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Modelling, Additive Manufacturing, and Testing of Knitted Materials
(2024-05-10)Knitting is a centuries-old textile fabrication technique utilizing a method of “interlooping,” where loops are pulled through each other until the final product is created. Certain patterns curl in on themselves, which ... -
THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE BEHAVIOR OF BOWED STRINGS UTILIZING A MAGNETIC PICKUP SYSTEM
(2024-05-10)Pickup systems for musical instruments generally serve the purpose of improving the perceived quality of instrument sound through appropriate amplification of electrical signals. While different pickups like a microphone ... -
Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and Associated Heat Waves in the United States Great Plains
(2024-05-10)Heatwaves are a leading contributor of weather-related mortality, globally contributing to thousands of deaths each year. The impacts on humans may be direct or indirect through avenues such as heat stress, strained medical ... -
Stressed Out: Resistance-nodulation-division (RND) and Major Facilitator Superfamily (MFS) Efflux Pump Mediated Survival Strategies of Acinetobacter baumannii
(2024-05-11)Originally discovered in soil microbial communities, reports of genus Acinetobacter associated infections started to increase around 1977 and continued to climb to frightening heights for the next 20 years resulting in ... -
Choosing Repertoire for the Percussion Methods Course
(2024-05-11)This document serves as a guide to finding band literature that is relevant and pedagogically beneficial for beginning percussion students. It can be an essential tool for the collegiate percussion methods instructor. In ... -
Intercultural Communication Competence Revisited: Reconciling Trait and Relational Perspectives Using Social Network Analysis
(2024-05-10)What it takes for communicators to interact competently with intercultural others remains a contested conceptual site. This dissertation addresses the debate between the individual and relational perspectives regarding the ... -
MORE ATTRACTIVE THAN EXPECTED? EFFECTIVENESS OF THE EMBODIED VIRTUAL AGENT IN ONLINE SHOPPING RECOMMENDATION: MODERATION EFFECT OF CAPABILITY AND MEDIATION EFFECT OF TRUST
(2024-05-11)This study explores the growing field of Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) in e-commerce, with a focus on embodied virtual agents (EVAs) that serve as virtual sales assistants. It examines how the physical attractiveness ... -
Biochemical insights into the unconventional approaches to energy conservation and electron transport in syntrophic metabolism
(2024-05-10)Methane produced from anaerobic digestion of organic wastes has great potential as an alternative to fossil fuels. Anaerobic digestion combines the production of renewable energy with environmental benefits, including the ... -
Exploring ParE Toxin Dynamics: from Impact to Quantification in Bacterial Cells
(2024-05-11)The increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in pathogenic bacteria has brought significant challenges to global public health. However, it has been decades since the discovery of the last antibiotic, making ... -
CAN SELF-ORGANIZING TEACHER GROUPS REDUCE TEACHER ISOLATION?
(2024-03-07)This study investigates the conditions fostering self-organized teacher groups within schools and their relationship to reducing teacher isolation. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach involving 663 online surveys and 18 ... -
Environmental Health Inequalities and Discriminatory Zoning: Identifying Systemic Barriers for Environmental Health Equity through Community-Engaged Research
(2024-05-10)Environmental justice research has exposed that environmental health inequalities persist for historically redlined communities due to proximity to heavy industrial areas. Communities of color are systematically exposed ... -
How do teachers with different certification statuses describe their ability to deliver Culturally Responsive Instruction? A qualitative inquiry
(2024-05-10)Culturally Responsive Teaching is an approach that attempts to integrate students’ cultural backgrounds and experiences into learning processes. Some education reformers argue that student needs are best met when teachers ... -
Bowing Drills: Highly Adaptable Exercises for All Ages
(2024-05-11)In the orchestral string world, the left-hand is primarily responsible for pitch while the right-hand is accountable for much of the remaining elements of music including tone, dynamics, articulations, and phrasing. While ... -
COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DECISION-MAKING IN COLLECTIVE IMPACT GROUPS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
(2024-05)This phenomenological study focused on better understanding the experience of participating in community-driven decision-making within collective impact groups. Through interviewing both collective impact facilitators ... -
Visual and Musical Disability Narratives in How to Train Your Dragon
(2024-05-11)In recent decades, the field of disabilities studies has shifted from solely a medical outlook to a more rounded approach of how disability is constructed culturally and socially. With this change, disability scholars aim ... -
Views From the Saddle: Empathy and Romanticization in Oral Narrative and Multispecies Communication
(2024-05-10)In the summer of 2023, I traveled to Wyoming to conduct fieldwork while working on a dude ranch as a wrangler. The research I conducted had two particular focuses: the learned narratives that wranglers shared with guests ... -
THE IMPACT OF THE PLAY TO LEARN ACT IN 1st, 2nd, AND 3rd GRADE CLASSROOMS: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY
(2024-05-10)In the field of early childhood education, child-centered pedagogies have significantly decreased in favor of greater use of adult-directed learning as the high-stakes testing era has proliferated (Miller & Almon, 2009). ... -
Does Acute Melatonin Supplementation Affect Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Healthy Young Adults?
(2024-05-10)Melatonin receptors have been found in the cerebrovasculature in animal models, and melatonin has been shown to improve systemic vascular control. While there is a correlation between low melatonin production and cardiovascular ... -
The Pleasure Placebo: The Roles of Religion and Gender in Sexual Enjoyment
(2024-05-10)This project focuses on how religious factors relate to heterosexual, cisgender people’s attitudes about gender dynamics and their experiences of sexual enjoyment and well-being. I conduct three related analyses, and each ...