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Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

A NOVEL ROLE FOR THE TUMOR-SUPPRESSOR PAR-4 IN REGULATION OF ADIPOGENESIS AND OBESITY, James Sledziona

FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH TASTE PERCEPTION AND DIETARY CONSUMPTION PATTERNS IN INDIVIDUALS WITH OR AT-RISK FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, Jennifer L. Smith

EVALUATING APPROPRIATE REPERTOIRE FOR DEVELOPING SINGERS: AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART SONG ANTHOLOGY, Nicole Michelle Sonbert

ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF METASTABLE EPITAXIAL THIN FILMS OF LAYERED IRIDATES, Maryam Souri

“HE’LL JUST BE PAUL NEWMAN ANYWAY”: CINEMATIC CONTINUITY AND THE STAR IMAGE, William Guy Spriggs

THE FUNCTION OF ERBIN, A SCAFFOLD PROTEIN, AS A TUMOR SUPPRESSOR IN COLON CANCER, Payton D. Stevens

RISK MANAGEMENT AND PRACTICE ALIGNMENT FOR UTILITY COORDINATION ON TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS, Roy E. Sturgill Jr.

STUDY OF THE MECHANISM OF ACTION FOR Ru(II) POLYPYRIDYL COMPLEXES AS POTENTIAL ANTICANCER AGENTS, Yang Sun

PARTNERSHIPS AND CREATION: A BRIEF HISTORY OF CLARINETIST-COMPOSER PARTNERSHIPS AND HOW THEY CONTRIBUTED TO CLARINET LITERATURE, AND THE INFLUENCE OF ROBERT SPRING ON CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITIONAL OUTPUT FOR THE CLARINET, Adria Leigh Sutherland

THE INFLUENCE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL MIDDLE LEADERS ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE, Timothy D. Tanner

Improved Standard Error Estimation for Maintaining the Validities of Inference in Small-Sample Cluster Randomized Trials and Longitudinal Studies, Whitney Ford Tanner

STRUCTURAL, TRANSPORT, AND TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES INDUCED AT COMPLEX-OXIDE HETERO-INTERFACES, Justin K. Thompson

PREDICTORS OF POST-SECONDARY EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION AMONG KENTUCKY TRANSITION-AGED YOUTH WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, Lebogang Tiro

DEVELOPMENT OF A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR CAPACITY PLANNING FROM GRAIN HARVEST TO STORAGE, Aaron P. Turner

A STUDY OF THE VARYING INTERPRETATIONS OF THE OPENING FLUTE SOLO IN DEBUSSY’S PRELUDE A L’APRES-MIDI D’UN FAUNE THROUGH 90 YEARS OF SOUND RECORDINGS; WITH SPECIAL CONSIDERATION FOR THE PERFORMANCES AND PEDAGOGY OF WILLIAM KINCAID, Virginia W. Tutton

SELF-IMAGE MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES FOR FEEDFORWARD OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING, Nkiruka M. A. Uzuegbunam

ALCOHOL-INDUCED IMPAIRMENT OF SIMULATED DRIVING PERFORMANCE AND BEHAVIORAL IMPULSIVITY IN DUI OFFENDERS, Nicholas A. Van Dyke

EVALUATING THE ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES OF EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION AMONG PSYCHOTHERAPISTS, Igor Vasilj

AMERICAN MNEMONIC: RACIAL IDENTITY IN WOMEN’S LIFE WRITING OF THE CIVIL WAR, Katherine Waddell

SYNTHESIS OF BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED NANOFILTRATION MEMBRANES USING PROTECTED, MUTATED, AND SIMULATED AQUAPORINS, Priyesh Ashokrao Wagh

USING FOOT PRESSURE ANALYSIS TO PREDICT REOCCURRENCE OF DEFORMITY FOR CHILDREN WITH UNILATERAL CLUBFOOT, Juanita Jean Wallace

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SLEEP, DIURNAL PATTERNS, AND EYE CLOSURE BETWEEN THE HOUSE MOUSE (MUS MUSCULUS) AND AFRICAN SPINY MOUSE (ACOMYS CAHIRINUS), Chanung Wang

ATTITUDE CONTROL ON SO(3) WITH PIECEWISE SINUSOIDS, Shaoqian Wang

SEX COMPOSITION AND FEMALE OFFENDING: UNDER THE IMPACT OF THE ONE-CHILD POLICY, Ting Wang

ASSESSING THE APPLICATION OF THE UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) IN EARTHWORK VOLUME MEASUREMENT, Xi Wang