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Academic Buoyancy: A Mixed-methods Study of University Students' Everyday Resilience

Description: Academic buoyancy refers to a student's capacity to deal with typical educational adversities adaptively. Buoyancy positively relates to beliefs, emotions, and behaviors supporting learning and achievement. Considering university students' unique challenges and the importance of social context, there is a need to examine how student-level and contextual considerations relate to academic buoyancy in higher education. Guided by the Situated Expectancy-Value Theory person-in-context framework, thi… more
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Date: July 2025
Creator: Dang, An Hoai
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Act As You Preach: Moral Failures of Activist Brands and Negative Consumer Responses

Description: In today’s world, where consumers are increasingly aware of social issues, brands are adopting activist roles. Over the last decade, a growing number of companies have actively voiced their positions and engaged in actions related to contentious sociopolitical issues such as environmental issues, gender equality, gun control, abortion, LGBTQIA+ rights, racial equality, and many more, deliberately adopting an activist role. These activist brands have the potential to redefine market and societal… more
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Date: July 2025
Creator: Mahmud, Riaj
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Admiration and Rivalry: The Path to Accurate Narcissism Conceptualization

Description: A two-factor framework, the narcissism admiration and rivalry concept (NARC) and an associated assessment, the Narcissism Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire (NARQ), have been introduced to help conceptualize and assess the psychological processes involved in grandiose narcissism (i.e., need for admiration vs. reactive rivalry). The current project aims to test whether the rivalry domain of the NARQ might also reflect vulnerable aspects of narcissism, and how the two NARQ domains predict theor… more
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Date: July 2025
Creator: Guillot, Skyler Trace
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Advanced Surface Coatings for Tribological Applications: A Study of WC/C DLC and Duplex PEO-Chameleon Systems or Coatings under Varied Temperatures and Environments

Description: Materials capable of adapting to changing environmental conditions are vital in tribological applications such as aerospace bearings, automotive engine components, and biomedical implants, where loads, temperatures, and lubrication conditions can vary drastically. Adaptive surfaces that can form protective tribofilms under stress or respond to temperature changes by altering hardness or lubrication behavior are critically important to maintaining low friction and wear across dynamic operating e… more
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Date: July 2025
Creator: Montoya, Vanessa Lyzette
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Advancing Undergraduate Analytical Chemistry Education: Interpretation of Spectroscopic Data, Investigation of Industry Career Pathways, and Measurement of Learning Within Laboratory Curricula

Description: This research aims to enhance undergraduate analytical chemistry education by exploring three key areas: student reasoning with spectroscopic data, industry expectations regarding instrumentation, and the effectiveness of laboratory curriculum design. Specifically, the study investigates how upper-level undergraduate students interpret infrared (IR) spectra, identifies the most commonly used instruments in the chemical industry to inform curriculum development, and evaluates how current laborat… more
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Date: July 2025
Creator: Hamilton, David
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Air-to-Air Modeling for Urban Air Mobility

Description: Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) represents a shift within transportation that is transformative, improving connectivity across urban, suburban, and rural environments and addressing the limitations of customary ground infrastructure by leveraging unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. AAM seeks to decongest the cities, accelerate the emergency response, and extend the important services to the underserved regions because it is supported by the U.… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Ilapuram, Sai Sruthi
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Americans Adapting to Occupation: Imperialism, Masculinity, and Race in the Making of Twentieth Century Martial Culture

Description: In the early twentieth century, the United States built an empire based on military occupations. The U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps all aided in the construction and expansion of U.S. influence across the globe. The occupations of the Philippines (1898-1902), Haiti (1915-1917), and Germany (1945-1946) provide significant case studies in how occupations founded on imperialism became hindered due to the actions of the men tasked with occupying the foreign nations. In each case, rhetoric of imp… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Luepke, Jessica L
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Ammi

Description: "Ammi," a 30-minute documentary, offers a window on the bond between Rihanna, a daring “Well of Death” performer, and her ten-year-old son, Rihan. The narrative intricately explores Rihanna’s commitment to work and her relationship with her son. Using observational footage and direct interviews, the film weaves a narrative of passion, emancipation, motherhood and longing.
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Date: July 2025
Creator: Ginnela, Tejasvi
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Analyzing Epics: Musical Formula in Video Game Boss Battle Music

Description: The topic theory is commonly presented in the study of film music, emphasizing the collaboration between musical features, cultural associations, and narrative. The same concept applies to video game music as well. Like in film studies, such musical topics can be further refined with analyses of textural and timbral placements that suit more meticulous narrative needs. In this thesis, I argue that boss battle music is a musical topic with recurring features that contribute to game narratives. M… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Hsu, Sylvia
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Anne Bonny: Composing a New Sapphic Pirate Folk Opera

Description: Anne Bonny was a female pirate active around the early 1700s. Very little is known about her life beyond sensationalist imaginings. However, I was inspired by her story and saw in her circumstances the experiences of women and queer people today who face persecution anew under recent and pending legislation. I reinterpret Anne’s life, and those of her fellow pirates Calico Jack and Mary Read, in a new folk opera as an allegory and opportunity for representation of these experiences on stage. Th… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Cowell, Beige
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Applying Anthropology to Sustain Enterprise Innovation in the Context of Layoffs

Description: This thesis examines how Snow Solutions navigated innovation during a significant period of company downsizing and disruption. Using frameworks from business anthropology, organizational culture studies, and innovation research, this thesis highlights some of the challenges large enterprises face in balancing internal structure with the need to stay adaptable. Based on ethnographic methods conducted at an enterprise and interviews with startups, it explores how design thinking and cross-departm… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Elizondo, Giselle
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Assessing the Efficacy of the Audubon Bird Friendliness Index Across Arid Southwestern Grasslands in North Central Texas

Description: In response to rapidly declining grassland bird populations due to anthropogenic activity including land development and agriculture, the National Audubon Society has created the Audubon Conservation Ranching (ACR) program, which incentivizes livestock producers to implement management techniques to promote grassland bird habitat conservation on their properties. To measure the response of grassland bird communities to these changes, the National Audubon Society created the Bird Friendliness In… more
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Date: July 2025
Creator: Shugart, James Robert
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Assessing the Impact of Occidentalism on Guillermo Uribe Holguín (1880 – 1971) Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 24 (1924)

Description: This dissertation will analyze Guillermo Uribe Holguín’s Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 24 (1924) and compare its musical qualities to those of Uribe Holguín’s European, North American, and Latin American contemporaries to address how European and Colombian influences blended to create a unique musical voice. Because there are so few Latin American works for viola from this time period, there has been limited research into the genre. This topic will allow for the expansion of scholarship avail… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Hamilton, Amanda
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Associations of Intimate Partner Violence Profiles with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Cortisol: A Latent Profile Analysis

Description: The current study aimed to identify latent profiles based on past-month intimate partner violence (IPV) frequencies (physical assault, injury, sexual, emotional-verbal psychological, and dominance-isolation psychological IPV) and evaluate profile differences in terms of distal outcomes (posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD] symptom severity and levels of hair cortisol concentration). The sample included 137 women (Mage = 39.82 years; 43.7% White) reporting IPV and recent substance use. Latent pr… more
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Date: July 2025
Creator: Compton, Sidonia
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Attachment and Trauma across the Lifespan: From Childhood Emotional Maltreatment to Complex Posttraumatic Stress

Description: Theory underlying complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) emphasizes chronic trauma occurring at developmentally sensitive periods – such as abuse and neglect occurring in childhood - can manifest symptoms comprising CPTSD in adulthood, such as emotion dysregulation, poor self-concept, and disruptions in forming healthy relationships. The empirical connection between specific forms of childhood maltreatment and CPTSD, however, remain limited. The present study aimed to apply a theory driv… more
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Date: July 2025
Creator: Archuleta, William
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Automated Pre-Impact Fall Detection for Fall Mitigation using a Wearable Airbag Belt

Description: Falls are a leading cause of injury and loss of independence among older adults and people recovering from stroke. A key unanswered question is whether a wearable device can predict an imminent fall early enough to trigger protection while keeping false alarm rates low enough that users continue to trust the system. We addressed this challenge by developing a lightweight Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that analyzes motion data collected from a hip-worn belt equipped with three inertial sens… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Rachakatla, Bhavani
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A Behavioral Approach to Neuromuscular Training: Testing Biofeedback Strategies across Three Systems

Description: Disruptions in skeletal muscle systems can significantly impact both longevity and quality of life. Physical rehabilitation is effective but can be made difficult by idiosyncrasies, such as accessibility, joint insertions, and medical contraindications. Three such muscles are the pelvic floor muscles (PFMs), involved in continence and sexual function; the hyoid muscles (HMs), essential for swallowing; and the vastus medialis oblique (VMO), crucial for locomotion and leg stability. In their natu… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Gibson, J. Logan
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Born in the USA: Jiggs Whigham and the Rise of American Jazz Trombone Style in West Germany 1965-1980

Description: This research shows the rise and influence of American jazz trombone style in West Germany between 1965-1980 was paralleled and personified with the playing and influence of expatriate American trombonist, Oliver Haydn “Jiggs” Whigham III (b. 1943). Whigham is situated as both an heir of American jazz trombone style and its sole de facto progenitor in West Germany during this period. Jiggs Whigham is an influential jazz trombonist and educator and has enjoyed one of the longest running active c… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Ebo, Gerald K.
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The Breadth of Mindful Breath: Modulating Cognitive Performance and Oscillatory EEG Activity through Repeated Mindfulness

Description: This study investigated the cognitive and neural effects of a remotely delivered, three-week mindfulness-based intervention (MBI). Participants were assigned to either a mindfulness training group or an active control group that listened to relaxing music. Cognitive outcomes were assessed across episodic source memory, working memory (OSPAN), and inhibitory control (Stroop), alongside spectral EEG recordings. Mindfulness training selectively improved source memory accuracy relative to the contr… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Stuart, Kara Renee Elizabeth
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Breaking the Code

Description: Breaking the Code is a biographical documentary about the life of Fort Worth-based artist Vernon Fisher. Born to rural Texas farmers in 1943, Fisher's childhood exposure to painting was only as "something you did to houses." By the 1980’s, he was exhibiting alongside Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, establishing himself as one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Acclaimed for the technical and conceptual prowess of his many bodies of work, including his well-known chalkboard… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Flanagan, Michael
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A Case Study on the Integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Fashion Design Education through Actor-Network Theory

Description: This qualitative case study explores the dynamic interactions between fashion design students and instructors with generative artificial intelligence (AI). It analyzes how their relationships shape the fashion design network through the actor-network theory (ANT) theoretical framework. Using linkography for designing with AI and reflexive thematic analysis as data analysis methods, the study reveals that the fashion design network is influenced not only by human actors but also by multiple non-… more
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Date: July 2025
Creator: Chen, Chanjuan
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Catalyzing Economic Mobility: Career and Technical Education Credential Alignment in an Era of Technological Transformation

Description: Parents, educators, and policymakers have been exceedingly concerned about the role of education in promoting workforce development during a period of disruptive change caused by artificial intelligence and automation. This policy research study examined how Career and Technical Education (CTE) systems can be optimized to address declining economic mobility and rapid technological transformation, with particular emphasis on equity for historically underserved populations. Using a multifaceted q… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Blomker, Monica Jean
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College Athletes' Perceptions of Change during COVID-19: A Qualitative Analysis

Description: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic took a toll on collegiate athletics, as all in-person sport activity was shut down temporarily, and competition schedules were heavily altered from Spring 2020 to Spring 2021. College athletes experienced stressors such as uncertainty regarding their physical and mental well-being. Although the effects of the pandemic of college athletes’ mental health have been studied generally, less attention has been given to their specific experiences of change through t… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Yoon, Julian Jehoon
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Comparison of Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Garbled Circuits approaches in Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

Description: Machine Learning (ML) is making its way into fields such as healthcare, finance, and natural language processing (NLP), and concerns over data privacy and model confidentiality continue to grow. Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) addresses this challenge by enabling inference on private data without revealing sensitive inputs or proprietary models. Leveraging Secure Computation techniques from Cryptography, two widely studied approaches in this domain are Fully Homomorphic Encryption (F… more
Date: July 2025
Creator: Cheerla, Kalyan
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