Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
This collection contains theses, dissertations, problem reports, and project reports (ETDs) from West Virginia University graduate students.
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
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
A study of the ndt techniques using ultrasonic pulse velocity test and microwave oven method on SCC and TVC, Dana Dashti
Impact of Serving as an Extension Camping Instructor on Life Skills Development., Jeffery A. Davis Jr.
Immersive GeoDesign: Exploring the Built Environment through the Coupling of GeoDesign, 3D Modeling, and Immersive Geography, Marvin Davis
An Examination of Collegiate Athletes', Undergraduate Sport Science Majors', and Athlete Majors' Intent to Pursue Collegiate Coaching as a Career, Lauren Deckelbaum
Synergistic Modeling of in-vitro and in-vivo data via Stochastic Kriging with Qualitative Factors (SKQ), Behnam Dehghan
Analysis of Paleofluids in the Sant Corneli Anticline, South-Central Spanish Pyrenees, Amanda DeLisle
Effect of clay and salinity on asphaltene stability, Ahmet Birkan Demir
Women Gone Bad, Emily Denton
A Description of the Sound System of Misiones Mbya, Matias N. de Paula
Revealing Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party": An Analysis of the Curatorial Context, Sally Deskins
Paradoxical Roles of Nanoparticles in Cancer Therapeutics and Carcinogenesis, Emily Despeaux
Perceptions of the Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education (CASE) as Perceived by Agricultural Educators., Lauren Irene Devine
Towards quantifying the effects of resource extraction on land cover and topography through remote sensing analysis: Confronting issues of scale and data scarcity, Jessica D. DeWitt
A Case of the Mundanes, Nathan Ditzler
Four Days that Transformed Spain 11-M Impact on Memory Recovery Examined through the Lens of Duality, Thomas J. Divins
Expanding the Applications of Ion Mobility Spectrometry and Mass Spectrometry in Integrative 'Omics Analyses, Gregory C. Donohoe
Laugh With Me: Effects of Shortcoms on Students' Motivation, Confidence, and Cultural Understanding in the French Classroom, Juliette Duthoit
A fluid inclusion study of acidity in bedded halite of the Larne Halite Member, Triassic Mercia Mudstone Group from the Carnduff 2 Core, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Lynnette Ann Eichenlaub
Combinatorial Real-Time High Throughput Analyses of Cell Behavior Upon Exposure to Analytes, Reem Eldawud
Two Photon Absorption Laser Induced Fluorescence for Fusion Class Plasmas, Drew B. Elliott
Moment-type Nonparametric Estimation in Some Direct and Indirect Models, Fairouz M.Ali Elmagbri
Characterizations of the Marcellus Shale petrophysical properties, Mohamed Elsaig
Applications of the Scaled Laplace Transform in some Financial and Risk Models, Adetokunbo Ibukun Fadahunsi
Pretreating Underutilized Woody Biomass for Value-Added Biofuels and Bioproducts, Amy K. Falcon
Early Political Discord in Kenya: European Settlers' Political Struggles in the East Africa Protectorate, 1902-1912, Makhete Fall
Distributed Detection and Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks, Mohammad Fanaei
Compressing Genome Resequencing Data, Aliya Farheen
An Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Mobile Memory Interface for Computing Systems, Majid Jalali Far
Grainyhead-like 2 Reverses the Metabolic Changes Induced by the Oncogenic Epithelialmesenchymal Transition: Effects on Anoikis, Joshua C. Farris
An Exploration of the Relationships between Chronic Pain, Inflammation, and Herbal Medicine, Termeh Feinberg
Look Alive, Melissa Ferrone
Influence of the Gondwanide Magmatic Arc and Cape Fold Belt on the Karoo Basin - South Africa, Clyde Pitt Findlay III
Through Babel, Hailey Foglio
Nutritional Consequences of Various Ingredients in Broilers, Turkeys, and Swine, Kolby L. Foltz
Does Mindfulness Reduce Attentional Negativity Bias and Depressive Symptoms?, Cameron Ford
Geographies of Pluto, Amelia Fowler
A Parametric Study on the Effects of Ignition Timing, Spark Plug Type, and Exhaust Gas Recirculation on a Legacy 2-Stroke Lean Burn Natural Gas Engine, Nathaniel P. Fowler
Next Generation Online Math I Course Evaluation, Jennifer Francis
Analysis, Design and Rehabilitation of Structural Members with Timber and FRP, Venkat Dheeraj Gadi Reddy
Homeplace, Megan Leigh Gainer
From association to function: elucidating the role of G Protein Signaling Modulator 3 and variants in its gene locus in rheumatoid arthritis, Bryan Jeffery Gall
eSPAN140 performance assessment: V-65 Jesup South Bridge (Buchanan County, Iowa), Bryan R. Gallion
Recovery of the Regression Functions and Distributions in some Incomplete Models, Broti Garai
A geometric hashing technique for star pattern recognition, Joshua Gerhard
Manual Optical Attitude Re-initialization of a Crew Vehicle in Space Using Bias Corrected Gyro Data, Christopher J. Gioia
A CBCT evaluation of root position within bone, long axis inclination, and the WALA Ridge, Timothy R. Glass
Spatial and Temporal Distribution of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), Jakob Goldner
Concept and Operation of Robotic Nondestructive Testing Systems for Space Exploration Objectives, Drew M. Goodman