. This high dependency on fossil fuel is significantly contributing to carbon dioxide (CO2) emission, one of the leading Green House ... -
A Comparative Biomechanical Investigation of Porcine Neonatal and Adult Left Ventricular Tissues
(2023-05-22)A current trend in cardiac muscle regeneration and repair is to recreate the biophysical and biomechanical environment of the neonatal hearts, which has been shown to promote cardiac regeneration. This translational need ... -
A comparative look at atomic oxygen and carbon dioxide neutral densities on Mars using data from the MAVEN satellite mission
(2020-05-14)This thesis uses the level 2 limb scan data from the IUVS instrument onboard the MAVEN satellite to investigate the density distributions of atomic oxygen and carbon dioxide in the lower thermosphere of Mars. In addition ... -
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE THERMO-MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF WCSP ASSEMBLY DUE TO DIFFERENCE IN PCBS’ LAYER THICKNESS
(2016-05-10)The reliability of Chip Scale Package assembly is of great concern for the electronic industry. Due to multiple function integration of the present devices there is a high demand of ultra-miniaturization of the integrated ... -
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WOODEN AND COMPOSITE CROSSARM OF AN ELECTRIC UTILITY POLE
(2017-05-12)Currently, most of the crossarms existing in the nation are made of wood. However, wood has a set of negative features like shorter life span due to environmental cracking, damages by insects and birds. Secondly, an ... -
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WOODEN AND HYRBID COMPOSITE CROSSARMS OF AN ELECTRIC UTILITY POLE
(2018-01-08)Most of the cross arms in the country are made from wood. Wood, although easily accessible, has its own defects. Environmental effects which includes the expansion and contraction of wood over the years which will disrupt ... -
A Comparative Tone Analysis of Several Bantu D30 Languages (DR Congo)
(2018-05-23)This dissertation presents an analysis of the tonal systems of the Bantu D30 languages. There are 34 Bantu D languages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), few of which have developed orthographies (Lewis, Simons, ... -
A Comparison of Discrete Damage Modeling Methods: the Effect of Stacking Sequence on Progressive Failure of the Skin Laminate in a Composite Pi-joint Subject to Pull-off Load
(2019-05-07)Discrete damage modeling of composite failure mechanisms including delamination, matrix cracking, and their interactions was performed for the skin laminate in a composite pi-joint test specimen subject to a pull-off load. ... -
A comparison of magnet schools to traditional schools: Application of critical education theory
(2016-05-10)After considerable research, it was determined that a research gap exists that examines the overall impact of school choice concerning magnet and traditional high schools. The timing is especially critical in Texas with ... -
A comparison of reservoir gas energy and composition with respect to initial oil production in the San Andres Formation of Shafter Lake Field, Andrews County, Texas
(2018-05-14)The oil-rich, Permian-age San Andres Formation in the Permian Basin of West Texas produces Wolfcampian-age oil from the dolomitic host rock in prolific amounts. The present study focuses on the Shafter Lake field and ... -
A COMPARISON OF SMART CITY INDICATORS FOR THREE TOP TEN US CITIES
(2017-05-23)The world population has been increasing each year, and the immigration from rural to urban cities has increased as well. The United Nations has estimated that more than 66% of people worldwide live in urban area, and this ... -
A Comprehensive Analysis of the Evolution of Coastal Flooding in Texas and Louisiana for Application in Risk Assessment
(2022-12-09)Coastal communities of the northern Gulf of Mexico have historically been at risk of flooding from tropical cyclone induced storm surge and extreme precipitation. Relative sea level rise resulting from a combination of ... -
A COMPREHENSIVE BEHAVIORAL STUDY ON LANE CHANGING MANUEVERS
(2019-05-22)Since changing lanes might cause traffic congestion and car crashes, the investigation on different aspects of this behavior remains critical. In the past decades, most of lane changing behavior studies have continued to ... -
A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK TO MITIGATE SURFICIAL SLOPE FAILURES
(2021-05-09)Each year, numerous highway and dam slopes that are built with high plasticity clays experience shallow slope failures. Besides the high maintenance and repair costs, these failures negatively impact the public life by ... -
A COMPREHENSIVE RESILIENCE FRAMEWORK FOR THE SEISMIC EVALUATION OF HYDRAULIC FILL DAMS IN NORTH TEXAS
Hydraulic filling is a construction procedure that was used for earthen structures during the mid-1800s to the early 1900s; however, dams and levees that were constructed by implementing this technique had a significant ... -
A COMPREHENSIVE SEISMIC RESPONSE AND SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING THE STABILITY OF HYDRAULIC-FILL DAMS
(2018-08-13)The stability and serviceability of earthen embankment structures such as dams and levees are extremely crucial to avoid the catastrophic consequences of the failure of these structures. Such man-made geo-structures are ... -
A Continuously Renewed Copper Electrode for Constant-Potential Amperometry
(2022-12-09)Pulsed amperometric detection (PAD) is a well-established technique used for the detection of electroactive compounds following Ion Chromatography (IC). Target analytes, such as carbohydrates and amino acids, typically ... -
A Critical State Approach to the Mechanical Behavior of Early-Age Cemented Paste Backfill
(2019-12-16)Low plasticity to non-plastic mine tailings are typically transported to a storage area through pipelines in form of slurry or thickened tailings. The main concern with such tailings deposits is the possibility of liquefaction ... -
A Cross Section Measurement of Muon Neutrino-Induced Charged-Current Coherent Positive Pion Production on Argon with the MicroBooNE Detector
(2022-05-17)Neutrino-induced charged-current coherent pion production is an important channel for the study of neutrino-nucleus interactions. It is both a dangerous background for $\nu_{e}$ oscillation experiments, and a critical ...