Dissertations from 2018
COURSE DESIGN…ONLINE: HELPING STUDENTS PERFORM IN THE DIGITAL AGE, Joseph W. Harris
Molecular Level Interactions and Transformations of Natural Organic Matter Within the Environment, Benjamin J. Haywood
Reasonable Exceptions: Supreme Court Rhetoric and the Right to Privacy, Lindsay Susan Head
System Nonlinear Performance of Low-Rise Buildings under Database-Assisted Hurricane Loads, Jing He
High-Dimensional Isotope Relationships, Yuyang He
Analysis of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Resources across the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Communities and Biomass, Eva R. Hillmann
Investigating Early-Career Teacher Propensity for Arts-Based Pedagogy, Jamie Allison Hipp
The Tensile Root Strength of Emergent Coastal Macrophytes, Lauris Olivia Hollis
Throughput and Yield Improvement for a Continuous Discrete-Product Manufacturing System, Md Shahriar J. Hossain
Participation and Representation: Does Risk Acceptance Influence the Decision Making of Political Actors?, Joshua Daniel Hostetter
Bio-based Polyurethane Foams Made from Microwave Liquefaction of Biomass, XINGYAN HUANG
At the Edge of Humanity: American Indian Legal Identity and the Development of American Citizenship, Zachary Charles Isenhower
Mari Folk Music Influences on Andrei Eshpai's Viola Concerto, Vengerskie Napevy (Hungarian Tunes), and a Transcription of Hungarian Tunes for Viola in the Viola Repertoire, Anna Petrovna Ivanova
Purposeful Planning and Intentional Practice in Literacy Leadership: The Making of an Urban Principal, Nakia Claudette Jackson Perkins
Pore-Scale and Conventional Wettability Measurement Considerations for Improving Certainty of Geological CO2 Sequestration, Mohammad Jafari
Collaboration in Crowdsourcing Contests: Towards an Understanding of Collective Behavior in Crowdsourcing Contests, Hanieh Javadi Khasraghi
The Medium Is the Movement: The Internet's Influence on Feminist Rhetorical Strategies, Christine Nicole Jeansonne
A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Hatha Yoga Intervention for Smokers, Emily Robin Jeffries
EFFECTIVE METHODS AND TOOLS FOR MINING APP STORE REVIEWS, Nishant Jha
Development of Polymer-Based In-Plane Nanopore for DNA Sequencing, Zheng Jia
Religion, Racism, and Ecological Stress Among African-American Families: A Qualitative Analysis of Perceptions and Coping Strategies, JOHNNIE W. JONES
Computational Analysis of Papionini Evolution Using Alu Insertions, Vallmer Edward Jordan II
Speciation and hybridization in Jamaican-endemic Streamertail Hummingbirds (Trochilus polytmus and T. scitulus), Caroline D. Judy
How Do New Media Environments Influence Consumer Responses to Advertising? A Meta-Analytic Approach to Ad Avoidance, A-Reum Jung
Image Processing Applications in Real Life: 2D Fragmented Image and Document Reassembly and Frequency Division Multiplexed Imaging, Houman Kamran Habibkhani
Automated Merging Control Algorithm: A Cooperative Approach for Connected Automated Vehicles in Platoons, Sogand Karbalaieali
Effective Visualization Approaches For Ultra-High Dimensional Datasets, Gurminder Kaur
Exploring the Role of RNA Polymerase III Complex Assembly on Ribosomal DNA Silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Kyle Thomas Kern
Formation Control of Nonholonomic Multi-Agent Systems, Milad Khaledyan
Quality of United States and Bangladesh Shrimp Due to Growth and Post-harvest Practices, Murshida Khan
Ultrafast and Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Nanomaterials, Rami Anthony Khoury
Induced resistance in rice, oryza sativa, to herbivores in the southern united states, Emily Clare Kraus
The Effect of Community Violence Exposure On Self-Reported Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescents: The Role of Social Support Versus Family Cohesion, Blair Burke Kreiger
Extended Techniques for Intermediate Violin Students, Mariana Krewer
Dimers on Cylinders over Dynkin Diagrams and Cluster Algebras, Maitreyee Chandramohan Kulkarni
Delivering Entrapped Lactobacillus Plantarum NCIMB 8826 with Cereal-Legume Infant-Weaning Food to Improve Children's Gastrointestinal Health, Emmanuel Kyereh
CALCULATION GUIDED RATIONAL DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL CATIONIC FLUORESCENT meso–PYRIDINIUM BODIPYS FOR BIO-IMAGING, Daniel J. LaMaster
Phenotypic and Transcriptomic Characterization of Colonial Phase Variation in the Cholera Pathogen Reveals a Novel Smooth Biofilm-Defective Form, Bliss Nicole Lambert
BEAM THEORY FOR CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM NONLINEAR OPTICS---EXPOSING CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM CORRELATIONS OF TRANSVERSE-SPATIAL MODES, Robert Nicholas Lanning
What Motivates Children to Respond? Functional Analysis and Intervention of Math Computation Fluency, Catherine Rose Lark
Investigating eLearning Continuance Through Expectation Disconfirmation Theory, Susana Reyes Lee
An Examination of Preimplantation Embryos and Endometrium Developed During Induced Aluteal Cycles in the Mare, Chelsey Audra Leisinger
Louisiana Urban and Suburban Homeowners’ Fertilizer Management Behavioral Beliefs, Intentions, and Past Behaviors, Natalie Levy
Conservation of Freshwater Live-bearing Fishes: Development of Germplasm Repositories for Goodeids, Yue Liu
Interaction of Cocoa Powder with Intestinal Microbiota, Zuyin Li
The Effects of Tree Plantations and Land Use on Natural Regeneration of Woody Plants in the Tropics: Diversity, Species Composition, Successional Dynamics, and Functional Traits, John Benjamin Longworth
Determining the Drivers of Anti-Tropical Distributions Across the Fish Tree of Life, William Benton Ludt
Focality in Prospective Memory: A Thorough Examination of Cue Specificity and Task-Appropriateness, Bethany Alice Lyon
A Pedagogical Approach to the Waltzes and Tangos for Piano by Francisca Gonzaga, Ana Paula Machado Simoes
Plasmonic Structures for Subwavelength Guiding and Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions, Amirreza Mahigir
Microstructural Characterization of Shear Transformation Zones and Modeling Indentation Size Effect in Amorphous Polymers, Leila Malekmotiei
The Interval Dissonance Rate in Chopin’s Études Op. 10, Nos. 1-4: Dissecting Arpeggiation, Chromaticism, and Linear Progressions, Nikita Mamedov
Temperature Transient Analysis for Reservoir Characterization, Yilin Mao
Predictive Data-Based Multi-Hazard Hurricane Fragility Models for Single Family Homes, Carol Constantin Massarra
Examining the Sex Ratio in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Maya N. Matheis
Conflict among Comrades: Elite Purges and Political Violence in Authoritarian Regimes, Austin Scott Matthews
Voltage-Controlled Deposition of Nanoparticles for Next Generation Electronic Materials, Subhodip Maulik
Le Roman Policier Francophone : entre Esthétique et Politiques du Genre en Afrique et en Haïti, Lise Madeleine Mba Ekani
A Rhythmic Transcription and Spectral Analysis of Luciano Berio's Thema (Omaggio A Joyce), Christopher C. McCardle
A Narrative and Performative Methodology for Understanding Adolescent Cancer Stories, Patrick Mcelearney
A Study on the Direct and Moderating Effects of Leader Facilitated Workplace Learning and Leader-Member Exchange on Employee Engagement, Candi S. McElheny
The (B)link Between Amotivation and Dopamine in Psychosis: What Phasic Eye Blink Rate Reveals, Jessica Elaina McGovern
Biomedical Applications of Hydrogels and GUMBOS, Kelsey Elizabeth McNeel
Perceptions of Religious Music in a Southern U.S. Public Middle School: A Case Study, Emily Marie Mercado
Evaluating the Predictive Validity of the Implementation Beliefs Assessment on Classwide Management Components, Sarah Alexa Metallo
Dynamics of the Community Resilience to Drought Hazard in the South-Central United States, Volodymyr Mihunov
Regulation of epithelial sodium channels in vasopressin neurons in the hypothalamus, Natalie Jean Mills
Attentional Deployment, Cognitive Control, and Reappraisal in Schizophrenia, Kyle Robert Mitchell
Concerto for Horn and Orchestra and Sofia Gubaidulina's Serialism, Michael Paul Mitchell
Performers as Teachers: A Case Study on How Two El Sistema-Inspired Teaching Artists' Performance Identities Manifested During Instruction, Alicia J. Monroe
Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Task Domains with Deictic Descriptor Representation, Harry Paul Moore
Machine Learning Tools for Optimization of Fuel Consumption at Signalized Intersections in Connected/Automated Vehicles Environment, Saleh Ragab Mousa
Landscapes of Persistence and Ritual Architecture at the Cosma Complex, Upper Nepeña Valley, Peru., Kimberly Elizabeth Munro
Data-Driven Computational Approach to Study Bio-Molecular Interactions, Misagh Naderi
Labor and Delivery: Television Performances By Pregnant Actresses From 1948-2016, Evleen Michelle Nasir
A Case Study: The Attitudes of a Teaching Assistant of French Toward Instructional Technology, Farida Emelia Ngandu Tshiebue
Invariant of Noncommutative Algebras and Poisson Geometry, Bach Van Nguyen
Children with ADHA or Anxiety Disorders: Are Common or Specific Variables Associated with Decreased Performance on Intelligence Indices?, Franziska NoackLeSage
Collaboratively Designed Customized Ethnic Dress: An Exploration Of Consumption Motivation Of First And Second Generation African Immigrant Women In US, Jane Andayi Opiri
The Handmaiden of Gnosis: Music in Esoteric Societies, Justin Andrew Owen
Feminism and The Black Church: A Qualitative Analysis Of Feminism Among Black Women In A Southern Baptist Church, Brianne Alexandra Painia
Breaking Conventions: OhrR, A Transcriptional Regulator from Burkholderia thailandensis, Anuja Rajiv Pande
On Working from Within: Understanding Self and Story, Bruce Parker
Evaluation of Oral Function Before and After Frenectomy in Breastfed Infants Diagnosed with Tethered Oral Tissue, Cindy L. Parr
In the Blood: Repressing Reproduction in the French Convent from Sanguinity to Sexuality, John Stanley Patin
Dimensions of Diversity in U.S. Arts Participation: Race-ethnicity, Education, Genre Origins, and Means of Broadcast Consumption, Nile DeGray Patterson
U.S. Demand Analysis for Fresh Bell Pepper: A Seasonal and Dynamic IAIDS Approach, Felipe Elmy Peguero Perez
Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Liquid-Assisted Gas-Lift Unloading, Renato Peixoto Coutinho
Generating Audio Using Recurrent Neural Networks, Andrew Pfalz
Using Improvisation to Increase Students' Self-Efficacy, Oral Proficiency, and Learning Satisfaction in Second Language Learning, Margaret Weston Piccoli