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Dissertations from 2023 2023

Citrate Hydrogels for Regenerative Medicine Applications, Mark Pitman

Characterization of Lignin and Cellulose Biopolymers Structure – Function Relationships, Zachariah Pittman

Two Essays in Human Capital, Illia Polovnikov

Validating a Human Trafficking Screening Tool for Women Returning to Uganda From the Middle East, Jason Pope

Hydrothermal Synthesis of Frustrated Lanthanide Pyrochlores and Transition Metal Double Perovskites and Germanates, Matthew S. Powell

An Overview of Risk Factors for Neural Tube Defects and an Investigation Within South Carolina, Lucy Pulliam

Influence of Photoreactor Design Parameters on the Performance of Ultraviolet Light-Induced Degradation of Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances by Bismuth Oxy Hydroxy Phosphate and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Photocatalystsinfluence of Photoreactor Design Parameters on the Performance of Ultraviolet Light-Induced Degradation of Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances by Bismuth Oxy Hydroxy Phosphate and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Photocatalysts, Mojtaba Qanbarzadeh

Design and Implementation of High-Efficiency, Lightweight, System-Friendly Solid-State Circuit Breaker, Dehao Qin

Machine Learning-Based Data and Model Driven Bayesian Uncertanity Quantification of Inverse Problems for Suspended Non-structural System, Zhiyuan Qin

Communication in Phelan-McDermid Syndrome: Assessment and Genotype-Phenotype Correlation, Sarah Quadri

The Myth of Perfection: Charting the Rhetoric of Veteran Disability for a Course to Stability, Nicholas Rader

Molecular Dynamics Simulation on Molybdenum Disulfide: Thermal-Mechanical Properties and Phase Transitions Under External Loading, Mahabubur Rahman

Extensional Flows of Polymer Solutions in Planar Microchannels, Mahmud Kamal Raihan

The Perceived Role of School Counselors in RAMP and Non-RAMP Schools, Rob Rhodes

Buried Forensics: A Rhetorical/Material Analysis of Gendered Death, Sarah Richardson

Make It Make Sense: An Exploratory Examination of Teacher Sense Making Around Culturally Responsive Classroom Management, Ricardo Devon Robinson

Physics-based Machine Learning Methods for Control and Sensing in Fish-like Robots, Colin Rodwell

From Experiences to Beliefs: An Exploratory Case Study on Science Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Emergent Bilinguals, Yamil Ernesto Ruiz

Explainable Physics-informed Deep Learning for Rainfall-runoff Modeling and Uncertainty Assessment across the Continental United States, Sadegh Sadeghi Tabas

Generative Neural Network-Based Defense Methods Against Cyberattacks for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, M Sabbir Salek

Fatty Acids and Parasitism: Towards a Better Understanding of Lipid Metabolism in Trypanosoma Brucei, Joshua Saliutama

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Team Cognition in Human-AI Teams, Beau Schelble

Belonging by Design: The Exploration of Architecture Learning Environments and their Role in the Sense of Belonging and Field Identity of Black Architecture Students, Stacy Scott

Recovering Coefficients of Second-Order Hyperbolic and Plate Equations via Finite Measurements on the Boundary, Scott Randall Scruggs

Conceptualizing Technology in Landscape Architecture (TLA) For the 21st Century, Xiwei Shen

Studies on Electrochemical Hydrogen Isotope Separation, Liyanage Mayura Sankalpa Silva

The Search for Heavily Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei in the Local Universe, Ross Silver

Opioid Prescribing Practice & Policy – A Study of Medicaid Pediatric Population in South Carolina, Laksika Sivaraj

Hydrothermal Synthesis of First-Row Transition Metal Polyanions Towards the Design of Frustrated Magnetic Materials, Megan Smart

Advancement of Detection and Treatment for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and Infectious Disease, Austin Smothers

Glass Bubbles Grafted With Polymer Brushes for Liquid Hydrocarbon Fire Extinguishment, Randall Snipes

The Relationship Between Community Rebounding After a Sequence of Environmental Disasters and Social Cohesion in Puerto Rico, Saeideh Sobhaninia

Nanobubble Technology for the Removal of MIB and Geosmin From Drinking Water, Meryem Soyluoglu

Accurate Orientation Control Of Tendon Driven Continuum Robots That Exhibit Elasticity, Manu Srivastava

3D Printing with Photopolymerizable Polyester Resins for Resorbable Medical Device Applications, Mathew Murphy Stanford

EXPANDING TOLERANCES FOR WOBBLE: PUSHING THROUGH TENSIONS TO PROVIDE CRITICAL LITERACY PEDAGOGY, Daniel Stockwell

Algebraic and Integral Closure of a Polynomial Ring in its Power Series Ring, Joseph Swanson

Coming Home: Challenges of Reintegration for Returned Migrant Women in Northern Albania, Marsida Tafilica

An Examination of Neurodevelopmental Outcomes, Healthcare Utilization, and Stigmatizing Language in Populations With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), Farah Tahsin

Unruly Periods: Reproductive Futurities and the Rhetorics of Menstruation, Hannah Taylor

Biology and Herbicide Resistance Characteristics of Various Annual Bluegrass (Poa Annua L.) Biotypes From Across the United States, Jacob William Taylor

The Role of Attention Control in Automation Performance, Claire Textor

A Multi-Pronged Investigation to Identify Genes Affecting the Autoregulation of Nodulation: Lasercapture Microdissection and the Barely Any Meristem Gene Family in Medicago Truncatula, Jacklyn Thomas

Making the Move Toward Meaningfulness in Learning Activities: Enhancing Teacher Self-Efficacy in Student Engagement Through an Instructional Coaching Approach in Improvement Science, Maureen Tiller

Implementation Of An Early College Design In A Rural High School: Empowering Place-Conscious Leadership To Affect Change And Overcome Barriers To Innovation, Michael Timko

Bridging the Gap Between Phase Behavior and Processing For Renewable and Refinable Carbonaceous Precursors, Graham Tindall

An Integrative Approach to Modelling Human-Wildlife Coexistence Landscapes in the Northern Great Plains, Keifer Titus

Resilient, Sustainable, and Secure Systems Support for Ultra-Low-Power Computational Things, Nicole Tobias

Supporting Nontenure Faculty in Documenting Teaching Effectiveness in a Faculty Learning Community, Becky Tugman

III-Nitride Triangular Microcantilevers For Multimodal Sensing Applications, Balaadithya Uppalapati

Essays on Manufacturing and Growth, Hugo Vaca Pereira Rocha

Acceleration Methods for Nonlinear Solvers and Application to Fluid Flow Simulations, Duygu Vargun

The Effects of Primary and Secondary Task Workloads on Cybersickness in Immersive Virtual Active Exploration Experiences, Rohith Venkatakrishnan

All Hands on Deck: Choosing Virtual End Effector Representations to Improve Near Field Object Manipulation Interactions in Extended Reality, Roshan Venkatakrishnan

Computationally-Driven Insights Into the Ligand Environments of Materials for Catalysis and Separations, Stephen Vicchio

“If I Was That Cop…”: Improving Attitudes Toward Police Through an Educational Intervention for Use-Of-Force Knowledge and Empathy, Randle Aaron Molina Villanueva

HPC-enabled Fast and Configurable Dynamic Simulation, Analysis, and Learning for Complex Power System Adaptation and Control, Cong Wang

Feasibility of Using High-Alkali Natural Pozzolans and Reclaimed Fly Ash as Alternative Supplementary Cementitious Materials in Concrete, Weiqi Wang

Meaning Matters: Cognitive Crafting as a Sensemaking Mechanism and Motivational Process to Enhance Gig Driver Well-being, Gwendolyn Paige Watson

A Digital Triplet for Utilizing Offline Environments to Train Condition Monitoring Systems for Rolling Element Bearings, Ethan Wescoat

The Erasure of Rural West Texas Voices in Higher Education Institutions an Autoethnographic Study of Minoritized Students of West Texas in Their Journey to Obtain Success in Higher Education Institutions, David Whaley-Weems Sr

CFRP Delamination Density Propagation Analysis by Magnetostriction Theory, Brandon Eugene Williams

Did That Help? Harnessing Natural Language Processing to Uncover Characteristics of Peer Feedback and Their Impacts on Teamwork-Skills Learning., Annamaria V. Wolf

Leveraging Professional Learning to Impact Leadership of Technology Integration, Tennille Woodward

Activated Carbon Synthesis From Lignin-Rich Byproduct Streams of Biorefineries, Chengjun Wu

Studies of the Ionosphere-Thermosphere Responses to Multi-Scale Energy Deposition Processes, Haonan Wu

Multidimensional Chromatographic Coupling Strategies Implementing Capillary-Channeled Polymer Fiber Stationary Phases, Sarah Wysor

Motion Synthesis and Control for Autonomous Agents using Generative Models and Reinforcement Learning, Pei Xu

Investigating and Addressing Tiger Conservation in the Himalayas, Pramod Kumar Yadav

Spectroscopy of Highly Charged Ions for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasma Diagnostics, Yang Yang

Modeling and Solution Methodologies for Mixed-Model Sequencing in Automobile Industry, Ibrahim Ozan Yilmazlar

Hybridly Integrated Semiconductor Lasers and Amplifiers on III-V/SI3N4 Platform for Beam Combining and Other Advanced Applications, Siwei Zeng

Functional Analysis of Two Campoletis Sonorensis Ichnovirus Vinnexins in Drosophila Melanogaster, Peng Zhang

Structuring AI Teammate Communication: An Exploration of AI's Communication Strategies in Human-AI Teams, Rui Zhang

New Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods for Some Structured Problems in Physics, Tianqi Zhang

Structural Characterization of Cardiomyocyte Microenvironment in Murine Myocardium by Multimodal Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy, Zhao Zhang

Development & Validation of Needle-based Metrics for Hemodialysis Cannulation Skill Assessment, Ziyang Zhang

Probing the Structure of Water on Surfaces: From Water Absorption to Ice Nucleation, Jiarun Zhou

Computational Modeling of Patterned Membranes and Spacers for Improved Hydrodynamics and Fouling Reduction in Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Processes, Zuo Zhou

Zeros of Modular Forms, Daozhou Zhu

Prevention and Reversal of Elastin-Associated and Phosphate-Dependent Arterial Calcification Using Targeted Nanotherapeutics in Pre-clinical Models, Fatema Tuj Zohora

Studying Pedestrian’s Unmarked Midblock Crossing Behavior on a Multilane Road When Interacting With Autonomous Vehicles Using Virtual Reality, Fengjiao Zou

Dissertations from 2022 2022

Crosscutting Understandings of Fusarium Resistance in Sorghum and Wheat for Development of Breeding Strategies and Novel Opportunities in Germplasm Improvement, Arlyn Ackerman

Electrical and Optical Characterization of Two-Dimensional Semiconductors Using Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Pan Adhikari

The Importance of Hand Motions for Communication and Interaction in Virtual Reality, Alex Adkins

Chemical and Sensory Analyses of Teas From Mangifera Indica L. Leaves and Evaluation of Their Anti-Adipogenic Effect in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes, Sepideh Alasvand Zarasvand

Pedagogical Data Literacy With a Multi-Tiered System of Supports: A Mixed Methods Study of Teachers Using Data-Driven Reading Instruction in a Title I School, Paula Alexander

Influence of Climate and Droughts on Visibility Degradation in Saudi Arabia, Saleh Alhathloul

The Effect of Freezing Rates and Storage on Atlantic Salmon and Peaches, Wesam Aljeddawi

The Effects of the AVID Program on Rural Student Growth in Middle Grades Mathematics, James Allen

Holistic Performance Analysis and Optimization of Unified Virtual Memory, Tyler Allen

Geology-Based Shear-Wave Velocity Model of Reference Site Conditions in South Carolina for Seismic Site Response Analysis, Camilius Amevorku

Bayesian Analysis of Combining Forecasts, Chitraporn Amrapala

An Exploratory Study Using Improvement Science to Better Understand How Modeling the Inverted Pyramid Fosters Servant Leadership Characteristics in a Rural Public School District, Jennifer Anderson

An Investigation into the Roles of Aldose Reductase and Acetate Kinase in the Metabolism of Entamoeba histolytica, Matthew B. Angel

Pulse-Coupled Oscillator Networks: Achieving Phase Continuity and Learning Optimal Control in Physical Systems, Timothy Anglea

3D Printed Multicomponent Polymer Based Materials Via Hybrid Filaments: Fabrication And Characterization, Erik Antonio

Essays on Bank Performance, Strategic Behavior, and Community Development with a Focus on Minority Depository Institutions and the Political Economy of Forgiving Student Loans, Guncha Babajanova

Design and Analysis of Efficient Freight Transportation Networks in a Collaborative Logistics Environment, Vishal Badyal

Development, Characterization, and Application of Pearl Millet Starch-Based Nanocomposite Films Reinforced With Kudzu Cellulose Nanocrystals, Sneh Bangar