Electronic graduate theses and dissertations from Utah State University.
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2009
Implementation of Robot Arm Networks and Experimental Analysis of Consensus-Based Collective Motion, Daniel Scott Stuart
Geologic Mapping, Alluvial Stratigraphy, and Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating of the Kanab Creek Area, Southern Utah, Michelle Carlene Summa
Biological and Economic Effects of Grazing Spring-Calving Cow-Calf Pairs on Improved Irrigated Pastures Using Creep Supplementation, Adam F. Summers
Sonication Assisted Synthesis of Oligomannosides, Christabel Tomla Tanifum
Microbial Growth Inhibition and Decomposition of Milk Mineral and Sodium Tripolyphosphate Added to Media or Fresh Ground Beef, Rossarin Tansawat
A Computational Geometry Approach to Digital Image Contour Extraction, Pedro J. Tejada
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Dynamics as Applied to Water Quality Under Management Intensive Grazing, Vaughn J. Thacker
The Development of Context-Specific Operant Sensitization to d-Amphetamine, Wesley Paul Thomas
Effect of Surface Stability on Core Muscle Activity During Dynamic Resistance Exercises, Brennan J. Thompson
Hydraulics of IDEal Drip Irrigation Systems, Evan J. Thompson
The Effect of Lipids on Recognition Thresholds and Intensity Ratings of the Five Basic Tastes, Jennifer Ellen Thurgood
"Big, Smelly, Salty Lake that I Call Home": Sense of Place with a Mixed Amenity Setting, Carla Koons Trentelman
Effectiveness of Graduate Teaching Assistants, Sarah S. Tulane
Meshed Patch Antennas Integrated on Solar Cell - A Feasibility Study and Optimization, Timothy W. Turpin
Factors Associated with Physical Activity Behaviors Among Rural Adolescents, Kenli A. Urruty
Watershed-Scale Analysis of Riparian Buffer Function, Molly Van Appledorn
Status and Slaughter: The Psycho-Social Factors that Influence Public Mass Murder, Stephen G. Van Geem
From Cultural Traditions to National Trends: The Transition of Domestic Mormon Architecture in Cache Valley, Utah, 1860--1915, Jami J. Van Huss
Perceived Effectiveness of Booster Sessions Following a Stepfamily Education Course, John Mitchell Vaterlaus
A Domain-Specific Design Tool for Verifying Spacecraft System Behavior, Sravanthi Venigalla
Self-Healing Cellular Automata to Correct Soft Errors in Defective Embedded Program Memories, Varun Voddi
Teacher Educators' Computer Technology Integration at Utah State University, Jiayi Wan
The Impact of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Peer Influence on Adolescent Energy Drink Consumption, Alyson C. Ward
Evaluation of Macroinvertebrates as a Food Resource in the Assessment of Lotic Salmonid Habitat, Nicholas P. Weber
Development of a Survey Measuring Visitor Satisfaction and Service Quality of Cultural and Natural Sites in Belize, Dustin S. Wiberg
Vegetation Characteristics of Wyoming Big Sagebrush Communities Historically Seeded with Crested Wheatgrass in Northeastern Great Basin, USA, Justin Rodney Williams
Storytelling Through Brushstrokes: Minerva Teichert's Visualization of the Mormon Pioneer Experience and Messages to Her Audience, Amy L. Williamson
An Experimental Comparison of Middle School Students' Motivation and Preference Toward Text- and Graphic-Based Programming, Stephen E. Williams
Attitudes, Behavioral Intentions, and Migration: Resident Response to Amenity Growth-Related Change in the Rural Rocky Mountain West, Susan Reid Wilmot
Demonstration of a Completely Described Swirling Jet Experiment Used for Numerical Validation, Brandon M. Wilson
Macromorality and Mormons: A Psychometric Investigation and Qualitative Evaluation of the Defining Issues Test-2, Daniel R. Winder
Soil Organic Carbon and Site Characteristics in Aspen and Evaluation of the Potential Effects of Conifer Encroachment on Soil Properties in Northern Utah, Mical K. Woldeselassie
Characterization of the Substrate Specificity and Mechanism of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 1, Whitney Lyn Wooderchak
Feasibility Analysis of Seed Production for Use in Re-seeding Land Burned in Wildfires in the Great Basin Region of the United States, Benjamin Jay Young
Full-Wave Analyses of Nano-Electromechanical Systems Integrated Multifunctional Reconfigurable Antennas, Xiaoyan Yuan
Modeling the Evolution of Insect Phenology with Particular Reference to Mountain Pine Beetle, Brian P. Yurk
2008
Extending F10.7's Time Resolution to Capture Solar Flare Phenomena, Ariel O. Acebal
Mechanisms of Nutrition Bar Hardening: Effect of Hydrolyzed Whey Protein and Carbohydrate Source, Shaun P. Adams
Hydrological Characterization of a Riparian Vegetation Zone Using High Resolution Multi-Spectral Airborne Imagery, Osama Zaki Akasheh
PIPE5 Finite Element Analysis for Buried Structures, David Aldous
Axisymmetric Coanda-Assisted Vectoring, Dustin S. Allen
The Influence of Debris Cages on Critical Submergence of Vertical Intakes in Reservoirs, Skyler D. Allen
Employers' Perceptions of Utah State University's Marriage and Family Therapy Program Requirements, Blake D. Altom
The Adaptability of Langmuir Probes to the Pico-Satellite Regime, Andrew Jay Auman
The Genetics of Colonization in Two Amphibian Species After the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens, Kristin Ann Bakkegard
Strides Towards Better Application Security, Sathyaraj Balasubramanian
Experiments in Distributed Multi-Robot Coordination, Larry Dale Ballard
Distributed Hydrologic Modeling for Streamflow Prediction at Ungauged Basins, Christina Bandaragoda
An Evolutionary Approach to Image Compression in the Discrete Cosine Transform Domain, Benjamin E. Banham
Nutritional Analyses of Intuitive Eaters as Compared to Dieters, Anne Wilson Banks
Evaluation of an Interactive Health Communication Trans Fat Website, Tara Banks
Agent-Organized Network Coalition Formation, Levi L. Barton
Are Delay Discounting, Probability Discounting, Time Perception, and Time Perspective Related? A Cross-Cultural Study Among Latino and White American Students, Ana Amelia L. Baumann Neves
Nursery Production of Selected Actinorhizal Species, Taun D. Beddes
Growth and Water Relations of Native Wheatgrass Populations, Brian P. Bell
Factors Related to Success and Participants’ Psychological Ownership in Collaborative Wildlife Management: A Survey of Sage-Grouse Local Working Groups, Lorien R. Belton
A Comparison of the Economic Profitability of Specified Risk Management Alternatives for Intermountain West Farmers, Cody D. Bingham
Development of a Post-Fire Monitoring Protocol for Evaluating Treatment Effectiveness and Cheatgrass Abundance Using Quickbird Imagery and Ground Observations, Gabriel Bissonette
Impact Analysis of System and Network Attacks, Anupama Biswas
Predicted Versus Measured Thoracic Gas Volume for the Bod Pod® Air Displacement Plethysmography System, Phil A. Blaney
Development of a Mathematical Model for 3D Reconstruction of Target Objects by Photogrammetry, Keith F. Blonquist
Inter-Religious Marriage and Migration, Maggie Y. Bohm
Effects of Olfactory and Visual Predators on Nest Success and Nest-Site Selection of Waterfowl in North Dakota., Jennifer S. Borgo
Safety-Focused Altruism: Valuing the Lives of Others, Kevin Lee Brady
The Effect of an Educational Intervention on Adolescent Cognitive Autonomy, Identity, Hope, and Educational Aspirations, Celestial Starr Brandley
Sex-Biased Predation on Taricha by a Novel Predator in Annadel State Park, Amber Noelle Brouillette
Measuring Unawareness of Cognitive Decline in a Population of Elderly Individuals: The Cache County Study, Trevor Buckley
The Process of Tracking in Mathematics in Box Elder School District, Megan Haramoto Bushnell
Transitional Flow Between Orifice and Non-Orifice Regimes at a Rectangular Canal Gate, Omar Alminagorta Cabezas
A Three-Dimensional, Time-Dependent Circulation Model of Utah Lake, Eric V. Callister
Approximations to Continuous Processes in Hierarchical Models, Amanda Cangelosi
Reproductive Biology of the Coyote (Canis latrans): Integration of Behavior and Physiology, Debra Anne Carlson
Bushnell General Military Hospital and the Community of Brigham City, Utah During World War II, Andrea Kaye Carter
Predator-Prey Relationships and Spatial Ecology of Jaguars in the Southern Pantanal, Brazil: Implications for Conservation and Management, Sandra Maria Cintra Cavalcanti
Glycemic Load and Risk of Alzheimer's Disease: The Cache County Study on Memory, Health, and Aging, Eun Young Choi
Weight and Body Composition Change During the First Year of College: A Study of Traditional Residence Hall Freshmen, Stephanie V. Christensen
Mother-Child Interactions Among Latino Families and European-American Families in Relation to Children's Language Outcomes, Katie Christiansen
Intergranular Phases in Cyclically Annealed YBa2Cu3O7-x and Their Implications for Critical Current Densities, Andrew Peter Clarke
Growing Wild: Crested Wheatgrass and the Landscape of Belonging, Lafe Gerald Conner
Small Sample Methods for the Analysis of Clustered Binary Data, Lawrence J. Cook
A Laboratory Study of Streambed Stability in Bottomless Culverts, Brian Mark Crookston
Pulse-Laser Infrared Photothermal Spectrometry of Condensed-Phase Aerosols Based on Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy, Oluwatosin Olubunmi Dada
Forensic and Anti-Forensic Techniques for Object Linking and Embedding 2 (OLE2)-Formatted Documents, Jason M. Daniels
A Study of Utah Teachers' Developmentally Appropriate Beliefs and Practices as Related to Perceptions of Kindergarteners' Successful School Entry, Mary McEuen Darnell
Diets of Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera: coccinellidae) in Utah Alfalfa Fields, Lynette Nicole Davidson
Ponderosa Pine Mortality and Bark Beetle-Host Dynamics Following Prescribed and Wildland Fires in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA, Ryan Stephen Davis
An Assessment of the Perceived Value of Teacher Portfolios in the Early Years Enhancement (EYE) Program by Primary and Secondary Teachers in Utah's Schools, Teresa J. Denison
Measuring and Modeling of Plant Root Uptake of Organic Chemicals, Erik Dettenmaier
A Comparison of Social Stories and Script Fading to Increase Appropriate Social Interactions of Secondary Students with Disabilities with Their Non-Disabled Peers, Kristi Dudleston
Garter Snake (Thamnophis) Natural History: Food Habits and Interspecific Aggression, Michael J. Edgehouse
Sources and Source Processes of Organic Nitrogen Aerosols in the Atmosphere, Mark E. Erupe
Optimal Irrigation Management for Sloping, Blocked-End Borders, Jorge Jose Escurra
A Qualitative Case Study of Developing Teacher Identity among American Indian Secondary Teachers from the Ute Teacher Training Program, Virginia Norris Exton
Yoga as an Intervention for Stress Reduction and Enhanced Wellbeing in African American Athletes, Jennifer Fallon
Predicting On-the-Job Teacher Success Based on a Group Assessment Procedure Used for Admission to Teacher Education, LaVaun Gene Faulk
Evolutionary Genetics of Tetrodotoxin (TTX) Resistance in Snakes: Tracking a Feeding Adaptation from Populations Through Clades, Chris R. Feldman
A Ladar-Based Pose Estimation Algorithm for Determining Relative Motion of a Spacecraft for Autonomous Rendezvous and Dock, Ronald Christopher Fenton