Electronic graduate theses and dissertations from Utah State University.
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2010
The Effect of Explicit Timing on Math Performance Using Interspersal Assignments with Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities, Fangjuan Hou
A Comparative Study to Identify Factors Affecting Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Practices Among Smallhold Farmers in the Njoro River Watershed of Kenya, Steven P. Huckett
Enhancing Out-of-Season Production of Tomatoes and Lettuce Using High Tunnels, Britney L. Hunter
Estimates of the Hydraulic Parameters of Aquifers in Cache Valley, Utah and Idaho, Paul C. Inkenbrandt
Architecture, Modeling, and Analysis of a Plasma Impedance Probe, Magathi Jayaram
TRISO Fuel Compact Thermal Conductivity Measurement Instrument Development, Colby Jensen
Young's Schema Theory: Exploring the Direct and Indirect Links Between Negative Childhood Experiences and Temperament to Negative Affectivity In Adulthood, Mark S. Jesinoski
History Steps Off the Page: The Past in the Future, A Case Study of How the Mormon Battalion is Making History Interactive, Allyson Jones
The Effects of Spruce Beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) on Fuels and Fire in Intermountain Spruce-Fir Forests, Carl Arik Jorgensen
Unraveling Conflicting Interpretations: A Reexamination of the 1916 Report on Social Studies, C. Gregg Jorgensen
Pulsed-Laser Excited Photothermal Study of Glasses and Nanoliter Cylindrical Sample Cell Based on Thermal Lens Spectroscopy, Prakash Raj Joshi
Survival of Mycoplasma Species in Recycled Bedding Sand and Possible Implications for Disease Transmission to Ruminants, Anne E. Justice-Allen
Accelerated Frame Data Relocation on Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Array, Ramachandra Kallam
Body Image Education as a Preventive Measure for Eating Disorders and Obesity in Ninth-Grade Students, Diana K. Keith
Development of a Laboratory Based System for Selecting Insect Pathogenic Fungi with Greatest Potential for Success in the Field, Chad Alton Keyser
Arterial Oxygen Saturation as a Predictor of Acute Mountain Sickness and Summit Success among Mountianeers, Jonathan R. Knott
Perilous Pilgrimage: A Lady’s Flight into the Rocky Mountain Wilderness, Jane Koerner
Terrestrial Ecosystem Classification in the Rocky Mountains, Northern Utah, Antonin Kusbach
Planning for Closure of the Logan City/Cache County Landfill and Surrounding Landscape, Kristofor Lee Kvarfordt
Mother-Child Attachment and Preschool Behavior Problems in Children with Developmental Delays, Mary S. LaMont
Introduced Sport Fish and Fish Conservation in a Novel Food Web: Evidence of Predatory Impact, Kevin Lee Landom
Plastic and Genetic Determination of Population, Community, and Ecosystem Properties in Freshwater Environments, Leigh C. Latta IV
Taiwanese Adolescent Psychosocial Development in Urban and Rural Areas, Chien-Ti Lee
Physiological and Molecular Function of HAP3b in Flowering Time Regulation and Cold Stress Response, Mingxiang Liang
Safety Evaluation of Work Zone Practices in Utah, Tomás Ernesto Lindheimer
A Synthetic Biological Engineering Approach to Secretion- Based Recovery of Polyhydroxyalkanoates and Other Cellular Products, Elisabeth Linton
Parents as Partners in Kindergarten and Second Grade Literacy Instruction: A Qualitative Inquiry into Student-Authored Traveling Books, Dorothy C. Little
Three Essays on Environmental- and Spatial-Based Valuation of Urban Land and Housing, Lu Liu
Sex in the Kitchen: The Re-Interpretation of Gendered Space Within the Post-World War II Suburban Home in the West, Philip M. Lockette
Asymmetric Interspecific Competition Between Specialist Herbivores That Feed on Tamarisk in Western Colorado, Nina P. Louden
Spatial Analysis of Urbanization in the Salt Lake Valley: An Urban Ecosystem Perspective, John H. Lowry Jr.
Axisymmetric Finite Element Modeling for the Design and Analysis of Cylindrical Adhesive Joints based on Dimensional Stability, Paul E. Lyon
Characterization and Physicochemical Modifications of Polymer Hollow Fiber Membranes for Biomedical and Bioprocessing Applications, Benjamin R. Madsen
The Effects of Fluency Training on the Fidelity with which Paraprofessionals Implement a Reading Intervention, Renee Magnusson
Integrated Solar Panel Antennas for Cube Satellites, Mahmoud N. Mahmoud
Who Wins and Who Loses? A Community Approach to Understanding the Well-Being of Boomtown Residents, Douglas Alan Malloy
Retrieval of Aerosol Mass Concentration from Elastic Lidar Data, Christian C. Marchant
Toward the Validation of Depth-Averaged, Steady-State Simulations of Fluvial Flows Using Three-Dimensional, Steady-State, RANS Turbulence Models, Pedro Abdiel Mateo Villanueva
Students' Perceptions of Coercion in Research, Azure L. Midzinski
An Evaluation of a Physical Activity-Based Residential Treatment Program, Eric Alan Mikkelsen
Noncontingent Delivery of Preferred Stimuli to Treat Problem Behavior in the Classroom, Nicole P. Miles
The Effects of a Self-Evaluation Package on the Presentation, Praise, and Error Correction Skills of Special Education Teachers, Patsy Ann Milligan
Guidance and Navigation Linear Covariance Analysis for Lunar Powered Descent, Travis J. Moesser
Utah Kindergarten Teachers' Challenges and Concerns About Teaching Kindergarten, Ruth Jane Liebschutz Moore
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Integrated Frequency Reconfigurable Antennas for Public Safety Applications, Hema Swaroop Mopidevi
The Hypericum Perforatum Herb as an Antimycobacterial Agent and Its Implications as an Additional Tuberculosis Medication, Trent W. Mortensen
The Ecological Influences of Community Trail Use and Physical Activity Among Female Trail Users, Sarah N. Moulton
Evaluating Native Wheatgrasses for Restoration of Sagebrush Steppes, Jayanti Ray Mukherjee
Latter-day Saint Religiosity and Attitudes towards Sexual Minorities, Cory John Myler
Transesterification and Recovery of Intracellular Lipids Using a Single Step Reactive Extraction, Daniel R. Nelson
Plasticity and Damage in Bimodal Grain Size Al-5083: Microstructural Finite Element, Steven Nelson
Feasibility of Extending an Artificial Salmon Spawning Stream, Marx Creek Near Hyder, Alaska, Tom Nelson
Generation and Analysis of Verbal Route Directions for Blind Navigation, John Nicholson
Fabrication of Multi-Material Structures Using Ultrasonic Consolidation and Laser-Engineered Net Shaping, John Olorunshola Obielodan
Funding Sustainable and Humanitarian Architectural Projects, Joslyn R. Olsen
Ab Initio Search for Novel BxHy Building Blocks with Potential for Hydrogen Storage, Jared K. Olson
Service Undone: A Grounded Theory of Strategically Constructed Silos and Their Impact on Customer-Company Interactions from the Perspective of Retail Employees, Kelley A. O'Reilly
Ultimate Shear Capacity and Residual Prestress Force of Full-Scale, Forty-One-Year-Old Prestressed-Concrete Girders, Parry Osborn
The Relationships Among Caregiver Training, Mentoring, and Turn-Taking Between Caregiver and Child in Family Child Care, Carrie L. Ota
Assessing Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) Decline on Cedar Mountain in Southern Utah Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems, Chad M. Oukrop
Regulated Deficit Irrigation of 'Montmorency' Tart Cherry, Kylara A. Papenfuss
Re-imagining Transnational Identities in Norma Cantú's Canícula and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, Binod Paudyal
Complexity and Power Consumption in Stochastic Iterative Decoders, Keyur M. Payak
Seed Pool Dynamics of a Great Basin Sagebrush Community in the Context of Restoration, Kristen M. Pekas
Ecology of Isolated Greater Sage-Grouse Populations Inhabiting the Wildcat Knolls and Horn Mountain, Southcentral Utah, Christopher J. Perkins
Using Static and Dynamic Measures to Estimate Reading Difficulty for Hispanic Children, Douglas B. Petersen
An Examination of Integrated Rural Tourism Development in the Goris Region of Armenia, Luke Alan Petersen
Bosom Buddies: Factors Associated with Experiences of Passionate Friendship Among Men and Women, Katherine A. Peterson
The Utah Pilot Bridge, Live Load and Dynamic Testing, Modeling and Monitoring for the Long-Term Bridge Performance Program, Steven M. Petroff
That Dame's Got Grit: Selling the Women's Land Army, Pamela Jo Pierce
Reliability-Based Underseepage Analysis in Levees Using Monte Carlo Simulation, Lourdes Polanco
Can the "Peasant" Speak? Forging Dialogues in a Nineteenth-Century Legend Collection, William Pooley
The Influence of Collective Action and Policy in the Development of Local Food Systems, Lori Porreca
Factors Affecting Gunnison Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus minimus) Conservation in San Juan County, Utah, Phoebe R. Prather
Field and Smog Chamber Studies of Agricultural Emissions and Reaction Products, Derek J. Price
A Publish-Subscribe System for Data Replication and Synchronization Among Integrated Person-Centric Information Systems, Xiangbin Qiu
The Role of Dopamine in Resistance to Change of Operant Behavior, Stacey L. Quick
Effects of Temperature and Humidity on Glass-Reinforced Nylon Rotating Bands, Marc D. Raby
The Career Intern Program: An Alternative High School in 1970's Philadelphia, Brandon Rains
Latinos in the Credit Economy, Lisa M. Ralph
Dynamics of van der Waals Clusters: Theoretical and Computational Studies, Jordan Aleksander Ramilowski
A Study of Cause and Effect Relationships of Snowmelt-Induced Movement for the Skunk Hollow Landslide, Brent P. Randall
Analog Front-End Design Using the gm/ID Method for a Pulse-Based Plasma Impedance Probe System, Arun J. Rao
Mechanisms of the Extreme Sensitivity of Turkeys to Aflatoxin B1, Sumit Rawal
Comparison of Agricultural Area Source Ammonia Gas Concentration and Flux Measurements, Emyrei Reese
An Investigation of the Utilization of Soil Water and Nitrogen Among Diverse Forage Plant Species and Mixtures, Sallee Reynolds
Selecting and Propagating Clones of Bigtooth Maple (Acer grandidentatum Nutt.), Melody Reed Richards
"To Drink from Places": Uncovering a Rich Way of Life Near the Grand Canyon's North Rim, Melinda Snow Rich
Cougar Resource Selection in Two Mountain Ranges in Utah: A Study on Scale and Behavior, Wendy R. Rieth
Critique of a Wildlife Habitat Evaluation Method Applied to Residential Open Space, Sarah Rigard
Expanding the Horizons of Educational Pair Programming: A Methodological Review of Pair Programming in Computer Science Education Research, Keith B. Rimington
The Relationship Between Premarital Advice, Expectations and Marital Satisfaction, Cicile M. Rios
Quantifying Legacy Effects of Managed Disturbance on Sagebrush Steppe Resilience and Diversity, Julie Ripplinger