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Doctoral Dissertations

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Topological Changes in the Functional Brain Networks Induced by Isometric Force Exertions Using a Graph Theoretical Approach: An EEG-based Neuroergonomics Study, Lina Ismail

Machine Learning Techniques for Topic Detection and Authorship Attribution in Textual Data, Fereshteh Jafariakinabad

Visual Learning Beyond Human Curated Datasets, Muhammad Abdullah Jamal

Representative-based Big Data Processing in Communications and Machine Learning, Mohsen Joneidi

The Predictability of Children of Military Families' Levels of Resilience, Help-Seeking Attitudes, and Caregiver Relationships to Their Suicidality Scores Using Structural Equation Modeling, Jessica Jones

#NotAgainSU: A Case Study of the Counterpublic, Public, and Reactionary Circulation of a Racial Justice Hashtag in the Public Sphere, Leah Jones

Topology and Megnetism in F-electron Systems, Firoza Kabir

Performance Enhancement of Time Delay and Convolutional Neural Networks Employing Sparse Representation in the Transform Domains, Masoumeh Kalantari Khandani

Nonlinear Light-matter Interactions in Novel Crystals for Broadband Mid-infrared Generation, Taiki Kawamori

The Influences of Generational Membership and Practice Environment on Nurse Manager Job Satisfaction, Angela Keith

Long-Range Laser-Material Interactions with High-Intensity Laser Pulses, Haley Kerrigan

Small Intrusions, Powerful Payoff: Shaping Status Relationships Through Interstate Intrusions and Responses, Logan Kerschner

Bringing Instagram Posts into Being: A Study of FYC Students' Self-Sponsored Posting Practices and Transfer Opportunities, Jessica Kester

Experimental and Chemical Kinetics Investigation of High-Temperature Combustion of Diisopropyl Methylphosphonate., Ramees Khaleel Rahman

Parameter Calibration and Optimization in Smart Grid for Synchronous Generators and Converters, Seyyed Rashid Khazeiynasab

Unsupervised Meta-learning, Siavash Khodadadeh

Stock Shows and Rodeos: The Crossroads of Commodification, Consumption, and Care of Nonhuman Animals, Erin Kidder

Modeling the Relationship between Perceptual and Stimulus Space in Category Learning, Clay Killingsworth

On the Strategic Relationship between Leadership and Innovation in US Firms, Shabeer Kirmani

The Exploration of Low-income Adult College Student's Engagement in Online Learning Environments, Cheryl Kohen

Improving Performance and Flexibility of Fabric-Attached Memory Systems, Vamsee Reddy Kommareddy

The Impact of Police Data Sharing System on Offense Clearance Rates, Stanislav Korotchenko

Canvas Course Design and the Effects on Faculty Workload and Stress During COVID-19, Christine Kugelmann

The Effects of Personal Attributes, Risk Perception, and Risk Reduction Strategies on Travel Intention for a Vulnerable Island Destination: The U.S. Travelers' Perspective for Bali, Indonesia, Rina Kurniawati

Challenges of Duality: Conflict and Satisfaction in Maintaining Roles as Students and Employees, Jade Laderwarg

Towards LOX and Methane Propulsion Systems: Shock Tube Combustion Studies of Various Fuel Mixtures at Relevant Chamber Conditions., Andrew Laich

An Examination of Multi-brand Loyalty Among Hotel Loyalty Program Members, Karima Lanfranco

Understanding Discourse of Co-Teachers in Middle School Mathematics Inclusive Classrooms, Amanda Lannan

Can Pushing Employees to Recover from Work Backfire? The Joint Effect of Perceived Pressure from the Supervisor to Perform and to Recover on Daily Employee Outcomes, Reka Lassu

Recovery from Work: An Investigation of the Effects of the Shared Recovery Activities and Companionship Experiences During Weekends on Employee Well-being, Juseob Lee

A Framework for Verification and Validation of Multi Resolution Modeling Federation using Live, Virtual, and Constructive Simulations, Kyungeun Lee

Customer-based Service Innovation Synergies, Rosa Gabriela Lelo de Larrea Chico

"Do you Hear What I Say?" A Phenomenological Exploration of International Students' Oral Communication Experiences with PechaKucha Oral Presentations in a US English for Academic Purposes Program., Van Thi Hong Le

An Exploration of the Impact of Student Employment and Retention: A Correlational Analysis, Noreen Lewis

An Exploration of the Political Factors That Influence States' Appropriations for Higher Education, Wesley Lewis

Real-Time Traffic Safety Evaluation in the Context of Connected Vehicles and Mobile Sensing, Pei Li

Knowledge and Attitudes of Nurse Practitioner's Assessment of Adults with Signs and Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Kelli Lipscomb

The Authentic Online Teacher: A Phenomenological Exploration of Faculty Experiences with Online Course Design, Jessica Lipsey

Adaptive Dynamic Programming in a Subspace for Some Discrete-Time Vehicle Systems, Qiang Li

Laser-microdrop Interactions in Nanoparticle Deposition on Solid Substrates, Tianyi Li

Learning Accurate and Robust Deep Visual Models, Yandong Li

Appreciation Agreement and Disagreement in Supervisor-Subordinate Dyads: A Relational Perspective on Workplace Appreciation, Lauren Locklear

Bacterial Association Networks from Healthy and Cancer-associated Gut Microbiomes, Mark Loftus

Long-Term Changes in Juvenile Green Turtle Abundance and Foraging Ecology in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, Christopher Long

Engaging Elementary Preservice Teachers in Reflection For, In, and On Practice During an Approximation of Practice in TeachLivETM Using Sentence Frames for English Language Learners, Courtney Lopas

Performance Enhancement of RF/Microwave Devices Using Filter Synthesis Techniques, Ricardo Lovato

The Impact of the Community Partnership School Model on Student Self-Efficacy and Civic Engagement, Brandon Lowe

Ethical Decision Making Among Nurses Participating in Social Media, Melissa Lynn

Stance and Engagement in Scientific Research Articles, Caoyuan Ma

Dispositional Trust Response to Morphological Differences in Synthetic Representative Agents, Keith MacArthur

Safety and Operations of Urban Arterials Incorporating the Context Classification System, Nada Mahmoud

Combining Multivariate Statistical and Numerical Modeling for Coastal Hazards Analysis, Victor Malagon Santos

Acoustoelectric Amplification in Piezoelectric-Silicon Micromachined Lamb Wave Devices, Hakhamanesh Mansoorzare

An Investigation of Parental Perceptions of their Involvement in their Student's First Year of College, Elizabeth Manuel

Examining the Effects of Implementation of i-Ready to Fidelity on Reading and its Effects on Free or Reduced Lunch Students in Seven Middle Schools, Ryan Martin

A Study of Deep-level Processing and Self-efficacy of Reflective Practice and Their Relationship with Achievement Goal Orientation, Interest, Reported Reflective Practice, and Formal Instruction in Graduate Clinical Psychology Students, Brandon Matsumiya

Male Students of Color in STEM through the Lens of Intersectionality: A Transformative Mixed-Methods Exploration of Their Science Identities, Relevant Science Learning Experiences, and Decisions to Pursue Science Professions, Regina McCurdy

Developing Instructional Conversation Ability in Teacher Candidates: A Dialogic Experience Between Teacher Candidates, Coaches, and Simulated English Learners, Leslie Mendez

Seismic Soil-Structure Interaction Effects in Tall Buildings Considering Nonlinear-Inelastic Behaviors, Jaime Mercado

Towards Enabling Explanation in Safety-Critical Artificial Intelligence Systems, Andy Michel

Design-Based Research Toward a Professional Development Program, Karl Miehl

An Examination of Secondary English Language Arts and Social Studies Teachers' Perceptions and Implementation of Effective Literacy Instruction Practices in Their Content Area Classrooms: A Correlation Study, Melissa Mitchell

Group Level Cues and The Use of Force in Domestic and Foreign Policy Contexts, Zlatin Mitkov

Framework of Big Data Analytics in Real Time for Healthcare Enterprise Performance Measurements, Ahmed Mohamed

Development of RF-MEMS Based Passive Wireless Respiratory Monitoring Systems, Sina Moradian

Extending Open Mobility to Mobility Data Justice: A Localized Case Study of GTFS-oriented (Infra)Activism in Defense of the Mobile-Digital Commons, David Moran

Family and Child Functioning During Parental Separation: A Two-Part Study, Krystal Morrison

Unusual Superconductivity in Topological nodal Line Semimetal, Riffat Munir

Identification and Detection of Cosmetics Transferred during Close Personal Attacks, Kandyss Najjar

A Breathing Intervention to Enhance Cardiac Regulation and Mitigate Stress in Police Cadets, Samantha Napier

Surface Engineering of Cerium Oxide Nanocyrstal Dispersions: Colloidal Properties, Ageing Effects, & Electroanalysis, Craig Neal

Characterization of Hydrogenated Boron Carbide and Boron Carbon Nitride Thin Films and Applications, Shraddha Dhanraj Nehate

Utilization of HBPE Nanoparticles for Optimizing Drug Delivery to Cancer Cells, Daniel Nierenberg

Test Overfitting in Automated Program Repair: Measurements and Approaches Using Formal Methods, Amirfarhad Nilizadeh

Mid-Infrared Laser Absorption Spectroscopy and Ignition Delay Time Measurements of Advanced Renewable Fuels at High Pressure in a Shock Tube, Erik Ninnemann

A Framework and Model for Managing and Sustaining a Successful Cross Functional Project Operations Team in a Multi-Project Manufacturing Environment in the Aerospace and Defense Industry, Anisulrahman Nizam

The Social and Behavioral Influences of Interactions with Virtual Dogs as Embodied Agents in Augmented and Virtual Reality, Nahal Norouzi

Assessment of Work-Related Feelings Among Teachers within The United States and Jordan, Shahed Obeidat

Mechanically Reconfigurable Materials and Devices based on Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Layers, Emmanuel Okogbue

The Effect of Polyelectrolyte Modification of Ultrafiltration Membranes on Fouling Resistance and Rejection of Contaminants of Emerging Concern, Kunal Olimattel

Mechanical Behavior of Bioceramic Materials: Case Study of The Skeleton of The Staghorn Coral, Acropora cervicornis and The Tibia of The Laboratory Mouse, Mus Musculus, Mahmoud Omer

Communities of Play and Practice: Collaborating with Audiences and Coworkers in Performative Online Spaces, Paul Oppold

Actin Cytoskeleton Dynamics and Organization Modulated by Macromolecular Crowding, Cation Interaction, and Nanomaterials, Jinho Park

Design of Miniaturized Antipodal Vivaldi Antennas and a Microwave Head Imaging System for the Detection of Blood Clots in the Brain, Farhana Parveen

Understanding the Mechanisms of Surface Chemical Reactions by Tracking Unstable Intermediate Species, Md Afjal Khan Pathan

Trauma-Informed Clergy: An Investigation of Factors Predicting the Trauma-Related Attitudes of Christian Clergy in Florida, Elizabeth Pennock

Creativity as a Resource: How Creativity Influences the Appraisal of Work Stressors and Subsequent Strain, Alyssa Perez

Evaluating Augmented Reality Tools for Physics Education, Corey Pittman

Exploring the Academic Workload of Second Year Medical Students, Jason Pollock

Covid-19: Exploring the Probability of Disease Extinction - A Modeling and Simulation Study, Donald Porchia

Evaluating Source Water Quality, Pretreatment, and Particulate Mass Transport in a Nanofiltration Membrane Process, Courtney Powell

The Double Curse Effect or Does Petroleum Patriarchy Affect Acceptability of Wife Battery in Former Soviet Countries?, Karina Powell

EEG-based Signatures of Isometric Arm Forces by Females at Different Levels of Physical Exertion and Comfort, Mahjabeen Rahman

Data Driven Methods for Large Scale Network Level Traffic Modeling, Rezaur Rahman

Applicant Reactions to One-Way Video Interviews: An Investigation of the Role of Individual-Level Cultural Values, Krystyn Ramdial

Factors That Affect The Successful Implementation of Quality Management Systems in Healthcare, Mustafa Rawshdeh

Self Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for High-Dimensional Stochastic Systems with Application to Robotic Control, Sayyed Jaffar Ali Raza

Exploring Relationships Between Ground and Aerial Views by Synthesis and Matching, Krishna Regmi

Multi-functional Fluorescence Microscopy via PSF Engineering for High-throughput Super-resolution Imaging, Jinhan Ren

On Mode Transition Phenomenon and Operating Conditions in Rotating Detonation Rocket Engines, Taha Rezzag-Lebza