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Retention and degree completion: A quantitative assessment of the impacts of study abroad on community college students
(2023-05)
This study analyzed the impacts of participation in short-term study abroad programs at Oklahoma community colleges through a quantitative research design. Student retention and degree completion are concerns for all types ...
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 ...
Interfacial effects on the chiral domain walls in ultrathin PT/CO/ALOₓ heterostructures for the futuristic spintronics devices
(2023-05)
Heavy metal /ferromagnet/metal oxide heterostructures are important due to their immense prospects for establishing spin textures such as chiral domain walls which are the basic ingredient of low power and capacious ...
Molecular regulation of bacterial stress responses and pyocin production
(2023-05)
Bacteria have a variety of systems to sense stress and respond ensuring the survival of cells. Bacillus subtilis uses stressosomes—large cytoplasmic multiprotein complexes—to sense environmental stressors and trigger the ...
Effects of aligned graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) on the multifunctional performance of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites
(2023-05)
This study investigates the multi-functional behavior of carbon fiber reinforced composites (CFRP) with respect to energy storage and electrical conduction applications. CFRP laminates were subjected to long-term exposure ...
Ethical decision-making during the FAA medical certification process by pilots and AMEs amid the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic
(2023-05)
This dissertation examined the impact the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic had on the ethical behaviors of pilots and Aviation Medical Examiners (AMEs) during the medical certification process. Pilot behavior was examined to see whether ...
Diagnostic reasoning approaches and success rates in bomb disposal
(2023-05)
As professions, medicine and bomb disposal have many similarities, with one easily recognizable commonality being that practitioners in both disciplines rely on decision-making that is objective, dispassionate, and to the ...
Mixed methods approach to investigating international students’ perception of teaching presence and sense of community in online classrooms and university belonging at Predominantly White Institutions
(2023-05)
A sense of belonging is still a challenge for minority groups, including international students who pursue their degrees at Predominantly White Institutions. Being an online student, potentially impede a sense of belonging ...
Supplemental mathematics at midwestern community college: A qualitative case study
(2023-02)
This is a qualitative study that explores how successful supplemental mathematics instructors prepare their students for on-level mathematics, that is taken as a corequisite, at a rural midwestern community college. Using ...
Calcium affects host-pathogen interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa with lung epithelial cells
(2023-05)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the key bacterial pathogens that cause acute, chronic, and lethalinfections in the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). P. aeruginosa adheres to the mucosal
epithelium of the airways ...