Doctoral Dissertation

The family and consumer sciences nutrition and food science career pathway is currently the most popular career pathway in Georgia and many Sates, yet there is very littl[...]

The purpose of this study was to understand the experience of co-teachers in an elementary setting, namely the general education teachers and the special education or Eng[...]

The manuscript-formatted dissertation represents an exploration of the college choice process of African Americans students who experienced whole-grade academic accelerat[...]

Although S. pneumoniae (Spn) has been investigated for over a century, it is still a major human pathogen that causes a variety of invasive pneumococcal diseases (IPDs) s[...]

Early diagnoses and targeted therapies are the crux of successful patient care for almost every cancer. Within this work, we explore various facets of this by studying tu[...]

The family Nairoviridae consists of a group of tick-borne viruses in the order Bunyavirales. Several nairoviruses have been demonstrated to cause human disease, the most [...]

The intentional use of organophosphate (OP) nerve agents and pesticides pose a significant health threat through their inhibition of human acetylcholinesterase (hAChE), w[...]

J Paramyxovirus (JPV) was first isolated from moribund mice with hemorrhagic lung lesions in Australia in 1972. JPV is a paramyxovirus with a non-segmented, negative-stra[...]

Touchspinning is a simple and scalable method which does not depend on the dielectric properties of polymer solutions and it has shown advantages over the common fiber sp[...]

Informed by queer theory (Sullivan, 2003) and taking place in the southeastern United States, this qualitative study explores the following questions: 1) What themes, if [...]

Antimony (Sb) is an industrially significant metalloid that has been exploited by humans for the last 3,000 years. Although Sb is more toxic than its well-known group 15[...]

SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL (SMC) PROLIFERATION AND DIFFERENTIATION CONTRIBUTES TO SEVERAL VASCULAR DISEASES, SUCH AS ATHEROSCLEROSIS, POST-TRANSPLANT VASCULOPATHY, RESTENOSIS AFT[...]

P-glycoprotein (Pgp) is an efflux transporter that is a member of the ATP binding cassette (ABC) superfamily. The transporter is found on the apical surface of cells and [...]

Microfluidic cell separation based on negative magnetophoresis in ferrofluids (ferrohydrodynamics) has unique advantages over other competing techniques. Magnetic force d[...]

Although Paul Ehrlich has envisioned the concept of targeted delivery of a cytotoxic agent to cancer cells back to 1913, the clinical efficacy of anticancer agents has be[...]

Smooth muscle cell (SMC) differentiation is an important process during vasculogenesis and angiogenesis. However, molecular mechanisms controlling VSMC differentiation ar[...]

Human activities including supplemental feeding substantially impact wildlife. In South Florida, wetland birds including American white ibis increasingly forage in urban [...]

Beetles are the most diverse group of life on Earth. However numerous organizational problems remain in describing such a large radiation of life. Small, cryptic, drably [...]

This dissertation examines the fraught relationship between depictions and descriptions of time in Shakespeare's drama and the final years of Queen Elizabeth I's reign. [...]

Marburgviruses and ebolaviruses (Filoviridae) cause sporadic outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates. Filoviruses are significant because of rapid [...]

Inflammation has been implicated in the pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome and several neurological disorders; evidence is also mounting for long-term aftereffects of [...]

Social competence and Theory of Mind (ToM) abilities are essential components for successful academic and social functioning. The current study examines the relationship [...]

The mitochondria have long since been known to be of great importance to life. They have roles in heme biosynthesis, energy production, and initiation of apoptosis among [...]

This dissertation examines legal and social actions and beliefs regarding mixed race and interracial marriage and relationships in the Deep South from Reconstruction thro[...]

This dissertation analyzes cosmological systems of African descent and how they depict a deeper, rooted connection between Africans in diaspora and traditional African re[...]