This collection contains theses, dissertations, problem reports, and project reports (ETDs) from West Virginia University graduate students.
Students: See Prepare Your ETD for formatting requirements before you Submit your ETD
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The American Hunting Story and the Formation of Environmental Literature., Jericho Williams
Secrets and Lies: A Profile-Based Examination of Youth and Parent Information Management Strategies and Adolescent Electronic Cigarette Use, Desiree N. Williford
Exploring the Power of County-Level Regional Classifications on Predicting Sex-Specific All-Cause Mortality in the United States, Julia Kay Wolf
A Transcription for Soprano Saxophone and Piano of Chen Yi's "Chinese Folk Dance Suite", Originally for Violin and Orchestra, Tak Chiu Wong
Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometric Determination of Selected Biological Species, Xiaqing Xu
Reliability Study of Blue Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, Renyuan Yang
Preparation of SiCNFs Composite Anode by Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD), Meng Yao
Detection and Persistence of Gunshot Residue (GSR) on Facial Features using SEMEDX, Samuel Yatzkan
Three Essays in Real Estate Economics, Christopher Yencha
Synchronization of Coupled Chemical Oscillators and Collective Behavior of Self-Propelled Particles, Desmond Tutu Soti Yengi
Climatic and Ecohydrologic Linkages of Net Ecosystem Exchanges (NEE) across Diverse Ecosystems, Mohammed Tamim Zaki
Buying Thebes: Promoting a Cultural Commonwealth in Contemporary Anglophone Adaptations of Greek Tragedy, Phillip Zapkin
Selected Topics in Image Super-Resolution: Guided Image and Learning Representation, Wentian Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Effect of Narrative Structure of Animated Movies on ESL Learners' Recall and Comprehension of Stories, Noriza Abu Hassan Shaari
Analysis of curved composite beam, Manish Aggarwal
Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors: An Examination of the Co-occurrence of Risk Behaviors in a National Sample of U.S. High School Adolescents, Halima Ahmadi-Montecalvo
Assessing the match performance of non-ideal operational facial images using 3D image data., Rupindrani Aila
Conditioning the Estimating Ultimate Recovery of Shale Wells to Reservoir and Completion Parameters, Maher Jasim Alabboodi
Determination of Cost-Effective Range in Surface Finish for Single Pass Turning, Mazin Fahad Alahmadi
Quantification of Stabilization Efforts of Shoulder Muscles using Surface Electromyography, Hamad Nasser Alasim
Behavior of Concrete Members Reinforced with Basalt FRP, Mariam Albaghli
Diamond Bur Cutting Efficiency of Dental Zirconia, Shelby Allison Alexander
Impact of nanoscale pore sizes on the flow of gas mixtures in marcellus shale reservoir, Noor Mazher Alfashkhi
On Supereulerian Digraphs, Mansour Jarbo Algefari
Risk perception and awareness of oil and natural gas safety among local populations in the eastern province of Jubail, Saudi Arabia, Wajeeh Aljanabi
RNA-protein interaction prediction: String-based versus feature-based models, Maen Allaga
Robust Video Stabilization and Quality Evaluation for Amateur Videos, Usha Kalyani Alluri
Analysis of the potential of renewable energy development in Saudi Arabia, Fahad Alqahtani
Modeling and Simulation of a Free-Piston Engine with Electrical Generator Using HCCI Combustion, Mohammad Alrbai
A study on Dicycles and Eulerian Subdigraphs, Khalid A. Alsatami
The Challenges Faced by New Science Teachers in Saudi Arabia, Salman Alsharari
Risk of Newly-diagnosed Depression, Treatment and its Economic Outcomes among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries with Incident Breast, Colorectal or Prostate Cancer, Monira Mansour Alwhaibi
Experiences of Parents of Children Adopted from Overseas: A Thematic Analysis of Narratives, Ekaterina Anatolyevna Amarando
Well-defined Lagrangian flows for absolutely continuous curves of probabilities on the line, Mohamed H. Amsaad
Diversity Outreach in Major League Baseball: A Stakeholder Approach, Shaun M. Anderson
Depositional and Diagenetic History of the Triassic Redbeds and Evaporites from the Mercia Mudstone Group in the Carnduff 02 Core of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Anna Sofia Andeskie
Mixed Signal Integrated Circuit Design for Custom Sensor Interfacing, Steven M. Andryzcik II
Developing a Smart Proxy for Fluidized Bed Using Machine Learning, Amir Ansari
Protecting the Shield: How the NFL frames an organizational crisis, Mel Anton
Anteroposterior Jaw Position and Pharyngeal Airway Morphology in Young Adult Patients: A CBCT Study, Martin C. Avey
A computational model for thermal management of battery storage systems, Mehmet Aygun
Streptococcal collagen-like protein 1, Scl1, modulates group a Streptococcus adhesion, biofilm formation and virulence, Beth Alexandra Bachert
PE Teachers' Perceptions of Technology-Related Learning Experiences: A Qualitative Investigation, Jun-Hyung Baek
Applying Psychological Reactance Theory to Communication between Adult Child Caregivers and their Older Adult Parents, Hannah Ball
Safe Semi-Supervised Learning with Sparse Graphs, Prithish Banerjee
Optical and Terahertz Measurements of Spintronic Materials, Derek A. Bas
Three Essays Analyzing the Pricing of a Community Supported Agriculture System, Dwayne Bauknight
Determination of Strain Patterns Across the Root-Stem Transition Zone in Trees, Kenneth Edward Beezley
The Doddridge Distillery, Margaret Mae Behringer
Signaling Changes in Reinforcer Ratios Facilitates Adaptive Forgetting in Pigeons, Daniel Bell-Garrison
Perceptions of Urban Forestry Employers, Andrew Benjamin
Impact of being a West Virginia State FFA President on Career and Personal Accomplishments as Perceived by Past State FFA Presidents 1955 to 2005, Jada M. Bennett
In-line, Real-time Particulate Matter Sensors for OBD and Exhaust After-treatment System Control Applications, Marc Cyrill Besch
An integrated lateral flow device for flow control and blood separation, Veronica Betancur Calle
Media Framing of News Coverage of Same-sex Marriage Surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court Legalization Decision, Chelsea B. Betts
Shale lithofacies modeling of the Bakken Formation in the Williston basin, North Dakota, Shuvajit Bhattacharya
The effect of polymer coatings on the pulmonary toxicity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes, Lindsey M. Bishop
Survival, Movement and Growth of Juvenile Chinook ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Salmon Over-wintering in Twitter Creek, South-central, Alaska, James Keith Boersma
Interleukin-15 Overexpression Attenuates Muscle Fatigue Associated with Murine EO771 Mammary Tumors, Joseph F. Bohlen
Three Essays on the Economics of Corruption, Jamie Bologna
Heritage language learners' experiences in Russian as a foreign language courses, Margarita Bondareva
Implementation and Evaluation of Teach-back as a Pedagogical Method for Delivering Fall Prevention Education to Older Adults in an Inpatient Hospital Setting, Elizabeth Bosley
Voluntary Wheel Running Improves Recovery from Muscle Disuse in Mice, Matthew J. Brooks
Cerebrovascular Dysfunction in Metabolic Syndrome and Depression: Mechanisms and Implications for Neurovascular Disease, Steven David Brooks
Cholesterol Diet-Associated Changes in the Hippocampus - A Prelude to Alzheimer's Disease?, Sylwia W. Brooks
A Study of the Energy Consumption of a Battery Cooling System by Different Cooling Strategies, Justin A. Brumley
Conversion to Evangelical Christianity during College: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Meagan Alicia Brunson
Determination of material properties for progressive damage analysis in carbon epoxy laminates using Abaqus, Javier Cabrera Barbero
Application of 1,2,3-Triazole in Gold Catalysis and Photoredox Catalysis, Rong Cai
The Feasibility of a Home Telenutrition Intervention for Weight Reduction in Men in West Virginia, Michelle Campion
Listening To Their Voices: An Ethnographic Study of Children's Values and Meaning Ascribed to Learning World Music in Elementary School General Music, Juliana Cantarelli Vita
Cross-Spectral Full and Partial Face Recognition: Preprocessing, Feature Extraction and Matching, Zhicheng Cao
Examining whether Time Orientation Mediates or Moderates Age Effects on Goal Selection and Pursuit, Amy M. Knepple Carney
The Effect of Lower Extremity Asymmetries on Low Back and Lower Extremity Pain with Pregnancy, Erica Casto
An Examination of the Buffering Effect of Positive Emotions on Cardiovascular Reactivity and Recovery, Casey E. Cavanagh
Physicochemical modulation of huntingtin aggregation on lipid membranes: Implications for Huntington's disease, Maxmore Chaibva
Ecological Effects of Forest Canopy Disturbance on the Understory Plant, American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.), Jennifer L. Chandler
Dominant controls on organic-rich shale deposition: Geochemical evidences from the Marcellus Shale in the Appalachian basin, Ruiqian Chen
Echo Phenomena in Populations of Chemical Oscillators, Tianran Chen
Three essays on decomposition analysis of the territorial CO 2 emissions and the emissions embodiment in trade attributable to consumption of service-oriented economies, Chairat Choesawan
Evaluation of Concavity Compression Mechanism as a Possible Predictor of Shoulder Muscle Fatigue, Suman Kanti Chowdhury
How Far is Too Far? Understanding Identity and Overconformity in Collegiate Wrestlers, Ashley M. Coker-Cranney
The Opinions and Attitudes of Police Officers to Proposed Changes to Law Enforcement, Jason C. Contessa
Comparative Analysis of Uninhibited and Constrained Avian Wing Aerodynamics, Jordan A. Cox
Designing a Valid and Reliable Instrument to Measure Teachers' Use and Perceptions of Initiatives that Address the Low Socioeconomic Achievement Gap in West Virginia Title I Schools, Rosemary Beatrice Coyle Anderson
Endocannabinoid modulation of secretory and inflammatory causes of gastric pathology, Molly S. Crowe
Childhood Obesity Among Young Children Living in Poverty and Associations with Activity Level, Food Choices, and Parental Perceptions, Ashlee Cunningham
Differences in School Climate Means: Exploring Contextual Factors among a Sample of Appalachian Youth, Shay M. Daily
Evaluating the protocol of the spectrum of hot mix asphalt mixes produced in West Virginia, Laura Dalton
Young Adult Daughters and their Parents: Communication about WorkCareer and Family, Rita Daniels