Graduate Studies, UNL

Dissertations and Doctoral Documents from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–

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Resilience of Interdependent Transportation and Healthcare Systems: A Simulation-driven Framework Incorporating Social Equity and Facility Optimization, S. Yasaman Ahmadi

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The Career Resilience of Women of Color Amidst Intersectional Racism-Sexism in the US: A Consensual Qualitative Study, Hannah Ahmad Ridzuan

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Harnessing the Affordances of WhatsApp for Online Learning, Ogbonnaya B. Akpa

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Public Perceptions of Leadership Effectiveness in Ethiopia over the Last Decade, Fikadu Reta Alemayehu

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Transitive Pedagogy in Creative Teaching: The Lived Experiences of K–6 Teachers Who Intentionally Adapt for Creativity, Rebekah Marie Andersen

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A Study of the History, Repertory and Instrumentation of the Band of the Corfu Philharmonic Society from 1840 until 1920, Foteini Angeli

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Detection of Activity Cliffs Produced by Anti-cancer Drugs and an Algorithm for Reliable Predictions in Affected Areas, Sarah Josephine Aurit

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Proso Millet in US High Plains Dryland Agriculture: Systems Resilience, Phenology, and Consumer Preferences for Alternative Grains, Pratiksha Baishya

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Detecting Prescribed Fire, Haying and Grazing Events Via Remote Sensing to Create Grassland Disturbance Landcovers for the Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), Megan Amy Baldissara

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Amplifying Mother Leaders’ Voices: A Feminist Inquiry into Gender Inequity in Higher Education Leadership, Katherine Bard

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A Zariski-Nagata Theorem for Smooth Toric Surfaces, Jordan Vincent Barrett

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The Effect of Individual Variation on Epidemiological Dynamics: From Super-spreaders to Landscapes of Risk, Alexis Shannon Beagle

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Soil Characterization with Proximal Geophysics, Sophia M. Becker

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A Study of Ultrafast, Intense-field Photodynamics in Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Disulfide, and Select Substituted Benzenes, Joshua Edwin Beck

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Choleramusik: A Conductor's Guide to Fanny Hensel’s Oratorium Nach Bildern der Bibel, Casey John Behm

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Two Essays on Index-based Risk Management in U.S. Rangeland and Livestock Production, Wajdi Belgacem

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Fire History, Ecological History, and Historical Human-Environment Interactions in the Northern Great Plains, James Victor Benes

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From Classroom to Content Creator: Leadership Practices and Identities of Female Science Teachers on TikTok, Rachel M. Benzoni

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Group and State-specific Estimation in Animal Movement Models Using a Bayesian Approach, Anita Bhandari Sharma

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Study of AI Applications in Biomedical Data Acquisition, Communication, and Analysis: CEST MRI Acceleration and ECG Transmissions, Adarsha Bhattarai

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The Global Classroom: A Phenomenological Study of International Student Experiences in a Reimagined Intercultural Communication Course, Crystal Bock Thiessen

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The Overturning of Roe v. Wade and People Capable of Pregnancy: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Carrie Bohmer

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Exploring the Landscape of Collective Leadership Practice in Rural Nebraska: A Qualitative Sequential Multimethod Study, Haden Myles Botkin

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Beyond Being Famous for Being Famous: A Phenomenological Approach to Understand the Leadership of Kim Kardashian, Kelli Britten

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Ethical Decision-making Processes in Authentic Environmental Engineering Contexts Through Systems Thinking and Team Collaboration Lenses: An Embedded Single Case Study, Toluwalase Eniola Brower

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Applications of Archaeal Antioxidant Coenzyme M as an Agricultural Biostimulant, Jeremy Hunter Brown

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Assessing Reproductive Health in Zoo-managed African Elephant Bulls (Loxodonta africana), Kaitlyn Marie Campbell

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Resources for the Beginning and Intermediate Jazz Educator: Reviews of Modern Resources and Implementation in the Classroom, Bryan Canonigo

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The Tree That Would Not Fall: An Educator’s Autoethnographic Journey of Healing Through Words, Raeanna Marie Carlson

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Understanding the Context of Bullying: Examination of the Healthy Context Paradox and Peer Acceptance for Students with Disabilities, Catherine Mae Carney

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Evaluation of Performance Characteristics and Groundwater Contamination Risks Associated with On-farm Swine Carcass Disposal Via Composting and Shallow Burial with Carbon, Gustavo Castro Garcia

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Sociological Understandings of Entrepreneurial Action and Intention, Jeffrey Cavanaugh

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Online Prediction of Streaming Data, Aleena Chanda

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Understanding the Dynamics of Formal Mentoring in Professional Identity Development of Early Career Extension Professionals: A Phenomenological Approach, Anuradha Choudhary

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Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth Navigating Relationships and Sexuality: Recommendations for Affirming Clinical Practice, Hannah Marie Coffey

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Investigating Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Stem Teaching Self-efficacy and Goal Orientation, Derek Scott Cox

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Ediacaran Paleocommunity Structure, Body Size Evolution, and the Rise of Complex Animals, Matthew Philip Craffey

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Culture and Context: How Frames of Teaching and of Learning Mathematics Form and Change for Graduate Student Instructors, Johan Benedict Arroyo Cristobal

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Applications of Preclinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury and Understanding Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis, Evan Timothy Curtis

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The Partsongs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Alan Davis

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Advancing Precision Agriculture Through the Application of Remote Sensing Technologies in Plant Health Assessment, Thomas Wilbur Davis

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Coaching Strategies for Instructional Improvement: Social Emotional Learning in the Preschool Classrooms, Maria Eleanor Yniguez Del Rosario

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Synthesis and Study of Stable Organic Radicals for MRI Contrast Agents and New Materials, Sabina Dhakal

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In-field Tractor Operational Load Profile Generation in Support of Advanced Tractor Testing in Mixedmode Power, Andrew Donesky

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Exploring Factors Influencing Student Growth in Mathematics: Elementary Teacher Instructional Practices, Beliefs, and Professional Development Experiences, Marni E. Driessen

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Host Genetics Role in Viral Disease Susceptibility, Christian Willis Eaton

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Impact of Diet Quality and Functional Food (Honey) on Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Health in Obesity, Sarah M. Eaton

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Analytical Perspectives for the Wind Band Conductor: Discovering the Musical Growth of a Composition Through Focused Observation Using the Elements of Shmrg from Jan Larue’s Guidelines for Style Analysis, Eric Elker

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Considerations and Techniques for Producing Urban Tree Canopy Maps Using Freely Available and Accessible Methods, Hugh Reed Ellerman

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Understanding Pre-harvest Hedging Behavior and Basis Forecasting: The Role of Information in Grain Marketing, Iyore Eronmwon

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How Developers Use Type-System Related Programming Language Features, Samuel W. Flint

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African American Women and Blogs: The Allure of Culture-specific Beauty Blogs, Kalari Flotree

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Musical Self-efficacy Through Active Music Listening: A Phenomenological Approach, Amy Marie Fraser

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Physics Embedded Neural Network: A Novel Data-free Numerical Method for Solving Computational Physics Problems, Pawan Gaire

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Dreaming, Building, and Enduring Black Voices: Black Media in Omaha in the Post-Civil Rights Era, Elodie C. Galeazzi-Kelly

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Blood-red and Flaming and True, Kate Gaskin

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Framework for Integrating Industry Knowledge into a Large Language Model to Assist Construction Cost Estimation, Prashnna Ghimire

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Integrating Genomic and Phenomic Breeding Tools for Wheat Stem Sawfly Resistance in Hard Winter Wheat, Sydney E. Graham

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Changepoint Detection as Model Selection: A General Framework, Michael A. Grantham

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Educational Leadership in a Vuca World: The Crisis Management Experiences of Rural School Superintendents, Lucas J. Grossnicklaus

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A Study of Ice and Fire: Environmental Change Impacts on Lakes of the Nebraska Sandhills, Daniel Gschwentner

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Investigating Programming Behaviors to Understand Student Engagement and Experience in Introductory Programming Courses, Marcus Eugene Gubanyi

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Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 in Interferon Gamma Receptor Signaling and Cancer Immunology, Zachary P. Guinn

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Reinforcement Learning Based Security Schemes for Distributed AI Systems, Ashan Chamath Gunawardena

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The Effect of Voir Dire Variations on Juror Disclosures, Joshua A. Haby

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An Integrated Modeling Framework to Evaluate Circularity of the Corn–Water–Ethanol–Beef Nexus, Heydi Han

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Multivariate Mixture Regression Models with Known Group Membership and Informative Priors, Pahalapathirage Dona Kalani Hasanthika

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Simulations of Differential Reflectivity Columns in Quasi-linear Convective Systems, Devon Jacob Healey

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On Kernels and Antiderivatives of Nonlocal Derivatives, Alex John Heitzman

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Rainfall-runoff Modelling in an Indonesian Humid Tropical Area Using Satellite-based Precipitation Products, Noordiah Helda

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A Modular Paradigm for the Directly Efficient Representation of Kinetic Laser-driven Plasmas, Roland D. Hesse

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Realism, Truth, and Commitment: An Exposition and Critique of Michael Devitt's Constitutive Account of Realism, Samuel Elias Hobbs

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The Reality of Transformation: A Case Study of an American Community College Implementing Holistic Student Supports, Calie Marie Holden

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Robust Quantification of Cortical Hemodynamic Response to Tactile Stimulation: a Comprehensive fNIRS Methodology to Mitigate Physiological Confounds, Mohsen Hozan

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Intelligent Multi-layer Optical Network Design and Network Softwarization, Boyang Hu

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Experiences of Disclosure among Transgender and Gender Diverse Sexual Assault Survivors, Merle E. Huff II

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Gene Editing Approaches to Improving Grain Amino Acid Profiles in Maize and Sorghum, Joseph Preston Hurst

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Development and Evaluation of Supported Ionic Liquid Membrane and Porphyrin Frameworks for Carbon Capture Separation, Sarang Ismail

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Echo Chambers on the Left, Echo Chambers on the Right: How Socioideological Identity Emotion Shape Social Interaction Behavior on Social Media, Dean Carl Jackson

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Balance of Psychological Needs among University Aural Skills Students, Elizabeth Ann Johnson

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From Ghorer Golpo to Global Voices: Digital Storytelling as a Decolonial Pedagogy for English Language Learning in Bangladesh, Tamanna Sharmin Kabir

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AI-enabled Robotic Nitrogen Management, Ankita Kalra

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Next-generation Biomedical Implants and Stimuli Responsive Soft Optical Arrays via Surface Functionalized Elastomeric Materials, John M. Kapitan

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Developing a Metabolic Engineering Chassis from a Metabolically Versatile Organism, Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009, Mark William Kathol

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Modules of Finite Projective Dimension and Singularities, Nawaj KC

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Written & Directed By: The Limits of the Auteur and the Post-auteur Moment, Tom Knoblauch

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The Ballad of the Wheel, John Kosch

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Where Intangibles Travel: Essays on the Tax-motivated Geography of Innovation and Capital, Xuerui Kou

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Evaluating Fall and Spring Planted Cover Crops for Integrated Management of Herbicide Resistant Palmer Amaranth and Effect on Soil Health, Vipin Kumar

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Men’s Fertility Beliefs, Intentions, and Contraceptive Use, Meagan Kunitzer

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Screening for Chloroplast Inner Envelope-thylakoid Membrane Contact Site Proteins, Evan W. LaBrant

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Chasqui, Nicole Lachat

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Non-blackbox Robust Design of Machine Learning in Networks, Venkat Sai Suman Lamba Karanam

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Thematic Analyses of Session Data with Transgender and Gender Diverse Adults Obtained During a Clinical Trial, Brenna Rose Lash

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Adorning Harmony: Comparing Three of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Transcriptions with the Original Works, Micah Robert Leary

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Holding Ground in the Cerulean Tide: Minority Party Legislators' Strategies for Advancing Climate Policies in Landslide States, Sukjae Lee

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Evaluation of Distractor Model Specifications on Assessment Quality Within the Framework of Assessment Engineering, Sunhyoung Lee

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A Study of Rachel Galinne’s Dybbuk for Solo Clarinet: A Classical Work with Klezmer Influences, Rachel S. Levison

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“You Can Rise Back Up Again”: Using Photovoice to Understand Healing from Intimate Partner Violence Among LGBTQ+ Racial-ethnic Minority College Students, Stephanie Lim

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Ferroelectricity and Multiferroicity in Ultrathin Films of Unconventional Transition Metal Oxide, Xin Li