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.
To listen to recitals, Madrigal Dinners, and other performance recordings related to the TTU School of Music's graduates, login and stream through our Stream Audio and Video Experience (SAVE)Recent Submissions
-
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 ... -
Three essays on risk willingness
(2022-12)In today’s environment, consumers are increasingly responsible for their retirement accumulation and decumulation decisions. There are products in the market that can assist consumers with these decisions, and the effectiveness ... -
Asset Development and Sweet Spot Identification in Unconventional Reservoirs Using Machine Learning Approaches
(2022-12)Despite the successful development of unconventional oil and gas resources in the U.S, the industry quickly realized that not all unconventional assets are viable targets for economic hydrocarbon production, and operators ... -
Photographic Images, Distanced Realism, and the State of Being Modern in the Works of Mohammad Ghaffari and Otto Dix
(2022-12)In this study, I investigate the works of two painters, Otto Dix (1891-1969, Germany) and Mohammad Ghaffari (known as Kamal-al-Molk, 1848-1940, Iran), whose turn to a distanced realism reflects ruptures and transformations ... -
Uniformed Services University (USU) Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program (EMDP2): Predictive Factors of Student Success
(2022-12)The Uniformed Services University (USU) created the Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program (EMDP2) in 2014 with the goal of diversifying their student body. The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether ... -
Using autoethnography and visual storytelling to examine how identity is informed by social normative behavior in India and the United States
(2022-12)This research uses a highly personalized account of my experiences as an autoethnography of the complexities, interpretations, and reflections of gender, discrimination, and identity as informed by normative social behavior ... -
An evaluation of Texas secondary special education professionals perceptions teaching transition skills to individuals with low incidence disabilities
(2022-12)This study investigated Texas secondary special education teachers’ confidence in using evidence-based practices to teach transition skills to students with low incidence disabilities. The focus of this study is to examine ... -
Health information in NASM accredited U.S. university music programs: Perceptions among music administrators, piano faculty, and piano students regarding available resources and assistance
(2022-12)The purpose of this study was to investigate perceptions regarding how U.S. university music programs are currently instituting guidelines set forth by the 2011 Health and Safety Standard of the National Association of ... -
“It’s kind of a funny story”: A narrative intervention for depression
(2022-12)Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns, rates of depression have substantially increased, motivating research on more scalable treatments, such as narrative interventions. Although previous ... -
Effects of invasive piscivorous Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) on native fish populations of the Jemez River, New Mexico
(2022-12)Invasive predators can harm native fish populations in both marine and freshwater systems. Brown trout (Salmo trutta) are among the most harmful invasive species and have been introduced in lakes and rivers throughout the ... -
Empowered Nepantleras: Borderland Latina graduates’ perceptions of effective institutional support from their four-year Hispanic-serving institutions
(2022-12)There exists a critical opportunity gap in Latinx postsecondary education completion, graduation, and degree attainment. The issue of unequal outcomes in degree attainment by Latinxs has only slowly improved over the past ... -
Speciation and bioaccessibility of arsenic in drinking water filtration waste: Environmental implications for soils and human health
(2022-12)Arsenic contaminated drinking water is a critical problem in many parts of the world, including at least four million people in Latin America. In northwestern Costa Rica, arsenic ranges from 20 to over 80 µg arsenic L-1; ... -
Towards a probabilistic foundation for non-relativistic and relativistic quantum theory
(2022-12)The controversy on the interpretation and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics has been accompanying the theory since its inception in the 1920s. The question of which probability theory ought to be used to statistically ... -
Analogous sonic archetypal representation: Symbolic lineage in syntactic modal structures
(2022-12)The lineage systems of musical meaning trace themselves to antiquity. Through lines of compositional use, emotional connotation, and symbolic meaning can be discovered through topics and experimentation that reveals common ... -
White folks walking: Exploring Bishop’s invitation into diverse books through poetic inquiry
(2022-12)Purpose In 1990, Rudine Sims Bishop opened the summer printing of Perspectives: Choosing and Using Books for the Classroom with a short but profound essay. With it, she put onto paper what many had been saying for decades, ...
RSS 1.0