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Achieving Greater Tornado Resilience: Investigating Perceptions of Anchoring Systems among Mobile/Manufactured Homeowners

Description: Changing weather patterns have led to an increase in the frequency of tornadoes in the socially vulnerable southeast United States. This is concerning to manufactured and mobile homeowners, as these structures are highly vulnerable to tornado impacts. In recent years, the installation of ground anchors on manufactured and mobile homes (MMHs) has emerged as a strategy to mitigate against risks posed by tornadoes and high winds. Although these systems decrease horizontal movement and rollover pot… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Kelly, Ruxton Samuel
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Air to Air Channel Modeling for Advanced Air Mobility Services

Description: A channel model is a mathematical or conceptual representation employed to describe the behavior and characteristics of a communication channel through which signal or data can be transferred from the transmitter (Tx) to the receiver (Rx) or between two transceivers. In wireless communication, the channel model represents the wireless medium with parameters like pathloss, impulse response, and multipath effects. A2A channel poses various challenges when UAVs operate at a higher altitude greater… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Das Rochi, Sudesna
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America's First Radio Demagogues: How Charles Coughlin and Robert P. Shuler Used Propaganda Techniques to Build Massive Radio Audiences during the Great Depression

Description: Conservative talk radio has had a long and controversial history in the United States of America. Two early controversial radio hosts who rose to fame in the United States were the "radio priest" Charles Coughlin (1889-1979), a Roman Catholic priest who had a massive national radio audience of approximately 30 million people during the 1930s, and the Reverend Robert P. Shuler (1879-1965), the fundamentalist Evangelical pastor of the 5,000 member Trinity Methodist Church in Los Angeles Californ… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Enochs, Lee Edward
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Application of Genetic Algorithm in Designing Matching and Decoupling Networks for Asymmetric Two-Element Antenna Arrays

Description: In this thesis, I demonstrate a genetic-algorithm-based optimization method for designing matching and decoupling networks (MDNs) for asymmetric two-element antenna arrays. The proposed method considers practical aspects in MDN realization by accounting for short pieces of transmission lines between the lumped elements and only using capacitor/inductor values from a predefined database of commercially available lumped component values. In addition, the proposed algorithm is able to explore all … more
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Date: July 2024
Creator: Chakma, Nishako
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Assessing Procedural Fidelity with Multiple Measurement Systems during Simulated Live Sessions

Description: Measuring procedural fidelity helps behavior analysts assess staff performance and make decisions about a treatment's effectiveness. However, there is limited research comparing different methods of measuring procedural fidelity. Therefore, we systematically replicated a study that examined how procedural fidelity of discrete-trial-instruction sessions varies depending on the measurement system and calculation. We scored videos depicting behavior technicians conducting discrete-trial instructio… more
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Date: July 2024
Creator: Resendez, Walberto Jaime
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Assessment of Climate Change Impacts in Birendra Glacial Lake, Nepal

Description: This study was done on 86 images from Landsat 5 and 8 from the years 1990 to 2023, and emphasized the spatial change of Birendra Lake. The Otsu method was used on the normalized difference water index (NDWI), modified normalized difference water index 1 and 2 (MNDWI), and automated water extraction index (AWEI) for this study. The area of Birendra Glacial Lake area grew significantly between 1990 and 2023 (94,500 m2 to 222,300 m2) because of climate change. The mean annual temperature was incr… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Bhattarai, Injal
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"Chhau"

Description: My documentary film, Chhau, investigates how chhaupdi is practices in Nepal today. During chhaupdi, woman must isolate themselves during their menstruation, refraining from taking part in daily activities such as preparing meals for the family, having dinner with the family, consume dairy products and going to scared places.
Date: July 2024
Creator: Sunuwar, Saja
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Culture Exploration and Youth Identity: Exploring Identity and the Role of a Youth Program in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Description: Young people in regional areas of Indonesia are attending school longer, aspiring for degrees and jobs outside of their home community, and learning less about their cultural traditions. In Poso, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, a youth program called Jelajah Budaya, or Culture Exploration, aims to reconnect young people with regional cultural values, motivating them to become actors in preserving their traditions and for positive development. This paper examines the impacts of this program, along … more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Ellis, Steven Douglas
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Design Exploration of Polymers for Magnetically Activated Drugs

Description: This study aims to introduce a systematic procedure for identifying potential novel drug-polymer combinations suitable for a magnetic field-assisted drug delivery system. Specific details of the design exploration exercise will be presented but the physics will only be addressed conceptually. This design process uses response surface design exploration used extensively in engineering fields that statistically predict optimal fluid, electrical, and mechanical designs. Although drug development i… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Jensen, Jesse Lee
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Diversity Patterns of Chilean Tardigrades: Exploring Alpha and Beta Diversities at Multiple Spatial Scales

Description: Tardigrades are microscopic organisms found in both terrestrial and aquatic environments, adapted to a wide range of environmental conditions. Despite their adaptability, tardigrade ecology, particularly their spatial distribution, remains an understudied topic. In this study, we provide a brief overview of tardigrades identified from 26 forests in Southern Chile. We represent tardigrades using Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) and examine their spatial distribution across multiple spatial sca… more
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Date: July 2024
Creator: Mohanan, Arya
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Diversity Patterns of Tardigrade Assemblages in Forested Landscape of Southern Chile: Associations and Biogeographical Implications

Description: In the Neotropical realm, little is yet known about the distribution, ecology, and biodiversity of limno-terrestrial tardigrades. Tardigrades are understudied micrometazoans and, in Chile, their biogeography and the variables that are associated with their diversity have never been recorded. This study proposes to examine the assemblages (composition and abundance) of tardigrades in forests throughout southern Chile and relate the patterns found to latitude, altitude, temperature, precipitation… more
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Date: July 2024
Creator: Mahawaththa Wathiyage, Ishani Chamishka Mahawaththa
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Escape from the Second Cave

Description: The divide between Reason, otherwise known as "philosophy," and Revelation, otherwise known orthodoxy or religion, is hardly a new phenomenon. However, the beginning of the Enlightenment saw a new kind of warfare between the two. Oddly enough, almost as soon as the fighting began, the battlefield was abandoned without a victor being declared. Key questions pertaining to the battle between orthodoxy and the Enlightenment were taken for granted over time, until a victor was assumed without a conc… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Husband, Teryn Brianna
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Establishing Social Stimuli as a Conditioned Reinforcer in Children with Autism

Description: Individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are characterized by social-communicative deficits that impair important areas of functioning. Behavior analytic interventions frequently focus on providing support and enhancing social-communicative behavior in individuals with ASD. As part of these interventions, conditioning procedures are often implemented to establish social stimuli as reinforcers and promote skill acquisition. The current study systematically replicated and extend… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Ervay, Kaylin Brianne
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Examining How Discrimination and Racial/Ethnic Identification Affect Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology by Race/Ethnicity

Description: Racial and ethnic discrimination is a prevalent issue in the United States, with 63% of minorities reporting experiencing discrimination. Few studies have examined psychopathology as transdiagnostic dimensional factors when investigating its association with discrimination and racial/ethnic identification. Also, little research has established measurement invariance prior to making comparisons across race/ethnicity. To address these shortcomings, the current study (1) assessed for measurement i… more
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Date: July 2024
Creator: Jin, Christine Ohnu
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Fair Housing: An Ethnographic Evaluation of Fair Housing through Civil Rights Testing

Description: Despite the existence of fair housing-based legislation that renders nearly all forms of housing discrimination in the U.S. illegal, discrimination in housing persists. This applied thesis examines housing inequality through the lens of a fair housing center based in Flint, Michigan. I designed and conducted ethnographic research on the fair housing center and its role in the enforcement of the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and related legislation through systemic, routine, and complaint-based investi… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Fletcher, Ebone Ayonna
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A Force Free Procedure to Expand Food and Medicine Ingestion in Equines

Description: De-worming is an important and well-researched part of equine husbandry. However, the de-worming process has been problematic as horses often display avoidance behavior toward the oral administration of the paste. The current study was designed to investigate a force-free method to teach equines to voluntary ingest five novel target stimuli including de-wormer. This method was based on a fading procedure. Participants were initially presented with a highly preferred food stimulus. Over the cour… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Kring, Anja
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Geography, Access to Public Services, and the Executive in Peru

Description: The third wave of democracy accelerated democratization within various regions of the world, particularly in Latin America. While previously autocratic regimes made great leaps in democratizing, most countries in Latin America were unable to fully consolidate. Scholars accounted for this in their new classification of "hybrid" regimes, featuring democratic and autocratic attributes on the institutional level. However, in much of the literature, the perspective of the people is largely ignored. … more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Garcia, Daniel P.
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A High-Throughput Study of the Tribological Properties of MoN-Cu Coatings in Low Viscosity Fuels

Description: The aim of this thesis is to develop a tribocatalytically active solid coating that exhibits strong wear resistance, while also inducing the formation of carbon-based tribofilms when used in a hydrocarbon environment. By using tribocatalytic MoN-Cu synthesized through combinatorial DC reactive magnetron co-sputtering, a gradient between MoN and Cu is deposited and used to determine an ideal Cu composition exhibiting high wear resistance and the formation of a carbon-based tribofilm. To determin… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Caldwell, Slater Leigh
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Human Interpretable Rule Generation from Convolutional Neural Networks Using RICE (Rotation Invariant Contour Extraction)

Description: The advancement in the field of artificial intelligence has been rapid in recent years and has revolutionized various industries. For example, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform image classification at a level equivalent to that of humans on many image datasets. These state-of-the-art networks reached unprecedented success using complex architectures with billions of parameters, numerous kernel configurations, weight initialization and regularization methods. This transitioned the mod… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Sharma, Ashwini Kumar
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Identifying Upland Habitats and Water-Related Habitats in the City of Denton, Texas, Using LiDAR Data and GIS

Description: This research underscores the importance of integrating the evolving LiDAR technology and GIS spatial analysis for effective management of urban environment, habitat conservation, and sustainable development planning. The study area of this research is the City of Denton which has undergone urban expansion leading to significant alterations in the city's land cover patterns. The methodologies developed in this study include collecting the data sources, and processing of LiDAR point clouds of ye… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Thapaliya, Prashant
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The Impact of TikTok Use on Social Capital among Young Adults

Description: The evolution of the Internet has connected people worldwide through various social media applications (i.e. Facebook, Instagram). One of which is the trending and controversial social media platform known for its short-form content, TikTok. Additionally, social capital theory pertains to a person's capacity to acquire benefits and valuable goods through meaningful social relationships and group affiliations. This quantitative study explores how the emergence of TikTok impacts social capital th… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Tam, Adrian Zhi Tin
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International Student-Athletes' Self-Compassion and Psychological Distress: The Moderating Roles of Resilience and Social Support

Description: The COVID-19 global pandemic caused the cancellation of all sports and disrupted the lives, workout regimens, academic assistance, team social support systems, athletic identity, and mental health of athletes. International student-athletes (ISAs) were a particular population affected and understudied. This study explored the psychological distress level experienced by ISAs during the early stage of the pandemic and examined the effects of self-compassion, resilience, and social support on thei… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Lue, Cachet Evelyn
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Metamorphosis: Musical Healing in Five Phases

Description: For film music composers, effective communication with others, understanding the story, recognition of emotional changes in the character, and the ability to connect and express these things through one's own music are crucial. Typically, composers convey their emotions and thoughts through the music they compose, deeply engaging with their inner selves in this creative process. Building on the works of Paul Ekman, Robert Plutchik, John D. Mayer, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, this paper explores t… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Choi, Insun
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Partisan Abortion Coverage After the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

Description: This study looks at the coverage of the mifepristone abortion drug legislation that took place during the summer of 2023. Using framing theory, a qualitative content analysis was performed using 91 articles from local newspapers in various states to determine what frames are used in the coverage, and if frames used in the coverage are different based on whether the paper is in a politically red, blue, or swing state. Then, the study examines how reproductive rights and gender are reflected in t… more
Date: July 2024
Creator: Sledge, Erin Marguerite
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