Dissertations from 2017
FACTORS AFFECTING STAKEHOLDER PERCEPTIONS AND INFLUENCE ON MANAGEMENT AGENDAS WITHIN THE TISZA (CENTRAL EUROPE) AND MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASINS (U.S.A.), Amanda Christine Marshall
THE ROLE OF NOTCH SIGNALING IN THE DIFFERENTIAL ABILITY OF SUPPORTING CELL SUBTYPES TO SPONTANEOUSLY REGENERATE HAIR CELLS IN THE NEONATAL MOUSE COCHLEA, Melissa M. McGovern
Communication, John Dewey's Sacred Quest: The Pragmatic Church and Catholic Pragmatism, Daniel Isaac Millis
EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE 1 (EGR1) AS A TUMOR SUPPRESSOR AND APOPTOSIS INDUCER IN RHABDOMYOSARCOMA, Trefa Salih Mohamad
SUPERVISORS’ EXPERIENCE OF RESISTANCE DURING ONLINE GROUP SUPERVISION: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL CASE STUDY, James R. Morton Jr.
Aperiodic Job Handling in Cache-Based Real-Time Systems, Sankalpanand Motakpalli
Clinical Supervision of Externs in Speech-Language Pathology, DIANE MUZIO
ESSAYS ON DOMESTIC FACTORS DRIVING ATTITUDES TOWARDS IMMIGRANTS AND EMIGRATION, Maliha Nazir
ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING: THE CHANGING SELF, IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL CONTROL, Katherine M. Niman
PROTECTION OPTIMIZATION OF CARBON-CARBON COMPOSITES AGAINST AIR OXIDATION BY COATING WITH ANTI-OXIDANTS, Adnan Khalil Oues
ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF TISZA RIVER MINE TAILINGS POLLUTION AND EFFECT OF CHRONIC CADMIUM EXPOSURE ON FISH PHYSIOLOGY, Jenny Sueanna Paul
At the margins of intersecting identities: What does it mean to be a Black queer woman?, Courtney Payne
INFERENCE AFTER VARIABLE SELECTION, Lasanthi Chathurika Ranasinghe Pelawa Watagoda
Integrating Feature and Graph Learning with Factorization Models for Low-Rank Data Representation, Chong Peng
From Text to Textile: An Autoethnographic Exploration of the Guatemalan Huipil, Olivia Gessella Perez-Langley
THEORY OF MIND, EMPATHY, AND IDENTITY PROCESSING STYLE: EXAMINING INTERRELATIONSHIPS AND ADVANTAGES OF ACTING EXPERIENCE, Zachary Allen Pilot
FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTH EDUCATION SPECIALISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS PROVIDING END-OF-LIFE EDUCATION, Amy Piontek
Anna He Purnabramha: Deorukhe Women’s Agency in the Making of Bodies, Cuisines, and Culture in Maharashtra, India, Gauri Anilkumar Pitale
ECOLOGY AND COEXISTENCE OF SCAPHIRHYNCHUS STURGEON AT MULTIPLE SCALES, Anthony Porreca
EXPLORATION OF NEW MAGNETOCALORIC AND MULTIFUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC MATERIALS, Abdiel Quetz
A NOVEL LINEAR DIOPHANTINE EQUATION-BAESD LOW DIAMETER STRUCTURED PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK, Shahriar Rahimi
Computational Studies of Stable and Unstable Growth of Vapor bubbles in Superheated Liquid, Sai Manohar Ramachandran
REACTIONS AND PROCESSES AT CELL-MIMICKING MEMBRANE SURFACES, Julia Constanza Reyes-Cuellar
Monitoring and Assessment of Military Installation Land Condition under Training Disturbance using Remote Sensing, Santosh Rijal
Examining the Relationship between Safety Management System Implementation and Safety Culture in Collegiate Flight Schools, Mike Robertson
BOOTSTRAPPING ANALOGS OF THE ONE WAY MANOVA TEST, Hasthika Sriyantha Rupasinghe Arachchige Don
COUNSELORS’ PERCEPTIONS OF INTEGRATING INDIAN/EASTERN AND WESTERN COUNSELING APPROACHES IN INDIA, Nupur Sahai
GENDERED EDUCATION: NARRATING THE SILENCE OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THE CLASSROOM, Christina Ellen Saindon
J.M.Coetzee and the Novel: A Return to the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Novel, Dina Faisal Salman
THE APPLICATION OF OXIDATIVE HYDROTHERMAL DISSOLUTION (OHD) TO ORGANIC-RICH SHALES, Margaret McPherson Sanders
WAR CRIME VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCES OF SRI LANKAN TAMIL MAKAL: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS, Nishanth V. Sanjithkumar
A STUDY OF PRESCHOOL TEACHERS’ INCORPORATION OF NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THEIR CLASSROOMS, Brandi Schumacher
Gender, Form, and Interiority in the Novels of Thomas Hardy, Bailey Justine Shaw
ADAPTIVE CONTROL DESIGN FOR QUADROTORS, Arjun Shekar Sadahalli
An Investigation of English Learners' Willingness to Communicate in a Linguistically Diverse Setting, Xiang Shen
PEDAGOGY OF ACCOMPLICE: NAVIGATING COMPLICITY IN PEDAGOGIES AIMED TOWARD SOCIAL JUSTICE, Robyn Stout Sheridan
INVESTIGATING THE DETERMINANTS AND ENDOGENOUS INFLUENCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL REPUTATION, Young Soo Shim
MENTAL HEALTH AND HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIORS OF INTERNATIONAL AND U.S. STUDENTS, Sabita Shrestha
A NOVEL MEDIATED OXYCOMBUSTION SYSTEM: SUBSYSTEM EVALUATION AND INTEGRATION, Adam Wayne Sims
Breaking Bonds: The Impact of Accountability on Client Identification, Katherine Brunelle Sorensen
Neuronal Nicotinic Receptor Dynamics in Medial Geniculate Body Neurons of Young and Aged Fischer Brown Norway Rats, Sarah Yvonne Sottile
DISPERSAL BEHAVIOR OF WHITE-TAILED DEER IN AN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE, Matthew Thomas Springer
THE EFFECTS OF PREGNANCY ON STUDENT PROGRESS, Sarah Hope Steinkamp
WOMEN AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF WORKING SINGLE MOTHERS BALANCING FAMILY AND WORK, Casheena Atari Stephens
PRECURSORS OF TEACHERS’ SENSE OF EFFICACY TO ADDRESS THE LITERACY LEARNING OF DIVERSE STUDENTS, Miriam Elizabeth Stroder
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: The Effects of Women Correctional Officers on Prison VIolence, Monica E. Summers
Conditional Neural Networks for Speech and Language Processing, Pengfei Sun
SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING: JORDANIAN EFL LEARNERS’ PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCES, Rania Hassan Talafhah
ECOLOGY OF A KŌAN: HAKUIN’S ZEN AS A MORAL MODEL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGAGEMENT, Kevin Curtis Taylor
NOVEL NANOMATERIALS FOR ENERGY RELATED APPLICATIONS, Chung-Ying Tsai
The Effects of Knowledge Transfer On Complex Problem Representation and Judgment in Auditing, Brandon Vagner
WHEN CHURCH BECOMES STATE: CLERGY AS POLITICAL CANDIDATE, Robert William Velez
Intruder Dynamic Response in Particulate Media, Niranjan Mahaguruge Warnakulasooriya
Identifying and characterizing fungal pathogens causing seedling diseases on soybean through a multi-state survey, Amanda Jo Warner
SUPPORT SERVICES FOR MAINSTREAM DEAF COLLEGE STUDENT WRITERS: THREE INSTITUTIONAL CASE STUDIES, Heidi Maria Williams
Influence of Remedial Education Policies: Experiences of Low-Income Native American Women at a Midwestern Community College, Carole Cristine Wilson-Armour
"We Heard Canada Was a Free Country": African American Migration in the Great Plains, 1890-1911, Rachel M. Wolters
MICRO-CIRCUIT DIODE FOR ULTRA-LOW-POWER ENERGY HARVESTING, Wei Wu
Numerical Analysis on Seismic Response of Cantilever Retaining Wall Systems and Fragility Analysis on Motion Response, Siavash Zamiran
EGGS UNDER THE RED FLAG AND BEYOND: THE CINEMA OF THE FIFTH GENERATION AND ITS REPRESENTATION OF CHILDHOOD, Haoyue Zhang
STUDY OF BIOGASIFICATION OF COAL TO METHANE FOR EX SITU AND IN SITU APPLICATIONS, Ji Zhang
Dissertations from 2016
AN IMPROVED ROCK MASS BEHAVIOR NUMERICAL MODEL AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO LONGWALL COAL MINING, Behrooz Abbasi
EFFECT OF FOREIGN PRESENCE ON DOMESTIC PERFORMANCE: THE CASES OF EDUCATION IN THE US AND MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN ETHIOPIA, Melaku Teklea Abegaz
The Development, Pilot, and Field Test of the Core HIV/AIDS Knowledge Assessment for Undergraduate and Graduate Students in Counseling-Related Degree Programs, Carrie L. Acklin
THE THREE CATEGORIES OF CREATIVE FREEDOM: GOD, SELF-CONTROL, AND COMMUNITY, Juliana Acosta López de Mesa
Realizations of simple Smale flows on three-manifolds, Kamal Mani Adhikari
The Impact of Brief Mindfulness Interventions on Attentional Control in Anxious Undergraduates: A Randomized Controlled Study, Megan Aiello
Environmental Sustainability: A Three Part Essay of The Value Relevance of Cost Management, Ouadie Akaaboune
MICROFLUIDIC DYNAMIC ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING COUPLED TO MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION/IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY, Srikanth Akinapalli
MEDIA AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA: ANALYSIS OF WAR AND PEACE FRAMES IN THE BOKO HARAM CRISIS COVERAGE, Ngozi Akinro
MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF COMMODITY PRICE DYNAMICS, Md Rafayet Alam
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ZINC OXIDE BASED NANOSTRUCTURES AND COMPOSITES FOR ENERGY RELATED APPLICATIONS, Ahmed Al-Asadi
SAUDI PRESERVICE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD TEACHING SCIENCE: EXPLORATION OF COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE, AND PERCEIVED CONTROL BELIEFS, Ataallh Alatoai
OPTIMAL ANTENNA DESIGNS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS, ALI ABDULHADI NOAMAN AL-AZZA
A ZETA FUNCTION FOR FLOWS WITH L(−1,−1) TEMPLATE, Ghazwan Mohammed AL-Hashimi
VALIDATION OF CIRCUIT TIMING BEHAVIOR IN THE PRESENCE OF DELAY DEFECTS AND NBTI AGING, Phaninder Alladi
THE IMPACT OF ADDING LIVE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM DISCUSSION TO ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE DISCUSSION IN A BLENDED INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COURSE, Khalid Mutlaq Almalhy
BEREAVEMENT AND FACTORS OF ADJUSTMENT AMONG CHRISTIAN, JEWISH, AND MUSLIM BEREAVED PARENTS, Mais Imad Al-Deen Mohamad Al-Nasah
MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS AMONG SAUDI TEACHERS AND SUPERVISORS IN USING ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Ali Suwayid Alqarni
Network Organization Paradigm, Saad Alqithami
STRICT REGULARITY OF POSITIVE DEFINITE TERNARY QUADRATIC FORMS, Hamdan Alsulaimani
Arabic Language Student Teacher Perceptions towards the Effectiveness of University Supervisors, Cooperating Teachers, and School Principals during the Teaching Practicum, MOHAMMED ALSULAMI
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRE-SERVICE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ SCIENTIFIC LITERACY AND THEIR SELF-EFFICACY IN TEACHING SCIENCE, Adam Ali Al Sultan
DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF BANDWIDTH GRANULARITY FOR MULTIPATH ROUTING IN ELASTIC OPTICAL OFDM-BASED NETWORKS, Luae Abdul Fatah Barakat Al-Tarawneh
ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS- PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSES OF SOME MEDICINAL NATURAL PRODUCTS IN FOOD PLANTS, Ammar Badran Altemimi
A COMPARISON BETWEEN SAUDI AND AMERICAN SCHOOL PRINCIPAL PREPARATION PROGRAMS, Anas Altuwaijri
A THREE PART ESSAY ON THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES ON FIRM LEVEL INNOVATIVE CAPACITY A SYNTHESIS OF EFFECT, PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITABILITY., ASSYAD Al-Wreikat
A CASE STUDY: EXPLORING THE INCLUSIVE EDUCATION DECISIONS TEACHER EDUCATORS MAKE AND EXAMINING HOW PREPARED PRESERVICE TEACHERS FEEL TO TEACH DIVERSE STUDENTS, Lawrence Kofi Ametepee
CRACKING THE WORLD SYSTEM: MEDIATING PUBLIC PEDAGOGIES FROM THE “WORLD REVOLUTION” OF 1848, James Kepley Anderson
Fertility preservation of ovarian germ cells: the horse and deer models, Gustavo Desire Antunes Gastal
Science Teachers' Knowledge, Beliefs, Values, and Concerns of Teaching through Inquiry, Yahya Ibrahim Assiri
Object tracking and fetal signal monitoring, Yang Bai
Rural Credit Markets in Ethiopia: Coexistence, Persistence, and Demand, Bizuayehu Getachew Bedane