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Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

The Role of the Salon Experience as a Form of Meaningful Engagement in the Lives of Persons Living with Dementia in Assisted Living, Virginia Heidbreder

Two Essays on Econometric Modelling of Consumer Demand for Health Insurance and Financial Impact of Rural Hospital Closures, James Henson

Addressing the Aristotelian Pedagogical Bias: Reassessing Aristotle’s Rhetoric and its Place in 21st Century Composition Studies, Matthew Higgins

Development of the Racial Allyship Characteristics Scale: Measuring White Allyship from the Perspective of People of Color, Cassandra Hinger

Providing Evidence-Based Interventions in Early Childhood Settings: Examination of Consultation Frameworks and Implementation of a Remote Intervention for Infant Siblings of Children with Autism, Chloe B. Holbrook

Ascension, Alyssa Ann Hood

Bioinformatics Tools for RNA-seq Data Analysis, Akram Sadat Hosseini

An Exploration of Teachers’ and Instructional Coaches’ Perceptions of Self-Efficacy in the Areas of Instructional Strategies, Student Engagement, and Classroom Management, John M. Hruby

Diversified Institutional Ownership and Firm Innovation, Yen-Lin Huang

Spectral Characterization of a Complete Equatorial Sample of 615 K Dwarfs, Hodari-Sadiki Hubbard-James

Teaching Truth: Grassroots Reactions to Classroom Censorship Legislation in Georgia, Emma Hugonnet

School Leaders’ Transformational Strategies for Successfully Preparing for Algebra I in Eighth Grade, Brooke Humphrey

Plasmons in Topological Systems, Dalton C. Hunley

Credal Encroachment in a Two-stage Model, Pengbo Hu

Comparing the Mortality Trends of COVID - 19 Comorbidities and Recommendations for the Population at Risk, Ogechukwu Igbokwe

Inoculation and Recovery of Test Organism Cocktail for Hospital Surface Disinfection by Sani-24 Wipes, Kimberly Inegbe

UAS Path Planning for Dynamical Wildfire Monitoring with Uneven Importance, S M Towhidul Islam

Investigating Exposure Learning of Family-Resemblance Categories, Brooke Jackson

From Morphogens to Monogamy: the Wnt Pathway’s Role in Monogamy, Demira Jakupovic

SUMOylation as a modulator of ion channel function and expression, Leslie-Anne R. Jansen

Perceptions of Public Health College Students on the Effectiveness of Infant Mortality Disparity Reduction Programs in Georgia, USA: Challenges and Strategies to Close the Gap., Henricles Jeudy

Development of Point-Of-Care Assays to Detect Biologically Relevant Analytes, Tianwei Jia

Chairing an Inquiry: An A/R/Tographic Exploration into an Art Teacher’s Experience of Physical and Metaphorical Building, Donna Jones

The Power of Reflection: Understanding The Impacts Made Upon Employees Who Have Managers Who Reflect On Their Professional Development, Ryan Heath Jordan

Exploring the Social Dynamics of Health Information Sharing on Social Media: The Influence of Beliefs and Source Information, Priyam Joshi

Quantum Chemical and QM/MM Calculations on Flavin and Flavin-Binding Fluorescent Proteins, Mohammad Pabel Kabir

Optimization of the Purification and Formation of hProCA32 for Human Clinical Application, Hyein Kang

Teaching Word Reading and Spelling for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: An Observation Study, Ki Young Kang

An Empirical Study on the Influence of ICT-Based Tools on Team Effectiveness in Virtual Software Teams Operating Remotely During the COVID-19 Lockdown, Uday Kumar Kanike

A Moral-Epistemic Argument Against Capitalistic Labor Contracts, Mert Karaca

Analyzing Undergraduate Problem Solving in Proton NMR: A Comprehensive Examination and Assessment Tool for Conceptual Understanding, Sujani Kariyawasam Gamage

The Influence of Apocalyptic Thinking in the Early Phase of the German Protestant Reformation, 1517-1525, Matthew Kasper

Cultivate, Katie Kearns

“A Change is Gonna Come”: Examining Environmental Hazard Distribution and Gentrification in Atlanta, GA, 2005-2015, Brittany A. Keller

George S. Counts on the Role of Indoctrination in Education: An Exegesis, James Alexander Aucoin Keller

Tight Coils: Black Transfemininity, Transhegemony, and Identity Formation in The U.S. South, Vic J. Kennedy

Studies of Attosecond Time Delay and Superheavy Elements in Atomic Photoionization, Rezvan Khademhosseini

Closing a Road to Immanence in Plato's Phaedo, Bilal A. Khan

High School Students' Reading Experiences with Graphic Novels, Comics, and Manga, Esther Jin Kim

Three Essays on Education and Health Policy for K-12 Students and Young Adults, Sungmee Kim

Assessing the Grade Retention Outcomes among Children with Speech and Language Disorders (SPLD) Using the National Survey of Children’s Health, 2016-2021, Caleb Jamal King

Essays on the Economics of Education, Sarah S. King

The Perils and Promises of Using Online Survey Experiments to Study (Visual) Frames in Science Communication, Justin Kingsland

Three Seaport Development Paths: Salalah/Duqm, Surat-Hazira/Mundra, and Dubai in the Indian Ocean World, 1970-2020, Jeffrey R. Kinnier

Coffin for Head of State, Samuel Kolawole

Ethan Allen’s Reason The Only Oracle of Man, or a Compenduous System of Natural Religion (Bennington, Vt: Haswell And Russel, 1784). A Critical Edition with an Introduction and Notes, Benjamin Kolenda

Qualitative Evaluation of a Collective Impact State-Wide Initiative: Assessing the Collaborative Process of Supporting Resilience by Addressing Childhood Adversity, Jessica Koreis

Shapeshifter, Kate Kosek

Transatlantic Utopia: American Antebellum Novels and Their Reflexive Historicism, Andrew J. Lamb

Inequality And Democratization: A Power-Centered Approach to Democratic Transitions, Alban Lauka

Tricking or Trapped: A Critical Analysis of Sex Work and Sex Trafficking Discourse in The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Jenna-Ashley Lee

Investigating the Effectiveness of Algorithmic Interventions in Health Decision Making, Jung min Lee

The Role of Spirituality for Successful Established Women Entrepreneurs, Valaurie Bridges Lee

Automated Discovery of Candidate Simulation Models for Steering Behavior Simulation, Hai Le

China's Military Strategy Under Chairman Xi: More Steel, More Gas, and Harder Bones, Dexter T. Lensing

Won't He Do It?! African American Males Who Achieved Their Doctor of Education (EdD): Perceptions of Success Factors, Felicia Lewis

Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) To Assess Whether the Subfactor Constructs of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) Can Be Integrated Into an Early Warning System For At Risk High School Students, R. Scott Lewis

Racial Diversity at the Leadership Level: The Case of Nonprofit Human Service Organizations, Bo Li

Effects of Prior Task Experience on Older Adults’ Encoding Strategy Selection, Changrui Li

Pathogenesis And Pharmacological Mitigation Of Influenza Viruses, Respiratory Syncytial Virus And SARS-CoV-2, Carolin M. Lieber

Induction of Inflammasome Activation in Macrophage Cells by Polyethyleneimine-Modified Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles, Ibinabo Lilly-Tariah

The Model Minority Stereotype as a Systematic Hermeneutical Injustice, Ashley Lindsley-Kim

Exploration of Miniature Flexible Devices Empowered by Van Der Waals Material, Ningxin Li

Motivations for Providing Social Support on Social Media, Yuehan Liu

Traces to Entrenchment: A Mixed Methods Study Examining the Use of Reading and Writing to Facilitate Lexical Sequence Acquisition Among Bilingual Learners and Factors Influencing Their Language Learning, Andrea Lofgren

Traces to Entrenchment: A Mixed Methods Study Examining the Use of Reading and Writing to Facilitate Lexical Sequence Acquisition Among Bilingual Learners and Factors Influencing Their Language Learning, Andrea J. Lofgren

Spanglish as a Learning Tool, Victoria P. Londeen

The Role of Cytosolic Chaperonin CCT in Dendritic Development and Neuronal Disease, Erin Lottes

Reimagining Science Teacher Recruitment, Preparation, and Retention through Emancipatory Pedagogies and Abolitionist Teaching: A Narrative Inquiry Study, Vanessa Louis

Exploring the utility-privacy trade-off in social media data mining, Guangxi Lu

The Politics of Anger, Qinyi Luo

IL-36/IL-36R Signaling Promotes CD4+ T Cell-Dependent Colitis via Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Production, Maya Maarouf

Choice Paralysis: A Challenge from the Indeterminacy of Intentional Content, Ryne Smith MacBride

An Overview of Teenage Pregnancy in Tanzania: Prevalence, Risk Factors, Effects, and Mitigatory Interventions, Daima Anthony Machang'u

Food Insecurity and Chronic Disease Among Working-Age US Adults, Kiara Maddox

The prevalence of sleep disturbance and anxiety among Saudi respiratory therapists during the COVID-19 winter of 2022., Asim Madkhali

Role of TRP Channels in Cold and Noxious Cold Coding by a Primary Sensory Neuron: Modeling Study, Nataliia Maksymchuk

Association of Health, Economic, and Educational Outcomes with Child Marriages In Ethiopia, Maryellen Malone

Increasing the Awareness of Black Women to Promote Medical Research Engagement, Stephanie M. Malone

Implementation of Low-Cost and Open-Source Instrumentation in 2D Material Research, Diren Maraba

User-centric privacy preservation in Internet of Things Networks, Akshita Maradapu Vera Venkata Sai

Using Simulation Technology to Train Teacher Candidates in Classroom Management, Chelsea Marelle

Community Engagement in the International Emergency Response to Ebola, 2014-2016, Daniel W. Martin

Sankofa Journey: Investigating the Process of Co-Creating an African-Centered Social Emotional Learning Curriculum for Black Boys in Concert with Community, Rosalyn Martin

The Interplay of Technological Affordances, Audience, and Context in Shaping Feminist Discourse: A Study of #Neverthelessshepersisted on Twitter and Instagram, Virginia Massignan

DynaLay: An Introspective Approach to Dynamic Layer Selection for Deep Networks, Mrinal Mathur

File, Save, Forget: Cognitive Offloading in Non-Human Primates, Stella R. Mayerhoff

Homo Ludens, Kengel Maysonet

Analyzing the Rhetorics of Wine: Ethnographic Research of Wine Community Narratives, Bailey McAlister

Oral History, Activism, and Remembrance: The Rhetorical Agency of Georgia’s Women Activists in and Beyond the Equal Rights Amendment, Jessica Edens McCrary

A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding How Subtle Racial Microaggressions Affect Cognitive Performance Among Black College Students, Taylor McGee

Milton's Vocal Hierarchy in Paradise Lost, John McNabb

An Examination of Peer Influences on Identity in the Art Classroom, Nova K. Mead

The Chemodynamic-Age Structure of the Local Population of Low-Mass Stars, Ilija Medan

Blackberry Consumption Protects Against E-Cigarette-Induced Vascular Oxidative Stress, Maureen Meister

After They Leave: A Thematic Analysis of Post-Exit Distress and Coping in Former Violent Extremists, Katharina Meredith

The Impact of Conversational Turn-Taking on Vocabulary Size in Children with Developmental Disabilities Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Syrina Merilan

Stellar Kinematics and Dynamical Modeling of Two Seyfert Galaxies, Katherine A. Merrell

The Modern Anti-Hero, Shawn G. Merritt

"With Undiscording Voice": Discord and Original Sin in Milton's Poetic Imagination, Maggie Miller