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Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Banks on a Plane: Disparities in Financial Access and Critiques of Geospatial Accessibility, Ryan Pardue

Unintended Pregnancies Among Adult Mothers Who Have Not Graduated High School: Family Planning Intentions, Birth Control Practices, and Optimal Interpregnancy Intervals, Alexandria L. Parham

Conflicto Armado Colombiano: Una Mirada Interseccional De Género, Racismo Y Colonialidad, Sara Parra Cadavid

Sexual Dimorphism of the Second Cervical Vertebra in Humans, Morgan Paskins

Understanding Differences in Sexual Violence Perpetration Among College vs. Non-college Men, Yamini Patel

Unmasking Ecological Warfare – Shell-BP, Nigeria, and the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Thomas Paterson

How Safety Leadership Styles Impact Employee Safety Behaviors, Michelle McRae Payne

The Roles of Sexual Relationship Power and Sexual Assertiveness for Condom Use in the Association Between Sexual Victimization History and Condom Use Frequency, Anna Peddle

Comparison of the Lived Experiences of Food Insecurity and Food Choices Among Adults Who Currently Smoke versus Formerly Smoked: A Qualitative Investigation, Emmaline Peterson

All-American: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Athlete Identity, Masculinity, and Mental Health Stigma on Help-Seeking Intentions in Black College Student-Athletes, Giscard Petion

Descriptive analysis of airborne levels of Aspergillus fumigatus present in high-risk critical care patient areas; an eleven-year (2010 – 2021) surveillance study., George H. Pineda

Agility and Resilience as Sources of Competitive Advantages a Theoretical and Empirical Investigation, Celso Roberto de Aguillar Pinho

MNEs Paradoxes in Responsible Global Business – A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation, Maria Luiza C.A. Pinho

The Debt I Owe: Consequences of Criminal-Legal Debt in Metro Atlanta, Daniel A. Pizarro

Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning with Homomorphic Encryption: Addressing Challenges Related to Usability, Memory, and Recurrent Neural Networks, Robert Podschwadt

The Possibilities of Becoming: An Examination of the use of Higher Order Psychological Processes and Sources of Knowledge in two Reflective Discussions with Early Adolescent Black Girls, Rebekah Pollock

Pre-Assault Diagnoses Associated with Post-Assault Emergency Department Visits After Recent Sexual Assault, Jessica Prince

Evaluating Breastfeeding Knowledge and Attitudes of Outpatient Military Health System Nurses Caring for the Breastfeeding Dyad, Hannah Pye

Their Heimat on the Periphery: German Settlers in Southwest Africa, 1828–1934, Shawn M. Reagin

An Assessment of HIV Stigma, Resilience, and Queer-person of Color Identity Among Young Black Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men Living with HIV, Marcus O. Reed

Sending Love Through A Barrel: Investigating the Immigrants’ Experience, From Belonging To Assimilation, Kandi-Lee J. Reid

Bridging Corpus Linguistics to ITA Training and Testing: Validation of Functional Language in Academic Lectures, Haoshan Ren

Revolutionizing Knowledge Production: Transformative Reproductive Justice Activism Through Zine Making, Sierra R. Reyes

Behavioral Sex Differences Caused by Distinct Vasopressin Sources, Nicole Rigney

Believing rationally given your actual beliefs: on Susanna Rinard’s pragmatism, Marlon Rivas Tinoco

Investigating How School Counselors Using #scchat on Twitter Advocate for Marginalized Student Populations: A Social Network Analysis, Adrianne Robertson

Social Structural Sorting in U.S. Schools, Sarah Roche

Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Assess the Service Needs of Youth Experiencing Homelessness in Atlanta, Jasmine Rockwell Heard

Sisters of Conspiracy: A Feminist Analysis of Evangelical, New Age, and Qanon Movements in Contemporary American Politics., Rachael Rollings

Expectation Maximization Methods for Metabolic Pathway Analysis, Filipp Rondel

Advancements in Cancer Genomics: Graph-Based Motif Discovery and Single-Cell Analysis, Sayed Hossein Saghaeiannejad Esfahani

The Analysis of Longitudinal Change Patterns in Developing Brain Using Functional and Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data, Rekha Saha

Just-ish?: Alternative justice attitudes: A randomized control trial, Iman Abdulkadir Said

Examining Factors Associated with Alcohol Use and Consequences among Latine College Students, Nashalys K. Salamanca

Criticality and Collaboration: Developing Critical Literacy Writing Instruction for Secondary Black Students, Brooks Salter

Can explicit processes support implicit category learning?: The effect of relevant rule-oriented selective attention on implicit learning, Andres Sanchez

Racism and Psychopathology: Investigating the Interactive Roles of Neighborhood Poverty and Racial Discrimination on Pathologized Reactive Psychological Responses among Black Women, Aliyah Sanders

Synthesis and Optical Properties of Red Shifted Squaraine Dyes Containing Perimidine Moiety as Potential Optoacoustic Imaging Agents, Shahir Sarasiya

An Actor-Centric Approach to Facial Animation Control by Neural Networks For Non-Player Characters in Video Games, Sheldon Schiffer

The Overcoming of the Idea of Life in Hegel's Science of Logic, Carlos Schoof

Mathematical Voices from the South: Books Clubs as a Conduit for Intersectional Inquiry and Praxis within a High School Mathematics Teacher Critical Friends Group, Rachel E. Seasholtz

Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination Booster Coverage among Healthcare Personnel (HCP) in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCF), National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), United States, January 2022 – March 2022, George E. Segovia

Underreported Yet Overcrowded: Negligent Deaths and Prison Overcrowding in the Context of Missing Prison Data in the United States, Chloe Sellers

Graph Analysis of Resting State Functional Brain Networks and Associations with Cognitive Outcomes in Survivors of Pediatric Brain Tumor, Eric Semmel

Identification of Hub Clacification Proteins in Plaque formation in Atherosclerosis using Multi Omnics and Network Based Approach, Charmy Shah

Life Saving Drugs, Health Policy and Mental Health, Hasan Shahid

Rational Design and Synthesis of NIR Dyes for Biomedical Imaging, Md Shamim

A Novel Role of Histone Methyltransferase SMYD2 in Atherosclerosis and Plaque Calcification, Shaligram Sharma

Quantifying Effects of Perturbation Intensity on Slip Outcome in Young Adults, Sangwon Shin

The Role of S-Nitrosylation in Valosin-Containing Protein-Mediated Cardioprotection, Xiaomeng Shi

Design Thinking Process: Visual Art Curriculum Design Tool For Students With Severe and Multiple Disabilities, Kendall LE Siddiqui

Peripheral Sympathetic Leptin Receptor Signaling Regulates Sympathetic Innervation of White Adipose Tissue and Diet-Induced Thermogenesis, Felipe C. Silva

Pregnancy Associated Conditions and Birth Outcomes Among Georgia Mothers: A Population-based Study, Meosha Simpson

Regulation of Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae-induced Host Innate Immunity in Lung Epithelium, Hardeep Singh

Lost and Found in Translation: Women Translating the Classics as Rhetorical Acts, Alexandra Sladky

The GOD in HIV: How the Perceived Influence of Christianity on Sex Education Impacts Black Men Who Have Sex with Men’s Knowledge of HIV, Victor Sledge

Community Recovery in Eastern Kentucky after the July 2022 Flooding, Margaret L. Smith

Strategically Using the National Mall: Communication Cycles in the Formation of Political, Morgan Smith

Antimicrobial Resistance and Epidemiology of Salmonella serotype Kentucky infections—United States, 2009–2022, Caroline Snyder

School Culture and Mathematics Teachers' Experiences: A Story of Johnson High School, Alexandra Starke

Does it Really Matter? Presidential Rhetoric and Framing and its Effect on State Marijuana Policy Diffusion., Dana Stevenson

Poetics of Black Foodscapes: A Qualitative Study Exploring Black Culinary Epistemologies in the Food Practices of Urban-dwelling African American Women Experiencing Food Apartheid, Armani Kirsten Stewart

Postpartum Mothers’ Preferences for a Virtual Program Targeting Maternal Depression and Support of Infant Social-Emotional Development: Lessons Learned from Mom and Baby Net, Destiny Stokes

Depleting, Enriching, Or Both? A Daily Diary Investigation Of The Costs And Benefits Of Servant Leadership Behaviors For The Leaders Themselves, Derek J. Stotler

(Para)Normalizing the Patriarchy: How Supernatural Pregnancy Storylines Shape Perceptions of Motherhood and Bodily Autonomy for Women in Angel, 1999-2004, Haley L. Strassburger

The Influence of Social Capital on College Persistence and Completion for African American Males, Jacquelyn Carlotta Strickland

The Atlantic Voice: Narrative and the Creation of the Circum-Atlantic World, James Harper Strom

Olfactory Vision: Recollection of Visual Information Through Smell in Graphic Design, Monica Suarez Argudin

Perceptions Of Principal Practices Influencing Organizational Learning And Collective Teacher Efficacy, Bindu Sunil

Fools of War: The Trope of the Fool in Contemporary American War Narratives, Alan R. Swirsky

La Revolución es una Fiesta: The Democratization of Colombia at the Hands of the M-19, John Talman

Towards Including Second Language Varieties of English on High-stakes International Tests of English Proficiency: A Perceptual Adaptation Study, Yi Tan

Quantifying the Relationship Among Socioeconomic Status and Prevalence of HIV Diagnoses Using 2018 Greater Atlanta Metropolitan Area Zip Codes, Sarah Tarr

Liberatory Consciousness in Contested Space: How Nonprofit Leaders of Color Decolonize Their Minds and Change Everything, Zuri Tau

No Easy Path: A Ground-Penetrating Radar Investigation of the Historic Penfield Cemetery., Robert Paul Theberge

The Music Teacher Education Triad and the Role of the University Faculty, Michelle Thomas

Adam Smith, Virtue, and Sympathy for Animals, Phoenix Thompson

Facing the Gray Rhino: Food Pantries in DeKalb County and the Covid-19 Pandemic, Rita B. Thomson

Argumentation in L1 and L2 Adult Writers: A Process-based Perspective Using Keystroke Logging, Yu Tian

Does Parental Acceptance/Warmth Moderate Longitudinal Bidirectional Associations Between Parents’ and Children’s Internalizing Psychopathology?, Kaitlyn Tobin

Berge - Fulkerson Conjecture And Mean Subtree Order, Nizamettin Tokar

Affluence and Interpersonal Trust, Alexandra Tosone

Black, Educated, and Bougie: An Integrated Mixed-Method Analysis of Success Ideologies, Cultural Trends, Education Priorities, and Social Justice Values of Atlanta’s Core Black Middle Class, Kinyatta N. Trice

Leveraging Chemical Tools for Improving Therapeutic Delivery of Carbon Monoxide and Potency of Anthraquinone-based MDM2 Inhibitors, Ravi Tripathi

Sound, Subjectivity, and Feminism: Victorian Novels and Their Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Adaptations, Calabria D. Turner

Unraveling the Mechanism Behind the Phototoxicity of Polycyclic Aromatic Dyes, Aikohi Ugboya

Multisensory context processing in the cortical hierarchy and the impact of a schizophrenia-relevant gene mutation, Alice B. Van Derveer

Perceptions of Sexual Minoritized Women’s Sexual Orientation and Masculine Gender Expression as Predictors of their Experience of Enacted Stigma and Problematic Drinking, Brynne Velia

Essays on Indirect Effects of Higher Education Policies, Jesús Villero

Orbital Architectures of M Dwarf Companions, Eliot H. Vrijmoet

Quantifying and Comparing Water Transit Time Distributions in Urban Beaver and Stormwater Retention Ponds in the Atlanta, GA Metropolitan Area, Claire Wadler

Mixed Race Masculinity in 2020 and Beyond, Christina M. Wan

Essays on the Rationality of Online Romance Scammers, Fangzhou Wang

The Effects of Information Acquisition on Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from SEC EDGAR Web Traffic, Xiaoyu Wang

In Defense of Emotion-Based Approach to Moral Motivation, Yifan Wang

Sample Empirical Likelihood under Complex Survey Design and Bayesian Jackknife Empirical Likelihood-based Inference for Missing Data and Partial AUC, Yuke Wang

Virtual Delivery in Home Visiting: A Qualitative Exploration of SafeCare® Provider Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Ashley E N Watson

Essays on Social Media Centric Consumption: Quantifying Current and Future Outcomes, Emily Webster

Worry as Coping: The Roles of Worry Beliefs, Anxiety, and Emotion Regulation, Anne Werkheiser

Rhetorics of Cancer in America, Christopher J. Wernecke