Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Evaluating Pregnancy Outcomes of Abnormal Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening Results in a High Risk Obstetrics Practice, Olivia Kesler
Microbiome Targeted Therapies in Gulf War Illness, Diana Agnes Kimono
Operational Drivers of Hospital and Physician Adaptation to Industry Change, Justin Taylor Kistler
Using Human Granulosa Cells to Select the Most Competent Embryos for Uterine Transfer in in Vitro Fertilization Cycles, Richard John Kordus
I’ll Never Have to Do This After High School: Exploring Students' Perceptions of College and Career Readiness and the Effects of Eportfolios With Reflection on Transferable Skills, Julie Beatrice Kristin
Rationality Questions and the Derived Category, Alicia Lamarche
Piloting a Smartphone-Based Sedentary Behavior Reduction Intervention for Adults With Overweight or Obesity: Take a STAND 4 Health, Chelsea Larsen
Anni Albers: From Bauhaus to Black Mountain, Kellen Rosslie Ledford
A Stylistic Analysis of Reinhold Glière’s 25 Preludes for Piano, Op. 30, Sunjoo Lee
Rethinking the Customer Experience: An Empirical Comparison of Airbnb and Hotels, Jing Li
Channel Modeling and Tropospheric Effects on Millimeter Wave Communications for Aviation Applications, Jinwen Liu
Examining Teachers’ Readiness to Partner With Immigrant Latinx Parents: A Comparative Case Study, Sarah Coleman Longshore
Serving as a Backup Plan: Accounting Reserves and Their Impact on Managerial Risk-Taking, Kun Lui
A Pedagogical Analysis of DvořáK’s Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85, Nathan MacAvoy
Experiences With and Knowledge of Genetics in Families Affected by Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: The Parent Perspective, Christine Maccia
Influence of Stormwater Management on Oxygen Demand and Organic Matter Cycling in Urbanizing Headwater Catchments, Kelly McCabe
Gestational Infections and Obesity: Implications for Intellectual Disability Risk, Maggie S. J. McCarter
Bacterial Water Quality Monitoring as Citizen Science in Congaree National Park, South Carolina, Shea McCarthy
Silent Sam and Saunders Hall: Protests and Reactions at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Brienne McDaniel
Theraputic Strategies for Altering the Trajectory of Neurocognitive Impairments in HIV-1 Associated Neurocognitive Disorders in the Post-Cart Era, Kristen Addie McLaurin
Counting Number Fields by Discriminant, Harsh Mehta
Assessing Social Media for Themes of Trisomy 18 and 13, Falecia Metcalf
Identifying and Characterizing Transgenic Lines That Drive Gene Expression in the Adult Fat Body of the Drosophila Melanogaster, Michael Edward Meyerink
Effect of Cannabinoid Treatment on Immune Cell Functions During Acute Lung Injury, Amira Kamil Mohammed
Influences on Parents’ Food Shopping for Children’s Consumption in South Carolina, Nazratun Nayeem Monalisa
Thou Shalt Lie: Anticipatory Deflection Management, Victoria L. Money
Focal Dystonia Causes and Treatments: A Guide for Pianists, Juan Nicolás Morales Espitia
Concept to Rendering to Shop to Stage: A Process in Costumes, Molly A. Morgan
The Development of Polymer Constructs for Adipose Tissue Engineering Applications, Kendall Murphy
Composing with Light and Color: Storytelling Through Art and Science, Allison A. Newcombe
Circulation Changes in the Arctic Ocean and Subarctic Seas and Their Connections to the Global Ocean and Climate, Rachel Elizabeth Nichols
The Impact of Financial Incentives on Urban-Rural Disparities in Dental Supply: Evidence From Thailand, Rakchanok Noochpoung
Ready Coder One: Action Research Exploring the Effects of Collaborative Game Design-Based Learning on Gifted Fourth Graders' 21st Century Skills and Science Content Knowledge, Mary Kathleen O'Grady-Jones
Distance Related Graph Invariants in Triangulations and Quadrangulations of the Sphere, Trevor Vincent Olsen
Lighting Design: An Assortment, Tyler Omundsen
Beneath the Dry Teeth of Mountains, Susan Doherty Osteen
Development, Validation, and Application of a Novel Method to Separate and Quantify Silver Intracellular Uptake in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Mohammed A. Othman
Two Essays Examining Consumer Responses to Product and Service Failures, Sotires Pagiavlas
Three Essays on Optimization and Decision-Making Solutions in Grocery Retail Operations, Olga Pak
Puruhá Fashion as Aesthetic Sovereignty: Identity Making and Indigenous Dress in Ecuador, Anaïs M. Parada
A Behavioral and Voltammetric Study of the Effects of Pb Exposure in Mice as a Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Brenna Parke
Time’s Up: How Opera Is Facing Its Own Me Too Reckoning, Craig Price
Mechanistic Investigations of Isothiourea Catalyzed Silylations of Secondary Alcohols Using Reaction Progress Kinetic Analysis, Brandon Kane Redden
Integrating Survivors of Stroke Into Cardiac Rehabilitation, Elizabeth Wherley Regan
Social Networks, the Local Food Environment, and Maternal Food Choice for Children Ages 1 to 5 Years Old in Rural Mexico, Ligia Ivette Reyes
The Utility of Whole Exome Sequencing in Patients With Intellectual Disability and Developmental Delay as a First-Tier Diagnostic Testing Strategy, Ellen Richardson
Helping Future Teachers Do History: The Effectiveness of the National Archives Docsteach Program on the Historical Thinking and Perception of History of Preservice Teachers, Jeremy Alan Rinder
Gel Permeation Chromatography Purification and Surface Chemistry of Technologically Relevant Colloidal Quantum Dots, Adam Roberge
A Trumpet Player’s Performance Guide of Three Selected Works for Trumpet, Cello, and Piano, Justin Wayne Robinson
Ego Sum, Victoria Romero
The Impact of a District Supported Mentoring Initiative on Reading Achievement of African American Male Students, Brooke Wray-Fisher Rowe
Lipoprotein Discordance: Associations With Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, and Response to Exercise, Jonathan Joseph Pulama Kupaianaha Ruiz-Ramie
Design of Bio-Inspired Multifrequency Acoustic Sensors and Metamaterial Energy Harvesting Smart Structures, Mohammadsadegh Saadatzi
Checkmate: Exploring Father-Son Communication Regarding Reproduction and Sexual Health in Males With Cystic Fibrosis, Dianna C. Sanderson
Strategies and Methods Used to Improve Engagement: Mixed Methods Action Research in an Online Computer Applications Course, Yvette Newton Sands
Multi-Scale Modeling for Transport Study Inside Porous Layers of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Using Direct Numerical Simulation, Pongsarun Satjaritanun
Digital Distractions: Using Action Research to Explore Students’ Behaviors, Motivations, and Perceptions of Cyberslacking in a Suburban High School, Kristy Self Rykard
Swept Away Before Learning to Swim: Social Studies Subject Area Literacy for High School Students, Aaron K. Shaw
New Approaches to Understanding Mjo Dynamics, Casey Shoup
Diameter of 3-Colorable Graphs and Some Remarks on the Midrange Crossing Constant, Inne Singgih
The Logic of Capital and the Possibility of Resistance in Chris Abani’s GraceLand, Caleb Smith
Two Inquiries Related to the Digits of Prime Numbers, Jeremiah T. Southwick
Relationship Between Sedentary Time and Physical Activity With Glycemic Variability and Oxidative Stress, Joshua Robert Sparks
The Tripartite Model of Efficacy Beliefs for Youth With Visual Impairments, Alexandra Stribing
“How Did You Get Here?”: Using Counter-Narratives and Critical Race Theory to Explore the Placement Experiences of Black Males in Self-Contained Special Education Settings, Xandria Renata Sutton
Quality of Life of Children With Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Parents’ Perspectives in Light of New Treatments, Analyssa R. Tallas
Influence of Dynamic Multiaxial Transverse Loading on Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene Single Fiber Failure, Frank David Thomas
The Impact of Hotel Service Robot Appearance and Service Attributes on Customer Experience, Chuhan Thomsen
The Early Piano Music of Richard Wagner, Annie Rose Tindall-Gibson
Computational Tools for Analyzing Correlations Between Microbial Biological Diversity and Ecosystems, Behzad Torkian
A Conductor’s Guide to the Da Vinci Requiem by Cecilia McDowall, Jantsen Blake Touchstone
The Impact of Personalized Learning Strategies on Educational Growth and Achievement of Low Socioeconomic Elementary Students, Michele L. Trevino
Social Trust and Soft Power: The Role of Social Trust in Democratic Countries’ Soft Power Use, Judit Trunkos
Taiwanese Postcolonial Identities and Environmentalism in Wu Ming-Yi’s the Stolen Bicycle, Chihchi Sunny Tsai
Natural Product Berbamine Enhances the Efficacy of Doxorubicin Treatment for Triple Negative Breast Cancer, Jake Tyler
Optimization of Vehicle to Grid System in a Power System With Unit Commitment, Charles Uko
The Manufacturing and Characterization of Pseudo-Woven Carbon Fiber Composite Architectures for Enhanced Damage Tolerance, Cyrus Vakili Rad
Windows and Generalized Drinfeld Kernels, Robert R. Vandermolen
Bayesian Analysis of Binary Diagnostic Tests and Panel Count Data, Chunling Wang
Tow-Path Characterization for Automated Fiber Placement, Roudy Wehbe
Studying the “Snip”: A Multi-Methods Exploration of Vasectomy in the Southern United States, Ashley Lauren White
Revisiting the Essential Informational Needs of Parents Receiving a Diagnosis of Down Syndrome, Margaret Jean Wilkes
Program Evaluation of a Middle School Stem/Steam Program, Warren Richard Wintrode
The Chasquis of Liberty: Revolutionary Messengers in the Bolivian Independence Era, 1808-1825, Caleb Garret Wittum
Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century Russian Nationalistic Music: Case Studies of Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila and Cui’s Mystic Chorus, Jeffrey Crayton Yelverton Jr.
An Ensemble-Based Projection Method and Its Numerical Investigation, Shuai Yuan
The Effects of Racialization on Skeletal Manifestations of Disease Among Migrants in Historic ST. Louis, Missouri, Kristina M. Zarenko
Economic Interdependence, Power, and Peace: A Rationalist Study of Commercial Liberalism, Yuleng Zeng