• Factors Influencing HPV Vaccination Uptake Among College Students 

  Witcher, Katherine

  The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most commonly contracted sexually transmitted disease in the United States and is the cause for most cases of HPV-related cancers. Although there is an HPV vaccine, it is not yet widely ...
• Effects of Snake Fungal Disease on Epidermal Microbiome Dynamics 

  Romer , Alexander Sebastian

  Ecological disturbance is a key factor in structuring biotic assemblages. Microbial assemblages are subject to disturbance and react predictably to it. This study aimed to determine if host- and pathogen- associated processes ...
• Feeling Remote: Factors Influencing Isolation in Remote Workers 

  Bell, Chelsea J

  This study contributes to the ongoing dialogue surrounding the benefits and drawbacks of remote work programs. The purpose of this research is to understand how communication and interdependence of work tasks influence the ...
• Hannah Arendt's Theory of Judgment in an Era of Digital Public Spheres 

  Estes, Katherine

  Hannah Arendt argues that the erosion of the arts and culture in the modern age is inextricably linked with the threat to democratic freedom in the political realm, and she concludes that one of the greatest hopes for ...
• GÖTZ VON BERLICHINGEN: SOLDIER, ENTREPRENEUR, RACONTEUR 

  Fansher, Bradley

  This thesis is a study of the life and times of Götz von Berlichingen (1480-1562), a German nobleman known for his iron fist and his legendary feuds. It argues that three identities defined Götz: a soldier, an entrepreneur, ...
• An OpenSHMEM Runtime for UPC 

  Lewis, Daniel Youree

  Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages are becoming more important aswe move into the Exascale era. The complexities brought on by the architectures of thesemachines make traditional message passing approaches ...
• Parallelizing A Content-Aware Image Resizing with OpenSHMEM 

  Omotoso, Bukola Grace

  ABSTRACT Cropping and Scaling are the most common image resizing techniques but neither of these considers the content of the image. Seam carving is a content-aware image resizing technique that removes or duplicates the ...
• Volumnia/Kony 

  Walton, Layne

  Early-modern England, with its mixture of empiricism and mysticism, greatly esteemed analogical thinking and made literary heroes out of newly translated ancients such as Plutarch, whose Lives of the Noble Grecians and ...
• Design and Identification of Antimicrobial Peptoids Against the ESKAPE Pathogens 

  Aguila, Angelica (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-14)

  A globalized health threat rises each year as pathogens quickly continue to develop modifications rendering previously prosperous antibiotics ineffective. Discovery or synthetically constructed antibacterial compounds are ...
• Three Musical Interpretations of Hamlet's Ophelia 

  Aydelott, Katherine (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-13)

  An obedient daughter, a scorned lover, a raving madwoman—each of these epithets is an appropriate description of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Character studies of Hamlet range from completely ...
• THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING DIMENSIONS 

  Wilson, Kathryn (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-13)

  ABSTRACT More research is needed that investigates how and to what extent adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are predicted by neurocognitive executive functioning (EF) skills. To address this, the current study analyzed ...
• Emergency Communications: A Quantitative Survey on Emotional Labor 

  Rowe, Katherine L (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-13)

  Both working as a 9-1-1 dispatcher and examining research on emergency communications personnel reveals high levels of emotional labor and associated stress, mental health issues including depression and anxiety, and ...
• Socially, Mediated Democracy: Modeling the Effects of Social Media Use and Deliberative Behaviors on Voting 

  Burnley, Benjamin R (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-13)

  Social media has become one of the most potent tools for political communication over the last decade. It has largely replaced or incorporated much of legacy media. This project looks at social media’s relationship with ...
• Shared and Unshared Information in an Employee Selection Process 

  Thomas, Seth (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-13)

  This study tested two competing theories describing how information is shared in a selection process. The information processing theory says critical unshared information, important information not originally known, is ...
• Countering the Lost Cause: Examining Civil War Commemoration in Murfreesboro, Tennessee 

  Kane, Alissa (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  The history of the Civil War has been a point of contention across the nation and in academia, regarding how it is remembered as well as who controlled this memory in years past. This thesis utilizes frameworks from ...
• Rural Realities Shape Rural Tennessee Women’s Attitudes about Woman Suffrage 

  McDaniel, Aubrie (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-02)

  The 19th Amendment in America gave women the right to vote and federally protected their enfranchisement. Tennessee played a major role in the passage of the amendment by being the 36th state to ratify. During and after ...
• Is Self-Consciousness a Moderator for Body Image and Disordered Eating in College Women? 

  Ross, KeyOndria Annalee (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-02)

  This research explores the role self-consciousness serves as a potential moderator for the relationship between body image and disordered eating. Participants (N = 50) were recruited using Middle Tennessee State University’s ...
• A Queer Past: The Emergence of LGBT+ Student Organizations in Middle Tennessee 

  Odom, Quinlan Day (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-01)

  In 1979, Middle Tennessee saw the formation of the Student Coalition for Gay Rights (SCGR) at Austin Peay State University (APSU). The Student Coalition for Gay Rights became the first LGBT+ student organization to receive ...
• "Seeing Is Believing": Does Experience Mediate the Relationship between Obsessive-Compulsive Tendencies and Supernatural Beliefs? 

  Kah, Alexander C (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-01)

  This study was an attempt to determine the personality traits, including obsessive-compulsive (OC) tendencies, implicated in the formation of paranormal and religious belief systems and whether experience may mediate this ...
• IMPROVING STATE MANDATED TEST SCORES BY IMPLEMENTING A RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION PLAN 

  Curtis, Madison Paige (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-27)

  The Response to Intervention (RTI) framework is a tiered method that focuses on prevention and intervention to close academic gaps in students in grades kindergarten through 12th grade. This study focused on how a small ...

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