This collection contains theses, dissertations, problem reports, and project reports (ETDs) from West Virginia University graduate students.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Nasals and Nasalization in Yoruba-Ijebu Dialect, Khadijat Olakintan Abdulrazaq

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Impacts Of Community Food Outreach Programs on Low-Income Families: St. Ursula’s Food Outreach Program in Pursglove Monongalia, West Virginia, United States as A Case Study, Oluwafunke Abeleje

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Two Essays to Encourage Agritourism Cluster Development in the Appalachian Region: An Analysis of Agritourism Operation Regarding Clustering and Toolkit Curriculum for Cluster Development, OLUWATOYIN ADEBISI

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Modeling, Control, and Fault Detection of Energy Systems under Limited High-Confidence Data Scenarios, Selorme K. Agbleze

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The function of protein glutamylation in vision, Rawaa Aljammal

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Implant Overdenture Abutment Loosening under Hyperbaric Conditions, Zana Jamal Al-Saloum

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The sex chromosome complement and gut microbiome act independently and collaboratively to impart sex dimorphisms in humoral immunity, Carly J. Amato-Menker

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FOREIGN POLICY REORIENTATION: FROM GLOBALIZATION TO NATIONALISM, Abdullah A. Asiri

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Implementing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Collect Human Gait Data at Distance and Altitude for Identification and Re-identification, Donn E. Bartram and Donn E. Bartram

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Informing Standardized Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) Population Monitoring: Influences of Sampling Approach and Turtle Behavior on Model Estimation, Allyson N. Beard

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Immune outcomes affected by selection for parasite resistance in Katahdin sheep, Kelsey Lynne Bentley

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Implementation of the Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education (AASPIRE)-based Guidelines to Improve Perioperative Care of Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Kayleigh Brink

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Factors that Influence Plans to Have Children: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior to Fertility Decision-Making Across the Reproductive Years, Amanda Chappell

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A Test of the Extended Theoretical Model of Communal Coping among Graduate Students: Investigating the Influence of Communal Coping on Graduate Students’ Psychological Well-Being, Rebekah M. Chiasson

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Intervention to reduce tobacco use among prostate cancer patient and informal caregiver dyads, Trupti Dhumal

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Your Eyes, Two Niles, Ola ElWassify

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The Relationship between Moral Thought-Action Fusion and Scrupulosity across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Kelsey Evey

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A Critical Event Narrative Analysis of African Women Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the United States: Impacts Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic, Damilola T. Fasinu

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The Influence of Faculty Mentorship on Graduate Student Development through the Lens of Self-Efficacy, Connor Lynn Ferguson

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Anti-Listeria of H2O2-Peroxyacetic acid Anti-Listeria Efficacy of a Hydrogen Peroxide-Peroxyacetic acid Mixer in Bacterial Buffered Solution and on Bell Peppers, Peighton Denae Foster

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Isabella: An Eternal Badass An Actor’s Exploration on Healing, Forgiveness, and Learning to Embrace the Messiness through Isabella in William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Shelby E. Garrett

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Essays on Consumption Dynamics, Shaun M. Gilyard

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Photoinduced alpha-Hydroxy C–H Alkylation of Mono-alcohols via Hydrogen Atom Transfer (HAT) of an Activated Boron-Containing Complex, Courtney Deanna Glenn

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The Relationship between Social Justice Attitudes and Compassion in Preservice Teachers: A Critically Compassionate Intellectualism Framework, Megan Hut

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Depicting The Donald: How Framing of Donald Trump in Media Changed Throughout the Course of His 2015-2016 United States Presidential Campaign, Jakob O. Janoski

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Parental Socialization of General and Domain-Specific Self-Control in Adolescents, Matty Johnston

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Evaluation of Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) for West Virginia to Predict Current and Future PMP & Utilizing Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) Sludge in Reclamation, Grace Katherine Kerr

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Utilizing sUAS-based Remote Sensing for Sustainable Outdoor Recreational Trail Design and Monitoring, Isaac C. Kinder

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Evaluating land cover change and opportunities for bioenergy crop development on surface mine sites in West Virginia, U.S.A., Kenzie D. Kohrs

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Pepperoni Roll Studios: Prototype Design for Creating and Operating a Podcast and Audio Production Student Organization at West Virginia University, Nicholas Kirk Kratsas

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Immunomodulation in Osteosarcoma: From Therapy to Diagnostics, Ryan Austin Lacinski

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Self-Efficacy and Parental Miscarried Helping in Adherence and Transition Readiness Among Adolescents and Young Adults with Epilepsy, Kirby-Estar G. Laguerre

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Associations Between Diabetes-Specific Psychological Flexibility, Family Conflict, Parental Distress and Adherence in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes, Rebecca I. LaQuaglia

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Rural Student Postsecondary Decision-Making: Navigating Narratives of the Purpose and Value of Higher Education, Ashley Renee Leggett-Bradley

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E-Cigarette Aerosol’s Effect on the Force Degradation of Elastomeric Chain: An in Vitro Study, Joshua D. Lokant

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Treatment Patterns and Clinical and Economic Burden in Patients with Merkel Cell Carcinoma: Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches, Yves Mbous

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Assessing The Impact of Olive Oil and Flaxseed Oil Supplementation on Hypertension and Inflammation in Healthy and At-Risk Adults, Tara Bess McNabb

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Comparative cephalometric study between Class II patients treated with Herbst appliance and patients treated with MARA, Mona Meky

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Abuse Liability of Electronic Cigarettes in Non-Smoking Electronic Cigarette Users, Andrea Renee Milstred

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Structural and functional consequences of PDE6 prenylation in rod and cone photoreceptors, Faezeh Moakedi

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Active Uncertainty Representation Learning: Toward More Label Efficiency in Deep Learning, Salman Mohamadi

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Associations Among Psychosocial Factors, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Adherence in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Cecelia I. Nelson

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From the Pews to the Ballot Box: How Religion Shapes Voting Behavior in Ghana., Maxwell Afriyie Nimako

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Reimagining the Refugee Figure: Survival Migration and Its After-Affects, Gabriella Pishotti

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Seeing Red: Hostile Attribution Bias, Aggression, and Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits, Kaley Potter

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Prediction of Anomalous Events with Data Augmentation and Hybrid Deep Learning Approach, Ahmed Shoyeb Raihan

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Success Beyond Access: Examining Institutional Barriers to Persistence and the Supports Needed by Nontraditional Students Participating in a Tuition-Free Community College Program, Amanda K. Roeher PhD

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The Impact of Normal Growth on the AP Relationships of the Jaws and Incisors to the Forehead: A Serial Cephalometric Analysis of Untreated Individuals, Adam Joseph Rudmann Dr

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Subjective Cognitive Decline: Examining the Contributions of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Social Determinants of Health, Amber Victoria Rusch

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LEDs for Controlled Environment Agriculture: Leveraging Light to Optimize Crops, Tristan D. Sanders

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Development and Application of Functional Immune Assays to Understand Disease in Wild Smallmouth Bass Populations, Cheyenne R. Smith

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THE EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN COLLEGE PRESIDENTS WHILE LEADING THROUGH AN INSTITUTIONAL CRISIS: THE PERCEIVED SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF CRISIS COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES, Madison Marie Speck

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The Closet of My Tennessee Mountain Home, Jonah Gabriel Stokes

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Encouraging Equity Through Rural Elementary Professional Learning, Jana K. Stone

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Passive Wireless Corrosion and Temperature Detection in High-Temperature Environments, Noah Lane Strader

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Effects of dietary supplementation of a blend of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, multiple live probiotic bacteria, and their fermentation products on performance, health, and rumen bacterial community of newly weaned beef steers during a 56-d receiving period, Emily Treon

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Essays on Urban Transportation and Health Economics, Alexander P. Tsiukes

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Exploring the Relationship Between Perfectionism and Academic Achievement in College STEM Students, Alexander Joseph Tylka

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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Group Telehealth Workshops based on Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Caregivers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Erinn J. Victory

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Psychogenic, Shannon Lindsay Virtue

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A Legacy of Labor: Maternity Narratives in 1960s and 1970s North American Life Writing, Katelynn Ann Vogelpohl

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The Perceived Effects of Peer-Assisted Learning in a Collegiate Instrumental Pedagogy Classroom, Hannah Wagoner

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Prevalence of Depression and Suicidal Ideation in First-Generation College Students as Compared to Their Non-First-Generation Peers, Abigail A. Wellings

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An Exploration of Misconceptions in Introductory Physics, Christopher Mattthew Wheatley

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Traumatic brain injury induces cerebrovascular dysfunction: Consequences for ischemia and cerebral hypoperfusion, Bailey J. Whitehead

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The Picture of (Mental) Health: A Photovoice, Narrative Inquiry, and Critical Participatory Action Approach to Music Major Mental Wellness, Paige Zalman

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Leveraging a multiparent cross of Populus trichocarpa to characterize recombination rates and dissect the genetic architecture of wood chemistry, Chanaka R. Abeyratne

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Fish Community Responses to Environmental and Anthropogenic Conditions in West Virginia, Katherine A. Adase

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Machine Learning Assisted Framework for Advanced Subsurface Fracture Mapping and Well Interference Quantification, Mohammad Faiq Adenan

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ROLE OF CYTOCHROME P450-EPOXYGENASES AND ADENOSINE A2A RECEPTOR IN THE MODULATION OF VASCULAR RESPONSE, Stephanie Onyeka Agba

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Essays on CEO Background and Corporate Performance, Busra Agcayazi

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Deep Face Morph Detection Based on Wavelet Decomposition, Poorya Aghdaie

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Development of A Hydrometallurgical Process for the Extraction of Cobalt, Manganese, and Nickel from Acid Mine Drainage Treatment Byproduct, Alejandro Agudelo Mira

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Impacts of Error Rate and Therapist Appearance on the Accuracy of Fidelity Data Collection, Marisela A. Aguilar

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Multimodal Neuron Classification based on Morphology and Electrophysiology, Aqib Ahmad

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Blowdown Wastewater Co-treatment with Produced Water for Resource Recovery: Moving Towards Zero Liquid Discharge and Sustainable Waste Management, Mohammad Hafez Ahmed

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A Machine Learning Approach for Early Diagnosis of Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy Among Heart Failure Patients, Tanjim Ahmed

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Modular Supply Network Optimization of Renewable Ammonia and Methanol Co-production, Benjamin Akoh

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An Artificial Neural Network Approach to Predicting Formation Stress in Multi-Stage Fractured Marcellus Shale Horizontal Wells Based on Drilling Operations Data, Moudhi Alawadh

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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Geomechanical Data for Accurate Shear Stress Prediction in CO2 Sequestration within Saline Aquifers (Smart Proxy Modeling), Munirah Alawadh

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Personality and Academic Performance in College, Jacob E. Alderson

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ASSESSING FOREST FEATURES AND NOCTURNAL FLYING INSECT DIVERSITY AS PREDICTORS OF EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL OCCUPANCY IN FORAGING HABITAT, Clark D. Alexander

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Strengthening the Interpretation of Glass and Paint Evidence Through the Study of Random Frequency of Occurrence and Analytical Information, Lauryn C. Alexander

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State Estimation, Covariance Estimation, and Economic Optimization of Semi-Batch Bioprocesses, Ronald Hunter Alexander

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Workflow for Integrating Geomechanics, Hydraulic Fracturing, and Reservoir Simulation to Determine Marcellus Shale Horizontal Well Production Potential, Awadh ALJassasi

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Stability properties of a system of receptors in the presence of attractive domains, Basim Mohammed Al-Maliki

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Learning Representations for Novelty and Anomaly Detection, Ranya Almohsen

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Investigation of High-Volume Volcanic Ash Cement Composites Modified with Amorphous Materials Through Experimental and Analytical Methods, Nawaf Alsulami

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Machine Learning for Biosensors, Gayathri Anapanani

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Optimizing sample collection and data interpretation for effective wastewater-based epidemiology in combined sewer systems, Christopher Allen Anderson

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A Numerical Investigation of a Spark Ignition Opposed Piston Linear Engine Fueled by Hydrogen, Mustapha Alao Animashaun

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AI-based Smart Proxy Modelling of IBDP Field Reservoir Pressure of Carbon Sequestration, Idongesit Bassey Ansa

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Reservoir Simulation of the Volve Oil field using AI-based Top-Down Modeling Approach, Amir Ansari

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Microwave-Assisted Ammonia Synthesis over Cs-Ru/CeO2 Catalyst, Alazar Kesete Araia

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Cell Signaling and Stress Response in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A study of SNF1, Scott E. Arbet II

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A Test of the Control Value Theory of Achievement Emotions in an Instructional Communication Context, Katherine E. Armstrong

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Living Your Best Life: The Mindful Pursuit of Student-Athlete Thriving, Andrew Augustus

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Energy Conversion in Plasmas out of Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium: A Kinetic Theory Perspective, Mahmud Hasan Barbhuiya

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Parent and Adolescent Report of Helicopter Parenting: Examining Reporter Discrepancies and Associations with Adolescent Depression and Anxiety, Avneet Batra

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A Case Study Analysis of the Experiences and Perceived Learning Outcomes of Former Non-Music Majors in Applied Horn Lessons, Jordan Bennett