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This dissertation explores the nature and significance of fear in the works of Seneca the Younger. While a variety of emotions have already been examined within the writings of this author, fear remains largely neglected despite its...
A new numerical method is developed for the solution of the diffusion problem in a system of several materials. In such a system, the diffusion coefficients are piecewise continuous and jumps in their values can occur across the complex...
This dissertation tests if fetal loss can be applied as an extension of prior literature on the weathering hypothesis. To do so, this study extends upon the weathering hypothesis: the observation that blacks experience substantially...
Cooperation is a complex behavior in which individuals act in ways that increase the fitness of others, at some cost to themselves. In cooperatively breeding vertebrates, helpers capable of reproducing forgo their own reproduction to...
It is a solemn obligation to provide high quality healthcare to veterans who sacrificed themselves to protect their country and democratic values. Although the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has conducted numerous highly regarded...
After decades of research biogeochemists have identified several intervals of variable marine oxygenation throughout Earth's history. These fluctuations in oxygenation have been proposed to directly correlate to changes in ancient...
Sponges form symbioses with a wide array of mesofauna including polychaetes, crustaceans, brittle stars, and bivalves. These organisms use the sponge for food and shelter, but their effect on the sponge is largely unknown. The...
People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) consistently have deficits in performing adaptive behaviors (Kenworthy et al., 2010; Perry et al., 2009; Pugliese et al., 2017), which are skills needed to care for oneself, have social...
This treatise seeks to examine the integration and application of electronics in both the outdoor and indoor marching arts activities. Additionally, this document will provide a primer for students and teachers interested in becoming...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the effects of fiscal policy rules for funding higher education on macroeconomic concerns. Alternative government funding policies impact an endogenous household decision over post-secondary...
The past three decades have witnessed a rapid growth in the number of international teaching assistants (ITAs) in U.S. colleges and universities. Since the early 1980s, the dominant line of ITA research has focused on ITAs’ instructional...
This treatise seeks to examine the history and performance trends of the percussion section of The U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own." As no formal research has been done about the percussion section as a whole and the band is approaching...
The central focus of this thesis is a study of materials with competing magnetic interactions and understanding how these interactions affect the overall magnetic behavior of solids. Understanding the fundamental factors that can be used...
This study examined facets of mindfulness as mediating the associations between anxious and avoidant attachment with sleep disturbances. In addition, the study tested whether the indirect links between anxious and avoidant attachment and...
The information-seeking behavior has proven vital in understanding people's search behavior while seeking information about a particular topic or field. However, in some geographical regions, studies that focus on information-seeking...
A search is presented for a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson using full Run 2 data (2016-2018) collected by the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137.60...
One Year Later: A Study of the Motivational Profiles of Students Who Participated in a Grit and Growth Mindset Themed First-Year Experience Course at an Urban Community College
The issue of low community college retention and completion rates has become an important concern in recent years. The lack of persistence among college students has led to a variety of institutional initiatives including first-year...
This past year (2022) marked the 50th Anniversary of Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program that receives federal funding (Hextrum and Sethi, 2022)...
The American imperial aspirations to dominate international aviation struggled to overcome domestic and international opposition. United States presidents from the late 1920s and early 1930s adopted a strategy of providing Pan American...
College student veterans may experience a variety of challenges as they transition from military life to student life, including adjusting to the academic environment, coping with mental health concerns such as depression and anxiety, ...
Recently, the smart grid technologies have been developed rapidly recently, which an important component is the so called demand response management (DRM). With the help of a DRM program, a utility company can adjust the power demand and...
Type II diabetes is a leading cause of death in the United States due to its high prevalence in adults with high blood pressure, obesity, other health problems. It affects ~10.5% of the U.S population, and this number continues to...
The research project Information, motivation, and co-creation behaviors of literary tourists and their quest for meaningful experiences explores the behaviors of travelers seeking experiences related to authors, books, or characters....
Several philosophers have appealed to social scientific evidence in support of the view that most people fail to act on the basis of reasons far more often than is ordinarily recognized. According to the so-called “situationist” research...
Pulses play a significant health role in the human population, specifically some pulses contribute to low postprandial glycemic response. Although the commercial utilization of pulse protein is rapidly growing due to the demand for...
Shape analysis is a widely studied topic in modern Statistics with important applications in areas such as medical imaging. Here we focus on two-sample hypothesis testing for both finite and infinite extrinsic mean shapes of...
Personality has been found to have significant connections to language. Ranging from impacting narrative style, to informing expectations about others based on linguistic factors such as accent, personality affects both language...
Although the United States had a rich musical culture prior to the 19th century, the first permanent symphony orchestras were not formed until the mid-1800's when an influx of German immigrants prompted the establishment of ensembles and...
The main goal of this dissertation is to examine the prosodic differences between English and Spanish that lead to different interpretations of ambiguous relative clauses. Prosody, or the rhythm, stress, and intonation of a spoken...
Transparent hybrid polymers created through thiol-ene click chemistry were obtained. Methacrylate and acrylate capped zirconium oxo-clusters (ZOCs) were incorporated into two thiol-ene polymer networks. The vinyl capping groups...
Feature selection is an important technique for high dimensional statistics and machine learning. It has many applications in computer vision, natural language processing, bioinformatics, etc. However, most of the feature selection...
Nonmonosex individuals often face higher odds of exposure to trauma and negative outcomes related to medical, mental health and social disparity. Despite growing numbers, research into exposures and risk/resilience and their impact on...
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a psychiatric condition that results in considerable functional impairment. One risk and maintaining factor of AUD is hostility, which is characterized by a generally suspicious and cynical view of other...
The spinel vanadate CoV2O4 is a magnetically frustrated system with an interesting non-collinear spin texture at low temperatures. The magnetic frustration in the system arises from the arrangement of atoms in the structure of the...
Marine aquaculture, the farming of aquatic species in ocean environments, has substantial potential to contribute to the global supply of seafood. However, despite the global growth of marine aquaculture (mariculture) in recent years, ...
The past several decades have seen great advances in the field of organizational politics. At the individual level, political skill has garnered the majority of the scholarly focus, whereas it's motivational counterpart, political will, ...
This study employed a pretest-posttest control group experimental design to investigate the impact of self-explanation prompts on content learning in the game-based context. Additionally, it explored the effectiveness of different...
The mammalian olfactory bulb (OB) has a vast population of dopamine (DA) neurons, whose function is to increase odor discrimination through mostly inhibitory synaptic mechanisms. However, it is not well understood whether there is more...
The achievement gap between African American students and their Caucasian peers is a problem that has persisted within the educational system since the early 1970s. Researchers have been investigating whether differences in oral language...
The evolution of the concept of penance during the Middle Ages in England reflects the influence of many geopolitical sources, as well as the expanding influence/maturation of the Roman Catholic Church and the development of sacramental...
As demand for more efficient and higher-performing aerospace platforms increases there is a need to address challenges that have been left unsolved through a more comprehensive understanding of the complex flowfields and the underlying...
Now I Am in Distant Germany, It Could Be That I Will Die: Colonial Precedent, Wartime Contingency, and Crisis Mentality in the Transition from Subjugation to Decimation of Foreign Workers in the Nazi Ruhr
By the end of the Second World War over half a million foreign civilians were living within the confines of a system of forced labor in and around the Ruhr region of Germany. While the use of some degree of coercion had characterized...
At the end of World War I, why did Germany's surface ship sailors embrace and spread the cause of moderate revolution, rather than embrace either a radical, Bolshevik style of revolution or fight the revolution altogether? War weariness, ...
In this paper I explore the possibilities of community through sport in the context of soccer in Kansas City. Drawing from the conceptualizations of community in Esposito’s oeuvre and utilizing the ontological framework of Deleuze and...
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are very popular nowadays and offer reliable solutions to many classification problems. Recent research indicates that these neural networks might be overparameterized and different solutions have been...
This dissertation engages with scholarship in musical semiotics and hermeneutics to offer insight into the aesthetics of hard bop (c. 1954–65), a jazz genre often characterized as a return to jazz’s roots. By synthesizing the semiotic...
Scholars have given considerable attention to how activists influence social change in organizations. These studies have primarily examined how external pressures (e.g., protests, boycotts) affect the likelihood of firm concessions to...
This dissertation presents studies of effective methods in two main areas of algebraic geometry: intersection theory and characteristic classes, and combinatorial algebraic geometry. We begin in chapter 2 by giving an effective algorithm...
“The dislocation of man in the modern age”: The Pilgrim Condition and Mid-Twentieth Century American Catholic Literature highlights the ways in which the major Catholic voices in mid-twentieth century America—Flannery O’Connor, Walker...
Following the neoclassical model of Robert Solow, several theories have been proposed to explain the fundamental causes of growth and economic development. This dissertation analyzes three of the main hypotheses. Chapter 2 explores the...
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