Electronic Theses and Dissertations
About: Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are the graduate research outputs of Texas Tech University. They represent years of work from our Master's and Doctoral graduates. If you find the ThinkTech digital repository useful, please tell us! Share how open access to scholarship benefits you. Your story matters to us.
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Attacks and Defenses in Privacy-Preserving Representation Learning
(2023-08)Nowadays, the users’ privacy concerns mandate data publishers to protect privacy by anonymizing the data before sharing it with data consumers. Thus, the ultimate goal of privacy-preserving representation learning is to ... -
Pláticas with Mexican American Engineering Teachers in High School: Counterstorytelling of Students, Educators, and Professionals in the STEM Pipeline
(2023-05)The following study was conducted as a qualitative narrative study of four Mexican American secondary engineering teachers, including my own auto-ethnography as a Mexican American engineer and educator, working in school ... -
The rhetoric of spatial reproduction: Urban rhetoric and the enjoyment of structural fantasy
(2023-05)When we often ask about an individual’s hometown, we inflate the place they grew up with something about their personality. Looking at a three-way intersection of materialist rhetoric, psychoanalytic theory, and urban ... -
The Associations Between Aggression Toward Teachers, Teachers’ Traumatic Stress Response, Job Satisfaction, and Perceived Administrator Support
(December 2)Aggression toward teachers by students is not a new phenomenon in schools, but the impact on teachers has just recently been included in the literature. Aggression toward teachers by students has primarily been studied by ... -
Non-Invasive Physiological Monitoring: Smartphone Photoplethysmography-Based Biometric Authentication Techniques
(2023-05)Over the last decade, non-invasive physiological monitoring has become a high interest in research topics worldwide. Currently, we are living in a post-pandemic era, where any personalized system should promote contactless ... -
Assessment of the strength and weakness of production design platforms in arts and entertainment management
(2023-05)Based on the video production industry's growing importance in commercial and public applications, as well as its crucial role in the entertainment industry, the choice of video editing software has become a professional ... -
Chief Information Officer Characteristics and Management Forecast Quality
(May 2020)I examine the association between Chief Information Officer (CIO) characteristics and the quality of management earnings forecasts. CIOs manage and utilize firms' IT resources to provide the internal informational outputs ... -
Odor signature evaluation: Perspectives encompassing explosives and pathogen detection
(2022-12)Canines have been utilized as biological detectors for centuries due to their instinctual drive to detect scent given off by prey making them the perfect hunting companion to humans. As time and technology have progressed, ... -
Mechanical testing of synthetic biomaterials for organ simulation
(2023-05)Organ models are used to simulate and plan new surgical procedures or develop new tools. In recent years the demand for organ phantoms has increased substantially, especially in surgical procedures. Developing these organ ... -
Push-up Exercise Medical Device Design and Assessment
(2023-05)Medical Industry is expanding by implementing innovative medical devices, equipment, and fast operations. Smart medical devices are enabling patients to perform heavy and complex exercises at any place. The push-up exercise ... -
Immediate local fatigue effects on sensorimotor cervical activity and proprioception in individuals with and without neck pain history
(2023-05)Background: Fatigue may perpetuate a vicious cycle of cervical muscle dysfunction and altered proprioception. This study investigated fatigue effects on deep cervical muscle activity measured as tissue stiffness and ... -
The effects of hip function on plyometric performance during a battery of single-leg hop tests following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
(2023-05)Background: Hip weakness results in abnormal biomechanics that increase anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury risk. Muscle strength and function qualities are related to single-leg hop performance outcomes in ACL injured ... -
Google's Classroom: (Marginalization), Rhetoric, Technology, and a Pandemic at a Title I High School
(2022-12)Despite efforts from students, teachers, administrators, and the federal government to remedy achievement gaps at the secondary level, many low-income high school students continue to lag far behind their counterparts in ... -
Marketing Theatre to the Millennial Generation: A Marketing Initiative for Stageworks, a Professional Regional Theatre in Tampa, Florida (A Professional Problem)
(2010-08)At the start of the new millennium, the performing arts in America face unprecedented challenges including a leadership void, ever shifting funding landscape, unreliable governmental commitments, astonishing technological ... -
From Moratorium to Auditorium: a Case Study of the Latino Immigrant/Undocumented Student in Secondary Music Education
(2022-12)Globalization, climate change, and political instability are increasing migration patterns across the world with millions of people, including children, adapting to new host nations (UNHCR, 2019). Erikson and Marcia describe ... -
Management strategies to decrease antimicrobial use and liver abscesses in growing and finishing beef cattle
(2022-12)Objective: Our objective was to evaluate the use of a novel direct-fed microbial as a viable alternative to antimicrobials to decrease liver abscesses in feedlot cattle. Materials and Methods: Angus beef steers (n = 240; ... -
Enhancing the marketability of U.S. cotton through fiber length distribution improvement
(2022-12)The High Volume Instrument (HVI) is the most commonly used tool to assess the properties of cotton fibers. Within sample variation in fiber length is an important trait throughout many textile processing steps. The HVI ... -
Game Development Program Women Graduates: Perceptions of Influential Factors and Faculty Behaviors that Influenced Success
(2022-12)The lucrative industry of video games with its broad influence in the U.S. is an attractive destination for many college students enrolled in the 185 game production departments at 4-year institutions of higher education ... -
Evaluating the Ability of Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry to Predict the Palatability of Long Aged Beef Cuts
(2022-12)Chapter II: Meat aging is a classic method for increasing the tenderness and value of traditional beef products. However, the effects of extended aging times on other palatability traits as well as on typically tender ... -
Novel Reactors for Biological Treatment of High Strength Nitrogen and Carbon Wastewater
(2022-12)In this dissertation, we assessed the performance of three different biological systems to achieve near full nitrogen (N) and carbon (C) removal from high-strength N wastewaters with low C/N ratio. The first objective was ...
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