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dc.title: Student Perspectives on Healthcare Systems: A Qualitative Study Comparing the United States, Singapore, and Israel dc.description.abstract: This thesis examines how social structures, policy priorities, and economic factors shape individual experiences within national healthcare systems, focusing on the relationship between healthcare spending and health outcomes. Using the United Sta…

dc.title: Beyond the Solid Raft: Geometric Strategies to Prevent Build Plate Bowing In CuCrZr L-PBF dc.description.abstract: Build plate bowing in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) presents a major challenge when printing copper and its alloys, due to their high reflectivity and thermal conductivity. These conditions often cause dimensional inaccuracies and degrade structural properties—especially …

dc.title: Development of a PDMS Tissue Chip and Media Circulation System for Xiphophorus Biomedical Research Using Additive Manufacturing dc.description.abstract: Xiphophorus fish are a critical model for studying cancer resilience and disease progression, but traditional research methods pose ethical and practical challenges. A cost-effective tissue chip system with integrated media circulation …

dc.title: Finding the United Way to Address the Childcare Workforce Crisis dc.description.abstract: This project examines the early childhood education (ECE) workforce crisis in Central Texas, framing it as a systemic market failure with broad economic and social consequences. Despite being essential to workforce participation and child development, the childcare sector is characterized by low wa…

dc.title: Exploring AI Techniques to Accelerate the Production of Traditional 2D Animation dc.description.abstract: This thesis examines how artificial intelligence (AI) can be integrated into contemporary animation pipelines to restore the expressive qualities of traditional hand-drawn 2D animation. Although modern digital tools greatly expand production efficiency, they often diminish the tacti…

dc.title: Designing power-efficient multi-chiplet processors for data centers : modeling, calibration, and optimization dc.description.abstract: The escalating computational demands of data centers, coupled with the rising cost and complexity of energy delivery, have made power efficiency a first-class design constraint in modern processors. As process technologies scale and architectures diversi…

dc.title: The Muddiness of MUDs dc.description.abstract: Municipal Utility Districts (MUDs) have become a primary mechanism for financing rapid suburban growth in Texas, yet their long-term implications for residents and cities remain poorly understood. This report examines how MUDs affect tax burden, equity, and service provision in and around Georgetown, Texas, drawing on a mixed-methods approa…

dc.title: Strengthening the Domestic Nuclear Supply Chain Through State-Level Action dc.description.abstract: The accelerating demand for reliable, clean baseload power in the United States, driven by population growth, electrification, and the rapid expansion of energy-intensive industries such as artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing, has renewed policy interest in Small Modular Re…

dc.title: Transportation Demand Policies for Austin, TX dc.description.abstract: Austin's rapid population and economic growth has intensified traffic congestion, with drivers losing an average of 64 hours per year and the region facing an estimated $1.98 billion in annual lost productivity. To meet its 50/50 Mode Split goal by 2039, the City of Austin Transportation and Public Works Department m…

dc.title: The Influence of Psychological Factors in the Search for Strategic Stability dc.description.abstract: Many of the leaders of new nuclear powers sit atop regimes that are personalistic in nature, and thus less constrained by institutions or public opinion than more democratic regimes. Such authoritarian leaders have more freedom to allow their psychological proclivities to influence thei…

dc.title: Master's thesis recital (composition) dc.description.abstract: Inside creatures. Consume! ; ZAP ; habitat.

dc.title: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Strategic Stability dc.description.abstract: How will advances in artificial intelligence impact strategic stability? A growing number of studies and reports assessing the ways that advances in AI could influence global politics focus on the potential risks to strategic stability from integration of AI into the nuclear domain, particularly in la…

dc.title: Cyber Operations and Nuclear Stability: Networked Instability dc.description.abstract: The digital transformation of nuclear forces made modern nuclear forces more effective but potentially introduced strategic cyber vulnerabilities. Despite warnings about the cyber threats to nuclear stability, our understandings of when and why cyber operations create nuclear instability are rife with…

dc.title: Texas National Security Review: Strategic Stability Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2026 dc.description: TABLE OF CONTENTS FOUNDATION 2 The (Elusive) Search for Strategic Stability Sheena Chestnut Greitens ROUNDTABLE 8 Introduction: Emerging Technologies and the Future of Strategic Stability Harold Trinkunas and Herbert S. Lin 20 Strategic Stability and Its Limits: Reflections on Schelling Fra…

dc.title: Master's thesis recital (trombone) dc.description.abstract: Arrows of time. Movement I, II, III / Richard Peaslee -- Movement for trombone and piano / Frigyes Hidas -- Ballade for trombone and piano / Eugene Bozza -- Sonata for trombone and piano / Stjepan Sulek -- The seven trombones of the apocalypse / Santiago Miguel Alarcon.

dc.title: On Optimism About New Military Technologies dc.description.abstract: This article identifies psychological, cultural, and organizational factors that drive optimism about emerging military technologies. Psychological influences include bounded rationality, cognitive biases (like the planning fallacy and confirmation bias), and motivated reasoning. Culturally, the US military’s “can-do” …

dc.title: Technological Surprise and Normalization Through Use: The Tactical and Discursive Effects of New Precision-Strike Weapons in the Russo-Ukrainian War dc.description.abstract: Expectations of the performance of military technologies are marked by hopes that one’s own systems perform well while those of adversaries perform poorly, and fears of the inverse. These expectations shape states’ …

dc.title: Master's thesis recital (cello) dc.description.abstract: 2 unidentified works

dc.title: Strategic Stability and Its Limits: Reflections on Schelling dc.description.abstract: Emerging technologies possess the potential to transform military competition and the international system in an uncertain, potentially destabilizing fashion. Are there ways to capture the benefits of these new technologies without unleashing catastrophic dangers? What insights and lessons can we glean…

dc.title: Doctoral thesis recital (composition) dc.description.abstract: Three compositions for various media.