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Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Shattering the Glass Slipper: An Investigation Into Nontraditional Gender Roles and Norms in the Elementary Classroom, Sara McLean Suber

The Immune Modulatory Role of Endocannabinoid Anandamide to Suppress Inflammation Through Regulation of Microrna and Microbiome, Muthanna Ali Sultan

Marginally Interpretable Models and Multilevel Models For Quantile Regression With Random-Effects, Nahid Sultana Sumi

Plasmonic Metallic and Semiconductor Nanomaterials, Mengqi Sun

Verbal Fluency in Women With the FMR1 Premutation and the Broad Autism Phenotype, Emily Szabo

Sensitivity of Aquatic Organic Matter Degradation To Changing Temperature and Nutrient Conditions in a Coastal Watershed, Curtis John Szewczyk

Ten Years of Japanese Piano Pedagogy (2009-2018) Through a Survey of Educational Resources, Natsumi Takai

Panaxynol’s Pharmacokinetic Properties and Its Mechanism of Action in Treating Ulcerative Colitis, Hossam Sami Tashkandi

The Impact of PLCS on Teacher Self-Efficacy, Paula Lynn Taylor

A Brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention (bMBI) to Reduce Teacher Stress and Burnout, Stephen George Taylor

Using Graphic Organizers and Spreadsheets to Increase Quantitative Literacy Skills in High School History Students, Bruce Alexander Thames

Predictive Validity of the Classroom Performance Survey, Asia Simone Thomas

Charlotte's Glory Road: The History of NASCAR in the Queen City, Hannah Thompson

Digging Into Digital Citizenship: Describing the Co-Creation of an Implementation Plan With Fifth- And Sixth-Grade Intermediate School Teachers, Cheryl Tice

Previvor and High-Risk Breast Cancer Patients’ Opinions on A Specialized Management Clinic, Madeleine Nicole Tjoelker

Foxy Ladies and Badass Super Agents: Legacies of 1970s Blaxploitation Spy and Detective Heroines, Carlie Nicole Todd

Statistical Analysis of a Joint Stochastic Model For Recurrent Competing Risks, Longitudinal Marker, and Health Status, Lili Tong

Heterogeneous Extended Langmuir Model with a Truncated Multi-Normal Energy Distribution for Fitting Unary Data and Predicting Mixed-Gas Adsorption Equilibria, Sofia Tosso

Effects of Basketball Exercise Simulation Test (BEST) On Landing Mechanics in Active Females, Madison Treece

The Determinants and Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment, Alexandra Dinu Troidl

Race Is Not a Risk Factor: Examining the Influence of Models Of Care, Race, and Discrimination on Racial Disparities in Maternal Outcomes, Curisa Mae Tucker

Feasibility Study of Λd Elastic Scattering in Data From Photoproduction Off Deuteron, Brandon Steven Tumeo

Measurement of N* Cross-Sections from Single-Pion Electroproduction at Low Q^2, Nicholas Scoville Tyler

Effect of Oxidative Stress on Lifespan and Cellular Survival, Benedicth Onyeka Ukhueduan

Molten Alkali Halide Salt-Flux Crystal Growth and Physical Property Determination of Complex Oxides and Chalcogenides Supported by First Principles Density Functional Theory Calculations, Mohammad Usman

An Analysis of Mental State Verbs in Children with Hearing Loss, Morgan Vachio

Grafting Based Thermoplastic-Thermoset Bonding for Aerospace Structures, Saurabh Vaidya

Essays in Health and Behavior, Zehra Çagıl Valencia Lopez

Trimming Complexes, Keller VandeBogert

How Do Literacy Coaches Function as Policy Actors?, Angela Vaughan

A Comparative Analysis of Selected Works by Chen Qigang: Wu Xing, L’éLoignement, and Luan Tan, Isaac Ormaza Vera

Lexical Properties of Perceptual Errors Made by Younger and Older Adults Listening to Speech in Multitalker Babble, Hannah Blythe Vickery

A Comparison of Spatial Clustering Assessment Methods, Nadeesha Dilhani Vidanapathirana

Essays on Cryptofinance, Robert Douglas Viglione

The Implementation of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy And Socratic Seminar: The Effect on African American Students’ Reading and Their Critical Thinking, Amy Christina Waddell

The Impact of Prioritization of Independent Reading on Male, Struggling Adolescent Readers’ Engagement, Motivation, And Achievement, Meagan Wagner

Alkyne Cyclization Involving a Zwitterionic Hexaruthenium Carbido Carbonyl Complex and the Synthesis of the First-Nitrido Heterometallic Carbonyl Cluster Complexes, Nutan Damodhar Wakdikar

Raman Spectroscopy Using a Monolithic Spatial Heterodyne Raman Spectrometer for Planetary Exploration, Abigail M. Waldron

Media Combat: The Great War and the Transformation of American Culture, Andrew Steed Walgren

Wonderland Station, Melanie Elizabeth Walker

Biobehavioral Measurement of Heterogeneity In Autism Spectrum Disorder, Carla Anne Wall

A Pedagogical Analysis of Henglu Yao’s Microkosmos From Chinese Nationalities, Yanting Wang

Essential Informational Needs of Parents Receiving a Turner Syndrome Diagnosis: Parent and Genetic Counselor Perspectives, Jewel Lynne Wasson

Administrative Support: What Teachers Say They Need, Jennifer Harris Watson

Creation’s Face in Moby-Dick, Richard Jackson Guignard Wells

Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, Green Space, and Walkability and Risk for Falls and Fracture Among Postmenopausal Women: The Women’s Health Initiative, Marilyn Elizabeth Wende

Interstate Rivalry, Domestic Politics, and Economic Coercion, Shaoshuang Wen

Brand New: How Visual Context Shapes Initial Response To Logos and Corporate Visual Identity Systems, Robert A. Wertz

Dissolved Nitrogen Cycling in the Eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago From Stable Isotopic Data, Holly Westbrook

Fate of Persistent Contaminants and Emerging Algal Toxins in Drinking Water and the Environment, Danielle Christine Westerman

When Being Strong Hurts: Trauma and the Strong Black Woman Stereotype, Cynthia Nicole White

Investigating the Dynamic Interactions of Rapidly Growing Precocial Shorebird Chicks, Luke R. Wilde

#BlackFemaleTeachersMatter: The Experiences of Three African American Female Teachers Who Left the Classroom During Their Induction Years, Ashlye Victoria Wilkerson

The Impact of Self-Regulated Learning Interventions on Acting Skills and Self-Regulated Learning, Jessica Perry Williams

The Implementation and Impact of the Leveled Literacy Intervention System on Middle School Students in Special Education, Krystin McCormick Williams

Evaluation of a Clinic-Based Peer Navigation Program (PNP) For African Americans Living With HIV In South Carolina, Kimberly Butler Willis

Community Corrections Officer Decision-Making: An Intersectional Analysis, Amber Leigh Williams Wilson

A Case Study Exploring Student Engagement With Technology As Measured by the ARCS and SAMR Models, Kyle Ashley Wilson

A Cost Effectiveness Analysis Of The Nutritious Eating With Soul Study, Mary Jones Wilson

An Action Based Approach to Analyze Factors That Impact Academic Major and Career Choice of Low-Income First-Generation College Students, James Kerry Winfield

A Project-Based Learning Approach to Community-Based Learning: Action Research to Explore Transformative Change in 1st Year Occupational Therapy Students’ Awareness About Contextual Barriers, Occupational Justice, and Advocating for Community Health and Wellness, Patricia Ann Wisniewski

Optimization and Application of Electrochemical Probes for Neurotransmitter Detection, Colby E. Witt

An Examination of Sport Ticket Price Acceptability and Surcharge Transparency in Partitioned Pricing, Misun Won

A Novel Model to Study Adipose-Derived Stem Cell Differentiation, Austin N. Worden

Advancing Knowledge of Exercise as a Therapeutic Management Strategy for Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Pamela J. Wright

Simulation-Based and Data-Driven Approaches to Industrial Digital Twinning Towards Autonomous Smart Manufacturing Systems, Kaishu Xia

Preparation, Characterization and Evaluation of Rationally Designed Catalysts by Electroless Deposition, Wen Xiong

Multi-Fidelity Surrogate and Reduced-Order Model-Based Microfluidic Concentration Gradient Generator Design, Haizhou Yang

Robust Adaptive Model Predictive Control of Nonlinear Sample-Data Systems, Lixing Yang

The Impact of Collective Efficacy and Collective Inquiry on Closing the Achievement Gap, Anne Marie Yarborough

Seven Phases of the Moon, Muhammed Can Yasar

Implementation of Stereo Digital Image Correlation for In-Plane Strain Measurements to Quantify the Anisotropic Behavior, Plastic Flow, and Strain Hardening of Extruded Aluminum Alloy, Farzana Yasmeen

A Stylistic and Pedagogical Analysis of Select Classical Pieces In Alicia’s Piano Books by Ananda Sukarlan, Karen Kai Yuan Yong

Three Essays on Corporate Governance And Financial Reporting Quality, Hyo Jin Yoon

Co-Constructive Music Improvisers: An Ethnographic Case Study, Emma Elizabeth Young

“Hungering and Thirsting” for Education: Education, Presbyterians, and African Americans in the South, 1880-1920, Rachel Marie Young

Application of Digital Transformation in the Water Desalination Industry to Develop Smart Desalination Plants, Ibrahim Yousif

Caribbean Yellowtail Snapper Ocyurus Chrysurus: Filling In Critical Gaps in Research for Life History and Novel Ageing Validation Utilizing Δ¹⁴C, Sarah Zajovits

Solvent Effect Modeling in Heterogenous Catalysis, Mehdi Zare

Applying Health Stigma Framework to Examine the Mechanisms Of HIV-Related Stigma on Clinical Outcomes, Chengbo Zeng

The Rising of the Avant-Garde Movement In the 1980s People’s Republic of China: A Cultural Practice of the New Enlightenment, Jingsheng Zhang

The Development of Novel CDK8 and CDK19 Inhibitors and Degraders as Potential Anti-cancer Agents, Li Zhang

Inoculating the Public Against Misinformation: Testing The Effectiveness of “Pre-bunking” Techniques in the Context of Mental Illness and Violence, Nanlan Zhang

Iterate to Innovate: How Firms Strategize Design Iteration to Navigate the Uneven Landscape in the Global Mobile Application Industry, Pengxiang Zhang

Multiple Frailty Model for Spatially Correlated Interval-Censored, Wanfang Zhang

Information Production and Price Discovery in the Syndicated Loan Market, Yafei Zhang

Association Between the Beta Band Neural Response and the Behavioral Performance in Aphasic and Neurologically Intact Individuals, Yilun Zhang

Variations in ER Stress and Unfolded Protein Response Predict Disease Susceptibility, Youwen Zhang

Genetic and Epigenetic Regulations of EDS1-Mediated Plant Immunity and Identification of Bacterial Type III Effectors Targeting De Novo DNA Methyltransferase DRM2 in Arabidopsis, Ming Zhao

Quantifying and Elucidating the Effect of CO₂ on AEMFCs, Yiwei Zheng

Why Do Tourists Accept Lodging Through Accommodation Sharing Platforms? Model Development and Model Comparison, Ge Zhu

Towards More Trustworthy Deep Learning: Accurate, Resilient, and Explainable Countermeasures Against Adversarial Examples, Fei Zuo

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Molecular Mechanisms of Loss of E7 Expression in HPV16 – Transformed Human Keratinocytes, Fadi Farooq Abboodi

Methods for Dynamic Stabilization, Performance Improvement, and Load Power Sharing In DC Power Distribution Systems, Hessamaldin Abdollahi

Morals ‘Trump’ Party: Make America Cooperate Again, Jered Abernathy

17 β-Estradiol and Phytoestrogens Attenuate Apoptotic Cell Death in HIV-1 Tat Exposed Primary Cortical Cultures, Sheila Marie Adams

Shaftesbury's Atlantis, Andrew Agha

Fundamental Understanding of Plasma Discharge Formation in Liquid and Multiphase Configurations Through Multiphysics Modeling, Ali Charchi Aghdam

Acoustic and Ultrasonic Beam Focusing Through Aberrative and Attenuative Layers, Hossain Ahmed

Kinetic and Multidimensional Transport Coupled Numerical Investigation of Nox Formation During Syngas and Natural Gas Combustion, Sheikh Farhan Ahmed