Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Electronic Learning: An Educator’s Guide to Navigating Online Learning in a Collegiate Horn Studio, Michelle Beck
Design and Testing of a Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Plasma Reactor, Gregory Belk
The Psychosocial Burden of LI-Fraumeni Syndrome Tumor Surveillance on Mutation and Non-Mutation Carriers Within Families, Emily Anne Berenson
A Novel Analytical Method for Studying Pharmacological Treatments for Affective Disorders in Neuroscience, Shane N. Berger
An Equivariant Count of Nodal Orbits in an Invariant Pencil of Conics, Candace Bethea
The Impact of Psychosocial, Clinical, and Neighborhood Factors on Inflammatory Outcomes Among African American Women, Malcolm Seth Bevel
Investigating the Effects of Aggregate Size and Reinforcement on ASR Cracking in Concrete Structures Studied with Different Evaluation Methods, David Joseph Bianco
The Effect of Peer-To-Peer Recognition Systems on Helping Behavior: the Influence of Rewards and Group Affiliation, Paul W. Black
“That Confusion of Who Is Who, Flesh and Flesh”: Mothers, Daughters, and the Body in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature, Jennifer Renee Blevins
Systematic Development of Photocatalysts, Mary Victoria Bobo
The Utility of Using Virtue Locales to Explain Criminogenic Environments, Hunter Max Boehme
Septentrionalism: Whiteness and 19th Century Representations of Scandinavia, Madison Elisabeth Boland
Fundamentally Different Stories That Matter: True Crime Podcasts and the Domestic Violence Survivors in Their Audiences, Kelli S. Boling
The Clarinet Music of Dr. Austin Jaquith: A Performance Guide, Zachary Aaron Bond
Dynamics of the Loop Current System and Its Effects on Surface and Subsurface Properties in the Gulf of Mexico, Richard James Brokaw
A Narrative Inquiry Into the Lived Experiences of Early Childhood Teachers Who Implemented Garden-Based Learning, Jamison Keith Browder
A Return to Turtle Island: Eco-cosmopolitics in American Indian Literature, 1880-1920, Kristen Brown
101UP: Implementation of a Gamified Curriculum to Increase Self-Regulated Learning Skills and Motivation for at-Risk Students in a First-Year Experience Course— an Action Research Study, Candace Lisek Bruder
The Cultural Relevance of Music Education as it relates to African American Students in South Carolina, Felicia Denise Denise Myers Bulgozdy
Digital Learning Environment Development: Action Research Using a Situated Coaching Model With Elementary Classroom Teachers Integrating Technology, Robert Burggraaf
Dysregulation of the Integrated Stress Response in Early Onset Dystonia (DYT16) Due to Mutations in Pact, Samuel B. Burnett
An Exploratory Study of the Effects of a Technology-Based Graphic Organizer and 1:1 Chromebooks on the Persuasive Writing of Third-Grade Students, Kathy L. Caldwell
High-Dimensional Inference Based on the Leave-One-Covariate-Out Regularization Path, Xiangyang Cao
Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Structural Health Monitoring of Aerospace Structures, Kimberly A. Cardillo
Surveying Tuberculosis Screening Practices of South Carolina Hospital Employees, Tamara T. Carree
Autonomous Drone-Based Sensor Package Deployment to the Underside of Structures, Sabrina Rose Carroll
Reviving Rhetoric Through Conversation: Feminist Rhetorical Pedagogies for a Deliberative Democracy, Sadie Suzanne Carr
Probing the Interstellar Medium of Galaxies Using Gravitationally Lensed Sight Lines and the Relevant Atomic Physics, Frances Cashman
Complex Syntax Acquisition in Children with Hearing Loss, Marissa Castaldo
Mindfulness, Culture, and Clinical Practice: Clinician Experiences Utilizing Mindfulness and Acceptance With Hispanics/Latinos, Rebeca Castellanos
Young Children’s Behaviors During Favorite-Music Repertoire And Other-Music Repertoire, Vanessa Caswell
Computational Modeling of Radiation Damage in a Multi-Phase Ceramic Waste Form Using MOOSE, Zeyu Chen
Treatment With Protease Inhibitor and Development of Diabetes Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Human Immune Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), Eric Ejike Chinaeke
I Want My Middle School Students to Read: Does Using Culturally Relevant Texts Increase Student-Participants’ Engagement Levels Toward Reading Particular Texts?, Elliott O. Chisholm
Gun Violence and Advocacy Communication, Minhee Choi
Five Pieces for Piano by Isang Yun and Piano Etude No.1 by Unsuk Chin: An Analysis, Inhye Cho
A Machine Learning Based Approach to Accelerate Catalyst Discovery, Asif Jamil Chowdhury
Package Warning Labels for Communicating Relative Risks of Cigarettes, Heated Tobacco Products, and E-Cigarettes, Yoo Jin Cho
International Conflict, Political Leaders, and Accountability, William Thomas Christiansen
Natural Reed Enhancement: Establishing the First Universal Reed Break-In Process Through Hydro-Stabilization, Steven Isaac Christ
Unpacking the Effects of International Experience in Intercultural Negotiations, Chei Hwee Chua
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