Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Developing a Measure of Inclusiveness: Factors, Reliability, and Relationship to Job Satisfaction and Intention to Quit, Briana K. Hedman
The Entanglement of Anzaldúan Materiality as Bodily Knowing: Matter, Meaning, and Interrelatedness, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza
A Descriptive Study of the Effect of Payer Source on Multiple Longitudinal Outcome Measures Within the TBI Model Systems National Database Using Longitudinal HLM Analyses, Melissa Carole Hofmann
Thermal Effects on Spin Currents in Non-Local Metallic Spin Valves, Alex Hojem
Anatomy, Implant Selection and Placement Influence Spine Mechanics Associated with Total Disc Replacement, Justin F.M. Hollenbeck
Panmixia Across the Range of the Assortatively Mating Lesser Snow Goose, Brent B. Horowitz
Veteran Teacher Engagement in Site-Based Professional Development: A Mixed Methods Study, Biaze L. Houston
Quantile Regression Analyses of the Component Skills in Various Comprehension Tests, Anh Ngoc Hua
A Clipped Wing: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of the B-21, Aidan Thomas Hughes
Finite Element Representation of Bone-Screw Mechanics, Haixiang Sean Hu
The Myth of the Saving Power of Education: A Practical Theology Approach, Hannah Kristine Adams Ingram
Regional Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Ovine Heart Chambers, Shahnaz Javani
The Online Dating Preferences of Chinese American Older Adults, Lin Jiang
The Roles of Perceived Subjective Norms and Anticipated Sexism in Women's Intentions to Pursue a Career in Transportation, Elizabeth Colbert Johnson
A Comprehensive Methodology for Design of a Circulation Control Small-Scale Unmanned Aircraft, Konstantinos Kanistras
Design and Development of the eBear: A Socially Assistive Robot for Elderly People with Depression, Amirhossein Kargarbideh
Implementing Agile Development at Scale: An Industry Case Study, Nikita Kataria
Growing Food Security: The Impact of Community Gardens on Food Security in Denver, Colorado, Grace Catherine Kellner
A Reserve-Based Method for Mitigating the Impact of Renewable Energy, Ibrahim Krad
How the Greek Press Constructed the "Greek Economic Crisis", Maria Elena Kuntz
Examining the Relationship Between Principal Leadership and School Climate, Eric Stephen Lane
Alien Affects: Movement, Migration, and Landscapes of Citizenship, Michael Andrew Lechuga
Lonely Mystics: A Practical Theological Analysis of Emerging Post-Secular Spiritualities, Paula J. Lee
Same Same but Different: The Self-Portraiture of a Vietnam War Adoptee and the Poststructural Language of Alterity, Joie Norby Lê
"Discursion and Excursion:" Poetry of Bodies, Place, and Landscape in the Ecocritical Movement, Haley N. Littleton
Enhancements to Hierarchical Pathfinding Algorithms, Xin Li
Akratic Homo Economicus: Does the Neoclassical Economic Theory "Rational Agent" Assumption Accurately Depict Human Nature?, Marina Logachev
Cuba After Fidel: Economic Reform, Political Liberalization and Foreign Policy (2006–2014), Arturo Lopez-Levy
What the Children Are Reading: A Content Analysis of Minority Male Characters in Preschool Children's Libraries, Joan Katrina Mann-Boykin
Displaced but Not Without Place: Refugee and Immigrant Integration Experiences in Greeley, Colorado, Rebekah Natalie Marsh
Relics of Battle: War, Memory, and New Museum Theory in Military Museums, Megan McCoy
Middle School Noncognitive Development in a Sample of Hispanic/Latino Youth, Jill E. McVey
GreenC5: An Adaptive, Energy-Aware Collection for Green Software Development, Junya Michanan
Surviving and Thriving: The First-Year Transition Experiences of Chinese Undergraduate Students in the United States, Kerrie Anne Montgomery
(Re)Turning Warriors: A Practical Theology of Military Moral Stress, Zachary Moon
German POWs Make Colorado Home: Coping by Craft and Exchange, Christopher Michael Morine
H and I, Jesse Morse
Something Gold Steps Out of the Skin, Emily Jayne Motzkus
Multiscale Musculoskeletal Modeling of the Lower Limb to Perform Personalized Simulations of Movement, Alessandro Navacchia
Investigating Residual Impacts of Teachers with Cancer, Jill Athena Netz-Fulkerson
The Adoption of Feminist Policies Under Conservative Governments, Malliga Och
Angels with Leather Wings: An Ethnography of the Christian Motorcyclists Association, Richard Vincent O'Connell
The Meaning of Educational Travel in the Lives of Urban Middle School Students in a Low-Income Neighborhood: A Transformative, Sequential Mixed Methods Study, Carrie Arlene Olson
Health Equity in Financing Healthcare: The Turkish Case (2003-2013), Mete Can Özçörekçi
The EU's Impact on Managing Levels of Corruption in the Post-Communist World, Sabina Gueorguieva Pavlovska-Hilaiel
Improving Children's Academic Performance Through Parent Engagement: Development and Initial Findings from the Your Family, Your Neighborhood Intervention, Stephanie Lechuga Peña
A Systematic Review of Studies Using Gettier-Type Thought Experiments, Maximilian Popiel
The Role of Integrated Health Care in Reducing Stigma Around Seeking Psychological Help Among International Students, Brinda Prabhakar-Gippert
Autonomous Collision Avoidance for a Teleoperated UAV Based on a Super-Ellipsoidal Potential Function, Mohammed Salim Qasim
Crafted Places: The Use of Place in Wisconsin Craft Beer Marketing, Joseph A. Quintana
Quinolines: Novel Synthesis and Derivatives of Heterocyclic Bioactive Agents, Ginelle A. Ramann
Living Divided No More: An Exploration of Authenticity in Philosophically Inspired Schools, Melanie Reiser
Implementation of an Air Supply Unit Control Scheme for the UC2AV (Unmanned Circulation Control Aerial Vehicle), Cameron Rosen
Creating Rhetorical Subjectivities: Negotiating the Precarity of the Homo Oeconomicus in the Neoliberal Workplace, Leslie Lynne Rossman
Pilgrimage, Spatial Interaction, and Memory at Three Marian Sites, Katherine Rousseau
The Role of p38 MAPK in Protein Homeostasis and Aging, Sarah Mae Ryan
Design and Development of an Air Supply System for an Unmanned Circulation Control Aerial Vehicle, Pranith Chander Saka
Measuring the Quality of the Website User Experience, Jeff Sauro
Molecular Mechanisms of Protein Thermal Stability, Lucas Sawle
It's a Whole New Ball Game: The Mitchell Report, Performance Enhancing Drugs, and Professional Sports, Brian J. Schrader
The Limits of Human Flourishing: Reconstructing Theological Anthropology in Light of Cognitive Disability, David N. Scott
Lesbian Couple Dynamics and Heterosexist Stressors: Building a Foundation for Culturally Competent Relationship Interventions, Shelby B. Scott
Methods and Implementation of Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling into an Industry-Accepted Design Tool, Donn R. Sederstrom
Professional Development and the Impact on Teacher Growth and Development, Sherry Kathleen Segura
Captivating College Classrooms: Applications of Aesthetic Themes for Higher Education, Amanda Lynne Smith
Statistical Modeling to Investigate Anatomy and Function of the Knee, Lowell Matthew Smoger
To Have Done with Forgiveness: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Politics of Immanence, Timothy Snediker
The Ecology and Evolution of Rare, Soil Specialist Astragalus Plants in the Arid Western U.S., Joseph M. Statwick
Cultural Sensitivity: Early Career Teacher Beliefs, Espoused Theories, Theories in Use, Michelle Steinberger
When "I Do" Becomes "I Don't": Exploring Communication Behaviors and Dialectical Tensions in Broken Engagements, Chelsea Annette Hand Stow
Indigenous Curation at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Julia Marie Strunk
Man and Idea: Complexity and Duality in the Hero of Wagner's "Ring", Elizabeth Mary Szott
Ex-Vivo Slaughterhouse Porcine Crystalloid-Perfused Beating Heart via Langendorff Method, Rahiemin Talukder
Neuroprotection Comparison of Different Nutraceutical Compounds Against Mechanistically Distinct Cell Death Inducing Agents, Faten I. Taram
Development of Cognitive Vulnerability for Depression in Youth: Sex, Emotional Maltreatment, and Depression Predict Negative Cognitive Style, Jessica R. Technow
Identifying Spiritual Themes in Narratives of Young Adults Who Have Aged Out of Foster Care: A Qualitative Study, Kerri Jane Tokarski
A Meta-Analysis of Research-Based Reading Interventions with English Language Learners, Maritza Torres
Photoassisted Generation of Complex N, O, S Polyheterocycles, Weston James Umstead
Exploring Ethnocultural Differences in Distress of Newly Arrived Refugees During Early Resettlement: A Mixed Methods Dissertation, Maria M. Vukovich
The Oil Blessing: Reexamining Conflict in the Muslim World, Kumail Wasif
Low-Velocity Impact to High-Temperature Low-Sag Overhead Conductors, Daniel Halka Waters
The Stigma Effect: The Role of Internalized Racism and Internalized Homophobia in Risky Sexual Behavior Among Black Gay Men, Darren Lovell Whitfield
Actors and Their Roles in European Education Policy: A Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding the Bologna Process, Cheryl Leontyne Wink
The Neuroprotective and Therapeutic Effects of Anthocyanins and Their Metabolites In Vitro and in a Mouse Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Aimee Nicole Winter
Phenomenology and Blindness: Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and an Alternative Metaphysical Vision, Jesse Younger Workman
System Frequency Support of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator-Based Wind Power Plant, Ziping Wu
Integrated PHEV Charging Loads Forecasting Model and Optimization Strategies, Yin Yao
Simultaneous Behavior Onset Detection and Task Classification for Patients with Parkinson Disease Using Subthalamic Nucleus Local Field Potentials, Nazanin Zaker Habibabadi
The Iran I Know as a Woman; Exploring the Boundaries of Literature and Ethnography in Reading Lolita in Tehran and Persepolis, Mahshid Zandi
Defining a Role for Affect in Decision-Making, Pareezad Cyrus Zarolia
Ultra-Wideband Radar Based Human Motion Analysis, Zhichong Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Dihedral-Like Constructions of Automorphic Loops, Mouna Ramadan Aboras
Development of the DORI-TBI: An Investigation to Develop a New Screening Measure to Determine Consultation with a School-Based Brain Injury Resource Team, DoriAnn Marie Adragna
“Fall” and Redemption in the Thought of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, Tyler Akers