• News Industry Disruption and Civic Participation: Understanding How Shifting Business Models Influence Local Engagement 

  Brown, Laura

  Based on data from an online Qualtrics survey of national respondents, the thesis explores relationships between demographic traits, subscribing behaviors, and civic engagement, all in the context of the news industry's ...
• Kinetic Studies of Cation Exchange Reactions in II-VI Quantum Dots 

  Akinmola, Adekunle Titus

  The quest to synthesize excellent materials with qualities ranging from size-tunability, photoluminescence quantum yield and storability has led to the study of cation exchange reaction as one of the many methods explored. ...
• A DIVERGENCE TIME ANALYSIS OF BUTTERFLIES IN THE PARADIGM OF THE PLEISTOCENE REFUGIA HYPOTHESIS 

  Tate, Alexander Delacy

  Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the diversity and distribution of organisms. A leading hypothesis for biodiversity in the Neotropics, the Pleistocene Refugia Hypothesis (PRH), suggests that a series of ...
• Mechanism of Nucleoside Hydrolase Isolated from Alaska Pea Seeds 

  Moore, Roderick William

  Nucleosidases or nucleoside hydrolases are a class of enzymes that hydrolyze nucleosides into a pentose sugar and a nitrogenous base. These enzymes are widely distributed, and are found in parasitic protozoans, plants, ...
• SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF GRAPHENE BASED BARIUM TITANATE PIEZO-NANO COMPOSITE MATERIAL 

  Pasumarthi, Ashok Kumar

  Applications in various fields of technology like microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), Energy Harvesting, sensing and energy storage, etc., made graphene a unique material of all the carbon allotropes. Barium titanate ...
• A HUMAN FOLLOWING ROBOT FOR FALL DETECTION 

  Adebola, Simeon Oluwafunmilore

  This thesis presents work on a human following robot for detecting falls in the home of the elderly. The goal is to have a robot that can detect a human, follow the human in a cluttered space, and determine when the human ...
• Black Women in Primetime Soap Opera: Examining Representation within Genre 

  Suggs, Courtney Kiana

  ABSTRACT Using textual genre analysis, this research studied representation in primetime soap operas, Scandal, How To Get Away with Murder, and Empire. Two hundred and eighty-three episodes were viewed to understand how ...
• Memorialization of Forgotten Steps: Native American Participation in the American Civil War 

  Haire, Stefanie Morgan

  Of all the actors in the American Civil War, marginalized groups have been vastly underrepresented on the commemorative landscape. Cherokee soldiers were among the minorities who contributed to both the Union and the ...
• Gendered Space: Emerging Frames in NASA Public Relations and Mainstream Media Representation, 1958-1986 

  Wilds, Helen

  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded October 1, 1958, and has been the subject of research, news and popular culture since its inception. Recent films such as Hidden Figures (2016) and Mercury ...
• Holographic Reduced Representations for Dimensional Attention Learning 

  Wang, Huizhi

  One aspect of machine learning is that it has sought to mimic how the brain learns. In 1992, Kruschke published a computer model called ALCOVE which sought to model category learning. In 2004, Phillips and Noelle made this ...
• I DO NOT WEEP AT THE WORLD: Examining Black Women’s Expressions of Selfhood and the Revolutionary Act of Claiming Experiences and Identity 

  Herbert, Nailah Imani

  ABSTRACT Black women’s interpretations of popular media are marked by a unique experience that is both racialized and gendered. In this study I explore Black women’s self-defined interpretations of media and literature ...
• The Unique Contribution of Credit Information in the Selection Process 

  Matsumoto, Mandy

  The purpose of this study was to determine if credit information provided a unique contribution beyond the other selection predictors, such as criminal records, education, previous experience, or background checks. Ordinal ...
• “SILLINESS, SHENANIGANS AND GENERAL MISBEHAVIOR”: DEPICTIONS OF FEMALE FRIENDSHIPS IN AMERICAN SITCOMS FROM LUCY AND ETHEL TO LESLIE AND ANN 

  Wilcoxon, Valen Johnson

  The portrayal of female friendships are a significant and influential feature of American situation comedies. This study conducts a comparison of female friendships pairings in four popular sitcoms that span across six ...
• The Relationship Between Music Aptitude, Empathy, and Sensitivity to Emotional Prosody: An ERP Investigation 

  Steele, Jessica

  Research on emotional music and emotional language suggests there is at least a partial neural overlap between these two systems. Research also suggests that high music aptitude is associated with the ability to more ...
• Queer Families in Octavia Butler's Science Fiction 

  Bennett, Jess Scott

  This thesis explores the constellation of race, gender, and sexuality in two novel series by African American feminist author Octavia E. Butler, published from the 1970s through the 1980s. The central pursuit of this project ...
• Frivolous Fashion: Clothing in Tennessee 1790-1830 

  Allen, Grace

  Fashion in early Tennessee has previously been over-simplified by historians as being, dominated by homespun and hunting shirts and virtually detached from the fashionable trends and selections of the East Coast. However, ...
• How Does Trauma-Informed Care Training Effect the Self-Efficacy of Professionals Who Serve Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth? 

  Jordan, Amy J

  Juvenile justice reform and services that aim to improve the lives of children at risk for involvement in the system are teeming with discussions involving “ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) science” and trauma-informed ...
• AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MORAL DISENGAGEMENT, ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, AND SEXUAL MISCONDUCT VICTIMIZATION AND PERPETRATION AMONG MEN AND WOMEN ON THE COLLEGE CAMPUS IN THE UNITED STATES 

  Jones, Aubrenie

  Sexual misconduct has been related individually to both ACEs and Moral Disengagement. Though existing studies examined the relationship between ACEs and sexual misconduct, there is a paucity of research exploring the ...
• Change Fatigue and Leadership Influences 

  Deschenes, Samuel

  Change fatigue is a developing concept that addresses the response individuals have when they perceive that too much change is occurring. As organizational change becomes more prevalent, more organizations and researchers ...
• The impact of maturation time distribution on the stage structure of a cellular population 

  Alshehri, Asma Abdullah

  Here we study how the stage structure of a population of cells varies with the distributions of times spent in each stage (which we will refer to as maturation time distributions). We consider a model with two life stages. ...

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