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Developing a Partnership for Internship Training at a Community-Based Animal Assisted Therapy Practice

Description: The effectiveness of a pre-graduation animal assisted therapy internship site was investigated through an ethnographic, phenomenological methodology with mixed-methods components. A total of 12 participants who fit into either the category of supervisor, intern, or administrator involved in the animal assisted therapy practice, were interviewed. A research team analyzed the qualitative interview data and researcher participant field notes and came to a consensus of eight major themes: ranch env… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Bugni, Brooke R.
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Differential Treatment and Outcomes of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Psychotherapy

Description: Therapeutic alliance has been consistently demonstrated as a robust predictor of treatment outcomes, though the time in psychotherapy at which therapeutic alliance best predicts outcomes is unclear. Unfortunately, evidence suggests that racial and ethnic minority clients typically form weaker therapeutic alliances in treatment. The weaker development in therapeutic alliance among racial and ethnic minority clients may mediate discrepancies in treatment outcomes, including higher dropout rates. … more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Dimmick, A. Andrew
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French and Canadian Inclusive Language Doctrine and Societal Attitudes

Description: One of the most important French grammar rules is the rule of superiority: Masculine subjects always trump feminine subjects when there are multiple subjects. Superiority is closely followed by the acceptance that all nouns have a grammatical gender, either masculine or feminine. Since 1984, and over the span of forty years, these rules have been challenged on multiple levels of French society. The research conducted over the course of this thesis focuses on the mentality and reactions of the F… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Diaz, Taylor Irene Berthiaume
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How Much Does Sleep Vary from Night to Night? A Quantitative Summary of Intraindividual Variability in Sleep by Age, Gender, and Racial/Ethnic Identity

Description: Habitual (i.e., average or typical) sleep duration and sleep efficiency vary widely by demographic characteristics, including age, gender, and racial/ethnic identity. Despite a wealth of studies on demographic patterns in habitual sleep, these results are often based on cross-sectional surveys, which ask participants to retrospectively recall their "typical" or "recent" sleep. Yet, sleep is a highly dynamic behavior and may fluctuate substantially from night-to-night. This intraindividual varia… more
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Date: May 2022
Creator: Messman, Brett A
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Virtuosa di Musica di Camera: A Performance Edition of Sonata in F Major, Op. 1, No. 2 by Anna Bon di Venezia

Description: The flute music of Anna Bon di Venezia (1738–ca. 1767) belongs to the group of long-overlooked compositions by women composers throughout history worthy of rediscovery. This dissertation includes a discussion of Bon's life and music, as well as the artistic, historical, and theoretical significance of her compositions. It also presents biographical research on Bon, including Michaela Krucsay's dissertation, which provides new evidence of Bon's birth date, which had been uncertain up until 2015.… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Alvarado Piña, Maria Gabriela
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An Investigation of Scale Factor in Deep Networks for Scene Recognition

Description: Is there a significant difference in the design of deep networks for the tasks of classifying object-centric images and scenery images? How to design networks that extract the most representative features for scene recognition? To answer these questions, we design studies to examine the scales and richness of image features for scenery image recognition. Three methods are proposed that integrate the scale factor to the deep networks and reveal the fundamental network design strategies. In our f… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Qiao, Zhinan
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Diverging Perceptions of Emotional Black and White Female Leaders

Description: Stereotypical beliefs about emotion have been shown to influence perceptions of competence. While emotional White women are often presumed to be generally less competent, emotional Black women receive variable competence ratings due to the intersecting stereotypes concerning both their race and gender. However, it is unclear how perceptions of competence fluctuate in response to anger, a stereotypically male emotion, in comparison to sadness, a stereotypically female emotion. The project at han… more
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Date: May 2022
Creator: Briggs, Madasen
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Defect Modulated Properties of Molybdenum Disulfide Monolayer Films

Description: In this dissertation work, the study focuses on large areal growth of MoS2 monolayers and a study of the structural, optical and electrical properties of such monolayers before and after transfer using a polymer-lift off technique. This work will discuss the issue of contact resistance and the effect of defects (both intrinsic and extrinsic) on the overall quality of the monolayer films. The significance of this dissertation work is that a reproducible strategy for monolayer MoS2 film growth an… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Jiang, Yan
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Relaxation Time Approximations in PAOFLOW 2.0

Description: Electronic transport properties have been used to classify and characterize materials and describe their functionality. Recent surge in computational power has enabled computational modelling and accelerated theoretical studies to complement and accelerate experimental discovery of novel materials. This work looks at methods for theoretical calculations of electronic transport properties and addresses the limitations of a common approximation in the calculation of these properties, namely, the … more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Jayaraj, Anooja
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A Systems Approach to Closing the Achievement Gap: Effects on Collective Teacher Efficacy and Student Performance

Description: I designed an explanatory sequential mixed-method study to explore the relationship between leadership practices, collective teacher efficacy (CTE), and educational outcomes of low SES students in an open school system. Four data sources were analyzed: K-5 student Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) results of 1,170 students, Collective Teacher Belief Scale (CTBS) survey to measure CTE perceptions of 48 teachers, focus group interviews composed of a stratified sample of 11 K-5 teachers, and … more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Mira, Jose Alexander
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Memories in the Body: Looking at the Connection between Emotional Stress and Autoimmune Diseases

Description: Autoimmunity is a modern age medical dilemma which is inextricably linked with emotional stress. Based on semi-structured interviews and participant Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) survey results, this study confirms that the autoimmune process may be initiated via psychosocial factors like emotional stress and childhood trauma. Ninety-three percent of participants experienced adversity or trauma in childhood, and 50% of participants talked about a period of prolonged stress that preceded t… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Shenberger, Taylor
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Investigating the Motivation-Cognition Interface: The Influence of Motivation on the Recognition Old/New Effect and Metamemory

Description: The purpose of this study was to thoroughly review previous work and to create a new experimental paradigm combining recognition memory with value-based incentives and metacognitive confidence judgments, which may provide convergent evidence for the motivation-cognition interface. This paradigm involves a game-like task administering global and local motivational incentives. Furthermore, trial-level metacognitive confidence ratings were gathered to understand the relationship of metacognitive a… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Doshier, Kirby
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Role of DEFECTIVE IN SYSTEMIC DEFENSE INDUCED BY ABIETANE DITERPENOID 1 (DSA1), a Putative O-Fucosyltransferase, in Plant Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR)

Description: Dehydroabietinal (DA), an abietane diterpenoid, was previously demonstrated to be a potent activator of systemic acquired resistance (SAR). DA also promotes flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana by repressing expression of the flowering repressor FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) while simultaneously upregulating expression of FLOWERING LOCUS D (FLD), FLOWERING LOCUS VE (FVE) and RELATIVE OF EARLY FLOWERING 6 (REF6), a set of flowering time promoters. To further understand the mechanism underlying signa… more
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Date: May 2022
Creator: Mohanty, Devasantosh
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A Safe and Fast Deworming Procedure for Horses

Description: Most horse owners administer oral deworming medication to their horses on a set schedule, often six times per year. The deworming process involves using a plastic syringe to inject a thick paste into the horse's mouth. Most horse owners do not specifically train their horses to accept this procedure. Consequently, many horses resist the procedure and some horses engage in behaviors, such as head shaking, pulling away, or even rearing, that may be dangerous to humans or to themselves. This study… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Ward, Jessica Lauren
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Wear, Friction and High Shear Strain Deformation of Metallic Glasses

Description: In this work, wear and scratch behavior of four different bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) namely Zr41.2Cu12.5Ni10Ti13.8Be22.5 (LM 1), Zr57Cu15.4Ni12.6Al10Nb5 (LM 106), Ni60Pd20P17B3 (Ni-BMG), and Pt57.5Cu14.7Ni5.3P22.5 (Pt-BMG) were compared. Shear band formation on the edges of the scratch groove with spallation was found to be the primary failure mechanism in progressive scratch tests. The wear behavior and the scratch response of model binary Ni-P metallic glasses was systematically studied as … more
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Date: May 2022
Creator: Pole, Mayur
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The Intersection of Race and Space in Urban Environments Confronting Development: The Black Church and Harlem's Gentrification

Description: Roughly 1 million Blacks fled from the South to cities in the North, and with this shift New York City saw a 66% increase in its Black population between 1910 and 1920. By the end of the 1920s Harlem had become home to approximately 200,000 Black residents. But during the period 2000 to 2016 three of the nation's top ten gentrifying zip codes could be found in Harlem, and Harlem's Black population decreased by 23,166 residents, while Harlem's white population increased by 33,442 during this er… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: McDonald, Autumn Dawn
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Nanolithographic Approaches to Probing Cell Membrane Modulation

Description: Metastatic cancer is more dangerous and difficult to treat than pre-metastatic cancer. Ninety percent of cancer-related deaths are caused by metastatic cancer. When cells go through metastases, they go through changes that allow them to break away from the primary tumor and invade secondary tissues. These changes, in lipid membrane composition and cellular glycocalyx, make the cell more resistant to therapeutics. Actin cytoskeleton contractility plays a major role in these changes, as increased… more
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Date: May 2022
Creator: Mathis, Katelyn
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Correlation of Watershed NDVI Values to Benthic Macroinvertebrate Biodiversity in Eight North American Wadeable Streams

Description: Water quality of a stream or river is influenced by the surrounding landscape and vegetation. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is commonly used to characterize landcover and vegetation density. Benthic macroinvertebrates are ubiquitous in freshwater streams and are excellent indicators of the quality of freshwater habitats. Data from one NDVI remote sensing flight and one macroinvertebrate sampling event for eight wadeable stream study sites in the National Ecological Observ… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Gallagher, Denice Lynne
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An Examination of the Multicultural Representation in Children's Books from Approved Literature Lists in North Texas Public Schools: A Critical Content Analysis

Description: Current events and social movements aimed at bringing awareness to oppressed groups have reminded us that the United States has still not achieved justice and equality for all. Social and political tensions have become inescapable in our increasingly connected world. Therefore, students need to learn about diverse ways of knowing and being in a pluralistic society. Since publishing and education companies compete for business, the amount of digital and print resources available to teachers can … more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Edge, Andrea Felice
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Tuning of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties in Additively Manufactured Metastable Beta Titanium Alloys

Description: The results from this study, on a few commercial and model metastable beta titanium alloys, indicate that the growth restriction factor (GRF) model fails to interpret the grain growth behavior in the additively manufactured alloys. In lieu of this, an approach based on the classical nucleation theory of solidification incorporating the freezing range has been proposed for the first time to rationalize the experimental observations. Beta titanium alloys with a larger solidification range (liquid… more
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Date: May 2022
Creator: Nartu, Mohan Sai Kiran Kumar Yadav
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Notch Filter Design for Power Line Interference Artifact Reduction of ECG Signal and Feature Extraction in LabVIEW

Description: Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a biological signal that represents the heart's electrical activity. Interference from power lines introduces a frequency component of 50 to 60 Hz into the signal, which is the principal cause of ECG corruption. By using the Cadence Virtuoso Spectre circuit simulator and typical TSMC RF 180 nm CMOS technology, a notch filter was created to reduce powerline interference. The advantage of utilizing a notch filter for PLI is that noise at 60 Hz is completely eliminated w… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Kasidi, Divyasri
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"What kind of system have we built?": A Qualitative Analysis of the Asylum-Seeking System for Gender-Based Asylum Seekers in the United States

Description: Many asylum seekers have experienced trauma that causes them to flee their home country. A large portion of asylum seekers are women and are fleeing gender-based violence or experiencing it while fleeing. Due to this trauma, the researcher and the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, a non-profit legal and social services organization, developed a research project to examine how trauma-informed,the asylum-seeking system is in the United States, specifically for those who are fleeing gender-b… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Byth, Janice Kay
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The Moderating Role of National Culture on Perceptions of Psychological Contract Breach and Job Satisfaction in Multinational Corporations

Description: This study sought to answer critical questions surrounding the impact that national culture has on specific parts of the employment experience of employees working for multinational organizations. As globalization expands and organizations are gaining larger footprints beyond regional operations, there has become a need to understand how cultural nuances could be playing a role in the employee experiences at these organizations. This study looks at two pieces of the employee experience in gre… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Wright, Erik Scot
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Empirical Correlates of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) in an Outpatient Sample: A Replication and Extension

Description: The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) has gained widespread favor since its publication. However, validation studies of its interpretive descriptors remained limited to date. As such, the primary goal of the current study aimed at validating the interpretive descriptors through the lens of empirical correlates using the PDSQ as the external criterion. It also served as a replication and extension to the 2018 study conducted by Rogers and colleagues. The final archival sample included 204 c… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Pan, Minqi
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