This study examines the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion on employment and wages in the U.S. meat processing industry from 2005 to 2022. The an[...]

This thesis presents a curriculum based on the original Latin of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, specifically the story of Pyramus and Thisbe. It is designed for high school studen[...]

Although prenatal expectations for parenting are important, little research has examined expectations for temperament and its impact on post-birth maternal adjustment or [...]

This thesis examines the institutional factors that shaped the academic reception of Professor Moses Wharton Young's neuroscience contributions, challenging the prevailin[...]

Black pepper is known as the king of spices due to its widespread use around the world. Unfortunately, black pepper is frequently contaminated with Salmonella during farm[...]

Using Strawbery Bank as a case study, this thesis examines the benefits of rehabilitation of unprofitable spaces in house museums in order to create rentable housing unit[...]

This thesis explores the intersection of the subversion of genre conventions and the socioeconomic hardships in contemporary South Korea through the domestic films of Bon[...]

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus emphasized the vital role of SARS[...]

Rhizopus seed and seedling rot is a highly destructive peanut disease, causing rapid seed decay in 36-96 hours and rendering seeds and pre-emerged seedlings indistinguish[...]

Prescribed burning is a key tool for managing forests in the Southeastern US, but it releases black carbon (BC), a pollutant that deteriorates air quality. This study eva[...]

Forest stands are fundamental management units, consisting of trees of uniform composition and structure. Creating stand maps is time-consuming requires expertise and is[...]

Coastal floodplain systems face heightened flood risks due to climate change, urbanization, and limitationsof conventional stormwater practices. Existing infrastructure o[...]

Mandarin Chinese, like other tonal languages, makes use of modulation in F0 for both marking lexical items and pragmatic purposes. This makes it challenging for L2 speake[...]

In this study, I conduct a case study of news media coverage of Dylann Roof's mass shooting in Charleston, SC in 2015. Using systemic functional linguistics, I explore ho[...]

The release of coal combustion residuals and nuclear fission products creates contaminated landscapes where resident wildlife are exposed to excess metals, metalloids, an[...]

This thesis explores emulation and poetic inheritance in Vergil’s Eclogues. Emulation is the vehicle for poetic inheritance, as the new poet imitates the master in order[...]

Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) present promising new solutions for pain management, particularly for phantom limb pain (PLP) in amputee patients. These techn[...]

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a class of AI models trained on vast amounts of text data to understand and generate human language. While they perform well on general t[...]

Integrated geospatial techniques, including UAS-Structure from Motion (SfM), UAS-LiDAR, high-accuracy GNSS receivers, and geospatial deep learning, were used to examine t[...]

Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) is one of the most recognized game bird species in the eastern United States. However, their population been documented as in decl[...]

Through interviews with Black college baseball players and coaches, this research examines the idea that there may be a systemic lack of media attention of Black college [...]

This work aims to muddy the boundaries between water, land, and lives in southeastern Louisiana to show how rising water is not an inherent threat to life but part of a c[...]

Accurate prediction of crop phenotypes is critical for breeding and agricul-tural sustainability but challenged by complex interactions between genetics, environment, and[...]

Sweet olive (Osmanthus fragrans Lour.) is a shrub or small tree in the Oleaceae family with challenges in propagation, flowering, and aroma production. The cutting experi[...]

Environmentally induced canine atopic dermatitis (cAD) is a common genetically predisposed cutaneous inflammatory and pruritic disease typically mediated by immunoglobuli[...]