Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects
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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Supporting Equine-Assisted Therapy: A Grant Proposal Writing Project for Healing Hands Youth Ranch, Nancy Tompkins
Jeep Nation: Wilderness Ideology and the American Icon, Kristy Ventre
Between the Rural and Suburban: The Social, Political, and Economic Dynamics of Policing Forsyth County, GA, Alexandra Vuich
Revolutionary Every Day: A Dramatic Exploration of Women and Their Agency in The Black Panther Party., Kristen Michelle Walker
Nursing Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying, Betsy N. Ward and Elizabeth Nora Ward
Optimizing the B.O.B., Valerie N. Washington and Douglas Starzec
Perceptions of Justice and Motivations for Becoming a Police Officer: Differences Across Recruits and Law Enforcement Officers, Erika J. Waterman-Smith
From Simplest Recursion to the Recursion of Generalizations of Cross Polytope Numbers, Yutong Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Paradox of Social Media Security: A Study of IT Students’ Perceptions versus Behavior on Using Facebook, Zahra Y. Alqubaiti
Internet of Things-Based Smart Classroom Environment, Amir R. Atabekov
Enterprise Risk Management: The Transformation of Board-level Engagement as Evidenced by Disclosure, Timothy L. Baker
Induced Phytoextraction of Lead from Contaminated Soils by Panicum virgatum, Enhanced with EDTA, Citric Acid, Benomyl, Propiconazole and Nitric Oxide, Adrianna E. Beavers
Paradiplomacy and Protodiplomacy in World Practice: A Comparative Case Study of Conflict and International Development in Quebec, Catalonia and Kurdistan, Haluk Baran Bingol
SWAMP BANDIT: The Legend of John Ashley and Florida's Notorious Ashley Gang, Constance M. B. Briggs
A Framework for Hybrid Intrusion Detection Systems, Robert N. Bronte
A New 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole-Fused N-Heterocyclic Carbene and Its Metal Complexes, Ossie J. Buckner
The Effects of Amphetamine Exposure on Neurodevelopment and Behavior in Early Life Stages of Danio Rerio, Jennifer D. Bullard
Improving the Prediction Accuracy of Text Data and Attribute Data Mining with Data Preprocessing, PRIYANGA CHANDRASEKAR
Comparative Study of Dimension Reduction Approaches With Respect to Visualization in 3-Dimensional Space, Pooja Chenna
Management and Organizational Influences on the Compliance Behavior of Employees to Reduce Non-malicious IT Misuse Intention, Randy G. Colvin
On the Edge of a Knife; The Early Migration into Middle Tennessee and the Heroine Charlotte Reeves Robertson, Lisa C. Diglio
Honors Senior Capstone Portfolio, Brooke M. Doss
Color Image Segmentation Using the Bee Algorithm in the Markovian Framework, Vehbi Dragaj
Ultrasonic Data Steganography, Alexander Orosz Edwards
Lead-Free Gunshot Residues as Forensic Evidence, Lashaundra A. Fambro
Educational Materials in a Private School Setting: An Industrial Ethnography and Document Analysis of One School’s Presently-Used Educational Documents, Allison M. Feldman
IS Success Model for Evaluating Cloud Computing for Small Business Benefit: A Quantitative Study, Charles Kenneth Flack
Decolonial Interstice in Carnaval Montevideano: Murga as Hegemonic Dissent at the Tablado de Barrio, Paola García
Hidden Black and Brown Bridges: The Mutual Influences of Dr. Martin Luther King and Hispanic Theologian Dr. Justo González, Gabriel A. Greaves
Perilous Decisions Humanitarian Security and Risk Management in a Complex World, Amanda Guidero
Reflecting on Performance Feedback: The Effect of Counterfactual Thinking on Subsequent Leader Performance, Kelly R. Hall
"The Road is My Home:" Reflections on Vandwelling Culture in the United States, Heather Harris
Understanding the Impact of Information Quality on Customer Relationship Management, Dana Eckerle Harrison
Nurse Faculty Job Satisfaction: Development and Evaluation of the Nurse Educator Satisfaction Index, Annette J. Jackson
Distances Between Species in Food Webs: Evaluating Alternative Metrics' Predictive Power, Molly C. Johnson
Efficacy of Math Video Tutorials on Student Perception and Achievement, Carol R. Kahrmann
Synthetic Methods for the Preparation of 1,3-S,O-Esters, α-Phosphonovinyl Triflates, and α-Alkynylphosphonates, David P. Kercher
From the Creeks to the Community: The Reintegration of Ex-combatants in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, Maureen E. Kperogi
Psychometric Testing of the TeamSTEPPS® 2.0 Team Performance Observation Tool, Mary Beth R. Maguire
Using Manipulatives to Investigate ESOL Students' Achievement and Dispositions in Algebra, Donna L. Marsh
Recognizing and Exploiting New Opportunities in Times of Chaos and Unintended Impacts, Ryan Matthews
The Assistant Principal Position as Preparation for the Principalship, Abigail M. May