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Intersection and inflection points: Exploring the lived experience of advanced placement calculus students using narrative inquiry
(2024-11-13)This dissertation uses narrative inquiry, a qualitative methodology, to explore the lived experience of two Advanced Placement Calculus BC students. The research questions are as follows: What are the lived experiences of ... -
Andean cosmology and charging the universe: Colonial concepts of power, healing, and transformation in the Andes
(2023-08-03)This dissertation focuses on Andean cosmology and colonial concepts of healing in the Andes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This dissertation provides evidence that redefines aspects and understandings of ... -
"A pioneer editress": Frieda Cassin's complex contributions to the 19th century Caribbean Creole literary world
(2023-04-28)This project is a large-scale recovery of Frieda Cassin’s (1870-1915) life and work. Cassin is the earliest Antiguan novelist, founder of the first Antiguan literary periodical, and one of the earliest female literary ... -
Wrecked: Women's bodies as imperial ruin
(2023-04-24)This dissertation uses the lens of ruin and ruination to interrogate the workings of empire, broadly defined. Ruination, the ongoing creation of ruin, continues across historical time and exists in physical and remembered ... -
Storytelling and user experience design: How stories shape design and how design shapes everythying
(2024-08-07)Increasingly, classic storytelling techniques are being used in the technological space to communicate ideas or ideals that would be otherwise hard to communicate. Previously, storytelling is a specifically liberal arts, ... -
Affecting retention: the relationship between intersectionality and students’ institutional experiences
(2021-03-17)The purpose of my study was to use an intersectional lens to understand the relationship between race and gender and institutional experiences in student retention at a selective predominantly White institution. I used ... -
Coloring, drawing, and water coloring to learn plant structures: Exploring pre-service teachers’ perceptions of botany lessons with art interventions
(2017-07-17)College level botany education in the United States is gradually being phased out of science and agriculture departments. The absence of botany courses creates a problem because there is an increasing need for trained ... -
A passion for teaching science: A case study of five science teachers
(2021-03-26)The modern psychological investigation of passion started with the study by Vallerand et al. (2003). The construct of passion has been applied to sports, gambling, and performing arts. The application of the construct ... -
A frontier of ambition and intrigue: The neutral ground agreement and the Louisiana-Texas borderland, 1803-1824
(2024-08-26)“A Frontier of Ambition and Intrigue: The Neutral Ground Agreement and the Louisiana-Texas Borderland, 1803-1824” examines the Neutral Ground Agreement and the geopolitical struggle to define, observe, and enforce borderlines ... -
Synthesis and characterization of RPy2N2 pyridinophane ligands and transition metal complexes as therapeutics and catalysts
(2024-08-06)The pyridinophane family of macrocycles has been studied for decades as ligand scaffolds for metals towards a wide variety of applications including biological mimics, catalysts, and therapeutics A newer ligand scaffold ... -
The association between mattering and mental health in graduate students and faculty
(2024-08-06)Research has found that a sense of mattering, the perception that one is recognized and valued by other people and/or society, contributes to mental health and well-being (e.g., reduced burnout & stress). Although research ... -
The heterogeneity of autism spectrum disorder: An examination of child outcomes and parenting behaviors
(2024-08-06)Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heterogenous neurodevelopmental disorder with defining characteristics of social communication/interaction challenges and restrictive, repetitive behaviors Many autistic ... -
Metal halide perovskites and selected investigations in defect passivation and energy/charge rransfer
(2024-08-06)Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are an emerging class of semiconductors with advantageous properties for use in applications such as light emitting diodes1 and photovoltaics.2 MHPs are made up of by three components in an ... -
A praxiological curriculum for a black church to resist voter suppression
(2024-07-25)I contend that a Black Church has the liberative power to overcome voter suppression tactics created by legislative action. This for-ministry project provides Elm Grove District Association affiliated Black Baptist ... -
The interaction of language, executive functioning and structured physical activity for children at risk for secondary communication disorders
(2024-05-08)This three-manuscript dissertation evaluates how the domains of language, executive functioning and physical activity interact for children with communication disorders, and how those domains may differentially influence ... -
Mommy, what did you do in the war?: Republican mothers march off to war, 1940-1945
(2024-04)War is an agent of social change. After World War I, American women came of age politically, challenging men’s control over the political arena. In the face of hostilities abroad, women began organizing to defend their ... -
Border checkpoints: a rhetorical analysis
(2024-03-18)Migration shapes the US-Mexico border, which leads to an oversaturated presence of US Border Patrol. At the interior border checkpoint, Border Patrol agents stop vehicles, interrogate drivers and passengers on citizenship ... -
Neural and musculoskeletal adaptations to acute and chronic training in athletic populations
(2024-05-10)Introduction: Athletic populations are underrepresented in literature, with a majority of studies examining the effect of acute and chronic training in untrained individuals. The training adaptations gained following ... -
Frustrative nonreward and the basal ganglia: role of outputs from the nucleus accumbens in reward loss
(2024-05-06)Mammals in general experience bouts of negative emotion when they unexpectedly experience a reduction in expected reward, known as unexpected reward downshifts (URDs). The specific biological and psychological mechanisms ... -
Diagram driven computer generation of equation-of-motion coupled cluster equations for perturbed quantum oscillators
(2024-05-06)We consider a set of quantum harmonic oscillators subjected to perturbations expressible as a power series in position and momentum. A diagrammatic scheme is developed, by which to generate equation-of-motion coupled ...
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