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Submit Your ThesisTheses from 2022
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
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
Interaction of akirin and pannier during embryogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster, Georgette-vanelle Wandji
Introduction of a Novel Family of Bitopic N-Heterocyclic Carbenes, Simon Young
Theses from 2021
The Evolutionary Origins of Autism Associated Genes and Their Role in Great Ape Socio-Communicative Behavior, Azeeza Abdulrauf
Probing Interactions Between Canonical NOX Domains, Akua Acheampong
Characterizing the Vibrational Spectra of Hydrogen Bonded Systems with Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Quantum Chemical Methods, Dalton Boutwell
Exploring the biofilm of Candida auris as it relates to persistence in clinical setting and susceptibility to antimicrobials, bethany Butts
BIFUNCTIONAL BF2 COMPLEXES OF POLYDENTATE BIS(AMIDINATES): SYNTHESIS, STRUCTURES, AND PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES, Alvaro Calderon-Diaz
Assessment of Non-Saccharomyces Yeast Species as Secondary Fermenters in Beer, Paul J. Clark
Efficient Yet Robust Privacy for Video Streaming, Luke Cranfill and Junggab Son
A PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR DIABETES USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES (A CASE STUDYOF SOME SELECTED HOSPITALS IN KADUNA METROPOLIS), A E. EVWIEKPAEFE and NAFISAT ABDULKADIR
Graph based management of temporal data, alex Fotso
A 10-year post-analysis of the Maya Health Toolkit for Medical Providers, Lorenna Garcia-Bochas
Development of a Real-Time Cell Imaging Assay to Characterize the Delivery of a Cell-Penetrating Peptide Adaptor and its Associated Cargo, Schuyler Gentry
ENDLESS SCROLLING: TECHNOLOGY, (DIS)CONNECTION, AND PLACE IN TIMES OF COVID-19, Felecia Glover
The Future is Female: An Examination of Officer-Offender Relationships Using a Sample of Justice-Involved Women, Darian Hailes
Fine-grained sentiment analysis for customer review, Bing Han, Meng Han, and Jing (Selena) He
The contribution of the pectoral fins, body, and the ribbon fin to turning maneuvers of a gymnotiform swimmer, Olivia Hawkins
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGHLY FLUORESCENT TUNABLE AZABORINE PHOTO-INDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER GLUCOSE SENSOR, Robert Bernard Hughley Jr.
Using Big Data Analytics to Optimize Practical Large Databases, Po-Chun Lu
Decentralized Aggregation Design and Study of Federated Learning, Venkata Naga Surya Sameeraja Malladi
The Stories We Tell: Gender-Based Variances in Recovery Narratives, Jessica McDaniel
Federated Learning for Secure Sensor Cloud, Viraaji Mothukuri
Deep Learning for Human MicroRNA Precursor Prediction: A Systematic Literature Review, Martina ojonah
Profile Modeling in Hierarchical Deep Architecture by Mutual Support, Honglai Peng, Meng Han, and Jing (Selena) He
Nurse Manager Communication Associated with Staff Nurse Satisfaction or Retention, Svetlana Periut
Desorption of Non-Exchangeable Radiocesium in soil from Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, Grayson Phillips
METHOD DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARD DILUTION ANALYSIS ON MOLECULES AND DISSOLUTION STUDIES OF IBUPROFEN TABLETS ALONG WITH COMMON BEVERAGE CONSTITUENTS, Scott Richardson
Examination of the Correlation between Shear Strength, California Bearing Ratio, and Index Properties of Fine-grained Soil, BILLY W. Rushema
Explorations of Thermus thermophilus HB8 Transcription Factors TTHA1437 and TTHA1719 using the Combinatorial Selection Method REPSA, Sarah Claire Sneed
Yakety sacs: laryngeal air sac usage in great apes, Chelsea Trenbeath
Non-Invasive Monitoring of Human Hygiene using Vibration Sensor and Classifier, Shashank Trivedi, Maria Valero, Hossain Shahriar, and Liang Zhao
Quantifying Resource Use Among Insectivorous Bat Species with Overlapping Distributions, Shannon Whitney
Investigation into the Akirin Subcellular Localization and Developmental Interactions, Riley Wildeman
Binding Affinity of Flavins to the Dehydrogenase Domain of SpNOX, Quinesha Williams
IRRADIATED PLAYGROUND: THE GEORGIA NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT LABORATORY AND THE LEGACY OF THE UNITED STATES NUCLEAR PROJECT, Austin Wilson
Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities Influencing Obesity Amongst Middle-Aged Women, Morgan Woods
A Knowledge Graph based Method on Language Understanding for Customer Service, Lingyun Yang, Meng Han, and Jing (Selena) He
Analysis of the Role of Akirin Interactions with Nuclear Body Proteins During Myogenesis, Laura Yorke
Theses from 2020
Drosophila Model to Study Muscle Atrophy, Aaron Aghai
The Compressive And Flexural Strength Of Concrete Containing Recycled Waste Plastic, Isaiah Akinkunmi
Optimal Order Assignment with Minimum Wage Consideration (OOAMWC), HAKEM ALAZMI
2-D NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF FOLSOM DAM: SEISMICALLY INDUCED SEPARATION AND PORE PRESSURE ALONG THE SOIL-CONCRETE INTERFACE, Grace Amoussou
Performance of Malware Classification on Machine Learning using Feature Selection, Nusrat Asrafi
Utilization of the Cell Penetrating Peptide TAT-CaM in New Biological Systems: Fungal and Bacterial Cell Lines, Krista Barbour
THE RELATIONSHIP OF SPAN OF CONTROL TO NURSE MANAGER SATISFACTION, Jeffrey Batcher
Synthesis of the Natural Alkaloids Angustureine, Cuspareine, Galipeine, Galipinine using α-Aminocycloalkyl Copper Reagents, Zane Bertoli
Tense Familiarity: Psycho and the Origins, Effects, and Pedagogy of the Trans-Coded Monster, Dudgrick Bevins
Distributed Denial of Service Attack Detection, Travis Blue
Fast Clustering Using a Grid-Based Underlying Density Function Approximation, Daniel Brown
High-Resolution Mapping of Fish Conservation Priorities within the Mobile River Basin, James R. Carl
Solving Pollution Through Design Integration: A Sustainable Model for Underdeveloped Mexican Cities, Marcos Cruz
A Framework to Detect Presentation Attacks, Laeticia Etienne
Mineral-Surface Chemistry of Hydroxyapatite and Urea-Rich Solutions, Estefania Garcia
Classifying Imbalanced Financial Fraud Data Utilizing Enhanced Random Forest Algorithm, Charles Gardner
A Preliminary Analysis of how a Software Organization’s Maturity and Size Affect its Intellectual Property Portfolio, Daniel Gifford
Chemically Induced Phytoextraction of Lead (Pb) Contaminated Soil by Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.), Austin Gilly
CBD & Ethanol Disrupt Early Embryonic Development, Janasha Goffigan-Holmes
Police Officers’ Knowledge and Perception Regarding Miranda and the Public Safety Exception, Alexandria Goldstein
A Prescriptive Criterion for Amphibious Foundation Design, Erin Hughes
Improving the Maximum Power Point Tracking Efficiency of Photovoltaic Arrays via Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Sumedha Inamdar
Neighborhood Conditions, Youth Exposure to Violence, and Substance Use, Ashley Jimenez
SuperB: Superior Behavior-based Anomaly Detection Defining Authorized Users' Traffic Patterns, Daniel Karasek
Comparative Whole-genome and Phenotype Analyses of Virulence Factors and Lethality in Nematode Challenge Assay among Aeromonas isolates, Pyeongsug Kim
Deep Learning for Identifying Breast Cancer, Yihong Li
Determination and Dissection of DNA-binding Specificity for the Thermus thermophilus HB8 Transcriptional Regulator TTHB099, Kristi Moncja
USING A NOVEL CELL- PENETRATING PEPTIDE TECHNOLOGY TO INDUCE PLURIPOTENCY, Laura-Maria Oja
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
Evaluating Regional Agricultural Wastes as Substrates for the Mycelial Growth and Fruiting Body Yield of Pleurotus ostreatus, Daniel Rhiner
DATA MINING AND IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING GENETIC PROGRAMMING, Mahsa Shokri varniab
The Neuroinflammatory Effects of Chronic Unpredictable Stress on Zebrafish, Danio rerio, Brandon Stewart
Rethinking the Weakness of Stream Ciphers and Its Application to Encrypted Malware Detection, William T. Stone and Junggab Son
Isolation and Characterization of Bacteriophages Infecting Enterobacter cloacae to Reduce Bloater Defect in Cucumber Fermentations, Samantha Thompson
Graphical Representation of Text Semantics, Karl Kevin Tiba Fossoh
Using Multiple Data Sources for Customer Satisfaction Analyzing: A Sentimental Approach, Jhanvi Vyas
Deep learning for identifying Lung Diseases, Lin Wang
The Historic Fire Return Interval and the Ecological Effects of Fire Suppression on Montane Longleaf Pine Dominated Ecosystems in Northwestern Georgia., Christopher Waters
Leveraging Smart Contracts for Asynchronous Group Key Agreement in Internet of Things, Victor Youdom Kemmoe and Junggab Son
An Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Framework for Detecting Anomalies in Real Time through Network System’s Log Files Analysis, Vannel Zeufack
Service and Citizenship: Examining the Historical Relationship between Immigration and Military Service in the United States, Claudia Lynn Zibanejadrad
Final Projects from 2019
Relationship Between Stress and Performance in Skills Competencies in an Undergraduate Nursing Program, Erin Ababiy
A Constrained Box Algorithm for Imbalanced Data in Remote Sensing Images, Wajira Abeysinghe
PUBLIC BLOCKCHAIN SCALABILITY: ADVANCEMENTS, CHALLENGES AND THE FUTURE, Amritraj .
Neural Development to Neurodegeneration Through the Mind of a Worm, Miranda Arnold
American Sign Language Recognition Using Machine Learning and Computer Vision, Kshitij Bantupalli and Ying Xie
The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Crotalus atrox Venom-induced Cell Death, Lindsay Brown
USE OF POPE ENGAGEMENT INDEX TO MEASURE COGNITIVE LOAD OF PHYSICAL MODELING ACTIVITIES IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Jenifer Calvert