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Open Access Dissertations

Dissertations from 2016 2016

Essays on University Competition, Zachary George Davis

Facebook engagement on college students' interpersonal and intrapersonal functioning, Scott S. Deatherage

A mixed methods study on choice of media influence on construction industry communication, Luciana de Cresce El Debs

FAST-PYROLYSIS OF BIOMASS RELATED MODEL COMPOUNDS: A NOVEL APPROACH TO EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AND MODELING, John Charles Degenstein

Undergraduate students' goals for chemistry laboratory coursework, Brittland K. DeKorver

A Mechanistic-Based Approach to Reduce Biological Adhesion, Chelsey Del Grosso

Design, Analysis, Optimization and Control of Rotor Tip Flows, Cis Guy M De Maesschalck

Two-dimensional electronics and optoelectronics: From materials syntheses to device applications, Yexin Deng

Influence of dietary component manipulation and feed management strategies on growth and rumen development of weaned dairy heifers, Tana Shea Dennis

Is metabolism goal-directed? Investigating the validity of modeling biological systems with cybernetic control via omic data, Frank T. DeVilbiss

THE INFLUENCE OF CARRIER WATER QUALITY, COAPPLIED FOLIAR FERTILIZER, AND WATER CONDITIONING ADJUVANT ON HERBICIDE EFFICACY, Pratap Devkota

The effects of including almonds in an energy-restricted diet on weight, body composition, visceral adipose tissue, blood pressure and cognitive function, Jaapna Dhillon

The role of PLK1 in Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection of the liver, Ahmed Mohamed Abdel-B Diab

Lagrangian analysis of vector and tensor fields: Algorithmic foundations and applications in medical imaging and computational fluid dynamics, Zi'ang Ding

The association between tolerance for ambiguity and fear of negative evaluation: A study of engineering technology capstone courses, Sergey I. Dubikovsky

COMPLEX FORMATION BY ALPHA-LACTALBUMIN AND POLYSACCHARIDE COPOLYMERS, Juan Du

Learning from minimally labeled data with accelerated convolutional neural networks, Aysegul Dundar

The effects of acidified pepsin on porcine vocal fold tissue: Developing a porcine model of laryngopharyngeal reflux disease, Abigail Cox Durkes

Density Functional Theory Calculations Complement Mass Spectrometry Experiments in the Investigation of Biomass Fast Pyrolysis and Ion-Molecule Reaction Mechanisms, Mckay Whetton Easton

Perceptions of and Experiences with the Indiana Teacher Evaluation System in Physical Education, Andrew Dale Eberline

Interplanetary mission design with applications to guidance and optimal control of aero-assisted trajectories, Peter J. Edelman

Rearward visibility issues related to agricultural machinery: Contributing factors, potential solutions, Shawn Gregory Ehlers

STRUCTURE, GEOLOGY, AND ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF TWO CARBONATIC FINE-GRAINED SOILS, Alain El Howayek

Rapid Transient Cooling Utilizing Flash Boiling and Desorption on Graphitic Foams, Jeffrey Daniel Engerer

Studies of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors containing α4 and α6 subunits in nicotine-induced synaptic plasticity in brain reward areas, Staci Engle

An examination of the employment of the pair programming methodology as a collaborative instructional scaffold on college student procedural learning and programming self-beliefs, Ronald Erdei

Learning the ABC's of Ribose Transport Using Biophysical Methods, Satchal K. Erramilli

Lake Michigan Tributary Characteristics, Nutrient Loading Trends, and River Plume Dynamics, Rebecca Rose Essig

MODELS AND OPTIMIZATION FOR ELECTIVE SURGERY SCHEDULING UNDER UNCERTAINTY CONSIDERING PATIENT HEALTH CONDITION, Joonyup Eun

Synthesis of Clock Trees with Useful Skew based on Sparse-Graph Algorithms, Rickard Fredrik Waldemar Ewetz

Knowledge modeling of phishing emails, Courtney Falk

Time-domain Modeling of Light Matter Interactions in Active Plasmonic Metamaterials, Jieran Fang

Biophysical studies of the allosteric regulatory mechanism of Syk tandem SH2 domains interacting with immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motifs, Chao Feng

Hydrologic and water quality impacts from perennial crop production on marginal lands, Qingyu Feng

Modeling transport phenomena and uncertainty quantification in solidification processes, Kyle S. Fezi

Controlling for confounding network properties in hypothesis testing and anomaly detection, Timothy La Fond

The effect of voluntary binge caffeine and ethanol coexposure on neurobehavioral sensitivity to cocaine in male C57BL/6J mice, Brandon M. Fritz

Early parental loss, socioeconomic stressors, and health in later life: Evidence for gender disparity, Rong Fu

Error Resilient Video Coding Using Bitstream Syntax And Iterative Microscopy Image Segmentation, Neeraj Jayant Gadgil

Magnesium regulates transcription of the mgtA (magnesium transporter) gene in Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium via prolyl-bond formation during translation of the mgtL leader ORF, Aaron R. Gall

QoS and trust prediction framework for composed distributed systems, Dimuthu Undupitiya Gamage

Improving Cloud Middlebox Infrastructure for Online Services, Rohan S. Gandhi

Spintronic device modeling and evaluation using modular approach to spintronics, Samiran Ganguly

Nanoparticle toxicity and molecular mechanisms in fish: A case study with silver nanoparticles, Jiejun Gao

Investigation of an energetic coupling between ligand binding and protein folding, Nathan W. Gardner

The educational journeys of first-generation college women in STEM: A grounded theory study, Susan Geier

Sequential pattern mining with uncertain data, Jiaqi Ge

An Experimental Investigation of Self-Excited Combustion Dynamics in a Single Element Lean Direct Injection (LDI) Combustor, Rohan M. Gejji

Enabling a Sustainable Economy through Energy Systems Modeling: Solar-centric, Efficient, Integrated and Continuous Process Synthesis and Optimization, Emre Gencer

A new reality: Funding formula changes and property tax caps and their effects on the role of the school superintendent in the state of Indiana, Patrick L. Gentry

Understanding the communicative processes of baby boomer women adjusting to retirement: Connecting micro and macro discourses, Patricia E. Gettings

Analytical investigation of fretting wear with special emphasis on stress based models, Arnab Jyoti Ghosh

Ultra-thin boron nitride films by pulsed laser deposition: Plasma diagnostics, synthesis, and device transport, Nicholas Robert Glavin

State judicial selection methods as public policy: The Missouri plan, James A. Gleason

Functions of Gender in Soca: An Historical and Lyrical Analysis of St. Lucian Soca, Ekeama Sharon Goddard-Scovel

Ultraviolet and Infrared Spectroscopy of Synthetic Foldamers, Aib Homopeptides, and Solvated 1,2-Diphenylethane in the Gas Phase, Joseph R. Gord

Teoria de la mente y sociedad en la narrativa policiaca de Lorenzo Silva y Francisco Garcia Pavon: Estereotipos, roles de genero y minorias, Jesus Castro Gorfti

Bad girls in corsets: Women and the transgressive body in the nineteenth century, Colleen Warwick Green

The path towards clear and convincing digital privacy rights, Frederick V. Greene

The Politics of Town Hall Meetings: Analyzing Constituent Relations-in-Interaction, Robert J. Green

Supporting Space Systems Design via Systems Dependency Analysis Methodology, Cesare Guariniello

Finding the ghost with the machine: Breaking through the assessment center validity ceiling by exploring decisional processes using new sources of behavioral data within virtual assessments, Brett W. Guidry

Effect of bioenergy crops and fast growing trees on hydrology and water quality in the Little Vermilion River Watershed, Tian Guo

Thermomechanical properties of novel lanthanum zirconate based thermal barrier coatings - an integrated experimental and modeling study, Xingye Guo

En torno a los orígenes del español. Estudio sobre las secuencias con dos nasales en castellano., César Gutiérrez Miguel

Coupled orbit-attitude mission design in the circular restricted three-body problem, Davide Guzzetti

Modeling methods for merging computational and experimental aerodynamic pressure data, Jacob Courtney Haderlie

Studies of Arctic Tropospheric Ozone Depletion Events Through Buoy-Borne Observations and Laboratory Studies, John W. Halfacre

Trade and agriculture policy options to improve the wheat subsector in Afghanistan, Ghulam Hazrat Halimi

Mitigating Prevalence and Persistence of L. monocytogenes using Novel Sanitation Strategies in Delis, Susan Rose Hammons

How training set and prior knowledge affect preschoolers' perception of quantity and early number learning, Arum Han

CHARACTERIZATION OF HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSTS USING ADVANCED TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUES, Chang Wan Han

CARBON-BASED NANOMATERIALS AND THEIR ENSEMBLES FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE THERMAL APPLICATIONS, Menglong Hao

SYK promotes TGF-beta-induced P-body clearance in breast cancer cells through the enhancement of autophagy, Shana D. Hardy

WOMEN WRITERS AND THE GENEALOGY OF THE GENTLEMAN: MASCULINITY, AUTHORITY, AND MALE CHARACTERS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVELS BY WOMEN, Mary Elizabeth Harris

Statistical modeling and simulation of variability and reliability of CMOS technology, Khaled Hassan MD

Food Security Crop Price Transmission and Formation in Nigeria, Patrick L. Hatzenbuehler

Organizing historical agricultural data and identifying data integrity zones to assess agricultural data quality, Elizabeth Marie Hawkins

Effects of Online Brand Community on Value Creation Practices and Brand Loyalty: Mediating Effects of Community Loyalty, Yongsoo Ha

Failures in adaptive locomotion in healthy young adults, Michel J. H. Heijnen

Improving the Laboratory Design of Asphalt Mixtures to Enhance Asphalt Pavement Durability, Ali Hekmatfar

Influence of the 3D microenvironment on glioblastoma migration and drug response, Ruth Marisol Herrera Perez

Synthesis, design, and fabrication techniques for reconfigurable microwave and millimeter-wave filters, Mark D. Hickle

Defining the regulatory determinants in substrate catalysis by biochemical, biophysical, and kinetic studies for the development of specific small-molecule inhibitors of ubiquitin specific proteases 7 and 17, Nicole M. Hjortland

Evaluating the Two-Stage Ditch as a New Best Management Practice, Andi Hodaj

Carbon nanotube thermal interfaces and related applications, Stephen L. Hodson

The application of natural language processing to open source intelligence for ontology development in the advanced persistent threat domain, Corey T. Holzer

Climate change and hazardous convective weather in the United States: Insights from high-resolution dynamical downscaling, Kimberly A. Hoogewind

Low rank methods for optimizing clustering, Yangyang Hou

UNIQUE ALLOSTERIC MECHANISM REGULATING PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTION THROUGH PHOSPHORYLATION: A CASE STUDY OF THE CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN THE SYK TANDEM SH2 PROTEIN, Duy Phuong Hua

Examination and utilization of rare features in text classification of injury narratives, Hsin-Ying Huang

Graphical methods in RNA structure matching, Jiajie Huang

Model-Free Variable Screening, Sparse Regression Analysis and Other Applications with Optimal Transformations, Qiming Huang

Concurrent detection and isolation of cellular and molecular biomarkers, Wanfeng Huang

Wave propagation and imaging in structured optical media, Zun Huang

In-column polymer modifications: Advancing polymer bonded phases, Alexis G. Huckabee

Multi-axial failure of high-performance fiber during transverse impact, Matthew C. Hudspeth

The Influence of Chirality on the Behavioral Responses of Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) to Volatile and Contact Pheromones, Gabriel Patrick Hughes

Gravity-assist trajectories to Venus, Mars, and the ice giants: Mission design with human and robotic applications, Kyle M. Hughes

Thermoacoustic Oscillations in Supercritical Fluid Flows, Steven Hunt

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