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Mixed methods evaluation of a stream monitoring citizen science program
(2023-05)
Citizen science is defined as engaging the public in scientific research endeavors. Within this field, water monitoring citizen science remains one of the most popular branches. Evaluation of citizen science projects have ...
Tillage system impact on soil health and weed management
(2023-05)
The first chapter of this dissertation involves two studies that were conducted from 2022-2023 to determine the impact of sweep tillage on soil health and management of tumble windmill grass (Chloris verticillata). The ...
Development and characterization of a novel three-dimensional human tissue-engineered lung model to study immune response to respiratory syncytial virus in vulnerable populations
(2023-05)
Lower respiratory illnesses are one of the leading causes of mortality in the United States. Viral lung infections, such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), often lead to chronic complications in immunocompromised ...
Making sense of citizenship and citizen identity in light of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019: A qualitative study of micro-level citizenship processes among Indian citizens
(2023-05)
Citizenship literature often either concentrates on the macro-level aspects of citizenship or investigates the micro-level processes. This project bridges micro-level processes with the macro-level components of citizenship ...
Characterizing the role of oxygen in beef discoloration
(2023-05)
The objective of this research was to characterize the role of oxygen in beef discoloration. Limited studies have evaluated the discoloration of the interior of steaks during retail display in association with the development ...
Evaluation of behavior management training: Training teachers to improve classroom management skills
(2023-05)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of two virtual prerecorded trainings. Training 1 is a three hour training titled Basics of Classroom Behavior Management. Training 2 is a 10-hour training titled Behavior ...
We are not okay: Exploring Black masculinities, race-related stress, and help seeking attitudes in Black men
(2023-05)
Griffith and Cornish (2018) suggest that Black men are often tasked with navigating society as beings that are both feared and adored. Black men in college are often tasked with navigating spaces that view their Black ...
Fibers as normal and spun-normal surfaces in link manifolds
(2023-05)
The technique of inflating ideal triangulations developed by Jaco and Rubinstein gives a procedure starting with an ideal triangulation 𝒯* of the interior of a compact 3-manifold 𝑀, that constructs a triangulation 𝒯⌄𝛬 ...
Uncrumpled: A scheme for bounding the pinch points on a variety of projected surfaces
(2023-05)
Let X be a smooth surface and let phi be a finitely ramified map from X to P^N with N at least 4, which is birational onto its image Y = phi(X), and with Y non-degenerate in P^N. In this paper, we produce a lower bound for ...
Resistance and reproduction: The poetry of William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley
(2023-05)
“Resistance and Reproduction: The Poetry of William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley” examines how Wordsworth and Shelley responded to the epistemological transition from intrinsic to nominal in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ...