This collection contains electronically submitted and retrospectively digitized graduate-level theses, dissertations, and doctoral projects for which we have received an availability agreement. Beginning with the fall of 2012, all theses and dissertations have been submitted through UNF Digital Commons. Other theses, dissertations, and projects are available in paper format and may be found using the library’s catalog.
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Alcantara, Alexandria R. (2023), Investigations into the electronic and magnetic properties of (CrPS4)n layers
Alexander, NKosi (2023), The Lie algebra sl2(C) and Krawtchouk polynomials
Bairen, Nathan (2023), Exploring Mottness and Electronic Order in Strongly Correlated Vanadate Thin Films
Baker, Lindsay Nicole (2023), Relation between parent feeding and emotional overeating in preschoolers as mediated by emotion regulation
Bannister Roby, Natalya R. (2023), Triumph after Trauma: A Phenomenological Exploration into Women Survivor’s Perceptions of the Influence of Trauma on their Leadership
Barrett, Sydney C. (2023), Examining Predictors of Academic Success among STEM and non-STEM College Students
Bayati, Zeinab (2023), Sustainable Transportation: Behavioral Analysis of Working-from-Home and Electric Vehicles Adoption
Benton, Crishana Dionne (2023), Running the gauntlet: Barriers for Black women academics in higher education research productivity
Bernanke, Matthew (2023), The effect of environmental factors on movement patterns and habitat use of young-of-the-year scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) in the Tolomato River nursery
Bissainthe, Roshonda (2023), Eye of the Tiger: Does Cultural Mismatch Affect the Evaluation of Graduate Program Brochures?
Boopathy, Kavyaa (2023), Investigation on the influence of augmented reality adoption and cybersecurity in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry
Boyd, Lauren E. (2023), An application of virtual reality technology for adult diagnosis of Developmental Coordination Disorder
Boyne, Ciarra Ashley (2023), Association between objectively-measured sedentary time and self-reported prescription medication use among adults: A pilot study
Brunnig, Sarah D. (2023), Curriculum Strategy to Increase College Student’s Motivation, Ability and Opportunity Resulting in Reduction in Wasted Food
Bukuru, Kabhabhela C. (2023), Exploring of user experience and evaluating mobility benefits of micromobility systems and golf carts: Case study of Florida
Byemerwa, Irene Josephat (2023), Predicting Florida's extreme wind events: A deep learning approach
Camden, Megan R. (2023), Effects of Altering Physiologically Relevant Cholesterol Levels and Media Types on Porin Gene Expression in Klebsiella pneumoniae and the Resulting Impact on Antibiotic Resistance
Castellon Escobar, Cesar Enrique (2023), Energy-efficient HMAC for wireless communications
Collie, Angel (2023), Gender and race influence young adults' impressions of people with dementia
Cope, Lauren E. (2023), Analysis of Pervious Oyster Shell Habitat (POSH) Unit Performance Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Crawford, Abigail Brooke (2023), Illness Stigma, Social Connectedness, and Health in People living with Chronic Illness: A Structural Equation Model
Derban, Alvenia Effie (2023), Homecoming: Examining built relationships that influence historically black college and university student experiences
Eames, William J. III (2023), Changing tides: Online conspiracy theory use by radical violent extremist groups over time
Ebri, Nadine (2023), Shaping teachers’ behavioral intentions to use DGBL: Understanding the key insights teachers garner from a research-based DGBL professional development design
Evans, Eduardo Jose (2023), Elliptic functions and iterative algorithms for π
Farjian, Marie (2023), Exploring the Perceptions of Recent High School Graduates Regarding Pk-12 School Safety Measures Considering Increased Occurrences of Mass School Shootings: A Q Method Study
Faulkner, Justin Reid (2023), Florida’s Principals’ Perceptions of Their Principal Preparation Program: A Study of How Preparation Programs Impact Efficacy as a School Principal
Friedman, Emily N. (2023), Reentry for registered sex offenders: Navigating stigma post-release
Green, Tiffany L. (2023), The perceptions of principal preparation programs from the perspectives of non-reappointed principals
Halim, Abdul (2023), The role of the United States in advancing democracy in developing countries: The case of Bangladesh, 2008-2020
Halter, Jennifer Pryor (2023), Through the looking glass: An autoethnography
Harris, Matthew (2023), Imagining human rights for migrants in an evolving legal ecosystem: Intellectual, political, and public discourse in the United States, 1980-99
Harrison, Caleb (2023), A hybrid prediction approach using machine learning and physics based models applied to power electronic circuits
Harrison, Taylor R. (2023), Investigation of the segment polarity network in the tardigrade Hypsibius exemplaris
Horton, Jada (2023), The relationship between social capital and juvenile recidivism risk in Bexar County, Texas: Critical Psychology Theory and Latent Class Analysis in archival research
Ingram, Katie (2023), The effect of testing on new learning of related and unrelated text sections
Jackman, Sarah Marie (2023), Apparent Contours for Piecewise Smooth Surfaces
Johnson, Celina Deloris (2023), Internal Mental Representations of the Self and the Typical College Student in Regards to Race, Self-esteem and Belongingness
Jones, Jeania N. (2023), Teaching Black elementary students: The influence of experiences and teacher preparation for PWI and HBCU interns on their understanding of and self-efficacy for culturally responsive teaching
Kazi, Nazmul H. (2023), Automated short-answer grading and misconception detection using large language models
Khalifah, Shatha Abdulghani (2023), The Perspectives Of Saudi Arabian Professionals Regarding the Most Important Soft Skills for Leaders to Possess in Telecommuting Environments during Crisis: A Q Methodology Study
Kilungeja, Grentina Nazarius (2023), Menstrual cycle prediction from physiological data using machine learning
Kimollo, Michael (2023), Extracting road surface marking features from aerial images using deep learning
Kuhn-Hancock, Lori Ann (2023), Truth and Consequences: Internal Stakeholder Perception of Higher Education Leadership Crisis Communication Competence During the COVID-19 Pandemic
LaVoie-Ingram, Emilie Marie (2023), Towards a prototype paleo-detector for supernova neutrino and dark matter detection
Laynes, Kimberly D. (2023), Ovulation prediction using random forest algorithm on physiological data
Leone, Casey (2023), Educator perceptions of giftedness in Florida
Lipson, Tamara Ann (2023), Teachers’ perceptions of inclusive classrooms
Makoleo, Mariam S. (2023), Frequency Analysis of a New Empirical Model to Predict Underwater Transmission Loss During Impact Pile Driving
Marks, Brice T. (2023), The Experiences of Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals Seeking Mental Health Treatment
Marrero Gonzalez, Alana Minnee (2023), Nutrition Care for the Transgender Population: A Retrospective Study to investigate relationships between the Nutrition Care Process Model and Patient Outcomes
Mathews, Hunter (2023), Field assessment of the pervious oyster shell habitat: Enhancement of intertidal habitat for the eastern oyster and associated nekton in Northeast Florida
Mayberry, Laura L. (2023), Making the grade: Do teacher-created grading systems result in disparate outcomes for high school students?
McCandless, Rachel Lynn (2023), Walking the talk: A qualitative exploration of gatekeeping staff perceptions surrounding implementation of nutrition policy in Florida food banks
McGhghy, Linda Faye (2023), Case Study and Evaluation of the Implementation of Restorative Family Conferences in an Alternative Placement School
McGovern, Callahan (2023), Lake Huron Microbial Mats: A Novel Anagnostidinema Species, A Cyanobacteria-Specific it's Motif Slicer, & A Multi-Marker Community Analysis
McKay, Jessica A. (2023), A New Mindset: The Effects of a Strategic Mindset on Women Under Stereotype Threat
Miceli, Andrew (2023), Modified Reactive Sputter Deposition of Titanium Nitride Thin Films via HIPIMS with Kick-Pulse and Improvement of the Structure-Zone Model
Miller, Jacqueline Nicole (2023), The Influence of Time and Location on Moral Dilemmas Based on a Driving Simulator Study
Mushi, Consolatha Constantine (2023), Analysis of Underwater Noise due to Pile Driving in Florida using Individual Hammer Blows
Otto, Quintin (2023), Investigation of microstructurally dependent mechanical properties of cold sprayed copper using correlative microscopy
Paredes, William David (2023), Assessing the Performance of a Particle Swarm Optimization Mobility Algorithm in a Hybrid Wi-Fi/LoRa Flying Ad Hoc Network
Pechillo, Marisa L. (2023), In God's hands: Faith healing, epilepsy, and the question of human rights
Pesha, Sylvia (2023), Development of practical assessment techniques for sinkhole potential in Florida based on sinkhole vulnerability indices
Peters, Katie Gillian (2023), Confocal analysis of Sindbis virus in Aedes aegypti unveils novel infection site at pyloric armature
Powers, Madeleine (2023), Less meat, less heat: Analyzing meat consumption through the theory of planned behavior, identity, past behavior, and conservatism
Rust, Dain (2023), Thermal Temperatures and Social Network Position in Bonobos
Schmillen, Peter E. (2023), Assessing erosion improvement in beach sand treated with bioslurry
Schofield, Rachael C. (2023), Investigating the mediation effects of student-teacher relationships between extracurricular activities and students' academic achievement in high school
Sides, Krystal D. (2023), Analyzing Physiological Signals During the Menstrual Cycle: Introducing an Application of Circular Statistics
Simon, Marianne P. (2023), New principals: Experiences that influence the role
Snyder, Jill M. (2023), The impact of a face to face sports nutrition session on athletes' nutrition knowledge and disordered eating attitudes
St Clair, Skylar (2023), That’s why we drink: Effects of undergraduate stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic on alcohol behaviors
Sterghos, Jacqueline (2023), The indirect association of personality with perceived stress as mediated by humor in university students during COVID-19
Testagrose, Conrad Thomas (2023), Breast density classification using deep learning
Timmons, Jamie (2023), Development of high kinetic inductance superconducting nanowire devices on high permittivity strontium titanate substrates
Vander Meulen, Maria E. (2023), Motivation differences of males and females in the PACT Study: An exploratory study
Vera Murillo, Lizbeth C. (2023), What is your why? A qualitative study about motivational differences of Latinos/Hispanics and African American/Black in a computerized cognitive training program to prevent Alzheimer’s Disease
von Holten, Emma Arie (2023), Physiological Responses Regarding Stress and Trauma: The Freeze Response
Waldron, Jordan M. (2023), Otoliths through time: a multidecadal characterization of fish otoliths in a changing climate
Worthen, Najwa N. (2023), Challenges Patients Face When Transitioning from the Hospital into the Home Setting with an Enteral Feeding Tube & the Impact of Staffing a Home Enteral Nutrition Registered Dietitian Case Manager
Zacarias, Rosalyn (2023), "I'm Just Very Open to Trying New Things": Past Sexual Experiences and Sexual Curiosity in Bisexual Women
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Albanese, Charles (2022), A Predictive Modeling Approach to Counter Failures in Heat Seal Process Verification Methods
Baron, Melissa (2022), The Effects of Fermented Vegetables on the Gut Microbiota for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Basedow, Karen S. (2022), Knowledge, attitudes and practices of US-based registered dietitians regarding Vitamin D as a key nutrient in public health
Baskerville, Ryan (2022), Prolonged Exposure to Microgravity Increases Susceptibility to Traumatic Brain Injury
Berg, Kristin M. (2022), Nutrition perception, dietary intake, and anthropometric correlations between Autism Spectrum Disorder and typically developing adolescents.
Brinson, Reginald W. (2022), Higher Education Information and Communication Technology Implementation Project Success: The Effect of Organizational Culture
Byrd, Brittany (2022), Effects of environmental and anthropogenic factors on loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) false crawl rates on Jekyll Island, Ga
Garcia, Nicholas H. (2022), Divided Attention and its Effect on Forward Testing
Graham, Jasmine Elise (2022), STEM Inqueery: How Communion and Feminine Gender Expression Affects LGBTQ Individuals Pursuing STEM
Graham, Matthew Alexander (2022), Bounded-degree Plane Geometric Spanners: Connecting the Dots Between Theory and Practice
Greco, Robert (2022), Revitalizing conservation and management of the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in the Dominican Republic
Hall, Anthony (2022), Adaptive Memory: Richness of Encoding as a Possible Underlying Mechanism of The Threat Effect
Hardy, Andrew Lee (2022), An Analysis of the Spatial Genetic Structure of a Hybrid Zone Between Two Species of Killifish, Fundulus Heteroclitus and F. Grandis
Harris, Michel D. (2022), The Efficacy of a Service-Learning Experience in the New Orleans Area in Improving Intercultural Competence of Nutrition and Dietetics Students
Hayward, Carolyn (2022), Leadership Characteristics and Teacher Self-Efficacy from the Perspective of Teachers
Hernandez, Zuleyka (2022), Regulatory Fit as a Predictor for Sexual Consent Attitude Change