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Entering a discourse community: Reading-to-write strategy instruction for effective paraphrasing among multilingual students
(2021-07)
Accidental plagiarism may result when a novice writer cannot construct an eligible paraphrase. From the early part of this century, some scholars argue that composition professionals at the college level should not teach ...
Investigation of cold atmospheric plasma for wound care
(2023-05)
Throughout the last decade, cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) has gained significant traction for aerospace and biomedical applications. The viability of CAP as a means for sterilization, and accordingly wound care, has made ...
Assessing fracture networks and geochemistry of geothermal systems in magma-poor continental rifts: An example from the Malawi Rifted Zone
(2022-05)
This doctoral dissertation investigates structurally controlled geothermal systems of poor-magma continental rifts in the Western Branch, using as an example the Malawi Rifted Zone (MRZ). The MRZ is at the southern end of ...
Buzz about bees: Serious leisure as a beneficial tool for veterans transitioning into post-service: A mixed methods study
(2022-07)
After retirement, veterans experience a loss of identity, support, and community (Duvall & Kaplan 2013; Duval & Kaplan, 2014; Caddick & Smith, 2014; Bennett et al., 2014). Some researchers have begun to look at how recreation ...
Impact of water and C3A on Portland cement hydration
(2020-07)
The water-cement ratio (w/cm) is one of the most influential parameters to determine the quality of concrete. A new test method, the Phoenix, has been developed that uses external heat to evaporate the water from the ...
Colin is changing his name: A collection of poems with a critical introduction
(2021-05)
Colin Is Changing His Name is a collection of poetry that explores issues of identity and self-acceptance through the journey of coming out as gay in the rural south. Working through multiple characters named "Colin" the ...
Mining low-diameter clusters conserved in graph collections
(2021-12)
The analysis of social and biological networks often involves modeling clusters of interest as cliques or their graph-theoretic generalizations. The k-club model, which relaxes the requirement of pairwise adjacency in a ...
Comparing personality traits and undergraduate student enrollment choices in adventure-based courses vs. non-adventure-based courses at Northeastern State University
(2022-05)
The purpose of this study was to compare personality traits of undergraduate students who chose to enroll in adventure-based (a-b) courses vs. undergraduate students who chose to enroll in non-adventure= based (n-a) courses ...
Feature selection and personalized modeling on medical adverse outcome prediction
(2020-05)
This thesis is about the medical adverse outcome prediction and is composed of three parts, i.e. feature selection, time-to-event prediction and personalized modeling. For feature selection, we proposed a three-stage feature ...
Impact of firm reputation and visibility on portfolio manager decision making
(2022-12)
I develop and test theory about the impact of heuristics on the composition of actively managed equity portfolios. Active equity portfolio managers are charged with the task of outperforming their peers and a benchmark ...