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2024

Scrutinizing along with Visual Persuasion of Movie Billboards in Egypt from the 1930s to the 2010s/ Qualitative Content Analysis Study, Sara Ali Almaleki

MICROBIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO PLANT FUNCTION AND RESISTANCE UNDER A CHANGING CLIMATE, Sarah Araldi-Brondolo

North Pacific Warming and Western US Hydroclimate: Implications from Paleoclimate and Historical Perspectives, Peter Ryan Brennan

Exploring the Electrochemical Performance of Calcium-Ion Batteries With Novel Cathodes and Electrolytes, Paul Alexis Chando

Fighting the Gravity: Settler Colonial Interventions in Land Based Memory, Ezekiel Shawn Choffel

A Research Center at the End of the World A study of local writing practices in a global context, Ana María Cortés Lagos

Valent Experience: On Its Non-sensory Nature, Its Unity, and Its Place in Value Theory, Lorenza D'Angelo

Control and Estimation of Unmanned Aerospace Vehicles in the presence of Constraints and Dynamic Uncertainties, Abhijit Dongare

Multi-functional Phenolic Acid-Based Shape Memory Polymer Foams as Hemostatic Agents, Changling Du

Electric Power Transmission System Performance Monitoring via Traveling Waves, Lawrence George Durante

Broadband and Multiband Designs for Antenna Feeds and Arrays, Jeremy Michael Furgal

Morphodynamic Diversity of Alluvial River Systems in the Upper Yellow River Watershed, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Xiwei Guo

Paradise Lost: The Effect of Judicial Review on Congressional Debate, Laura E. Jenkins

On the Control of a Supersonic Multi-Stream Rectangular Nozzle, Seth Kelly

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Traffic Density Prediction and Multi-Agent Task Allocation, Chen Luo

AUDITORY BRAINSTEM NEURAL VARIABILITY, AUTISTIC TRAITS, AND SENSORY SENSITIVITIES IN SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN, Devon Pacheco Major

Anti-Chinese Violence in the United States, 1850-1910, Nicholas W. Mason

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THREE PAPERS ON INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN CHINA, Wencheng 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

Space and Time in Kant's Inaugural Dissertation, Dante Dauksz

Leading for Equity: Understanding the influences, realities, resistance, and beliefs around tracking and acceleration in suburban school districts, Joseph Michael DeBarbieri

Responsibility Internalism and Responsibility for AI, Huzeyfe Demirtas

Geometric confinement of thin films: From crumple formation to curvature-induced propulsion, Raj De

AlGaAs Coating Studies for Present and Future Gravitational Wave Detectors, Nicholas Anthony Didio

Multi-directional waveguide lattices for further enhancement in solar energy capture in silicon solar cell, Nannan Ding

Synthetic Studies on Small Molecule Src Homology 2 Domain Containing Inositol 5’Phosphatase (SHIP) Modulators and Studies towards the Design and Synthesis of a SHIP PROTAC, Shawn Dormann

Social Lives at College: Experiences of Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disability, Katie Ducett

Causal effects of green infrastructure on stormwater hydrology and water quality, Caitlin G. Eger

ENHANCING THE OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE OF CYBER- MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (CMS) AGAINST CYBER-ATTACKS, Carlos Omar Espinoza Zelaya

The Stereotype Content of Intersecting Race, Class, and Gender Groups, Mackenzie Ess

Analogical Transfer in Multi-Attribute Decision Making, Jun Fang

Bringing Hedonism Back: Toward a Felt-Quality Account of Well-Being, Nikki Fortier

Data-informed school counseling programming: Investigating the relationship between school counselors' data behaviors and prior training, intrapersonal characteristics, and school factors, Erin Nicole Friedman

ATTITUDES TOWARD INTIMATE BEHAVIORS VARY WITH CONTEXT, BEHAVIOR TYPE, AND ATTACHMENT AVOIDANCE., Julian Domingo Fuentes

Leadership Actions for Equitable Arts Education, Sarah Gentile

Second-Person Surveillance: Politics of User Implication in Digital Documentaries, Elizabeth Gleesing

Physical Insights into Biological Processes: From Viral Uptake to Chromatin Organization to Cell Motility to Tissue Rigidity, Sarthak Gupta

An Investigation of the Impact of Embedding Learning Strategies into Developmental Mathematics Curriculum, Jessica J. Harnly

Advanced Manufacturing of Multilayer Ceramic Composites for Application in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Alexander Ryan Hartwell

Effects of a Brief Group-Based Compassion Intervention on Physiological and Subjective Stress Reactivity, Emily Helminen

ESSAYS ON HETEROGENEOUS TREATMENT EFFECTS, Zhe He

The Effect of Land-Based Repeated Sprint Training in Hypoxia compared to Normoxia on Anaerobic Capacity, Repeated Sprint Ability, and 100-Yard Swimming Performance: A Single-Blind Crossover Study, John Holohan

Development and Initial Validation of the Cannabis Pain Expectancies Scale, Julia Hooker

LEVERAGING THE POST-TRANSLATIONAL LIPIDATIONS TO MODULATE THE ASSEMBLY AND PHASE-BEHAVIOR OF PROTEINS, Md Shahadat Hossain

"We Stand Before the Stars": Reevaluating Catholic Modernism and Liberal Marriage Reform in the United States, 1895-1945, Emily J. Hunter

Downconversion of Phonons to Suppress Correlated Errors in Superconducting Qubit Arrays, Vito Iaia

Estimating Dry Deposition of Atmospheric Aerosols by Rain Washoff from Urban Surfaces, Alexander James Johnson

Decentralization, Development, and Conflict in Central Mali: Examining the Role of Local Governance, Andrew Korn

Hydrodynamics, Stability and Accretion: from planets, to stars, to supermassive black holes, Suman Kumar Kundu

Procedural and Distributive Justice ... For Whom? A Comparative Investigation of Community Benefits Agreements in Pittsburgh and Cleveland, Athena Last

Heterotypic Interactions in the Complex Environments of Living Tissue, Elizabeth Lawson-Keister

Studies of New Tandem Oxidative Methods in Organic Synthesis, Katelyn Ann Leets

DEVELOPMENT AND CROSS-VALIDATION OF A PREDICTION EQUATION FOR ESTIMATING STEP COUNT IN INDIVIDUALS WITH TRANSTIBIAL AMPUTATION, Kyle Leister

Design, synthesis, and bioconjugation of novel peptide-based drugs to mitigate negative hindbrain side effects for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity, Amber Liles

Party Competition in Swing Districts and Childcare Policy Development in South Korea, Tae Hyun Lim

Customer concentration, Disclosure Decisions, and Credit Ratings, Chieh Lin

Alkylation of Carboxylic Acids And 1,2,3-Triazoles Using Imidates, Wenhong Lin

Three Essays on Residential Mortgage Payment Behavior, Wenzhen No Middle Name Lin

THREE ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION, Shuyuan Li