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2024

Fabrication and Characterization of 2D and 3D Shape-Memory Actuated Silk Wrinkled Surface Topographies for Biomedical Applications, Elizabeth Oguntade

The Even Harder Cases: how conceptual art as a paradigm affirms the viability of a theory of art, William Galloway Osborne III

A Case Study: Exploring Covid-19 Pandemic Influence on Videoconferencing Groupware Implementation in U.S. Signal Brigades., Jeremiah Strickland Owoh

Synthetic Studies on SHIP Modulators, HIF-2α Antagonists, and New Rhodium Carboxylate Catalysts, Angela Pacherille

Prompt Learning for Video Understanding, Chenbin Pan

Between Visits: Hindu Domestic Religiosity, Home Shrines, and Thirdspace in the Diaspora, Aarti Patel

Relations between epistemic curiosity and deep learning in asynchronous online discussions, Yuri Pavlov

The effects of perceived support, cultural humility, and self-compassion on psychological well-being mediated by ethnic identity among Asian international students in counseling programs, Yu-Hsun Peng

PULLING UP THE TANGLED ROOTS OF RURAL NOSTALGIA: A RHETORICAL STUDY OF STORY AND SPACE, NATURE AND NATION, Emily Pifer

THE PHENOMENON OF THE SINGLETON EDUCATOR: EXPLORING ART TEACHERS EXPERIENCES AS SINGLETON TEACHERS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES, Mary Arlene Podsiedlik

RECOVERY OF CYBER MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS FROM FALSE DATA INJECTION ATTACKS ON SENSORS BY REINFORCEMENT LEARNING, Romesh Prasad

Fate, Composition and Formation of Unknown N-Nitrosamines in Wastewater and Wastewater-Impacted Waters, Changcheng Pu

On Energy-efficient Wireless Sensor Networks in the Presence of Byzantines, chen quan

The interplay of professional identity development, theoretical orientation development, and mentorship: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of classical Adlerian practitioners, Xiaoxuan Qu

Exploring Students’ Emotions and Mathematics Learning in Social Justice Mathematics, Waleed Ashraf Raja

Gauge-Invariant Correlators In Quantum Gravity, Kenneth Ratliff

Evil We Desire: Akrasia and the Ethics of Conspiracy Rhetoric, Andrew Ridgeway

The Incretin Response to Lifestyle Interventions in Young Adults and Youth with Obesity, Jared Rosenberg

Thermal history of rocks along the Totschunda and Denali faults with implications for exhumation, fault reactivation, and fault system evolution., Jacob Leo Rosenthal

How Disruptions in Indirect Procurement Impact an Organization’s Adoption of Technology, Rachel Rutkoski

Factors Influencing Award-Winning Faculty's Instructional Decisions, Zeenar Salim

A TrustZone-based Framework to Secure Mobile Financial Transactions and Provide End-to-End Protection for QR-code Payments and Credit Card Information, Ammar Salman Salman

Open Quantum Systems in High Energy Physics, Bharath Sambasivam

Examining the MTSS framework implementation at the elementary level, Michelle Santiago

Nehiyaw Two Spirit Creation Stories: Re-mapping home, desire, and Indigenous education through the body, Ionah M. Elaine Scully

The Process Becomes Part of You: A Methodology for Analyzing Institutional Mediation and Programmatic Possibilities in Community Writing, Chad Seader

Dimensional Attention Shift During Human Semi-Supervised Category Learning, Osung Seo

Bullying Involvement and Depression Among Youth with ADHD: Is Positive Parenting Protective?, Jessica A. Simmons

Domestic Exertions: Soldier-Servants, Military Elites, and Securitized Labor in India, Taveeshi Singh

INVESTIGATIONS OF SORTING AND NON-WAGE MARKET CLEARING: THREE ESSAYS IN LABOR ECONOMICS, Andrew Smith

Exploring the Roles of Food Parenting Practices, Dietary Self-Efficacy, and Food Insecurity on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Among College Students, Caitlin S. Smith

Liberalism and Feminist Political Thought In U.S. Women's Suffrage Fiction, 1856-1891, Rachel Snyder

Urban Latinx Community Engagement in Activism and Advocacy: Community Members Interrogating Educational Systems, Policies, & Practices, Jermaine Soto

Development of Stochastic and Time-Dependent Quantum Chemical Methods for Accurate Description of Light-Matter Interactions with Applications in Photoionization and Inverse Photoemission in Nanomaterials, Nicole Spanedda

Women's Wings in Rebel Groups, Heidi Marie Stallman

Community Organizing and Complex Social Issues: Wildfire Management in California, Devin Stein

Preference for Online Psychotherapy: A Comparison Study of Stigma, Attitudes, and Intentions, Travis Stewart

African Hydroclimate in the Quaternary: Diatom Paleoecology and Geochronology, Laura Caitlin Streib

Path Planning and Cyber-Physical System Integration in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wireless Communication, MOHAMAD HANI SULIEMAN

Exploring the equilibrium competition binding assay and ligand-induced current noise at the single-molecule level, Jiaxin Sun

Geometric-Templated Cardiac Organoids for Drug Developmental Toxicity Screening, Shiyang Sun

EXPLAINING GEOGRAPHIC DISPARITIES IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE MORTALITY: THE ROLES OF PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT, INDUSTRY STRUCTURES, AND STATE POLICIES, Yue Sun

Dancing in Chains: Policy Influence of Social Organizations in China, Honggang Tan

Investigating Holography using Classical and Quantum Simulations, Goksu Can Toga

SCIENCE POLICY IN KAZAKHSTAN: EXPLORING EXPERTS’ PARTICIPATION IN AGENDA SETTING AND POLICY FORMULATION PROCESSES, Zulfiya Torebekova

On Multi-sensor Adaptive Birth Theory for Labeled Random Finite Sets Tracking, Anthony Trezza

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN: EFFECTS OF ANTI-DUMPING DUTIES ON TARGETED FIRMS, Jorge Arturo Valdebenito

Studies Towards Improved Gravitational Wave Detector Thermodynamics, Daniel Vander-Hyde

Subcultural Textuality: Skateboarding and the Politics of Subcultural Media, Simon Vangel

Twice as good: A constructivist grounded theory study on the socialization process of black middle-class families and how this shapes the parent-child relationship, Dominique Nicole Walker

Transcriptional and Environmental Regulation of a Putative Xylan Biosynthesis Gene, PtrPARVUS2 in poplar, Dan Wang

Construct Validation of a Learning Resources Rubric [LRR]: A Modified Delphi Study, Lei Wang

INFRINGING ON DEMOCRACY: THE EUROPEAN UNION AND DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING, Kari Waters

Autism Diagnosis Effects on the Relationship Between Communication Skills and Nonverbal Intelligence: A Moderation Analysis, Emily Watts

Making Sense of Learning in VR, Jason M. Webb

ACE INVISIBILITIES: ASEXUAL SOCIAL IDENTITY THROUGH PODCASTING AND DIGITAL MEDIA, Kyle Kreye Webster

Me, Myself, and High: Momentary Precipitants and Consequences of Solitary Cannabis Use Among Emerging Adults, Amelia Wedel

Containment: Logistics, Environmental Conflict, and the Legal Geography of Inland Ports, Jared Charles Whear

Comparing Equivalent Face-To-Face [F2F] and Online [OL] Delivery Formats: Observations of Learner Interactions to Determine Instructional Quality, Garmondyu D. Whorway

Caring for Creation: Catholics, Justice, and Socio-Ecologies in Appalachia, Dominic Wilkins

Sociocultural Behaviors That Affect How Haitian Americans Seek Financial Information, Rebecca Charles Williams

THREE ESSAYS ON THE POLICY PROCESS OF SUBNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL POLICYMAKING IN CHINA, Shiyang Xiao

Enhancing Security and Robustness of Contextual Human-Centric Sensing, Jingyu Xin

Essays on the Political Economy of Trade Liberalization and Domestic Reforms, Zeyuan Xiong

THREE PAPERS ON ECONOMIC JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS, Fan Yang

WHAT MAKES CSR AUTHENTIC TO PEOPLE WITH LOW CAUSE INVOLVEMENT? AN EXPLORATION OF INFLUENCERS’ PERSUASIVE POWER VIA DUAL-PROCESS MODELS, Jeongwon Yang

MULTI-SCALE ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE-MECHANICS RELATIONSHIP OF MYCELIUM-BASED BIO-COMPOSITES, Libin Yang

Optimization and Learning Based Energy Efficient Designs in Edge Computing, Yang Yang

Power and Controversy: Controversy surrounding Material Challenges at a Public Library, Jieun Yeon

SELF-CARE PRACTICES, PERCEIVED WELLNESS, AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AMONG COUNSELING GRADUATE STUDENTS, Seydem yesilada

Investigating vocal development in humpback whales: Caller identification, acoustic and movement behavior, and comparisons across age, Julia Marie Zeh

A Critical Narrative Analysis of Kosovar Teachers’ Understanding of Literacy Education, Anemonë Zeneli

Representation of People with Disabilities in Legislatures: A Proposed Model of Approval Representation, Yohannes Takele Zewale

ESSAYS ON TRADE SHOCKS AND FIRM’S LOCATION, Dan Zhang

THREE PAPERS ON INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN CHINA, Wencheng Zhang

Essays on Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, and Export Quality, Yinhan Zhang

Three Essays on Food Insecurity, Cognition, and Food Assistance in the Context of Aging and Family Dynamics, Dongmei Zuo

2023

Three Essays On Academic Entrepreneurial Firms, Hooman Abootorabi

Three Essays on Housing Insecurity, Rhea Acuña

Neutron Star Interiors: From Proto-Neutron Stars To Galactic Pulsars, Chaitanya Afle

British Anti-Slavery, Trade, and Nascent Colonialism on the Sierra Leone Peninsula, c. 1860 – 1960, OLUSEYI AGBELUSI

Do Testing Accommodations have the Potential to Induce Stereotype Threat in Students with ADHD?, Avery Albert

The role of centrosome-based structures during embryonic development, Abrar Adnan Aljiboury

The biophysics of bacterial collective motion: Measuring responses to mechanical and genetic cues, Merrill Einar Asp

Computational Analysis of Engine Knock and Its Sensitivity to Chemical Kinetic Models, Ahmet Serhat Bahar

MODELING APPLICATIONS TO UNDERSTAND DOMINANT PROCESSES AND SURFACE WATER QUALITY, Ruta Basijokaite

PSYCHOSOCIAL WELL-BEING OF YOUTH IMPACTED BY PARENTAL CANCER, DeAnna Bay-Markins

Amplitude analysis of B0 decays to J/ψπ−K+ and ψ(2S)π−K+, Andy Beiter

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTED MOTOR LEARNING FOR SPEECH SOUND DISORDERS IMPACTING /ɹ/: THE PERCEPT PROJECT, Nina R. Benway

NMR-Guided Directed Evolution, Sagar Bhattacharya

Whose Children? Competing Conceptions of Childhood in Colonial Kenya, Thomas Bouril

ON ROBUST MACHINE LEARNING IN THE PRESENCE OF ADVERSARIES, Saikiran Bulusu

HAUDENOSAUNEE MEN AND MASCULINITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION: PERCEPTIONS, REMINDERS, AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO COMMUNITY, Hugh Burnam

Myxococcus xanthus: an approach to phenotyping complex biofilms, Eduardo Caro

Switching Adaptive Concurrent Learning Control for Powered Rehabilitation Machines with FES, Jonathan Casas Bocanegra

Cytocompatible Functional Polymers: In Situ Synthesis, Novel Triggering, and Multistep Actuation, Junjiang Chen

Design, synthesis, and characterization of monomeric peptide multiagonists for the mitigation of CNS-associated side effects in the treatment of Type II diabetes and Obesity, Kylie Sloane Chichura

Two Essays on Macro Accounting, Kang Ho Cho

MEGA- VS. NANO-INFLUENCER: THE EFFECTS OF CONSTRUAL MATCHING BETWEEN ENDORSERS AND AD MESSAGES ON ADVERTISING PERSUASIVENESS, Ploypin Chuenterawong

#NotYourMammy: Explicating the Experiences of Black Women Graduate Students as Learners and Laborers in American Academia, Kristian Ashley Contreras