A collection of Sciences Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Toward In-situ Nanoscale Imaging and Spectroscopy: Applications in Growth and Catalysis of Two-dimensional Materials, Fernand Torres-Davila
Enhancement and Evaluation of Proton Pencil Beam Spot Placement Algorithms, Mahboob Ur Rehman
The Elderly Voter as Collateral Damage: The Consequences of Voter Restriction on Elderly American Voter Turnout, Mia Warshofsky
"I Have My Coven Now": Transgender Experience in the Central Florida Pagan Community, Alison Whitmore
Mail Ballot Signature Rejections: Household Members Signing Each Other's Ballots, Craig Wilding
An Evaluation of the Differences Between Perpetrators in Completed and Averted School Shootings, Ashley Winch
Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Their Heterostructure Integration, Sajeevi Sankalpani Withanage
Regularized Estimations in Some Statistical Problems, Feng Yu
Qualitative Reconceptualizations of Success in Physics From a Feminist Lens, Brian Zamarripa Roman
Social Media Use And Safe Sex Practices Among Chinese Gay Men, Hang Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Precariat and the Pandemic: Assessing the Wellbeing of Metro Orlando's Hospitality Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Caroline Austin
Soda Pop: Illusions of Consumability by Generational Minds: Crowdsourced Story Awakens the Archival Consciousness, David Bailey
Tunable Few- to Many-Cycle Source for High-Order Harmonic Generation and Time-Resolved Spectroscopy, John Beetar
Transfunctions and Other Topics in Measure Theory, Jason Bentley
Sexual Assault Acknowledgment and Psychological Symptoms: The Indirect Effect of Social Reactions to Disclosures, Emily Bernstein
Atomic Scale Processes and Electronic Band Structure Engineering in Thin Layered Materials, Brandon Blue
Comparing Human and Machine Learning Classification of Human Factors in Incident Reports From Aviation, Claas Tido Boesser
Biodiversity and Community Composition of Freshwater Fish Assemblages in the Lower Amazon, Juan Bogota
Lego my Ego: The Puzzling Role of Self-esteem and Goal Orientation on Appraisals of Unsolicited Help, Emily Broksch
Cute Panda or Evil Dragon? Market Economy, Conflict Behavior and China's Peaceful Rise, Xiongwei Cao
Exoplanets: Correlated Noise and Cautionary Tales, Ryan Challener
Experimental and Computational Investigation of Plume Surface Interactions in Vacuum Microgravity, Wesley Chambers
The Mediating Role of Leader-Member Exchange: Leader Personality and information Sharing, Hillary Chandler
(Main)streaming Hate: Analyzing White Supremacist Content and Framing Devices on YouTube, Christopher Charles
Chemometric Analysis of Multidimensional Fluorescence Data Recorded from Benzo[a]pyrene Metabolites in Shpol'skii Like Matrixes, Mohammadreza Chehelamirani
Effects of Nurses' Workload on Creativity and Innovation: Examining the Role of Trait Mindfulness as a Moderator, Kinjal Chheda
Social Connectedness and College Student Alcohol Use: Understanding the Role of Alcohol Expectancies, Social Anxiety, and Need to Belong, Mark Crisafulli
A Test of Counterfactual Thinking Theory to Change Intentions to Use Protective Behavioral Strategies, Ardhys De Leon
Assessing Stress Outcomes of Interpersonal Helping: An Application of Hindrance Stress Appraisals, Michael DiStaso
What Do You Do When You are Bored? Outcomes and Moderators of Job Boredom, Mitchell Eid
Distributed Algorithms and Inverse Graph Filtering, Nazar Emirov
In Sickness or In Health: The Impact of Disease Burdens on the Likelihood of Violent Conflict, Devyn Escalanti
Total Synthesis of Natural Products from Oxidative Dearomatization, Nameer Ezzat
Improving Foreign Militaries -- The Effects of U.S. Military Aid in the Form of International Military Education and Training Programs, Sandor Fabian
Applications of Close-range Photogrammetry for Documenting Human Skeletal Remains in Obstructed Wooded Environments, Morgan Ferrell
Under Pressure: Analysis of An Undergraduate Intervention for STEM Students in Academic Decline, Dena Ford
Stage Dives and Shared Mics: Ethnographic Perspectives on Community and Networking in the Central Florida Punk Rock Scene, Lauren Friedman
Symmetry and High Harmonic Spectroscopy in Solids, Shima Gholam Mirzaeimoghadar
The Power Color: Does Shared Decision Making Between Physicians and Patients Differ by Race, Vernon Headley
Drug Availability and Disparities in Arrests, Robert Hellmuth
Move Your body, Change Your Mind: Physical Activity in the Morning and its Implications for Work, Charlotte Holden
Discovery of New Topological Quantum Materials by Photoemission, MD Mofazzel Hosen
Magnesium Based Materials for Crop Protection and Reduction of Copper Usage in the Agricultural Field, Ziyang Huang
Rethinking Burnout in Informal Caregivers: Development and Validation of The Informal Caregiver Burnout Inventory - 10 Item Form, Nicholas James
Investigating the Inclusiveness of STEM Courses and Reducing Barriers by Using the Universal Design for Learning Framework, Westley James
Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Granular Dynamics in Microgravity, Stephanie Jarmak
Mill Cove Complex Lithic Typology: Understanding Early Mississippian Period Social Exchange in Northeastern Florida, Sherman Johns
Incels and the Manosphere: Tracking Men's Movements Online, Annie Jones
Determining and Assessing Fault Attribution in Collisions Involving Autonomous Vehicles, Alexandra Kaplan
Examining the Role of Anxiety and Depression in Predicting Dietary Choices in Emerging Adults, Michelle Keck
Neurophysiological Correlates of Trust in Robots, Theresa Kessler
Preparation and Characterization of Epitaxial Thin Films with Applications in Catalysis and Microelectronics, Asim Khaniya
A Nested PCR Strategy for Recovering Highly Discriminatory Y-STR DNA Profiles from Trace Male DNA Samples, Anna Kimball
Food, Familiarity, and Forecasting: Modeling Coups With Computational Methods, Joshua Lambert
Masters of the Manipulator? A Species Description and Comparative Genomics Study of Two New Hyperparasites of the Zombie Ant Fungus, Brittany Lebert
Forests and Farmers: A Landscape Approach to Settlement Pattern Analysis in the Bolivian Amazon, Thomas Lee
Natural Language Processing for Modeling Domains in Higher Education, Rebecca Leis
The Relationship Between Familism and Social Distancing Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Thien-An Le
Effects of High-Molecular-Weight Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Microbial Ecology and Community Structure, Charles Lewis
How Vegetarian Students' Dietary Patterns Are Affected During Covid-19 Social Distancing, Elise Lorenzo
Examining a Fish Community and its Response to Coastal Restoration in a Dynamic Coastal Estuary, Richard Mahoney
Space Weathering Simulation Trends on Carbonaceous Chondrites, Andrew Malfavon
Refining the Data Collection Methodology of Outdoor Forensic Scenes Involving Scattered Human Remains Using Close-Range Photogrammetry, Megan Mccollum
The Effects of Dissolved Oxygen on Phosphorus Cycling in Benthic Freshwater Systems, Kathleen McCormac-Miller
Adachigahara Project: A 3D Iterative Series, James Mitchell
Examining the Moderating Role of Coping Strategies in the Relationship Between Team Role Alignment and Employee Well-being Outcomes, Justine Moavero
Workplace Stress and Sleep Quality: The Differential Moderating Effects of Problem- and Emotion-focused Coping, Wheeler Nakahara
A Solid-Solution Approach to Multivariate Metal-Organic Frameworks and Their Interactions with Light, Wesley Newsome
Theoretical Analysis of the Conduction Properties of Self Assembled Molecular Tunnel Junctions, Cameron Nickle
Estimation and Clustering in Block Models, Majid Noroozi
Impacts of State and Trait Anxiety on Category Learning, Pooja Patel
The Physical Properties of Asteroids, Leos Pohl
Meroitic Childhood Diet and Weaning at Sai Island, Sudan: A Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Study of Site 8-B-52.B, Brenna Raisor
Laser Filament Investigations: Influence of Preconditions and Interactions, Danielle Reyes
Tensor Network States: Optimizations and Applications in Quantum Many-Body Physics and Machine Learning, Justin Reyes
The Effects of Plant Phytochemistry on Parasitoid (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Niche Breadth, Ryan Ridenbaugh
Estimation and Clustering in Network and Indirect Data, Ramchandra Rimal
Quantum Biology? From DNA Point Mutations to Fibril Formation in Alzheimer Disease, Eduardo Romero Camacho
Food for Thought: Food Insecurity and Academic Performance, Justen Rosenberg
Social Support and Mental Health Outcomes of LGB People of Color, Jessica Ruiz
Pixelated Scapegoat: False Connections Between Video Games and Violent Crime in America's Largest Cities, Matthew Segal
Sorption of U(VI) onto Manganese Oxides in the Presence of Siderophore Desferrioxamine-B, Morgan Snyder
Maladaptive Personality Traits and Acute Psychological Distress in Individuals with Head and Neck Cancer, Christopher Spencer
Two Pink Lines: Exploring Florida's Pregnancy-associated Intimate Partner Homicides, Sonya Spence
Family Mass Homicide: An Investigation, Alec Szalewski
Composition, Encapsulation, and Dimensionality: A Study of the Photophysics Brought on by Synthetic Changes in Perovskite Materials, Andrew Towers
Getting Lost: The Fungal Hijacking of Ant Foraging Behavior in Space and Time, Thienthanh Trinh