A collection of Sciences Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Understanding the Mechanisms of Surface Chemical Reactions by Tracking Unstable Intermediate Species, Md Afjal Khan Pathan
Victim Blame of Missing People Based on Race and Media Framing, Ciara Peebles
Creativity as a Resource: How Creativity Influences the Appraisal of Work Stressors and Subsequent Strain, Alyssa Perez
Covid-19: Exploring the Probability of Disease Extinction - A Modeling and Simulation Study, Donald Porchia
The Double Curse Effect or Does Petroleum Patriarchy Affect Acceptability of Wife Battery in Former Soviet Countries?, Karina Powell
An Aphelion Analysis of Comet 2P/Encke, Brynn Presler-Marshall
Online Organizational Citizenship Behavior: An Exploration of New Avenues for Prosocial Behavior in the Digital Age, Sarah Rabon
Applicant Reactions to One-Way Video Interviews: An Investigation of the Role of Individual-Level Cultural Values, Krystyn Ramdial
To Cut or Not to Cut? Exploring Parental Decision-making about Neonatal Male Circumcision, Karli Reeves
Simulating Ejecta Blown off the Lunar Surface due to Landing Spacecraft using the Mercury N-body Integrator, Isabel Rivera
The Reciprocal Effect of Gastrointestinal Health on Psychological Distress and Disability in Emerging Adults, Emily Ross
Highly Reproducible Electrochemical Sensors towards Wearable Applications and Pharmaceutical Analysis, Mohammad Rostampour Kakroudi
Assessing Opinions Towards Transgender Individuals, Tiffeni Russo
Parental Fear of Hypoglycemia, Adherence, and Glycemic Control in Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes, Jennifer Scheurich
The Motuporamines Act Through RHO1 and RAC to Control Actin Dynamics in Drosophila, Corey Seavey
Plasmonic Properties of Nanopatterned Graphene, Muhammad Waqas Shabbir
An Evaluation of the Performance of Proc ARIMA's Identify Statement: A Data-Driven Approach using COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Florida, Fahmida Akter Shahela
Between Fighting and Serving: How Existential Motivations Shaped Combat Participation in the Donbas War in Ukraine, Miroslav Shapovalov
Superconductivity and Topological Properties in a Topological Semimetal, K A M Hasan Siddiquee
Big Five Aspect Personalty Scales and Social Anxiety Severity in a Nonpsychiatric Sample, Samantha Simpson
The Effects of Aqueous Alteration on Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Content in Carbonaceous Chondrites, Katerina Slavicinska
Breaking News: The Presence of Framing in Partisan Cable News Network's Coverage of Officers Murdering Black Victims, Andrea Smith
A Multi-Functional Surface, Sub-Surface, and Systemic Therapeutic Alternative To Copper For Crop Protection, Stephen Smith
Military Political Influence: How Military Leaders Interact with the Public Political Space, Thomas Spolizino
Help in the Time of COVID: Informational, Emotional, and Instrumental Support Among Graduate Students During a Pandemic, Teanna Staser
Getting Crafting When You're Bored: The Interaction Between Personality and Boredom, Jamie Striler
An Examination of Tarot Cards with Healing, Tori Thibault
Classification of Ground-Truth Fire Debris Samples Using Neural Networks, Nicholas Thurn
Toward In-situ Nanoscale Imaging and Spectroscopy: Applications in Growth and Catalysis of Two-dimensional Materials, Fernand Torres-Davila
Enhancement and Evaluation of Proton Pencil Beam Spot Placement Algorithms, Mahboob Ur Rehman
The Elderly Voter as Collateral Damage: The Consequences of Voter Restriction on Elderly American Voter Turnout, Mia Warshofsky
"I Have My Coven Now": Transgender Experience in the Central Florida Pagan Community, Alison Whitmore
Mail Ballot Signature Rejections: Household Members Signing Each Other's Ballots, Craig Wilding
An Evaluation of the Differences Between Perpetrators in Completed and Averted School Shootings, Ashley Winch
Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Their Heterostructure Integration, Sajeevi Sankalpani Withanage
Regularized Estimations in Some Statistical Problems, Feng Yu
Qualitative Reconceptualizations of Success in Physics From a Feminist Lens, Brian Zamarripa Roman
Social Media Use And Safe Sex Practices Among Chinese Gay Men, Hang Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Precariat and the Pandemic: Assessing the Wellbeing of Metro Orlando's Hospitality Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Caroline Austin
Soda Pop: Illusions of Consumability by Generational Minds: Crowdsourced Story Awakens the Archival Consciousness, David Bailey
Tunable Few- to Many-Cycle Source for High-Order Harmonic Generation and Time-Resolved Spectroscopy, John Beetar
Transfunctions and Other Topics in Measure Theory, Jason Bentley
Sexual Assault Acknowledgment and Psychological Symptoms: The Indirect Effect of Social Reactions to Disclosures, Emily Bernstein
Atomic Scale Processes and Electronic Band Structure Engineering in Thin Layered Materials, Brandon Blue
Comparing Human and Machine Learning Classification of Human Factors in Incident Reports From Aviation, Claas Tido Boesser
Biodiversity and Community Composition of Freshwater Fish Assemblages in the Lower Amazon, Juan Bogota
Lego my Ego: The Puzzling Role of Self-esteem and Goal Orientation on Appraisals of Unsolicited Help, Emily Broksch
Cute Panda or Evil Dragon? Market Economy, Conflict Behavior and China's Peaceful Rise, Xiongwei Cao
Exoplanets: Correlated Noise and Cautionary Tales, Ryan Challener
Experimental and Computational Investigation of Plume Surface Interactions in Vacuum Microgravity, Wesley Chambers
The Mediating Role of Leader-Member Exchange: Leader Personality and information Sharing, Hillary Chandler
(Main)streaming Hate: Analyzing White Supremacist Content and Framing Devices on YouTube, Christopher Charles
Chemometric Analysis of Multidimensional Fluorescence Data Recorded from Benzo[a]pyrene Metabolites in Shpol'skii Like Matrixes, Mohammadreza Chehelamirani
Effects of Nurses' Workload on Creativity and Innovation: Examining the Role of Trait Mindfulness as a Moderator, Kinjal Chheda
Social Connectedness and College Student Alcohol Use: Understanding the Role of Alcohol Expectancies, Social Anxiety, and Need to Belong, Mark Crisafulli
A Test of Counterfactual Thinking Theory to Change Intentions to Use Protective Behavioral Strategies, Ardhys De Leon
Assessing Stress Outcomes of Interpersonal Helping: An Application of Hindrance Stress Appraisals, Michael DiStaso
What Do You Do When You are Bored? Outcomes and Moderators of Job Boredom, Mitchell Eid
Distributed Algorithms and Inverse Graph Filtering, Nazar Emirov
In Sickness or In Health: The Impact of Disease Burdens on the Likelihood of Violent Conflict, Devyn Escalanti
Total Synthesis of Natural Products from Oxidative Dearomatization, Nameer Ezzat
Improving Foreign Militaries -- The Effects of U.S. Military Aid in the Form of International Military Education and Training Programs, Sandor Fabian
Applications of Close-range Photogrammetry for Documenting Human Skeletal Remains in Obstructed Wooded Environments, Morgan Ferrell
Under Pressure: Analysis of An Undergraduate Intervention for STEM Students in Academic Decline, Dena Ford
Stage Dives and Shared Mics: Ethnographic Perspectives on Community and Networking in the Central Florida Punk Rock Scene, Lauren Friedman
Symmetry and High Harmonic Spectroscopy in Solids, Shima Gholam Mirzaeimoghadar
The Power Color: Does Shared Decision Making Between Physicians and Patients Differ by Race, Vernon Headley
Drug Availability and Disparities in Arrests, Robert Hellmuth
Move Your body, Change Your Mind: Physical Activity in the Morning and its Implications for Work, Charlotte Holden
Discovery of New Topological Quantum Materials by Photoemission, MD Mofazzel Hosen
Magnesium Based Materials for Crop Protection and Reduction of Copper Usage in the Agricultural Field, Ziyang Huang
Rethinking Burnout in Informal Caregivers: Development and Validation of The Informal Caregiver Burnout Inventory - 10 Item Form, Nicholas James
Investigating the Inclusiveness of STEM Courses and Reducing Barriers by Using the Universal Design for Learning Framework, Westley James
Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Granular Dynamics in Microgravity, Stephanie Jarmak
Mill Cove Complex Lithic Typology: Understanding Early Mississippian Period Social Exchange in Northeastern Florida, Sherman Johns
Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online, Annie Jones
Determining and Assessing Fault Attribution in Collisions Involving Autonomous Vehicles, Alexandra Kaplan
Examining the Role of Anxiety and Depression in Predicting Dietary Choices in Emerging Adults, Michelle Keck
Neurophysiological Correlates of Trust in Robots, Theresa Kessler
Preparation and Characterization of Epitaxial Thin Films with Applications in Catalysis and Microelectronics, Asim Khaniya
A Nested PCR Strategy for Recovering Highly Discriminatory Y-STR DNA Profiles from Trace Male DNA Samples, Anna Kimball
Food, Familiarity, and Forecasting: Modeling Coups With Computational Methods, Joshua Lambert
Masters of the Manipulator? A Species Description and Comparative Genomics Study of Two New Hyperparasites of the Zombie Ant Fungus, Brittany Lebert
Forests and Farmers: A Landscape Approach to Settlement Pattern Analysis in the Bolivian Amazon, Thomas Lee
Natural Language Processing for Modeling Domains in Higher Education, Rebecca Leis
The Relationship Between Familism and Social Distancing Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Thien-An Le
Effects of High-Molecular-Weight Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Microbial Ecology and Community Structure, Charles Lewis
How Vegetarian Students' Dietary Patterns Are Affected During Covid-19 Social Distancing, Elise Lorenzo
Examining a Fish Community and its Response to Coastal Restoration in a Dynamic Coastal Estuary, Richard Mahoney