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Using growth mindset strategies in gateway composition courses
(2020-05-08)
University enrollment rates have continued to decline and increasing retention efforts on campuses has become a central focus for university administration and faculty members. Growth mindset, a theory developed by Dr. ...
Quantifying the intact proteome: optimization of analytical methods for high-throughput top-down proteomics
(2023-05-12)
Proteins play an indispensable cellular role within organisms and participate in a majority of biological functions, including enzymatic catalysis, immune reaction, and signaling. Multiple forms of a protein (i.e., ...
Assessing Dual-Doppler Vertical Velocity Retrievals from Rapid-Scan Radar Data
(2020-12)
Vertical velocity is the most difficult wind component to accurately retrieve from dual-
Doppler observations. Typical radar scans are conducted with shallow elevation angles and
therefore, the radial velocity observations ...
Light Matter Interaction in A Rydberg Blockaded Ensemble
(2022-06-29)
This thesis presents a study of the interactions between two Rydberg atoms and Rydberg atomic ensemble with a monochromatic light field. The first part of the thesis covers the interaction between two Rydberg atoms. The ...
Fat Justice: Mitigating Anti-Fat Bias Through Responsible Aesthetic Agency
(2022-05-13)
In my dissertation I develop a series of guidelines for responsibly and respectfully navigating varying facets of aesthetic activity involving fat communities. I argue that fat people's engagement with the aesthetic can ...
High-precision measurements of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayer structure with scanning tunneling microscopy
(2020)
This thesis describes a measurement methodology and set of tools for measuring scanning tunneling microscope images of crystals at picometer length scales. We use the crystal structure present in high-quality scanning ...
Scaling up Labeling, Mining, and Inferencing on Event Extraction
(2022-05)
Numerous important events happen every day and are reported in different media sources with varying narrative styles across different knowledge domains and languages. Detecting the real-world events that have been reported ...
“Who asked for this?”: authenticity and race-centered corporate social responsibility
(2023-05-12)
The purpose of this study is to conceptualize and operationalize race-centered CSR, a combination of corporate social responsibility and corporate social advocacy concerned with repairing racial relationships and inequities, ...
Territorial Justice: The Fight for Black Educational Rights in the Oklahoma Courtroom
(2021-12-18)
This dissertation explores previously unstudied and undiscovered court challenges brought by Black settlers during Oklahoma’s territorial period (1889-1907) in the United States. These Black pioneers challenged new legislation ...
DISCRIMINATION AND CONNECTION: IMPACTS ON HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION, HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE, AND MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES
(2020-07)
Systemic oppression is evident in health care institutions that can manifest as unfair treatment and disenfranchisement toward marginalized communities. The study examined the predictive relationship health care discrimination ...