A collection of Sciences Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Digital Disconnect: The Relationship Between In-game and Real-world Issues in World of Warcraft, Taylor Devereaux
Clay as a Control Technique for Karenia brevis: Water Chemistry Dynamics and Physiological Impacts on Benthic Invertebrates, Victoria Devillier
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
Painting and Fear: The Creation of Death's Visage, Mark A. Felbinger
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
Exploring Population Structure and Diversity Across Time in Population of American Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber), Jessica Folsom
A Theoretical Study of Elementary Processes in Interstellar Plasma, Joshua Forer
The Study of Crisis Narratives Over Time: Mayfield, KY in the Aftermath of the 2021 Tornadoes, Rebecca Freihaut
Developing Platinum-Group Metal (PGM) Nanostructures as Peroxidase Mimics for Biosensing Applications, Weiwei Gao
Topological Data Analysis Using the Mapper Algorithm, Jessica Girard
Surface Engineering of Nanoparticles for Efficient Polymerization Inhibition, Catalysis, and Plasmonic Sensing, Pooria Golvari
Refining the Use of Stable Isotope Analysis in Detecting Wildlife Laundering, Kevin Guilfoyle
Student Perceptions of Campus Crime and Victim Services, Tracy Gulliford
Low Energy Photon Detection, Tianyi Guo
Physical Properties and Chemical Composition of Comets, Olga Harrington
PrEP Initiation as a Predictor of Alcohol-Related Sexual Risk Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men, Emma R. Hayden
Population Differences in Human Mandibular Growth, Madison Hubbart
Neuromorphic Artificial Visual Systems using 2D Materials, Molla Manjurul Islam
Defect Engineering of 2D Materials for Nanoelectronics, Optoelectronics, and Energy Devices, Ammon Johnston
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
Evolutionary History and Adaptation to Salinity in American Alligators, John Konvalina
Using GIS to Better Understand The Cracker Community of Pat's Island in the Ocala National Forest, Florida, Nicholas Kopp
Extremal Functions for Kt-s Minors and Coloring Graphs with No Kt-s Minors, Michael M. Lafferty
It's in the Design: Student Perceptions of Intercultural Interactions in Online Communication Classrooms, Darius Lana
Violence Against Civilians During Armed Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, Augustine T. Larmin
Impact on Infinite Asteroids: Analysis of Ejecta Outcomes in Small Body Binary Systems, Jennifer Larson
Chemical Approach to Tire Mark Analysis, John Lucchi
Behavioral, Morphological and Genetic Differentiation Among Populations of Enyaliopsis, Laura Macamo
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
Originalist Framing in Two Civil Rights Cases, Adrienne Mathews
Locating the Attentional Template Using Theta-Gamma Coupling, Michael Miuccio
Personality Symmetry: Understanding How Social Robot and User Personality Similarity Affects Para-friendship and Companion Social Robot Use Intention, Fernando L. Montalvo
A New Tool for Food Web Model Validation: A Coastal Louisiana Case Study, Emma Morgan
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
Patterns of Risk Behaviors and Their Value: A Latent Class Growth Modeling Approach, Anthony Naranjo
Patterns of Precarity in Older Workers: A Latent Profile Approach, Alissa N. Neal
Homogeneity Test on Error Rates from Ordinal Scores and Application to Forensic Science, Ngoc Ty Nguyen
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
The Role of Savoring in the Relationship Between Concussion History and Consummatory Reward, John O'Donnell
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
Body-Image Distress in Breast Cancer Survivors and Their Evaluation of Medical Tattooing Following Surgery, Miranda Proctor
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
DNA Capture and Translocation through Nanopore, Swarnadeep Seth
A Geometric Morphometric Study on Sexual Dimorphism in Human Juvenile Facial Morphology, Catherine M. Shipman
Design Principles for Catalyst Probe Reaction Systems, Lorianne Shultz-Johnson
Leadership and Military Power – Can a Leadership Approach Provide a Competitive Advantage?, Lawrence E. Skelly III
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
Oxidative Dissolution of Tc(IV) Phases by High Valent Manganese Species: Redox Mediated Mobilization of a Risk Driving Radionuclide, Jordan Stanberry
Christian Perspectives on Natural Disasters Using a Religious Systems Approach, Lakelyn Taylor
Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Probing of Structures of the Rous Sarcoma Virus Capsid, Amyloid Beta, and Reflectin Proteins, Tyrone Thames
Examining Childhood Lived Experience and Kinship in Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia: Stress and Health of Juveniles at Karatas-Semayuk, Christina Trent
Progress Towards Attosecond Science with a Turn-Key Industrial-Grade Ytterbium Laser, Thi Tran Chau Truong
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
Revisiting the Vigilance Taxonomy: Are Findings Consistent in a Remote Environment?, Grace E. Waldfogle
Clustering of Diverse Multiplex Networks, Yaxuan Wang
The Dynamical Measurement and Modeling of Metacognition and Engagement using Self-report and Multimodal data with Advanced Learning Technologies, Megan Wiedbusch
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
Drones, Peacekeeping, and Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict, Michael Yekple
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