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Evaluating consumer survey responses with Identity Theory and impacts of alternative responses to foot-and-mouth disease in a large feedlot
(2020-07)
The first essay investigates consumer survey design. Survey design has evolved from asking respondents for replies they can easily provide a specific answer into considering the cognitive process of an individual. Due to ...
Statistical analysis and channel modeling in next generation wireless communication systems
(2021-05)
In this thesis, statistical analysis and channel modeling in next generation wireless communication systems is presented in detail. The primary focus of this thesis is on the statistical modeling of interference temperature ...
Apoptotic and bioenergetic changes in pancreatic cells after exposure to individual toxicants and their mixtures
(2020-12)
Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst fatality rates in oncology. Despite advances in treatment and recovery rates for other cancers, pancreatic cancer's lack of early symptomology culminates in a dismal five-year survival ...
New stochastic pore-scale simulation and machine learning approach to predicting permeability and tortuosity of heterogeneous porous media
(2023-05)
A new 3D stochastic pore-scale simulation approach was introduced in this study to investigate how stochastic pore connectivity impacts the permeability and hydraulic tortuosity of heterogeneous porous media. Multiple ...
Overexpression, characterization, and structure-function studies of pheromone binding proteins from European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis
(2021-07)
Ostrinia nubilalis (European corn borer) has a huge impact on production of economically important crops in the USA and Europe. This species, similar to other lepidopterans, relies on olfaction to find their mating partners. ...
"Many and strange experiences of shadow and sunshine": Ideological violence, subjectivity, and the impossibility of redemption in Frederick Douglass' lifelong resistance to white supremacy, an American paradox rewritten by himself
(2021-12)
This dissertation sets out to recover Frederick Douglass as a militant by radically redefining the terms of his militancy. Beginning with the recognition that Douglass' militancy emerges from his violent experiences with ...
Effects of sensory information over the motor and somatosensory cortex activity during standing
(2021-05)
The purpose of this study was to identify changes in cortical hemodynamics of motor and somatosensory cortex related to balancing tasks during inhibition of muscle spindles and cutaneous receptors of the dominant leg. Data ...
Perspectives of African American school-based agricultural education teachers toward their meaning of work: A Q methodology study
(2022-07)
The most prominent group of leaders in the African American community historically have been educators, including public school teachers of agriculture. The importance of African American educators became apparent when the ...
Embodied monsters: From fear to domestication in gothic monster literature
(2020-12)
This dissertation argues that over the course of the long nineteenth century, Gothic antagonists moved from supernatural but disembodied beings into more physically monstrous entities. The shift to monster follows traceable ...
Grassland heterogeneity and pyric herbivory: Implications for ungulate movement, biodiversity conservation, and rangeland productivity in the Anthropocene
(2022-05)
How to simultaneously manage grasslands for sustained livestock productivity and biodiversity conservation is a persistent dilemma for rangeland ecologists and conservationists. Moreover, climate change and invasive species ...