Dissertations from 2015
Biology and ecology of bigheaded carp in an invaded ecosystem, Alison Adele Coulter
Consequences of short-term water temperature variability to fish: Current and future climate change impacts, David P. Coulter
SUPERCUSPIDAL REPRESENTATIONS ARISING FROM STABLE VECTORS, Britain Cox
The Counterfactual History Novel in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Elizabeth Moline Cuddy
Visibility computation through image generalization, Jian Cui
Optimal "Big Data" Aggregation Systems - From Theory to Practical Application, William J. Culhane IV
A Phenomenographic Study of How Aerospace Engineers Experience Uncertainty When Making Design Decisions, Antonette T. Cummings
Studies of Arctic halogen chemistry from the snowpack to the gas phase, Kyle D Custard
GRANULATION OF ULTRA-FINE POWDERS: EXAMINATION OF GRANULE MICROSTRUCTURE, CONSOLIDATION BEHAVIOR, AND POWDER FEEDING, Nathan Bellemore Davis
Control of Modular Multilevel Converters for Grid Integration of Full-Scale Wind Energy Conversion Systems, Suman Debnath
The CLA+ and the Two Cultures: Writing Assessment and Educational Testing, Fredrik B. Deboer
Modular Human-in-the-loop Design Framework Based on Human Factors, Hasan Onan Demirel
MANIPULATION OF ELECTROSPRAY GENERATED DROPLETS USING VARIOUS VAPORS, Jessica Corinne DeMuth
BINARY INSTRUMENTATION AND TRANSFORMATION FOR SOFTWARE SECURITY APPLICATIONS, Zhui Deng
Difficulty as a concept inventory design consideration: An exploratory study of the concept assessment tool for statics (CATS), Dana L. Denick
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND KINETIC EVALUATION OF PLANAR AND SUPPORTED HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSTS, Michael D. Detwiler
Founders' Credentials and Performance of Startups, Siva Ramakrishna Devarakonda Venkata Naga
AN INNOVATIVE WORKING CONCEPT FOR VARIABLE DELIVERY FLOW EXTERNAL GEAR MACHINE, Ram Sudarsan Devendran
THE ORGANIZATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL QUALITY CONTROL AND LIFE CYCLE IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN VIVO IN THE ABSENCE OF PINK1, Swathi Devireddy
The separation of two different sized particles via droplet evaporation, Nicole Raley Devlin
IMAGING SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE WITH MR THERMOMETRY USING PARAMAGNETIC LANTHANIDE COMPLEXES AND IN VIVO GABA MR SPECTROSCOPY IN MOVEMENT DISORDERS, Shalmali Dharmadhikari
Tunable organization of cellulose nanocrystals for controlled thermal and optical response, Jairo A. Diaz Amaya
INFERRED RHEOLOGY AND UPPER MANTLE CONDITIONS OF WESTERN NEVADA AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA-NORTHWEST MEXICO, Haylee Dickinson
"Transistor-Like" Spin Nano-Switches: Physics and Applications, Vinh Quang Diep
LOW-COST STRUCTURED-LIGHT 3D CAPTURE SYSTEM DESIGN, Jing Dong
Conversation Analysis of Engineering Parents' Occupational Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs, Brianna Louise Dorie Brinkman
The process and dimensions of family member marginalization: A mixed-method construct explication, Elizabeth Dorrace Hall
LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHIC/MASS SPECTROMETRIC INVESTIGATIONS OF BIO-OIL AND ADVANCES IN LASER-INDUCED ACOUSTIC DESORPTION FUNDAMENTALS AND INSTRUMENTATION, Alexander Russell Dow
A PHENOMENOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES WITH PROBLEMS INVOLVING MULTIPLE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS, Emily Dringenberg
Signal enhancement and data mining for biological and chemical samples using mass spectrometry, Yuezhi Du
Cultivating Multicultural Education in Islamic Schools in the U.S: Teachers' Perspectives about Diversity in Islamic Schools, Kadriye El-Atwani
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF COLLOIDAL-NANOPARTICLE INTERACTIONS, NECLA Mine Eren
Unveiling the mechanical behavior of the rod-like microstructure in the radular teeth of cryptochiton stelleri, Enrique Escobar de Obaldia
Overweight Vehicle Permitting Alternatives, Stephanie R Everett
BOOLEAN AND BRAIN-INSPIRED COMPUTING USING SPIN-TRANSFER TORQUE DEVICES, Deliang Fan
IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF URBAN DECLINE ON COUPLED HUMAN AND WATER SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS, Kasey Mariko Faust
The use of oral history and narrative research in broadening the historical foundation of the agricultural communication field, Natalie L Federer
Employee wellness coaching as an interpersonal communication intervention: exploring intervention effects on healthcare costs, risks, and behaviors, Heather Noel Fedesco
The Lesser of Two Evils: The Figure of the Jew in Elizabethan Literature, Karen Angelle Feiner
Observations of variability of TeV gamma-ray blazars, Qi Feng
Novel methods for manipulating ion types in the solution and gas phases for the structural analysis of biomolecules using Mass Spectrometry, Christine M Fisher
Teacher Self-Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes about Reform Accountability Measures, and Teacher Burn-out, Wendy A. Folk
THREE TRAVELING WOMEN WRITERS: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES OF BRAZIL, PATAGONIA, AND THE U.S., 1859-79, Natalia Fontes de Oliveira
The Beauty of Impertinence in World Literature from 1740 to 1977, Christiane Fontinha de Alcantara
INVESTIGATION OF THE RISE EVALUATION SYSTEM IN MONTESSORI SCHOOLS, Susan J. Fries
experimental investigation of a reacting transverse jet in a high pressure oscillating vitiated crossflow, Christopher Allen Fugger
Enabling New Functionally Embedded Mechanical Systems Via Cutting, Folding, and 3D Printing, Wei Gao
Smart Cities: Inverse Design of 3D Urban Procedural Models with Traffic and Weather Simulation, Ignacio Garcia Dorado
Divide and recombine for large complex data: The subset likelihood modeling approach to recombination, Philip Gautier
From text to context: Literacy practices of native speakers of Arabic in Arabic and English, Ghada Gherwash
STRESS GRANULES MODULATE SYK TO CAUSE MICROGLIAL DYSFUNCTION IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, Soumitra Ghosh
Private, Professional, Public: An Investigation of Teacher Identity Development, James Richard Gilligan
Elementary school teachers' attitudes towards multilingualism and language policy: Kazan, Russia, Alsu M. Gilmetdinova
Race. Nation. Zombie: Imperial Masculinities Gazing at the Undead, Adryan Glasgow
Gladys Heldman and the Original Nine: The Visionaries Who Pioneered the Women's Professional Tennis Circuit, Donn Thomas Gobbie
TICK-FLAVIVIRUS INTERACTIONS: DISCOVERY OF HOST PROTEINS THAT ARE AFFECTED IN VIRUS INFECTION, Jeffrey Michael Grabowski
International water and food security development: Performance evaluation and assessment of research needs at multiple scales, Caitlin Anne Grady
Loyalty on the Line: Civil War Maryland in American Memory, David Graham
NUCLEATION AND DETECTION IN TENSION METASTABLE FLUIDS, Thomas Francis Grimes
Carrion-associated arthropods in rural and urban environments, Serena Daye Gross
QUANTITATIVE SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS THROUGH SYSTEM CONTROL CAPACITY, Jingjing Guo
Negotiated interaction in the learning of written discourse conventions, Brian A Guthrie
How Substitutable are Foreign Varieties: Estimation and Application, Zhiying Gu
Securing Virtualized System via Active Protection, Zhongshu Gu
Homecoming Festivals: The Re-accentuated Image of Don Quixote in Western Novel, Tatevik Gyulamiryan
Elucidation of pharmacologically manipulated responding in the delay discounting task in high alcohol preferring mice, Meredith Halcomb
It's all uphill from here: Finding the concept of joy in existential philosophy and literature, Richard F. Hamm III
Public understanding of chemistry research in print news, Michael D. Hands
Food security in the free state province: Meaning making as democratic agency, Jacqueline Del Valle Hanoman Ambrosio
Detailed Investigations of Capillary and van der Waals Forces in the Adhesion between Solids, Aaron Harrison
Triplet Excitons in Natural Photosynthetic and Artificial Light Harvesting Systems: Measurement and Modeling., Daniel Allen Hartzler
The Determination of the Half-Life of Si-32 and Time Varying Nuclear Decay, Jordan Heim
Development of experimental and instrumental systems to study biological systems, Amanda J Hemphill
Discrete epidemic models with arbitrarily distributed disease stages, Nancy Hernandez Ceron
Elementary preservice teachers' beliefs about teacher effectiveness, Mauricio A Herron Gloria
Uncertainty quantification and calibration of physical models, Xian He
Applications of microlocal analysis to some hyperbolic inverse problems, Andrew J Homan
Phage therapy applications: Efficacy and impact on the animal intestinal microbiome, Yingying Hong
ENSURING SPECIFICATION COMPLIANCE, ROBUSTNESS, AND SECURITY OF WIRELESS NETWORK PROTOCOLS, Md Endadul Hoque
The impact of early life adversity on later life health, Abigail R Howard
Undergraduate engineering students' experiences of interdisciplinary learning: a phenomenographic perspective, Ming-Chien Hsu
The effects of a model-eliciting activity on high school student design performance, Tanner J Huffman
Transport studies in graphene-based materials and structures, Jiuning Hu
Being out of the loop on pop culture, Nicole Elizabeth Iannone
In Situ Flame Structure Imaging of Composite Propellants using High-Speed Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence, Sarah Isert
High Resolution Mass Spectrometric Approaches To Study Protein Structure and Environment in Lyophilized Solids, Lavanya Iyer
Dissolution Behavior of Amorphous Solid Dispersions, Matthew James Jackson
Understanding mechanical environment changes and biological responses to canine retraction using T-loop, Feifei Jiang
Characterization of Hessian fly from Israel, Alisha J Johnson
A Bio-Inspired Self-Healing Polymer System for Sustainable Plastics, Michael Laird Johnston
Black-box printer models and their applications, Yanling Ju
Design of transfers from Earth-Moon L 1/L2 libration point orbits to a destination object, Masaki Kakoi