Dissertations from 2023
Utilizing a Text-mining Approach to Investigate Consumers’ Perception of Secondhand Fashion Consumption: Mass-market vs. Luxury market, H M Rakib ul Hasan
The Role of Buzz in the IPO Process, Nathan Taylor Hayes
An Examination of Relationships Between Ear-playing Skills and Intonation Skills of High School and College-aged Wind Instrumentalists, Ben Michael Herrick
Synthetic Receptors for Anion Binding or Metal-Ion Binding, Xuxian He
Unraveling Pay Equity: Investigating The Impact of Pay Discrepancy, Gender, and Race on Pay Level Satisfaction, Chelsea Hightower
Johnny Reb and Billy Yank in the Land of the Pharaoh: United States and Confederate Veterans as Agents of American, Confederate, and Egyptian Empire, Jeffery Hardin Hobson
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Adult Coping Inventory, Kristen Ashley Hollas
An Evaluation of Procedures to Increase Medical Device Compliance, Sarah Christian Holmes
Attentional Focus Effects on Motor Variability, Charlend Kenneth Howard
Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors: Is Helping You Helping or Hurting Me, Gino J. Howard
Elemental Women of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Revealing Victorian Anxieties Through Ecology and Gender, Rachel Howatt
Auditor Responses to Audit Clients’ Indirect-Effect Illegal Acts, Hilary Frances Hughes
Evaluation of Novel Jointless Engineered Cementitious Composites Ultrathin Whitetopping (ECC-UTW), Ricardo Hungria
Development of a Peptide-based PROTAC Incorporating a β-hairpin Sequence, Hannah Catherine Hymel
MACHINE LEARNING-BASED TOOL TO PREDICT THE RETROREFLECTIVITY OF PAVEMENT MARKINGS THROUGHOUT THE U.S., Ipshit I. Idris
Connecting the Optical Regime to the X-ray in Neutron Star Low Mass X-ray Binaries, Alexander B. Igl
Culturally Relevant Physical Education for Optimizing Physical Activity Opportunities, Stacy Imagbe
Unburdened by the Past: An Auto/Ethnographic Exploration of Narratives on Generational Curses, Self-Identity, and Belonging by Black Christian Women, Antonia Shovon Ingram-Basby
Coded Ceramics: Computational Design of Persian Ceramics, Nasrin Iravani
A Performer's Guide To Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville's Dominus Reganvit, Eunbae Jeon
Physics-Based Crystal Plasticity Model for Predicting Microstructure Evolution and Dislocation Densities, Juyoung Jeong
Finite Element Methods for Elliptic Optimal Control Problems with General Tracking, SeongHee Jeong
Auditor’s Consideration of Client Cybersecurity Risk – A Machine Learning-Based Analysis, Wanying Jiang
Ecology of Viruses in Marine and Coastal Oxygen-depleted Waters, Sophie Jurgensen
Femme Fatale in Lieder: Songs of Lorelei by Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Alexander Zemlinsky, Eun Chong Kang
Some New Techniques and their Applications in the Theory of Distributions, Kevin Kellinsky-Gonzalez
Computational Design of Electro-Organocatalysts and Transition Metal Sulfides for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2, Foroogh Khezeli
Foreign State Images and Popular Foreign Policy Constraints, Cana Kim
BUILDING SOLIDARITY BETWEEN MINORITY GROUPS, Seonwoo Kim
Virtual Supervisor Communication Effectiveness and Intrapreneurial Motivation: The Mediating Roles of Affective Organizational Commitment and Occupational Self-Efficacy, MATTHEW G. KINGHAM
The Impacts of Immune Challenges on Fish Behavior and Physiology, Teisha King
Entanglement in the Hawking Effect: from Astrophysical to Optical Black Holes, Dimitrios Kranas
Development of Novel Electrodes and Electrolytes for Safer Aqueous Ammonium Ion Batteries with Enhanced Performance., Shelton Farai Kuchena
YEAST CRF1P: AN ACTIVATOR IN NEED IS AN ACTIVATOR INDEED, Sanjay Kumar
Behavior of Gas Influx in Riser and Considerations for Riser Gas Handling, Mahendra Kumar Kunju
A Menagerie of Symmetry Testing Quantum Algorithms, Margarite Lynn LaBorde
The Structures and Functions of Offices of Academic Affairs: A Case Study, Ryan Thomas Landry
Media Coverage of Non-Ideologically Motivated Mass Shootings versus Ideologically Motivated Mass Shootings and How the Media Affects College Students' Perceptions of Mass Shootings, Jennifer L. LaRose
Thresholds of Quantitative Swallowing Measures Following Intensive Prophylactic Therapy in Head and Neck Cancer, Deirdre Larsen
Bio-based Coatings Incorporating Cellulose Nanomaterials for Preserving Postharvest Fruit Quality, Danbee Lee
Biophysical mechanisms of larval retention in reef-building corals, Benjamin D. Limer
Analysis of Imported and Local Chert from the Paynes Creek Salt Works, Belize, Using 3D Technology and Traditional Methods, Hollie Lincoln
Tcf21 and visceral adipogenic progenitors, Qianglin Liu
NEAR-INFRARED IMAGING FOR HEAD AND NECK HEALTH: DENTAL DISORDER AND LARYNGEAL CANCER DIAGNOSIS, Zheng Li
WORK HARD FOR THE MONEY: PERFORMANCE-BASED FUNDING IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, Victoria C. Lloyd
Blockchain Accelerators and an Application on COVID-19 Contact Tracing, Tao Lu
Design and Synthesis of Plasmonic Nanoparticles for NIR Bioimaging: Investigating the Role of Absorption and Scattering, Luis Dias Bumba Manuel
Fighting the Illicit Antiquities "Artworld": A Critical Approach to the Heritage Laws of Guatemala, Irene Marti Gil
The Regulation of Autoimmunity Genes in Pancreatic β-Cells by NF-κB, Thomas Malone Martin
Tissue Resident Regulatory T Cells and Immunopathology During Influenza Infections, Michael McGee
Intensity Modulated Bolus Electron Conformal Therapy (IM-BECT): Methods for Quality Assurance of PRIME Intensity Modulators and Evaluation of Planned IM-BECT Dose Distributions, Andrew S. McGuffey
The Intersection of Literacy and Nature Place-Based Learning: An Autoethnographic Case Study in A Rural Middle School, Alvera H. McMillan
Rethinking Attention Control: An Individual Differences Approach, Vincent A. Medina
Molecular Mechanisms of Early Embryonic and Placental Trophoblast Development, Hao Ming
Performance, Identity, and Cultural Practices in the Oral Histories of Three Generations of Iranian Women, Oldooz Oli Mohammadi
Autism, Comorbidities, and Adaptive Functioning: A Potential Moderator, Joshua J. Montrenes
Stolen Land: A Marriage of Text and Music in My Country By Hyo-won Woo, Nae Rim Moon
Sediment Transport and Geomorphological Evolution in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Kelli Moran
Effect of Type of Mulch and Biological Soil Amendments of Animal Origin (BSAAO) on Microbial Food Safety Risk on Cucumbers and Carrots Irrigated with Contaminated or Chlorinated Water, Juan Fernando Moreira Calix
The Abolitionist Spectator: Resistant Readings of Punishment, Rehabilitation, and Reform at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Kathryn Marie Morris
Defeat, entrapment, and suicide desire: Analyzing the role of mindfulness using ecological momentary assessment., Emma H. Moscardini
Roleplaying Games and Performance, Benjamin Joseph Munise
Stellar Binaries and Post-Merger Evolution: A Framework for Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis in R Coronae Borealis Stars, Bradley Munson
Implicit Bias in School-Based Suicide Risk Assessment, Jessie Munson
Atomistic Simulation Studies of Thin Film Growth and Plastic Deformation in Metals and Metal/Ceramic Nanostructures, Reza Namakian
Design, Synthesis and Post Functionalization of BODIPY Dyes for use as Chemo sensors., Caroline Njeri Ndung'u
ML-empowered Nondestructive Evaluation in Additive Manufacturing, Mohammadsaber Nemati
AN OCCUPANT-CENTRIC ENERGY MODELING AND SIMULATION IN OFFICE BUILDINGS, Seddigheh Norouziasl
Characterizing MarR Homologs That Mediate Bacterial Fitness and Survival, George Chukwuemeka Nwokocha
The Impact of Case Management Intervention for Insured Asthma Patients in Louisiana, an Empirical Study, Mohamed Mohamed Ohaiba
The Black Performer's Toolbox: A Critical Authoethnography, Laura D. Oliver
Synthesis and Characterization of Porphyrin-Encapsulated Nanoparticles: Investigations with Scanning Probe Microscopy, Olajumoke Helen Olubowale
We all make mistakes…. But we are not human: The influence of voice assistants’ mistakes on consumer behavioral intentions., Ripinka S. Patil
Accurately Valuing Blue Carbon Sequestration and Storage to Foster Coastal Conservation via Evidence-Based Policymaking and Model Environmental Services Statute Methodologies, John Shelton Penton Jr
Improving Teacher Intervention Decisions Using the Fraction Error Flowchart, Katherine Pettrey
Voting in the mall - understanding political consumerism in the United States and Europe, Kwadwo Poku-Agyemang
Phase Transitions and Magnetocaloric Effects in Metastable Phases of Intermetallic Compounds, Tej Bahadur Poudel Chhetri
Measurement Invariance and The Influence Of Psychosocial Factors In Reporting Subjective Cognition Across Race/Ethnicity, Erika A. Pugh
Home Beyond the Reef: Mapping Tokelau Imaginaries Through Aotearoa, New Zealand and Oahu, Hawai‘i, Tagimamao Melanie Puka
Mathematical Modeling of Rest Intervals Using Task Characteristics during Repetitive Lifting, Vamsi Krishna Varma Pusapati
ANALYTICAL ADVANCES IN HOMEOWNER FLOOD RISK QUANTIFICATION CONSIDERING INSURANCE AND HAZARD MITIGATION, Md Adilur Rahim
Computational Study of C-C Coupling Reactions on Heterogeneous Catalysts, Md Saeedur Rahman
DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL BIOSENSORS FOR DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF PROTEASOME ACTIVITY IN INTACT SINGLE CELLS, Alireza Rahnama
Structural and Functional Characterizations of the Two Mini-ferritins in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Revealed the Coexistence of a Classic Dps (PA0962) and a Dps-Like (PA4880) Protein, Rajapaksha Pathirannahalage Nimesha Hansani Rajapaksha
Subaltern Corpses: Gender and Death in Bollywood, Ankita Rathour
Ecological Validity of Immersive Virtual Environment Experiments on Human Thermal State and Behavioral Intentions: Experimental Protocol Factors, Girish Rentala
Bio NEMS: Studying Resistive Pulse Sensing Technique to Discriminate Mononucleotides Using In-Plane Solid-State Nanopore Configuration, Ramin Riahipour
Family Communication Patterns During Emerging Adulthood: An Investigation of Parent-Child Communication About Vaccine Decisions, Rebecca M. Riccardi