Graduate Studies, UNL
Dissertations and Doctoral Documents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–
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2024
Controller Software: Evolution, Identification, and Implementation, Balaji Balasubramaniam
'More Is Caught than Taught:' Parental Cultural and Racial Socialization Beliefs and Practices in the Midwest United States, Sarah Barker Ladd
Transforming Grassland Conservation: Challenges and Opportunities Across Law, Policy, and Human Dimensions, Conor D. Barnes
Three New Pieces for Double Bass by Colombian Composers Influenced by Colombian Traditions, Javier Alejandro Barreto Olaya
Unlocking the Door to Access and Success: The Keys Program, Timothy Paul Barshinger
Domain-Specific Machine Learning Approaches for Geospatial Problems, Shine Bedi
Taking a Closer Look at TPACK: Examining Teacher Perspectives of the Knowledge, Competencies, and Context Needed for Improved Remote Education in Grades 4-8, Jennifer Christine Buth Bell
Leading the Way: An Exploration of Leadership Behaviors in Academic Advising, Amanda Bergeron-Bauer
Characterizing and Developing Chemistry Students’ Data Analysis and Interpretation of Chemical Data, Stephanie A. Berg
Use of Electrocardiogram to Evaluate Welfare of Laying Hens and Chicks During Different Life Stages and Events, Ashley Elizabeth Bigge
The Relationship Between Sex Education and Women’s Sexual Liberation and Exploration: A Phenomenological Study, Jessica Ann Boyles
Chronic Absenteeism: The Journey toward Improved Attendance and Achievement in a Rural Elementary School, Charla S. Brant
Influence of the Work Environment on Workplace Learning of Undergraduate Engineering Interns, Yashin Brijmohan
The Great Resignation: Narratives of Mid-Career Teacher Burnout and Attrition, Nicole Burton
Examining Factors of Variance in Energy Metabolism of Dairy Cattle, Addison Lee Carroll
Risk Factors for Online and In-person Stalking, Intrusive Harassment, and Violence within a Community Sample, Elisha J. C. Chan
Preparing the Next Generation of Music Teachers: Illuminating Motivations of Nebraska Preservice Teacher Mentors, Emily Marie Chapman
Singer’s Guide to Hak Jun Yoon’s Selected Art Songs, Sunmin Cha
A Systems Biology Approach to Predict Phenotypes from Genotypes for Plants and Bacteria, Niaz Bahar Chowdhury
A Mixed Method Examination of Bipositivity as a Factor Protecting Cis, Trans, and Gender Expansive Plurisexual Women against Harmful Sexual Violence Outcomes, Allison E. Cipriano
Tuning Out: Intersections of Music and Literature in the Contemporary French-Language Novel, Alexander Claussen
Variable Selection in Distance Metric Learning and Triplet Constraints for Deep Learning Based Ordinal Classification, James D. Clothier
Assessing Reproducibility Challenges in Clinical Metabolics, Darcy Lin Cochran
Understanding the Experience of Bullying of Students with Disabilities: A Phenomenological Study, Miriam Patricia Brenda Crinion
Spatial Ecology of Mountain Lions Throughout Their Distribution in California, Kyle Duncan Dougherty
Analysis of Impulsive Differential Equation Models of Cell Populations Undergoing Radiation Therapy, Abigail D'Ovidio Long
The Stigma of Deaf: Managing a Stigmatized Identity and Well-Being, Renca Dunn
Drag Reduction in Channel Flow Configurations for Laminar and Turbulent Flow Past Superhydrophobic Surfaces, Henry Louis Ems
Approximation via Degree Reduction of Nonlinearities with Applications to Turbulent Flows, Flame Fronts, and Magnetohydrodynamics, Matthew Enlow
Exploring Producers' Willingness to Pay for Ecosystem Services: Three Essays on Soil Health, Location Preferences, and Cover Crop Adoption, Kaouter Essakkat
Harassment, Stalking, and Violence on Campus: An Examination of Persistent Cases, Madeline M. Eyer
Dynamics of Flexible Freestanding Structures under Ground Motion Excitation, Seyed Mohammadreza Farooghi Mehr
On Regularity of Graph C*-Algebras, Gregory Joseph Faurot
Neuropsychological Intra-individual Variability in Traumatic Brain Injury: Clinical Utility, Classification, and Associations with Outcomes, Jeremy A. Feiger
Pre-service Teachers’ Noticing of Students’ Mathematical Thinking When Planning, Teaching, and Reflecting on Lessons, Matthew Flores
Manipulations of the Caenorhabditis elegans Microbiome Reveal Influences of Detrimental Members on Host Life History Traits, Ashley Elizabeth Foltz
Predictors of Belongingness in First-Year College Students: Examining Mental Health and Adjustment, Jordan D. Foreman-Black
The Use and Impact of Strategic Planning in Nebraska Public Schools, Jodi A. Frager
An Unnecessary Barrier: A Critical History of Efforts to Define a Core Repertoire for the Wind Band, Trevor Frost
Dynamics of Soybean Seed Protein and Oil Content with Depth in the Canopy, Hafith Furqoni
Spreads and Transversals and Their Connection to Geproci Sets, Allison Joan Ganger
Islas de Resistencia: Pensamiento Archipielágico en las Poéticas Canarias y Caribeñas del Siglo XXI, Laura García García
Praying to TikTok, Seeking the Self: How Rhetoric Reveals and Conceals the World’s Most Powerful Guru of the Postindustrial Age, Samantha L. Gillespie-Hoffman
Making Czech Art Song Accessible for Novice Singers, Rachel Jane Sweeney Green
The Role of Family and Peer Social Support Against Bullying Involvement among Sexual Minority Latine Young Adults, Guadalupe Gutierrez
Candida albicans Farnesol Synthesis and Secretion, Daniel John Gutzmann
A Case Study of Mathematical Instructional Leadership, Theresa Haack
Charge and Strain Engineering of Ferroic and Correlated Oxides, Yifei Hao
A Study of Electron- and Photon-induced Dissociative Electron Attachment to Molecules and within Anion-Molecule Clusters, Mahmudul Hasan
A Search for Self Through Allyship and Advocacy ‘About, With, and As’ Multilingual Learners: An Autoethnographic Study, Molly Heeren
Channel Estimation in Millimeter Wave MIMO Systems: The Tensor-based Methods, Fei He
Impact of the Department of Defense Maternity Leave Policy Change on Retention and Postpartum Depression and the Air Force Postpartum Physical Fitness Policy Change on Physical Readiness Outcomes, Minette S. R. Herrick
Characterization of the Final Enzyme in the Coenzyme M Biosynthesis Pathway in Methanosarcina, Connor John Hines
Las Aztecas: Gender, Nationalism, and Sport in Mexico and the World in the Early 1970s, Madelina Marie Homberger Cordia
Strong First Order Electroweak Phase Transitions in the Standard Model with a Real Scalar Singlet Extension, Anthony James Hooper
On Neumann Boundary Conditions for Nonlocal Models with Finite Horizon, Scott Alex Hootman-Ng
Estranged Temporality: How Time Tells Stories in Science Fiction, Phillip H. Howells
Ferroelectric Control of Topological Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials, Kai Huang
Navigating Non-Orthogonality: Exploring Latent Mean Differences in Unbalanced Conditions, Jay B. Jeffries
Stealth Morph Intervention: A Single Case Mixed Methods Design, Kristen Elise Job
Singing While Acting: A Mixed Methods Study of Classical Singers’ Application of the Chekhov and Meisner Acting Methods, Amy C. Johnson
A Fish Out of Water: An Examination of Self-Identified Introverted Business Students' Perceptions of their Leadership Ability, Katie J. Jolicoeur
Teacher-Child Interaction Quality in Free Choice and Associations with Child Peer-related Social Competence, Yuenjung Joo
Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Patterns of Devonian Proetid Trilobites, Katherine Jane Jordan
Rural Student-Home Community Engagement Impact as a Result of Study Abroad Experiences: From Preparation Through Return, Todd M. Karr
Three Essentials of Private Property in Kant, Lauren Michelle Kashi
Do Bisexuals Thrive in the Corridor? Liminal Identity, Communication, and Well-Being, Katie Kassler
Exploring Mindfulness within Leadership Development: A Phenomenological Study, Amardeep Kaur
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of Chitin-Degrading Microbial Systems, Aimee Kristin Kessell
Laser 3D Printing of Diamond-Based Composite Materials for Thermal Management Applications, Nada Kraiem
The Utilization of Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH) Enzymes in Stereocontrolled Synthesis, Gaurav Pramod Kudalkar
Discrete Macaulay-Steiner Geometry, Nikola Kuzmanovski
How College Graduates Decide to Remain in a Rural Community Post-Graduation, Benjamin J. Lamb
Help-seeking for College Algebra Students' Success: A Phenomenological Mixed Methods Study, Colby Lamb
Combined Academic and Behavioral Supports for Struggling Readers with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders, Danika Helen Lang
Supporting the Creative Side of Creative Coding: Helping Students Wield Code in the Pursuit of Their Own Dreams, Gretchen K. Larsen
Deep Learning Vision-Based Bridge Inspection with Resource-constrained Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Ji Young Lee
Emergent Phenomena in Ferroelectric-Dielectric and Ferroelectric-Graphene Heterostructures, Tianlin Li
Increasing the Impact of Dietary Fiber from Grains on Human Health through Gut Microbiome, Sujun Liu
Preschool Executive Control and Adolescent Dietary Outcomes: Highlighting the Role of Context, Marla Lopez
Talking About Writing: Scenes of Writing Workshops in History and Practice, Erika Luckert
Longhand versus Laptop Note Taking and Lecture Rate Influence, Junrong Lu
What's Next: How and Why States Strengthen Treaties Through Deepening Commitments, Joseph Maestas
Electrical and Morphological Investigation of a Fe(II) Based Spin Crossover Complex and Its Composite, Rifat Mahbub
Coalitional Response(ability) in Rhetoric and Composition, Zoe Nicole McDonald
Identity-driven Targeted Violence: Attending to Identity, Emotion, and Personality-related Predictors of Attitudinal and Behavioral Prejudice, Patrick Timothy McGonigal
Gevrey Class Estimates towards Null Controllability of a Fluid Structure Interaction System, Dylan McKnight
Semigroup Well-posedness and Finite Element Analysis of a Biot-Stokes Interactive System, Sara McKnight
Torus Surgery, Fibrations, Multisections, and Spun 4-Manifolds, Nicholas Paul Meyer
Three Essays in Food Security and the U.S. Sugar Program, Jacob Michels
Nanoparticle-based Approaches to Brain Injury and Studies for Improved Detectability toward Better Delivery Characterization, Hunter A. Miller
Advancements in Microscale Tensile Testing: A Novel Device for the High Throughput Analysis of Two-photon Polymerized Microfibers in Liquid, Grayson D. Minnick
When Language Policy and Planning Is a Missed Opportunity: Lessons Learned from a Proposed but not Implemented Dual Language Bilingual Education Program, Jessica Mitchell-McCollough