Dissertations from 2024
GAS EXCHANGE AND HYDRAULICS OF LOBLOLLY PINE BRANCHES UNDERGOING SHADE-INDUCED MORTALITY, Adelodun R. Majekobaje
ESSAYS IN APPLIED ECONOMICS, Jiantao Ma
SUPERCRITICAL PYROLYSIS OF ETHYLCYCLOHEXANE AND ETHYLCYCLOHEXANE/n-DECANE BLENDS, Avinash Mali
THERMAL FRONTAL POLYMERIZATION – APPLICATIONS IN COATINGS AND COMPOSITES, Maria Martinez
SURFACE AND BULK PROPERTIES OF MULTI-COMPONENT METAL ALLOYS, Frank A. McKay III
Singing through Cancer: Promoting Vocal Health for the Cancer Survivor, Roger Kyle Melton
Performance Assessment of Aboveground Storage Tanks during Flood Events, Md Manik Mia
Mind the Time: A Synthesis of Pedagogical Approaches for Improving Rhythm and Meter for Instrumentalists as Applied to Bassoon, Annalea Milligan
The Influence of Stage of Ripeness on Consumer Perceptions Regarding Selected Aspects of Non-Astringent Asian Persimmons (Diospyros Kaki Thunb), Robert A. Mirabello Jr
CAN THE BENEFITS OF AUDIT SPILLOVER BE OBTAINED THROUGH ADVISORY ENGAGEMENTS? AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE AUDIT MARKET FOR US FEDERAL AGENCIES, Nicholas A. Mitchell
The Lowest Discriminant Ideal of Cayley-Hamilton Hopf Algebras, Zhongkai Mi
Enhancement of Applied Rice Breeding Programs: Exploring Factors Impacting Genomic Selection Accuracy and Discovery of a Novel Gene for Grain Shape, Maria G. Montiel
Analysis and Improvement of Efficient Charge Recovery Logic Adiabatic Circuits, William Morell
Decay Spectroscopy of 134Sb Using X-Array and SATURN, Graeme E. Morgan
UNDERSTANDING HOW SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS CAN FOSTER MOTIVATION IN YOUTH SPORT, Justin Morris
Multiphoton Quantum Sensing, Fatemeh Mostafavikhatam
Louisiana's Confederates: Soldiers and Civilians in the Civil War, Henry Brandon Motty
POWER GRID RESILIENCY ENHANCEMENT AGAINST FLOOD-INDUCED HAZARDS, Mohadese Movahednia
The Effect of English-Medium of Instruction Policy on Secondary School Pupils' Learning Experiences in Rwanda: History and Citizenship Teachers' Perspectives, CONSTANT ALINGABO MUCIKA
YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED: CULTURAL CONFLICT OVER PUBLIC EDUCATION IN KENTUCKY, 1904-1989, Emily Muhich
Subroups of Coxeter Groups and Stallings Foldings, Jake A. Murphy
The Homotopy Cardinality of the Representation Category, Justin Murray
INVESTIGATION OF SOLVATION STRUCTURES AND DYNAMICS OF Li-ION BATTERY ELECTROLYTES AND AMIDES IN WATER: AN INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY, ELECTROCHEMICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDY, Ernest O. Nachaki
Synthetic Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scans: Generation, Application, and Preprocessing, Maryam Naseri
Ammonium Chemotaxis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Gabela Nelson
ASMRtistry in Immersive Sound: Investigating the Effectiveness of Immersive Sound Technologies in Eliciting Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, Scott D. Nelson
Unavoidable Topological Minors of Large or Infinite 3-connected Rooted Graphs, Phuc A. Nguyen
DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF NEW TOOL TO MEASURE BREASTFEEDING PARAMETERS AMONG CHILDLESS FEMALE POPULATION IN LOUISIANA, Kritee Niroula
THE COLLABORATIVE ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF SUICDALITY AS A SINGLE SESSION INTERVENTION FOR PATIENTS ADMITTED TO INPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC CARE FOR SUICIDAL THOUGHTS AND BEHAVIORS, D Nicolas Oakey-Frost
CHARACTERIZATION OF RESISTANCE TO BACTERIAL PANICLE BLIGHT IN RICE: GENETIC INSIGHTS AND ANALYSIS, John Christian E. Ontoy
MemForC: Memory Forensics Corpus Creation For Malware Analysis, Augustine Orgah
An Analysis of William Bolcom's "Three Classical Rags", Thomas A. Owens
Unveiling the Idiomatic and Performance Inspirations: A Comparative Study of The Red Violin Caprices by John Corigliano., Johan Alexander Pepper
Consumer Behavior Analysis Approach to Teacher Choice of Reading Interventions, Rochelle N. Picardo
Wondering Together: Professional Development And Self-Efficacy Of Elementary Science Teachers, Brittany Pike
Between Olympus and Golgotha: Adolf von Harnack, Werner Jaeger, and the Cultural Politics of Humanism and Higher Education in the Weimar Republic, Robert L. Powers
The Writer is the Sun: A Case Study of a Culturally Responsive and Antiracist Elementary Writing Workshop, Kyley T. Pulphus
Vibrato Rate and Extent in the Baritone Voice Through the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century, Scott Purcell
Comparing Editorial and Artificially Generated Fingerings: A Case Study, Lixi Qin
Application of Learning Processes for Improving Last-Mile Logistics Optimization at Scale, Seyedeh Shaghayegh Rabbanian
DEVELOPMENT OF ACCURATE EMBEDDED FRACTURE MODELS FOR NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS, HARUN UR RASHID
Mapping the Linguistic Requirements and Mismatches that Occur when Middle School Students Engage with Mathematical Word Problems, Laurie C. Richard
Essays on Household Finance, Santoshi Rimal
Examining Performance Validity in Adult and Pediatric Psychoeducational Evaluations, Anthony Robinson
The Behavioral Specialization of African Ant-following Birds on Dorylus Driver Ants, Patricia F. Rodrigues
City Boy by Judd Greenstein: a transcription from chamber quintet to full wind band, Emmanuel Rodriguez
Molecular Mechanisms of Impaired Osteogenic Differentiation During In Vitro Expansion of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Weiqiong Rong
Addition and subtraction: Coral reproduction and disease in a changing ocean, Ashley Rossin
SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION OF FLOW AND SEDIMENT IN RIVER AND DELTA SYSTEM, Kazi M. Sadid
FURTHER RESULTS ON DISTANCE-BASED FORMATION CONTROL OF MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, Farid Sahebsara
Unpacking Influence: Dissecting Engagement Drivers and Dynamics for Effective Influencer Marketing Strategies, Nichole W. Santee
Seeking A Uniform Approach to Trumpet Sound Concept, Coleman T. Scott
Essays on the Industrial Organization of Recreational Cannabis, Joshua Scott
In-Person, Hybrid, or Remote: Exploring the Effectiveness of Teacher Practices on Student Performance During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Ashley M. Segalla
Facilitating Model View Definition Development for Data Interoperability in Urban Infrastructure Systems Using Design Structure Matrices and Ontology, Moeid Shariatfar
Storying History: A Narrative Study on the use of Podcasts and Podcasting in Secondary Social Studies Classrooms, Elizabeth A. Shoenberger
HER SEAT AT THE TABLE: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY EXPLORING THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF BLACK WOMEN EDUCATION POLICYMAKERS, Vickey R. Silas
Analytic Wavefront Sets of Spherical Distributions on the De Sitter Space, Iswarya Sitiraju
Auslander-Reiten Triangles on a Bounded Derived Category of Constructible Complexes, Vishnu Prasad Sivaprasad
Evaluating the Relationship Between Parent-Adolescent Communication, Social Media Use, and Psychological Well-Being in Adolescents, JoHannah Smith
Preserving the Historic and Cultural Music of Louisiana Through School Music: An Ethnographic Case Study, Christopher S. Song
Effects of Resistance Training with Low-Intensity Physical Activity on Muscle Oxidative Capacity in Older Adults, James Ervin Stampley IV
Effects of early life stress on the growth and development of a songbird nestling, Keegan R. Stansberry
Harmony in Collaboration: Curating Sustainability in Post-Pandemic Arts, Natalie M. Stepaniak
Molybdenum Alkylidyne Complexes with Phenoxide Ligands for Alkyne Metathesis, Marvin L. Stewart Jr
What Macrofloral and Macrofaunal Ecofacts Are Cooking? A Synthesis of Data and Methods in the Nepeña Valley, Peru, Kenneth Edward Sutherland
What You Know or Who You Know: A Narrative Inquiry of the Advancement of Women in Collegiate Athletics Administration, Andrea L. Tepe
The State of the Unions: Labor Unions, Bureaucrats, and Voting in America, 1984 – 2020, Stacey R. Terrio
THE USER-MADE NATION: (RE)NEGOTIATING AND (RE)IMAGINING SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONALISM ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, Kholofelo M. K Theledi
Producing Digital Reflections of Reality through Intercultural Filmmaking and Multisensory Engagement, Trai Thomas
The Impact of American Kitchen Time-Use on Urban Design and Planning: A Case Study of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Farshid Torabian
Disentangling the Roots of Gene Tree Variation, Benjamin S. Toups
Benthic Community Response to the Impacts of Proposed Sediment Diversions in Louisiana Estuaries, Jillian C. Tupitza
OPTIMAL PLANNING AND DESIGN OF OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE SYSTEMS FOR OFFSHORE WIND FARMS, Md Imran Hasan Tusar
Say My Name: A Socio-Onomastic & Ethnographic Analysis of Identity and Perception in Louisiana, Latasha L. Valenzuela-Hernandez
Additional Impacts of Drug Policy Reform: Exploring the Unintended Effects of Marijuana Legalization, Nicholas T. Van De Voorde
TOWARDS ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH IN RURAL LOUISIANA: BLUEBERRY SUPPLEMENTATION AS A NATURAL INTERVENTION, Katy E. Venable
SEXUAL ABUSE: A MULTI-FACETED PROBLEM, Marcus Venable
Reducibility of Schrödinger Operators on Multilayer Graphs, Jorge Villalobos Alvarado
Chivalric Appetites: Creaturely Knights and the Culture of Ravaging, Megan Wahlberg
Molecular-Level Studies of Nanopatterned Biomolecules with Atomic Force Microscopy, Ashley R. Walker
EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA USE DISPARITIES ON COMMUNITY RESILIENCE TO DISASTERS, Kejin Wang
Large Eddy Simulation of Wind Effects on Elevated Low-rise Buildings via an improved DSRFG Inflow Generation Method, Xiangjie Wang
D1 Subunit Translation and Degradation During Photosystem II Biogenesis and Repair in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Xiaozhuo Wang
The Misunderstood Middle: Assessing Driver Acceptance and Perception of SAE Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, David E. Whitchurch
"Matter Tending to Sedition": Edwardian Theater and the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549, Alexandra R. Whitley
The Equity Elevator vs. Equity Staircase Effect: A study of Organizational Barriers faced by African American Employees within Public & Private Organizations in Louisiana, Micah B. Whitmore
Structural Investigation of Chlamydial Chaperone Proteins, Scc4 and Scc1, as Potential Drug Targets, Hemanthie Charya Wickramasinghe Wickramasinghe Thanthirige
Pregnant Black Bodies in Peril: A Multi-Method Analysis of Obstetric Outcomes and Gestational Experiences, Courtney E. Williams
Away With Tradition: A Mixed Methods Study Examining Two Dual Enrollment Programs, Jillana C. Williams
Introducing Chinese Folk Songs Through Arrangements for Trombone & Piano and Chamber Music, Tianyu Xue