Dissertations from 2020
Student Conceptualization of Stoichiometry, Khushikumari J. Patel-Desai
Soundscapes for Social Change: Community and Consciousness through Sound Design Rhetorics, Amy Patterson
Women Student Veteran’s Help-Seeking Behaviors with Faculty, Outside the Classroom: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study, Jessica Rose Pelfrey
Dissolution of Neptunium Dioxide and Transport of Aqueous and Colloidal Neptunium in the Vadose Zone, Kathryn Margaret Peruski
Advancing Spatiotemporal Research of Visitor Travel Patterns Within Parks and Protected Areas, Brian Peterson
Improving Swimming Performance and Flow Sensing by Incorporating Passive Mechanisms, Beau Pollard
The Effect of Tenure and Gender on Corporate Boards, Benjamin James Posmanick
Evaluation of In Situ Bioremediation of 1, 4-Dioxane Under Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditions, Angel Alejandro Ramos Garcia
Effects of Self-Monitoring on the Self-Determination of Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in a Post-Secondary Educational Setting, Kristina Nicole Randall
Combustion Phasing Modeling for Control of Spark-Assisted Compression Ignition Engines, Dennis Robertson
Qualitative & Quantitative Analyses of Existing Buildings’ Adaptability, Zoraya Roldan Rockow
Human Factors Considerations in a Telemedicine-Integrated Ambulance-Based Caregiving Environment for Stroke Care, Hunter Rogers
Fast Machine Learning Algorithms for Massive Datasets with Applications in the Biomedical Domain, Ehsan Sadrfaridpour
Evaluating Drivers’ Understanding of Automotive Symbols Related to Powertrain and Advanced Driver Assistant Systems, Breno Schwambach Costa
Three Essays on the Human and Social Capital Effects and Entrepreneurial Firm Performance, Marcos Segantini Coppola
Assessment of Affective Responses to Classroom, Outdoor, and Virtual Geology Field Experiences, Victoria Beth Sellers
Solvent as a Tool to Tune the Association of Structured Ionic Block Co-Polymers: Neutron Scattering and Computational Study, Manjula Senanayake
Dislocation Slip and Deformation Twinning in Face Centered Cubic Low Stacking Fault Energy High Entropy Alloys, Mitra Shabanisamghabady
Pattern Formation and Elastocapillary Instabilities in Soft Gels, Xingchen Shao
Novel Low Dimensional Sensors for Rapid Disease Diagnosis and Efficient Biomolecular Detection, Bipin Sharma
Detecting Periods of Eating in Everyday Life by Tracking Wrist Motion — What is a Meal?, Surya Sharma
Quantum and Classical Multilevel Algorithms for (Hyper)Graphs, Ruslan Shaydulin
Effects of a Small-Group Vocabulary Intervention With and Without Extended Instruction on Word Learning Skills of At-Risk Kindergarten Students, Jill C. Shelnut
Understanding Corrosion in Modular Acetabular Tapers: Retrieval Analysis, In Vitro Testing and Cell-Material Interactions, Aarti Shenoy
Building a Strategy for Key Energy Transitions: Modeling Biophysical Economics, John Sherwood
A Survey of Changepoint Techniques for Time Series Data, Xueheng Shi
Preference Construction in Difficult Multi-Attribute Health Decisions: Effects of Affect and Coherence Shifting, Michael Shreeves
Conformational Studies Pertaining to Richman-Atkins Cyclization of Azamacrocycle Ligands and Developing Routes for Efficient Synthesis of 3:1 Cyclens, Megan Marie Sibley
Development of Extracellular Vesicle Isolation and Model Systems Toward Early Ovarian Cancer Diagnostics, Tyler Slonecki
High Sulfur-Content Materials from Free Fatty Acids, Ashlyn Dennis Smith
Compliance, Hardness, and Fretting Corrosion in Modular Taper Junctions: The Micromechanics of Contact, Stephanie Marie Smith
Picture This: Examining the Experiences of Black SGA Presidents at HBCUs Using Photo-Elicitation, Travis C. Smith
Modeling Energy Expenditure and Recovery in Cycling, Vijay Sarthy Mysore Sreedhara
Women Engineering Faculty Well-Being: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Shannon Kristine Stefl
Performance of Cross-Laminated Timber as a Residential Building Material Subject to Tornado Events, Michael W. Stoner
Rhetorical Invention in a 21st Century Technoculture: A New Ludic Framework for Learning, Christopher Michael Stuart
Exploiting Latent Features of Text and Graphs, Justin George Sybrandt
From Protein Folding to Protein Binding, Nayere Tajielyato
Synthesis and Characterization of High Sulfur-Content Polymers with Petrochemical and Microbial Comonomers, Timmy Thiounn
Material Properties of Anderson Localizing Optical Fiber, Matthew Artus Tuggle
Evolution of Secondary Sexual Characters in Pselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), Laura Maria Vasquez-Velez
Dramatistic User Experience Design: The Usability Testing of an e-Government System in A Non-Western Setting, Octaviyanti Dwi Wahyurini
Nonlinear Modeling and Control of Driving Interfaces and Continuum Robots for System Performance Gains, Chengshi Wang
Frictions in the Youth Labor Market: Theory and Evidence, Guanghua Wang
Modeling and Analysis of Scheduling Problems Containing Renewable Energy Decisions, Shasha Wang
Diagnosis, Rupture Risk Evaluation and Therapeutic Intervention of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Using Targeted Nanoparticles, Xiaoying Wang
Attack Resilient Pulse Based Synchronization, Zhenqian Wang
Evaluation of Biological Thatch Control on Golf Greens, Joshua Randall Weaver
Encystation and Glycogen Metabolism in Entamoeba histolytica, Jordan Lynne Wesel
Exploring the Relation Between Religiosity and Sexual Health Outcomes, Kayla Weston
An Economic Study of US Housing and Education Policy, Kenneth Whaley
"We've Had Enough": Youth Activists' Pathways to Participation and Social Media Practices Following the Parkland Shooting, Allyson Marie Wilcox
Mapping Genetic Resistance to Reniform Nematode (Rotylenchulus reniformis) in Soybean, Juliet Elizabeth Fultz Wilkes
Essays on the Determinants of Substance Use and Mental Health Among Mothers and Adolescents, Sarah L. Wilson
Development of Cutaneotrichosporon oleaginosus to Convert Lignin-Derived Phenolics to Oleochemicals, Allison Yaguchi
Radio-Frequency Sensors for High Performance Liquid Chromatography Applications, Duye Ye
Topological Excitations and Anomalous Transport Phenomena in Condensed Matter Systems, Chuanchang Zeng
Bench-Top Electrochemical Crystal Growth: In-Situ Synthesis of Extended Solids Containing Polyoxometalate Anions, Qiuying Zhang
Impact of Biological Wastewater Treatment on the Reactivity of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) Precursors, Xiaolu Zhang
Enable Reliable and Secure Data Transmission in Resource-Constrained Emerging Networks, Xiaonan Zhang
Polydiacetylene Biosensors in Food Microbiology Applications, Yueyuan Zhang
Data-Driven Assessment of Site Responses at Liquefiable Sites, Weiwei Zhan
Essays on Benchmarking and Shadow Pricing, Shirong Zhao
Power Bounded Computing on Current & Emerging HPC Systems, Pengfei Zou
Dissertations from 2019
Synthesis, Characterizations, and Study of the Antioxidant Activity of Novel Ruthenium-Thione and -Selone Complexes, Mohammed Abdulali Abbas
The Effect of Crack Opening Size and Repair Methods on Corrosion of Steel Reinforcement in Concrete, Luay Aboalarab
Near-infrared Observations of Herbig Ae/Be Stars, Steven Cade Adams
Cure Dependent Viscoelastic-Plastic Modeling of Adhesives to Capture CTE Effects in Multi-Material Structures, Akshat Agha
Analytical and Iterative Regularization Methods for Nonlinear Ill-posed Inverse Problems: Applications to Diffuse Optical and Electrical Impedance Tomography, Sanwar Uddin Ahmad
Modeling of Household Evacuation Decision, Departure Timing, and Number of Evacuating Vehicles from Hurricane Matthew, Roa'a Jaber Mohammad Alawadi
Exploring Institutional Culture as a Macrosystem Antecedent to University Workplace Bullying: An Organizational Ethnography, Samuel Tristam Aldridge
CM Scale Flapping Wing Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle At Very Low Reynolds Numbers Regime, Abduljaleel Altememe
Role of Cryptococcus neoformans Pyruvate Decarboxylase and Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Enzymes in Acetate Production and Virulence, Mufida Ahmed Nagi Ammar
Women Student Veterans’ Experiences in a College Setting: A Phenomenological Case Study, Rebecca Atkinson
Essays on China's Cigarette Industry, Xi Bai
Visitor Impact at Historic Sites: An Assessment of the Influence of Usage, Interpretation, and Management on Material Degradation, Laurel Lynne Bartlett
The Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Pentafluorosulfanyl-Containing Heterocycles and Pentafluorosulfanyldifluoromethane, Steven Paul Belina
Evaluation of the Potential for Ecological Treatment Technologies to Remediate Species of Phytophthora from Irrigation Runoff, Natasha Lynn Bell
Anomalous Effect of Spinning Conditions on the Mechanical and Transport Properties of Mesophase Pitch-Based Carbon Fibers, Victor Bermudez
Optimal Control of UV-Induced Curing Processes for Layer-by-Layer Manufacturing of Composites, Shiferaw Damtie Beyene
The Effect of Anthropometric Properties of Self-Avatars on Action Capabilities in Virtual Reality, Ayush Bhargava
Essays on Earnings and Labor Supply of Married Women in India, Smriti Bhargava
Development of Helicoverpa zea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Transgenic Corn Producing BT Toxins and Implications for Resistance, Thomas Bilbo
Principals’ Influences on Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy: A Multiple Case Study, Debbie Lynn Bishop
The Role of Out-of-School Time Programming in Predicting Critical Reflection and Positive Outcomes in Marginalized Youth, Katrina Black Reed
A Combined Molecular Dynamics and Density Functional Theory Approach for Generating Liquid Water Configurations for Aqueous-Phase Heterogeneous Catalysis Studies, Cameron Joseph Bodenschatz
Home is the Key: A Study of the Social Impact of Habitat for Humanity in South Carolina, Rachael M. Bowers
An Examination of Principal Professional Learning through Transformative and Sociocultural Learning, Anna Thompson Brink
The Impact of Ergot Alkaloid Consumption During Gestation on Maternal Performance and Fetoplacental Development, Jessica Lynn Britt
Electrically-Driven Ion Transmission Through Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials, Saheed Abidemi Bukola
Higher Education Governance Structures and Tuition: A Quantitative Analysis, Alfred Bundrick