• Hermite-Gauss Quadrature with Generalized Hermite Weight Functions and Small Sample Sets for Sparse Polynomials 

  Vu, Brian-Tinh D. (2020-04)

  This thesis derives a Gaussian quadrature rule from a complete set of orthogonal lacunary polynomials. The resulting quadrature formula is exact for polynomials whose even part skips powers, with a set of sample values ...

• Finding Home in the Sunbelt: A Study Of Salvadoran Activism In Houston 1980-1999. 

  Martinez Alvarenga, Manuel (2020-05)

  The decade of the 1980s witnessed an unprecedented migration wave from Central America to the United States. Migrants from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala made their way north, seeking to escape the worsening living ...

• Viaticum 

  Wheat, Keagan (2020-05)

  My poetry works to increase representation of FTM men in poetry, a minimally represented identity, and make meaningful contributions to the way this identity is discussed or analyzed. My poetry focuses on critically thinking ...

• Home Address 

  Mayden, Melinda (2020-05)

  This manuscript aims to do exactly what it claims to in the title—to address home. Home is a word that gets used without thought and often multiple times per day. “Let’s go home” and “I’m on my way home” are thrown out ...

• The Anti-Civilizational Queer: Reconceiving the Subject-Subject Consciousness of the Radical Faeries 

  Foreman, Jacob (2020-04)

  The first section of this thesis is a consideration of Harry Hay’s writings about “subject-SUBJECT” consciousness and Sanford’s critiques thereof. A refutation of Hay’s writings on the topic, which is not a central component ...

• Against the Machine 

  Cadenhead, Erin P. (2020-05)

  With its preoccupation with misogyny and violence towards women, the Romance genre instructs its female readers how to react to what has become unavoidable in a patriarchal world. Unfortunately, the abuse perpetrated by ...

• A comparison of speech patterns in children with cochlear implants and their peers with normal hearing 

  Houston, Haley (2020-05)

  Purpose: The current study investigates the speech patterns of young children with cochlear implants and their peers with normal hearing by comparing group differences on typical and atypical phonological processes, ...

• Bathing in History - Damascus 

  Alhakeem, Gada (2020-05)

  “England knows Egypt; Egypt is what England knows; England knows that Egypt cannot have self-government; England confirms that by occupying Egypt; for the Egyptians. Egypt is what England has occupied and now governs; ...

• Parent-Adolescent Attachment Patterns in Inpatient Adolescents with Comorbid Borderline Personality Disorder and Substance Use 

  Saubon, Frances (2020-05)

  Although Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is often comorbid with substance use (SU), both have been associated with unique attachment strategies. BPD is associated with preoccupation and disorganization while SU is ...

• An Evaluation of the Number of Response Options for Scales in Psychology 

  Borjas, Maria (2020-04)

  Self-report scales are used widely in the field of psychology. These scales tend to widely differ on scale format for many reasons including consistency, time issues, and convenience. Previous studies have found that scale ...

• Van der Waals Interactions in the Hadron Resonance Gas Model 

  Boggs, Aaron (2019-08)

  The Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) and its phase transition on the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram have been at the forefront of high energy physics research for the past few decades. In order to study the QGP and its ...

• Representations of Influences in the Identities of Young Migrant Girls of the Borderlands and their Relationship to Gender, Childhood, and Motherhood 

  Caceres Ferreira, Florencia (2020-05)

  This thesis seeks to analyze the representations of border-related trauma in contemporary written works. The introductory chapter seeks to set the foundation for this thesis using Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: ...

• Serialized Comic Book Storytelling As Modern Myth-Making 

  Bui, Justin (2020-04)

  This work sets out to investigate serialized comic book storytelling as a medium through its low-culture historical roots and the unique qualities it possesses. In doing so, it identifies the characteristics integral to ...

• Overcoming Imposter Phenomenon in Academic Faculty: Using Cognitive Processing Therapy to Address Distorted Perceptions 

  Flores, Jennifer R. (2019-11)

  Despite recent research into the effects of imposter phenomenon (IP) on academic faculty members, there has been no research on empirically tested, non-clinical interventions that could help individuals address the distorted ...

• Sakimirai 

  Faour, William (2020-04)

  This thesis, a fiction novella, examines themes of nostalgia, perception against reality, redemption and forgiveness, and the inner human. Drawing from a mix of literary classics by greats such as Shakespeare, Morrison, ...

• Petrography, Geochemistry, and Geochronology of Cretaceous Porphyry Intrusives near Red Lode, Montana 

  French, Logan (2020-05)

  There are many localities of Cretaceous porphyry intrusives in and around the Beartooth Range and particularly along the Beartooth Front near Red Lodge, Montana. Although Rouse et al. (1937) carried out a study devoted to ...

• Transit Deserts: An Analysis of Their Impact On Health and Access to Health Care 

  Cervantes, Angie (2020-05)

  A transit desert is defined as an area with limited transportation supply and or infrastructure, which may limit people’s ability to procure jobs, access health care, and obstructs economic mobility (Junfeng & Dillivan, ...

• A Dosimetric Evaluation of MiniPIX Performance Using In-situ and Simulated Environments 

  Masek, Reed B. (2020-05)

  Space weather is becoming increasingly relevant as human activity in space and around grows. Primary contributors to this space radiation are galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) which continue to mystify scientists with their high ...

• Identity in the Writings of Lucian of Samosata 

  Loos, Stefan T. (2020-05)

  The second-century CE Greek sophist, rhetorician, and satirist Lucian of Samosata (c. 120-185 CE) presents a complex figure in his writings. A native of the province of Syria who wrote in Greek under the Roman Empire, ...

• The Trickle-Down Effect of Academic Mentoring 

  Lezcano, Alyssa (2020-05)

  The mentoring literature has not sufficiently explored the potential trickle-down effects of mentoring, and there has yet to be an examination of how and why amount of mentoring received might lead a person to mentor a ...

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