Theses/Dissertations from 2016
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
Microgrid Optimal Scheduling Considering Impact of High Penetration Wind Generation, Abdulaziz Furreh Alanazi
Electroencephalogram Based Causality Graph Analysis in Behavior Tasks of Parkinson’s Disease Patients, Abdulaziz Saleh Almalaq
How Global Education Is Understood and to What Extent It Is Implemented in One Educator Preparation Program, Lydia Valentina Amewu-Sirleaf
Doing Development in Extraordinary Environments: Exploring the Impact of Development NGOs in Zimbabwe, Gladys Antonio
Don’t Let Me Down: An Autoethnography of an Urban Teacher, Jacqueline R. Arriaga
Innovative Educational Design: The Development of Autonomous Schools, Jennifer E. Arzberger
Alternative Models of Connectivity: Reclaiming Networked Spaces, Philip M. Bain
Citation Methodologies in Eusebius’ Historia Ecclesiastica and Other Ancient Historiography, Justin Otto Barber
The Following March, Kameron Bashi
Spiritual Care as Creative Interruption: Exploring a Generative Metaphor for Intercultural Healthcare Chaplaincy, Jamie Beachy
Thermomechanical Stabilities in Automotive Brakes & Clutches Systems, Ali Bendawi
The ABC's of Art Teacher Professional Identity: An A/r/tographic Investigation into the Interstitial Spaces, Sarabeth G. Berk
An Examination of Disproportionality in One School District Using a Response to Intervention Model, Brittney M. Bixby
Shift Work and the United States Female Workforce: The Relationship Between Shift Work and Ill-Health Effects, Allison Marie Bondanza
Fail-Safe Testing of Web Applications, Salah Boukhris
A Fair Day's Wages: Liberty, Legality, and Liability Among Denver's Day Laborers, Camden Ryan Bowman
Isolation in Synchronized Drone Formations, Andrew P. Brunner
Rotten Symbol Mongering: Scapegoating in Post-9/11 American War Literature, David Andrew Buchanan
The Adsorption of Polyatomic Molecules on Carbon Surfaces, Jared T. Burde
Lipid-Coated Gold Nanoparticle as a Biosensor for Lipid-Protein Interactions, Yuheng Cai
The Finite Embeddability Property for Some Noncommutative Knotted Varieties of RL and DRL, Riquelmi Salvador Cardona Fuentes
Measurement of Particulate Transition Metals and Atmospheric Processing of Iron, Benton T. Cartledge
New Methods for Measuring Transient Interactions Between Proteins and Curved Membranes, Philip P. Cheney
Development of the Readiness to Teach Online Scale, Angel Chi
Feel-Good Giving: The Mythic Construction of Generosity in Millions, Grace Y. Chiou
Cultivating Creativity: The Practice of Teaching for Creativity in the Elementary Classroom, Karin M. Colley
Listening to the Voices of African American Female Principals Leading "Turnaround" Schools, Vickie Pease Collins
Imagining the Scandal of the Cross with Graphic/Novel Reading, Elizabeth Rae Coody
Ethnic Violence on Kenya's Periphery: Informal Institutions and Local Resilience in Conflict-Affected Communities, Fletcher D. Cox
Photogenerated o-Azaxylylenes: Mechanistic Studies and Synthetic Applications, William Cole Cronk
The Neuromuscular Response to Spinal Manipulation: Quantifying the Effect of Pain with Electromyography, Stuart James Currie
Changing Authority in the Chinese Communist Party, Daniel Bruno Davis
Everyday Indivisibility: How Exclusive Religious Practices Explain Variation in Subnational Violence Outcomes, Joel Kieth Day
Species Preference of Viral Deubiquitinating Proteases Toward ISG15 Through Structural and Enzymatic Characterization, Michelle Kay Deaton
Foundations of Inequity: A Social Ecological Exploration of Colorado Rural School Leaders Lived Experiences, Bryan E. DeShasier
Brewing Behind Barbed Wire: An Archaeology of Saké at Amache, Christian Driver
The Effects of Surf-Driven Development on the Local Population of Playa Gigante, Nicaragua, Nicholas Harrison William Earhart
Fail-Safe Test Generation of Safety Critical Systems, Salwa Elakeili
Gender Differences in Risk Factors and Mechanisms for Adolescent Offending, Emma Venell Espel
The Search for Authentic Travel in Early Twentieth-Century British Magazines, Christina Bertrand Firebaugh
Patterns and Predictors of Stability and Change in Representations of Romantic Relationships in Adolescence and Young Adulthood, Claire Stephenson Flansburg
Examining the Impact of Pre-K and Kindergarten Classroom Alignment on School Readiness Outcomes, Margaret Deane Franko
Conceptual Decolonization of Space: Worldview and Language in Anishinaabe Akiing, Mark Freeland
Regulation of Synaptogenesis by the miRNA Pathway and FMR/P Bodies, Jacqueline Rochelle Furlong