Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Elucidating the Structure and Regulatory Interactions of the HOTAIR Non-Coding RNA and the Bacterial RNase P. Holoenzyme, Ainur Abzhanova
Artificial Intelligence-based Smarter Accessibility Evaluations for Comprehensive and Personalized Assessment, Sayeda Farzana Aktar
Efficacy of, and Preference for, a Modification to Differential Reinforcement Procedures, Carissa Basile
Evidence that the Inner Nuclear Membrane is a Functional β1-Adrenergic Receptor Signaling Platform in Astrocytes, Kelsey Benton
Describing Parents' Beliefs About the Causes of Mental Health Problems in Youth: Implications for Service Utilization, Madeline Buchanan
Lifting the Postmodern Veil: Cosmopolitanism, Humanism, and Decolonization in Global Fictions of the 21st Century, Matthew Burchanoski
Existential Thomism and the Ecstasy of the Sexed Body, Kathleen Cavender-McCoy
Why We Work: Exploring the Relationships Between Work Rewards, Burnout, and Intention to Leave for Professional Nurses, Jacqueline Christianson
Examining Relationships Among Nursing Students' Views of Suffering, Positive Thinking, and Professional Quality of Life, Ruth Anne Engbers
Gothic Transformations and Remediations in Cheap Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Wendy Fall
Generalized Joint Hypermobility and Lower Extremity Musculoskeletal Biomechanics in Female Athletes, Christopher F. Geiser
Altered Motivation & Dopamine Subcircuit Plasticity Unique to Sex During Protracted Opioid Withdrawal, Devan Marc Gomez
Exploring Validation and Success Among First-Generation College Students in First-Year Writing, Jenna Green
Algorithm-Architecture-Hardware Co-Design in Computing Systems: From Chip Multicore to the Cloud, Wenkai Guan
Evaluating the Impact of Land Use Changes, Drivers of TMDL Development, and Green Infrastructure on Stream Impairments, Charitha Jayasri Gunawardana
Photophysical and Photocatalytic Properties of Covalent Organic Frameworks, Daniel Streater H.
Urban Water Quality: Socio-Economic Distribution of Stream Degradation, and the Influence of Climate on BMP Performance, Isabelle Horvath
Person and Society: The Trinitarian Anthropology of Henri de Lubac, Sara Hulse
Postnatal Developmental Trends in Membrane Excitability and BK Channel Function in the Rodent Hippocampus, Michael S. Hunsberger
Breathing Around the Clock: Novel Circadian and Light-Driven Mechanisms That Govern Daily Breathing Behavior in Mice, Aaron Andrew Jones
An Examination of Newspaper Accounts of Nonviolent Social Movement Leaders, Patrick Kennelly
Probabilistic Model Development and Risk Management Strategies for Pipelines with Anomalies, Kiswendsida Jules Kere
Design and Advanced Model Predictive Control of Wide Bandgap Based Power Converters, Waqar Ahmed Khan
Place, Attachment, and Feeling: Indigenous Dispossession and Settler Belonging, Sarah Kizuk
Characterizing Allosteric Regulation and Conformational Dynamics in Staphylococcus Aureus Pyruvate Carboxylase, Amanda Joan Laseke
The Alliance Apart: Anticommunism and the Anglo-American Relationship, 1948-1954, Edward Longe
Improving Cold Tolerance of Asian Rice through Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria and Rice Gene Manipulation: Mechanisms of Pseudomonas Mosselli and OsMADS27, Nasim Maghboli Balasjin
Latine Youth's Intersecting Identities and Mental Health Outcomes: Examining the Mediating Role of Family Functioning, Anne Malkoff
Generation of Cardiac Chamber Models Using Interpretable Generative Neural Networks for Electrophysiology Studies, Sunil Mathew
More Than “Just a Friend”: Exploring the Therapeutic Needs of Adult Survivors of a Suicide Loss of a Friend, Kat R. McConnell
A Trait-Based Approach to Explain Plant Coexistence in Tropical Forests, Felipe Nery Arantes Mello
Nepantla and Mestizaje: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Mestizx Historical Consciousness, Jorge Alfredo Montiel
Computationally Efficient Analysis and Optimization of Induction Motors, Hossein Nejadi Koti
Moved to Compassion: Envisioning Parables in the Gospel of Luke, Patrick J. O'Kernick
Trauma Exposure and Resident Assistants: A Study of Meaning Making, Sarah Ann Olejniczak
Feasibility of Sewer Overflow Treatment Using Chemical Oxidation after Rapid Solids Removal, Paige Peters
Electrocoagulation for Treatment of Disinfection Byproducts, Organic Matter, and Per-And Polyfluoroalykl Substances., Donald Rockwood Ryan
Designing Human-Centered Algorithms for the Public Sector: A Case Study of the U.S. Child Welfare System, Devansh Saxena
Those Who Came Before: Learning from Native American College Alumni About Walking the Path of Persistence, Jacqueline Schram
Identification of the Autoregulatory Properties and Molecular Interactions of the Lysine-Specific Histone Demethylase 1 Enzyme, Dulmi Senanayaka
The Effect of Microstructural Defects and Geometrical Features on Fatigue Behavior of Superelastic Nitinol Wires, Parisa Shabani Nezhad
Targeted Mapping of Oryza sativa Chilling Tolerance Candidate Genes Using Multiple Stress-Relevant Quantitative Traits, Naoki Simon Shimoyama
Downstream Task Self-Supervised Learning for Object Recognition and Tracking, Abubakar Siddique
Milton’s Learning: Complementarity and Difference in Paradise Lost, Peter Spaulding
A Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Pilot Trial of Online-Delivered Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics-Enhanced, Jordan Stiede
The Categories Argument for the Real Distinction Between Being and Essence: Avicenna, Aquinas, and Their Greek Sources, Nathaniel Taylor
Scope and Mechanistic Studies of Ruthenium Catalyzed C-C and C-N Bond Activation Reactions, Dulanjali Thennakoon
“The Development of the Conceptive Plot Through Early 19th-Century English Novels”, Jannea R. Thomason
Exploring New Techniques For Precision Deuteration of Alkenes and Alkynes, Zoua Pa Vang
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Causal Inference in Healthcare: Approaches to Causal Modeling and Reasoning through Graphical Causal Models, Riddhiman Adib
A Study on the Hierarchical Control Structure of the Islanded Microgrid, Fahad Shumran Alshammari
Modulation of Mitochondrial Protein Synthesis in Yeast – Role of the Mrp7 (bL27) Protein, Jessica Anderson
Predicting Mental Health Crisis in Veterans: Early Warning Signs, Precursors and Protective Factors, Priyanka Annapureddy
EEG During Motor Tasks in Stroke: The Effects of Remote Ischemic Conditioning and Fatigue on Brain Activity, Priya Balasubramanian
On Sides: Reading Irish National Identities through Soccer, 1920-1998, Abigail Bernhardt
Believing in God and the Youthful Manhood of Our Time: Gender, Race, Empire and the Making of Irish Nationalism 1860-1882, Patrick M. Bethel
Conditional Risk for PTSD Traumatically Injured Latinx Sample: Cultural X Biological Model, Claire Maria Bird
Gonzo Eternal, John Francis Brick
Modeling, Describing, and Explaining Subjective Consciousness- A Guide to (and for) the Perplexed, Peter Burgess
Investigating Beliefs & Attitudes Regarding Equitable Teaching & Discipline Practices: Race Essentialism in Schools, Jamee S. Carroll
The Ethical Functions of Deuteronomic Laws in Early Second Temple Judaism, Paul Cizek
Intertextuality and Sociopolitical Engagement in Contemporary Anglophone Women’s Writing, Jackielee Derks
Latinas’ Use of Spirituality As a Coping Mechanism, Ashley Lauren Faytol
Born in Defiance: The Public Career of Virgil C. Blum, S.J., William M. Fliss
Considering Constituencies Contributing to Lead-Water Discussions in Milwaukee: A Three Article Dissertation, Jennifer Gaul-Stout
Consistent Visual Analysis of Multielement Data, Margaret Rachel Gifford
Mentoring for Racial Justice: Facilitation White Racial Identity Development Among Graduate Trainees in Counseling and Psychology, Mackenzie Goertz
Mediating Effects of Positive Thinking on Compassion Fatigue, Compassion Satisfaction, and Resilience in Nurse Leaders, Jay Randall Gottschalk
Embryology of the Gekkota: Insights into the Evolution an Development of Morphological Diversity, Aaron Harp Griffing
Kinetics of Isotope-Labeled Pathways in the Ozone Forming Recombination Reaction, Elizaveta Grushnikova
Quantitative Multidimensional Stress Assessment from Facial Videos, Lin He
The Ventral Hippocampus Dynamically Regulates Amygdala Encoding and Learned Fear, Matthew Richard Herbst
Graph Neural Networks for Inverse Problems With Flexible Meshes, William Herzberg
Finding Paul in the Fourth Gospel: John 8 and the Reception of the Apostle to the Gentiles, Jason Hitchcock
Immobilized Phosphate-Binding Protein Systems to remove and Recover Phosphate, Faten Bakri Hussein
Intrinsic Photodynamic Study on Photocatalytic Materials, Wenhui Hu
Somatostatin Regulates Circadian Clock Function and Photic Processing, Deborah A. M. Joye
Exploring Relationships Between Depression Self-stigma and Trust in Primary Care Provider on Willingness to Seek Help, Tana Karenke
Evolution of Sex Chromosomes in Geckos (Reptilia: Gekkota), Shannon Elizabeth Keating
Innovation, Genre, and Authenticity in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel, David Aiden Kenney II
Impact of Corrosion Inhibitors and Metals on Antibiotic Resistance in Drinking Water Distribution Systems, Lee Kimbell
“Now I Will Recall the Works of God”: Allusion and Intertextuality in Sirach 42:15-43:33, Gary Patrick Klump
The Human Person Fully Alive: The Transformation of the Body, Brain, Mind, and Soul of Humanity in the Encounter with the Divinity, Christopher Krall
Bit-Flip Aware Data Structures for Phase Change Memory, Arockia David Roy Kulandai
Synthesis and Characterization of Biomimetic Co and Fe Complexes with Trispyrazolylborate Ligands, Praveen Kumar
Improving Char Combustion Models Using Micro-CT, Automated Image Analysis, and Pore-Resolving Simulations, Dongyu Liang
AP Physics Course Enrollments: The Impact of Middle School Algebra and Physics First, Judi G. Luepke
Explore the Regulatory Roles of Micrornas in Sperm Formation and Function of C. Elegans, Lu Lu
Rapid and Automated Margin Assessment During Lumpectomy Using a Deep Ultraviolet Fluorescence Scanning Microscope, Tongtong Lu
Looking Through Whiteness: Objectivity, Racism, Method, and Responsibility, Philip Mack
Novel Test Fixture for Characterizing Mems Switch Microcontact Reliability and Performance, Protap Kumar Mahanta
Temporal Sentiment Mapping System for Time-Synchronized Data, Jiachen Ma
Improved Management of Recalcitrant Nutrient Species: Transformation and Adsorption, Synthia Parveen Mallick
A Grounded Theory on Becoming a Revolutionary Latinx Student Leader, Eva Martinez Powless
Pituitary Adenylate Cylase-Activating Polypeptide Receptor: Multiple Signaling Pathways Involved in Energy Homeostasis, Brian Maunze
Peacebuilding through Education: The Case of Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis, Thomas d Aquin Mbatna Taiwe
The Utility of clinical and Blood-Based Biomarkers to Discriminate between Typical and Prolonged Pediatric mTBI Symptom Recovery, Morgan E. Nitta