Dissertations from 2015
Neuropsychological Sequelae of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Later Adulthood, EiEi Hlaing
Multi Scale Contact Mechanics of Bio-Mechanical Systems with inclusion of roughness effect- Fractal Analysis, Mohammad Hodaei
STABLE ISOTOPE RATIOS AS A PROXY FOR HUMAN GEOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE: BIOGEOGRAPHICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE 2H, 18O, AND 13C SIGNATURES IN MODERN HUMAN TEETH, Anastasia Holobinko
AKR1B10 PROMOTES BREAST CANCER METASTASIS THROUGH INTEGRIN α5/δ-CATENIN-RAC1 SIGNALING PATHWAY, Chenfei Huang
IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS OF PATHOGENICITY GENES IN FUSARIUM VIRGULIFORME, THE CAUSAL AGENT OF SOYBEAN SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME (SDS), Kazi Tariqul Islam
Chronic Circadian Misalignment Disrupts the Circadian Clock and Promotes Metabolic Syndrome, Cassie Danielle Jaeger
ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF HEAVILY LOADED MAT FOUNDATION ON ADJACENT DRILLED SHAFT FOUNDATION, Pravin Jha
Jane Addams and Hans-Georg Gadamer: Learning to Listen with the Other, Mike Patrick Jostedt
Robotic Offline Path Planning, Pejman Kamkarian
LEISURE, STRESS COPING, AND HEALTH IN UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES, Jong-Ho Kim
CONVERGENCE IN SECTORAL LABOR PRODUCTIVITY AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE, Bisrat Temesgen Kinfemichael
Investigation of Primary Ion Formation Mechanisms in UV-MALDI-MS Using Excited State Dynamics of Common MALDI Matrices, Kristopher Michael Kirmess
Restoration and Water Management in the Atchafalaya River Basin, Louisiana, Justin Peter Kozak
Bayesian Estimation of Multi-unidimensional Graded Response IRT Models, Tzu Chun Kuo
Improving Health Care by Listening to the Voices of Women who Partner with Women, Donna C. LaBarge
COMPARING THREE ESTIMATION METHODS FOR THE THREE-PARAMETER LOGISTIC IRT MODEL, Sunil Lamsal
Psychosocial Predictors of High School Adolescents' Sun-tanning and Sun-protective Behaviors, Diane M. Land
HARLEM IN SHAKESPEARE AND SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM: THE SONNETS OF CLAUDE MCKAY, COUNTEE CULLEN, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND GWENDOLYN BROOKS, David J. Leitner
MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF CONFLICT, Eric Daniel Lenz
A Brief Mindfulness Intervention on Acute Pain Experience: An Examination of Individual Difference, Clare Marie Lewandowski
NEW COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR OPTIMAL CONTROL OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, Jun Liu
EXPLORING UNIVERSITY PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRESENCE AS RELATED TO ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS, Arden Lockwood
The Strains of Conscience: Justifying Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection, Dennis Lunt
REAL-TIME CLASSIFICATION OF CONTINUOUS GESTURES, Rapeepan Maitree
A WOMAN'S VOICE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON HOW FIRST-YEAR COLLEGE WOMEN UNDERSTAND THEIR SEXUAL EXPERIENCES, Amber Lynn Manning-Ouellette
A Modernist Among the Victorians: The Case of Emily Brontë, Sohana Manzoor
Behavioral Reconstruction of the Kerma Era Nubians, D.C. Martin
Modeling and Scheduling for Sensor Network Quality-of-Experience Enhancement, Mini Mathew
THE LEVEL OF VALUE AND EXPECTANCY HELD FOR ADULT AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION BY AGRICULTURAL EDUCATORS IN MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS, William David Mauk
Differential Effects of Divided Attention on Object Representations, Jillian Christine Mayer
An Examination of Associations Among Psychopathology, Personality, and Coping, Daniel McBride
Monitor Men: An Intertextual Analysis of Motion Pictures Directed by George Clooney, Mark Jefferey McCleerey
Evolution of stomata in mosses (Bryophyta): From molecules to form and function, Amelia Merced-Alejandro
Determination of Quadratic Lattices by Local Structure and Sublattices of Codimension One, Nicolas David Meyer
Tick-borne Diseases: Assessing the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of College Students, Wendi Krista Middleton
Fighting with Reality: Considering Mark Johnson's Pragmatic Realism Through Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do Method, Alexander David Miller
FROM ‘WE REASONERS’ TO ‘WE SUFFERERS’: COMMUNITY AND LOYALTY FROM ROYCE, THROUGH SELLARS, TO RORTY, Steven Andrew Miller
THE STUDY OF CD24 AS A PREDICTIVE INDICATOR IN CISPLATIN TREATMENT RESPONSE OF HEAD AND NECK CANCER, Vishnu Modur
Oil Price Movements and Equity Returns: Evidence from the GCC Countries, Fathi M. Mohalhal
Function-based Algorithms for Biological Sequences, Pragyan Paramita Mohanty
Low Temperature Electrical Transport in 2D Layers of Graphene, Graphitic Carbon Nitride, Graphene Oxide and Boron-Nitrogen-Carbon, Baleeswaraiah Muchharla
Transcendental sensus communis: Reflective Foundations of Cognition in Kantian Epistemology, Laura Joy Mueller
BURIAL AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN ITALIAN IRON AGE NECROPOLES: TESTING A BIODISTANCE APPROACH, Evan Muzzall
Methodologies for Test and Diagnosis of Delay Defects in Integrated Circuits, Ahish Mysore somashekar
Lincoln's Conservatives: Conservative Unionism and Political Tradition in the Civil War Era, Mark Alan Neels
CARBON AND NITROGEN CYCLING IN GIANT CANE (ARUNDINARIA GIGANTEA (WALT.) MUHL.) RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEMS, Amanda Nelson
The Association of Resilience with Cardiovascular Disease Among Members of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, Lisa C. Nelson-Majewski
Analysis of Ergonomics and Highly Non-linear Dynamics of Surgical Motions and Muscle Activations in Minimally Invasive Surgery, IKECHUKWU POLYCARP NNAMDI OHU
Parent-child mutuality: An examination of its influences and stability in a twin sample, Amanda Palo
MODELING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF Z-NUMBER, Purvag Patel
The Struggle for Terroir in French Algeria: Land, Wine, and Contested Identity in the French Empire, Nathan Welsz Pedigo
Performing Black Feminisms in Diasporic Contexts: Sub-Saharan Women Negotiating Identity across Cultures, Gloria Pindi Nziba
BOND STRENGTH EVALUATION IN ADHESIVE JOINTS USING NDE AND DIC METHODS, Anish Poudel
THE INTERPLAY OF HISTONE CHAPERONE NAP1 WITH SWI/SNF FAMILY OF CHROMATIN REMODELLERS IN S.cerevisiae, RASHMI PRASAD
DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION / IONIZATION (MALDI) BASED PEPTIDE QUANTITATION APPROACH, Kandalama KD Priyasantha
Memory: A Semiotic Ontology Of The Self, Aisha Raees
HUMAN CLCA2 IS A P53-DEPENDENT ZINC METALLOPROTEASE AND ITS INTERACTION WITH EVA1 MAINTAINS DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN MAMMARY EPITHELIAL CELLS, Grace Theresa Nicholas Ramena
NOVEL DOPAMINERGIC SIGNALING MODULATING HIPPOCAMPAL SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION, Nisha Rizvi
Code-Switching and Gender: A Longitudinal Study of Spanish/English Speaking Fraternal Boy-Girl Twins, Colin Scott Robinson
RACE, SOCIALIZATION, AND CIVILITY: INTERROGATING THE COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WHITE HABITUS, Charles Kyle Rudick
Toward Better Knowledge: A Social Epistemology of Pragmatic Nonviolence, Matthew A. Ryg
Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Output Neurons in Young and Aged Rats, Tracy Anne Schatteman
ROMANTIC RECULTIVATING OF SELF AND ENVIRONMENT, David R. Schrappe
A comparative study of the population dynamics of four Amaranthaceae species, Lauren Michele Schwartz
Evaluation of Equivalence Relations: Models of Assessment and Best Practice, Dawn Amber Seefeldt
STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF F-BOX-ONLY PROTEIN FBXO7 AND ITS INTERACTIONS WITH PROTEASOME INHIBITOR PI31, Jinsai Shang
FUEL SWITCH TO BIOMASS FOR THE CONTINUED USE OF AN OTHERWISE STRANDED COAL FIRED STEAM ELECTRIC ASSET, Thomas L. Shaw
Convergent validity of two measures of childhood sexual abuse: Russell Sexual Abuse Interview Schedule and the Finkelhor Survey of Childhood Experiences, Tatyana Shchupak
NMR/MRI SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT BY REVERSIBLE EXCHANGE (SABRE) AND HETEROGENEOUS SABRE (HET-SABRE), Fan Shi
I, TOO, SING AMERICA: IMMIGRANT PERCEIVED ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION AND (DIS)IDENTIFICATION WITH NATIONAL BRANDS, Ra'id Qustandi Shomali
QUALITY-OF-LIFE INDICATORS IMPACTING OLDER ADULTS, Julie E. Smirl
High School Response to Intervention: A Case Study of Incoming Ninth Graders, Ellen Suzanne Smothers
MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION: SOLVING ISSUES OF BIG DATA ANALYSIS, Soroosh Sohangir
BURNED OUT FROM HEALING THE BROKEN HEARTED: THE EXPERIENCES OF CARDIAC NURSES, Gregory J. Steinsdoerfer
Capturing Critical Whiteness: Portraits of White Antiracist Professors, Melanie Jane Stivers
INSTRUCTORS' PERCEPTIONS OF ONLINE INSTRUCTION WITHIN REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS, Gayla M. Stoner
Nuestro Mundo A Martiano Exploration of the Existential Impact of Climate Change, Alejandro Chester Strong
DIET, EXERCISE, AND SMARTPHONES - A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF MOBILE HEALTH APPLICATIONS FOR WEIGHT LOSS, Rajvee Subramanian
ALL-OPTICAL DELTA-SIGMA MODULATOR DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION, MOHAMAD TAFAZOLI MEHRJERDI
HEMODYNAMICS STUDIES OF THE PREOVULATORY FOLLICLE AND CORPUS LUTEUM IN CATTLE, Saulo De Tarso Gusmão da Silva
What's My Motivation: The Effect of Motivated Reasoning and Accountability on the Determination of Internal Control Effectiveness, Chanta Thomas
BECOMING A STUDENT AFFAIRS ADMINISTRATOR: A STUDY OF ANTICIPATORY SOCIALIZATION AND THE DECISION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS TO ENTER THE STUDENT AFFAIRS PROFESSION, Romeshia C. Thomas
FRAMING RIGHTS-CLAIMS: COLLECTIVE IDENTITY GROUPS IN THE TURKISH PUBLIC SPHERE, Bihter Tomen
Towards Combined Computational and Experimental Studies on Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles, Pamela Cabalu Ubaldo
Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms of Ribosomal Protein Genes, Bhawana Uprety
Uncertainty and Threat Perception: Nationalism as an Informational Index of International Behavior, Tatiana Vargas Maia
REGULATION OF Fas-MEDIATED APOPTOSIS BY THE Fas ANTI-SENSE NON-CODING RNA "Saf", Olga Villamizar
A Novel Image Retrieval Strategy Based on VPD and Depth with Pre-Processing, Tianyang Wang
Causes of the decline in the loss of vegetated palustrine wetlands in the U.S. 1955 - 2009, Roger Kent Wiebusch
The Relationship Of Romantic Attachment To Intimate Partner Violence Victimization And Perpetration: An Examination Of Individual Mediation And Moderation Variables, Chauntel Marie Wiggins
EFFECTS OF TIME, SEED SOURCE, AND PLANT COMPOSITION ON MACROINVERTEBRATES IN RESTORED PRAIRIE, Ben Wodika
Conducting Experiments: On the Connections Between Experimental Art Praxes and Performance Studies, Nicole E. Wood