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The Professional Learning and Development of Principals and Assistant Principals 

Rushing, Kimberly Joy (2022-07-29)
Continued professional learning and development of school leaders is a way to improve schools and promote positive organizational change (Andreoli et al., 2020; Kim, 2020; Rieckhoff & Larsen, 2012) as well as and a way to ...

Investigating the Process-Structure-Property Relationships of Additively Manufactured 17-4 Precipitation Hardening Stainless Steel 

Dastranjy Nezhadfar, Pooriya (2022-07-28)
The present work aims to investigate the process-structure-property relationships for the additively manufactured 17-4 PH stainless steel to improve its mechanical performance. To this end, a multidisciplinary (i.e., ...

Band Engineering of Perovskite Ferrite Epitaxial Thin Films for OER Catalysis 

Paudel, Rajendra (2022-07-28)
Reliable energy from renewable sources via oxidation of water requires an efficient electrocatalyst. The high cost, low abundance, and poor stability of the current noble metal based electrocatalyst are a primary obstacle ...

A Novel Approach to Building Surrogate Models of Stochastic Simulations 

Mohammadi, Samira (2022-07-28)
High-fidelity simulations represent the processes and phenomena in a detailed manner. However, they are generally computationally expensive to evaluate for optimization and sensitivity analysis applications. Additionally, ...

Investigation of the Redistribution of Kinetic Energy in a Microgravity Complex (Dusty) Plasma 

McCabe, Lori (2022-07-28)
In the presence of gravity, the micron-sized charged dust particles in a complex plasma are compressed to thin layers, but under the microgravity conditions of the Plasma Kristall-4 (PK-4) experiment on the International ...

Regio- and Enantioselective Synthesis of N-alkyl 1,2- and 1,6-dihydropyridines through Rhodium-Catalyzed Nucleophilic Dearomatization 

Robinson, Donovan (2022-07-28)
Nonaromatic nitrogen heterocycles, particularly the ones containing one or multiple stereogenic centers, are common structural motifs in bioactive natural products and continue to be challenging synthetic targets. The ...

Nonlinear Measures for Biomechanical Assessment of Movement Health and Postural Complexity 

Larson, Jacob (2022-07-28)
The focus of this dissertation is on using nonlinear dynamics to analyze traditional biomechanical movements. The benefit of this approach is that nonlinear dynamics may be used in the future to help athletes avoid injury ...

Towards Environmental Resilience in Pulp and Paper Manufacturing: Water Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Emission Reductions 

Parkhi, Amod Dilip (2022-07-28)
The objective of this research is to reduce freshwater consumption and carbon dioxide emission from the pulp and paper industry. Specifically, we investigated the feasibility of reducing freshwater consumption in the bleach ...

A novel and integrated process for the valorization of kraft lignin 

More, Ajinkya (2022-07-28)
In this work, the main objective was to produce high value products from kraft lignin with an integrated approach in the pulp and paper industry. Production of vanillin, vanillic acid and bio-based vitrimers represent the ...

Characterization of the mode of plant interactions with different environmental stress cues: drought and plant parasitic nematodes 

Liu, Wenshan (2022-07-28)  ETD File Embargoed
Plants are vulnerable to a variety of biotic and abiotic environmental stressors, which suppresses and limits the growth and yield potential of agricultural crops. Recently, drought has become one of most expensive abiotic ...

A Dyadic Mediation Model Examining Associations Between Ineffective Arguing, Emotional Distress, and Violence Perpetration/Victimization in Couples Before Therapy 

Lowery, Dylann Faith (2022-07-28)
Previous research has studied the associations between ineffective arguing and emotional distress without the context of violence (Bowles, 2018; Overall & McNulty, 2017), as well as the associations between violence ...

IOT SECURITY: MODELING DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF IOT TECHNOLOGY 

Osho, John Ajetunmobi (2022-07-28)
Modern design and development practices advocates including security as early as possible in the overall IoT engineering strategy. Tuning products late in the product cycle is costly due to changes rippling across components, ...

Nonlocal Dispersal Equations with Almost Periodic Dependence 

Onyido, Maria Amarakristi (2022-07-28)
Nonlocal dispersal equations are used to model the population dynamics of species that exhibit long-range dispersal mechanisms. This model of spatial spread is obtained by replacing the Laplacian in the usual reaction-diffusion ...

The Numerical Approximation of Blow-Up Times for Fractional Reaction-Diffusion Equations 

Khachatryan, Mariam (2022-07-28)
We investigate the numerical estimation of blow-up phenomena of the space fractional reaction-diffusion equation \[ \partial_t u +(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}u=f(u), \quad x \in \Omega, t>0 \] with non-negative initial and Dirichlet ...

Artificial Intelligence-based enhancements supporting Linguistic E-Learning System 

Liu, Jueting (2022-07-28)  ETD File Embargoed
The Automated Phonetic Transcription - grading tool (APTgt) is a web-based interactive linguistics E-learning system developed by the Auburn HCI group for teachers and students in the Department of Communication Disorders ...

The Effects of Low-Tempo and High-Tempo Zumba® in Individuals with Developmental Disabilities 

Munn, Emily (2022-07-28)
Adults with developmental disabilities (DD) exhibit deficits in aerobic capacity, functional mobility, balance, healthy body composition, and executive functioning across development. Different exercise interventions have ...

Assessment of accessory genome and host-specific virulence in Fusarium 

Pokhrel, Ambika (2022-07-28)  ETD File Embargoed
Members of the Fusarium solani and Fusarium oxysporum species complexes (FSSC and FOSC, respectively) comprise soil borne filamentous fungi of clinical and agricultural importance. The main focus of this study is to study ...

Three Essays On India’s Economic Development Under The British Raj 

Bhattacharjee, Sharbani (2022-07-28)  ETD File Embargoed
“Why isn’t the whole world developed?” is a vital question posed by Richard A. Easterlin in regard to the divergent patterns of growth and development across nations. While addressing the causes of economic underdevelopment ...

Essays on International, Development and Environmental Economics 

Alkilany, Yousef Aburodess Assaid (2022-07-28)  ETD File Embargoed
This dissertation consists of three empirical essays in three chapters, which sheds light on select research questions on foreign inflows on the income inequality in low-income countries, the agricultural productivity of ...

Robust Estimation and Selection for Semi-Varying Coefficient Models 

Uzochukwu, Mark (2022-07-28)
Varying coefficient models have gained popularity in recent years due to their exibility in modeling more realistic problems. On the other hand, parametric models provide better interpretability. Model selection can ...