Electronic graduate theses and dissertations from Utah State University.
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Evaluating Data Management Practices and Ontology Development for Transportation Safety Assets, Brig Dean Adams
The Role of Heterogeneity in Earthquake Rupture Dynamics: Insights From Friction Experiments on a 1-Meter Laboratory Fault, Alejandro Aguilar
Characterizing Metabolic Flux of Plant Secondary Metabolites From Diverse Animal-Source Foods to Humans, Muhammad Ahsin
The Dark Side of Sport: Exploring Conceptualizations and Operationalizations of Authority Figure-Athlete Abuse, Katherine Nicole Alexander
Adversarial Heterogeneous Agent Learning for Robotic Systems: A Framework for Coordinated Competitive Behaviors, Christopher T. Allred
Post-Wildfire Erosion and Biogeochemistry: Integrating Aerial Imagery and Soil Testing to Assess Landscape Recovery, Justin A. Allred
Investigating Recruitment Bottlenecks of Juvenile Native Fish in the Colorado River Basin, Utah, Anna R. Amidon
Designing Workarounds for Justice: International Graduate Students' Experiences With Filing Income Taxes in the United States, Dorcas A. Anabire
The Impact of Parental Infidelity During Childhood on Emerging Adult Relationships, Rachel Anderson
Design of a Low-Power Magneto-Inductive Magnetometer, Rowan Antonuccio
Production of Hydrolyzed Lactose Syrup From the Acid Whey, Aubrey Jean Arbon
The Augmented Matching Law, Matias A. Avellaneda
Counterfactual Explanations for Time Series Through Local Pattern Mining and Generative Models, Omar Bahri
Evaluation of Fertilizer Recommendation and Soil Amendment Impacts on Crop Production in the Intermountain West, Megan Baker
Analyzing the Influence of Stem Project-Based Learning on Students' Perceptions and Career Interest in STEM, Melissa S. Barker
Unpacking Science Achievement: Institutional Alignment and Mediating Conditions in a High-Performing Charter School, Brenda L. Bennett
Integrating Space Use and Demography to Support Management of an Endangered Alpine Ungulate, Danielle J. Berger
Multispecies Weed Detection Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Deep Learning Object Detection Models in Utah Forage Crop Corn Field, Utsav Bhandari
Unifying and Expanding Global and Local Variable Importance Methods for Explainable Machine Learning, Kelvyn K. Bladen
Examining AI Use Strategies Among Engineering Students: An Exploratory Quantitative Study, Jenny Lee Blonquist
Alfalfa Yield, Quality, And Nutrient Use Response to Pivot Sprinkler Technology, Deficit Irrigation, And Genetics, Dakota Boren
Great Power Competition in Africa: U.S. Aid Responses to Chinese Aid and Investment, Ebenezer Nana Botsio
Dyadic Agreement in and Task Correlates to a Measurement of Conversational Success, Samantha Budge
Exploring the Correlation Between Malnutrition and Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Heather Burr
Nicotine Aerosol Self-Administration and Reward Potentiation: Using a Preclinical Model of Vaping to Investigate the Stimulus-Enhancing Properties of Nicotine, Kiernan T. Callister
Social and Institutional Factors Influencing Restoration Decisions in Sagebrush Plant Communities in the Great Basin, Carmen Calzado-Martínez
Extracting Wildfire Influence From Natural Streamflow Variability to Inform Post-Fire Peak Flow Predictions, Haley Anne Canham
Advancing Context-Aware Detection of Socially Harmful Discourse Using Transformer-Based Models, Santosh Chapagain
Learning Latent Structure in High-Dimensional Data via Geometry and Graphs, Haozhe Chen
Equity, Diversity, And Inclusion Infrastructures and Faculty Composition: Associations With Undergraduate Student Outcomes at R1 Universities 2011-2021, Niyonta Nahia Chowdhury
Enhanced Efficacy of Oseltamivir Combined With a Jak-Stat Inhibitor for Treatment of an Influenza Virus (Pandemic H1N1) Infection in Mice, Savannah S. Clegg
Impact of Chronic Stress and Nutrition on Functional Connectivity and Neural Networks in Young Kichwa Children From the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest, Matthew L. Cook
Sequential Products of Anaerobic Denitrification in Calcareous and Noncalcareous Soils by Use of the Gas Chromatograph, Grant S. Cooper
Gender and Bill Changes in Congress: An Analysis of Women-Sponsored and Women's Issue Bills, Kipling B. Corry
Assessing Ecological Integrity of Streams Across The Western U.S., Jennifer L. Courtwright
Decreasing Inappropriate Student Behavior Using Interdependent Group Contingency: Students With Intellectual Disabilities, Shelby Craig
A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Physician Compassion in Consultations for Chronic Primary Pain, Sarah Daehler
Development of a Laboratory Apparatus for Evaluating Infiltration Performance of Filter Strips in Utah, Pranish Dahal
Evolving Roles: School Counselors Addressing Mental Health in PK-12 Education, Evin Daines
Solving the Satellite Orienteering Problem Via Hybrid Metaheuristic Intensification and Improved Target Scheduling Techniques, Dalton Dayhoff
Cash, Cleats, and Carpools: A Multi-Method Investigation of Resource Allocation in Families With Youth Athletes, Emily Susan DeLisle
The Evolution of Hymenopteran Recombination Rates, Timothy John DeLory
Developing and Improving Digital Image Correlation (DIC) Techniques for Challenging Environments, Prasenjit Dewanjee
Effects of Subsurface-Drip-Irrigation on Alfalfa Evapotranspiration in the Intermountain West, Namuna Dhakal
Freshwater Mussel Reintroduction and Recolonization Habitat Modeling Using Hydraulic, Sediment and Geomorphic Parameters, Megan Elizabeth DiNicola
An Examination of Lifetime Traumatic Brain Injury and Anti-Inflammatory Medication Use in the Risk for Alzheimer's Disease, Mikaela A. Drewel
Spatial Prediction Under Uncertainty: Methodological and Computational Advances in Bayesian Maximum Entropy, Kinspride K. Duah
Cannabis: A Model Plant to Study Light-Mediated Reproductive Development, Madigan J.H. Eckels
Student Programming Behavior With and Without Phone Notification Suppression, Gavin T. Eddington
Examination of the Association Among Family Communication Patterns, Attitudes Toward Sex, And Sexual Communication Self-Efficacy, Brooklynn Edelmayer
Longing for Home, Ryker Eggenberger
Investigating the Role of Patient-Provider Interaction Quality and Illness Interference in Patients' Basic Psychological Need Fulfillment and Subjective Well-Being, Rebecca Erin Elwood
In-Situ Characterization of the Compressive Strength of Additively Manufactured SS316L TPMS Cellular Solids Using X-Ray Computed Tomography, Blair Mitchell Fairbanks
Honorata Memoria Prosequar: The Lives of Republican and Augustan Women as Antecedents for Later Deifications, Megan Fairbanks
Parental Socialization Practices as Protective Factors of LGBTQ+ Youth Well-Being and Sexual Health, Melissa M. Ferguson
Multi-Omics Characterization of NAD Deficiency in the ANDY Mouse Model: Insights Into Aging, Morgan B. Feuz
Interfacial Chemistry and Physics for Energy Conversion Applications, Haley Fisher
An Autohistoria-Teoría of a Pasifika Neptantlera, Belinda 'Ofakihevahanoa Fotu
Effects of Single-Session Interventions on Youth Internalizing Problems, Thomas K. Franzmann
Theory, Implementation, and Practical Applications of a Modern Parabolized Navier-Stokes Code, Logan B. Freeman
Constraint-Aware Metaheuristic Optimization for Experimental Design, Benjamin N. Fuller
Toward Risk-Informed Design of Supercooling Heat Exchangers: Statistical Inference and Experimental Investigation of Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation, Daniel B. Gardner
The Role of Individual Specialization in Migration Phenology and How Restored Habits are Used by Native and Nonnative Fishes, Austin Garner
Development of a Mouse Model of Echovirus 11 and 30 Infection That Replicates Symptoms of Severe Disease, Scott A. Gibson
Development and Characterization of a Bovine Trophoblast Organoid Culture System, Andrea L. Giles
Does Acceptance Matter? The Moderating Role of Acceptance of Pornography Use in Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction, Alexandra L. Gillespie
Reading Cache Valley Rhetorics: Towards a Composition Pedagogy of Place, Dax Gove
Regional Occurrence and Spatiotemporal Habitat Partitioning of the Culex Genus Mosquitoes in Salt Lake City and Uintah Basin, Utah, Katelyn Graybeal
A Dyadic Mixed Methods Study of an Online Asynchronous Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intervention for Individuals Diagnosed With Dementia and Their Caregivers, Gavin Brendan Green
Domestic Cow of Plenty: Gender and Womanhood in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Harshika Ajay Gupta
Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Development of Science Self-Efficacy Among Students With Learning Disabilities, Aria Hadley-Hulet
Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of Teachers' Lived Experiences, Nicholas Ricks Harris
The Role of Response Time in Math Anxiety, Christine K. Hartmann
Investigating Factors That Affect Students' Help-Seeking Strategies in a University-Level Foundational Mathematics Course, Randall I. Haws
Reconfigurable Antennas Using Varactors on a Planar Parasitic Layer and Pin Diodes on a Dome Parasitic Layer, Andrew J. Hendricks
Affective and Cognitive Factors Contributing to Male-Female Differences in Mathematics, Sarah N. Herod
Relaxed Convex Approximation for Optimal Control in Cislunar Space, Jondavid K. Hertzel
Nutrient Leaching Under Traditional and Intercropped Cover Crop Fields in Northern Utah, Katherine Hewitt
Cognitive Landscape Exploration Through Schema Analysis in Dichotomous Problem-Solving Performance Categories: Foundational Electrical Circuit Contect, Rifatul Islam Himel
Why I Run With Scissors: A Defense of Scholar-Practitioners in Technical Communication and Rhetoric, Margaret Hsiao
"Building Something Great!": Fifth-Grade Teachers Nurturing Hope Through Professional Learning Communities – A Telling Case, Matthew H. Huffaker
The Impact of AI on the Landscape Design Process, Jacob Owen Huff
Mechanisms Of Life History Trade-Offs in the Evolution of Eusociality, Frances Katherine Hunter
Improving Teacher Adherence to Greeting and Attendance Routines Through Performance and Graphed Feedback, Caitlin Huppi
Effect of Agroecological Feeding Systems of Dairy Cattle on the Nutritional Composition of Milk, Sree Bhavya Immadi
ST-FMFormer: An Autoregressive Generation Framework for Scientific Ensemble Data Predictions, Md Robiul Islam
Faculty Perspectives on Career and Technical Education Programming for Prison and Other At-Risk Populations: Implications of a Human Centered Design Focus, Taija R. Jackson
Applications of Machine Learning to Gas Plume Analysis in Longwave Infrared Hyperspectral Images, Scout C. Jarman
Leveraging the Iron Oxide Archive of Mineralization, Deformation, And Exhumation Across Geologic Time, Jordan L. Jensen
"Adopted by the Vote of the Church:" Reassessing Latter-Day Saint Conceptions of Canonization and "Standard Works", Charles William Johnson
Housing Markets in the American West: A Dynamic Time Warping Analysis of Inter-City Relationships, Daniel Johnson
From Evidence to Impact: Supporting Sensemaking and Instructional Revision in STEM Classrooms, Bonni Jones
Advancing Management Strategies for Two Promising Mason Bee Species (Osmia ribifloris and Osmia bruneri) For Berry Pollination, Miranda L. Jones