• When Physicians Terminate Patients: Assessing the Effects of Termination on Health Disparities, the Benefits of Cultural Competency, and Viable Solutions 

  Vu, Peter (2017-04)

  Despite efforts to curb health disparities within the United States, the inequalities remain. Consequently, this thesis aims to reduce health disparities by examining patient termination due to a lack of cultural competency ...

• Ironic Narrative in Nikolai Medtner’s Second Piano Concerto 

  Bellah, Eric M. (2019)

  "No one tells such tales as Kolya [Medtner]" proclaimed Rachmaninoff after hearing his friend–Nikolai Medtner–present his Op 51 Skazki[Fairytales] at a private party. Medtner was, along with his contemporaries Rachmaninoff ...

• Associations Between Intrinsic Vs Extrinsic Religiosity and Hope 

  Garza, Micheal (2019-05)

  Extensive research has provided evidence that different levels of religiosity and hope positively correlate with people's life satisfaction, happiness, and well-being. Conversely, hopelessness or low levels of hope have ...

• Macroeconomic Effects of Consumption versus Income Taxes 

  Crawford, Jackson (2018-12)

  This paper adds to the empirical literature on the effects of tax structure on investment with a panel data analysis of up to 120 countries from 1980 to 2015. Specifically, this paper uses the relative percentage between ...

• QUITO, FLEXIBLE GRID AND ECOLOGIES 

  Degetau, Gabriela (2019-05)

  In Una Urrea en Los Andes, Pablo Perez explains the curious condition where the "intended rectangular tabula rasa" contrasts the dominant and imprecise geography of the city. Mountains, volcanoes, rivers, and gullies define ...

• ASIAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: THE CONSEQUENCES OF SOCIAL INVISIBILITY AND POLITICAL ALIENATION 

  Chuor, Baongan (2018-12)

  Contemporary political scientists have found that Asians do not follow the traditional socioeconomic model that is often used to predict an individual's likelihood to participate in the United States political process. As ...

• Characterizing Agent Behavior Under Meta Reinforcement Learning With Gridworld 

  Shah, Nolan (2018-12)

  The capabilities of meta reinforcement learning agents tend to be heavily depend on the complexity and scope of the meta task over which they perform requiring different models, learning algorithms, and strategies to perform ...

• The Air We Share 

  Mousa, Lydia (2019-05)

• Air Fuel Ratio Control of a Spark Ignition Engine 

  Yazji, Jalal (2019-05)

  Lean-burn operation in spark-ignition engines has shown promise in improving fuel economy and reducing harmful emissions in comparison with traditional stoichiometric operation. Close reference-tracking of the set air-fuel ...

• Using Competition Assays to Assess Dormancy: Effects of Gene Knockouts on Growth in Micrococcus luteus 

  Zimmerer, Rene (2018-12)

  Dormancy is a survival growth state some bacteria enter under stressful environmental conditions, such as nutrient deprivation. Dormancy is characterized by a severe decrease in metabolic activity where bacteria become ...

• [IN}FORMAL: Fascism + Everyday in the Merkato 

  Westry, Tyler (2019-05)

  "By contrast, the idea of accumulating everything, of establishing a sort of general archive, the will to enclose in one place all times, all epochs, all forms, all tastes, the idea of constituting a place of all times ...

• From the Mind of 

  Ward, Aubrey (2019-05)

  A collection of poems from Aubrey Ward's undergraduate college career, this senior honors thesis represents the best of Aubrey's creative endeavors at the time of his graduation from the University of Houston in May 2019.

• Effect of Word Origin in Romance Bilinguals 

  Vasquez, Melany (2019-05)

  English is a Germanic language which has, over time, been influenced by Latin and Ancient Greek and borrowing from other European languages, including French, Dutch, and German. Words in the English language which originate ...

• PUBLIC PERCEPTION, APPROVAL OF AND BLAME ATTRIBUTION IN USING MILITARY DRONES: A GATEWAY INTO PUBLIC OPINION ON AUTONOMOUS WEAPON SYSTEMS 

  Truong, Justin (2018-12)

  Within the past two decades, technological advances and a growing public policy priority to reduce human casualty in the battlefield have pushed militaries around the world to develop increasingly automated capabilities ...

• An Ab Initio Investigation of Structure-Function Relationships in Solid-State Electrolytes 

  Wang, Audrey (2019-05)

  Solid-state electrolytes (SSEs), or superionic conductors, are a promising method of energy storage and a safer alternative to conventional Li-ion batteries. However, the ionic conductivities of most known SSEs, a ...

• Ha Noi Impermanence: Reinterpreting Collective Housing 

  Tonthat, Benjamin (2019-05)

  The former citadel of Hanoi represents a landscape that has been continuously manipulated by both foreign entities and the current administration. Despite its initial purpose of being a symbol for fortification and ...

• Estimating the Impact of Preparatory Teaching Experience on Teacher Retention 

  Tran, Michelle (2019-05)

  About 21 percent of Texas teachers leave the profession within the first three years of teaching. Taking advantage of variation in required preparatory teaching experience -- called student teaching -- hours across educator ...

• Skeptical Theism and the Scope of our Moral Horizons 

  Brandt, Jeremy (2019-05)

  Reconciling the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent God with the evil that exists in our world is one of the most enduring problems for the Judeo-Christian tradition. Skeptical theists attempt to ...

• FROM PRIESTS TO PROSTITUTES: TRAUMA, SHAME, AND THE FORMATION OF THE SEXUAL SELF IN THE EARLY WORKS OF JAMES JOYCE AND JOHN MCGAHERN 

  Strickland, Ashlie (2018-12)

  The dynamics of early- to mid-twentieth- century Irish Catholicism that run across Joyce's and McGahern's early semi-autobiographical narratives, thwarted expectations of family, trauma, and shame, work together in The ...

• Tricks of the Trade: Selected Li-ion Battery Modeling Techniques 

  Theriot, Dwight (2018-12)

  Li-ion cells are used in countless applications today, and their use will only increase in the future. It is crucial for researchers to be able to model Li-ion behavior in order to protect consumers, manufacturers, and ...

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