Theses/Dissertations from 2018
CHARACTERIZING THE ROLE OF GLUCOCORTICOIDS IN THE SIGN TRACKING BEHAVIOR OF MALE JAPANESE QUAIL (COTURNIX JAPONICA), Beth A. Rice
EXEMPLIFICATION EFFECTS THROUGHOUT DISASTER STAGES IN SOCIAL MEDIA, Robert George Rice
CHEMICAL TOPPING BURLEY TOBACCO, Mitchell D. Richmond
Deep Neural Networks for Multi-Label Text Classification: Application to Coding Electronic Medical Records, Anthony Rios
EXAMINING AN ASYNCHRONOUS GROUP DISCUSSION BOARD ADAPTATION OF A PARENT-MEDIATED BEHAVIOR INTERVENTION FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS, Alexis D. Rodgers
INVESTIGATION OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOCs) DETECTED AT VAPOR INTRUSION SITES, Mohammadyousef Roghani
FACTORS IMPACTING PARENTAL ACCEPTANCE OF AN LGBT CHILD, Dani E. Rosenkrantz
NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES FOR ASSESSING THE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE OF DUCT SYSTEMS ABOVE THE PLANE WAVE CUTOFF FREQUENCY, Kangping Ruan
UNDERSTANDING THE GRAY: AGING WOMEN IN VICTORIAN CULTURE AND FICTION, Hannah T. Ruehl
GUITAR ARRANGEMENTS OF SELECTED DANZAS OF JUAN F. ACOSTA, WITH NEW CONSIDERATIONS OF HIS MUSIC AND MUSICAL LIFE, Hermelindo Ruiz Mestre
HOMOGENIZATION IN PERFORATED DOMAINS AND WITH SOFT INCLUSIONS, Brandon C. Russell
THE ROLE OF DIAPHRAGMATIC BREATHING IN SELF-REGULATION SKILLS TRAINING, Matthew E. B. Russell
USING MACHINE LEARNING TO PREDICT ACUTE KIDNEY INJURIES AMONG PATIENTS TREATED WITH EMPIRIC ANTIBIOTICS, Wilbur Cliff Rutter IV
CATALYTIC CONVERSION OF MONOSACCHARIDES INTO 5-(HYDROXYMETHYL)FURFURAL IN IONIC LIQUIDS USING ALUMINUM COMPLEXES BEARING BIDENTATE (AMINOMETHYL)PHENOLATE LIGANDS, Daudi Sayialel Saang'onyo
INVESTIGATIONS OF INTERLEUKIN-1 ALPHA AS A NOVEL STROKE THERAPY IN EXPERIMENTAL ISCHEMIC STROKE, Kathleen Elizabeth Salmeron
BACTERIAL INOCULANTS, ENDOPHYTIC BACTERIA AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON NICOTIANA PHYSIOLOGY, DEVELOPMENT AND MICROBIOME, Andrea Marisa Sanchez Barrios
A CRITICAL AND PERFORMANCE EDITION OF AGUSTIN BARRIOS’S CUECA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FORM, NOTATION, AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICE OF BARRIOS’S WORK TO TRADITIONAL CHILEAN CUECAS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY, Enrique Sandoval-Cisternas
A REPRESENTATION THEOREM FOR MATERIAL TENSORS OF TEXTURED THIN SHEETS WITH WEAK PLANAR ANISOTROPY, Yucong Sang
FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS, Hojjatollah Sarvari
DISCOVERY OF NATURAL PRODUCT ANALOGS AGAINST ETHANOL-INDUCED CYTOTOXICITY IN HIPPOCAMPAL SLICE CULTURES, Meredith A. Saunders-Mattingly
PRECARITY IN PARADISE: TOURISM, MIGRATION, AND THE BROADER CAUSES OF INSTABILITY IN ROATÁN, HONDURAS, Heather Jan Sawyer
BINATIONAL FARMING FAMILIES OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIA AND THE MEXICAN BAJIO, Mary Elizabeth W. Schmid
MUSIC TRAINING AS A NEURO-COGNITIVE PROTECTOR FOR BRAIN AGING: COGNITIVE AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILES IN PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS, Catherine E. Schneider
VITAMIN D WORKS THROUGH THE LIPID DROPLET PROTEIN PLIN2 TO AUGMENT MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION IN SKELETAL MUSCLE, David M. Schnell
THE FREE EXERCISE CLAUSE, MINORITY FAITHS, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF RELIGIOUS INDEPENDENCE AFTER RAWLSIAN LIBERALISM, David Charles Scott