Dissertations from 2020
Calibration Transients In LIGO Detectors, Thomas Daniel Abbott
Neuromotor Control of the Hand During Smartphone Manipulation, Prasanna Kumar Acharya
Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Aroma and Cercospora janseana Resistance in U.S. Rice, Christopher Keith Addison
Crisis, Crisis, Read All About It! Investigating the Direct and Joint Effects of Crisis Response Strategies, Crisis History and Strategic Actions on the Tone of Media Coverage, Habiba Nefisa Alambo
Talking About the Weather: Impacts of Tornado Stories on Memory and Identity, Ashley L. Allen
The Function of Poetry in the Maqamat al-Hariri, Hussam Almujalli
Adaptive Data Migration in Load-Imbalanced HPC Applications, Parsa Amini
Estimation of the Axial and Lateral Capacity of Driven Piles from the Results of Cone Penetration Test and Finite Element Analysis, Mohsen Amirmojahedi
The Long-Term Outlook of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya Bifurcation: A Convergence of Engineering, Economics, and Deltaic Evolution, Thomas Mitchell Andrus
Identifying Human Trafficking Networks in Louisiana by Using Authorship Attribution and Network Modeling, Hassan Marzoughi Ardakani
Measurements and Mitigation of Scattered Light Noise in LIGO, Corey Daniel Austin
Motivation, Higher Education, Belonging, and Development: Integration of Highly Educated Immigrants into the Western Labor Market, Cihan Aydiner
Gender Equality, Tolerance, and Wellbeing in Turkey: The Role of Religion, Ramazan Aydogdu
Interactions between Federal Education Tax Credits and State-Based Aid Programs: An Analysis of State Budgeting for Higher Education, Anna Castrillo Bartel
Study of Fundamental Tradeoff Between Deliverable and Private Information in Statistical Inference, Farhang Bayat
Characterizing the Epidemiology of Bluetongue and Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Virus in Louisiana, Michael Edward Becker
Incorporation of Lignin in Natural and Synthetic Biomaterials to Alter Mechanical and Biochemical Properties for Enhanced Wound Healing, Jorge Alfonso Belgodere
Virtual Touch: Embodied Experiences of (dis)Embodied Intimacy in Mediatized Performance, Naomi Petrea Bennett
Examining Relationships between Early Childcare Teachers' Adult Attachment Orientations and Quality of Interaction in the Infant Classroom, Alexandra Morris Benoit
Exploring Predictors of Older Adults' Performance on a Novel Driving Simulator Task, John Philip Bernstein
Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Louisiana, Dependra Bhatta
Southwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Frequency and Intensity Related to Observed and Modeled Geophysical and Aerosol Variables, Rupsa Bhowmick
Morphology and Dynamics of Bottlebrush Polymers, Karin Julia Bichler
Examining Nursing Student Dropout Behavior: An Event History Analysis, Michele Lee Blackwell
Earnings Management of Leaders and Laggards, Candice Roche Boucree
National Guard Familes: The Relationship between Institutional Discourses and Lived Experiences, Kimberly Saunier Boudreaux
Some Results on Seymour’s Second-Neighborhood Conjecture and on Decompositions of Graphs, Farid Bouya
Combinatorial and Asymptotic Statistical Properties of Partitions and Unimodal Sequences, Walter McFarland Bridges
The Use of the Alexander Technique as a Practice Tool for Horn Performance, Centria Deondra Brown
Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Reproduction and Ontogeny of Gulf Killifish (Fundulus grandis), Charles Alexander Brown
Agenda Cueing in Aggregated Newsfeeds, Kirill Bryanov
The Association Between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Parental Age, Claire Burns
Regulation of MPCs and KAT8 During Adipogenesis and Nutritional Regulation, Jasmine Burrell
Unprepared to be Culturally Responsive: An Examination of Secondary ESL Educators in Rural Louisiana, Danielle Marie Butcher
A Multifaceted Biological Engineering Approach to Breast Cancer Modeling and Drug Delivery, Charles Ethan Byrne
An Investigation of Athletic Buoyancy in Adult Recreational and Sport Club Athletes, Jackie Rae Victoriano Calhoun
Interactions Among Amygdala Volume, Cortical Thickness, and Structural Connectivity in Youth: Relationship to Emotion Regulation, Peter James Castagna
First-Principle Study on the Interaction of Ligands with Gold and Effects on Catalytic Activities, Xun Cheng
Source Apportionment of Ozone and Its Health Effects in North China Plain and Southeast U.S., Kaiyu Chen
A Performance Guide to Kurt Erickson's Song Cycle Here, Bullet, André Yong Chun Chiang
A Framework for Augmenting Building Performance Models Using Machine Learning and Immersive Virtual Environment, Chanachok Chokwitthaya
Physical and Biological Factors Controlling the Fate of Nitrate in a Louisiana Coastal Deltaic Floodplain, Alexandra Christensen
New Synthetic Transformations Utilizing Silyloxyallyl Cations and Epoxonium Ions as Reactive Intermediates, Alexander Houston Cleveland
Family Matters. Or Does It? Family Involvement in American Education, Isaiah Fink Avraham Cohen
Günter Grass: Class, Politics, and Memory, Alex Cole
Sodium Propionate and Sodium Butyrate Promote Fatty Acid Oxidation in HepG2 Cells under Oxidative Stress, Kristina Jazmin Cook
Moderators of Academic Performance and Symptom Severity in Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Ryan Nicole Cummins
A Conductor's Guide to Dale Trumbore's How To Go On, Stuart Dameron
Three Essays on Variation in Intergenerational Mobility and Incarceration in the United States, Vikash Dangal
Tunable Luminescence of Rare Earth Doped Nanophosphors via Adaptive Optical Properties of Transition Metals, Pragathi Darapaneni
Structure and Dynamics of Phospholipid Vesicles and the Dependence on Nanoscale Interactions with Molecules of Varying Complexity, Lakshapathy Widanelage Judith Upeka De Mel
Pacific Crosswinds: Antebellum American Fiction and the Transpacific World, Caleb Scofield Doan
Essays on Mortgage Portfolio Diversification, Timothy Patrick Dombrowski
Schnittke, Gubaidulina, and Pärt: Religion and Spirituality during the Late Thaw and Early Perestroika, Aleksandra Drozzina
The Evolution of Bivalve Shell Matrix Proteins, Mark Ira Duhon II
A Phase-Field Approach to Diffusion-Driven Fracture, Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander Dunkel
The Perceptions of Foster Care Alumni's Experiences with Four-Year Post-Secondary Institutions: A Case for Capital and Field Advantage, June M. Durio
A Single Case Study on the Impact of Louisiana's Induction Program on High School Beginning Teachers, Lorita Ann Eichelberger
Two Communication Approaches to Explaining Interpersonal Sibling Differences: Interpersonal Conflict Causing Sibling Deidentification and Media Use Cultivating Family Communication Orientation, Judson Holloway Eldredge
Experiences of Transgender Men Who Joined National Pan-Hellenic Council Sororities Pre-Transition, Sydney Epps
Ageism and Embodied Stereotypes: A Study of Adult Learners in Community College at Midlife, Marla Jane Erwin
Social Contexts and Disconnectedness: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Interrelated Effects of Families, Peers, and Schools on African American Youth, Danielle R. Eugene
Constructing Sanctuary: Refuge and Asylum in Late Medieval Literature, Laura Gayle Fallon
On Selected Subclasses of Matroids, Tara Elizabeth Fife
Noble-Transition Alloy Absorbers for Near-Infrared Hot-Carrier Optoelectronics, Sara Karoline Figueiredo Stofela
Methods for 1,2-Cis-Selective O-Glycosylation and Synthesis of an A. baumannii Lipooligosaccharide Core Disaccharide, Ashley Fulton
Internals In Gas-Liquid Systems, Sai Sankar Ganesan
Transition Metal Complexes of Pyridyltriazole and Bipyridine Ligands, Sen Gao
Leave It to the People: Position and Positioning of Stakeholders in Top-Down Sustainable Development and Risk Reduction Frameworks from Global to Local Levels, Bethany Bille Garfield
The Impact of Type of High School Institution on University Retention of Undergraduate Students, Rachel Pierson Gill
Socio-Eonomic Impact of Immigration and Diversity in the U.S., Peter Gingeleskie
A Study of 26Al(p, γ)27Si with the Silicon Array for Branching Ratio Experiments (SABRE), Erin Courtney Good
Investigating Leadership Styles of Childcare Directors, Michelle P. Grantham-Caston
Natural Variation and Evolutionary Responses to Climate Change Stressors in Marine Invertebrates, Joanna Sarah Griffiths
Edwardsiella Ictaluri Is Capable of Persisting in Channel Catfish by Evading Host T Cell and Cell Death Responses, Elizabeth Watts Griggs
A Study of Particle-laden Flows from Meso and Micro-scale Perspectives, Daniel Guedes de Oliveira
Leveling the Viewing Field: The Impact of Target Prevalence on Searcher's Functional Viewing Field, Juan D. Guevara Pinto
Design, Synthesis and Characterization of New Superconductors, Xin Gui
Numerical Modeling of Wave- and Current-supported Turbidity Currents over Erodible Bed, Sahar Haddadian
Methodologies for Improvement of Metal Fatigue Life, Ali Haghshenas
Mixed Messages: Reading Contemporary U.S. Literature of Biracial Girlhood, Candice Nicole Hale
Second Harmonic Generation Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Liposomes, Nanoparticles, and Cells, Prakash Hamal
Adult and Maternal Waterpipe Tobacco Smoke Exposures Alter Immune Responses of the Lung and Modify Offspring Susceptibility to Allergen-Induced Asthma, Harriet Lajade Hammond
Baton Rouge SLAM!: An Obituary for Summer 2016: A Critical Performance Ethnography of Eclectic Truth Poetry Slam, Joshua Hamzehee
Concentrations, Sources and Health Risks of Particulate Matter in Southeast US: Current Status and Future Changes, Fenglin Han
Second Sonata for Piano and Violin in F minor Op. 6 by George Enesco A Transcription for Cello, Andrian Harabaru
The Effects of Radical Containing Combustion Derived Particulate Matter in Adult Mouse Respiratory System, Jeffrey Harding
Habitat Fragmentation and Range Margin Effects on Dispersal and Interactions between Competitors, Rachel Roxann Harman
Biogeography of Biological Control: Spatial Variation in Agent-Host Interactions, Nathan Harms
Geotechnical Properties, Design, and Performance of Natural Infrastructure, Brian D. Harris
Spectroscopic Study of Natural Organic Matter and Carbon Fluctuation in Environmental Systems, Michael Patrick Hayes
Instrument Construction: An Examination of the Effect of Lead Pipe Design Variability on Tuba Response, Larry James Heard
Correctional Officers' Mental Health Literacy and Attitudes Toward Offenders with Mental Illness, Amber Rebecca Hebert
Insights to Gray Seal (Halichoerus grypus) Foraging Ecology from Stable Isotope and DNA Metabarcoding Analyses, Keith Michael Hernandez