A collection of Sciences Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Theoretical Analysis of Charge Conduction and Rectification in Self-Assembled-Monolayers in Molecular Junctions, Francis Adoah
Impacts of the Protist Pathogen Amphibian Perkinsea on Amphibian Species and Communities, Matthew Atkinson
Testing the Three-Step Theory of Suicide: An Examination of Pain in First Responders, Shelby Baker
Children's Knowledge of Intravenous Needle Insertion and Distress: The Indirect Effects of Cognitive Appraisals of Threat and Coping, Emily Bernstein
Responses of a Pine Flatwoods Specialist Treefrog to Prescribed Fire, Ian Biazzo
The Perfect Storm: Motherhood, Intimate Partner Violence, and COVID-19, Kelly Blauschild
The Relationship Among Identity Development, Dark Personality, and Risk-Taking Behaviors, Reilly Branch
Employee Volunteering: Integrating the Volunteering and Helping Literatures Using a Latent Profile Approach, Emily Broksch
Gendered and Racialized Bodies in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Saphronia Carson
VTubers vs FaceCam: How the Visual Representations of Live Streamers Affects Audience Experience, Paola Chinchilla
Integrated Healthcare in the U.S. Safety-Net System: Meeting the Needs of Patients through Comprehensive Medical and Social Care, Jacqueline Devaney
Capturing and Scaffolding the Complexities of Self-Regulation During Game-Based Learning, Daryn Dever
Digital Disconnect: The Relationship Between In-game and Real-world Issues in World of Warcraft, Taylor Devereaux
Disclosure Experiences and Well-Being Among Heterosexual, Lesbian, and Bisexual Women Sexual Violence Survivors, Madelyn Diaz
Exotic Ground States in Novel Quantum Magnets, Charuni Dissanayake
The Development and Validation of the Intolerance of Uncertainty in Social Interactions Scale, Anne Eible
Due Tomorrow, Do Tomorrow: Measuring and Reducing Procrastination Behavior Among Introductory Physics Students in an Online Environment, Zachary Felker
Analysis of Multi-Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Using Split Deoxyribozymes, Abryana Fergus
Defining Sober Harms and Factors that Influence Them: Blame it on the Alcohol?, Jessica Flori
Topological Data Analysis Using the Mapper Algorithm, Jessica Girard
Refining the Use of Stable Isotope Analysis in Detecting Wildlife Laundering, Kevin Guilfoyle
Population Differences in Human Mandibular Growth, Madison Hubbart
Predicting Implementation Citizenship Behavior Rating Discrepancies Between Supervisor-Subordinate Dyads, Alexandra Kandah
Exploring Regional Dynamics: States, International Civil Society, and Regional Interstate Cooperation, Ozgur Kayaalp
Error Rate Determination of Latent Print Chemistry via 1D and 2D Gas Chromatography, Jessica Kindell
Using GIS to Better Understand The Cracker Community of Pat's Island in the Ocala National Forest, Florida, Nicholas Kopp
It's in the Design: Student Perceptions of Intercultural Interactions in Online Communication Classrooms, Darius Lana
Impact on Infinite Asteroids: Analysis of Ejecta Outcomes in Small Body Binary Systems, Jennifer Larson
Applications of Interpretable Machine Learning Methods in Plant Ecology and Crop Science, Sambadi Majumder
"All We Know Is All We Are": The Unseen Pain And Potential of Secondary Victims of Contact-Sexual Violence, Chelsea Mandes
Locating the Attentional Template Using Theta-Gamma Coupling, Michael Miuccio
Perceived Barriers to and Comfort Levels With Hypothetical Intimate Partner Violence Help-Seeking Among Arab Americans, Jana Mostafa
On Quantitative Hessian Estimates for Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations, Thialita Moura Do Nascimento
Reflections on White-Passing Black Identity, Edi Mucka
Investigating Mobility Across the Life Course Through Stable Isotope Analysis at the Early Medieval Site of Berettyóújfalu Somata, Hungary, Brianna Jayne Muir
Stress Appraisals of Organizational Change: The Role of Adaptability and Communication, Wheeler Nakahara
Assessing the Overall Utility of Rapid Digital Documentation Methods on the Juniper Springs Recreational Site in the Ocala National Forest, Alexander Nalewaik
Leveraging Natural Soil Properties to Enhance Nitrogen Removal and Carbon Preservation, Chelsea Nitsch
Following Faculty Engaging in Collaborative Action Research to Approach Curricular Change in Undergraduate Biochemistry, Christopher Nix
Lived Experience at Plinkaigalis, Lithuania: An integrated Approach using Stable Isotope, Spatial, and Statistical Analyses, Alexandria Orozco
Probing the Structure-Activity Relationships of Electrocatalytic Nanomaterials Using Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy, Zackary Parsons
Neural Dynamics of Categorical Representations Used for Visual Search, Ashley Phelps
A Pilot Study of an Immersive Folktale User Experience, Iulia Popescu
Christian Nationalism Among Evangelical Christians Through a Critical Race Theory Lens, Marina I. Rivera Ramos
Amazonian Wetland Domestication: A Spatial Analysis of Pre-Columbian Fish Weirs in Lowland Bolivia, Charlotte Robinson
Heterarchy or Hierarchy: Modeling and Simulation Applied to Social Organization at the Late Iron Age Site of Kerkenes, Central Anatolia, Jessica Robkin
"They Dare to Continue:" Identity Politics and Coloniality of Distance at Universidad de Oriente, Yucatan, Mexico, Rachael Root
Instrumental Approaches for High Resolution Photoluminescence Spectroscopy and its Applications to Environmental Analysis, Anthony Santana
Peacekeeping for Peace: Effectiveness and Impacts, Santosh Sapkota
To the Cosmos and Back: Modelling Ritualized Movement and Natural Sanctuaries around the Manialtepec Lagoon, Sami Savateri
Football By the Numbers: A Look Into Sports Analytics Currently Used in the National Football League, Christopher Schoborg
Design Principles for Catalyst Probe Reaction Systems, Lorianne Shultz-Johnson
Development of Regolith Simulants of Lunar Permanently Shadowed Regions and Jupiter Trojan Asteroids, Karlis Slumba
Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: How Levels of Sexual Violence in Peacetime Affect Levels of Sexual Violence in Conflict, Sydney Snowden
Becoming Racially Aware: A Social Process of (Re)constructing an Alternative White Identity, Ashley Sobke
Supporting the Needs of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Active Learning Chemistry Environments, AJ Sona
TV News Networks vs Online News Sources: Contrasting Effects on Attitudes Towards Police Reform, Halley Spencer
Variation in Genetic Structure and Dispersal of Juvenile Green Turtles, Gustavo Stahelin
Christian Perspectives on Natural Disasters Using a Religious Systems Approach, Lakelyn Taylor
Examining Childhood Lived Experience and Kinship in Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia: Stress and Health of Juveniles at Karatas-Semayuk, Christina Trent
A Puerto Rican Diasporic Study in Central Florida, Chelsea Vélez
The Micro World of Zombie Ants: Micro-Computed Tomography and Microbiome Analysis of Camponotus floridanus, Sophia Vermeulen
Clustering of Diverse Multiplex Networks, Yaxuan Wang
The Narratives of Sexulization: The Perspectives of Young Entertainers Around Their Own Public Sexulizaiton, Alexis Williams
And They Saved My Sorry Ass: A Documentary Discovering Self in Contemporary Fan Culture, Chunxiao Yang
Physical Insight into the Catalytic Properties of Adsorbed Bimetallic Clusters Using Density Functional Theory, Nusaiba Zaman
Automated Machine Learning: Intellient Binning Data Preparation and Regularized Regression Classfier, Jianbin Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Extensions of the General Solution to the Inverse Problem of the Calculus of Variations, and Variational, Perturbative and Reversible Systems Approaches to Regular and Embedded Solitary Waves, Ranses Alfonso Rodriguez
Synergistic Impacts of Climate Change and Human Induced Stressors on the Apalachicola Bay Food Web, Kira Allen
History of the Cuban Diaspora and Responses to July 2021 Protests in Cuba: An In-depth Examination of Emerging Social Movement, Carolina Alonso Domech
They Are Not Like Us: Polarization and Justification of Violence in the Contemporary United States, Grayson Bakich
Multiracial but not Post-racial: The Reproduction of Racial Ideology and Processes in a Multiracial Church, Willie Barnes
Mathematical Model for Giraffe Population Dynamics, Huntir Bass
Coordinating the Chaos: How Institutions Influence Multi-Actor Coordination in Emergency Management, Sara Belligoni
Harnessing the Power of the Nitro Group in Natural Product Synthesis, Katelyn Bobek
Investigating Mitigation Strategies for Spatial Disorientation, Amanda Bond
Characterizing Nearby States of the Stokes Wave Solution of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation, Teresa Bosch
Design and Fabrication of a Compact, Rugged, and Thermally Stabilized Fiber Based Mode Locked Oscillator with Amplification., Joshua Bryan
#RedFlag: Social Media and Dating Violence Among Young Adults, Davina Caldwell
Associations Between Patient-provider Trust and HIV Care Continuum Outcomes, James Caldwell
Optimal Impulse Controls With Changing Running Cost And Applications In Mortgage Refinance, Yuchen Cao
Attosecond Optical Probe and Control of Atomic Autoionizing States, Coleman Cariker
Resources and Racism: An Examination of a Dual-Pathway Model of Economic Stress and Workplace Prejudice and Discrimination, Nicole Carusone
Testing a Dynamic Model of Counterproductive Work Behavior (CWB): How Changes in Job Stressors and Affective Experience Influence CWB Trajectory, Katherine Ciarlante
Exploring the Response to COVID-19 in Puerto Rico, Richard Colon
Sexual Aggression Risk and Sexual Assault Scripts in Men: A Vignette Study, Matthew Cook
Budgetary Unoccupied Aerial Systems for Environmental Surveying: A Social Perspective, Tyler Copeland
Development of a Computational Application to Aid with Chemometric and Forensic Analysis of Fire Debris Samples, Michelle Corbally
Role of biological clocks in ant behavioral plasticity and parasitic manipulation of ant behavior, Biplabendu Das
Covid, Inequalities and Health: A Sociological Analysis About the Resilience Found in Unique Student Life Experiences, Sarah Da Silva