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Title: Leveraging Social Media to Better Understand People's Obesity Related Behaviors
Author: Li, Chuqin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: With the worldwide prevalence of obesity doubling over the past 30 years across a wide range of demographic and socioeconomic groups, the obesity epidemic is a major public health challenge today. Excessive food consumption and lack of exercise ar...

Title: Dynamic and Conditionally Activated Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles
Author: Chandler, Morgan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: Programmed interactions of nucleic acids—including DNA and RNA—orchestrate genetic expression and downstream cellular processes at every level. The structures of nucleic acids rely on their sequences, which include traditional Watson-Crick base pa...

Title: Durability, Indirect Bankruptcy Costs, and Capital Structure
Author: Shah, Dhara
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Economics
Description: I contribute to the literature by formally modeling the indirect bankruptcy costs for a firm that sells durable goods. Consumers concerned about warranties or future product services penalize the distressed firm by putting off purchases or leaving...

Title: Reappraisal and Health: An Investigation into Reappraisal Ability and Stressful Life Events as the Missing Links
Author: Roos, Lydia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Inadequate emotion regulation may underlie the development of psychopathology as well as worsened physical health, particularly in the context of stress. Cognitive reappraisal is typically considered an adaptive strategy to manage negative emotion...

Title: Reclaiming Our Legacy: A Qualitative Study of Service-learning and Learning About Service Through The Experiences of African American Women Educators in Urban Schools
Author: Moore, Tamera
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education and state, Education
Description: As the number of minority students in public schools increases in the U.S., the teacher workforce and administration remain majority White. Increased access to service-learning will help mitigate opportunity gaps that exist in marginalized communi...

Title: Design and Modulation of Novel Chemical Probes for RNA SHAPE Analysis: Water Soluble Isatoic Anhydrides and Nicotinic Acid Imidazolides
Author: Fessler, Adam
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Biology
Description: The growing interest in RNA biology, along with an expansion in computational capabilities, throughput, and sensitivity has provided researchers new tools to probe RNA. RNA selective 2′-hydroxy acylation analyzed by primer extension (SHAPE) utiliz...

Title: Disulfide-trapped CXCL12-CXCL4 Chemokine Heterodimers Prevent Breast Cancer Progression
Author: Nguyen, Khanh
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: Triple negative breast cancers (TNBCs), i.e., 10-15% of diagnosed breast cancers, have a triple negative (Her/2-, ER- and PR-) phenotype and are the most aggressive subtype of breast cancer. TNBCs have a worst prognosis because of the high probabi...

Title: Power Electronics Assisted Voltage Regulators for Modern Distribution Systems
Author: Wang, Yafeng
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Step voltage regulator (SVR) has been utilized in power distribution systems for decades. The induced arc from the conventional SVR tap change and the voltage instability from the renewable energy penetration impose constraints on the conventional...

Title: Novel Control Strategies for Single-Phase Inverter Based Microgrids Considering Grid Integrated and Islanded Conditions
Author: Bisht, Robin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This dissertation focuses on designing and developing single-phase inverter (SPIs)control typologies for different microgrid (MG) frameworks. SPIs are considered a major part of the distributed energy resources (DERs), especially at the power dist...

Title: Providing Equal Access to English Learners in Educational Settings
Author: Gezer, Tuba
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Educational tests and measurements
Description: This three-article format dissertation examined fairness in testing English Learners (EL) in K-12 schools in the United States (US). In the first article, a meta-analysis was conducted to summarize EL computer-based testing (CBT) accommodations re...

Title: RENEGOTIATING IDENTITY: UNDERSTANDING THE COMMUNICATIVE NEGOTIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFER STUDENT IDENTITIES
Author: Stamper, Brandy
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: Literature on community college (CC) students transferring to four-year institutions sufficiently addresses aspects of pre-transfer success indicators, transfer process barriers, and post-transfer outcomes. Yet, research frameworks in post-transfe...

Title: Pragmatic approaches toward automated extraction and understanding of large scale health-related texts
Author: Xie, Tianyi
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Natural language processing has become a very popular tool in many areas and has also drawn great attention in the community of health informatics. It is a series of processes that allows informaticists to take advantage by extracting and understa...

Title: Putting Equity to Work: A Qualitative Case Study Exploring Teacher Candidates Perceptions on Equity and Social Justice Pedagogy in a Teacher Preparation Program
Author: Jones-Fosu, Stephanie
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: For decades, White supremacy and Whitewashed teacher preparation curriculum have been used to prepare a majority White female teacher workforce. This same workforce has had limited exposure to diversity and a lack of cultural competence and critic...

Title: Distance friction and spatial interaction dynamics of international freight transportation
Author: Jung, Paul
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Transportation
Description: The modern economy runs with heavy reliance on the free flow of goods across the international logistic and supply chain. Advances in international freight transportation systems supported by intermodal integration, freight containerization, hub-a...

Title: Distance Based Linear Regression Model And Its Application To Microbiome Association Studies
Author: Sheikhi Kiasari, Masoumeh
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Statistics
Description: In the past few decades, pairwise distance based statistical methods have beendeveloped to identify spatial and/or temporal clusters of disease, study the association between the dissimilarity of ecological communities and distance in geographical...

Title: Differences Between Resident Advisors And Undergraduate Residential Students On Resilience, Mental Health, Burnout, And Perceived Stress
Author: Harris, Corrine
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Mental health
Description: The mental health and well-being of college students has become a growing concern for colleges and universities. Research has shown that prevalence rates of mental health in college students is growing and there are multiple complicating impacts o...

Title: A Comprehensive Study of Drinking Water Coagulation with Aluminum Sulfate
Author: Alansari, Amir
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Coagulation is usually the first and most important step in conventional drinking water treatment processes. The efficiency of all downstream processes is directly dependent on the effectiveness of the coagulation stage. Coagulants such as aluminu...

Title: A Critical, Empirical, and Reflexive Investigation of the Promise of Democratization in the Making Phenomenon
Author: Okerlund, Johanna
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Many endeavors in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) align themselves with the promise of the democratization of technology production, a promise that has yet to be fulfilled due to gaps in access and underlying power dynamics. HCI has ...

Title: A Dynamic Approach to Optimizing Interventions and Mitigating Contagion Impacts in Financial Networks
Author: Farthing, Christopher
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Finance, Economics
Description: While modern financial networks are so large, complex, and dynamic that the interactions between their members are impossible to model in their entirety, mathematical models with some simplifying assumptions allow for effective study of network dy...

Title: Diagnostic Ultrasound Assessment of Femoral Cartilage Health in Individuals with Patellofemoral Pain
Author: Jeon, Hyunjae
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Kinesiology
Description: Patients with patellofemoral pain (PFP) experience pain during or after physical activities. Recent evidence suggests PFP is not only a painful symptom which hinders daily activity but also a potential marker for future development of patellofemor...