Dissertations
Dissertations from 2020
Local Distance Correlation: An Extension of Local Gaussian Correlation, Walaa Ahmed Hamdi
A Cohort Comparison of Institutional Participation and Family Formation During Young Adulthood, Paul F. Hemez
A Phenomenology of Peer Interaction and Community in Accelerated Online Learning, Kristen Brooke Hidinger
Dissolution Pathways: Mother-Child Relationship Quality, Adolescent Academic Well-Being, and College Completion Among Young Adults, Elizabeth Suzanne Howe-Huist
A Comparative Study of Multi-Tiered Interventions on Attendance and Graduation Rates of Urban High School Students: A Whole Child-Equity in Education Approach, Treva Elise Jeffries
Making Their Voices Heard: How Women in Kosovo Used Amplification to Ensure Representation in a Newly Created Democracy, Darlene A. Johnston
Photochemistry of Iron(III) with Carboxylate-containing Polysaccharides for Sustainable Materials, Mudugamuwe Hewawasam Jayan Savinda Karunarathna
"So You Want To Be A Retronaut?": History and Temporal Tourism, Tiffany L. Knoell
Metaperceptions and Identity Negotiation Strategies of Perceived Middle Eastern Immigrants in the U.S., Esen Saygin Koc
If She Were President: Fictional Representations of Female U.S. Presidents in Film, Television, and Literature in the Twentieth Century, Kathleen Taylor Kollman
The Intergenerational Transmission of Criminal Justice Contact: The Role of Parenthood, Early Adulthood Outcomes, and Gender, Marissa Landeis
The Impact of Literacy Coaching Within the Literacy Collaborative Framework on Teachers' Overall Sense of Efficacy in Literacy Instruction, Brittany Marie Lee
Morality and Aspiration: Some Conditions of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms, Sylvio Lynch III
The Effect of Anthropogenic Habitat Modification on Insect-Mediated Ecosystem Services, Audrey Marie Maran
Reptilian Activity, Movements and Spatial Ecology within the Oak Openings Region, Amanda K. Martin
The Dictator Game as a Test of the Social Affiliative Function of Counterfactual Expression, Mark G. McCoy
Contextualizing Traditional Influences within Romanian Contemporary Music: Stylistic Elements in Selected Works for Solo Flute by Doina Rotaru, Violeta Dinescu, and Carmen Carneci, Octavian Moldovean
Leadership and Policy For Reforms and Change in Higher Education: A Review of the Juakalization Phenomenon of Public Universities in Kenya, Emmah Mwongeli Muema
Mindfulness and Metacognition: A Guide to Implementing Beneficial Mental Habits in Music Teaching, Christopher Murphy
The Energy Goodness-Of-fit Test for the Inverse Gaussian Distribution, Patrick Ofosuhene
Conflict or Solidarity: Understanding Sibling Relationships in Families Coping with Parental Mental Illness, Catherine Elizabeth Petrowski
Every Pure Quasinormal Operator Has a Supercyclic Adjoint, Serge Phanzu Phanzu
Sacred or Profane? Emerging Adults' Sanctification and Desecration of their Non-Marital Relational Sexuality and Links to Relational, Psychological, and Spiritual Adjustment, Julie M. Pomerleau
Confined: Motherhood in Twenty-First Century American Film, Tessa Pyles
Sequential Change-point Detection in Linear Regression and Linear Quantile Regression Models Under High Dimensionality, Suthakaran Ratnasingam
Hippie Films, Hippiesploitation, and the Emerging Counterculture, 1955-1970, Britton Stiles Rhuart
Youth Views of Neighborhood Needs: A Photovoice Collaboration, Lindsey T. Roberts
Predicting Student Veteran Persistence, Sue Ann Sandusky
Nihilism and Argumentation: A Weakly Pragmatic Defense of Itatively Normative Reasons, Scott M. Simmons
Tailoring Biomass for Light Active Compounds and Materials, Ravichandranath Singathi
From la Carpa to the Classroom: The Chicano Theatre Movement and Actor Training in the United States, Dennis Sloan
Reconsidering Exposure: The Effects of Dynamic Contaminant Plumes on Aquatic Organisms, Alexandra N. Steele
New Developments in Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy Techniques: From Experimental Setups to Advanced Processing Software, Petr Stepanov
Making Profit, Making Play: Corporate Social Media Branding in the Era of Late Capitalism, David F. Stephens II
Statistical Inferences On Inflated Data Based On Modified Empirical Likelihood, Patrick Stewart
Japanese Contemporary Piano Music: Cultural Influence and Identity, Stephanie Titus
Death, Transition, and Resilience: A Narrative Study of the Academic Persistence of Bereaved College Students, Cari Ann Urabe
Collegial Trust For School Improvement: A Case Study of K-12 General and Special Education Teachers, Margaret Vostal
Altered Cognitive and Psychophysiological Components of Psychological Flexibility in Individuals With Overweight/Obesity, Tanya S. Watford
Ecological Effects of Predator Information Mediated by Prey Behavior, Tyler C. Wood
The Adoption and Execution of Successful Levy Campaign Strategies in Districts with Low Voter Support, Justin B. Zemanski
Dissertations from 2019
"I Can Do Whatever the Hell I Want": Female Tattoo Artists, Their Experiences, and Identity Creation, Johni Amos
A new perspective on polyamine biosynthesis and transport in arabidopsis thaliana, Menaka M. Ariyaratne
By Any Other Name: (Mis)Understanding Transfer-Focused Feminist Pedagogy, Sara A. Austin
Exploratory Study of Generational Differences in Facets and Overall Job Satisfaction of a Division in a Multi-state Healthcare Provider, Pierre W. Banks
Stem-like cells and glial progenitors in the adult mouse suprachiasmatic nucleus, Dilshan Harshajith Beligala
On the quasi-isometric rigidity of a class of right-angled Coxeter groups, Jordan Bounds
Ultrafast photophysical and photochemical dynamics of polyhalogenated alkanes, cycloalkanes, and transition metal complexes, Darya S. Budkina
Factors influencing bee communities and pollination services across an urban environment, Justin D. Burdine
Properties of Higher Order Hochschild Cohomology, Samuel R. Carolus
Dungeons & Discourse: Intersectional Identities in Dungeons & Dragons, Philip Jameson Clements
Neurocognitive aging in homing pigeons (Columba livia): Further investigation into hippocampal-dependent memory impairment and testing of the cholinergic hypothesis of cognitive decline, Vincent Jesse Coppola
Detroit Brand Blackness: Race, Gender, Class, and Performances of Black Identities in Post Recession Detroit, Michelle Renee Cowin Gibbs
The "Common Pot": Income Pooling in American Couples and Families, Kasey J. Eickmeyer
Obesity and First Birth: Timing, Union Status, And Subsequent Union Formation And Dissolution, Holly Fee
Women on YouTube: Exploring identity performances of female creators using intersectionality and media ecology, Alyssa N. Fisher
Identifying Teacher Emotional-Social Competencies That Predict Positive & Negative Relationships With Students, Justin R. Fults
Heuristics in the Context of Long-Form Short-Story Reading, Christopher William Gamsby
Becomings of Space and Collaboration: Applying Design Thinking to a Study of Space and Collaboration in the Collab Lab, Lauren Garskie
Bootstrap-adjusted Quasi-likelihood Information Criteria for Mixed Model Selection, Wentao Ge
Molecular Detection and Quantification of the Fish Pathogen Saprolegnia spp. Using qPCR and Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification, Satyaki Ghosh
Applying An Intersectional Framework to the Experiences of Low-Income, First-Generation, Sexual Minority College Students, Sabrina Marie Gonzales
An Examination of Outcomes of Undergraduate Dietetics Students in an Enhanced Academic Program, Carrie M. Hamady
Bookish Women: Examining the Textual and Embodied Construction of Scholarly and Literary Women in American Musicals, Rebecca K. Hammonds
A King of Time and Motion: Richard Pryor and the Evolution of Modern Stand-Up Comedy, Cori Healy
The Impact of Training and a Mindfulness Phone App Among Academic Advisors, Deborah Hendricks
Subjective Moral Biases & Fallacies: Developing Scientifically & Practically Adequate Moral Analogues of Cognitive Heuristics & Biases, Mark Howard Herman
Performing Gender and Authority: Juvenile Corrections Officers' Self-Perceptions and Strategies at Work, Starlit Hill
Weak*-Closed Unitarily and Moebius Invariant Spaces of Bounded Measurable Functions on a Sphere, Samuel A. Hokamp
Handgun Owning During Emerging Adulthood: Predictors and Consequences, April Dawn Holbrook
Examining Alexithymia in Affective Events Theory, Nicholas Howald
Equity Preferences and Service Delivery in Metroparks of the Toledo Area, Shannon Marie Hughes
The Composer's Guide to the Tuba: Creating a New Resource on the Capabilities of the Tuba Family, Aaron M. Hynds
Multifaceted Development of Social Identity in Adolescence: The Role of Diverse Backgrounds and Discrimination, Cjersti Jayne Jensen
Preserving the Public Sector: A Qualitative Examination of Millennial Leaders' Workplace Expectations and Workplace Longevity in the Public Sector, Naketa Raquel Jones
Light as a Reagent for Chemical Reactions-Excited State Manipulation to Discover New Reactivity, Sunil Kumar Kandappa
Rhetorical Complexity of Advocating Intercultural Peace: Post-World War II Peace Discourse, Emi Kanemoto
What is Killing Firefighters? A Study of Volunteer Firefighter Fatalities, Robert C. Krause
Examination of the Change in Science Content Knowledge, Personal Science Teacher Efficacy, and Science Teaching Outcome Expectancy Due to Participation in Modeling Instruction Professional Development, Gloria M. Kreischer-Gajewicz
Analyzing Gender Inequality in Contemporary Opera, Hillary LaBonte
The Queer Art of Writing: (Re)Imagining Scholarship and Pedagogy Through Transgenre Composing, Kristin LaFollette-Samson
Intention to employ behavioral tactics to moderate gambling: Effects of gambling history and imagined mood, Brent Alan Lang
A Contemporary Portrait of Couples' Relative Earning Patterns and their Implications for Work-Family Conflict in the United States, Vanessa Wanner Lang
An Approach to Estimation and Selection in Linear Mixed Models with Missing Data, Yi-Ching Lee
A Grounded Theory of Chinese College Students' Self-Authorship Development, Yifei Li
A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Predicting Applicant Faking, Brendan Lortie
Student Perception of Safety and Positive School Climate After Trauma Informed Care Professional Development, Darlene J. Mack
Interactive effects of wastewater effluent on stream food webs, Melanie M. Marshall
Improving Construct Validity and Measurement of Post-Traumatic Growth, Gina Marie Mattei
Simultaneous Inference on Survival Data, Yehan Ma
Improving Students' Perceptions of Teacher Care Through Teacher Professional Development, Amanda Ilene Miller Ricketts