Graduate Thesis and Dissertation

April 2023

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  March27

  • 9 a.m. Dissertation Defense: Interorganizational Networks and Coordination in Emergency Management: Policy and Practice in Response to Disasters
  • 11 a.m. Dissertation Defense: MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATIONS IN ADVANCED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING: PROCESS MODELING, MICROSTRUCTURE ANALYSIS, AND DEFECT DETECTION
  • 11 a.m. Dissertation Defense: SOCIAL EQUITY THROUGH VACCINATIONS DURING COVID-19: A STUDY OF EQUITABLE UTILIZATION OF RESOURCES DURING EMERGENCIES AND CRISES
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  March28

  • 10 a.m. Dissertation Defense: Observation and Analysis of the Chemical Compositions and Physical Properties of Comets and Centaurs
  • 11 a.m. Dissertation Defense: Towards Optimization and Robustification of Data-Driven Models
  • 1:30 p.m. Dissertation Defense: FROM HUMAN BEHAVIOR TO MACHINE BEHAVIOR
• March29
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  March30

  • 3:30 p.m. Thesis Defense: In Defense of the Wife
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  March31

  • 10 a.m. Dissertation Defense: A Holistic Work System Approach to Creating Flow During Transactional Work
  • 11 a.m. Dissertation Defense: The Intersectional Awareness of Preservice Teachers: A Qualitative Inquiry
  • 11 a.m. Thesis Defense: Tin Hammock
  • 2 p.m. Thesis Defense: Characterizing Air Plasma Sprayed Aluminum Oxide Coatings for the Protection of Structures in Lunar Environments
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  April3

  • 6 p.m. Thesis Defense: Trauma in the Acting Process: An Examination of The Mountaintop and Implementation of Black Acting Methods for Sustainability
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  April4

  • 11 a.m. Dissertation Defense: Network Structure and Network Effectiveness in Thailand’s Provincial COVID-19 Response Networks
  • 1 p.m. Thesis Defense: Social Media-Based Crisis Communication: Analysis of Twitter Data from Local Agencies During Hurricane Irma
  • 2 p.m. Thesis Defense: Creative Collaborations: An Arts Integrated Educational Business
  • 4 p.m. Thesis Defense: "Immigrant Literature": The Transnational Aesthetic of Early Japanese American Periodical Shūkaku [Harvest]
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  April5

  • 9 a.m. Thesis Defense: Population differences in human mandibular growth
  • 9 a.m. Thesis Defense: Flow Theory in the Actor’s Process: Can the Pursuit of Optimal Experience Alleviate Performance Anxiety?
  • 9:30 a.m. Dissertation Defense: REFINING THE USE OF STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS IN DETECTING WILDLIFE LAUNDERING
  • 10 a.m. Thesis Defense: Creating Living Characters Through Stanislavski’s System and Michael Chekhov’s Psychological Gesture
  • 10 a.m. Thesis Defense: The Narratives of Sexualization: The Perspectives of Young Entertainers Around Their Own Public Sexualization
  • 10 a.m. Thesis Defense: Reflections of White-Passing Black Identity
  • 10 a.m. Dissertation Defense: Determining the influence of Kids Building for Kids Workshops on Attitudes and Beliefs of General Education Teachers Toward Students with Disabilities
  • 10:30 a.m. Thesis Defense: A Survey of Current School Orchestra Directors’ Incorporation of Alternative Styles in the 6-12 String Curriculum
  • 11 a.m. Dissertation Defense: Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Tobacco related Samples via High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Laser Excited Time Resolved Shpol’ Skii Spectroscopy.
  • 1 p.m. Thesis Defense: Gendered and Racialized Bodies in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
  • 2 p.m. Dissertation Defense: Automated Machine Learning: Intelligent Binning Data Preparation and Regularized Regression Classifier
  • 2:30 p.m. Thesis Defense: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict: How Levels of Sexual Violence in Peacetime Effect Levels of Sexual Violence in Conflict
  • 4 p.m. Thesis Defense: Using GIS to Better Understand the Cracker Community of Pat’s Island in the Ocala National Forest
  • 4:30 p.m. Thesis Defense: Taste of Grief & Other Stories
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  April6

  • 9 a.m. Thesis Defense: Investigating mobility across the life course through stable isotope analysis at the early medieval site of Berettyóújfalu Somata, Hungary
  • 9 a.m. Thesis Defense: Decolonized Femininity and Post-Colonial Trauma Autobiographies: Reading Adriana Páramo, Julia Alvarez, and Azar Nafisi Through “Scriptotherapy”
  • 10:30 a.m. Dissertation Defense: Canopies, the Final Frog-tier: Exploring Responses of a Specialist Treefrog to Prescribed Fire in a Pyrogenic Ecosystem
  • 11:30 a.m. Dissertation Defense: MODELING INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY AND MOBILITY BEHAVIOR AND ASSESSING RIDESHARING IMPACTS USING EMERGING DATA SOURCES
  • 12 p.m. Thesis Defense: Utilizing Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotopes To Examine Elite Juvenile Diet of Individuals from Meroitic Sai Island, Sudan
  • 2 p.m. Thesis Defense: TOOTH FARMER: EXPLORING 3D PRINTED REPLACEMENT HEADS FOR STOP-MOTION ANIMATED FILMS
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  April7

  • 9 a.m. Thesis Defense: Lived Experience at Plinkaigalis, Lithuania: An Integrated Approach Using Stable Isotope, Spatial, and Statistical Analyses
  • 9:30 a.m. Thesis Defense: The Process Is All About the Journey
  • 10 a.m. Dissertation Defense: Distributed Optimization and Limited Communication in a Network with Adversaries
  • 10 a.m. Thesis Defense: MAGIC SHOW: THEMED EXPERIENCES UTILIZING ANIMATION
  • 2 p.m. Dissertation Defense: A Spatiotemporal Examination of Crime Site Selection for Street Robbery and Commercial Burglary
  • 4 p.m. Thesis Defense: A Puerto Rican Diasporic Study in Central Florida
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  April24

  • 10 a.m. Dissertation Defense: Heterarchy or Hierarchy: Modeling and Simulation Applied to Social Organization at the late Iron Age Site of Kerkenes, Central Anatolia
  • 12 p.m. Dissertation Defense: Detecting Team Conflict from Multi-party Dialogue
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  April25

  • 1:30 p.m. Dissertation Defense: It Takes A Village: An Examination of Educational Achievement for Transition-Age Youth in Foster Care
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  April27

  • 10 a.m. Dissertation Defense: ON QUANTITATIVE HESSIAN ESTIMATES FOR FULLY NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS
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  May3

  • 10 a.m. Dissertation Defense: Assessing the Barriers to Reintegration Among Returnees in Nigeria
  • 11 a.m. Thesis Defense: Integrated Healthcare in the U.S. Safety-Net System: Meeting the Needs of Patients through Comprehensive Medical and Social Care
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