This collection contains theses, dissertations, problem reports, and project reports (ETDs) from West Virginia University graduate students.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Energy Efficiency Evaluation of Blower Heater Non-Purge Compressed Air Dryers, Alexandra M. Botts
The impact of student facilitation on student engagement in asynchronous online discussion, Robin Bowen
Marcel Tabuteau’s System of Phrasing Applied to the Primary Themes in Carl Maria von Weber’s Second Clarinet Concerto, Christopher Charles Bowmaster
Glial cell expansion and intercellular signaling in the developing Medial Nucleus of the Trapezoid Body (MNTB), Ashley N. Brandebura
Pain Relief Knowledge, History, and Expectations among Emergency Dental Patients, Daniel C. Brawley
Hyperscales: Analysis, Historical Uses, and Possible Applications in Contemporary Music Composition, Douglas Wayne Brown
An Educational Intervention for Skin Cancer Prevention with Hospital Staff: A Pilot Project for System Change, Amy Fran Bruce
Tie Strength, Optimal Connections, and Distance in Social Networks, David Anthony Buch
The Magic Flute: Modern Light on a Classic Opera, Justin E H Burns
Analysis of User Preference with N95 and Powered Air-Purifying Respirators in a Healthcare Work Environment, Brittany Renee Carver
DP internal codeswitching by Spanish and English bilinguals in the US, Yurena Castaño-Nuñez
Evaluating the Approach of Using NOx Control Performance Tracking for On-Board Diagnostics of Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles, Renata Castiglioni
Virtual Morphology as a Method of Robotic Control, Conner Todd Castle
Judged Facial Attractiveness of Extraction and Non-Extraction Orthodontic Treatment in Repose and Smiling, Nicolette R. Chahin
Evaluation of A Marketing Strategy Based on The Concept of Virtual Energy Audit, Goutham Kumar Reddy Challa
A Sociopolitical Perspective to Understand When and Why Supervisors Endorse and Implement Employees’ Suggested Changes, Huaizhong Chen
Intelligent Malware Detection Using File-to-file Relations and Enhancing its Security against Adversarial Attacks, Lingwei Chen
Association Genetics and Local Adaptation of Populus trichocarpa Torr. & Gray, Hari Bahadur Chhetri
Incentives and Economic Decisions: Evidence from Sports Data, Iuliia Chikish
Appalachian Caregivers of Persons with Dementia Non Use of Services, Kristina M. Childers
State Counter-Insurgency And Political Policing In Colonial And Post-Colonial Malawi, 1891-1994, Paul Brenard Chiudza Banda
Student-Instructor Out-of-Class Communication: A Media Multiplexity Approach, Cathlin V. Clark-Gordon
Improving the Care of Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome by Implementing Rooming In, Tammi M. Clutter
The Progressive Miners of America: Roots of Dissent and Foundational Years, 1932-1940, Ian Stewart Cook
In vitro metabolism of the synthetic cannabinoids PX-1, PX-2, PX-3 and a comparison of their clearance rates in human liver microsomes, Travon Cooman
An Assessment of Emotional-Force and Cultural Sensitivity The Usage of English Swearwords by L1 German Speakers, Sarah Dawn Cooper
Estimating the Age of a Bloodstain using Droplet Digital PCR, Kalee Rae Crampton
Stream Salamander And Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community Responses To Imidacloprid Exposure, Sara M. Crayton
Material Disease: Agency and Illness in Early American Literature, Mariah Crilley
Johannes Brahms’s Fünf Ophelia-Lieder Performance history, cultural context, and character study as it pertains to Johannes Brahms’s Fünf Ophelia-Lieder: A Performer’s Perspective, Caryn Alexis Crozier
Defining the Late Style of Johannes Brahms: A Study of the Late Songs, Natilan Casey-Ann Crutcher
Browsing via Sonification, TAYLOR C. CUTLIP
Framing effects on fear of terrorism and willingness to sacrifice civil liberties, Ellory Ruth Dabbs
Characterization of Major Flavonols in Ramps (Allium tricoccum), Wijdan M. Dabeek
A Coordination-Based Approach to Subnational Variations in Split-Ticket Voting: The Case of Ghana 1996-2016, Samuel Kofi Darkwa
Super-Localizing Food as Tourism Development™: Producing the 30 Mile Meal™ in Athens, Ohio, Jed DeBruin
Historic Log Buildings as Archives of Past Forest Ecology, Kristen K. de Graauw
Jurors' Perceptions of Preschoolers and Younger School Aged Children's Memory Errors, Emily Margaret Deming
The Working Public’s Perceptions of Service Dogs: A Phenomenological Investigation of Gatekeepers’ Experiences, Angela M. Dial
Low-Power Reconfigurable Sensing Circuitry for the Internet-of-Things Paradigm, Alexander DiLello
Discrimination and behavioral responses to communication signals compared across Apteronotids., Danielle Leigh Dillon-Seeger
Avian Occupancy Dynamics and Canada Warbler (Cardellina canadensis) Environmental Correlates on a Central Appalachian Elevation Gradient in West Virginia, Gordon W. Dimmig
Recording the Classical Tuba, Larry Dine
Online Model Predictive Control of a Nonisothermal and Nonisobaric Membrane Reactor for Water-Gas Shift Reaction Applications, Jacob Martin Douglas
A Timeless Ritual, Luke Thomas Doyle
Investigation of Heat Exchanger Effectiveness Using a Surface Coating Technology, Allen Duffy
Impact of Natural Fracture Induced Elastic Anisotropy on Completion and Hydraulic Fracturing Designs, Emre Can Dundar
Improving Solder Joints Formed in Microgravity by Use of Magnetic Soldering Paste Additives, Aaron Dunkle
Promoting Sense of Belonging and Interest in Geosciences among Undergraduate Women through Mentoring, Wenyi Du
Deep Learning For Image Restoration And Robotic Vision, Yixin Du
A Comprehensive Evaluation of a Home Visitation Program Model's Prenatal Physical Activity Curriculum Modules Delivered Primarily to Low-income Women, Angela Marie Dyer
Behavioral Impairment Following Gestational Exposure to Titanium Dioxide Nanomaterial Aerosols in Male and Female Rats, Matthew Leland Eckard
Evaluation of Ultra Fine Cigarette Smoke Particles Penetration on 3M 6200 Half Mask Respirators with P-100 Filters, Selcuk Elhan
Rule Extraction and Insertion to Improve the Performance of a Dynamic Cell Structure Neural Network, Osama Amhamed Elsarrar
Three Essays on Utilizing Spatial Econometrics in Natural Resource Economics related to Water, Health, and Energy, Elham Erfanian
Crown-level mapping of tree species and health from remote sensing of rural and urban forests, Fang Fang
Short-term abstinence effects in experienced electronic cigarette users, Nicholas J. Felicione
Organizational Models in Athletic Training and the Effect on the Quality of Care Delivered, Matthew Ferreira
Three Essays on the Economics of Public Libraries, Amir Borges Ferreira Neto
Morphological and Phylogenetic Resolution of Diplodia spp., Emerging Canker Pathogens of Oak (Quercus spp.), in the United States, Savannah Lyn Ferreira
Following the Leaders: Issue Attention and Agenda Dynamics in Women’s Health Care Policy, Kara Anne Fisher
Effect of Metacarpal Gloves on Pinch and Grip Strength, Aaron Anthony Fonner
An Investigation of the Relation between Mindfulness and Self-Esteem Stability, Cameron Grant Ford
Agenda-Setting and Framing Effects in Both the Vietnam and Iraq Wars, Noelle Forde
Efficacy of Cognitive Training Intervention with a Coaching Component on Attention and Response Control in Emerging Adults, Thomas Craig Foster Jr
Building an Image: Japanese Influence on the Perception of Western Countries, A Study of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, Andrea M. Fowler
Demographic, Spatial, And Epigenetic Response Of The Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia Motacilla) To Shale Gas Development, Mack W. Frantz
Sediment Provenance Study of the Lower Hamilton Group: An Analysis of the Organic-Rich Facies and its Depositional History, Luke Patrick Fritz
The Economic Contribution of West Virginia's Forest Products Industry, Charles Clinton Gabbert
Impacts of climate change on water balance components in the central Appalachian Mountains, USA, Brandi Anne Gaertner
Security Bug Report Classification using Feature Selection, Clustering, and Deep Learning, Tanner D. Gantzer
Application of Lidar to 3D Structural Mapping, Bertrand Gaschot
A Descriptive Analysis of PETE Master’s Programs in the U.S. and their Alignment with Advanced Teaching Standards, Jamie K. Gilbert
Cloud 9: Bringing the abstract to light, Thomas N. Gillette
Adolescent Residential Mobility: Behavioral Outcomes and the Moderating Role of the Mother-Adolescent Relationship, Sloane B. Glover
The Hard Bop Trombone: An exploration of the improvisational styles of the four trombonist who defined the genre (1955-1964), Emmett Curtis Goods
Liberation by Emigration: Italian Communists, the Cold War, and West-East Migration from Venezia Giulia, 1945-1949, Luke Gramith
Predictors of Perceived Multicultural Competence Among Neuropsychological Trainees, Hannah K. Greenbaum
The Effect of Bovine Galectin-1, a Conceptus Secretory Protein, on the Endometrial Transcriptome, Lindsay Faye Grose
Regulator of G Protein Signaling-12 (RGS12) in dopaminergic and kappa opioid receptor-dependent signaling and behavior, Joshua David Gross
Fundamental Mechanism of Time Dependent Failure in Shale, Neel Gupta
A Pedagogical Guide to Kapustin’s Eight Concert Etudes, Op. 40, Yanjing Gu
The Effects Hot Water Kill Time has on DNA Degradation and STR Profiling from Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Crop Contents, Nicholas Alexander Haas
WISH4Campus: Evaluating College Food Insecurity and Promoting Solutions for Student Wellbeing, Rebecca L. Hagedorn
The Effect of Occlusal Pressure on Vertical Force Generation on Dentate and Edentulous Subjects, Matthew Thomas Harper
Thermal Performance of Growth at Consumption Maximum (C-Max) and Routine Metabolic Rate (RMR) in Brook Trout Salvelinus fontinalis from four Populations in Central Appalachia, Cory Michael Hartman
The Potential Promises and Pitfalls of Using Local Norms for Gifted Identification, Marla S. Hartman
Identification of Burnt Smokeless Gunpowders Through Physical Characteristics, Cameron Taylor Hartwig
Computer-Assisted Instruction Compared to Traditional Instruction on Letter Recognition for Preschoolers with Special Needs, Jamie Nicole Harvey
Effects of Teacher Training in Trial-Based Functional Analysis via Video Modeling, Mary Haspel
Environmental Regulation of the Heart: The Role of Non-Coding RNA and Epigenetics in Influencing Mitochondrial and Cellular Health, Quincy Alexander Hathaway
Aspect influence on productivity when applying the deferment harvest method in mixed-oak hardwood forests in West Virginia, Breanne Held
Persistence of Undergraduate Women in STEM through TIMSI, Heather L. Henderson
Multimodal Approach for Malware Detection, Jarilyn M. Hernandez Jimenez
The Structural Information Filtered Features Potential for Machine Learning calculations of energies and forces of atomic systems., Jorge Arturo Hernandez Zeledon
Modeling Movement of Criminals through Burglary Scenes, Veronica L. Herrmann