Theses/Dissertations from 2020
From Cellular to Holistic: Development of Algorithms to Study Human Health and Diseases, Casey Anne Cole
L’ Entre- Monde: The Cinema of Alain Gomis, Guillaume Coly
Determinants of Nutrition Agenda Setting in the Context of the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Tamil Nadu, India, Shilpa Vimalananda Constantinides
Nitric Oxide Expression With Age and Diet in the Arterial Wall of Apoe Knockout Mice, Kara Cooper
Development of a CFD Model for the Drying of Aluminum-clad Spent Nuclear Fuel, Nathaniel Cooper
Talkin’ Black and Sounding Gay: An Examination of the Construction of a Multiplex Identity via Intraspeaker Variation, Brianna R. Cornelius
Bollen-Stine Bootstrapping of the Chi-Square Statistic in Structural Equation Models: The Effect of Model Size, Raul Corrêa Ferraz
Circulating Calcium, Phosphorus, and Parathyroid Hormone and Aggressive Prostate Cancer in the North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project, Brittany Crawford
Exploring the Needs, Practices, and Attitudes Toward Technology Integration of Community College ESOL Instructors: Recommendations for Professional Development Through Action Research, Courtney Cunningham
Characterization and Analysis of the Avian Epidermal Differentiation Complex and Implications in Feather Evolution, Anthony Chastine Davis
Ivy Dreams On, Emily Davis
The Interaction Between Caffeine Consumption, Alcohol Use, and Amount of Sleep on Bone Health, Haley Davis-Martin
Recognizing Art as a Semiotic Mode: Revelations of an Adolescent Mind, Catherine Elizabeth Deaton
Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth Among Helping Professionals: Factor Analysis and an Investigation of Construct Validity, Jennifer D. Deaton
Methods for Cancellation of Apparent Cerenkov Radiation Arising From SME Models and Separability of Schrödinger’s Equation Using Exotic Potentials in Parabolic Coordinates, Richard Henry DeCosta
Aesthetic Activisms: Language Politics and Inheritances in Recent Poetry From the U.S. South, Sunshine Dempsey
Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Earthquake Recovery, Sahar Derakhshan
Gendering Secession: Women and Politics in South Carolina, 1859- 1861, Melissa DeVelvis
Use of Geospatial Technique to Estimate Traffic Volume on South Carolina Roads, Ryan Andrew DeVine
El Hambre y La Formación Del Sujeto: Un Estudio Transatlántico DE Lazarillo DE Tormes y Naufragios, Nicole Donoghue
Studies of Group Fused Lasso and Probit Model for Right-Censored Data, Tuan Quoc Do
The Youngest, Trezlen Drake
An Analysis of the Impact of Interventions Provided to at-Risk, Ninth-Grade Students, Staci Dreher
Local Eigenvalue Modification Procedure for Real-Time Model Updating of Structures Experiencing High-Rate Dynamic Events, Claire Rae Drnek
The Evolution of the Southeastern North American Margin From Integrated Analyses of Potential Field Data: Continent-Continent Collision and Rifting, Patrick D. Duff
Tailored Multifunctional Heterometallic Metal-Organic Frameworks, Otega Anthonia Ejegbavwo
Investigating Accuracy of Model Fit Indices in Multilevel Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Mihaela C. Ene
How Self-Sentiments and Personal Networks Impact Political Polarization, Matthew Facciani
A Mixed Methods Study of Student Learning Objectives (SLOS) in Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness, Xumei Fan
Evaluating the Stabilization of Gypseous and Gypsiferous Sands Using Different Chemical Additives to Mitigate Gypsum Dissolution, Mohammed Kamil Faris
Fundamental Studies of Bimetallic Model Surfaces and Metal Organic Framework Thin Films, Fathima Sharfa Farzandh
Fundamental Studies of Bimetallic Model Surfaces and Metal Organic Framework Thin Films, Fathima Sharfa Farzandh
Learning Programming Through Robots: A Mixed-Methods Study on the Effects of Educational Robotics on Programming Comprehension and Motivation of Preservice Teachers, Alex Geoffrey Fegely
Damage Evaluation of Rolling Element Bearings for Shipboard Machinery, Brenna Lyn Feirer
Digesting Gender: Gendered Foodways in Modern Chinese Literature, 1890s–1940s, Zhuo Feng
Expansion Microscopy: A New Approach to Microscopic Evaluation, Ashley Ferri
The Health Care Commons: A Philosophical Approach, Roel Feys
Elementary Physical Education Teacher Perceptions of Motor Skill Assessment, Jenna Fisher
Factors that Influence Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Implementation in Non-Medical Settings, Andrew Joseph Flaherty
Investigating the Flipped Classroom Model in a High School Writing Course: Action Research to Impact Student Writing Skills and Engagement, Elizabeth Ann Florence
The Association of Exercise Training Modalities with Circulating Branched Chain Amino Acid and Ketone Body levels in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Ryan Andrew Flynn
The Impact of Blended Learning Upon Mathematics Attitudes and Academic Achievement: An Action Research Study, Aronda Yvette Frazier
Raphael Soyer and His Responses to the Ascension of Abstract Art, Eric Matthew Friendly
Performance Edition of Franz Simandl’s 30 Etudes for the String Bass With Critical Commentary, Austin Gaboriau
The Behavioral and Neural Effects of Audiovisual Affective Processing, Chuanji Gao
The Downside of National Team Identity: A Model to Measure Negative Outcomes of Team Identity, Fei Gao
Bifurcated Elementary Sister-Schools: Do They Affect Student Growth During Transition Years?, Victoria Gelbert
A Legacy Preserved: A Comparison of the Careers and Recordings of Stanley Drucker and Karl Leister, Peter M. Geldrich
On the Robustness of Bayesian Network Learning Algorithms against Malicious Attacks, Noah Joseph Geveke
Algorithmic Robot Design: Label Maps, Procrustean Graphs, and the Boundary of Non-Destructiveness, Shervin Ghasemlou
Motor Competence and Quality of Life in Youth with Cancer and Visual Impairments, Emily N. Gilbert
Skepticism, Perfectionism, Romanticism – Cavell, Kant, Kleist, Maximilian Gindorf
Fostering Resilience in Correctional Officers, Jon Thomas Arthur Gist
Sense of Community among Independently Housed Individuals with Serious Mental Illness, LaDonna L. Gleason
Associations Between County-Level Socioeconomic Status and Opioid Overdose Rates in Northern New England, Samuel Godfrey
The Impact of Consumer Perceptions of Tanking on National Basketball Association Attendance, Hua Gong
Advising for High School Mathematics Course-Taking: Action Research Identifying and Describing Students’ Experiences, Selection Factors, Needs, and Preferences, Andrea Lynn Goodson
Design and Control of an Arrayed Infrared (MAT-IR) Heater for Accurate Heating Control During Automated Fiber Placement, Benjamin L. C. Greenberg
The Impact of Culturally Relevant Coaching on the Retention of First and Second Year Teachers, Fraronda D. Green
Finite Axiomatisability in Nilpotent Varieties, Joshua Thomas Grice
Flexible Regression Models for Survival Data, Ennan Gu
Addressing Unconscious Bias, Power, and Privilege to Increase Cultural Competence Skills in Healthcare Faculty: Intersecting Critical Race Theory and the Pyramid Model for Intercultural Competence, Christina B. Gunther
Neutrino Induced Coherent-Pion: Precision Measurement in NOMAD and Uses in Oscillation Experiments, Bing Guo
Investigating the Role of Iron-Sulfur Signaling in Yeast Transcriptional Regulation, Malini Gupta
Seismic Attribute Fracture Analysis and Thin and Thick-Skinned Structural Controls on the Evolution of a Foreland Basin - Parrando and Guavio Anticlines, Eastern Cordillera Foothills, Colombia, Ibraheem Khalil Hafiz
Pathways to Degree Completion of Female Nontraditional Students: the Role of Institutional Intervention at a Public Four-Year Research Institution, Mary Hutto Hahn
Automation of Process Planning for Automated Fiber Placement, Joshua A. Halbritter
Clarifying and Measuring the Value of Human Capital Resources, Donald Hale, Jr.
An Index of Choral Music Performed During the National Conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (1991-2019), Jonathan Randall Hall
Examination of Daily Steps in People With Parkinson’s Disease & Stroke: Two Steps Forward, Reed Handlery
Lost in Transmission: The Use of Communicative Technologies to Affect Perception, Relationships, and Motivation in Adult Education, Rebekah Leigh Hannon
Promoting Critical Consciousness: The Role of Positive Youth Development Programming, Mackenzie Jaclyn Hart
Adjustment of a Coastal Buoyant Outflow Under Tidal and Wind Forcing, A K M Nahid Hasan
Chemistry of a Biscarborane Dithiol and Its Nickel (II) Complex, Tyler Hemingway
Motherworld, Destiny Hemphill
The Relation of Linguistic Awareness Skills to Reading and Spelling in School-Age Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder, Victoria Suzanne Henbest
Measuring the Ability of a Readiness Course to Improve Online Student Success at a Two-Year Technical College, James Devin Henson
The Role of Acute and Chronic Neuroinflammation in Depression: Uncovering the Relationship Between Histamine and Serotonin Transmission, Melinda Hersey
Function of GPR68 in Normal Hematopoiesis and Malignant Hematopoietic Diseases, Xiaofei He
Are You a Boy or a Girl?: Representations of Transgender Children in Picture Books, Joshua Hill
Japan’s 2D Trauma Culture: Defining Crisis Cinema in Post-3/11 Japan, Matthew C. Hill
Bridging the Transition to School: an Action Research Study, Susan Bates Hill
Examination of Emergency Medical Services Activations for Sport- Related Injuries, Rebecca Marie Hirschhorn
Experiences of College Students in Addiction Recovery: A Critical Case Study, Dory E. Hoffman
Incorporation and Measurement of Uncertainty in Clustered and Spatial Data, Yuan Hong
Facilitating Collaborative Group Work among Middle School Students through Digital Game-based Learning: An Action Research Study to Improve Classroom Instruction, David William Hooks
Facilitating Collaborative Group Work Among Middle School Students Through Digital Game-Based Learning: An Action Research Study to Improve Classroom Instruction, David William Hooks
Social and Emotional Learning: An Analysis of the Understandings and Needs for Teacher Professional Development in a Rural South Carolina High School, Tyler Crede Hook
cis-Resveratrol Upregulates Tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetase and Inhibits the Proliferation of Select Breast Cancer Cell Lines, Marion Cone Hope III
An Evaluation of the Healthfulness of the Hospital Food Environment, Cynthia Elaine Horton Dias
Might Could, Cody Donovan Hosek
Multivariate Joint Models and Dynamic Predictions, Md Akhtar Hossain
Novel Multi-User Chirp Signaling Schemes for Future Aviation Communication Applications, Nozhan Hosseini
Remote Sensing and Social Sensing for Improved Flood Awareness and Exposure Analysis in the Big Data Era, Xiao Huang