Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Community Unclaimed: Plurality and the Problem of Sovereignty in Bataille, Nancy, and Blanchot, Gregory J. Grobmeier
Notch Regulates Vascular Collagen IV Basement Membrane Through Modulation of Lysyl Hydroxylase 3 Trafficking, Stephen J.B. Gross
A Biophysical Investigation of HIV-1 Envelope Cytoplasmic-Tail Mediated Retention in the Gag Lattice, Nicholas Scott Groves
Moderate Effects of Anxiety and Physical Activities on the Relationship Between Body Image and COVID-19 Fear, Yutong Guo
A. B.A.L.A.N.C.E.: A Well-Being Research Study, Reggie Gwinn
Understanding Patterns and Functional Impacts of an Invasive Tree and Its Biological Control in a Riparian System, Annie L. Henry
The Hotelling Valuation Principle: Does User Cost and Reserve Differentials Improve Validity?, Brian K. Hicks
Characterization of the Whale Shark (Rhincodon Typus) Melanocortin-2 Receptor, Brianne Hoglin
Photoassisted Synthesis of Complex Polyheterocycles via Rational Design of Tailored Photoprecursors, Tina Alanna Holt
Employee Ownership and Moral Hazard: How Broad-Based Equity Sharing Can Lower Agency Costs and Reduce Inequality, Colin Clinton Hudson
Modeling Disorder in Proteins Yields Insights into the Evolution of Stability and Function, Jonathan Huihui
The Great Consensus After the Great Recession: The Case of Jamaica, Anthony N. Iacovelli
An Examination of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Internalized Mental Health Stigma and Perceived Mental Health Barriers Due to Stigma Among Women Veterans, Christe’An D. Iglesias
Level Of Acceptance (LOA) for Scan-to-BIM Creation, William Fulton Ikerd II
Out of Time: Temporal Performativity and Resistance in Popular American Film, Television, and Theater, Meghan Johnston Aelabouni
Evaluating Nuclear Energy as a Component of U.S. Energy Innovation Systems, Bryce Jones
From Reform to Resignation: Explaining Why Some Protest Movements Escalate Demands, Sooyeon Kang
Accurate Measurement of Healthy Joint Kinematics to Inform Diagnosis and Treatment, Vasiliki Kefala
Math Class / No Measure, Kelly Krumrie
Essays – The Definition and Meaning of Blockchain, David A. Lacek
Testing a Sociocultural Model of Body Image in Women Athletes with Disabilities, Brooke R. Lamphere
The Martyr’s Desire: Levinas, Girard, and Infinite Responsibility, Joshua Alan Lawrence
Development of Triangular and Tetrahedral Finite Elements for Solutions to Thermoelastic Instabilities Using Hotspotter, Cortney Samuel LeNeave
“I Shan't Ever Play Down These Influences”: Poulenc’s Neoclassicism as Musical Legacy, Juliet E. Levy
Distributed Control, Optimization, and State Estimation for Renewable Power System, Qiao Li
Excerpts from Silence – Radical Critical Feminism and Adolescent Girls’ Social Emotional Development: A Case Study of Red River Middle School, Jessamyn Lockhart
Shapes of Commitment: Forms of State Support to Nonviolent Mass Resistance, Maria A. Lotito
Hot Fruit, Erinrose Mager
Corporate Ventures: Relational Microfoundations of Innovation Performance, Burak Malkoc
Thermal Performance of AlGaN/GaN Based Power Switching Devices for Transformerless Inverters, Mahesh B. Manandhar
Development of Endoplasmic Reticulum Targeted Probes and Red Fluorescent Probes for Detecting Zinc, Drew Maslar
The Place and Role of Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) Companies in US Healthcare System, George Mattis II
An Educator Out of Water: A Phenomenological Study into Identity-as-Educator for Student Affairs Professionals, David McCoy
Wind Turbine Parameter Calibration Using Deep Learning Approaches, Rebecca McCubbin
The Effect of Early Literacy Experiences on Preschool Teachers’ Literacy Approach, Lisa McMillan
Microfoundations Approach to Risk and Uncertainty in the Uppsala Internationalization Process, John P. Merli
Anger Bias in the Evaluation of Crowds, Diana Mihalache
Reframing Hegemonic and Fragmented Identities Through Subjective In-betweenness: A Postcolonial Political Theology of Care and Praxis in Ethiopia’s Era of Identity Politics, Rode Shewaye Molla
EPR Relaxation of Modified Triphenylmethyl and Nitroxide Radicals, Whylder Moore
Executive Coaching: A Cohesive Conceptual Model and the Qualitative Investigation of Executive Coaching Styles, David Morelli
Criminalized Houseless Women, Jesus, and the Praxis of Kinship: An Outsider’s Liberative Ethic, Sarah A. Neeley
Broadening the Capability of Kinetics Analysis in Biomechanics, Nicholas Nelson
Child Abuse and Revictimization: Improving Models of Revictimization Risk, Julie M. Olomi
Fatty Fatty Two-by-Four—Can’t Get Through the Dressing Room Door?: An Examination of Excess as Queer Failure, Miranda Dottie Olzman
Use of Research Tradition and Design in Program Evaluation: An Explanatory Mixed Methods Study of Practitioners’ Methodological Choices, Margaret Schultz Patel
Mechanisms of Sensory Adaptation in the Primate Visual System, Boris Isaac Peñaloza Rojas
Competition in Economic Theory and the Skew in U.S. Corporate Wealth Creation, Marc H. Pentacoff
Optimal Sizing and Operation of a Pumped Thermal Energy Storage System, Matthew Perez
Turning the Tempest for God’s Forgotten: Psalm 42 as Synecdochic Lead of the Elohistic Psalter, David P. Pettit
Lawthy: Holding Flowers, Bailey Pittenger
Psychological Factors that Impact White Counseling Trainees’ Responses to Cultural Ruptures, Emma Freetly Porter
The Relationship Between the Supervisory Alliance and Novice Supervisees’ Risk-Taking Behavior, Aleis Pugia
The Design, Development, and Determination of a Virtual Reality Classroom, Victoria Alexxis Reddington
The Orient in the Empire’s Poetry: Scholarship, Translation, and Imaginative Geography (1770-1857), Zeeshan Riyaz Reshamwala
Statistical Modeling of Positive Peer Support on Longitudinal Adolescent Substance Use, Kady Rost
Observation of New Particle Formation in the Northern Hemisphere at Altitude from 4 to 20 km, Mohamed Saad
The Days Beyond Recall, Rowland Saifi
Plantation Economy Model as Developed by Lloyd Best and Kari Polanyi Levitt: The Case of Jamaica, Paula-Leone Samuda
Pulling Back the Curtain: A Student Collaborative Case Study of Equity Issues in Colorado’s School Finance System, Amy Jo Schwartz
Dislocation Mechanics of Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Combined Experimental and Computational Analysis, Michael Scinto
College Transition Experience: First Year Undergraduate Students and Self-Identified Mental Health Challenges, Kathlene R. Seymour
Hotel Executives’ Perceptions of Effective Promotion Processes and the Successful Transition from Single-Unit to Multi-Unit Management, Mark A. Sharkey
Violence After Victory: Explaining Variation in State Repression Following Contentious Politics, Christopher Wiley Shay
Instructional Coaching for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Kelly Shorb
Demystifying School Resource Officers: A Case Study, Alexis Sliva
Luke Was Not a Christian: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Jewish Authorship of Luke and Acts, Joshua Paul Smith
“It's Like a Phantom Limb. It Feels Like It’s There. It's Supposed to Be There, but It's Not.”: Birthmothers’ Metaphors of Ambiguous Loss, Melodee Lynn Sova
Exploring the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Paternal Warmth: Does Racial Identity Moderate this Relationship and Does Depression, Anxiety, and Physical Health Mediate this Relationship?, Stephanie Rachel Speer
FXS-Causing Point Mutations in FMRP Disrupt Neuronal Granule Formation and Function, Emily L. Starke
Preconception Stress, Affect-Biased Attention, and Negative Affectivity: Assessing Pathways and Early Markers of Psychopathological Risk in Infancy and Childhood, Danielle A. Swales
The Ecological Resilience of a Tropical Montane Pine Forest to Droughts, Fire, and Hurricane Disturbance, Daniel Erland Brugger Swann
Biased Technical Change, Institutional Shift, and the Functional Distribution of Income: Who Benefits from Economic Growth?, Adam Szymanski-Burgos
Correlating with Local Variation in Collagen Level and Mechanical Properties of the Heart Tissues, Talayeh Tavangar
Children’s Health and Maternal Work Activities, Termeh Tavangar
Design of Lower Legs of Mithra, a High-Performance Backdrivable Humanoid Robot, Drake Taylor
A Grounded Theory Inquiry into the Pedagogical Socialization of Graduate Students Within Graduate Quantitative Methods Courses, Amanda Kay Thomas
The Duality of Reality: Perception Creation Using Symbolic Management, Christopher J. Thomas
So What, Now What? Using Social Media Activism to Inform Power-Conscious Prevention of Gender-Based Violence, Andrea R. Thyrring
Exiles, Knowledge, and Power: Utopian and Dystopian Worlds in Early Modern England, Jennifer Topale
Material Interactions: Early Modern Women’s Textual Embodiments, Olivia R. Tracy
Airbnb Release of Latent Economic Value and Return to Equilibrium, Daniel Joseph Trujillo
Supporting Ambitious Mathematics Practices in the Face of School Reform: A Case Study of High School Leadership, Jacklyn Van Ooyik
Challenging the Limitations of Asserting Jurisdiction: A Case Study of the South China Sea, Joshua Villanueva
Teachers Who Collaborate With a Professional Writing Organization: The Importance of Critical Stance, Paul A. Viskanta
Righteous Remixes, Sacred Mashups: Rethinking Authority, Authenticity, and Originality in the Study of Religion, Seth M. Walker
Monitoring of Overhead Polymer Core Composite Conductors Under Excessive Mechanical Loads Using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors, Daniel H. Waters
Coming Together Over Table: The Role of Food in Georgian Conflict Resolution Practices, Raisa Wells
Adding a Dimension: Illustrating Triple Consciousness Theory in the African American Literary Tradition, Asia Wesley
The Combined Impact of Continuous and Ordinal Auxiliary Variables on Missing Data Imputation in SEM, Salina Wu Whitaker
The Role of Vps54 in Drosophila melanogaster Neuronal Development and Age Progressive Neurodegeneration, Emily Wilkinson
Design, Manufacture, and Test of a Hybrid Aerial-Ground Robotic Platform, William Garrett Willmon
Operationalizing a New Method for Defining and Scaling Social Innovations Using Tiny Home Communities as a Case Study, Jennifer H. Wilson
Student Expressions of Aesthetic Learning Experiences, Jodie L. Wilson
Remembering Together: Native Boarding School Stories on Display, Lydia Nancy Wood