Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects
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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Queering Composition: A Language for LGBTQIA+ Perspectives in First-Year Writing Instruction, Ian Hatcher
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND CURATORIAL PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1902-1967, Katie Hegebarth
Ant cuticle microsculpture: diversity, classification, evolution, and function, John Paul Hellenbrand
The Relationship between Instructional Staff Training Expenditures and Teacher Retention: Comparing Georgia Public Schools, Sunita Holloway
A Comparative Study on Blockchain-based Electronic Health Record Systems: Performance, Privacy, and Security Between Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum Frameworks, Md Jobair Hossain Faruk, Hossain Shahriar, Maria Valero, and Xia Li
The Vast Unsaid: Lesbian Erasure and Celebration, Kara Ireland
Student Perceptions in Conferring: A Phenomenographic Exploration of Student Perceptions on Teacher-Student Writing Conferences, Jacqueline Johnson
What Made the Writer Emerge?, Jasmine Jones
Alignment of Leadership to Constructs of Governance in Independent Schools, Damian Kavanagh
Noxious Cellular Injury Triggers an Oxidative Stress Gene Response, Shawyun Khoshneviszadeh
Sex Ratios and the City: Is parental corticosterone a mediator of the relationship between urbanization and offspring sex allocation?, Denyelle Kilgour
A Maturity Model of Data Modeling in Self-Service Business Intelligence Software, Anna Kurenkov
Spelmanite Soldiers, Kiahna Kuykendall
Determining the Structure and Activity of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Protein, Ivyp2, Katherine Letsinger
Physiological costs of total cholesterol in European starlings across an urban to rural gradient, Courtney Linkous
An Ethnography of Voodoo Tourism and Heritage Sites in New Orleans, Lousiana, Bryant Long
Digital Storytelling in Higher Education: An Analysis of Production Practices, Meagan Lowney
Phylogeny of the Resistance-Nodulation-Cell Division (RND) Superfamily, Daisy McGrath and Tsai-Tien Tseng
Human-AI Hybrids in Virtual Teams: The Effects of IT Identity and Trust on Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Application, Denise McWilliams
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND THERMAL INVESTIGATION OF METAL PHOSPHITES AND POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR ASTROBIOLOGY, Kimberly Faye Meyberg
Tiptoeing through the Tulips at Seventy: A Memoir, Fran Miele
I'M PART OF THE INGROUP, DOES IT MATTER? IMPACT OF SOCIAL IDENTITY ON MULTI-CHANNEL INFORMATION SYSTEMS EFFECTIVENESS, Michele Minetola
Connecting above- and belowground effects of climate warming on bumble bee health, Francis Mullan
The Wishgrant, Mezi Mulugeta
The Genre Writer's Portfolio, John Nelson
Batter: A Creative Writing Portfolio, Hannah Newman
"Alexa? What Keeps Consumers From Engaging With You?", Kate Nicewicz
WILLINGNESS TO DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY PERSPECTIVE, DeJarvis Oliver
Perceptions of School Through the Lens of Black Male Elementary Students: A School Climate Study, Erica Peek
Unclean and Unforgivable, Cindy Pope
Investigating the Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Georgia 6-12 Science Teachers in Relation to Conservation of Mass, Lyric Portwood
Blockchain-based Medical Image Sharing and Critical-result Notification, Jiyoun Randolph
Nurse Satisfaction and Interprofessional Interactions: The Impact of Nurses’ Professional Relationships on Job Satisfaction, Katrina Robinson
Superoxide-assisted solid-state synthesis of birnessite type MnO2 materials: physiochemical properties and electrochemical viability, Armando Rodriguez Campos
Debiasing Cyber Incidents – Correcting for Reporting Delays and Under-reporting, Seema Sangari
KNOCK! KNOCK! IS THE DOCTOR IN? IMPACT OF CONSUMER-FACING HEALTH IT ON HEALTH OUTCOMES, Arpit Sharma
Exploring the Effects of Teachers' Motivation to Read on Students' Motivation to Read, Clarice K. Shuman
Influences on Controllers' Non-GAAP Reporting Decisions, Valerie Simmons
Teacher Perceptions of Collaborative Practices in a Rural High School Setting: Case Study, Leah Slimp
HUMAN REMAINS IN MUSEUMS AND INSTITUTIONS: LAWS AND POLICIES, Cassidy Steele
Heavy Metal Distribution Across Three Georgia Estuaries Using Coastal Sharks As Sentinel Species, Allyson Stiles
A Neuromuscular Look Into Genetics of Muscle Aging, Christina Talley
A Phenomenographical Study: The Effects of High-Stakes Test Failure on Low Income Black Students, Tuqwan Taylor
THE IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF ORGANOPHOSPHATE FLAME RETARDANTS IN RAW MATERIALS UTILIZED IN POLYURETHANE PRODUCTION, Lindsay Tudor
Probing Convergence in Orthogonal Conjugated Catalysis by T4 Lysozyme Utilizing Biophysical Characterization, William Turner