Theses/Dissertations from 2016
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 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
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
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
The Experiences of Undocumented College Students Through Critical Evocative Portraiture, Erica García
A History of Transplants: A Study of Entryway Gardens at Amache, David Holden Garrison
Community Identity in "The Granada Pioneer", Jessica P. S. Gebhard
The Role of Institutions and Policy in Knowledge Sector Development: An Assessment of the Danish and Norwegian Information Communication Technology Sectors, Keith M. Gehring
Spectropolarimetry of epsilon Aurigae: Probing Stellar and Disk Atmospheres, Kathleen M. Geise
Visual Arts Assessment in the Age of Educational Accountability, Donna Jackson Goodwin
Risk for Engagement in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Children and Adolescents, Andrea Lee Barrocas Gottlieb
New Middle East Cold War: Saudi Arabia and Iran's Rivalry, Tali Rachel Grumet
Locational Marginal Pricing At the Power Distribution Level, Jun Hao
Early Career Teachers' Efficacy in Working with Families, Kirsten Denisemarie Hermanutz
On Thermal Aging Prevention in Polymer Core Composite Conductor Rods, Joe D. Hoffman
"Undead Empire: How Folklore Animates the Human Corpse in Nineteenth-Century British Literature", Charles Hoge
Schleiermacher's Doctrine of Biblical Authority: An Alternative to Content-Based/Supernaturalist and Function-Based Rationalist Models, Kerry W. Holton
A Mixed Methods Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Group Yoga Intervention as an Adjunctive Trauma Therapy for Adolescent Girls, Melissa Eileen Houser
British Fascism in the 1930s in Life and Literature, Jennifer M. Janes
Examining the Relationship among genes, Attention bias to emotion, Depression in youth, Jessica L. Jenness
Synchrophasor Sensing and Processing Based Smart Grid Security Assessment for Renewable Energy Integration, Huaiguang Jiang
Humanitarian Intervention at Mt. Sinjar, Iraq: A Complex Adaptive System Analysis, Trevor C. Jones
China's Strategic Choices Towards North Korea and Iran, Kang-uk Jung
Curating Ali`i Collections: Responsibility, Sensibility, and Contextualization in Hawai'i-based Museums, Halenakekanakalawai`aoMiloli`i Ka`ili`ehu Kapuni-Reynolds
Assessment of Normal Knee Kinematics using High-Speed Stereo-Radiography System, Vasiliki Kefala
Phytoremediation of Metal Contamination using Salix (Willows), Gordon J. Kersten
Toward Context-Sensitive Statebuilding for Development: State-Local Complementarity in Rural Guatemala, Matthew Thornton Klick
Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes in Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillator Treatment: Potential Effects of Informational Media History and Treatment Knowledge, Christopher E. Knoepke
Moses and Liminality, David J. Krouwer