• SYNTHESIS, PURIFICATION, SOLUBILITY, AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY STUDY OF VARIOUS SEGMENTS OF THE PROTEIN α-SYNUCLEIN’S NONAMYLOID-BETA COMPONENT REGION 

  Stowe, Ashton Mae (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Parkinson’s Disease is a neurodegenerative brain disorder that occurs when dopamine producing neurons, in the mid-region of the brain known as the substantia nigra, stop working or die. The degenerating dopaminergic neurons ...
• Three Essays on Electric Vehicle Adoption, Its Effects, and Related Incentives 

  Ferdousee, Atia (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  This dissertation thesis explores few aspects of electric vehicle (EV) adoption; more specifically, this study focuses on the incentive policies on EV, the effects of EV adoption on energy consumption, and the factors ...
• Lipids of Pedinomonas minor, Pedinomonas sp., Pyramimonas parkeae, Pyramimonas obovata: A Quest to Reconcile These Tertiary and Secondary Plastid Ancestors of the Dinoflagellate Lepidodinium chlorophorum and Euglenid Euglena gracilis. 

  Nwadibie, Deborah Ngozi (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The goal of this study was to investigate the plastid origins of the only green-pigmented dinoflagellate genus, represented by Lepidodinium chlorophorum, and the evolutionary model euglenid Euglena gracilis. Intact forms ...
• The Effect of a Knowledge-Based Curriculum Using Science Read-Alouds on Vocabulary, Content, and Listening Comprehension Outcomes with Preschoolers 

  Crouch, Nicole (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Educators have been trying diligently to raise reading proficiency scores for decades to little avail. Children from all SES homes, but especially low-SES homes, are not achieving reading proficiency by fourth grade. One ...
• Narrowing the Gap: The Mediated Field Experience as a Pedagogy to Identify and Build Coherence Between Mathematics Methods Coursework and Field Experience 

  Wanner, Sister Cecilia Anne (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Preservice teachers (PSTs) in teacher education programs frequently experience a disconnect between coursework and fieldwork, often referred to as the theory-practice gap. This study considered the mediated field experience ...

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