Theses/Dissertations from 2018
“ONE MORE WAY TO SELL NEW ORLEANS”: AIRBNB AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF AUTHENTICITY THROUGH LOCAL EMOTIONAL LABOR, Ian Spangler
The Kentucky Re-entry Universal Payload System (KRUPS): Sub-orbital Flights, James Devin Sparks
INTERSEEDING COVER CROPS TO SUPPRESS WEEDS IN CORN- SOYBEAN ROTATIONS IN KENTUCKY, Victoria Leigh Stanton
WHOLE-BODY PROTEIN METABOLISM IN MATURE AND GROWING HORSES RECEIVING PREDOMINANTLY FORAGE DIETS, Sophie A. Stratton
EVALUATING HEMP (CANNABIS SATIVA) AS A FORAGE BASED ON YIELD, NUTRITIVE ANALYSIS, AND MORPHOLOGICAL COMPOSITION, Carol Elizabeth Stringer
ASSESSMENT OF THE SERUM AMYLOID A ASSAY FOR DIAGNOSING DISEASE IN NEONATAL FOALS, Samantha W. Strouss
EMPOWERING HIDDEN VOICES: A PHOTO NARRATION OF COMMUNITY FOOD NEEDS BY TWO CROSS-TOWN MIDDLE SCHOOLS IN KENTUCKY, Tori E. Summey
EFFECTS OF BACKPACK TYPE ON KINEMATICS OF THE LOWER BACK DURING WALKING AND JOGGING, Cazmon Suri
Gender-Based Harassment in Early Adolescence: Group and Individual Predictors of Perpetration, Michelle Jennine Tam
SCORING RELIABILITY BY EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS ON A CURRICULUM BASED ASSESSMENT, Brigid S. Taylor
FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO JOB SATISFACTION, RETENTION, AND ATTRITION OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATORS: A SYNTHESIS OF RESEARCH, Lee Nolan Thomsen
ADRENERGIC STIMULATION IN ACUTE HYPERGLYCEMIA: EFFECTS ON CELLULAR AND TISSUE LEVEL MURINE CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, Sridevi Thyagarajan
THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE: STORIES, Katharine Tighe-Pigott
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SHAPE MEMORY BEHAVIOR OF HIGH STRENGTH NiTiHfPd SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS, Guher P. Toker
Improving Table Scans for Trie Indexed Databases, Ethan Toney
IDENTIFYING PERCEIVED RISKS TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS AND NEEDS FOR RISK COMMUNICATION IN A RURAL APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY, Elizabeth H. Travis
MUSIC THERAPISTS’ PERCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES REGARDING MUSICAL AUTHENTICITY IN MUSIC THERAPY PRACTICE, Nora Bryant Veblen
THE APPLICATION OF SPECTRAL AND CROSS-SPECTRAL ANALYSIS TO SOCIAL SCIENCES DATA, Matthew James Vowels
DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF CROSSTIE-BALLAST INTERFACE PRESSURES USING GRANULAR MATERIAL PRESSURE CELLS, Travis James Watts
A TALE OF TWO CONTEXTS: MATHEMATICS SELF-EFFICACY DEVELOPMENT AMONG RURAL AND URBAN STUDENTS, Brianna L. Weidner
THE DUMB WEIGHT, Sophie Weiner
PREFERENTIAL PATHWAYS FOR VAPOR INTRUSION: SITE SCREENING AND FIELD SAMPLING OF SEWERS TO ASSESS INHALATION EXPOSURE RISKS, Evan James Willett
CHARACTERIZATION OF ROTARY BELL ATOMIZERS THROUGH IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES, Jacob E. Wilson