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- Title
- “We’re Not ‘Baby Daddies’ We Are Fathers. Dads.”: Nonresidential Fathers’ Online Stigma Management
- Author
- Schambach, Emma
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication
- Description
- Family and stigma communication research have barely scratched the surface of the dynamic and diverse arrangements of stigma in the family context. Though some research has investigated the stigma surrounding nontraditional family structures (e.g....
- Title
- “Redeeming" the Canal, Centralizing the Nation: Omar Torrijos and the Quest for Panamanian Sovereignty
- Author
- Winch, Debora
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- From October 1968 to September 1977, the Panamanian government under the leadership of Omar Torrijos Herrera conducted negotiations with the United States regarding the Panama Canal, controlled and established by the United States. This thesis see...
- Title
- “It Make Me Feel Like I’m Beneath Them”: Experiences of Stigma Among Individuals Living with Food Insecurity
- Author
- Uri, Rachel
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Sociology, Environmental health
- Description
- Food insecurity represents one of the most prevalent and severe problems facing modern United States (U.S.) society, with the proportion of households affected surging to approximately 23% during the COVID-19 pandemic. While several food safety ne...
- Title
- Woodward, Watson, and White Supremacy: Examining Race in the Histories of Thomas E. Watson, 1899-1912
- Author
- Tandy, Hannah
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- History, American literature
- Description
- This study asked if there was evidence of Thomas E. Watson’s (1856-1922) shifting racial views in the histories he published between 1899 and 1912. Watson is famous for his integrated populist campaigns of the early to mid-1890s, and infamous for ...
- Title
- Witch Hunt: Persecution of "The Other" in Representations of Witches and Witchcraft in British and U.S. American Literature
- Author
- Schaefle, Jacquelyn
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Literature, Sex role
- Description
- Though it has been established that the concept of the witch is primarily used to demonize strong women whose strength derives from their deviation from the patriarchal norm, I argue the witch’s significance in literature and social development go...
- Title
- Why Some Stay When So Many Leave: A Phenomenological Study on Why Teachers Remain in Low-Income, High-Minority Schools
- Author
- Hovis, Michael
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- School management and organization
- Description
- Tens of thousands of teachers in the United States leave their schools to work in other occupations or other schools each year. This has earned the teaching profession the reputation of being a "revolving door," with a large number of qualified te...
- Title
- What is in my Patient's Pantry? Addressing Food Insecurity in Primary Care: a Quality Improvement Project
- Author
- Koontz, Rachel
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Nursing
- Description
- Food insecurity (FI) has negative health effects throughout the lifespan, yet there is a disconnect between national recognition of FI as a health issue and FI screening in the clinical setting. The purpose of this project was to determine if an e...
- Title
- Volume Microenvironment Self-Consistent Constraint Theory Applied to Protein Stability Prediction
- Author
- Johannessen, Nicholas
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Biophysics, Physics
- Description
- Controlling thermodynamic stability is a challenge in protein engineering. Engineering a protein by introducing mutations into its sequence to increase efficacy can destabilize the protein thermodynamically, preventing it from functioning in its i...
- Title
- Victory tax: a holistic income tax system
- Author
- Jacobs, Donald J.
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Income tax, Tax deductions
- Description
- How can an income tax system be designed to exploit human nature and a free market to create a poverty free society, while balancing budgets without disproportional tax burdens? Such a tax system, with universal character, is deduced from the foll...
- Title
- Using campaign communications to analyze civility in ranked choice voting elections
- Author
- Kropf, Martha
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Preferential ballot, Sentiment analysis
- Description
- Theory suggests that ranked choice voting (RCV) may create a more civil campaign environment. As voters must rank candidates, the candidates have an incentive to work with each other more collaboratively. This study uses text analysis software (LI...
- Title
- Using Narrative Advising Theory in Interpreting the Roles of Advisors and Guides in African American Young Adult Literature
- Author
- Kelley, Gina
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- English literature, Education, Higher, African literature
- Description
- Telling stories has been a popular method of how humans connect interactively and serve a purpose to educate, entertain, influence, warn, and illustrate. In African-American young adult (YA) literature, there are guides that dish out valuable advi...
- Title
- Understanding the Complexities of Advising Transfer Students in an Institution-Driven System
- Author
- Holliday-Millard, Paul
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher--Administration, Education, Higher, Educational leadership
- Description
- Nationally, while the majority of community college students indicate a desire to transfer to a four-year college or university, many of them fail to do so (Horn & Skomsvold, 2011; Hossler et al., 2012; Jenkins & Fink, 2015; Shapiro et al., 2013)....
- Title
- Underground Circles and Clandestine Romance: Queer Resistance under the Third Reich
- Author
- Roberson, Keira
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Queer studies, History
- Description
- This study proposes a framework through which to examine queer resistance and oppositional behaviors under oppression and persecution, such as the Nazi regime. Under the Weimar Republic, queer circles coalesced into communities that developed a de...
- Title
- Two
- Author
- Nicolau, Nathan
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Creative writing
- Description
- Howl, the studious college student, and Ella, the free-spirited art school dropout, are one and the same. Both have troubled pasts they want to let go of but do not know how to. On any other day, they would have never met despite both living in Ch...
- Title
- Timely updating with intermittent energy and data for multiple sources over erasure channels
- Author
- Daniel, Christopher
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- A status updating system is considered in which multiple data sources generate packets to be delivered to a destination through a shared energy harvesting sensor. Only one source’s data, when available, can be transmitted by the sensor at a time, ...
- Title
- Through the Lens of Social Movement Impact Theory in Latin America. Measuring Social Entrepreneurial Intention: Utilizing Socio-Political Activism and Entrepreneurial Passion as Moderated by Opportunity Recognition and Gender
- Author
- Darden, Bryan
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Social sciences--Research, Entrepreneurship
- Description
- Many studies have used the Theory of Planned Behavior to explain social entrepreneurial intention; however, limited empirical research has focused on the effects that socio-political activism, theory of social movements, and social movement impact...
- Title
- Three Essays on Corporate Financial Policies
- Author
- Villatoro Godoy, Karla
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Finance
- Description
- KARLA NATALIA VILLATORO GODOY. Three Essays on Corporate Financial Policies. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID C. MAUER) In the first chapter ("Brand Equity and Corporate Debt Structure"), we develop measures of brand equity based on firms’ portfo...
- Title
- This Generation Will Not Pass Away Before All These Things Take Place
- Author
- Cataldo, Ryan
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Religion, Theology
- Description
- This study examines the apocalyptic expectation of Jesus’ imminent return from heaven in the early Jesus movement, and how Matthew and Mark respond to its failure by recasting it as fulfilled. Jesus’ return from heaven, also known as the Parousia,...
- Title
- The recognition of and reactions to nucleic acid nanoparticles by human immune cells
- Author
- Afonin, Kirill A., Bila, Dominika, Panigaj, Martin
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Nucleic acids, Chemistry
- Description
- The relatively straightforward methods of designing and assembling various functional nucleic acids into nanoparticles offer advantages for applications in diverse diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. However, due to the novelty of this approach...
- Title
- The local and landscape features associated with roost attendance and nesting success in urban black vulture (Coragyps atratus) and turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) populations.
- Author
- Partridge, Hannah
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Ecology
- Description
- Land cover changes that result from increasing urbanization alter habitat type, structure, and resource availability on local and global scales. Vultures provide important ecosystem services including disease management and nutrient cycling, makin...