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Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF CRAFT LABOR AVAILABILITY ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT PERFORMANCE, Hossein Karimi

STATISTICAL ANALYSES TO DETECT AND REFINE GENETIC ASSOCIATIONS WITH NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES, Yuriko Katsumata

Examining Biological and Psychological Variables in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy, Stephanie A. Kehler

CHARACTERIZATION OF A LARGE VERTEBRATE GENOME AND HOMOMORPHIC SEX CHROMOSOMES IN THE AXOLOTL, AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM, Melissa Keinath

THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS ABOUT FAT ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION IN APPALACHIA: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY, Genesia Kilgore-Bowling

LONGITUDINAL ADAPTATIONS IN MUSCLE STRENGTH, FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE, GAIT BIOMECHANICS, AND PATIENT-REPORTED FUNCTION AFTER UNILATERAL TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY, Paul W. Kline

PILL POPPIN’ NATION: SUBSTANCE USE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND TREATMENT AMONG CRIMINAL JUSTICE-INVOLVED AFRICAN AMERICANS, Joi-Sheree' P. Knighton

INTERPRETATION OF THE DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND SOFT-SEDIMENT DEFORMATION IN THE UPPER TANGLEWOOD MEMBER (UPPER ORDOVICIAN) OF THE LEXINGTON LIMESTONE, CENTRAL KENTUCKY, U.S.A., Dibya R. Koirala

CHRONIC ANKLE INSTABILITY AND AGING, Kyle B. Kosik

MITOCHONDRIAL AND NUCLEAR PATTERNS OF CONFLICT AND CONCORDANCE AT THE GENE, GENOME, AND BEHAVIORAL SCALES IN DESMOGNATHUS SALAMANDERS, Justin D. Kratovil

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES REVEAL ALTERNATIVE TARGETS OF THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION FOR THE TREATMENT OF DRUG-RESISTANT NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCERS, Madeline J. Krentz Gober

MOLECULARLY IMPRINTED POLYMERS SYNTHESIZED AS ADSORBENTS FOR ERGOT ALKALOIDS: CHARACTERIZATION AND IN VITRO AND EX VIVO ASSESSMENT OF EFFECTS ON ERGOT ALKALOID BIOAVAILABILITY, Manoj B. Kudupoje

An Exploratory Statistical Method For Finding Interactions In A Large Dataset With An Application Toward Periodontal Diseases, Joshua Lambert

SOCIAL PARTICIPATION IN SCHOOLS: DEVELOPING THE ROLE OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PRACTITIONERS, Kelly L. Leigers

THE EFFECT OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT ON FIREFIGHTER OCCUPATIONAL PERFORMANCE, Ashley Y. Lesniak

Orbital Stability Results for Soliton Solutions to Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations with External Potentials, Joseph B. Lindgren

DISCOVERING A NOVEL ANTIFUNGAL TARGET IN DOWNSTREAM STEROL BIOSYNTHESIS USING A SQUALENE SYNTHASE FUNCTIONAL MOTIF, Kristin Brooke Linscott

EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE, ORIENTATION, LOAD LEVEL AND INDENTER SHAPE ON THE INDENTATION RESPONSE OF NITI-BASED SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS, Peizhen Li

THE IMPACT OF OWNER PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT SAFETY PERFORMANCE, Huang Liu

Global Well-posedness for the Derivative Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation Through Inverse Scattering, Jiaqi Liu

A PREDICTIVE PROBABILITY INTERIM DESIGN FOR PHASE II CLINICAL TRIALS WITH CONTINUOUS ENDPOINTS, Meng Liu

NONPARAMETRIC COMPOUND ESTIMATION, DERIVATIVE ESTIMATION, AND CHANGE POINT DETECTION, Sisheng Liu

IMPROVEMENTS IN INVERTER MODELING AND CONTROL, Xiao Liu

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MECHANISM AND APPLICATIONS OF GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOTS, Yiyang Liu

Data-Driven Adaptive Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes k - ω Models for Turbulent Flow-Field Simulations, Zhiyong Li