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Theses from 2020

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Optimal Order Assignment with Minimum Wage Consideration (OOAMWC), HAKEM ALAZMI

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2-D NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF FOLSOM DAM: SEISMICALLY INDUCED SEPARATION AND PORE PRESSURE ALONG THE SOIL-CONCRETE INTERFACE, Grace Amoussou

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Performance of Malware Classification on Machine Learning using Feature Selection, Nusrat Asrafi

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Utilization of the Cell Penetrating Peptide TAT-CaM in New Biological Systems: Fungal and Bacterial Cell Lines, Krista Barbour

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THE RELATIONSHIP OF SPAN OF CONTROL TO NURSE MANAGER SATISFACTION, Jeffrey Batcher

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Synthesis of the Natural Alkaloids Angustureine, Cuspareine, Galipeine, Galipinine using α-Aminocycloalkyl Copper Reagents, Zane Bertoli

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Tense Familiarity: Psycho and the Origins, Effects, and Pedagogy of the Trans-Coded Monster, Dudgrick Bevins

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Distributed Denial of Service Attack Detection, Travis Blue

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Fast Clustering Using a Grid-Based Underlying Density Function Approximation, Daniel Brown

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High-Resolution Mapping of Fish Conservation Priorities within the Mobile River Basin, James R. Carl

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Solving Pollution Through Design Integration: A Sustainable Model for Underdeveloped Mexican Cities, Marcos Cruz

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A Framework to Detect Presentation Attacks, Laeticia Etienne

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Mineral-Surface Chemistry of Hydroxyapatite and Urea-Rich Solutions, Estefania Garcia

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Classifying Imbalanced Financial Fraud Data Utilizing Enhanced Random Forest Algorithm, Charles Gardner

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A Preliminary Analysis of how a Software Organization’s Maturity and Size Affect its Intellectual Property Portfolio, Daniel Gifford

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Chemically Induced Phytoextraction of Lead (Pb) Contaminated Soil by Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.), Austin Gilly

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CBD & Ethanol Disrupt Early Embryonic Development, Janasha Goffigan-Holmes

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Police Officers’ Knowledge and Perception Regarding Miranda and the Public Safety Exception, Alexandria Goldstein

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A Spatial and Multivariate Approach to Examining Effects of Urbanization on Nitrogen Sources, Organic Matter Inputs, and Trophic Structure in Streams of Cobb and Paulding Counties, Georgia., Katharine Horning

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A Prescriptive Criterion for Amphibious Foundation Design, Erin Hughes

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Improving the Maximum Power Point Tracking Efficiency of Photovoltaic Arrays via Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Sumedha Inamdar

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Neighborhood Conditions, Youth Exposure to Violence, and Substance Use, Ashley Jimenez

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SuperB: Superior Behavior-based Anomaly Detection Defining Authorized Users' Traffic Patterns, Daniel Karasek

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Comparative Whole-genome and Phenotype Analyses of Virulence Factors and Lethality in Nematode Challenge Assay among Aeromonas isolates, Pyeongsug Kim

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Deep Learning for Identifying Breast Cancer, Yihong Li

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Determination and Dissection of DNA-binding Specificity for the Thermus thermophilus HB8 Transcriptional Regulator TTHB099, Kristi Moncja

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USING A NOVEL CELL- PENETRATING PEPTIDE TECHNOLOGY TO INDUCE PLURIPOTENCY, Laura-Maria Oja

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The Trend Of Digital Currency By Mining And Analysis Of Patent, Feiyang Qu

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A FEDERATED DEEP AUTOENCODER FOR DETECTING IOT CYBER ATTACKS, Christopher M. Regan

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Evaluating Regional Agricultural Wastes as Substrates for the Mycelial Growth and Fruiting Body Yield of Pleurotus ostreatus, Daniel Rhiner

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DATA MINING AND IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING GENETIC PROGRAMMING, Mahsa Shokri varniab

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The Neuroinflammatory Effects of Chronic Unpredictable Stress on Zebrafish, Danio rerio, Brandon Stewart

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Rethinking the Weakness of Stream Ciphers and Its Application to Encrypted Malware Detection, William T. Stone and Junggab Son

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Discovery of a DNA-binding Consensus and Potential Genomic Regulatory Binding Sites for the Thermus thermophilus HB8 Transcriptional Regulator TTHA1359, Josiah Teague

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Isolation and Characterization of Bacteriophages Infecting Enterobacter cloacae to Reduce Bloater Defect in Cucumber Fermentations, Samantha Thompson

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Graphical Representation of Text Semantics, Karl Kevin Tiba Fossoh

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Using Multiple Data Sources for Customer Satisfaction Analyzing: A Sentimental Approach, Jhanvi Vyas

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Deep learning for identifying Lung Diseases, Lin Wang

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The Historic Fire Return Interval and the Ecological Effects of Fire Suppression on Montane Longleaf Pine Dominated Ecosystems in Northwestern Georgia., Christopher Waters

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Leveraging Smart Contracts for Asynchronous Group Key Agreement in Internet of Things, Victor Youdom Kemmoe and Junggab Son

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An Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Framework for Detecting Anomalies in Real Time through Network System’s Log Files Analysis, Vannel Zeufack

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Service and Citizenship: Examining the Historical Relationship between Immigration and Military Service in the United States, Claudia Lynn Zibanejadrad

Final Projects from 2019

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Relationship Between Stress and Performance in Skills Competencies in an Undergraduate Nursing Program, Erin Ababiy

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A Constrained Box Algorithm for Imbalanced Data in Remote Sensing Images, Wajira Abeysinghe

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PUBLIC BLOCKCHAIN SCALABILITY: ADVANCEMENTS, CHALLENGES AND THE FUTURE, Amritraj .

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Neural Development to Neurodegeneration Through the Mind of a Worm, Miranda Arnold

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American Sign Language Recognition Using Machine Learning and Computer Vision, Kshitij Bantupalli and Ying Xie

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The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species in Crotalus atrox Venom-induced Cell Death, Lindsay Brown

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USE OF POPE ENGAGEMENT INDEX TO MEASURE COGNITIVE LOAD OF PHYSICAL MODELING ACTIVITIES IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Jenifer Calvert

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Unraveling the neurogenin/ngn-1 gene regulatory network of C. elegans using classical genetics and comparative transcriptomics, Elyse Christensen

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Intrinsic Cleavage Inhibition by Thermophilic Type II-S Restriction Endonucleases, Dino Jake Ciccone

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Using instream stationary antennas to monitor the movements of warm water fishes in a reach of stream bisected by a culvert, William Commins

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Heien v. North Carolina and Significant Interpretive Court Cases: An Empirical Examination of Police Officers’ Perceptions and Knowledge, Michael De Leo

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Small Angle X-ray Scattering study of conformational changes in steroid responsive activator (SRA) RNA upon binding with suppressor protein SHARP, Diane Diatta

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Delivering Signal-Altering Bacterial Effector Proteins to Mammalian Cells Using Cell-Penetrating Peptide Technology, Robert Dickson

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Design of Cotton Fabric-Based Binary and Ternary Composite Materials Containing Nanostructured ZnO, TiO2, and Plasmonic Nanoparticles: Photocatalytic Applications, Latanya Downer

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A More Efficient Method for Extracting and Analyzing Pesticides in Baby foods, Oluwatobi Fabunmi

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Compliance of Open Source EHR Applications with HIPAA and ONC Security and Privacy Requirements, Maryam Farhadi, Hisham Haddad, and Hossain Shahriar

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Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions of the Transgender Body in the 21st Century, Jessica Fisher

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A Comparative Study of Insertion Loss of Traffic Noise Barriers in Georgia, Pablo Giraldo and Jidong Yang

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Ecology of Upland Snake Communities in Managed Montane Longleaf Pine Habitats of Georgia, Miranda Gulsby

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KNN Optimization for Multi-Dimensional Data, Arialdis Japa

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Document Layout Analysis and Recognition Systems, Sai Kosaraju

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DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIOTEMPORAL CONGESTION PATTERN OBSERVATION MODEL USING HISTORICAL AND NEAR REAL TIME DATA, Betty Kretlow

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An Architecture for Blockchain-based Collaborative Signature-based Intrusion Detection System, Daniel Laufenberg

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Finding a Viable Neural Network Architecture for Use with Upper Limb Prosthetics, Maxwell Lavin

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Assessment of Culverts and Bridges as Roosting Habitat for Perimyotis subflavus (tri-colored bat) and Disease Transmission Corridors for Pseudogymnoascus destructans, Kelly Lutsch

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Simultaneous Delivery of CRISPR/Cas Complexes and Donor DNA Using Cell-Penetrating Peptide-Adaptors, Maria Mugure Mbugua

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The Developmental and Behavioral Effects of Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol on a Spastic Mutant, Victoria Mendiola

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EXPLORING FACTORS AND CONSEQUENCES OF NURSE FATIGUE IN NURSES WHO WORK ON-CALL SHIFTS, Erin MItchell

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Substrate Utilization of the Emerging Fungal Pathogen, Candida auris, and the Antifungal Activity of Select Essential Oils, Ryan Parker

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Characterization of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Serine-600 Phosphorylation, Kevin Patel

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Health and social disparities influence opioid misuse among adult females living in rural areas, Tequila Porter

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Protest Movements of the 1960s - 1970s in Latin America and the United States, jean potter

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, PERCEIVED STRESS AND COPING MECHANISMS IN THE UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENT, Marissa Rebello

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UNDERSTANDING HOW MAP KINASES INFLUENCE ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC-OXIDE SYNTHASE ACTIVITY, Xzaviar Solone

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LUNG PATTERN CLASSIFICATION VIA DCNN, Zhuoqi Sun

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Texture-based Deep Neural Network for Histopathology Cancer Whole Slide Image (WSI) Classification, NELSON Zange TSAKU

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NOVEL ETHYLENE-BRIDGED HEXADENTATE BIS(AMIDINES), BIS(AMIDINATES), AND MULTINUCLEAR COINAGE METAL BIS(AMIDINE) COMPLEXES, Omar Ugarte Trejo

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DESIGNING VISUALLY INTERACTIVE LEARNING MODULES TO PROMOTE STUDENTS' CRITICAL THINKING IN MATHEMATICS, Linda Vu and Ying Xie

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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Highway Congestion and Accidents: A Case Study of Interstate 285 in Georgia, Melodi Zhan-Moodie

Capstones from 2018

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“LIFE IS VERY HARD HERE”: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRANTS IN EL NORTE AND ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY, Gayle Anderson

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The role of cnd-1/NeuroD1 in C. elegans nervous system development, Wendy Aquino Nunez

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Laboratory Self-Weight Consolidation Testing of Dredged Material Analyzed Using a One-Dimensional Finite Strain Consolidation Method, Artine Azimi

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Evolution of Voltage-gated Ion Channels, Kevin Gregory Bennett and Kevin Bennett

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Implementation of Secure DNP3 Architecture of SCADA System for Smart Grids, Uday Bhaskar Boyanapalli

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Transcending the Cell Fate Stereotype: Cell Penetrating Peptide Technology helps Induce Pluripotency in Multiple Cell Types, Kelsey Clearman

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Selective Muscle Degeneration in a Drosophila Model of Cachexia; A Role for the Transcriptional Regulator cabut, Matthew Giedd

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Improvement of Decision on Coding Unit Split Mode and Intra-Picture Prediction by Machine Learning, Wenchan Jiang

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AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF ANIMALS IN THE WILD: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN C-CAPSULE NETWORKS AND DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS., Joel Kamdem Teto and Ying Xie

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USE OF BIOMETRICS TO DETERMINE BIOCHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE LEVEL DIFFERENCES IN READING AND PROCESSING METABOLIC PATHWAYS, Kim Kammerdiener

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Analytical Hierarchy Process Evaluation of the Proposed Slim Modular Flexible Electric Bus Rapid Transit System, Yunji Kim

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Fast and Accurate Machine Learning-based Malware Detection via RC4 Ciphertext Analysis, Euiseong Ko

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A Multiple Classifier System for Predicting Best-Selling Amazon Products, Michael Kranzlein

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Malware Image Classification using Machine Learning with Local Binary Pattern, Jhu-Sin Luo and Dan Lo

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Identifying Cancer Subtypes Using Unsupervised Deep Learning, Tejaswini Mallavarapu

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Static Analysis of Android Secure Application Development Process with FindSecurityBugs, Xianyong Meng

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CERBERUS-TYPE TRISANIONIC TRISNHC AND ITS ZWITTERIONIC GOLD AND SILVER COMPLEXES, Maleek Montgomery and Daniela Tapu

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Virtual Reality as Navigation Tool: Creating Interactive Environments For Individuals With Visual Impairments, Nick Murphy

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Perceptions, Knowledge and Experiences among Police Officers: Traffic Stops, Vehicle Searches and K-9 Involvement, Daniel Ozment