Doctoral Dissertations
Dissertations from 2015
Wide Band Embedded Slot Antennas for Biomedical, Harsh Environment, and Rescue Applications, Yun Seo Koo
EFFECTIVENESS OF PROLOQUO2GOTM IN ENHANCING COMMUNICATION IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM DURING ABA THERAPY, Taylor Eastin Krcek
CONSTRUCTING VICTIMHOOD: OPPOSITION TO LEGISLATION PROTECTING LGBT STUDENTS AGAINST BULLYING, Kiam Loong Daniel Lai
The Count of Saint-Gilles and the Saints of the Apocalypse: Occitanian Piety and Culture in the Time of the First Crusade, Thomas Whitney Lecaque
Environmental Gentrification and Development in a Rural Appalachian Community: Blending Critical Theory and Ethnography, Rhiannon A. Leebrick
QUANTITATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS PIPELINE FOR LABEL-FREE METAPROTEOMICS DATA AND ITS APPLICATIONS, Lang Ho Lee
Computational Framework for Small Animal SPECT Imaging: Simulation and Reconstruction, Sang Hyeb Lee
Wide-Area Synchrophasor Measurement Applications and Power System Dynamic Modeling, Yin Lei
Fluorochlorozirconate Glass Ceramics for Photovoltaic and Computed Radiography Applications, Russell Lee Leonard
The Congruence-Based Zero-Divisor Graph, Elizabeth Fowler Lewis
ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT ARCHITECTURES WITH DYNAMICALLY DEFINED PRECISION, Getao Liang
Crystal Growth and Physical Property Characterization of Complex Perovskite Oxides, Ling Li
Compressed Sensing in Resource-Constrained Environments: From Sensing Mechanism Design to Recovery Algorithms, Shuangjiang Li
Driving Volatility in Instantaneous Driving Behaviors: Studies Using Large-Scale Trajectory Data, Jun Liu
A Magnetic Actuated Fully Insertable Robotic Camera System for Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, Xiaolong Liu
Using GPU to Accelerate Linear Computations in Power System Applications, Xue Li
Timing and Extent of the Little Ice Age Glacial Advances in the Eastern Tian Shan, China, Yanan Li
Southern Gothic Fiction and New Naturalism: Toward a Reading of New Naturalism, Jeremy Kevin Locke
The factors that influenced the decision to enter into a $1 billion fundraising campaign by two public higher education institutions, William Rhodes Logan
Joint optimization of allocation and release policy decisions for surgical block time under uncertainty, Mina Loghavi
Calmodulin-like protein 38: a component of ribonucleoprotein particles during hypoxic stress responses in Arabidopsis, Ansul Lokdarshi
Women At War: A Qualitative Study Of U.S. Female Military Personnel, Their Journeys Home, Multiple Deployments, And The Effect Of War, Autumn Nicole Lowry
Fault Diagnosis and Failure Prognostics of Lithium-ion Battery based on Least Squares Support Vector Machine and Memory Particle Filter Framework, Mohammed Ali Lskaafi
Insights into planetesimal evolution: Petrological investigations of regolithic howardites and carbonaceous chondrite impact melts, Nicole Gabriel Lunning
Physiological characterization of Prochlorococcus under abiotic stressors temperature and hydrogen peroxide, Lanying Ma
Dynamic Simulation and Neuromuscular Control of Movement: Applications for Predictive Simulations of Balance Recovery, Misagh Mansouri Boroujeni
Principal Mental Models and Perceptions of Distributed Leadership, Leigh Ann Marlar
Computational Analysis of Neutron Scattering Data, Benjamin Walter Martin
CHARACTERIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF AMYLOID-REACTIVE PEPTIDES AS TRACERS FOR QUANTITATIVE MOLECULAR IMAGING, Emily Brooke Martin
Economic Wealth and Social Welfare: A Longitudinal Analysis of Transnational Well-Being, Kelly Brooke Martin
Solar Modulation of the Cosmic Ray Intensity and the Measurement of the Cerenkov Reemission in NOvA’s Liquid Scintillator, Philip James Mason
Characterization of Mechanically Cooled High Purity Germanium (HPGe) Detectors at Elevated Temperatures, Joseph Benjamin McCabe
Home to the Reich: The Nazi Occupation of Europe's Influence on Life inside Germany, 1941-1945, Michael Patrick McConnell
A GHz-range, High-resolution Multi-modulus Prescaler for Extreme Environment Applications, Benjamin Matthew McCue
What Middle Schoolers Want: An Analysis of the Most Circulated Texts in a Public School District, Kimberly Flanders McCuiston
Mindfulness-Based Therapy and Behavioral Activation: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Depressed College Students, Crystal Constance McIndoo
Linking soil moisture and carbon-cycle processes in two understudied terrestrial ecosystems: Ecuadorian páramo grasslands and constructed agricultural wetlands, Julie Yvette McKnight
HOME/ECONOMICS: ENTERPRISE, PROPERTY, AND MONEY IN WOMEN’S DOMESTIC FICTION, 1860-1930, Julia Poindexter McLeod
Theory and Experiments Exploring Behavioral, Financial, and Public Economics, Matthew John McMahon
The Effects of Trade Competition on Health, and Determinants of Workplace Behavior, Thomas Clayton McManus
Community Formation and the Development of a British-Atlantic Identity in the Chesapeake: An Archaeological and Historical Study of the Tobacco Pipe Trade in the Potomac River Valley ca. 1630-1730, Lauren Kathleen McMillan
Synthesis, Characterization and Evaluation of Lectin-Binding Properties of 1,2-cis-Glycosides, Bo Meng
NANOSCALED CELLULOSE AND ITS CARBONACEOUS MATERIAL: APPLICATION AND LOCAL STRUCTURE INVESTIGATION, Yujie Meng
Elucidating mechanisms of lipid droplet formation in the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Alexander William Meyers
Understanding the Influence of Non-covalent Interactions and Nanoparticle Geometries in Carbon Based Polymer Nanocomposites, Bradley Carroll Miller
Conservation Planning in a Changing World, Austin Walker Milt
Development of the SETIS Instrument to Measure Teachers' Self-Efficacy to Teach Science in an Integrated STEM Framework, Monica Clutch Mobley
Collaborative Models for Supply Networks Coordination and Healthcare Consolidation, Shima Mohebbi
Microfluidic Syntheses of PET Radiotracers via Fluorodenitration, Thomas Madison Moore
Essays on Environmental Economics, Shukhrat Usmonovich Musinov
Positionality and Its Effects on Pedagogy: Examining the Identity Categories of Race, Class, and Gender of English as a Second Language (ESL) Preservice Teachers., Hollie Marie Nawrocki
Synthesis of Mesoporous Carbon for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Sequestration, Kimberly Marie Nelson
Rhetorics of Self in Eighteenth-Century Biography, Nathaniel Don Norman
Enriching Teacher Self-Efficacy Through a Support Centric Evaluation Model: A Mixed Methods Study of TEAM's Impact on Teacher Self-Efficacy, Elizabeth Marie Norton
Computational Simulation of Mass Transport and Energy Transfer in the Microbial Fuel Cell System, Shiqi Ou
Integrated application of genomic, biochemical and cultivation approaches to characterize 1,2-dichloropropane dichloroelemination in organohalide respiring Chloroflexi, Elizabeth Padilla
An Investigation of Key Personality Traits of Managers and Executives, Kanwarjit Pahwa
Self-assembled Casein Nanostructures to Deliver Novel Functionalities, Kang Pan
The Metastatic Receptor Status Impact on First-Line Treatment Plans and Outcomes for Recurrent Metastatic Breast Cancer, T. Allen Pannell
The Effects of Realistic Nuclear Kinetics, Dimensionality, and Resolution on Detonations in Low-Density Type Ia Supernovae Environments, Thomas L. Papatheodore
Essays on Energy Efficiency and Pricing Behavior in the U.S. Automobile Market: Evidence from Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Sangsoo Park
Template-Based Imaging Analysis of Arbitrary Nuclear Material Configurations Using Time and Directionally-Tagged Fast Neutrons, Kirsten Elise Pena
Exploring the Heterogeneity of Other-regarding Preferences, Langchuan Peng
Multipartite Graph Algorithms for the Analysis of Heterogeneous Data, Charles Alexander Phillips
“It Got the Ball Rolling”: A Qualitative Exploration of Counseling Students’ Small Group Experiences during Group Work Training, Brittany Lynn Pollard
Gain tuning of proportional integral controller based on multiobjective optimization and controller hardware-in-loop microgrid setup, Kumaraguru Prabakar
Assessment and Investigation of Electronic Aggression in the Romantic Relationships of Emerging Adults, Teresa Michelle Preddy
Recreando la imagen literaria de la mujer afrodescendiente en las narrativas femeninas afrocubanas y afrobrasileñas contemporáneas., Luciana da Trindades Prestes
Failure Simulations at Multiple Length Scales in High Temperature Structural Alloys, Chao Pu
"O Carefull Verse": Neoteric Poetics in the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser, Melissa Joy Rack
Are Auditor and Audit Committee Report Changes Useful to Investors? Evidence from the United Kingdom, Lauren Carse Reid
Proactive Communication: An Investigation of Employee Reactions to Organizational Communication Problems, Katie Marie Reno
Experimental and Ab initio Computational Study of Azobenzene and Several of its Derivatives, Mohammadreza Rezaee
Lived Experiences of Beginning Counselors in Harmful Supervision, Alessandra Joy Rhinehart
Russian anti-Americanism, public opinion and the impact of the state-controlled mass media, Natalie Manaeva Rice
Psycho-Physiological Effects of Television Viewing During Exercise, Brian Carl Rider
The Effects of Electronic Treatment Reminder Cues on Relapse Prevention, Kathrin Ritter
Sport Tourism, Destination Image and College Football Games: The Recreational Vehicle Tailgater, Cheryl Rebecca Rode
Evaluating the Effects of Standardized Patient Care Pathways on Clinical Outcomes, Anna V. Romanova
Data Fusion Methods for Improved Demographic Resolution of Population Distribution Datasets, Amy Nicole Rose
A Contingent Systems View of Urban Logistics, William John Rose
Essays in Environmental Economics and the Economics of Higher Education, Justin R. Roush
Three Rs: Relationship Orientation, Relational Interdependent Self-construal, and Relationship Maintenance Strategies, Maria Moana Rowley
Responsibility, Blame and the Psychopath, Matthew William Ruble
“You Came to Not Normal Land”: Nurses' Experience of the Environment of Disaster: A Phenomenological Investigation, Stasia Elizabeth Ruskie
An Examination of the Relationship Between Athletic Satisfaction and Student Adaptation to College, Brian C. Russell
Pre Clovis at Topper (38AL23): Evaluating the Role of Human versus Natural Agency in the Formation of Lithic Deposits from a Pleistocene Terrace in the American Southeast, Douglas Allen Sain
Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction of Radiologic Sciences Faculty: Implications for Recruitment and Retention, Lisa Marie Satterfield
Development of High Performance Molecular Dynamics with Application to Multimillion-Atom Biomass Simulations, Roland Schulz
Neuroscience-Inspired Dynamic Architectures, Catherine Dorothy Schuman
Subordinate humor and leader-member exchange relationships: Laugh and the boss laughs with you?, Nancy Marietta Scott
You Have to Find That Music That Both Parties Can Dance To: One School District's Experience with Collaborative Conferencing, Janel Marie Seeley
‚Literarisch inszenierte Sprachbiographien’ Familiengedächtnis, Liebe und Stadt in Dimitré Dinevs Engelszungen, Marica Bodrožićs Das Gedächtnis der Libellen und Ilma Rakusas Mehr Meer. Erinnerungspassagen, Anja Katharina Seiler
Active Critical Engagement (ACE): A Pedagogical Tool for the Application of Critical Discourse Analysis in the Interpretation of Film and Other Multimodal Discursive Practices, Sultana Aaliuah Shabazz
Managing the Co-creation of Innovation: The Influence of Team Regulatory Style and Reflexivity on Customer Idea Selection and Innovation Outcomes, Matthew Brady Shaner
Analysis and Control of VSC Based HVDC System under Single-Line-to-Ground Fault Conditions, Xiaojie Shi
Genetic Diversity, Population Structure, and Evolution of Virulence in Toxoplasma gondii, Elliot Keats Cullen Shwab