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2023

Rescaled Density Processes of Voter Model Perturbations on r-Regular Random Graphs converge to Feller’s Branching Diffusion, Tianyue Wu

Essays on the Gender Wage Gap in China and the Returns to Higher Education in the United States, Rui Xu

Why are VR headsets collecting dust? The exploration of potential factors affecting media consumer’s adoption of VR technologies, Shengjie Yao

Visual-Semantic Learning, Chengxiang Yin

ESSAYS ON LABOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS, Zhanhan Yu

CsPbX3 Nanoparticle Synthesis Via Nonpolar Solvent Choice and Microwave Heating, Growth Mechanism and CsPb(Br/I)3 Stabilization by Halide Exchange, Hediyeh Zamani

Real-time Adaptive Detection and Recovery against Sensor Attacks in Cyber-physical Systems, Lin Zhang

2022

Toward Extended Situational Crisis Communication Theory: Include Visuals, Prior Performance, and Framing Devices, Mohammad Ali

A SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS (PPPs) IN HIGHWAY PROJECTS, Dhafer Alqahtani

Digitalizing Religion in the Age of COVID-19: A Uses and Gratifications Perspective, Abdulaziz Altawil

THE RIGHT TO TRAVEL: TOWARD AN ETHICS OF SHORT-TERM MOBILITY, Ugur Altundal

Leveraging System Context to Understand Collaborative Systems in Modern Public Management, Catherine Annis

Investigation of Holographic Lattice Theories, Muhammad Asaduzzaman

ADVANCED LITHIUM METAL BATTERIES: FUNCTIONAL ELECTROLYTE ADDITIVE AND LITHIUM METAL/SOLID-STATE ELECTROLYTE INTERFACE ENGINEERING, Abiral Baniya

Leveraging Isocyanate Chemistry for Low Cost and Highly Functional Hydrogels, Henry Beaman

A COHERENCE-COLORED LOOK INSIDE REVERSE MICELLES: ADVANCING MAGNETIC RESONANCE RELAXOMETRY TO CHARACTERIZE INTERNAL WATER POOL DYNAMICS, Alec Beaton

Gender Norms and Gendered Traits, Rowan Bell

Search for NuMI muDAR Electron Neutrinos in MicroBooNE, Ohana Benevides Rodrigues

Measurements of B → D(∗)−,0D(∗)+,0K+π− Branching Fractions in the K∗0 Mass Window, Harris Bernstein

Mechanologic: Designing Mechanical Devices that Compute, Michelle Berry

How Do the Functions That School Business Officials Perform Affect Teaching and Learning, and Do School Business Officials Take These Effects Into Account in Performing Their Work, Oliver Blaise

Lewis-base Thioacetamide assisted crystallization of lead-free perovskite solar Cells for improved Efficiency, Raja Sekhar Bobba

Dividing the Blue Line: the Cultural Work of Rural Policing in Upstate New York, Michael Branch

Research Data Management Practices And Impacts on Long-term Data Sustainability: An Institutional Exploration, Sarah Elaine Bratt

Catastrophic Christianity: an Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940, Adam D. J. Brett

On The Prudential Power of Beliefs and Fittingness of Attitudes, Teresa Bruno-Niño

Transformational Leadership and the Adoption of Sustainability and Asset Management Practices in Ground Transportation organizations, Mohammad M. Bushahri

Patterns of Dissolved Methane in Groundwater and Its Contribution to Emissions Inventories, Amanda E. Campbell

Public Administrator Aversion to Randomized Controlled Trials, Emily Bryn Cardon

Saving This Honorable Court: Supreme Court Legitimacy and Support for Court Reform, Nathan Thomas Carrington

IMPLEMENTING THE MINDFULNESS-BASED KINDNESS CURRICULUM IN AN INCLUSIVE SETTING: EFFECTS ON PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR, Emily Cary

Synthesis, Characterization and Cellular Uptake of Magnesium Complexes of Pyrones and Amino Acids, Derek Robert Case

If We End, I Lose Part of Me: the Influence of Dissolution Consideration on Perceived Self-contraction, Abigail J. Caselli

Novel Epidemics: Contagion and Metaphor in US Literature, Maxwell Clement Cassity

The Mentoring Relationship as Experienced by Female Counselor Educators, Kellin Murphy Cavanaugh

Switched Kinematic and Force Control for Lower-Limb Motorized Exoskeletons and Functional Electrical Stimulation, Chen-Hao Chang

Three Essays on Urban Property Taxes, Yoon-jung Choi

Three Essays on Education and Childhood Health, Stephanie Grau Coffey

REDUNDANCY AND DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION IN MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS: INSIGHTS FROM THE PHENOME, Jessica A. Comstock

Powers and the Metaphysics of Fundamentality, Benjamin Cook

“A SENSE OF SAFE CONNECTION”: AN AFFECTIVE NARRATIVE EXPLORATION WITH QUEER TEENAGE WRITERS IN AN OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME PROGRAM, Gemma Cooper-Novack

Understanding How Whole Genome Duplication in Plants Impacts Herbivore-plant Interactions, Anne Curé

Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes of Shell Bound organic Matter, Implications for Modern and Ancient Food Web Dynamics, Shibajyoti Das

Evaluation of the Energetic Factors in Crystalline Pharmaceuticals Using Solid-state Density Functional Theory and Low-frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy, Margaret P. Davis

Pockets of Promise: A Phenomenological Study of Experienced Special Education Teachers Working With Students With Emotional Disturbance in an Alternative Program, Jennifer L. Dibello

Mental Health Service Use Disparities Among Latinx Communities: An Intersectional Examination of The Role of Skin Color, Acculturative Stress, Racial Discrimination, And Mental Health Literacy, Kirsis Allennys Dipre Montes De Oca

Characterization of superconducting hardware for implementing quantum stabilizers, Kenneth Richard Dodge

Distortion Estimates for Conformal Maps Predicated on Geometric Properties of a Domain, Christopher G. Donohue

The Politics of Repeal and Replace: Testing the Limits of the Affordable Care Act's Behavioral Policy Feedbacks, Emma Clare Dreher

Rooting for the Home Team: Arbuscular Mycorrhizas and Root Traits in Native and Invasive Woody Shrubs, Alexander Ebert

The Preclusive and Productive Power of Information Systems: Psychiatric Clinicians, Electronic Health Records, and the Making of Health Information, Carrie Elliott

Measurement of |vcb| Using the Semileptonic Decay Λb → Λcμνμ, Scott Edward Ely

Adversarial Activity Detection and Prediction Using Behavioral Biometrics, Amin Fallahi

Civic Education and Citizenship Education: A Qualitative Study of Secondary Social Studies Teachers' Understandings of the Concepts and Practices of Citizenship Education for Immigrant Students, Diana Fidaoui

Social Pressure & Accuracy Motivations- Strategies to address problems of Directionally Motivated Reasoning in Political Information Processing, Colin French

An Overheated Debate: The Influence of Premillennial Apocalyptic Rhetoric on Climate Reform Discourse in the United States, David Charles Gall-Maynard

An Exploration of Self-Identity Experiences Within the Lives of Afro-Caribbean Women Undergraduate College Students: A Feminist Phenomenological Study, Shana J. Gelin

IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS AND THE CONTINGENT VALUE OF PERSONAL LEGITIMACY, Kurian George

Three Essays on Partial Identification for Applied Health Economics, Giuseppe Germinario

Startup Futures: Entrepreneurs, Investors and Imaginaries of Care in Global India, Ipshita Ghosh

Exploring Passive Flow Control Techniques Applied to a Supersonic Multistream Rectangular Nozzle, Emma Dawn Gist

Cannabis Sleep Aid Use in Daily College Life: An Intensive Longitudinal Assessment Approach, Patricia A. Goodhines

ASSEMBLING ENSLAVED LIVES: LABOR, CONSUMPTION, AND LANDSCAPES IN THE NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY, Matthew Clark Greer

Analysis of Wireless Networks With Massive Connectivity, Mangqing Guo

Future Climate Rhetorics of Belize: A Counter-Apocalyptic Inquiry into Belize’s Possible, Probable, and Preferable Futures, André Habet

Policing the Project: Crime, Carcerality, and Chicago Public Housing, Madeleine Rose Hamlinn

Automatic Generation of Near-Body Structured Grids, Yuyan Hao

Identification and characterization of HMX3/Hmx3a binding partners, William Haws

Decision-Making for Teacher Professional Development: An Analysis of Contributing Factors, Jennifer Heckathorn

Studying Redox Conditions of Devonian and Neoproterozoic Oceans Using I/ca Proxy From Bulk Carbonate Rocks, Ruliang He

Examining the Individual and Systemic Factors Associated With School Counselors' Leadership Practices, Derron Hilts

Hell's Black Intelligencers: Representing Clandestine Labor on the Early Modern Stage, Evan Alexander Hixon

Unpacking the Implementation of Restorative Practices: A Case Study of Race, Equity, and Change, Theresa Helyn Holtsbery

Protection against Contagion in Complex Networks, Pegah Hozhabrierdi

Passive Institutional Ownership, Firm Disclosure, and Post-earnings Announcement Drift, Jingxin Hu

WDR5 Network Analysis Using Ensemble Approaches, Ali Imran

Three Essays on the Economics of Education, Rachel Jarrold-Grapes

THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN FAMILY SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, FAMILY EXPECTATIONS, AND CHILD ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT VIA NURTURANT-INVOLVED PARENTING, TEACHER–STUDENT RELATIONSHIP, AND ACADEMIC SELF-REGULATION IN CHINESE FAMILIES, Lei Jin

Interpretable Network Representations, Shengmin Jin

Chemical Control and Understanding of Horizontal Gene Transfers, Drug-Resistance Development, and Filament and Biofilm Formation, Yuchen Jin

The Effect of the Education Realignment on Party Position Taking in the United States, Joel B. Kersting

Geometry of discrete and continuous bounded surfaces, Kyung Eun Kim

Three Essays on Globalization, Structural Change, and Political Economy, Nam Seok Kim

Whom Do You Want to Be Friends With: An Extroverted or an Introverted Avatar? Impacts of the Uncanny Valley Effect and Conversational Cues, Se Jung Kim

Coparenting Quality in Separated American Parents of Children Ages 1½ to 5: Anxiety, Social Support, Self-efficacy, and the Associations With Coparenting and Child Outcomes, Greg Kovacs

Molecular mechanisms that regulate centrosome movement during tissue morphogenesis, Nikhila Krishnan

Design of novel metalloenzymes and investigation of protein-metal interactions, Alona Kulesha

Freyre’s Plantation Playground: The Changing Landscape of the Sugar Plantation Monjope, Catherine Elizabeth LaVoy

Counselor Educator's Perspective on Clinical Supervision Interventions for International Counseling Students, Ah Ram Lee

THREE ESSAYS ON ASSET PRICING IN REAL ESTATE, Mingwei Liang

Understanding and Hardening Blockchain Network Security Against Denial of Service Attacks, Kai Li

Design and modeling of superconducting hardware for implementing quantum stabilizers, Yebin Liu

An NLP Analysis of Health Advice Giving in the Medical Research Literature, Yingya Li

Observation of the Ξ_b^-→Λ_b^0 π^- decay and measurement of B(Ξ_b^-→Λ_b^0 π^-), Zhuoming Li

The Problem of the "Virtual": Virtual Reality, Digital Dualism, and Religious Experience, Jordan Brady Loewen

Educational Leadership in Middle Schools: Informal Teacher Leaders, Mary Ann Luciano

Three Essays at the Intersection of Child Welfare and Public Policy, Mattie Mackenzie-Liu

Nla28 Activator Modulates σ54-dependent Gene Regulation in Myxococcus xanthus, Muqing Ma

Enhancing Grid Reliability With Phasor Measurement Units, Rui Ma

Trichloroacetimidates As Outstanding Electrophiles for the Carbon-nitrogen, Carbon-oxygen and Carbon-carbon Bonds Formation and Synthetic Studies of Protein Phosphatase-5 (pp5) Small Molecule Inhibitors, Nilamber Mate