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 2014
Investigating the Potential of Waste Heat Recovery as a Pathway for Heavy-Duty Exhaust Aftertreatment Thermal Management, Saroj Pradhan
Effects of Dietary Immunomodulation on Parasite Load in Commercial Crossbred Lambs, Rebecca Christine Price
An old tool for a new generation: Using the Star power simulation to teach social inequality, Barbara Prince
Sport Psychology "App"lication: NCAA Coaches' Preferences for a Mental Training Mobile App, Raymond F. Prior
Friendship Quality of Early Adolescent Girls in relation to Maternal and Paternal Parenting, Social Anxiety, and Interpersonal Skill, Joanna T. Prout
Application of Neural Network Techniques to Downscale Precipitation, Javad Rahimikollu
Characterization of heavy duty engine fuel maps used for model based simulation tools, Nitin Rana
Burden of Colorectal Cancer among the elderly Medicare beneficiaries in West Virginia A comparative analysis with national data, Pallavi Balwant Rane
Instrument comparison for Aerosolized Titanium Dioxide, Anand Ranpara
Assessment strategies for mixing in very viscous gas-liquid two-phase flows, Sharad Chand Ravinuthala
Numerical investigation of the influence of elevated turbulence levels on the cooling effectiveness of an anti-vortex hole geometry, Timothy William Repko
Control Design and Performance Analysis for Autonomous Formation Flight Experiments, Caleb M. Rice
Reinforcing Effects of Near Wins in Extinction and Concurrent-Chains Procedures, Nathaniel Rice
Corridos, Drugs, and Violence: An Analysis of Mexican Drug Ballads, Kristen L. Richmond
The Development and Psychometric Analysis of an Instrument to Measure a Woman's Experience of Childbirth, Elizabeth Viens Rini
Development of a mechanical vapor-compression distiller incorporating concentrated solar power, Garrett Tyler Rinker
Belarus's National Narratives and Representation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Jevgenijs Rjascenko
NATO military interventions in Kosovo, Libya, Afghanistan and their impact on relations with Russia after the Cold War, Dovydas Rogulis
Hydrogen-deuterium exchange studies by mass spectrometry: A method for obtaining conformational structures of proteins in solution, Teerapat Rojsajjakul
Grass component effect on soil physical properties in an organic crop rotation, Emily Leslie Romano
A streptozotocin-induced model of Alzheimer's disease in mice with wild-type human tau, Carolyn C. Rudy
Low-Power and Programmable Analog Circuitry for Wireless Sensors, Brandon David Rumberg
Cabaret: A lesson in recovery, Jane Ryan
Raising Soviets on Imported Goods. Socialist Realism in Estonian Secondary Education, Helen Saask
The Role of Physical Appearance in the Peer Acceptance of Emerging Adults Undergoing Chemotherapy, Megan E. Samples
Evolutionary Search Techniques with Strong Heuristics for Multi-Objective Feature Selection in Software Product Lines, Abdel Salam Sayyad
"Busy Mischievous Ffellows": Imperial Agency in Pennsylvania During the Seven Years' War, Benjamin G. Scharff
Psychological Measures to Predict Serious Prison Violence, Allison M. Schenk
"It's not just your dad and it's not just your coach..." The dual-role relationship in female tennis players, Olivier N. Schmid
Alfven Wave Propagation in Inhomogeneous Plasmas, Stephanie Sears
A preliminary study evaluating potential probiotic use in endodontics, Khaled Seifelnasr
Evaluation of asphalt pavements construction practice in West Virginia, Masoud Seyed Mohammad Ghavami
A Study of Dynamical and Emission Variabilities in Pulsars, Andrew D. Seymour
This perfect world, Christina Seymour
Refined computational modeling of SOFCs degradation due to trace impurities in coal syngas, Hayri Sezer
Utilization of fish for constitutional and acquired chromosomal abnormalities for diagnostic and prognostic purposes, Amy L. Shackelford
Assisted history matching using pattern recognition technology, Alireza Shahkarami
Investigating the Role of Mechanical Properties in Biological Systems, Nicole Shamitko-Klingensmith
A Supervised Low-Rank Matrix Decomposition for Matching, Sajid Sharlemin
Three essays on institutional change, Kathleen M. Sheehan
A Study of Magnetic Reconnection: From 2D Energy Release to 3D Spreading and Localization, Lucas S. Shepherd
Effects of Aquatic Exercise on Executive Function in the Aging Population, Lori A. Sherlock
Nerve growth factor regulates Na+ transport in human airway epithelial cells, Michael J. Shimko
Design, Fabrication, and Control of an Upper Arm Exoskeleton Assistive Robot, Reza Shisheie
A Developmental Perspective: Early Childhood Externalizing Behaviors Pathway to Delinquency in Adolescence, Tandra Nicole Sias
Motivational Factors Contributing to the Choice of Agriculturally Related Careers, Lacey J. Sims
Application Activities Designed to Prepare Preservice Special Education Teachers for Response and Prevention of Bullying Behaviors, Crystal Smith
Effects of long-term phonological knowledge on learning new words, Elizabeth S. Smith
Service-learning and critical thinking outcomes in general education courses, Larry J. Smith
Long Exposure: environmental racism and activism in Institute, West Virginia, Allyssa Sobey
Why and How Organizational Members Encourage Their Peer Coworkers to Voluntarily Exit the Organization: An Investigation of Peer-Influence Exit Tactics, Michael Sollitto
Immune related gene expression of parasite-resistant sheep during a Haemonchus contortus infection, Karen Nicole Sommers
Advanced Composites for Design and Rehabilitation of Hydraulic Structures, Piyush Ram Soti
The denaturalization of miguel de cervantes saavedra's El igenioso hidalgo don quijote de la mancha in children's entertainment in the United States, Danielle Vincenza South
Creating Liminal Spaces, Silas Brook Spellman
Post-Translational Modifications of the Paired Box Transcription Factor 7 (Pax7) in Satellite Cells During the Repair of Injured Skeletal Muscle, Justin E. Sperringer
Early School Leaving: A Narrative Inquiry of the School Dropout, John E. Stallings Jr.
Examining childbirth-related trauma and its effect on maternal self-efficacy and appraisal of infant temperament, Teresa B. Stire
Effectiveness of Community-Delivered Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Compared to Treatment as Usual, Jocelyn Stokes
Functional Equivalency of Created and Natural Wetlands in the Central Appalachians: Reproductive Success, Call Phenology, and Diet Composition of Amphibians, Gabriel F. Strain
The Rail and the Cross in West Virginia Timber Country: Rethinking Religion in the Appalachian Mountains, Joseph F. Super
Implementation of Self-Consolidating Concrete for Bridge Applications, Joseph Garet Sweet
Police Officers Talking About Gun Control: A Case Study of a Rural Sheriff's Department, Angela Sycafoose
Keystroke and Touch-dynamics Based Authentication for Desktop and Mobile Devices, Zahid Ali Syed
Tides and Air, Kristine R. Synowka
The role of self-efficacy in predicting treatment adherence in youth with cystic fibrosis, Margo M. Szabo
A Content Analysis of Celebrity-Endorsed Cosmetic Products in Fashion Magazines, Caroline Szwed
Development of a Remote Laboratory with the Integration of Cloud Applications, Jeremy Thompson
Role of the Dietitian in Multidisciplinary Treatment of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Wendy Thompson
Isotopic composition of dissolved inorganic carbon in underground mine discharges of the northern appalachian basin, Rachelle Thorne
Microfluidic 3D Gradient Generator for Studying Tubulogenesis, Bhargavi Thotakura
Essays on Industrial Agglomeration and Input-Output Linkages, Zheng Tian
Immunity-Based Accommodation of Aircraft Subsystem Failures, Adil Togayev
Modeling of Outer Radiation Belt Electron Scattering due to Spatial and Spectral Properties of ULF Waves, Mattias Tornquist
C8-Arylguanine Modified Hairpin Oligonucleotides: Synthesis, Conformational Analysis, and Tools for the Investigation of Z-DNA Formation, Brian C. Train
The Nontraditional Community College Student: A Phenomenological Approach to the Educational Experience, Alexander D. Tuel
Effects of Paired Housing and Acute d-Amphetamine on Delay Discounting in Lewis and Fischer 344 rats, Marissa Turturici
The role of the error correction journal on the written performance of foreign language students, Budimka Uskokovic Tenney
Planning Development: International Experts, Agricultural Policy, and The Modernization of Nigeria, 1945-1967, Bekeh Utietiang
Developed a Remote Technique to Assess the Effectiveness of Thermal Insulation in Households in West Virginia, Prateek Vaish
Regional Mapping and Reservoir Analysis of the Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale in the Appalachian Basin, Jared VanMeter
Predicting Opioid Prescribing Behaviors: Influence of an Expert Opioid-Risk Evaluation, Alison M. Vargovich
Influence of geochemical processes on the geomechanical response of the overburden due to CO2 storage in saline aquifers, Sai Bharath Kumar Varre
Stability of Methane-Ethane-Propane Mixed Gas Hydrates under Deep Water Conditions, Srinath Chowdary Velaga
Investigation of Emission Characteristics during Low Temperature Combustion using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines, Mario Velardi
A hypermedia design for both high and low knowledge readers, Jonathan Vickers
Burden of Breast Cancer and Associated Health and Economic Outcomes in Elderly Women in West Virginia: Comparison with National Estimates, Ami Maulik Vyas
Volumetric, planar and linear airway comparison after maxillomandibular advancement surgery, Deepa Vyas
Head and Neck Cancer Invasion: Contributions of Actin Regulatory Proteins and the Microenvironment, Elyse Lindsey Walk
Design Guidelines for an Apartments for Life Community, Sarah Elizabeth Walkup
The Evaluation of Emotion Regulation in Caregivers Referred to a Parent-Training Program, Nancy M. Wallace
Conceptual Learning: Enhancing Student Understanding of Physiology, Micah J. Waltz