This collection contains theses, dissertations, problem reports, and project reports (ETDs) from West Virginia University graduate students.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Pedagogical Piano Works by Four Contemporary Composers: Emma Lou Diemer, Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee, Karen Tanaka and Chee-Hwa Tan, Manuel Alejandro Molina Flores
Advancing Assessments of Climate Change Vulnerability of West Virginia Watersheds, Joseph T. Molina
US Buyers’ Behavior Towards Social Sustainable Certificates, Mehnaz Fatima Monamy
Life Landmarks, Brian S. Morgenlander
Generative Adversarial Network and Its Application in Aerial Vehicle Detection and Biometric Identification System, Moktari Mostofa
Simulations of Implementation of Advanced Communication Technologies, Ivy Yousuf Moutushi
Nature Based Interventions for Human Health and Wellbeing, Samantha I. Moyers
Botanical Folktales, Jameson Frances Mulac
Heat Shock Protein 90 (HSP90) system in health and disease., Daniella Munezero
Negative Forces in Consumption: Their Unpleasant but Undeniable Influence on Consumers, Yumei Mu
Vaping with Nicotine during Pregnancy Affects Aortic Structure and Function in Rat Offspring, Sydney Alexis Nassabeh
Governance from Below: Decentralization, Innovation, and Disaster Management in East Asia, Fatemah Muneer Nawabdin
Fife and Drum as a Secondary Ensemble within the Public Schools, Travis Lee Nestor
Dietary Supplementation and Functional Foods: From Development to Clinical and Public Health Implications, Rachel Grace Newman
Investigating the interactions of the iron-sulfur mitochondrial protein, mitoNEET with its binding partners, Ebenezer Osei Newton
Community and key player detection for disrupting illicit drug supply networks in social media platforms – especially on Instagram, Akassi Rachel Niamke Aman
Relationships between geochemistry, carbon content, and grain size in clastic cave sediments, Rebekah Rose Nicholas
Retention and Persistence of Low-Income, First-Generation Rural College Students from West Virginia, Rachel D. Nieman
Effects of Light/Dark Cycle Shifts on Delay Discounting, Katya A. Nolder
Producing Hardwood Cross - Laminated Timber (HCLT) Mats from Low Grade Red Oak Lumber, Jonathan R. Norris
THE EFFECT OF SILVER CARP ON LARGE RIVER COMMUNITY SIZE SPECTRA, Bradley R. Novak
Longitudinal oxygen imaging in 3D (bio)printed models, Ryan Curtis O'Connell
Analytical Heat Transfer Modeling of the Microwave Heating Process: A Focus on Carbon Black, Craig Offutt
Skirting the Law: Sensationalism and Spectacle of British Murderesses from the 1830s to the 1860s, Sarah Elizabeth Offutt
Lithium-ion Battery Safety Analysis with Physical Sub-models, Samuel Abimbola Ogunfuye
Accelerating Manufacturing Decisions using Bayesian Optimization: An Optimization and Prediction Perspective, Taofeeq Olajire
Not a do-or-die affair: Freelance Journalists in Nigeria and Ethical Dilemmas, Tolulope O. Olasoji
Navigating Place and Gender: A Multicontextual Critical Narrative Inquiry of Rural Trans* Student Experiences, Jessie Lynn O'Quinn
Advancing Carbon Sequestration through Smart Proxy Modeling: Leveraging Domain Expertise and Machine Learning for Efficient Reservoir Simulation, Iman Oraki Kohshour
A Selective Guide to Solo Bass Trombone Repertoire from 1961 to Present, Andrew Amadeus Ortega
The Eruption of Disruption: The Manifestation of Disrupting whiteness in Secondary Social Studies in Appalachia, Elizabeth DiSalvo Osborne
Utility of an Emotion Coding System for Parent-Child Interaction Therapy with Toddlers, Christopher Kyle Owen
Can gamification increase work motivation? Considering the job characteristics model and employee attitudes towards games., Richard A. Oxarart
Optimal Deployment of Air Vehicle as Communication Relay for Multiple Ground Vehicles, Juan David Pabon Arias
The Effects of E-Cigarette Aerosol on the Force Degradation of Elastomeric Chain: An in Vitro Pilot Study, Nicholas David Palmer
The Creation of an Adolescent Prediabetes Screening Protocol to Help with Early Prediabetes Identification, Brittany Parker
Profiles of Positive and Negative Risk-taking among Asian and Non-Asian American Emerging Adults, Yea Won Park
Application of the Flowing Material Balance to Unconventional Gas Reservoirs, Amanda Jo Parrish
Elizabeth Rockwell Raphael and Outlines Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1941-1947, Sydney Michelle Pascarella
Enantioselective Dearomatization Facilitated by Non-Covalent Interactions of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysts and Pyridinium Salts, Jack A. Patterson
Discovering and Understanding High Performance Materials using Density Functional Theory: Quantum Mechanical Simulations and the Consequences of Symmetry, Olivia M. Pavlic
Rather Than to Seem: Black and Indigenous Narratives in a Stormy, Swampy South, Jennifer Denise Peedin
Intercultural Competence in the ESL Classroom: Challenges and Successes, Breno Santos Rodrigues Pereira
WVU Core Arboretum User Motivations, Demographics, and Satisfaction: A Snapshot From Summer of 2022 to Spring of 2023, Bennett F. Phillips
Dispositional Optimism and Autonomic Reactivity During Passive-Coping and Active-Coping Stress Tasks, Emma R. Pino
Spatial Variability in Above Ground Carbon Within an Appalachian Forest, Megan A. Ponczek
Understanding and Evaluating Stereotypes towards Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Symptom Subtypes, Gabriella T. Ponzini
Essays on the Economics of Law and Crime, Zachary J. Porreca
Object Detection and Classification in the Visible and Infrared Spectrums, Domenick D. Poster
Interpretation of the Tandem Mass Spectrum of the Novel Psychoactive Substance 5F-APP-PINACA, PX-2, Christopher S. Poulos
Computerized Trajectory Analysis for Firearms Examiners, Baillie E. Poulton
A study of accidental daughter crystals in fluid inclusions in bedded halite from the Permian Opeche Shale and Cedar Hills Sandstone of the midcontinental United States, Ryan James Prchlik
Headcase, Ashley Marie Preece
Enhancing the forensic comparison process of common trace materials through the development of practical and systematic methods, Meghan Nicole Prusinowski
Optimal Path Planning for Aerial Robots Using Genetic Algorithm, Anna Puigvert I Juan
Social Determinants of Health and Functional Disability at Mid- and Late-life, Carly Pullen
The role of NEDD9 in HER2-driven breast cancer., Marc Louis Purazo
Relational Turbulence and Identity Gaps Amongst Committed Consensually Non-Monogamous Partners, R. E. Purtell
Epistemological Insecurity in the Anthropocene, Dustin Purvis
Analysis of the root causes of fatal injuries in the United States surface mines between 2008 and 2021., Maria Fernanda Quintero
Sense and Sensitivity: Spatial Structure of conspecific signals during social interaction, Keshav Ramachandra
Morphological, physiological, and transcriptional responses of Populus trichocarpa to water deficit stress, Kristin Justine Ratliff
Assessment of Regional Bike and Pedestrian Equity in Transportation Plans, Drew Reiter
The Enigmatic Nature of Toxic Masculinity: Utilizing Quasi-Photovoice Methodology to Make Distinctions between Hegemonic and Toxic Masculinity, Taylor Elizabeth Remsburg
An Empirical Analysis of Approximation Algorithms for the Unweighted Tree Augmentation Problem, Jacob Thomas Restanio
Measuring and modeling how plant-microbe interactions control soil carbon and nitrogen cycling in managed and unmanaged ecosystems, Joanna Ridgeway
Mitigation and preparedness in disaster communication: Examining the need for closing the loop in the discourse of renewal theory, Abigail Renee Riggs
Attachment Issues: Microbes, Minerals, and the Persistence of Soil Organic Matter, Md Shafiul Islam Rion
What’s Long about Long John Silver: Anormative Masculinities and Histories in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, David V. Riser
Exploiting the Advantages and Overcoming the Challenges of the Cable in a Tethered Drone System, Rogerio Rodrigues Lima
The Effect of Pubertal Stress on Prefrontal Cortex Related Behavior in Adult and Adolescent Mice, Bryan Rodriguez
Evaluation of Changes in Cellular Behavior upon Exposure to Selected Analytes used in Synthetic Applications, Olivia L. Rose
A Neo-Aristotelian criticism of Trump’s “Save America Speech” utilizing the five canons of rhetoric, Jade Ruggieri
Evaluating the Degradation Relationship Between Latent Print Impressions and Touch DNA Under Varying Environmental Conditions, Katrina M. Rupert B.S.
Rehabilitation of the river’s role in historic urban landscape of Shushtar, Iran, Parvaneh Sabbagh-Ziarani
Response of running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum Muhl ex. A. Eaton) to herbaceous competition and transplanting in Monongahela National Forest, Ruben E. Sabella
Long-Term Prescription Opioid Use, Cancer Stage, and Economic Burden among Older Cancer Survivors with Non-Cancer Chronic Pain Conditions, Rudi Safarudin
Sequence Checking and Deduplication for Existing Fingerprint Databases, Tahsin Islam Sakif
Analysis and Performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s Hebreische Milonga, Gerardo Sanchez Pastrana
Empowering Elderpreneurs sCommerce for GenX Consignment Store Owners in West Virginia, Joyita Sarkar
Enabling Cybersecure and Resilient Smart Distribution Grid with Edge Devices, Partha Sarathi Sarker
Comparative Analysis of Artificial Intelligence and Numerical Reservoir Simulation in Marcellus Shale Wells, Arya Maher Sattari
Effects of Oxycodone and Methylphenidate on Self-Control with Aversive Outcomes, Jeremy Saul Langford
An Alternate History of the Bad Years: A Novel, Anna Hamilton Schles
Sexism in the Digital World: A Thematic Content Analysis of the Cyberbullying of Lil Miquela, Shyanne Elizabeth Schmithorst
Erickson Alumni Center Weddings: Consulting Report, Andrew Sealy
Techno-Economic Analysis and Optimization of Hydrogen and Mechanical Energy Storage Systems, Pavitra Senthamilselvan Sengalani
Rad Rivers in Rad Places: Characterizing the Historical and Future Whitewater Resources in Select Regions of the United States, Melissa D. Shafer
Program Evaluation of a Type 1 Diabetes Transition Process for Emerging Adults, Anna J. Shashura
Investigation of Fungal Pathogens and Woodboring Beetles of Sugarbush Stands in the Central Appalachian Region, Molly A. Sherlock
Concentrated Wastewater Treatment Using a Ferric Iron-dosed Anaerobic Upflow Sludge Blanket Reactor for Recovery of Phosphorus and Ammonium, Carley E. Shingleton
Rumen and Urine Amine/Phenol-Metabolome of Beef Steers with Divergent Residual Feed Intake, Taylor S. Sidney
Lipid binding properties of huntingtin as a novel therapeutic target, Chathuranga Siriwardhana
Exogenous factors that impact huntingtin aggregation, Adam Skeens