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LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Dissertations from 2024 2024

SUPERCRITICAL PYROLYSIS OF ETHYLCYCLOHEXANE AND ETHYLCYCLOHEXANE/n-DECANE BLENDS, Avinash Mali

Beyond Surrealism: The Developing Keyboard Style of André Souris, Melanie T. Mallard

Media, Marginalization, and Mishegas: Examining and Unraveling Identity and Influence in Antisemitic Digital Discourse, Lyric L. Mandell

DEVELOPMENT OF MACHINE LEARNING-BASED TOOL FOR PREDICTION OF LONG-TERM FIELD PERFORMANCE OF ASPHALT CONCRETE OVERLAYS IN A HOT AND HUMID CLIMATE, Elise Mansour

THERMAL FRONTAL POLYMERIZATION – APPLICATIONS IN COATINGS AND COMPOSITES, Maria Martinez

ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF FRESHWATER DIVERSION ON MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES AND PREDATORY BACTERIA IN GULF COAST ECOSYSTEMS, Brian William Matherne

Metabolic Resilience in Athletes: Effects of Stress on Resting and Exercising Metabolic Function, Rachel Matthews

Development of Cyclic SCB Test for Evaluating Fatigue Cracking Resistance of Asphalt Mixture at Intermediate Temperature, Ye Ma

Measuring Bed-Load Transport Rates with Appropriate Uncertainty Bounds in a Flume and on the Mississippi River, Tate Overby McAlpin

SURFACE AND BULK PROPERTIES OF MULTI-COMPONENT METAL ALLOYS, Frank A. McKay III

Photosystem II Assembly and Photosynthetic Regulation in Cyanobacteria, Himanshu S. Mehra

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

AN INVESTIGATION OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' NEAR-MISS RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE USING PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL DATA, Shashank Muley

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

HOW DID HENRY AND EDSEL FORD OVERCOME OPERATIONAL AND MANUFACTURING CHALLENGES TO FABRICATE AVIATION PRODUCTS NECESSARY FOR THE ALLIED NATIONS TO WIN WORLD WAR II?, Timothy Neill

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

Have a Little Faith in Me: Exploring Individual and Neighborhood Predictors of Fear of Crime and Trust in the Police, Joy Ngelor Watchese

Unavoidable Topological Minors of Large or Infinite 3-connected Rooted Graphs, Phuc A. Nguyen

Investigations and Characterization of Loud Transient Noise in Advanced LIGO Detectors, Shania Nichols

A QUALITATIVE EXAMINATION OF GRIEF, MOURNING, AND BEREAVEMENT AMONG GRIEF-BASED MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS, Nia Nicks

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

EXAMINING SOCIAL ANXIETY, GENERALIZED ANXIETY, AND MAJOR DEPRESSION’S SYMPTOM COMORBIDITY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: A LONGINTUDINAL TEST OF THE MULTIPLE PATHWAY MODEL, Paige Picou

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

Research on 3D Printing Resin Exposure Properties and Its Application on Centrifugal Microfluidic Platform Based on Fluorescence Detection, Zheng Qiao

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

Struggling to be Positive Problem Solvers – A Study on the Relationship of Elementary Mathematical Self-Concept, Gender, Learner Identification, and Productive Struggle Trajectories on Constructed Response Questions When Being Taught With a Standardized Curriculum, Kali D. 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

Examining the Relations between Number of Opportunities to Self-Monitor and Self-Monitoring On-task or Accuracy in Children, Alison Ruby

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

A Descriptive Study of the Perceptions About Post-Treatment Cancer Prevention Recommendations of Cancer Survivors and Health Care Professionals in South East Louisiana, Vadel Y. Shivers

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