A collection of Sciences Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Predicting Personality from LinkedIn Profiles Using Natural Language Processing, Saba Tavoosi
Exploring Hypervigilance Among Trans+ People Navigating Cisgendered Healthcare, Emma M. Tukdarian
"What Do You Mean By...?" The Role of Plain Language in Jury Instructions, Jamie L. Vega
Exploring Mechanism of Chemical Reactions and Material Properties Using Computational Tools, Ankai Wang
Engineered Metallic Nanoparticles as Colorimetric Labels for Sensitive Lateral Flow Assay, Zhiyuan Wei
Assessing Precolumbian Land-Use Changes in the Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia Through Diatom Analysis of Sediment Cores, Kathryn Whelton
Validating Machine and Human Decision-Making in Forensic Fire Debris Analysis, Frances A. Whitehead
Advancing Medical Diagnostics: A Comprehensive Study of Fundus Image Analysis Techniques, Rui Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Theoretical Analysis of Charge Conduction and Rectification in Self-Assembled-Monolayers in Molecular Junctions, Francis Adoah
Probing Electron Correlations with First-principles Calculations of the High Harmonic Spectrum in Solids, Didarul Alam
Refugee Language Barriers in Host Countries and Treatment of Refugees. A Cross-country Analysis, May Ali
Spectrally Selective Pyroelectric Detectors For THz Sensing, Christopher Arose
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
The Interplay of Spatial Ability, Sex, Training Modality, and Environmental Features: Effects on Spatial Cognition, Mental Map Formation, and Wayfinding, Rhyse Conner Bendell
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
Dormant Propagules in Demographic Studies: a Recurrent Bias and Potential Solutions, Federico Borghesi
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
Rapid Fabrication of Nanoparticles on Carbonaceous Nanofibers, Alex Burnstine-Townley
Gendered and Racialized Bodies in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Saphronia Carson
Smoothing Spline Analysis of Variance Models On Accelerometer Data, Lulu Chen
VTubers vs FaceCam: How the Visual Representations of Live Streamers Affects Audience Experience, Paola Chinchilla
Quarrying and Social Status: GIS Analysis of Lidar Data In the El Mirador Region, Jessica L. Clark
Eternity Road, Shahrzad Dadgar
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
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