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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
A Prescriptive Criterion for Amphibious Foundation Design, Erin Hughes
STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THEIR LEARNING EXPERIENCES WITHIN AN INCLUSIVE SECONDARY MATHEMATICS SETTING, Cleopatra Sorina Iliescu
Improving the Maximum Power Point Tracking Efficiency of Photovoltaic Arrays via Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Sumedha Inamdar
The Use of E-books, Computers, and Tablets To Enhance Reading Skills, Nicole B. Ingram
Impact of Teacher Perceptions in the Disproportionality of Black People in Special Education, Chenita Jarrett-Evans
Neighborhood Conditions, Youth Exposure to Violence, and Substance Use, Ashley Jimenez
NAI-SIG: Natural And Ideal Studies In Geometry, Steven P. Kane
SuperB: Superior Behavior-based Anomaly Detection Defining Authorized Users' Traffic Patterns, Daniel Karasek
The Impact of Gamification on the Mathematics Achievement of Elementary Students, Tamisha Kimble
Comparative Whole-genome and Phenotype Analyses of Virulence Factors and Lethality in Nematode Challenge Assay among Aeromonas isolates, Pyeongsug Kim
Between Aesthetics and Ethics, Seth Landis
The Model Holistic : The Application of the Adaptive Cycle to Rust-Belt Cities, Marysia LaRosa
The Urban Network: An Ecosystemic Framework for the Enhancement of Atlanta, Caleb Lawrence
The “Why” Generation: Traits and Conflict Styles of Millennials From the Workplace to the Future of Society, Cynthia Pearce LeMay
Deep Learning for Identifying Breast Cancer, Yihong Li
Culture Confluence, Nhan luu
Micro Living - Big Mindset, Erin Lyttle
Empirical Empowerment - Mental Health in the Built Environment, Emily McClure
The Relationship Between School Belongingness, Self-Harm, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents, Marybeth Meadows
Learning Through Space, Niloufar Mehrjerdian
Emily Dickinson: 19th Century Poet in a 21st Century World, Stephanie Merrigan
Determination and Dissection of DNA-binding Specificity for the Thermus thermophilus HB8 Transcriptional Regulator TTHB099, Kristi Moncja
Towards Community: a resource-based rural development, Christian Newman
Inner City Artscape, Michelle Nguyen
USING A NOVEL CELL- PENETRATING PEPTIDE TECHNOLOGY TO INDUCE PLURIPOTENCY, Laura-Maria Oja
Tactical Rhetoric: User Experience Analysis & Strategies for Game Developers, Lexi Olszewski
Strategic Consequences: How Executive and Organizational Decision-Making Impacts the Outcome of Unconventional Warfare, Joseph Osborne
Border[Wall]; A Space For Play | Providing Moments Of Intimacy To An International Stage, Jamison Owen
Dynamic Workplace Design, Eduardo Parra De Nova
Elementary School Teacher's Beliefs, Organizational Change, and STEM Implementation: Factors Impacting Teacher Leadership, Shelante Patton
The Trend Of Digital Currency By Mining And Analysis Of Patent, Feiyang Qu
A FEDERATED DEEP AUTOENCODER FOR DETECTING IOT CYBER ATTACKS, Christopher M. Regan
The Factories: Bringing A Derelict Icon into the New Age, Douglas Reid
Evaluating Regional Agricultural Wastes as Substrates for the Mycelial Growth and Fruiting Body Yield of Pleurotus ostreatus, Daniel Rhiner
Quantitatively Motivated Model Development Framework: Downstream Analysis Effects of Normalization Strategies, Jessica M. Rudd
The [Hydro-Gen] Cell_ A Hydroponic, Regenerative, Modular System for Optimized Vertical Farming, Jose Asbiel Samaniego
Golden Scrutiny | Compositional Subtlety, Devon Sams
From Teacher to Teacher-Leader: A Phenomenographic Study of Transition, Jennifer Santi
DATA MINING AND IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING GENETIC PROGRAMMING, Mahsa Shokri varniab
Restoring History: Mixed-Use Hotel & Retail Center, William Chase Sisk
Collaborative Pull-Out Literacy Classroom for Dually Served Students, Mandy Sitten
Comparing Inquiry-Based and Explicit Instruction in High School Geometry, Rodney Sizemore
Primary Focus, Breck Small
A Comparison of Public and Private School Teachers' Job Satisfaction When Controlling for Policy Perspectives, Individual, and Workplace Characteristics, Christopher Small
Dignified Dwellings: Minimum Dwelling for the 21st Century, Andrew Smith
Forgiveness, Freedom and the Inmate Issue, Taylor Smith