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The Effects of Professional Development on Transition Plan Components
(2020-05-08)
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA; 2004) requires special educators and school districts to write individualized education programs for students with disabilities to provide them a free appropriate ...
FRAC HIT ANALYSIS IN SHALES: WOODFORD, MERAMEC AND WOLFCAMP FORMATIONS
(2020-07)
Frac hit was initially coined to refer to the phenomenon when an infill well fracture interacts with the adjacent well during the hydraulic fracturing process. But, over the years, its use has been extended to any type of ...
VIDEO MODELING AND PRINTED VISUAL SUPPORT: WHICH INTERVENTION WORKS BEST FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES TO LEARN EMPLOYMENT SKILLS?
(2020-05)
Students with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disabled need extra interventions as they graduate high school and become completely integrated employed. Targeted programs do exist but are they teaching the important ...
Leadership, Boards, and Funding: A Case Study on the Sustainability of a University Research Center
(2020)
Research for many years has been a large focus of higher education. While much of the research within higher education can be attributed to faculty members and departments, research centers also account for some of this ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
COGNITIVE MULTI-USER FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION
(2020-11-11)
Increasing deployment of terrestrial, aerial, and space-based assets designed with more demanding services and applications is dramatically escalating the need for high capacity, high data-rate, adaptive, and flexible ...
A Two-Stage Exploration of Cyber Rumors
(2020-07-30)
The rise of online social networks (OSNs) has dramatically accelerated the diffusion of large-scale information cascades, leading cyber rumors to coalesce into a global social phenomenon. In this dissertation study, I ...