Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Examining Factors Related to Access to Rigorous High School Physics for Black Males: Evidence From the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, Jennifer DaCosta
Building a Cybersecurity Compliance Index of Capabilities to Explore Strategies and Trends That Enhance Decision Making in Organizations, Juanita Dawson
The Influence of Religion in Frantz Fanon’s Decolonial Theory and Ethics on Violence, Dorival Pimenta do Nascimento
From the Inside Out: Excavating the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles, Wilfred Joseph Doucet III
Conceptualizations of Data Visualization Use Beyond Efficiency in Evaluation, Sarah Douville
Increasing Help-Seeking Among People with Depression: An Empirical Assessment of a Static and Trending Norms Approach, Christopher Falco
Essays in Local Governance: Studies of Policy Choices, Resource Management, and Community Impacts, Ben Feingold
Culture and Community: The Importance of Black Spaces in Community Colleges, La Quirshia Fennell
From Classroom to Community: Cultivating Critical Consciousness in K-12 Ethnic Studies for Civic and Community Engagement, Edward Flores
Municipal Governance and Financial Health: An Analysis of the Institutional Structures of California Cities, Christopher J. Freeland
A Checklist to Design and Evaluate Systems-Informed Wellbeing Initiatives: A Mixed Methods Validation Study, Jaclyn Gaffaney
Variable Annuity -- Laps Behavior, Wenjie Gao
Enhancing Risk Stratification for Substance Use Disorder, Depression, and Anxiety through Quantitative Predictive Analytics, Marielle Dizon Garcia-Huynh
Wait, Who Did You Say We Are? The Effects of Self-Uncertainty and Leadership Rhetoric on Group Identification, Samantha Gardner
The High School English Class and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: How do Black and Latinx Students Respond to Their Learning Experiences?, Marnitta George
Effectiveness of Municipal Collaboration for Watershed Management in the Southern Colorado River Basin, Sasha Geschwind
Essays on Regional Economic Integration, Economic Growth, and Economic Development in West Africa, Nyema Guannu
A Smart Energy-Efficient Hybrid Gait Monitoring System, Elsa Joy Harris
Turning Inward: Students’ Experiences with Mindful Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy in Higher Education, Rachael E. Horn Langford
An Explanatory Analysis of Populist Leaders as a Risk Factor for Genocide, Adal Isaw
Madly in Love: A Meditation on the Capacity of Love and Madness, Sarah Jane
Exploring the Interpretation and Implementation of Migrant Programs: A Migrant Director’s Perspective, Lavanya Jawaharlal
Where Numbers Meet Narratives: An Examination of Joint Displays in Mixed Methods Evaluation, Natalie D. Jones
The Specter of Representation: Computational Images and Algorithmic Capitalism, Samine Joudat
Transformer-Less Common Gro Nine-Level Grid-Connected Boost Inverter for PV Panels, Saeideh Khadem Haghighian
Applications of Methods in Causal Inference, Muhammad Salman Khalid
Macro-Financial Linkages and Perspectives in Economic Development, Nasser Khalil
Corporate Decision-Making: Three Essays in Applied Finance, Mohamed Ahmed Abd El Rahman Ahmed Khashbah
“How Can They Say No?”: Understanding the Perspectives of Power in PhD Advisor-Advisee Relationships, Shine Kim
Actors & Allies: Foreign Policy & the Strategic Value of Satisfaction— Examining Military Arms Transfers as a Measure of Trust, Tonya Klempp
A Social Identity Theory Approach to the Acceptance of Negative Evaluation Results, Courtney Marie Koletar
Designing for Racial Justice: AI, Data Visualization, and Mitigating Social Harm during Racial Discourse, Whitney Mariena Kotlewski
Seemingly Unrelated Research in Economics, Michael Krouse
Esther and the Maccabees: The Creation of a Hellenist Jewish Heroine, Nolan Lebovitz
Reaching Across the Divide: Tools for Bridging Structural and Viral Genomics Using a Combination of Biophysical Principles and Machine Learning, Diana Yvette Lee
Examining Course Achievement in an Undergraduate Psychology Statistics Course Through the Lens of Machine Learning Techniques, Sunny Nguyet Le
Examining the Impact of Electric Vehicle Adoption on Health, Socioeconomic Disparities, and Policy, Arham Limoochi
Applications and Analysis of NLP Deep Learning Models for Antibiotic's Side Effects Classifications, An Ly
A Cultural Shift: Restorative Justice Relation on School Discipline and Educator Perception and Practices with Middle School Students, Hector Macias
Healing Through the Struggle: Sociopolitical Empowerment as Context for Youth Thriving, Manijeh Fe Mahmoodzadeh Azadi
Reshaping Black Brilliance: Towards the Development of a Pan-Afrikan Pedagogy, Amiri Mahnzili
Environmentalism Among Older Adults: Investigating Predictors of Pro-Environmental Behavior in Later Life, Ajit Singh Mann
DACMM - A Data Analytics Capability Maturity Model for Small and Medium Enterprises, Robert Karl Marohn
Vegetarian Diet and Health Outcomes, Shabana Masood
The Feeling Economy: The Power of Emotions in U.S. Political Media, Shawn G. Matiossian
Vascular Floristic Study of the Piute Mountains, Kern County, California, Courtney Matzke
Teacher Resilience: Validating an Instrument in the US Context, Joy McCreary
Inclusion and Teaching Students with Disabilities in Belize, Yvonne McFadzean
“It’s All About Sex [Education] Baby, Let’s Talk About SDT!” :The Impact of Identity and Priming on Retention of Sex Ed Information, Kathleen McGinley
Exploring Pupil-Perceptions of Computer-Mediated Standardized Assessments, Cleon M. McLean
Applying Machine Learning and Neurophysiology to Improve Accuracy of Predicting Human Behavior, Sean Hyrum Merritt
The Narrative Journeys of Women of Color High-level Educational Leaders, Alyda R. Mir
Exploring the Power of Voice through Testimonios and Pláticas: Bilingual Latinx Dual Language Teachers’ Experiences in the Pacific Northwest, Breann Lucienne Mudrick
Essays on the Economics of Labor and Criminal Justice, Spencer Mueller
Success-Oriented Corporate Accelerator Model: Mechanisms and Conditions that Amplify a Firm's Innovation Impacts, Felipe Eduardo Negritto
Women of Color Collectives in Doctoral Education: How Women of Color Doctoral Students Thrive Together, Jenelle Nila
Richard Wright, Native Son, and the Rhetorical Framing of the Black American Experience, Malcolm Oliver II
Attitude Formation & Persuasion Via Reactance: No, You Can't – Yes, I Can!, Daniel Alfred Palafox
A Flora of the Silver Peak Range, Esmeralda County, Nevada, Peri Lee Pipkin
Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People: The Role of Minority Stress and Psychological Sense of Community, Apoorva Orcid Rajan-Sharma
Mentoring Latinas on Doctoral Journeys: Testimonios of Cultural and Gender Identity, Jacqueline Rangel
Lincoln's Shakespearean Education, Ted Jones Richards
Reviving the Sleeper Effect, Tehreem Riffat
Nature Images and Fractal Scale-Invariance upon Prosociality, Scott H. Roberts
Where’s My Teacher? Factors Influencing Teacher Retention/Attrition in a Post-COVID Landscape, Kyle Robinson
Empowering Voices: Perspectives and Experiences of Latino and Black Men in Minority Serving Institutions’ Male Success Initiatives, Reginaldo Robles
Steklov Eigenvalue Problems on Nearly Spherical and Annular Domains, Nathan Philip Schroeder
Of Minutemen and Boomers: Fallout and Doing History in Imagined Space, Marissa Paige Schuling
Do Women Have an Advantage When Leading Across Groups? An Examination of Gender, Self-Construals, and Intergroup Leadership, Jackie Shaib
Aversive Racism and Use of Force: Perceived Threat and Justification Decisions, Tiffany T. Shao
An Analysis of the Association between Foreign Investors Holdings and the Local Currency Sovereign Debt Yields, Yudistira Surjadi Slamet
Spatial-Temporal Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Using Graph Neural Networks, with an Application to Traffic Speed Prediction, Zhengming Song
The Redesigning of Thailand’s One-Stop-Service Portal for Business Licensing and Permission, Thawachsorn Sookthai
“The Scientist is Wrong”: Joseph Fielding Smith, George McCready Price, and the Ascent of Creationist Thought among Latter-day Saints in the Twentieth Century, Thomas Benjamin Spackman
Escaping the Peripherality: Local Experiences of the US Military Presence in Northeast Thailand, Wipawee Srifa
The Orchestral Music of Robert Nathaniel Dett: A New Critical Edition of his Orchestration of the Enchantment Suite, Michael Todd Stanley
Effects of Identity, Uncertainty, and Language Contact on Intergroup Relations, Heather Tamzyn Stopp
The Relationship Between Capital Inflow Surges and Stock Price Booms in Emerging Countries, Anna Terzyan
The High Maintenance Black Girl: Black Female College Students’ Experiences with Intraracial Stereotypes, Alexis Thrower
Promoting Continuous Learning and Organizational Improvement Through Role Based Evaluation Capacity Building, Haley Elizabeth Umans
Treading Our Path Through the Blood of the Slaughtered: Race and Martyrdom in America, 1830-1968, Katherine J. Veach
Development of Culturally Tailored Needs Assessments for Sustainable LYTE Foundation Initiatives Leveraging the Support of Public Health Interns, Amalia Liana Vega
Conservation Genetics of Narrowly Distributed Annual, Erythranthe discolor (Phrymaceae), in the Southern Sierra Nevada, Selena Vengco
Decentralize, Depoliticize, Democratize: An Empirical Political Economy Analysis of Global Cryptocurrency Adoption, Jennifer L. Verdier
Answering the “Now What?”: The Development of a Transdisciplinary Breast Cancer Survivorship Nonprofit Organization, Vir-Iaesta Maniquiz Vergel de Dios
Exploring the Relationship Between Psychological Capital and Social Justice Evaluator Performance, Jennifer Pacheco Villalobos
What Text Information Helps to Reduce Default Risk, Guan Wang
The Relationship Changes Between Asian Countries and Advanced Economies Before and After 2008, Jingyu Wang
Exploring Loss Functions in Machine Learning, Yujie Wang
A Proposed Framework for a Community College Cybersecurity Program, Patrick Ward
Character of Coaching: The Work of Instructional Coaches in K-12 School Districts, Lorra Wells
