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Characterizing the Chemical and Structural Basis of Animal Coloration from an Evolutionary Perspective 

Justyn, Nicholas (2023-04-20)
Many questions regarding how animals produce their striking range of colors remain unanswered, particularly when pigments and structures are combined. In this dissertation, I completed four studies centered around ...

The Effect of Initial Curing Temperature and Duration on the 28-Day Compressive Strength of Concrete 

White, Jackson (2023-04-19)
The objective of this study was to determine the effect of initial curing temperature and duration on the 28-day compressive strength of concrete. To determine the relationship between initial curing temperature and duration ...

A Virtual Reality Framework to support Rheumatoid Arthritis Education: The Impact of Different Immersion Levels on the Empathy and Engagement of College Students 

Richardson, Alexicia (2023-04-19)  ETD File Embargoed
The use of Virtual reality (VR) has increased within the medical field. Its uses include assisting physicians and patients through medical education, medical training, patient rehabilitation, surgery simulations, and many ...

Examining the Causes of Variation between States Safe Drinking Water Act Violations 

Chen, Xi (2023-04-18)  ETD File Embargoed
Water quality is a daily essential concern for residents. The Environmental Protection Agency has established health-related rules under the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect tap water quality and require all public water ...

Statistical Inference for High-Dimensional Regularized Huber Regression 

Aroh, Tagbo (2023-04-18)
With the rapid advancement of technology, the amount of available data for extracting interesting insights and meaningful patterns has grown exponentially, resulting in a significant increase in the dimensionality of ...

Evolution of the Mechanical and Microstructure Properties of SAC Alloys During Thermal Cycling 

Belhadi, Mohamed El Amine (2023-04-18)  ETD File Embargoed
In real-time applications, solder joints are exposed to thermal and mechanical stresses. As a result, the microstructure evolves, and mechanical characteristics deteriorate, resulting in component failure. Solders have ...

Effects of Drought Stress on Floral Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) Agricultural Systems 

Morgan, Gary Wayne Jr (2023-04-18)
Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is a crop of renewed interest in modern agriculture. However, for it to be considered hemp and not marijuana, it must have a total THC concentration of no greater than 0.3%. Drought is a common ...

An Exploratory Study of Home Interior Design Features to Support Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being in the Postpartum Period 

Martin, Kelly (2023-04-18)  ETD File Embargoed
The national maternal mortality crisis in the United States is a problem of urgent importance marked by clear disparities when examining death rates based upon race, ethnicity, and region of the country. Upon reviewing the ...

Using Preparation for Future Learning to Change Student Attitudes about Race in Undergraduate Genetics Laboratories 

Ball, Erin (2023-04-18)
Racist actions and views are complex, can be implicit or explicit, and are not necessarily acknowledged or understood by the people who are contributing to racism in society. These views and actions have broad impacts ...

Quantum Chemical Studies on the Catalytic Potential of Anionic Transition Metal Compounds in Methane to Methanol and Carbon Dioxide Carboxylation Reactions 

Sader, Safaa (2023-04-17)
Using transition-metal (TM) catalysts in organic chemistry conversion reactions is a well-established practice due to their superior efficiency. They have been particularly useful in both methane to methanol conversion ...

Design and Instrument Characterization of the High-Energy Resolution relativistic electron Telescope (HERT) using Geant4 Simulation 

Krantz, Skyler (2023-04-17)
Earth’s outer radiation belt is filled with relativistic and ultrarelativistic electrons in the MeV energy range and above. These highly energetic electrons pose significant threats to avionics and humans in space, and ...

Cryptic Tolerant Species and Their Potential Effect on Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) Scores, with the Presentation of an Alternative Metric of Stream Health 

Hilburn, Bryson (2023-04-17)
Metrics such as the Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) are often used by management agencies to estimate the abstract property of stream health. These metrics are usually predicated on the belief that certain fish species are ...

Characterizing and Changing Course Elements in Undergraduate Biology Education 

Driessen, Emily (2023-04-17)
I conducted a set of four studies to catalogue and examine course elements, including active learning strategies and evidence-based teaching practices, and their influence on student experiences and performance in college ...

Development of atomistic and concurrent atomistic-continuum frameworks to model shock wave propagation and phonon transmission 

Davis, Alexander (2023-04-17)
In the first part of this dissertation, we develop a long-time moving window framework using Molecular Dynamics (MD) to model shock wave propagation through a one-dimensional monatomic chain. The moving window formulation ...

Is Humor the Best Medicine? Sense of Humor as a Mediator of the Relation between Dimensions of Perfectionism and Social Anxiety and Depression in College Students 

Hess, Courtney (2023-04-17)  ETD File Embargoed
The diathesis stress model has been utilized to help clarify the association between aspects of perfectionism and psychopathology, as it emphasizes the role of poor coping skills. The current study aimed to explore the ...

The Clash of the Scientific and Official Minds and the Making of the Chernobyl Disaster 

Allison, Russell (2023-04-17)  ETD File Embargoed
Abstract The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant tragedy remains the world’s worst nuclear disaster in terms of ecological devastation and the loss of human life. The accident’s consequences reached far beyond the initial ...

Exploring Machine Learning Methods for Author Identification on Micro-Messages 

Aykent, Sarp (2023-04-17)  ETD File Embargoed
Author Identification, also known as Authorship Attribution, is the task of identifying an author of unknown text based on the writing style captured within a dataset of writing samples. Author Identification is used in a ...

Immediate Deflections of Simply Supported, Bonded, Class T and Class C Prestressed Concrete Beams 

Hughes, Hayden (2023-04-17)
Design practice for prestressed members has moved toward allowing partially prestressed members, which are allowed to crack under service loads. To define design requirements, the ACI 318 Building Code explicitly defines ...

Home is Where the Politics Are: An Exploration of Place-based Politics 

Newby, Kara (2023-04-13)  ETD File Embargoed
Political research has often considered identity and the role it plays in shaping a person's political ideology and party affiliation. When referencing identity, there are multiple identities that one can consider including ...

Adaptive Governance of Coral Reefs: Cases of Florida and the Caribbean 

Morris, Daniel (2023-04-13)
Coral reefs are one of the most imperiled yet one of the most valuable ecosystems on the planet, providing food, medicine, and property protection to hundreds of millions of coastal people all over the world. Coral reefs ...