Dissertations from 2022
A New Generation of Open-Graded Friction Course for Enhanced Durability and Functionality, Hossam Abohamer
Visuomotor Rotation Adaptation and Workspace Manipulation: A Behavioral and Cognitive Emphasis, Reuben N. Addison
Phase Noise Analyses and Measurements in the Hybrid Memristor-CMOS Phase-Locked Loop Design and Devices Beyond Bulk CMOS, Naheem Olakunle Adesina
Design and Fabrication of a Low-Cost, Portable, Battery-Operated Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Optical Device, Blessing Adewumi
Spam Detection Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Olubodunde Agboola
Studying National Identity Construction Through Social Studies/History Textbooks in Balochistan, Pakistan, Sher Ahmed
Seismic Inversion and Modeling for Improving Earthquake Hazard Assessment, Rasheed Ajala
Lifecycle Reactive Transport Modeling for Assessing Integrity in Offshore Energy Systems, Temitope Ayokunle Ajayi
Case Study of the Impact of Teacher Efficacy on Select PK-3 School Faculty in a South Louisiana School: A Perceptual Investigation, Tara L. Alfred-Pellerin
Controlling Electro-Magnetic Functionality of Ruthenates by Heterostructure Design, Zeeshan Ali
Cultivating Black Leaders for Rural Louisiana Communities: A Case Study of a Leadership Development Program, Krystle Jarrell Allen
Factors Associated with Racial and Ethnic Minority Youths' Mental Health Help-Seeking at School, Sam Allouche
Unavoidable Structures in Large and Infinite Graphs, Sarah Allred
Adaptive Balancing Compensation in Distribution Grid of Ultra High-Power Manufacturing Plants, Motab Almousa
Formation and Stability of Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals (EPFRs) in Dual-Metal Loaded Clay Surrogates, Emmanuel Ampiah
Privilege, Power, and Patronage: Examining the Lives and Afterlives of Three Tudor Noblewomen, Caroline Elizabeth Armbruster
Essays on Intersection of Economics and Judicial Decision-Making, Masoud Asadi
Novel Synthetic Routes to Functionalized Tetrahydrobenzofurans and Chiral a-Quaternary a'-Hydroxy Ketones, Fatimat Oluwayemisi Badmus
Understanding Community Assembly Processes of Foundation Species Within Hyper-diverse Ecosystems, Carrie Barker
Writing Exclusionary Spaces: Myths, Tropes, and Stereotypes Surrounding the Roma in 19th- and 20th-Century French Literature, Jade Scottie Basford
Investigating Preferences and Behavior within Environmental Economics, Sapana Bastola
Transitioning in a Time of Crisis: Understanding the Impact Students’ Prior Online Learning Experiences Have on Online Course Achievement, Clayton F. Benton
The Prime Aesthetic: Exploratory Research on the Relationship between the Imprinting of Aesthetic Dress Preferences and the Sensitive Period of Emerging Adulthood, Jeremy Bernardoni
Computational Study of the Reactions of Heteroatomic Compounds on CeO2, Suman Bhasker Ranganath
"A Different Kind of Tie": The Personal and Political Affinities of America's Leadership Class, 1765-1820, James Gifford Bishop
SERS Platform for Single Fiber Endoscopic Probes, Debsmita Biswas
Grotesque Masculinities in the Works of Harry Crews, Barry Hannah, and Padgett Powell, Matt Brandon Blasi
Breeding Ecology of Mottled Ducks in Southwestern Louisiana, Elizabeth Sophia Bonczek
Development of a Computational Multiphysics Model to Predict Temperature to Inactivate Foodborne Pathogens and Validating the Model in Ready-To-Cook Shrimp with a Microwavable Package, Franklin Bonilla Torres
The Applied Use of Zein Nanoparticles in Agriculture, Colin Bonser
Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Low Chalk Endosperm and Presence of Awns in Rice, Anna Hissahe Borjas Artica
Investigating the Relational Element of Trust in Teacher-Principal Relationships: An Autoethnographic Case Study, Angela Bradley
Collective Resources and Reentry Success: Disentangling Variation Across Units of Analysis, Elizabeth Estelle Brault
Behind the Timeline: The Gendered Dynamics Among Civilian Volunteer Search and Rescue Organizations, Kyle Breen
Asexual Dramaturgies: Reading for Asexuality in the Western Theatrical Canon, Anna Maria Ruffino Broussard
Pharmakon in the Firelands: Connecting Historical Discourses and Small-Town Social Contexts with Substance Use Experience, Andrew Robert Burns
Development of Bacterial Consortia That Promote Growth and Health of Soybean Plants, Rosalie B. Calderon
Multi-Year Data Analysis and Genomic Selection to Improve the Efficiency of a Rice Breeding Program, Tommaso Cerioli
Genetic Dissection and QTL Pyramiding to Enhance Salinity Tolerance in Rice (Oryza sativa L.), Sandeep Chapagain
Béla Bartók’s Forty-Four Duets: A Pedagogical Gateway to Complex Rhythmic Organization in 20th Century Music, Catherine Yiting Chen
Media Escapism: Development and Validation of the Scale, Danli Chen
Learning Deep Representations to Improve Multi-Instance and Multi-Model Classifications, Qing Chen
Defining Understudied Mechanisms of Potassium Ion Flux in the Insect Nervous System, Rui Chen
Investigation of Groundwater Depletion and Leveel Underseepage with Unstructured-Grid Modeling Approach, Ye-Hong Chen
The Effects of Exercise on Innate Lymphoid Cell Metabolism and Function in Cancer, Eunhan Cho
Exploring Cognitive Associations of Athletes’ Activism Through Social Issue Primes: A Convergent Analysis, Anthony Ciaramella
Development and Validation of a Measure for Social Support: Perceived Social Support Inventory, Lindsay Marie Clark
Elucidating Factors Affecting Cercosporin Production In Cercospora Leaf Blight Of Soybean To Develop Better Tools For Disease Management, Maria Izabel Costa de Novaes
Inhibition of Biotin Carboxylase by Three Antibacterial Compounds, Matt Craft
The Spectra of Hydrogen-deficient Carbon Stars: The Effects of Evolution and Nucleosynthesis, Courtney Lauren Crawford
"Better. Not Perfect. Better": The Lumber Industry and the Migration of Louisiana Black Labor and White Capital to Northern California, 1926 - 1955, Jeffery William Crawford
Surpassing the Standard Quantum Limit using an Optical Spring, Torrey Cullen
From Equal-mass to Extreme-mass-ratio Binary Inspirals: Simulation Tools for Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors, Samuel Douglas Cupp
Mental Health Matters: Mental Health Service Utilization Among African American Emerging Adults, Tamecia Curry
An Exploration of Trained Reading Recovery Teachers' Perceptions about the Program and Subsequent Influences on Select Teachers' Views of Reading Instruction, Ellen Brupbacher Daugherty
Women of Power: Mapping the Spiritual Journeys of Caribbean Women Across Regional Fiction as Portrayed in The Book of Night Women, Texaco, and Erzulie's Skirt, Natalie Sandy D'Auvergne-LaMotte
“Not Nearly What It Used to Be”: A Mixed Methods Study on Hazing and Organizational Culture in Historically White Fraternities, Kimberly Rogers Davis
My Favorite Murder as Discursive Performance, Taylor Dawson
Computer Science at Community Colleges: Attitudes and Trends, Trenton W. Dawson
Insights into the Speciation Process from Genomic and Phenotypic Analysis of an Avian Hybrid Zone in Amazonia, Glaucia Christina Del-Rio
Commutative C*-Algebras Generated by Toeplitz Operators on the Fock Space, Vishwa Nirmika Dewage
Characterization of Gas Hydrate Formation and Its Impact on Slope Stability in Offshore Environments, Sulav Dhakal
Novel Texture-based Probabilistic Object Recognition and Tracking Techniques for Food Intake Analysis and Traffic Monitoring, Robert Jacob DiBiano
Structure and Dynamics of Fungal Cell Walls Using Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Malitha Chathuranga Dickwella Widanage
Computational Imaging for Shape Understanding, Yuqi Ding
Deriving Auditor Quality and Manager Quality from Form 10-K, Lacey Donley
Toward a Safer Transportation System for Senior Road Users, Saba Doulabi
Migration and Displacement in Twenty-First Century Magical Realist Fiction, Laura Duncan Fontenot
The Effects of Tillage and Cover Crops on Crop Yield and Soil Properties in Wheat Double-Cropping Systems, Peters E. Egbedi
Evolution of Freshwater Fishes in the Northern Neotropics, Diego Elias
Particle and Reactor Scale Geometric Optimization Studies for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane, Domingo Elias Soto
Shaky Ground: Educators at the Intersection of Gender Diversity and Early Childhood Environments, Elizabeth Gragg Elizardi
LIGERS Interferometric Survey of M Dwarf Diameters, Tyler Gregory Ellis
A Performance Guide to Michael Patterson's "People of the Land" for Baritone and Piano, Thaddeus Harm Ennen
Reassessing Race: Exploring the Construction of Identity and Social Hierarchies on the Early Modern Stage, Rae'Mia Antionette Escott
Numerical Investigation of Heat Generation and Accumulation Contributing to Elevated Temperature in MSW Landfills, Alborz Fathinezhad
Synthesis, Characterization, and Photo-Reactivity Studies on Mo(VI) Dioxo Complexes for C-H Activation and O-Atom Transfer, Saeed Fosshat
Literacy's Levels: An Analysis of Neoliberal Literacy Sponsorship in the U.S., Misty Dawn Fuller
Ecology of Periphyton in a Subtropical River Floodplain, Kamela De Gallardo
Neuroanatomical, Behavioral and Physiological Alterations in Mouse Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Tanya Gandhi
New Chemoselective Dehydration and Cyclization Strategies Enabled By Triphosgene, Moshood Oreofeoluwa Ganiu
Kinetics, Characterization, and Applications in the Development of Next-Generation Cure-on-Demand Polymeric Materials through Frontal Polymerization, Daniel Paul Gary
Identity Composition: A Qualitative Study of Community College English Composition and LGBTQ-inclusive Pedagogical Practices, Lucas Michel Gassen
Interactive Industrial Energy Assessment Learning Platform Using 360-Degree Virtual Reality Contents, Laleh Ghanbari
Connected Sums and Directed Systems in Knot Floer Homologies, Sudipta Ghosh
Ghost (Hi)stories: Fiction as Alternative History in Brodber, Valdés, Cisneros, and Condé, Kristina Suzette Gibby
Responsible Classrooms: Unfinalizability, Responsibility, and Participatory Literacy in Secondary English Language Arts, Emma Jamilah Gist
A Case Study of the Underrepresentation of African American Male Educators: Career Choices and Experiences in Secondary Schools, Anthony Wayne Graham Jr
The State of Agricultural Mechanics in the Preparation of School-Based Agricultural Education Teachers, Tyler Granberry
Applying Transformative Evaluation to Assess Service Provided to African Americans Through the SNAP-Ed Program, Matthew Greene
Weed Management with Pro-Herbicides Benzobicylon and Florpyrauxifen-Benzyl in Louisiana Rice Production, William Bradley Greer
The Relationship Between Family Environment and Specific Phobias, Jerrica Renee Guidry
Effects of Sensory Cues on Product Acceptability and Consumer Perceptions, Emotions, and Behavior, Cristhiam Gurdian Curran