Electronic graduate theses and dissertations from Utah State University.
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2023
Finding Their "Why": Examining the Development of Sense of Purpose During the University Years and Its Role in Student Well-Being, Michael Q. King
Using Computational Fluid Dynamics for Predicting Hydraulic Performance of Arced Labyrinth Weirs, Shelby J. Koldewyn
The Relationship Between Career Choice and Indecision Within the Career and Technical Education Pathway Model, Zak A. Konakis
A Fine-Scale Understanding of Sagebrush Islands to Improve Restoration Outcomes in the Intermountain West, Sofia Koutzoukis
Adversarial Swarming: A Groundwork for Multi-Drone Independent Interception Exercises Through MA-POCA in Unity, Johnathan D. Kunz
Communication‐less Synchronous Rectification for In Motion Wireless Charging, Joshua B. Larsen
#BodyPositivity or #BodyPolitics?: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Body Positivity Myth Formed by Narratives of Political Myth, Sydney Berenyi Lasike
Central American Saints: The Formation and Preservation of Latter-Day Saint Community and Identity in El Salvador and Guatemala, 1960–1992, Hovan T. Lawton
A Questionnaire Survey of Student Engagement Among First-Generation College Students in Engineering, Abigail Lehto
Teachers’ Learning of Fraction Division With Area Models, Michael Leitch
A Classification of Tensors in ECSK Theory, Joshua James Leiter
Development of the Digital Signal Processing for the Space Weather Probes Version 2 Sensor Using the MATLAB/Simulink Environment, Benjamin J. Lewis
Board Certified Behavior Analysts in Public Schools: Challenges and Opportunities, Danielle Lyons
Subduing the Wolf: Utah Pioneer Identity and the War on Wolves Between 1852 and 2020., Mason Lytle
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Discrimination, & Adulthood Health Outcomes: Impacts of Protective and Compensatory Experiences in Childhood, Sallie A. Mack
Thermal Tolerance, Physiology, and Microhabitat Use of Eleutherodactylus Coqui Across an Elevational Gradient in Hawai‘i, Jack Marchetti
All Good Women Are Mothers: Exploring Gender Binaries in How I Met Your Mother, Jessica Marinho
Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction to Increase Groundwater Availability, Saeid Masoudiashtiani
Desert Body, Lauren McKinnon
Big Fish and More of Them: Salmonid Habitat Availability, Quality, and Use Across Multiple Scales Within a River-Reservoir System, John S. McLaren V
Teachers' Conceptions and Enactment of Disciplinary Literacy in Elementary Science Instruction: A Comparative Case Study, Melissa P. Mendenhall
Transmigrant Motherhood Identities: Colombian Mothers in the United States, Claudia Méndez Wright
Evapotranspiration and Energy Balance of Irrigated Urban Turfgrass, Matthew D. Miksch
Examining Political Discourse on Online 8Kun and Reddit Forums, Braden Mindrum
Anthropogenic Factors Affecting Common Raven Occurrence and Depredation of Artificial Nests Within Greater Sage‐Grouse Habitat in Southern Utah, Zoë S. Moffett
Cislunar Navigation Techniques and Navigation Performance Optimization, Quinn P. Moon
A Scalable, Cost-Oriented Approach for Computing Charge Plans for Electric Bus Fleets, Daniel T. Mortensen
Young Children's Nutrition, Growth, and Cognitive Development in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Kristin N. Murphy
Using Natural Language Processing to Quantify the Efficacy of Language Simplification as a Communication Strategy, Brian Nalley
Modeling Framework for Dynamic Wireless Charging Lanes in Future Transportation Networks, Hossein Nasr-Esfahani
The Longitudinal Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: In Search of Demographic Disparities, Cynthia M. Navarro Flores
Evaluating Quaking Aspen's Influence on Fire Behavior, Kristin A. Nesbit
Using Head Start Children's Language Development to Predict Social Information Processing Ability, Kendra Newman
Identifying Common Resources Teachers Use to Address Problematic and Challenging Student Behvior, Joseph Clint Nicholes
Teaching Contextually Appropriate Play Commenting Without the Use of Visual Cues, Beverly Nichols
Black–White Disparities in Body Mass Index Trajectories From Adolescence to Adulthood: Assessing the Roles of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Exposures to Short Sleep Durations, Olusola Akintoye Omisakin
An Evaluation of U.S. Horseback Riding Instruction Certifications: Availability, Acquisition, Barriers, and Industry Need, Makenna L. Osborne
The Relation Between Racial Attitudes and Facets of Impulsivity, Diana M. Perez
Habitat Selection by Desert Carnivores: How Water, Intraguild Predation, and Prey Impact Animal Space Use, Nadine A. Pershyn
Telehealth Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Adolescents With Transdiagnostic Health-Related Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Julie M. Petersen
Opportunities and Challenges for Cooperative Extension Becoming a Major Actor in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, Dakoeta R. Pinto
Ars, Virtus, Impetus: Gladiatorial Training and Roman Legionaries, Daniel Porter
The Intersections of Payments for Ecosystem Services, Gender, and Conditionality in a Bolivian Case Study, Alicia Potter
Producing Analytical Models of the SPORT Spacecraft for Science Data Processing, Jason L. Powell
The Sexual Objectification Experiences of Non-Binary People, Lee R. Pradell
Family Communication Patterns, Emotion Regulation, and Coping Behaviors in Young Adults, Caleb J. Price
Social Factors Driving Grouping Dynamics in Bighorn Sheep Ewe, Toni Proescholdt
Daytime Versus Nighttime Sprinkler Irrigation of Two Urban Crops in a Semi-Arid Climate at High-Elevation, Samikshya Pyakurel
Architectural Design of Hybrid Battery Energy Storage Systems With Integrated Active Balancing and Reconditioning Control, Marium Rasheed
Exploring Versatile Glycosyltransferases From Microorganisms for Natural Product Biosynthesis, Jie Ren
Status and Enhancement of Trissolcus japonicus (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) for Biological Control of Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in Northern Utah, Kate V. Richardson
Laboratory Measurements at the Impact Point of a Falling Jet, Garrett Richins
Consumption of a Western Diet Enhanced Colitis-Associated Colorectal Cancer and Dysbiosis of the Fecal Microbiome in Mice Notwithstanding Dietary Intervention or Fecal Microbiome Transfer, Daphne Michelle Rodriguez Jimenez
How Preservice Teachers Develop Awareness and Beliefs About Design Features and Academic Language Features When Choosing and Evaluating Digital Math Games for English Language Learners, Allison L. Roxburgh
Evaluating Beaver Translocation Methods for Desert River Restoration, Christine E. Sandbach
Constrained Route Optimization With Fleet Considerations for Electrified Heavy-Duty Freight Vehicles, Zarin Subah Shamma
A Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Variants in an hACE2 Mouse Model, Ashley N. Y. Sheesley
Fractally Sampling Diversity-Environment Relationships to Understand Plant Assemblage Health Across Spatial Scales, Elizabeth G. Simpson
Overcoming Barriers to Aquatic Plant Restoration: Addressing Gaps in Species Identification and Planting Techniques in the Intermountain West, Kate A. Sinnott
Tacitus, Barditus, and Odin's Eleventh Spell, Marie Skinner
A Cohesive Simulation and Testing Platform for Civil Autonomous Aerial Sensing and Operations, Stockton G. Slack
Assessing Stream Ecosystem Structure and Function in an Urban Canal and Logan River in Logan, Utah, Ellie Smith-Eskridge
The Effects of Recent Climate Change on Spring Phenology, With a Special Focus on Patterns of Bee Foraging, Michael Stemkovski
County Characteristics and Opioid Mortality Rates in the United States, Baksun Sung
Trial Spacing and the Conditioned Motivational Effects of a Food-Predictive Cue, Gabrielle M. Sutton
Cross-Boundary Stewardship in Protected Area Centered Ecosystems: Perceptions of Success and Characteristics of Cooperative Engagement, Ryan D. Tarver
Quantifying the Impacts and Assessing the Permeability of a Divided Four-Lane Highway on Migratory Mule Deer, Daniel P. Taylor
Investigating Mitochondrial Influence on the Rate of Anaerobic Glycolysis in an in vitro Model, Mackenzie Jenna' Taylor
Precipitation and Soil Properties Determine Long-Term Consequences of Disturbance and Invasion in Drylands, Tyson Terry
Examining Model Complexity's Effects When Predicting Continuous Measures From Ordinal Labels, McKade S. Thomas
A Statewide Evaluation of Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in Altering Wildfire Outcomes on Public Lands in Utah, Jamela Charmaine Thompson
The Concept of Multicenter Bonds in Chemistry and Materials Science, Nikolay V. Tkachenko
High Efficiency Angles-Only Space-Based Approaches for Geosynchronous Orbit Catalog Maintenance With Sparse Information, Louis M. Tonc
Regeneration of Quaking Aspen and Understory Vegetation Change After Fire Risk Reduction Treatment, Allison M. Trudgeon
Mormon Women's Peepstones: Divination, Revelation, Gender and Power in Utah, Millie Tullis
Antimicrobial Peptides in Transgenic Silkworm Silk, David Jaden Turner
Gesture and Language in Children Enrolled in Early Intervention, Makenzy S. Turner
Comparing Commonly Used Aquatic Habitat Modeling Methods for Native Fishes, Eryn K. Turney
Durability of Wireless Charging Systems Embedded Into Concrete Pavements for Electric Vehicles, Pilaiwan Vaikasi
Temporally Weighted Averaging: The Effects of Test Delay on Spontaneous Recovery of Choice, Jack Van Allsburg
Differing Mastery Criteria Effects on Maintenance of 1-Step Instruction Following in Children with Disabilities, Kyle Wagner
Developing Firmware for Space Weather Probes 2 Using HDL Coder, Nicholas L. Wallace
Simulation of Energy Management Algorithms for the Future Grid, Orion Watson
Treatment of Yellow Fever Virus With the NS4B Inhibitor BDAA and Effects on RNA‐Sensing Innate Immune Pathways in Hamster and Mouse Models, Abbie E. Weight
Connections Between Mathematics and Computational Thinking: Kindergarten Students' Demonstration of Mathematics Knowledge in a Computational Thinking Assessment, Lise E. Welch Bond
Effects of Soil Amendments on Water Quality and Hydrologic Properties in Low Impact Development Systems, Lily Wetterlin
Preservice Teacher Engineering Design Teaching Efficacy, Laura Wheeler
From Flames to Forage: How Wildfire Affects Elk Behavior and Abundance, Megan M. Whetzel
The Time-Dependent Ionospheric Model Using a TEC-Driven Servo: An Investigation of the Capabilities and Limitations, Jenny Rebecca Whiteley
Decolonizing Memory: Erasure and Resurgence of Indigenous History in the Intermountain West, Chase Wilson
Evaluating Methods for Pathogen Spillover Detection and Forecasting in Desert Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni), Grete E. Wilson-Henjum
Connectedness and Wellbeing: Investigating Community and Nature-Based Connection in the Context of Utah's Rapid Growth, Sarah E. Wilson