This collection contains theses, dissertations, problem reports, and project reports (ETDs) from West Virginia University graduate students.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
A Multi-Wavelength Determination of the Total Luminosity and Star Formation Rate of the Milky Way, Joshua L. Mascoop
The Impact of Occupational Therapy in Lactation Services, Sarah Adrienne McAninch
Assessing The Impact of Olive Oil and Flaxseed Oil Supplementation on Hypertension and Inflammation in Healthy and At-Risk Adults, Tara Bess McNabb
From Class to Craft: An Investigation into the Practice of Acting Techniques Applied to Angelo in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Charles Wesley Meeks
Fire Sings in the Dark, Emily Merrick
Machine Learning and RNA Bioinformatics, Jason Rafe Miller
Tragedy Personified: Crafting the role of Carol in Alice Birch's Anatomy of a Suicide, Josey Miller
Mechanistic Insight into Maternal Electronic Cigarette Exposure and its Effect on Offspring Cerebrovascular and Neurocognitive Health, Amber Victoria Mills
Abuse Liability of Electronic Cigarettes in Non-Smoking Electronic Cigarette Users, Andrea Renee Milstred
Structural and functional consequences of PDE6 prenylation in rod and cone photoreceptors, Faezeh Moakedi
Active Uncertainty Representation Learning: Toward More Label Efficiency in Deep Learning, Salman Mohamadi
The Impact of Low-Skew on the Ultimate Capacity of Press-Brake-Formed Tub Girders, Madison Lynn Morgan
Exploring Crystal Polymorphism in Additive-assisted Chemical Vapor-Deposited Transition Metal Chalcogenides and Oxides, Lawrence Kirimi Mubwika
Self-Care and Quality of Life of Remotely Monitored Appalachians with Heart Failure, Patrick Rexrode Murphy
Associations Among Psychosocial Factors, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Adherence in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Cecelia I. Nelson
From the Pews to the Ballot Box: How Religion Shapes Voting Behavior in Ghana., Maxwell Afriyie Nimako
Site, Seasonality, and Satisfaction: A Tourism Marketing Study in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, Lillian E. Oles
Advances in machine learning aided seismic interpretation and inversion for subsurface characterization, Tobi Micheal Ore
Application of High-Resolution Fiber Optic Data to Enhance Completion Design, Christian J. Pacheco
Three Essays in Urban, Health and Public Economics, Dinushka Paranavitana
INVESTIGATING BIRDS AS DISPERSAL VECTORS OF LITYLENCHUS CRENATAE SUBSP. MCCANNII (ANGUINIDAE), THE NEMATODE ASSOCIATED WITH BEECH LEAF DISEASE, Spencer Rock Parkinson
Estimating Home Range Size and Density of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in West Virginia, Sarah M. Pesi
Contracture Management for Acute Burn Injury Patients, Brianna Paige Pestrosky
S(+)-Propylnorapomorphine Hydrochloride Alters Mutant Huntingtin Aggregation and Membrane Interactions, Gabriella M. Pettipas
Reimagining the Refugee Figure: Survival Migration and Its After-Affects, Gabriella Pishotti
Seeing Red: Hostile Attribution Bias, Aggression, and Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits, Kaley Potter
Time On the Mountain, Matthew T. Powney
Interactions Between Myeloid Cells and Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, Hillary Gabrielle Pratt
An Integrated Framework for Establishing Long-Term Transportation Management Strategies Promoting Sustainable Urban Growth, M Imtiaz Rahman
Prediction of Anomalous Events with Data Augmentation and Hybrid Deep Learning Approach, Ahmed Shoyeb Raihan
Anxiety and Depression in Older Adults Post Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Mickaela R. Reed
Teaching Cultural Humility Practices in Appalachia: The Value of Conducting Conversations Based in Education, Bailey A. Riggs
Isometric Force-Time Characteristics of Different Positions in the Clean in Weightlifters, Kyle G. Rochau
Estimating inorganic carbon flux from coal mining discharge portals in the bituminous coal field region of Pennsylvania, Lauren J. Rockwell
C–H Alkylation of Diol Substrates using Bifunctional Boronic Acid Catalysts, Matthew Ryan Ross
The Impact of Normal Growth on the AP Relationships of the Jaws and Incisors to the Forehead: A Serial Cephalometric Analysis of Untreated Individuals, Adam Joseph Rudmann Dr
Subjective Cognitive Decline: Examining the Contributions of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Social Determinants of Health, Amber Victoria Rusch
Kinetic Study of OH Radical Reactions with Cyclopentenone Derivatives, Patrick Kipkoech Rutto
LEDs for Controlled Environment Agriculture: Leveraging Light to Optimize Crops, Tristan D. Sanders
Choir Teacher Agency and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy, Kaitlyn Schramm
High-Pressure Ignition and Flame Propagation – An Experimental and Numerical Study, James Shaffer
Application of Interpretable Machine Learning Methods to Study the Disease Characteristics and Healthcare Expenditures in Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Zasim Azhar Dil Hasan Siddiqui
Global Experiences: How Locality and Space Shape Pedagogical Practices and Experiences between Western Institutions and Ghanaian Musical Centers, Andrew Patrick Simonette
Performance Evaluation of Composite Utility Structures under Wildfires and Mitigation Methods, Siddhant Sitoula
Development and Application of Functional Immune Assays to Understand Disease in Wild Smallmouth Bass Populations, Cheyenne R. Smith
THE EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN COLLEGE PRESIDENTS WHILE LEADING THROUGH AN INSTITUTIONAL CRISIS: THE PERCEIVED SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF CRISIS COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES, Madison Marie Speck
Assessment of Instrument Exploring Underwear Preferences of Incontinent Geriatric Women in Assisted Living, Cassandra M. Stewart
The Closet of My Tennessee Mountain Home, Jonah Gabriel Stokes
Encouraging Equity Through Rural Elementary Professional Learning, Jana K. Stone
Passive Wireless Corrosion and Temperature Detection in High-Temperature Environments, Noah Lane Strader
Lighting the Cylcone, Maren Taylor
Effect of Haemonchus contortus excretory/secretory protein on differences in host neutrophil migration, Hannah Grace Teddleton
Anamnesis, Kristian Thacker
Puberty-Associated Changes in Kiss1r, MC3R, and MC4R in the Ewe, Ashleigh Caitlyn Thomson
Contentment and Control: The Stonega Coke & Coal Company & Pioneering Welfare Capitalism in Southwest Virginia, Christopher Lloyd Tomlinson
Characterization of Host Cell Specific Interactions During Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae Infection, Emerson Towey
Burnout Among West Virginia Art Teachers in a Post-Pandemic World, Kevin Richard Trautwein
Women in Extension Persevering in Leadership Roles, Lexis Danielle Trickett
Occupational Therapy’s Role in Low Vision Throughout the Lifespan, Ka Ki Tse
Essays on Urban Transportation and Health Economics, Alexander P. Tsiukes
Exploring the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Academic Achievement in College STEM Students, Alexander Joseph Tylka
Reformed-Based Approaches to the Teaching and Learning Of Science, Sahar Vali
Investigating the Effect of Using Humorous Threats in Recreation Area Rules Signage to Influence Behavioral Intentions, Jacob Timothy Vargas
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Group Telehealth Workshops based on Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Caregivers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Erinn J. Victory
Psychogenic, Shannon Lindsay Virtue
A Legacy of Labor: Maternity Narratives in 1960s and 1970s North American Life Writing, Katelynn Ann Vogelpohl
The phylogeny of Chasmataspidida, B.D. Voss
The Perceived Effects of Peer-Assisted Learning in a Collegiate Instrumental Pedagogy Classroom, Hannah Wagoner
Prevalence of Depression and Suicidal Ideation in First-Generation College Students as Compared to Their Non-First-Generation Peers, Abigail A. Wellings
An Exploration of Misconceptions in Introductory Physics, Christopher Mattthew Wheatley
Traumatic brain injury induces cerebrovascular dysfunction: Consequences for ischemia and cerebral hypoperfusion, Bailey J. Whitehead
Analyzing Viability of Blue Indium Gallium Nitride LEDs for use in Space Missions Using a Low Earth Orbit Cubesa, Bertrand Edward Wieliczko
Adverse Childhood Experiences Predict Mortality Risk: The Role of Social Support & Social Strain, Meredith A. Willard
Control Freak Loser Bitches Need Love, Too, Megan Lynne Williams
Development and Implementation of Occupational Therapy Group Protocols for Individuals in Recovery for Substance Use Disorder: Considering Social Determinants of Health and Occupational Areas of Need, Samantha Jane Windisch
Bridging Evolutionary and Bayesian Optimization for Enhanced Safety Verification in Control Systems, Joshua M. Yancosek
JOINT LEARNING OF UNKNOWN SAFETY CONSTRAINTS AND CONTROL POLICIES IN REINFORCEMENT LEARNING, Lunet Abiye Yifru
An investigation into secondary transfer of trace DNA to evidentiary items via nitrile gloves during crime scene examination, Molly G. Younker
Quantifying chemical erosion in the lithologically-heterogenous Appalachian Valley and Ridge, Amelia Jayne Zanoni
Selected Chinese Art Songs from the 20th and 21st Centuries, Xinxin Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Leveraging a multiparent cross of Populus trichocarpa to characterize recombination rates and dissect the genetic architecture of wood chemistry, Chanaka R. Abeyratne
Fish Community Responses to Environmental and Anthropogenic Conditions in West Virginia, Katherine A. Adase
Machine Learning Assisted Framework for Advanced Subsurface Fracture Mapping and Well Interference Quantification, Mohammad Faiq Adenan
ROLE OF CYTOCHROME P450-EPOXYGENASES AND ADENOSINE A2A RECEPTOR IN THE MODULATION OF VASCULAR RESPONSE, Stephanie Onyeka Agba
Essays on CEO Background and Corporate Performance, Busra Agcayazi
Deep Face Morph Detection Based on Wavelet Decomposition, Poorya Aghdaie
Development of A Hydrometallurgical Process for the Extraction of Cobalt, Manganese, and Nickel from Acid Mine Drainage Treatment Byproduct, Alejandro Agudelo Mira
Impacts of Error Rate and Therapist Appearance on the Accuracy of Fidelity Data Collection, Marisela A. Aguilar
Multimodal Neuron Classification based on Morphology and Electrophysiology, Aqib Ahmad
Blowdown Wastewater Co-treatment with Produced Water for Resource Recovery: Moving Towards Zero Liquid Discharge and Sustainable Waste Management, Mohammad Hafez Ahmed
A Machine Learning Approach for Early Diagnosis of Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy Among Heart Failure Patients, Tanjim Ahmed
Modular Supply Network Optimization of Renewable Ammonia and Methanol Co-production, Benjamin Akoh