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Title: "Everyone Wants Their Bifröst": Analyzing Heathen Practice and Radicalization Risks for the U.S. Military
Author: Konzen, Riley
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Criminology, Military art and science, Religion
Description: The Capitol riot of January 6, 2021 functioned as a national watershed moment, generatingfar-reaching aftershocks across American society. While hypotheses abound proposing various catalysts, it has spurred a robust conversation regarding domestic...

Title: "In His Country's Service:" Irish Catholic Military Participation in the First World War
Author: Glynn, Hannah
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This thesis examines how Irish Catholic and nationalist military participation in the Great War reflected colonial tensions between Ireland and Great Britain in the early twentieth century. Whereas prior scholars have tended to examine Irish Catho...

Title: "¡Dios no Muere!": The Cristo Rey Monument and Church-State Relations in Revolutionary Guanajuato, 1914- 1950.
Author: Catton, John
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History, History--Religious aspects
Description: This thesis examines the role of the Catholic ideology of Cristo Rey during the Cristero Conflict, which lasted from 1926 to 1929. This conflict was an armed rebellion led by militant Catholics who opposed the Mexican government's enforcement of a...

Title: A Comparative Analysis of Canaanite Temples At Bronze Age Pella and Tell el-Hayyat, Jordan
Author: Hines, Mikayla
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: ABSTRACTMIKAYLA HINES. Comparative Analysis of Canaanite Temples At Bronze Age Pella and Tell el-Hayyat, Jordan(Under the Direction of Dr. Steven Falconer) The aim of this thesis is to uncover the social relationship between two Canaanite societie...

Title: A Detailed Description of Keldysh's Model of Photoionization
Author: Darden, Kenan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics, Quantum theory
Description: Leonid Keldysh’s 1965 paper "Ionization in the Field of a Strong Electromagnetic Wave" contains useful and simple-to-implement equations predicting the rate of photoionization in both atomic gasses and general crystalline solids. Crucially, his re...

Title: Adrastea: A Novel
Author: Lynch, Emma
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Creative writing
Description: Adrastea is a science-fiction novel that follows Adrastea on her journey from the moon to Earth in a misguided quest to find her sister. Set several thousand years in the future, after the Earth has been destroyed by climate change, this is a scie...

Title: Advantages And Disadvantages of Remote Batterer Intervention Programs During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Sotiroff, Alexa
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Many psychological services that have been historically conducted in-person have made the switch to remote platforms. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated these changes, making virtual settings the norm for many services (Augenstein, 2020)....

Title: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Risk-Taking Behaviors in College Students: Early Maladaptive Schemas, and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation as Possible Mediators.
Author: Dickie, Daniel
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are pervasive problems in the United States today. As many as 85% of adults report experiencing at least one adverse childhood experience (Crandall et al., 2020), and experiencing just one ACE significantly inc...

Title: An Examination of Judicial and Legislative Documents on Indigenous Tribute and Indigenous Strategies used in Negotiations in the Province of Cordoba, Argentina, 1782-1820
Author: Harnach, Emily
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This study shows the importance of indigenous communities by analyzing judicial and legislative documents involving indigenous tribute and indigenous strategies used in negotiations in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, during the late colonial p...

Title: An Examination of Skip-Level Meetings and their Relationship with Job Embeddedness
Author: Zebroski, Micaela
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: A growing body of research documents the importance of studying job embeddedness in order to predict turnover, or conversely, why employees stay at their jobs. However, little is known about how meetings—one of the most time-consuming practices at...

Title: Analysis of Respiratory Viral Material from Negative COVID-19 PCR Tests to Observe Effects of 2022-2023 "Twindemic" on University Campus
Author: Aboufoul, Lolo
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Tracking COVID-19 cases has been one of the most important aspects of controlling the pandemic and observing how the virus causing COVID-19 spreads between populations. Tracking cases of the disease helps epidemiologists understand the reason for ...

Title: Assessing the Impact of Buffer Salt Choice on the Formation of DNA I-Motifs
Author: West, Caroline
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: I-motifs are intercalated cytosine quadruplexes discovered in 1993, but they weren’t shown to exist in the cell nucleus until 2018. While their biological role has yet to be fully elucidated, they have been implicated in regulating expression of s...

Title: Bacterial Glycan Immobilization for Interacting Partner Analysis
Author: Murray, Alexis
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Bacterial cell surface glycans mediate pathogenic and symbiotic interactions with hosts and other organisms. The implications of bacterial glycans in human health have made them attractive targets in drug design for antibiotics, antibacterial vacc...

Title: Bidirectional Dual-Active Bridge DC-DC Converter using Matrix Transformer
Author: Alamri, Faisal
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Dual Active Bridge (DAB) converter is an advanced power electronics device with various applications in renewable energy systems, electric vehicles, and high-power energy conversion systems. Due to its versatility and critical role in modern power...

Title: Bioarcheaology and the Term “Cyborg”
Author: Stumpf, Mara
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Physical anthropology, Disability studies, Forensic anthropology
Description: As it becomes more common to integrate technology into the body, a more in depth understanding of how society reacts to terms such as "Cyborg" in an academic context can be very beneficial. My project focuses on the term "Cyborg" and how professio...

Title: Bridge Selection Process And Workflow Development for UAS- Enabled Bridge Inspection
Author: Wu, Tau
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: ABSTRACTTAU WU. Bridge Selection Process and Workflow Development for UAS-Enabled Bridge Inspection. (Under the direction of DR. TARA L. CAVALLINE) The application and use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) has become integrated into everyday opera...

Title: Building La Casa de España: The Spanish Intellectual Experience in Mexico City, 1938-1941.
Author: David, Breanna
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Opened in Mexico in August 1938, La Casa de España (The House of Spain) provided Spanish intellectuals displaced by the Spanish Civil War with a location to continue their studies. Although intended to be temporary, the following years saw La Casa...

Title: Characterizing the Growth in Spatial Thinking Abilities in Meteorology Students Across the Curriculum
Author: Decker, Lauren
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: Spatial thinking skills are essential to student success in disciplines such as geology, atmospheric science, and geography. In particular, previous work on spatial thinking in the atmospheric sciences has demonstrated that skills such as mental a...

Title: Classification and Pixel-Level Segmentation of Asphalt Pavement Cracks Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Author: Adnan, Tamim
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: This study was conducted to answer two research questions. How do the chosen CNN models perform on publicly available asphalt pavement crack datasets for classification and segmentation? And how can these CNN models be fine-tuned to improve their ...

Title: Community Matters: Exploring the Associations Between Community Belongingness, Community Service Orientation, and Campus Bystander Behavior in Situations of Interpersonal Violence
Author: Jules, Bridget
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Colleges across the U.S. report alarming rates of student interpersonal violence, with estimates varying widely by measurement and sampling strategy, for sexual harassment (9-80%), sexual violence (4.7-58%), dating or domestic violence (18.5-30.3%...