Dissertations from 2021
Identification and Reduction of Scattered Light Noise in LIGO, Siddharth Soni
“Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła”: Discovering the Life and Music of Zygmunt Noskowski, Filip Starostka
Computational Investigations of Aqueous Interfaces, Visal Kavinda Subasinghe Subasinhege Don
The Evolution of Dietary Adaptations in Small Mammals: From Muscles to Microbes, Mark Thomas Swanson
The Confederate Stories of America: The Short-Story Cycle and the Representation of the American South, Ikuko Takeda
Income Inequality and Polarization in the United States, Tatum Colette Taylor
L’écriture de la dissidence dans les œuvres littéraires de Werewere-Liking, Arnaud Tcheutou
Time and Tide: Sixteenth-Century Expressions of Temporality in the Writings of Richard Hakluyt, Jennifer Hope Tellman
Learning to Interpret Fluid Type Phenomena via Images, Simron Thapa
A Comprehensive Study on Printed Circuit Board Backdoor Coupling in High Intensity Radiated Fields Environments, Ryan Patrick Tortorich
#BlackGirlMathMagic: A Mixed Methods Study Examining African American Girls in Standardized MathematicsTesting, RaKeema Thomas Toussaint
Investigation of Arabidopsis Extremophyte Relatives, Schrenkiella parvula and Eutrema salsugineum Reveals Different Roads Leading to Salt Stress Tolerance, Kieu-Nga Thi Tran
Optimal Design Problems with State Constraints, Nha Van Tran
The Influence of Participation in Gambling Activities on the Personal Lives of Gamblers as Perceived by Female Gamblers in Louisiana, Carondalette Turner
Mothering Across Borders: A Phenomenological Exploration into the Work-Family Balance Experiences of Jamaican Transnational Mothers in the United States, Phelecia Alecia Udoko
Investigations of the Structure and Protein-Protein Interactions of Chlamydia trachomatis Scc4, Thilini Oshadhi Senarath Ukwaththage
Studying Complex Aquifer Systems from Large-Scale Stratigraphy Development to Local Aquifer Storage and Recovery, Hamid Vahdat Aboueshagh
Novel Synthetic Transformations Targeting δ-Valerolactone and Isocoumarin, Joshua Paul Van Houten
Noncommutative Tensor Triangular Geometry and Its Applications to Representation Theory, Kent Barton Vashaw
African American English-Speaking Children's Judgments of Grammaticality: Effects of Clinical Status and Grammatical Structures, Lori Elizabeth Vaughn
High Temperature Polymer Electrolytes for Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Electrochemical Pumps, Gokul Venugopalan
Gene (Co)Expression Networks and Alternate Transcripts Induced in Cotton in Response to Aspergillus flavus Infection, Mohit Verma
Investigating Plant Tolerance for the Management of Insect Pests in Rice, James Michael Villegas
Reaction Pathways of Molecular Growth for Bay-Region Methyl-Substituted Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons During Supercritical Pyrolysis of n-Decane, Venkata Sai Krishna Karthik Vutukuru
"Good Citizens": London's German Colony, 1860-1914, Erik Paul Wagner
Case Study of the Elementary School Principal: Investigating the Cultivation of Mathematics Leaders in a Select Louisiana School District, Whitney Gabrielle Walker
Development and Initial Psychometric Properties of the Cannabidiol Outcome Expectancies Questionnaire (CBD-OEQ), Katherine Walukevich-Dienst
Pore-scale Modeling of Fluid Flow and Particle Transport in Multi-scale Porous Media, Bin Wang
Investigation of Boron-substituted BODIPY Derivatives and Their Applications, Maodie Wang
Garden of Ruins: Military Occupation and State Power in Civil War Louisiana, Johnathan Matthew Ward
Reconstructing the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in Northern Peru: Perspectives from Donax Obsulus Geochemistry and Archaeomalacology, Jacob Pate Warner
An Examination of Yoga to Improve Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress in Firefighters, Amanda Joy Weathers-Meyer
Homosextualities: Translating the Gay Male Body in Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction, Sean Alan Weaver
Eloquence in Talke and Vertue in Deedes: Education and Discontent in Early Modern England, Mary Alison Webb
Evaluation of Residual Herbicides Across Multiple Rice Production Systems, Lucas Connor Webster
Classifying Soft X-Ray Objects in the Galactic Bulge, Joshua D. Wetuski
Workplace Environmental Changes Supporting Employee Health, Tiffany Williams
Gold-Semiconductor Photocatalysts for Water Treatment Under Visible and Ultraviolet Light, Daniel Willis
The Rougarou Concerto and Initial Observations of the Flex Ensemble, Thomas Wilson
Meritocracy and Marketization of Education: Taiwanese Middle-Class Strategies in a Private Secondary School, Amanda Shufang Yang
Experimental and Modeling Study of the Effects of Sealing Structures in Lost Circulation Prevention and Remediation, Mingzheng Yang
Systematic Investigation of Bulk and Surface Properties of Sr3(Ru1-xMnx)2O7, Yifan Yang
Study of Laser Based Additive Manufacturing for Titanium and Copper Alloys, Congyuan Zeng
Synthesis and Investigation of BODIPY and Chlorin Derivatives for Material and Biomedical Applications, Guanyu Zhang
Characterizing and Optimizing Asynchronous Event-Driven Architecture for Modern Cloud Systems, Shungeng Zhang
Essay on Manager Uncertainty and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns, Tengfei Zhang
Mechanical Failure of Metal/Ceramic Interfacial Regions under Shear and Tensile Loading, Xiaoman Zhang
Dissertations from 2020
Calibration Transients In LIGO Detectors, Thomas Daniel Abbott
Neuromotor Control of the Hand During Smartphone Manipulation, Prasanna Kumar Acharya
Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Aroma and Cercospora janseana Resistance in U.S. Rice, Christopher Keith Addison
Crisis, Crisis, Read All About It! Investigating the Direct and Joint Effects of Crisis Response Strategies, Crisis History and Strategic Actions on the Tone of Media Coverage, Habiba Nefisa Alambo
Talking About the Weather: Impacts of Tornado Stories on Memory and Identity, Ashley L. Allen
The Function of Poetry in the Maqamat al-Hariri, Hussam Almujalli
Adaptive Data Migration in Load-Imbalanced HPC Applications, Parsa Amini
Estimation of the Axial and Lateral Capacity of Driven Piles from the Results of Cone Penetration Test and Finite Element Analysis, Mohsen Amirmojahedi
The Long-Term Outlook of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya Bifurcation: A Convergence of Engineering, Economics, and Deltaic Evolution, Thomas Mitchell Andrus
Identifying Human Trafficking Networks in Louisiana by Using Authorship Attribution and Network Modeling, Hassan Marzoughi Ardakani
Measurements and Mitigation of Scattered Light Noise in LIGO, Corey Daniel Austin
Motivation, Higher Education, Belonging, and Development: Integration of Highly Educated Immigrants into the Western Labor Market, Cihan Aydiner
Gender Equality, Tolerance, and Wellbeing in Turkey: The Role of Religion, Ramazan Aydogdu
Interactions between Federal Education Tax Credits and State-Based Aid Programs: An Analysis of State Budgeting for Higher Education, Anna Castrillo Bartel
Study of Fundamental Tradeoff Between Deliverable and Private Information in Statistical Inference, Farhang Bayat
Characterizing the Epidemiology of Bluetongue and Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus in Louisiana, Michael Edward Becker
Incorporation of Lignin in Natural and Synthetic Biomaterials to Alter Mechanical and Biochemical Properties for Enhanced Wound Healing, Jorge Alfonso Belgodere
Virtual Touch: Embodied Experiences of (dis)Embodied Intimacy in Mediatized Performance, Naomi Petrea Bennett
Examining Relationships between Early Childcare Teachers' Adult Attachment Orientations and Quality of Interaction in the Infant Classroom, Alexandra Morris Benoit
Exploring Predictors of Older Adults' Performance on a Novel Driving Simulator Task, John Philip Bernstein
Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Louisiana, Dependra Bhatta
Southwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Frequency and Intensity Related to Observed and Modeled Geophysical and Aerosol Variables, Rupsa Bhowmick
Morphology and Dynamics of Bottlebrush Polymers, Karin Julia Bichler
Examining Nursing Student Dropout Behavior: An Event History Analysis, Michele Lee Blackwell
Earnings Management of Leaders and Laggards, Candice Roche Boucree
National Guard Familes: The Relationship between Institutional Discourses and Lived Experiences, Kimberly Saunier Boudreaux
Some Results on Seymour’s Second-Neighborhood Conjecture and on Decompositions of Graphs, Farid Bouya
Combinatorial and Asymptotic Statistical Properties of Partitions and Unimodal Sequences, Walter McFarland Bridges
The Use of the Alexander Technique as a Practice Tool for Horn Performance, Centria Deondra Brown
Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Reproduction and Ontogeny of Gulf Killifish (Fundulus grandis), Charles Alexander Brown
Agenda Cueing in Aggregated Newsfeeds, Kirill Bryanov
The Association Between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Parental Age, Claire Burns
Regulation of MPCs and KAT8 During Adipogenesis and Nutritional Regulation, Jasmine Burrell
Unprepared to be Culturally Responsive: An Examination of Secondary ESL Educators in Rural Louisiana, Danielle Marie Butcher
A Multifaceted Biological Engineering Approach to Breast Cancer Modeling and Drug Delivery, Charles Ethan Byrne
An Investigation of Athletic Buoyancy in Adult Recreational and Sport Club Athletes, Jackie Rae Victoriano Calhoun
Interactions Among Amygdala Volume, Cortical Thickness, and Structural Connectivity in Youth: Relationship to Emotion Regulation, Peter James Castagna
Interface Engineering of Materials for Energy and Biological Applications, Ardalan Chaichi
First-Principle Study on the Interaction of Ligands with Gold and Effects on Catalytic Activities, Xun Cheng
Source Apportionment of Ozone and Its Health Effects in North China Plain and Southeast U.S., Kaiyu Chen
A Performance Guide to Kurt Erickson's Song Cycle Here, Bullet, André Yong Chun Chiang
A Framework for Augmenting Building Performance Models Using Machine Learning and Immersive Virtual Environment, Chanachok Chokwitthaya
Physical and Biological Factors Controlling the Fate of Nitrate in a Louisiana Coastal Deltaic Floodplain, Alexandra Christensen
New Synthetic Transformations Utilizing Silyloxyallyl Cations and Epoxonium Ions as Reactive Intermediates, Alexander Houston Cleveland
Family Matters. Or Does It? Family Involvement in American Education, Isaiah Fink Avraham Cohen
Günter Grass: Class, Politics, and Memory, Alex Cole