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Does Acute Melatonin Supplementation Affect Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Healthy Young Adults?
(2024-05-10)Melatonin receptors have been found in the cerebrovasculature in animal models, and melatonin has been shown to improve systemic vascular control. While there is a correlation between low melatonin production and cardiovascular ... -
The Pleasure Placebo: The Roles of Religion and Gender in Sexual Enjoyment
(2024-05-10)This project focuses on how religious factors relate to heterosexual, cisgender people’s attitudes about gender dynamics and their experiences of sexual enjoyment and well-being. I conduct three related analyses, and each ... -
Sustaining Professional Growth with a Side-to-Side Pedagogy: A Qualitative Case Study of the National Writing Project Focused on Seven Teacher Consultants
(2024-05-10)In a qualitative case study, this research focused on the professional growth of National Writing Project (NWP) Teacher Consultants (TCs). The overarching question, In what ways have experiences with the National Writing ... -
Self As Praxis: Centering Teacher Identity in Instructional Practices in the Secondary Science Classroom
(2024-05-10)The adoption of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and NGSS-like standards necessitates significantly different ways of thinking about K-12 science instruction as well as corresponding instructional approaches to ... -
Discovering Accessible Data Visualizations for People with ADHD
(2024-05-10)There have been many studies on understanding effective data visualizations regarding general users. However, we have a limited understanding on how people with ADHD comprehend data visualizations and how it might differ ... -
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC IN THE WIND BAND REPERTOIRE: HISTORICAL CONTEXT, LATIN AMERICAN RHYTHMS, AND INTERPRETATIVE STRATEGIES
(2024-05-11)The rich and diverse musical heritage of Latin America offers an attractive repertoire for wind bands that deserves greater recognition in the United States. Despite proximity and cultural exchange, many exemplary works ... -
Illusions of Progress and Decline in Colonial India: Evolution and degeneration in the works of Pramatha Nath Bose, c. 1910-1930
(2024-05-11)In this thesis, I consider the views of Pramatha Nath Bose (1855-1934) as an example of Hindu revivalist appropriations of evolutionary ideas and degeneration to advance anticolonial, socially conservative politics in early ... -
MODULATING LATTICE OXYGEN ACTIVITY OF CA2FE2-XMXO5 BROWNMILLERITE FOR PRODUCTION OF HIGH PURITY HYDROGEN FROM BIOMASS RESOURCES
(2024-05-11)Chemical looping (CL) technology offers a promising avenue for producing high-purity hydrogen with inherent CO2 separation. A critical challenge lies in identifying oxygen carriers with high performance and sustained ... -
An Analysis on Luis Humberto Salgado's Works for Cello and Piano
(2024-05-11)Luis Humberto Salgado was an Ecuadorian pianist and composer who wrote in a variety of instrumental settings, including two works for cello and piano. Although he composed the Caprice and Sonata for Cello and Piano over ... -
AN ORCHESTRATION ANALYSIS OF KEVIN WALCZYK’S CONCERTO GAUCHO FOR TRUMPET AND WIND ENSEMBLE (2007) IN CONTEXT WITH THE CONCERTO GENRE FOR BANDS FROM 1990 TO 2009
(2024-05-11)Kevin Walczyk’s (b. 1964) Concerto Gaucho for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (2007) represents a significant development of original literature for soloist and full band orchestration. While the twentieth-century band movement ... -
Team Viability’s Outcome-Input Role in Team Effectiveness: A Meta-Analytic Attempt to Disentangle the Confounding Nature of Commonly Used Scales
(2024-05-10)The purpose of this study is to examine the unique role of team viability within an input-mediator-output-input (IMOI) framework of team effectiveness. Using meta-analytic estimates, I empirically tested the relationships ... -
An exploration and evaluation of choice architecture interventions on perceptions of justice
(2024-05-10)Justice has been argued to be a key ethical principle guiding interactions with other humans. The principle is embedded in the professional ethics code for the American Psychological Association and other professional ... -
Tracing Desires, Finding Utopia: Examining 2SLGBTQIA+ Students’ Queer Worldmaking in Higher Education Through Participatory Art-Based Research
(2024-05-10)Higher education holds the potential to positively impact 2SLGBTQIA+ students, yet they often face discrimination and violence. Drawing upon Tuck’s (2009) desire-based approach and Muñoz’s (2009) concept of queer utopia, ... -
Can a Single Lecture on Graph Literacy Improve General Decision Making Skills?
(2024-05-10)An emerging body of evidence suggests that brief debiasing training can make small but meaningful improvements in judgment and decision making. For example, recent studies have shown that training graph literacy (i.e., the ... -
WHY EDUCATION? AN EXAMINATION OF WHY LATINOS/HISPANICS PURSUE A CAREER AS TEACHERS
(2024-05-10)Supported by research on urban education, teacher shortages, and ethnic representation, this qualitative case study seeks to explore the motivations behind Hispanics and/or Latinos pursuing careers in education and the ... -
A PALEOCLIMATE AND PALEOFIRE HISTORY FROM THE EARLY PLEISTOCENE OF UNAWEEP CANYON, NORTHWESTERN COLORADO
(2024-05)Lacustrine systems capture high-resolution records of continental climate, including information on paleotemperatures, hydroclimate, and paleofire activity. An increasing number of studies have reported paleoclimate and ... -
Disparities within K-12 Educational Building Environments: A Framework for Designing Educational Spaces for Health & Wellbeing In and Out of the Classroom
(2024-05-10)Introduction: Students endure social, economic, and environmental impacts that affect their behavior, mental health, and cognitive development. Evidence-based research and design are required to provide proficient design ... -
OPERATIC REDUCTIONS AND THEIR PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR USE IN LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LEVEL OPERA SCENES PERFORMANCES
(2024-05-11)Providing enrichment and further learning opportunities within the opera scenes program at the collegiate level is paramount to this project. Generally, opera scenes programs are performed with a vocal score and piano ... -
Working students and major intention: Considering proximal contextual influences and entrance into STEM fields
(2024-05-10)High demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) knowledge and expertise continues in the U.S. workforce, and the shortages of workers in many STEM positions persist. Social Cognitive Career Theory ... -
IMPROVEMENT OF SYNGAS PRODUCTION FROM WASTE RESOURCES THROUGH CHEMICAL LOOPING REFORMING USING DUAL PHASE MFe2O4-Ca2Fe2O5 CATALYST
(2024)World consumption has demanded human beings to look for new alternatives to fossil fuel to reduce greenhouse gases effects. To supply those needs hydrogen has been studied to decrease the effect of greenhouse gases and ...