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Surface plasmon microarray and voltage-driven biocatalysis for drug development and bioelectronics
(2017-07)
The objectives of the research described in this dissertation are driven with a broader motivation to provide scientific solutions to real world problems related to human health and cleaner energy. Under global health ...
Evaluating How Wetland Presence and Restoration Effects Landscape and Resource Use of Pollinator Communities in an Agricultural Matrix
(2017-07-01)
Pollination is critical for ensuring biodiversity and human food supplies. However, wild pollinator populations are declining due to fragmentation and loss of habitat. These concerns are apparent in the Rainwater Basin of ...
Optimization of Proton Therapy by Estimation of Therapeutic Proton Spectrum and Verification of Proton Range.
(2017-12-01)
The purpose of this work was to contribute meaningfully to the field of proton therapy. We carried out two projects with a common goal to better understand the nuclear physics occurring around the Bragg peak, to better ...
Students Acquisition of Employability Assets via Livestock Oriented Supervised Agricultural Experiences: A Delphi Study
(2017-05-01)
Challenging budgets require school administrators to evaluate all services and programs provided by public schools. School-based agricultural education programs are not immune to an administrators review, to that end, it ...
Role of Stigma in the Relationship Between Illness Intrusiveness and Depression/Anxiety in College Students: A Path Model
(2017-12-01)
Objective: Adolescents/Young Adults (AYAs) with a chronic illness display elevated risk for poor psychosocial outcomes. This has been well-documented among AYAs attending college, yet relatively little is known about factors ...
Burnout, empathy, and self-care among mental health counselors
(2017-08)
The implications of burnout for those who engage in human service work continue to be of significant interest. Burnout prevalence, specifically in the form of emotional exhaustion among mental health counselors, has been ...
Spiral of Silence Regarding Student Willingness to Discuss Controversial Topics in Agriculture
(2017-12-01)
There are many advantages for students who participate in classroom discussion including intellectual development and practice for critical thinking skills (Davis, 1993; Fassinger, 1995). However, only 25% of students ...
Multiple case study exploring members' perceptions of threat assessment teams' training and resources at two-year colleges
(2017-05)
Incorporating a qualitative approach, the purpose of this multiple case study dissertation was: 1) to explore the perceptions of threat assessment teams on campus safety; 2) to study the challenges and barriers two-year ...
Study of ensemble learning with AdaBoost and NEAT
(2017-07)
Neural networks, ensemble algorithms, neuroevolution, and genetic algorithms all have shown the ability to solve classification problems in many areas of application. One of the problems in training neural networks is the ...
Soil moisture and vegetation dynamics in Southern Great Plains grasslands
(2017-07)
This dissertation consists of three research projects aimed at better understanding grassland vegetation dynamics under drought and predicting vegetation dynamics using soil moisture and other vegetation parameters. The ...