A collection of Sciences Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
"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
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
Invisible Strings: The Impacts of Race on Attitudes Toward Abortion Among the Highly Religious, Marin Deevers
Discrimination, Terrorist Violence and Secularist Policies: Challenges for the Integration of Muslims in Western Europe, Davide Dell'isola
Observation of Anisotropic Properties in Topological Quantum Materials, Gyanendra Dhakal
Methods and Characterization of Topological and Disordered-induced Protection of Coherence in Quantum Systems, Sayandip Dhara
Mistreatment Anticipation and Mistreatment Anxiety, Michael DiStaso
Twitter and Online Fandom Affordances: Connecting Disability Within the Marvel Fandom Via Social Media, Olivia Ebersole
Assessing the Effectiveness of Russian Disinformation on Americans, Michael Ebert
Characterizing the Particle Size Distribution in Saturn's Rings Using Cassini UVIS Stellar Occultation Data, Stephanie Eckert
Reticular Design and Synthesis of Metal-Organic Frameworks with Targeted Emergent Properties, David Fairchild
Spectrally-Based Color Calibration of Microscopes for Birefringence Analysis, Olivia Feild
Predicting The Likelihood of Verbal Coercion Across Race and Ethnicity Through Routine Activity Theory, Ketty Fernandez
D&D&U&G: Uses and Gratifications Theory and Dungeons & Dragons, Ariana Ferrante
Automation, Take the Wheel: An Examination of Factors Influencing Trust in Automated Driver Assist Technologies, James Ferraro
Avatar Identification Methods in Skyrim and Dragon Age: Origins, Andrew Futcher
Characterizing the Effects of Porosity and Particle Size on TIR Emissivity Spectral Features of Olivine, Ryan Galinkin
Function Approximation Guarantees for a Shallow Neural Network Trained by Gradient Flow, Russell Gentile
The Cultural Significance of Racial Socialization and "The Talk" Within the Black Family, Deborah Griffith
Social Complexity and Water Management Strategies at Holtun, Guatemala, Melvin Rodrigo Guzman Piedrasanta
Tuning the Fluid Wetting Dynamics on Gold Microstructures and Conductivity of Polyaniline Using Photoactive Compounds, Ali Haghighat Mesbahi
Evaluating Fatal Overdose Deaths in Orange County Florida from 2019-2021, Brian Hall
Change Point Detection for Streaming Data Using Support Vector Methods, Charles Harrison
Utilizing Geographic Information Systems to Explore the Mortuary Landscape at Kuelap, Peru, Hannah Haynes
Bayesian Spatiotemporal Modeling with Gaussian Processes, Qing He
Atmospheric Retrieval: Bayesian Methods, Machine Learning, and Application to Exoplanets, Michael Himes
Examining Diet, Mobility, and Social Dynamics in Southern Medieval France Using a Multi-Isotopic and GIS Approach, Jane Holmstrom
The Impacts of a Food Pantry on College Students, Courtney Howell
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Strategic Displacement on Territorial Control in Conventional Civil War, Jennifer Hudson
Complex DNA Mixture Deconvolution by Single Cell Genomics: Direct Physical Cell Subsampling and High Sensitivity DNA Typing, Kaitlin Huffman
Addressing Sexual Harassment (SH) at Work: Examining the Role of Social Identity on Observer Intervention Behavior, Tisnue Jean-Baptiste
Progress in Chaos: Cash Transfers and Women Economic Empowerment amidst Climate Change and Violent Conflicts in West Africa, Jennifer Obado Joel
Egghead & Twinkie: Continuing the Tradition of LGBTQ Micro-budget Cinema, Sarah Kambe Holland
Genomic Analysis of Pollen Grains for Forensic Applications, Luz Kelley
Quality of Life: How Does Race Influence Residential Satisfaction in Cities, Alexis Kelly
Risk and Protective Factors for Negative Psychological Outcomes in LGBTQ+ Individuals, Emalee Kerr
Terahertz Spintronics with Antiferromagnetic Insulators, Gyan Khatri
A Survival Analysis Examining Risk and Protective Factors of Foster Care Reentry for Children Aged 0 to 5 within a Social Ecological Framework, Samantha Klaver
Hannibal Lecter and a Friend Walk into a Bar: The Role of Psychopathy in Peer Drinking Behaviors, Matthew Kramer
When Doubt Comes In: Framing of Sexual Trauma Experiences in r/sexualassault, Alison Kubala
Raman Excitation Laser Effects on Peak Parameters and Peak Metamorphic Temperatures of Primitive Carbonaceous Chondrites, Amy LeBleu-DeBartola