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Dissertations from 2020

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Use of Dimpling Techniques to Alter the Vibration and Acoustic Characteristics of Beams and Plates, Mofareh Ghazwani

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An Evaluation of Different Measures of Social Problem-Solving: Using Ecological Momentary Assessment, Dana B. Goetz

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Collateral Consequences: the Experiences of Black Women with Incarcerated Loved Ones, Keiondra Jné Grace

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Understanding the Influence of Interdisciplinary Research: An Examination of Carol Hirschon Weiss’s Scholarship, Gregory Dee Greenman II

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Teacher Perceptions Regarding the Purpose of K-12 Education, Peter M. Grostic

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A Comprehensive Security Approach on Data Race Detection and Deepfake Defense, Yu Guo

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Adopting Educational Technology: A Study of Dominican Republic Higher Education Faculty Related to their Classroom Usage, Attitudes, Barriers, and Motivations, Leipzig Elizabeth Guzmán Mena

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Extremal Problems on Induced Graph Colorings, James Hallas

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Essays on Climate Change-Related Extreme Events, Alvin E. Harris

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Are They Ready? Implementing 21st-Century Learning Skills Integration into Indonesia Science Instruction, Esty Haryani

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Language – Liberation – Leadership the Identity Reconstruction and Lived Experiences of Subaltern (Non-Elite) Learners of English In Pakistan, Aamir Hasan

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Application of Artificial Intelligence and Geographic Information System for Developing Automated Walkability Score, Md Mehedi Hasan

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Community College Student Success: Connections to Student Perceptions of Faculty Behaviors, and Classroom Motivators, Victor A. Henry Ubiera

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Pinch Span and Force: Normative Data, Requirements for Functional Tasks and Life Roles, and the Influence of Carpometacarpal Joint Osteoarthritis, Nancy Hock

Inverse Problems for Polynomial and Rational Matrices, Richard Allen Hollister

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On Simes’s Second Conjecture: An Extended Single-Step Simes Test Procedure for Multiple Testing, Matthew G. Hudson

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The Assessment of Co2 Exposures, Workload Demands, and Musculoskeletal Disorder Risk on Heart Rate for Select Craft Brewery Job Tasks, David L. Huizen

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The Voices of Single-Headed Household African American Mothers Concerning the High School Completion of Their Daughters, Lametria A. Johnson_Eaddy

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Mindfulness and Technology: Evaluating an Online Mindfulness Intervention for Symptoms Related to Sexual Assault, Erica Catherine Johnson

Behind the Higher Hill: A Novel, Bradford Kammin

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Saudi Arabian Science Teachers and Formative Assessment in the Gender Segregated Male School System, Khalid Abdullah Kariri

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The Experiences of African American Men at Predominantly White Institutions of Higher Education, After Successfully Transferring From a Community College, Keenan King

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Increasing Odds: the Impact of Casino Gaming Size, Location, and Economic Stream Style Differences on County Revenue in Pennsylvania, Brandon W. Koch

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Our Shared Vision: Representations of the Trans-Mississippi American West, Joshua D. Koenig

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The Effects of Low Dose Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Administration in a Rodent Model of Delay Discounting, Robert J. Kohler

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Training Practitioners on the Effects of Psychotropic Medication Via a Web-Based Platform, Anita Li

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Computer Simulations of Muscle Driven Undulatory Locomotion, Ye Luo

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Turbulence Investigations in the Core-Flow of an Internal Combustion Engine, James R. MacDonald

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Development of Functional Materials and Devices on Flexible Platforms Using Additive Print Manufacturing Processes for Biomedical and Environmental Applications, Dinesh Maddipatla

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The Role of Search Consultants in Interpreting and Communicating Organizational Identity During Presidential Searches at Small, Private Colleges, Dawn M. Markell

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Applications of Image Processing Techniques and Spatial Data Analytics for Pressure Mapping Analysis, Joan Yamil Martinez

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Understanding the School Experience of Recent LGBTQ+ Graduates in the Dominican Republic’s Education System, Rossina Matos

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Relationships between Kindergarten Entrance Age and Attendance Rates in Kindergarten through Second Grade, Julie A. McDonald

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Politically and Historically Bound: Examining Whiteness and Intersectionality among Self-Identified Feminists, Olivia M. McLaughlin

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Let’s Talk Fluency: Elementary Educators’ Perceptions of the Impact and Implementation of Fluency Instruction within the Leveled Literacy Intervention Framework, Megan L. Michalczak

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Resource Optimization in Support of IoT Applications, Ihab Ahmed Mohammed

Efficient and Robust Adaptive Filtering Framework Based on Individualized Log-Term Time-Varying Stepsize Adjustment Mechanism, Haider Abdallatif Mohammed Kazim

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Performance Management Training Evaluation in an Autism Treatment Facility, James D. Morrison

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Enhancement of Critical Current in High-Temperature Superconductors by Ion Beam Irradiation Induced Defects, Prashanta Mani Niraula

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Novice Second-Career Teachers: Experiences and Meaning-Making of the Transition Process, Paula Dennisse Núñez del Rosario

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A Phenomenological Study of Faculty Members’ Experiences with Attempting To Integrate Religion and Spirituality into Counseling Psychology Doctoral Training, Theresa M. Nutten

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Student Perceptions of their Undergraduate Science Laboratories, Eva N. Nyutu

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Migratory Sound, Sara Lupita Olivares

Pairwise Comparisons and Homogeneity of Odds Ratios in Stratified 2 X 2 Contingency Tables, Sanduni Pathum Laksara Palliyage

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Monitoring Salt Diapir Related Land Deformation and Distribution: A Geophysical and Remote Sensing Approach Jazan Province, Saudi Arabia, Hannah G. Pankratz

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Female Graduate Students’ Experiences and Career Orientations in Stem: A Comparative Case Study, Jasvir K. Pannu

Examining the Effects of a Fitbit Treatment Package on the Physical Activity for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities, Kimberly M. Peck

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Using a Video Modeling Treatment Package to Teach Imitation to Children with Autism, Sofia F. Peters

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The Role of Homologous Cyclin B’s in the Cell Cycle and, in Their Absence, the Effect on Zebrafish Early Development, Tetiana Petrachkova

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Undergraduate Educational Research Experiences in the Study of Interior Design, Julia Virginia Pimentel Jiménez

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Efficient Hardware/Software Partitioning Techniques for a Cloud-scale CPU-FPGA Platform, Samah Ziyad Rahamneh

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Dominican Nursing Students’ Self-Reported Mastery of International Nursing Competencies, Wady Ramirez

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Medical Cannabis and Recreational Marijuana: Patient Perceptions, Stigma, and Gender During a Time of Emerging Legalization, Matt Reid

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Can a Brief Online Intervention Change Low-Income Caregivers’ Reported Use of Spanking? A Randomized Controlled Trial, Hilary L. Richardson

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Occupational Therapy as Part of a Team-Based Approach in Primary Care Settings, Lydia Royeen

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Integrating Detailed Petrography, Geochemistry, and Mineralogy to Elucidate Extensive Early Diagenesis in the Eocene Carbonates of Qatar, Brooks H. Ryan

Novel Material for Advanced Environmental Applications, Tahseen Sulaiman Saeed

Numerical Analysis of Stone Column Ground Improvement Under Compression Loading with Emphases on the Soil-Structure Interaction Effect, Wjdan Dhaif Sahi

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Statistical Downscaling Techniques to Enhance the Spatial Resolution of the Grace Satellite Data and to Fill Temporal Gaps, Hossein Sahour

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Atmospheric Turbulence Distortion in Video: Restoration Utilizing Sparse Analysis, Benjamin J. Sanda

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Women’s Lived Experiences in their Pathways to Leadership Positions in Universities in the Dominican Republic, Laura Sartori

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An Exploration of Preschool Choice with Low-Income Families: The Critical Role of Positive Attitudes, Behavioral Norms and Control Beliefs, Laurel E. Schmitt

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Schools’ Civil Rights Obligations to English Learners: Leadership Perceptions on Key Issues, Pamela R. Schwallier

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On the Local Theory of Profinite Groups, Mohammad Shatnawi

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The Effects of a Course Oriented In Critical Race Theory on White Counselor Trainees’ Multicultural Counseling Competence, White Privilege Attitudes, and Cross Racial Contact, Dawnielle D. Simmons

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A Functional Analysis of Losses in a Risky Choice Procedure, David W. Sottile

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Multicultural Competence, White Privilege Attitudes and the Working Alliance in Clinical Supervision, Michelle A. Stahl

Three Essays on Macroeconomy of Pakistan, Ateeb Akhter Shah Syed

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Food Insecurity: a Closer Look at How Households Cope with Food Insecurity and How This Phenomenon Affects Their Overall Health, Burak O. Tan

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Teaching Receptive Identification to Children Who Were Unsuccessful with a Standard Training Program, Kaylee R. Tomak

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Teaching Children with Autism to Make Independent Requests Using an Echoic-To-Mand Procedure, Michael L. Tomak

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Objectively Determining the Language-Related Communication Challenges for In-Flight Operations, Fehime Utkan

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Ally or Enemy: The Impact of Leadership on United States Army Combat Veterans’ Deployment Experiences Who Have Served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Derik Van Baale

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Methods for Improving Quality of Care within Acute and Post-Acute Settings, Kelly L. VanKoevering

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An Examination of Microglial Involvement in Neuroregeneration Following Damage to the Olfactory Bulb, Susanna R. Var

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Providing Head Start Services Amid a Global Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Explanatory Study of Capacity, Resources, and Support, Kelly L. Vigants

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Investigation of Finite Temperature and Continuum Effects on Nuclear Excitations, Herlik Wibowo

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The Effect of Principal Leadership on Student Achievement: A Multivariate Meta-Analysis, Huang Wu

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An Empirical Study of Design Parameters for Planning Two-Level and Three-Level Cluster Randomized Trials to Detect Moderator Effects, Qi Zhang

Dissertations from 2019

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Multiple SSID Framework for RSS-Fingerprint Based Indoor Positioning Systems, Ahmed Kareem Abed

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The Role of Sampling Variability in Developing K-8 Preservice Teachers’ Informal Inferential Reasoning, Omar Abu-Ghalyoun

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Ultrafast Relaxation Dynamics in Graphene Oxide-Dye and Perovskites Nanocomposites, Abubkr A. Arzaq Abuhagr

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Governance and Economic Growth in the Arab World: Evidence from Panel Data Analysis, Adel H. AlAdlani

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Teachers Use and Perceptions of the Impact of Response to Intervention (RTI) on Co-Teaching at the Secondary Level in General Education Classrooms, Hawazen Alasiri

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Saudi Arabian Female English Language Teachers’ Perspectives on Instructional Supervisors and Supervision, Afaf Mohammed Albalawi

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Towards an Architecture for Secure Privacy-Preserving Opportunistic Resource Utilization Networks, Ahmed A. Al-Gburi

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Special Education Teachers Use of Reading Strategies to Support Students with Learning Disabilities in Reading, Ali A. Alhamdan

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Social Media Sentiment Analysis with a Deep Neural Network: An Enhanced Approach Using User Behavioral Information, Ahmed Sulaiman M. Alharbi

Assessing Physical Demands of Construction Workers Using Wearable Sensors, Salam Salman Chiad Alharishawi

Impacts of Freeway Speed Limit on Safety and Operation Speed of Adjacent Arterial Roads, Fadi Abdallah Alhomaidat

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Leadership, Satisfaction, Commitment, and Turnover Intention in the United Arab Emirates Public Sector, Mohammed Humaid Aljanahi

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Parameter Determination and Modeling of Transformer Windings for Fast Transients Including Frequency Dependent Effects, Yazid Al-Kraimeen

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Factors Contributing to the Attrition of New Student Affairs Professionals, Nicole Millar Allbee

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Comparing the Results of and Evaluating Preferences for Functional Analyses and Concurrent Operant Analyses, Marrisa B. Allen

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Uniformly Connected Graphs, Nasreen Almohanna

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High-Performance Quasi-Monte Carlo Integration and Applications, Ahmed Hassan H. Almulihi

Protecting a Low Voltage Direct Current System Using Solid-State Switching Devices for DC Grid Applications, Ibrahim N. Almutairy

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Superintendent Practices and Initiatives for Building Principal Instructional and Collaborative Leadership Capacity in a High-Performing High-Poverty School, Fatemah Ali Al Ramel

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Principal Leadership and the Development of Teacher Professionalism and Autonomy within a Collaborative School Culture, Sukinah Ali Al Ramel

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Predicting the Complexity of Locality Patterns in Loop Nests in C Scientific Programs, Nasser M. Alsaedi