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The Population Dynamics of a Breeding Population of Painted Buntings (Passerina ciris) in North Texas

Description: Urbanization and habitat fragmentation threaten many bird species; however, they can lead to the creation of urban green spaces that provide important breeding habitat. We assessed the viability of the Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris pallidior) population at the Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area (LLELA) within the Central conservation subunit. Using capture–mark–recapture (2017-2024) and nesting data (2020–2024), we estimated age- and sex-specific survival and fecundity to parameteri… more
Date: December 2025
Creator: Gage, Alejandra Jordan Hernandez 04/10/2000-
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A Study on Elastic Vortex Generators Inspired by Monami

Description: Vortex Generators (VGs) enhance momentum exchange near surfaces by generating streamwise vortices that delay flow separation and improve mixing and heat-transfer efficiency across numerous engineering applications. While Rigid VGs (RVGs) improve performance, they also increase pressure drop, motivating the development of Elastic VGs (EVGs) that deform with the flow and can produce additional coherent vortices with lower pressure-drop penalties. Prior work on single and tandem EVGs has shown imp… more
Date: December 2025
Creator: Kakroo, Karan 1994-
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Wang Xilin’s Two Symphonic Tone Poems, in Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Death, Op. 22 (1985): His Life, Historical Context, and Compositional Style

Description: Wang Xilin (born 1936, Kaifeng, China) is a Chinese composer who was imprisoned, persecuted, tortured, and exiled to Shanxi Province for fourteen years starting in 1963 and throughout the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). During a public lecture in 1963, Wang stated controversial opinions about the Chinese government’s policy on the cultural arts which were to support the Chinese government’s propaganda. At the end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Wang was released, then emerged from … more
Date: December 2025
Creator: Lau, Elim 1975-
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Perceptions of Digital Technology Integration Into Traditional Summer Camper Curriculum

Description: Hernandez, Ruth. Perceptions of Digital Technology Integration into Traditional Summer Camper Curriculum. Doctor of Philosophy (Learning Technologies), December 2025, 175 pp., 3 tables, 2 figures, 6 appendices, 83 references. There are mixed feelings when it comes to the presence and use of mobile and/or wearable technology at summer camp. A strong majority of summer camps do not permit personal mobile devices so that they may provide screen-free experiences and a disconnection from everyday … more
Date: December 2025
Creator: Hernandez, Ruth 1983-
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At The Polls: Analyzing Vote Choice in a Presidential Election by American Indians Utilizing Linked Fate

Description: Does linked fate apply to every minority group, or are there groups where linked fate does not hold? Utilizing the largest American Indian survey sample in political science, I test whether “Native Linked Fate” has a significant relationship with vote choice in the 2020 Presidential Election, analyzed by utilizing a multinomial logistic regression. I find that there is no significant relationship between Native Linked Fate and Vote Choice in the analysis; though I do find significant relationsh… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Walsh, Justin Ross 1989-
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Unraveling the Multifaceted Role of Teachers in Education

Description: This dissertation examines the impact of teacher role ambiguity on burnout, job satisfaction, professional commitment, and work engagement among K–5 educators. Grounded in the Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) model and supported by Self-Determination Theory (SDT), the study employed a mixed-methods design. Quantitative data were collected from 135 validated survey responses using established instruments, including the Maslach Burnout Inventory–Educators Survey (MBI-ES), the Teacher Stress Inventory… more
Date: December 2025
Creator: Vickers, Veronica Lynn 1984-
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Bicultural Ethnocultural Gender Roles Across Latina Women Generations

Description: As the Latine population in the United States grows, so does its American-born Latine young adults Young adult Latina women navigate conflicting gender expectations across two cultures, holding multiple intersecting identities like race, ethnicity, double nationalities, and gender (Villalba et al., 2018). Current literature on Latina women’s ethnocultural gender roles is limited and often focuses on marianismo, a cultural gender role that marginalizes women in their families (Castillo et al., 2… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Briones Zamora, Melissa 1996-
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Microaggressions, Intersectional Microaggressions, and University Life Satisfactions: The Roles of Racial Anxiety, LGBT+Q+ Rumination, and Sense of School Belonging

Description: The extant literature indicated that racial, heterosexist, and intersectional microaggressions based on racism and heterosexism are associated with a variety of negative outcomes, including decreased university life satisfaction but the specific mechanisms remain unclear. This study examined a 2-tier, indirect-effect model that depicted direct and indirect effects of intersectional microaggressions based on racism and heterosexism on university life satisfaction via racial anxiety, LGBTQ+ rumin… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Lawson, Evan S. 1995-
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Mapping Horizons of Experience: Looking toward Empirical Environmental Racism Studies

Description: This project traces my academic journey from an introduction to feminism to an engagement with ecofeminism, ultimately confronting why my work does not naturally evolve into "ecowomanism" as articulated by Melanie Harris, despite its shared use of standpoint epistemology, intersectional theory, and liberation theology. I then examine avenues for academic activism beyond syllabus construction, arriving at two distinct paths: 1. continuing to publish nuanced debates that redefine disciplinary bou… more
Date: December 2025
Creator: Smith, Douglas Benson 1977-
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Minoritized Women in Iraq after 2003: An Intersectionality Perspective

Description: The US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its consequences have significantly shifted the Iraqi political, social, and cultural milieu. Scholars have analyzed the legacy of the invasion and its influences on women and gender. Yet little scholarship has focused on minority women in post-2003 Iraq. Thus, the dissertation is set to investigate the status, challenges, and experiences of minority women in this critical era of the country’s history. An intersectionality approach has been utilized to ex… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Al Tameemi, Rasha Talib 10/05/1983-
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Experiences of Mandarin-Speaking Immigrant Parents with Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT)

Description: This phenomenological longitudinal qualitative study explored the lived experiences of first-generation Mandarin-speaking immigrant parents in the United States before and after participating in Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT). Although CPRT has been established as an evidence-based intervention that enhances parent-child relationships across diverse populations, limited research has examined its cultural responsiveness among Mandarin-speaking immigrant families. Fifteen parents partic… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Chen, Huan 1994-
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Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Education Systems: A Multi-Method Study of Educators’ and Librarians’ Concerns and Acceptance

Description: The purpose of this manuscript-style dissertation was to expand the body of knowledge around AI integration into K-12 educations systems through the application of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Stages of Concern (SoC) framework. By combining both frameworks, the dissertation shows a fuller picture of the cognitive and affective processes when adopting AI into K-12 education systems. The first study, a scoping review, analyzed literature from 2021-2024 to develop a base understan… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Rivera, Brittany Musgrave 1990-
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The Effects of Mastery Criteria on Maintenance and Generalization of Verbal Operants in Children with Autism

Description: A critical component of a skill acquisition program is the mastery criterion, or when can behavior analysts consider a skill acquired. A mastery criterion should contain both a level of performance and a number of demonstrations at or above that level. In this study researchers compared two mastery criteria 80% across three consecutive sessions and 100% across three consecutive sessions, and compared rate of acquisition, and the level of performance across four maintenance and four generalizati… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Rogers, Joel Craig 1975-
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“More Moore” and “More Than Moore” Technologies Enabled by Emergent 2D Semiconductors and Perovskites

Description: The exponential growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) has placed unprecedented demands on computational speed, energy efficiency, and device miniaturization. As silicon-based complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology approaches its physical and economic limits, the semiconductor industry stands at a pivotal transition point - moving beyond traditional Moore’s Law scaling toward a holistic framework that integrates computational electronics (logi… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Aryal, Sujan 1996-
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RF Application of Additively Manufactured Ceramics: Dielectric Properties Characterization and Antenna Design

Description: Additive manufacturing is changing how radio-frequency components are designed and built, making complex shapes practical and shortening the path from material to device. This thesis investigates two additively manufactured (AM) ceramic materials—boron nitride (BN) and lithium titanate (LTO)—as promising candidates for low-loss, high-performance RF applications. First, I measured their key dielectric properties using a split-post dielectric resonator method and showed how material processing pa… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Vu, Anh
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Computational Methods for Peptide Identification and Protein Inference in Metaproteomics

Description: Metaproteomics enables the functional profile of complex microbiomes in human, environmental and ecosystem contexts. However, accurate protein identification remains the computational bottleneck. Tandem mass spectra must be searched against vast, sample-specific protein sequences spanning hundreds of taxa; database incompleteness, sequence variation, post-translational modifications, and chimeric spectra degrade sensitivity and calibration. Cross-laboratory comparisons further reveal variabilit… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Feng, Shichao 12/07/1992-
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Awarding American Fashion: A Business, Consumer, and Cultural History

Description: Awarding American Fashion: A Business, Consumer, and Cultural History examines the processes and tactics of the American fashion industry to define and promote itself through designer awards given from 1938-1970. It is divided into four case studies, with chapters engaging with case studies of industry-created awards that ostensibly celebrated American fashion designers but also served as a platform for industry to communicate its cultural values and create consumer desire – and, by extension, … more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Becker, Annette 1988-
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Resource Selection Analysis of a Wintering Population of American Kestrels (Falco sparverius) in North Texas

Description: American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) populations have declined across North America since the 1960s, yet the causes of these declines remain poorly understood, particularly within their non-breeding range. To better characterize habitat use and resource needs during winter, we tracked kestrels (n = 25) using radiotelemetry across Denton County, Texas. We used Autocorrelated Kernel Density Estimations (AKDEs) to calculate utilization distributions and quantify home range areas. We applied Design … more
Date: December 2025
Creator: Prater, Brooke McKenzie 1999-
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A Pedagogue’s Guide to Promoting Opera Students’ Vocal Health: Pedagogical Approaches in Bel Canto Vibrato & Effective Medical Intervention Strategies

Description: This document aims to promote opera students’ vocal health by providing pedagogues with instructional tools for bel canto vibrato and strategies to advocate for medical assistance when students’ potential voice issues arise. This guide has four objectives towards addressing this aim. First, to present pedagogical and scientific views on the cultivation of bel canto vibrato. Second, to provide diagnostic tools and pedagogical “remedies” in bel canto vibrato faults, which include the wobble, trem… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Bekker, Natasha Ita 1991-
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Perceived Accessibility of Higher Education Institutions by Legally Blind Faculty and Staff: An Exploratory Study

Description: This exploratory study investigates the perceived accessibility of higher education institutions by legally blind faculty and staff. While significant research has focused on students with disabilities, there is a critical gap in understanding how visually impaired professionals experience institutional support, accessibility, and inclusion within academia. Employing a critical theory framework, this study explores power dynamics and systemic barriers through qualitative methods including surve… more
Date: December 2025
Creator: Ramos, Karina 1985-
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Structural Studies of Medicago Truncatula Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolases

Description: Fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) utilizes a variety of acylamide substrates and is a known contributor to lipid signaling pathways in multicellular eukaryotes. Past studies have shown FAAH to inactivate N-acylethanolamine lipid mediators and other acylamides like N-acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs). Analysis of plant FAAH sequences indicated that there are two conserved groups in angiosperms, termed FAAH1 and FAAH2, with different conserved residues in the substrate binding pocket. The single FA… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Herrell, Emily Michelle 1990-
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Computational Thermochemistry and Kinetic Studies of 3d Transition Metal Complexes and Materials

Description: Density functional theory (DFT) exploration of various inorganic reactions and catalytic cycles – for homogeneous and heterogeneous models - was reported. Computational analysis of C-H amination allowed verification of the experimentally proposed iminyl intermediate as well as thermodynamic and kinetic mapping of the proposed reaction mechanism. Exploration of 3d transition metal azides yielded insight into the impact of metal, ligand, and oxidation state on the elimination of N2 from azide pre… more
Date: December 2025
Creator: Lund, Colton James 1996-
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Engaged Design Thinking-Based Curricula: Empathizing with Problems of Practice as Instructional Transformation

Description: Art education is a complex and continually shifting system in which teaching decisions must respond to student needs, contextual pressures, and unpredictable classroom dynamics. Yet traditional curriculum models often assume linearity, stability, and control, pressing art teachers toward routine rather than responsiveness. This creates a gap between planned curriculum and lived experience, leaving in-service art teachers with limited structures for adapting instruction through inquiry. This mix… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Davis, Cindy T. 1972-
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A Performance and Interpretation Guide of Dongqing Fang’s Piece for Cello and Piano, Lin Chong (2008)

Description: The purpose of this dissertation is to offer a performance and interpretation guide for the cello work Lin Chong by Dongqing Fang, examining the traditional Chinese musical elements, the dramatic chords that embody Chinese ethnicity, and the typical Chinese opera style used in this work. It is designed for cellists who are unfamiliar with traditional Chinese musical styles and will equip them with the necessary tools to interpret the composer’s intentions musically, expressively, and technicall… more
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Date: December 2025
Creator: Ma, Qiaojiannan 12/11/1993-
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