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Minimizing Congestive Heart Failure Readmissions from the Nursing Home Through Focused Nursing Education
(2019-08)The purpose of this quality improvement project was to determine if congestive heart failure (CHF)-specific education and protocols for nursing home (NH) staff could improve their knowledge and reduce hospital readmissions ... -
Reduce Overflow Incontinence to Prevent Pressure Ulcers in Individuals with Spina Bifida
(2019-08)Overflow incontinence has been directly linked to the development of pressure ulcers in individuals with Spina Bifida (SB). The implementation of a bladder diary and educational session to increase awareness of pressure ... -
“It cam wi’ a lass and it will gang wi’ a lass!”, or Mary Stuart, the Woman of Scotland
(2019-12)This manuscript explores the controversial life of Mary Stuart, a sixteenth century Scottish Queen through the lens of intimate household staff and the Edinburgh citizenry. Traditionally, Mary Stuart has been portrayed ... -
Reef restoration facilitates habitat provisioning for oysters and motile epifauna
(2019-12)Severe degradation of oyster reef habitat over the past century has led to associated losses in ecological and economic benefits. Common oyster reef restoration goals target replacement of lost ecosystem services, including ... -
Estimating sensorimotor disorders using Bayesian theory and probabilistic graphical models with mixed reality technology
(2019-12)Assessing sensorimotor problems is challenging due to the level of uncertainty present in the Central Nervous System (CNS). To solve this problem, this work introduces a novel strategy that combines Bayesian Theory for ... -
Classification of medical Images using metaheuristic feature selection methods
(2019-12)Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a popular non-invasive diagnostic tool for brain imaging. Accurate analysis of brain MRI images help in early detection of brain tumors and could save lot of lives. But accurate ... -
Estimation and comparison of the image noise levels via subsampling
(2019-08)As the amount of digital data has increased critically in the last decade, image data has become more and more important. Noise is a random signal which always present in an image during image acquisition, coding and, ... -
A deep learning model to predict thunderstorms within 400km2 south Texas domains
(2019-12)High resolution predictions, both temporally and spatially, remain a challenge for the prediction of thunderstorms and related impacts such as lightning strikes. The goal of this work is to improve and extend a machine ... -
Microplastic ingestion of juvenile fish in Corpus Christi bay and upper Laguna Madre, Texas
(2019-07)Microplastic pollution and the negative effects of microplastics entering the marine food web has come into the focus of research in recent years. For early life stages of fish this is of particular concern due to their ... -
The pulse of the Blucher archive: the making and life of a Texan institutional archive, 1980-2019
(2019-12)The aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the history of the Blucher Archive. Rather than taking the life of the Blucher Archive to be a self-evident background, institution, and repository, this thesis will explore its ... -
Constructing a digital land record system
(2019-08)Land records represent the legal bindings of a person to their property and assist in the execution of property ownership. Protecting these documents and adopting a clear system to manage them should be a priority to ... -
Applicability of the microfragmentation technique to propagate corals in a fisherfolk community in the Philippines
(2019-12)Coral nursery implementation is becoming a highly prevalent method of coral restoration in the Philippines. These nurseries primarily focus on fast-growing branching corals and do not commonly include massive corals. ... -
Ecological implications of abundant cryptobenthic reef fishes: estimating previously unknown life history traits of the Masked/Glass Goby Coryphopterus personatus/hyalinus complex
(2019-12)Fishes of the smallest size classes that inhabit benthic reef habitats are collectively known as cryptobenthic reef fishes, and they constitute a significant portion of reef fish biodiversity and biomass production. ... -
Mating patterns of dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) explored using an unmanned aerial vehicle
(Marine Mammal Science, 2020-04-29)Few studies have explored the mating patterns of populations of cetaceans, largely because of logistical challenges. We used an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to follow and video-record 25 groups of mating dusky dolphins ... -
The Influence of Meteorological Parameters and Air Polution on Emergency Hospitalization Visits of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases in Coastal Bend, Texas
(2019-08)Cardiovascular diseases and Respiratory diseases are the leading causes of death globally. The objective of this thesis is to investigate the associations between meteorological parameters, air pollution, and emergency ... -
3-D Hybrid Trajectory Modeling for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVS)
(2019-08)The burgeoning use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) evidences forthcoming environments where innumerable UAVs will appear in the National Airspace System (NAS). The UAS traffic man- agement (UTM) aims to provide solutions ...