Dissertations from 2024
Investigations and Characterization of Loud Transient Noise in Advanced LIGO Detectors, Shania Nichols
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
Precision Bottlebrush Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization, and Structure-Property Relationship, Nduka D. Ogbonna
ENGINEERING ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF RANDOM ALLOYS FOR CATALYTIC APPLICATIONS, Andrew N. Okafor
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Water Quality in Southeastern Louisiana Using Machine Learning and Google Earth Engine, Olumide O. Omotere
CHARACTERIZATION OF RESISTANCE TO BACTERIAL PANICLE BLIGHT IN RICE: GENETIC INSIGHTS AND ANALYSIS, John Christian E. Ontoy
Euphemism in AI Discourse as Colonial Harm & Effect: Learnings from Subaltern Puerto Rico, Jacqueline Oquendo
MemForC: Memory Forensics Corpus Creation For Malware Analysis, Augustine Orgah
Investigating the Jazan Region's Ethnic Wedding Dress Tradition and the Influence of Social Media on the Jazan Bride's Dress Selection, khawlah Naif Otayf
An Analysis of William Bolcom's "Three Classical Rags", Thomas A. Owens
Investigating the Roles of Nopp140 Isoforms in Drosophila melanogaster, Shova Pandey
Effects of Perceived Supervisor and Peer Support on Training Transfer for Frontline Registered Nurses, Carly Penn
Unveiling the Idiomatic and Performance Inspirations: A Comparative Study of The Red Violin Caprices by John Corigliano., Johan Alexander Pepper
AN EXPLORATION OF THE DRIVERS OF INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN ARTHROPOD PHENOTYPES, Jamie Phelps
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
Firearm Owners’ Perspectives And Acceptability Of Firearm Suicide Safety Strategies & Messages From Healthcare Providers, Jeffrey Powers
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
Leveraging the Genomic Tools to Explore the Molecular Basis of Salinity Tolerance in Rice and Soybean, Rajat Pruthi
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
Sensory and Neural Mechanisms of Parent-Offspring Recognition, Emily Ray
Redefining the Art Songs of Maude Valérie White, Sarah C. Rees
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
Grass, Scrap, Burn: Labor, Environment and Memory at Whitney Plantation, 1865-1992, Ashley Rogers
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
Everyone Sleeps on Drag Kings: Exploring the Popularity Disparity Between Drag Kings and Drag Queens via Drag Consumers' TikTok Comments, Kami Rutherford
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
Elementary Science Teachers' Experiences: A Case Study on the Use of Science+Cyber Curriculum, Laurie Salvail
Unpacking Influence: Dissecting Engagement Drivers and Dynamics for Effective Influencer Marketing Strategies, Nichole W. Santee
The Role of SIAMESE in G2 Checkpoint Regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana, Martha A. Schwall
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
"I Will Not": Conscientious Objection and Recessive Action in American Poetry Against World War II, Tyler Sheldon
Detecting Sand Ingress and Migration Using Fiber Optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing Technology and Computational Fluid Dynamics During Oil and Gas Production, Rishikesh Shetty
Storying History: A Narrative Study on the use of Podcasts and Podcasting in Secondary Social Studies Classrooms, Elizabeth A. Shoenberger
Effects of Longitudinal Training Walls on Two-Dimensional Flow Structure, Sediment Transport, and Bed Aggredation Using Numerical Methods and Sediment Core Analyses in Grand River, Michigan, Sumaiya Tul Siddique
Mental Practice: Practical Application in Violin and Viola Private Lessons, Natasha Sieczkowska
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
THE MESSY ANTICS AGE: UTOPIAN POTENTIAL IN QUEER JEWISH PERFORMANCE, Kyra Smith
Preserving the Historic and Cultural Music of Louisiana Through School Music: An Ethnographic Case Study, Christopher S. Song
Examination of Musical Sophistication and Working Memory Correlates in High School Students, Abby South
Biological control of roseau cane scale with parasitoid wasps in Louisiana, Tanner C. Sparks
Eastern Baccharis Control in Newly Planted Wetland Reserve Programs, Lucas Stamper
Effects of Resistance Training with Low-Intensity Physical Activity on Muscle Oxidative Capacity in Older Adults, James Ervin Stampley IV
This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Matters of Marginalization in the Attention Economy, Kyle Stanley
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
Modern Lakeshore Processes and Historic Lake and Glacial Changes in Taylor Valley, Antarctica, Michael Stanley Stone
What Macrofloral and Macrofaunal Ecofacts Are Cooking? A Synthesis of Data and Methods in the Nepeña Valley, Peru, Kenneth Edward Sutherland
Alkyne Metathesis Catalysts with Fluorinated Alkoxide Podand (FLAP) Ligands, Sajila Riman Tanha
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
EVALUATING MICROBIAL RISK ASSOCIATED WITH LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES AND CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM ON FOOD PROCESSING SURFACES AND IN AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS, Manish Thapaliya
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
Excited State Reactivity of Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds for Ammonia Production and Hydrocarbon Functionalization, Victoria Z. Valley
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
Exploring Cricket Protein Processing: Aroma Generation, Physicochemical Properties, and Sensory Characterization, Elio R. Villasmil Gonzalez
Quiet No More: An Analysis of Women's Protest Music, Jillian Vogel
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
A CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS OF THE PSI-4-SF IN PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, Paige Weir
Catalytic Upcycling of Waste Plastics by Induction Heating, Bernard Whajah