Dissertations from 2021
Evaluation of an Elopement Risk Assessment Tool in an Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Hospital, Beth Lockhart
Preventing Ocular Surface Disease in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Emily Mallette
Effect of Purposeful Nurse Rounding on Patient Satisfaction, Jayne Mangi
Which School- and Community- Characteristics Lead to Charter School Success?, Susan Marino and Sarah Ranney
Implementing a Depression Screening in a Pediatric Acute Care Setting for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes, Kelcie Marler
Documenting the Journey Towards Becoming an Anti-Racist White Educator, Heather McCord
A Telehealth Palliative Care Objective Structured Clinical Examination, Lindsey Q. McIntyre
An Empirical Analysis of Factors Affecting Autonomous Truck Adoption, Christopher Mondy
Digital Contact Tracing During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic, Erin Katherine Moran
Confronting and Dismantling Whiteness in Higher Education: A Grassroots Approach, Winnie Needham
Complexation of Glycoalkaloid α- Tomatine with Sterols and Its Potential Application as an Anti-Cancer Drug, Bishal Nepal
An Examination of the Impact of Student Loan Debt on Alumni Giving, Ashley N. Nickell and Molly B. Hurley
Integration of Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire-12 in Clinical Practice, Norman Njihi
Detection of Breast Cancer in African American Women Using Walk-in Mammography, Munachi Nwosu
Schools on the Frontlines of Governance: How the Convergence of Criminal Justice and Education Shapes Adolescent Perceptions and Behavior, Jennifer O'Neill
Critical Behavior in Evolutionary and Population Dynamics, Stephen Ordway
Benzodiazepine Reduction Program in a Psychiatric Mental Health Setting, Tracy Pacini
Value Creation by Private Equity Firms: A Resource-based View, Kei Pang
Implementing the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale to Assess Delirium in a Pediatric ICU, Leigh Paridy
Matrix Product Structure of a Permuted Quasi Cyclic Code and Its dual, Perian Perdhiku
How does the Market View Share Repurchases: Five Possible Book Values in the Fama-French 3 Factor Model, Jaime Peters
Identification of Veterans Experiencing Symptoms of Mental Illness for the First Time after COVID-19 Diagnosis, Brittania Phillips
Evaluation of a DIRFloortime® Program for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jennifer L. Pipitone
Primary Care Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the Adult Population, Carrie Plisco
Resuscitation Quality Improvement Mortality Rates, Jordan Priest
Cognitive Ecology of Color Vision in Orchid Bees, Andreia Queiroz Santos A Figueiredo
Talk to Me - a Re-standardization of Bedside Report, Lisa Randall
The Relationship Between Number of Instructional Minutes and Science and Mathematics Achievement in Elementary Schools, Gwendolyn Randolph
Increasing Adherence of Pump Integration with Electronic Medical Record Through Simulation, Judi Reeves
Discovering Hidden Signs and Symptoms of Heart Failure in the Electronic Health Record Using the Omaha System, Anita Reger
At the Top of the Chart: A Composite Counterstory of Black Students’ Mathematical Success, Joslyn N. Richardson
Moth to a Flame: An Investigation of the Personality Traits and Early-Life Trauma Histories of Women Who Have Survived Adult Relationships with Men with Pathological Narcissism, Michelle D. Roberts
Collaborative Online Education: A Case Study of an Ed.D. Program, Han Rong, Yang Zhang, Rongjing Cao, and Jinge Xu
Evaluating Loneliness in an Older Adult Population, Kelli Rowland
Synthesis and Characterization of Antiviral Drug Candidate Molecules Against the Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Ali Abbas Sabi
The Effects of Mobile Devices & Maker Projects on Middle School African American Students’ STEM Knowledge Base & Interest, Allen L. Savage Sr.
County Youth Athletics Response to COVID-19 Pandemic, Elise Schaller
Surfing Without Water: College Students Who Experience Homelessness, Melissa Scheer and Deidra C. Thomas-Murray
Impact of Aging Information on the Continuing Education Preferences of Behavioral Health Clinicians, Nicholas Schmidt
The COVID-19 Pivot to Online Education and BSN Graduates’ Readiness to Practice, Abigail Schulte
White Voters and Minority Animus in the Era of Trump, Zachary Schwartz
Standardizing Genomic Testing of Pancreatic Cancer in a Community Oncology Practice, Julie Marie Scott
A Comparison of First and Continuing-Generation Student Success and Engagement in an Online General Education English course, Maya Scruggs Hicks and Tchule S. Moore
Computational Studies of Carbon Nanocluster Solidification, Chathuri C. Silva
Academic and Demographic Patterns of Students Placed in Early Algebra I Acceleration, Jill Smith
Heterosexual Parents Who Move Toward Acceptance of Their Gay Sons, Brady Sullivan
Exploring How Tourism Majors’ Perceived Professional Competence Influences Their Choice of Tourism Careers in China, Zhixin Sun, Lihong Wang, and Miao Zhao
Regulation of Self-love, Kruti Surti
Barriers to Post-Secondary Success, Douglas Swanson, NaJeana Henderson, and Maritza Sloan
Guided Online Coaching for Teachers of Emergent Bilinguals in a TESOL Practicum Course During COVID-19, Dawn Thieman
Exploring Critical Media Literacy Skills of Adults on Twitter during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States in the spring and summer of 2020, Renee Thomas Woods
Standardized Screening for Peripheral Artery Disease in Primary Setting, Tamara Tomlin
Systems of Success: African American Women Prepared, Dawna Sturdivant Wharton
Profitably Risky: A Study of Medicare Capitation Contracts for Primary Care Medical Practices, Michael Wieck
Bringing Hospital and Community Together: Interventions to Bridge the Transitional Care Gap, Jeremy Yates
Instantaneous Frequency Estimation and Signal Separation Using Fractional Continuous Wavelet Transform, Abdelbaset R. Zeyani
Economic and Environmental Impacts of Drone Delivery, Juan Zhang
Teacher Leadership in the Context of Chinese Education, Chudi Zhou, Qian Yang, Ying Dong, and Xiaoying Wang
Exploring the Influence of Industry 4.0 Technology on Buyer-supplier Relationships (Supplier Transparency) and Supply Chain Agility, Honey Zimmerman
Dissertations from 2020
Recognition of Gender Microaggressions in the Workplace: The Case of Predisposition and Propensity to Recognize, Alicia Ako-Brew
The Effects of High Dose Intravenous Vitamin C in Cancer Patients, Bankole Aluko
Construct Local Quasi-Interpolation Operators Using Linear B-Splines, Abeer Alzahrani
High-Order Adaptive Synchrosqueezing Transform, Jawaher Alzahrani
Degree Completion of Underrepresented Minorities Majoring in Mathematics as a Function of Undergraduate Student Programs, Marnice Anthony
Women’s Sexual Satisfaction in the Context of Midlife Relationships: Examining an Ecological Model and Intergenerational Caregiving, Katherine M. Arenella
The Role of Plasticity in Bumble Bee Responses to Environmental Variability, Matthew Austin
Student Perceptions Regarding the Use of Purposive English in a Spanish as a Foreign Language Classroom, Kacey Booth
An Examination of Optimal Level of CEO Narcissism: Why, How, and When Narcissism Impacts Firm Performance, Scott Boswell
The Experience of Faculty Transitioning From Traditional to Non-traditional Methods in the Community College Classroom, Christina Calentine
Utilizing Mindfulness-Based Exercises to Reduce Anxiety Severity Scores According to the GAD-7, Kelly Calhoun
Tailoring Violence Prevention Programming to a Critical Care Area, Jaime Campbell
Increasing CMS Sepsis Core Measure Adherence Rates Through Virtual Consultation, Angela Cann
What Is the Research Standard for Tenure and Promotion at U.S. Accounting Research Institutions Outside of the Top 200?, Rodney Carmack
Assessing A Cognitive Model of Trauma-related Sleep Disturbance, Rebecca Chesher
Diet Behaviors, Physical Activity, and Sociodemographic Factors in a Sample of Racially Diverse Adults: A Secondary Analysis of NHANES (2017-2018) Data, Fatemeh Choupani
Nurse Practitioner Student Confidence and Competence in Common Women's Health Diagnostic Procedures, Jessica Cowan
Bridging the Gap in Primary Care of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Patients, Deanna Dial
Demystifying First-Time Mothers’ Postpartum Mental Health: A Phenomenological Study of the Transition to Becoming a Mother, Megan Dooley Hussmann
Exclusionary Beliefs, Multicultural Ideology, Empathy, and Perceived Threat: A Comprehensive Model of Anti-immigrant Prejudice, Reigna El-Yashruti
Diversity in Pre-nursing Majors and Nursing Program Applicants, Christel Fehr
The Relationship among Perfectionism, Perceived Stress, and Coping in Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Amanda Finley
Empowering Nurses of Minority in the Face of Incivility and Bullying: Through the Lens of Phenomenology, Corrine Floyd
Social Support Following Pregnancy Loss and its Implications for Women’s Experiences of Posttraumatic Growth, Agata Freedle
Investigating Drivers of Genetic Structure in Plants: Global, Regional and Local Scales, Diana Gamba-Moreno
New Catalytic Reactions in Carbohydrate Chemistry, Scott Geringer
Synthesis of Biologically Active Phosphorus Heterocycles, Giri Gnawali
Teaching Perspectives of Faculty Members at Arab Universities: Andragogy and Islamic Humanism, Layla Goushey
PTSD Symptom Interaction Among Victims of Interpersonal Violence: A Network Analysis, Robert Graziano
Effect of Standardized Nurse Teaching on Patient Experience Using CAHPS®, Julie Hake
Screening and Referring for Postpartum Depression in Pediatric Primary Care, Melissa Harkins
DeVerne Calloway: “I am a Teacher---I will Teach”, Holly Hick