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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A Study of the Effects of Thinking Maps on the Achievement of Students in Middle Grades Science, Lynn B. Hughes Akin
A Trivium-Inspired Pseudorandom Number Generator with a Statistical Comparison to the Randomness of SecureRandom and Trivium, Latoya Niesha Jackson
Instructional Technology: An Alternative Solution to Promoting Achievement in Remote Rural High Schools, Eva Mitchner Jenkins
Pick Me! Pick Me!: Using Aristotelian Rhetorical Persuasion and Advertising Appeals for Self-Promotion, Alexander M. Jones
Exploration of the Impact of Childhood Obesity and the Correlation with Parents, Emilee L. Leslie
An Exploration and Application of Lieder Performance Practices and Compositional Techniques Towards the Poetic and Musical Structures of Robert Schumann's Mignon Lieder, Clarissa Noel Lewandowski
Effects of Grazers and Elevated Temperature on the Dynamics of a Wastewater Algal Treatment System, Mengyuan Li
Design, Cloning, and Expression of Rat Preptin and Alanine Analogs, Jahbo M. Love
Strategic Restructuring in Higher Education: A Case Study of a Consolidation of Two Institutions, Claudia D. Lyerly
A Comparative Study of Cognitive Systems for Learning, Praneetha Mandava
Experience in Action: Incorporating Somatic Education into the General Music Classroom, Amy N. Melton
To What Extent is There a Relationship Between Middle Grades Educator Stressors and Phases of the Career Teacher?, Jessica Joy Morris
The Central Intelligence Agency and Cuba: How the Trap of Success Led to the Bay of Pigs, Yandy Orozco
Using Self-Organizing Maps for Computer Network Intrusion Detection, Manuel R. Parrachavez
Preserving the Spirit of African Storytelling in the Pittsburgh Cycle, Elizabeth L. Reeves
Effects of a Collegiate Employee Wellness Program on Participant Perceived Wellness and the Transtheoretical Model of Change: Voices of Participants, Amy Jeanette Rogers
Painted Faces & Printed Music: Women and Music in the Paintings of Bartolomeo Veneto and Sebastiano Florigerio, Lauren N. Rosenblatt
The Role of Religious and Spiritual Beliefs in the Academic Success of College Students, Shaunquelle A. D. Sapp
Grouping Structures of Gifted and High Achieving Middle School Students: Teacher Perceptions and Data Analysis of the Impact of Grouping, April Leigh Smith
Effects of Estrogens on Astrocytes Exposed to Stressors, Bridget N. Smith
The Use of Formative Instructional Practices to Improve Student Performance, Courtney L. St. John-Wacker
Lesson Plans Integrating Art with STEAM: Providing Students with Universal Education Experience, Karolyn L. Turner
Patterns of Existence: An Analysis of the Personal Inspirations, Historical Influences, and Motivations, Julianna M. Wells
Effects of Developing EdTPA as a Teaching Portfolio on Pre-Service Teachers' Self-Efficacy in a Teacher Preparation Program, Pam Wetherington
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Evaluating the Evolutionary and Genetic Relationships of the Andean Orchids of Northwestern Ecuador, Kylie Bucalo
Rapid Orbit Refinement of Potential Near-Earth Objects and Recovery of Nearly Lost Asteroids, Austin Lantz Caughey
Music For Caroline: Including Students With Autism In The Elementary General Music Classroom, Meredith B. Dayoub
Exploring the Life and Music of Percy Grainger Through Transcription, Francisco Javier D. de Alba
Estrogen's Effects on Oxidative Stress Levels in Glial Cells, Jacob J. Dirkman
A Step Towards an Intelligent Digital Training Management System (I-DTMS), Andrew Dugger
Poetry in the Classroom: The Why and How of Teaching and Inspiring Students Through Poetry, Rachel Knapp Funk
Completing the Puzzle: Exploring Possible Antecedents to Rape Myth Acceptance, Skye A. Geeslin
The Irish Republican Army Through Film, (1935-2014), Colleen B. Gottfried
The Evolution of the Clarinet and Its Effect on Compositions Written for the Instrument, Victoria A. Hargrove
How and Why are Kindergarten Through Twelfth Grade Public School Teachers Using Social Media for Professional Development?, Sherry Kerr Huckaby
An Exploration of Rule Clustering in Cellular Automata Rule Spaces, Jordon Huffman
An Investigation of Perceived Principal Stress and Its Impact on Principals in Southwest Georgia, Dorothy Young Ingram
The Involvement of Estrogen Receptors in Astrocyte Survival, Lauren M. Johnson
Fuzzy Expert Systems: A More Human-Based Approach for Sensorial Evaluation of Coffee-Bean Attributes to Derive Quality Scoring, Javier A. Livio
Oh, The Hypocrisy! Or, A Dramaturgical Analysis of Moliere's Tartuffe, Amelia Maxfield
An Arithmetic-Based Deterministic Centroid Initialization Method for the k-Means Clustering Algorithm, Matthew Michael Mayo
Analysis of Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions of the Importance of the Arts as a Means of Instruction in the Classroom, Chudney Shanta McClurkin Patrick
The Effects of Laughter Yoga on Second Grade Math Achievement, Deborah Lezanic Nagy
A Comparative Analysis of Read 180 and Cultural Literacy on the Reading Achievement and Motivation of African American Males in an Alternative High School, Clifton F. Nicholson
Application of Computer Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Optimization of Factory Floor Operations in Small to Medium- Sized Businesses, Brian P. Romano
Strain Analysis Across the Margins of the Elkahatchee and Coley Creek Plutons, Alabama Eastern Blue Ridge: Implications for the Alexander City Fault, Kenneth Joel Roop-Eckart
An Analysis of the Impact of the CSU Peer Leader Program on Student Performance in 2014-2015, Harrison E. Sharitt
Fuzzy Decision Tree-based Inference System for Liver Disease Diagnosis, Himaja Sivaraju
The Loss of Methanol Utilization in Methylobacteria, Justin T. Skariah
Screening for Pathogenic Escherichia Coli in the Chattahoochee River, Columbus, Georgia, Micah A. Staples
Hydrological Drought Analysis for Seven North Georgia Watersheds (1970-2000), Jessica L. Taylor
ADDSMART: Address Digitization and Smart Mailbox with RFID Technology, Jonathon Ross Tew
Threshold, Leah Vahjen
Finding Meaning in Detachment: An Analysis of Kevin Volans' Asanga, Jordan Taylor Walsh
The Effects of Musical Intervals from Consonant to Dissonant on the Neural Activity of Earthworms, Charley L. Weaver
Impact Of A Diesel Spill On Macroinvertebrate Communities In Ponds In S.E. Alabama, USA, Katie E. Winkles
Phylogenetic Analyses of Andean and Amazonian Tree Communities in Ecuador, Samantha J. Worthy
A Rhetorical Approach to Greek Life Scandal, Mark M. Yanoschik
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Social and Cultural Changes that Affected the Music of Motown Records From 1959-1972, Lindsey Baker
A Potential Long-lived Upper Cretaceous Paleodrainage System In The U.s. Southwestern Georgia-southeastern Alabama Region, Daniel L. Black
Of Mammoths, Mastodons, Megalonyxes, And The Nation: Jefferson And The Question Of American Degeneracy, 1780-1812, Marlena B. Cameron
Effects of Land Management on Mammalian Species Abundance and Richness among Four Sites in West-Central Georgia, Kelsey A. Champagne
Crafting Lagrange: A Southern Town's Search For Historical Identity In The 1970s, Rachael S. Cofield
The Use of an iPad to Support Mathematics Instruction for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Telea Davis
'The Sancity Of Womanhood': John Ruskin And The Medieval Madonna, Katherine M. Hinzman
Servant leadership program: A phenomenological study, Wendi Jenkins
Developing a Fuzzy Expert System to Examine Hazard Analysis in The United States Army, Charles J. Karels
Mental [In]Stability: Isolation and Hallucination in the Horror Genre, Catherine Marshall Krafthefer
Using Social Writing Instruction as a Means of Building Community Among Diverse Gifted Students in a Transient, Pull-Out Program, Kimberly S. Lester
Assessment Coordinators’ Perceptions of the Impact of Using Electronic Assessment Systems in Accreditation, Saoussan Maarouf
Factors Contributing To Attitudes Towards Disciplinary Parenting Styles, Amanda Marshall
Using a Nearest Neighbor Algorithm and Logistic Regression to Assess Hazard Identification in the U.S. Army Risk Management Process, Heath L. McCormick
A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Teacher Performance Measured by Principal Evaluations, Ashley Johnson Moran
Latitudinal Gradient Facilitates Adaptive Population Differentiation of Campanulastrum americanum (American Bellflower), Marisa L. Naciuk
Using Unrestricted Mobile Sensors to Infer Tapped and Traced User Inputs, Trang Duyen Nguyen
The Role of Physical FITNESS and Physical ACTIVITY on Academic Achievement Among Eighth Grade Students in Alabama, Jessica Baker O'Neal
Metamorphoses After Oboe: An Examination of the Evolution of Oboe Part Writing Through Music History, Patrick Quinn
The Influence of Perspective Taking and Empathy on Students Using the Cultural Approach to History, Victor M. Salazar
How And Why Patrons Of The Arts Used Music As A Form Of Political Currency From 1780 To 1800, Mark J. Sciuchetti Jr.
Examining the Sources of Teacher Efficacy and How the Context of Teaching Contributes to Teacher Efficacy, Leah Selbie
The Effects Of Curcumin On The Expression Of P53 And Bcl-2 Oncoproteins On The Human Breast Carcinoma Cell Line, Angelin S. Shajan
Breaking; Mending- A New Piece for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra, Jonathan Andrew Smith
Certayn and Tru Good Nues: Early English Printing and the 1480 Siege of Rhodes and the 1565 Great Siege of Malta, a Comparison, Kevin Stanford
Biginelli Synthesis And Characterization Of Potentially Anti-proliferative Dihydropyrimidinone Thione Analogs, Timothy K. Summers
Veterans in Higher Education: A Qualitative Examination of Student Veterans at Peach University, Debra Wales
An Analysis of the Effects of the Social Disorganization Theory on Juveniles in Georgia, Anna M. Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Patronage: The Renaissance and Today, Thomas E. Adams
We Are A New Race:' Booker T. Washington's Use Of African American Spirituals In The Creation Of A New Negro Image, Douglas L. Allen
The educational leader portfolio: the reliability of portfolios as documentation of mastery of Isllc standards and functions, Cynthia Lynn Halstead Bowen
Perceptions of Humanity: College Students on Homelessness, Emily Ann Burdett
I Am Sartre, Lauren Butler
In Children and Elderly Patients, What are the Effects of General Anesthesia on Neurological Health Compared with Procedural Sedation?, Taylor G. Caldwell
Working it Out: Examining the Psychological Effects of Music and Exercise and Exploring the Theoretical Background of Health Behaviors, Caroline R. Campbell
Educational Guide: Refugee Children's Storytelling across Curriculum, Laurie Dishman
Preventing and Treating Complications of Sickle Cell Disease in Pediatric Patients, Keandra S. Ferguson
