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Person-environment fit theory approach to teacher retention
(2020-12)
Recent research suggests the United States is experiencing a nation-wide teaching shortage. Though the shortage appears to differ from state to state, patterns of shortages appear most often in urban, high-poverty, and ...
Understanding the genetic basis of shattering in pearl millet
(2022-05)
Over the last years, genes involved in several traits targeted during domestication have been studied in crops. Because shattering is an important domestication and agronomic trait, it has been intensively studied in crops ...
Virtual body in immersive virtual reality and its influence on creativity
(2021-07)
The relationship between the design process, its multiple stages, and how different design mediums affect this process continues to be a topic for research and exploration. The selection of different design tools is done ...
Exploring environmental adaptations and habitat preferences in three microbial lineages using comparative (meta)genomic approaches
(2022-12)
The utilization of -omics based approaches (metagenomics, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) in the field of microbiology has greatly advanced our understanding of the microbial world. The utilization ...
Signal opacity and debt contracts in entrepreneurial ventures
(2020-07)
New ventures that are unable to fund expansion using internal equity or that prefer to maintain complete firm ownership may supplement existing cash flow by accessing external funds in the form of debt contracts. To overcome ...
Small resolutions of closures of K-orbits in flag varieties
(2020-05)
We construct explicit proper morphisms \(\mu\,\colon Z\to Y\), where \(Y\) is the closure of a \(K\)-orbit in a flag variety. Of particular interest is when \(\mu\) is a resolution of singularities and when it is a small ...
Surprising effects of drug policy
(2022-12)
Overdose death rates have been increasing exponentially since 1979, leading me to ask how state-level drug access policy is affecting this trend. Previous research identifies three main approaches states take: restricting ...
Advancing in vitro fish alternatives for regulatory ecotoxicity testing
(2023-05)
While fish toxicity testing methods have been vital in predicting toxicity of pollutants dissolved in water, advancements with in vitro ecotoxicological techniques have continued to gained momentum. In vitro alternatives ...
Exploration of Lewis acidity and fluorophilicity of germanium compounds and their applications in C-F bond activation
(2021-07)
The elusive branched fluoro-oligogermane (Ph3Ge)3GeF which is the only crystallographically characterized Ge-F containing compound with unsupported Ge- Ge bonds, was successfully synthesized and its chemical/electrochemical ...
Methane dynamics in agricultural cropping systems and near source wastewater treatment lagoon and process evaluation of incubation method for methane oxidation
(2023-05)
The three chapters included in this dissertation center on the dynamics of soil methane fluxes and the potential of soil as a methane sink. Soil CH₄ consumption is a natural CH₄ mitigation strategy, and understanding how ...