Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Characterization of the Phenotype and Functional Properties of Myeloid Subpopulations in Chronic Inflammatory Conditions, Krystle Leandra Ong
Examination of the Bidirectional Relationship Between Anhedonia and Vaporized Cannabis Use in Adolescents: A Longitudinal Cohort Analysis, Cynthia Estrella Ortiz
Renal Lactate Dehydrogenase A: Underlying Mechanisms and Inflammatory Roles in Acute Kidney Injury, Gunars Osis
The Effects of Near Field Magnetic Induction Monitoring of Health Care Workers' Hand Hygiene Compliance, Thomas H. Ozburn
Prolonged Prone Positioning for COVID-19-Induced Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Randomized Pilot Study, David Brian Page
The Role of Alternative Payment Models in Pharmaceutical Services and Outcomes, Matthew G. Parker
Characterization of Exercise-Associated Skeletal Muscle Secreted Factors Through Aging, Dalton Chase Patterson
Defect Properties Determined by Photo-Induced Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Carbon-Doped Gallium Nitride Substrates, Subash Paudel
Characterizing Occupational Status History and Assessing Occupational Status as a Social Determinant of Health in the Deceased Organ Donor Population, Nicole F. Pelletier
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Connecting the Dots Between Early Life Stress and Asthma Aming Children and Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease, Brandi McClain Pernell
Magnetic Ordering in the High-Pressure Phases of Rare Earth Elements Holmium and Dysprosium Revealed by Neutron Diffraction, Christopher S. Perreault
The Influence of Sleep Duration and Sleep Efficiency on Abdominal Adiposity and Blood Pressure in Adolescents Ages 16 to 18 Who Participated in the Cleveland Children's Sleep and Health Study: A Secondary Data Analysis, Shameka Rodgers Phillips
Alzheimer Disease Special Care Units and Nursing Homes' Organizational Performance, Giovanna Pilonieta Ortiz
Analysis of Systems of First Order Linear Differential Equations with Non-Diagonalizable Matrices, Nicholas Claude Plowman
The Effects of charity Hospital Privitization and Medicaid Expansion on Medicaid Patient Emergency Department Utilization in Louisiana, Sean M. Prados
Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination (TSD): Implications for the Biology and Conservation of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys Kempii), Katherine Presz
Neural Outcomes of Adolescent Substance Use, Juliann B. Purcell
Oral Language in the Prewriting Stage in Early Childhood: A Mixed Methods Study, Rebekah Lee Reach
Applying PET Imaging to Cancer Immunotherapy to Improve Clinical Outcomes, Kirsten M. Reeves
Give Him to God, Brian Renninger
A Case Study of Classroom Practices for Additional Strategies in First Grade, Lori StClair Rhodes
Retention Strategies for Non-Traditional Pathway Teachers: Keeping New Teachers in the Profession, Leslie Cranford Richards
The Effect of Integrative Medicine Interventions on Patient Activation Measure, Rochelle F. Richards
Instructional Leadership During Modern Crises: A Phenomenological Study of a Pandemic in the Modern Age, Larry Bradley Robertson
Prevalence and Phenotype of Autism Spectrum Disorder Within Pitt Hopkins Syndrome, Helen Kay Root
Labor Union Membership Tenure and Midlife Health: A Gendered Perspective, Clifford Ross
Development of a Fit-Matching App: Validation of 3-D Scanning Applications, Jasna Rosser-Williams
Modeling Local Heat-Exposure Vulnerability and Canopy-Level Thermal Comfort in Different Urban-Vegetation Morphology, Samain Sabrin
The Role of DOCK3 In Normal Skeletal Muscle Function and Metabolism, Adrienne Samani
Targeting the Frataxin Transcriptional Defect as a Therapeutic Approach for Friedreich's Ataxia, Anna Maria Schreiber
"Bricks Without Straw": An Oral History of Culturally Relevant Caring in Historic a H Parker High School in Birmingham Alabama, Penny S. Seals
Adaptive Functioning and Academic Achievement in Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Associations with Executive Functioning and Socioeconomic Status, Victoria C. Seghatol-Eslami
The Relationship Between Nurse and Therapy Staffing Levels and the Medicare Patient-Driven Payment Model Reimbursement During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Roland T. Shapley Jr
Role of Dietary Compounds on Modulation of Epigenetic Mechanisms and Gut Microbiota in Prevention of Breast Cancer, Manvi Sharma
Photothermal Desorption of Volatile Organic Compounds From Buckypaper Sorbents, for Occupational Exposure Assessment, Jacob S. Shedd
Access to the Kidney Transplant Waitlist for People Living with HIV, Brittany A. Shelton
Bacterial Community Structures and Species Delimitation of Five-Armed Luidia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Michelle D. Shilling
Molecular Mechanism and Impact of SOX2 Regulation by the Transforming Growth Factor-ß Members in Ovarian Cancer Survival and Metastasis, Zainab Shonibare
Cognition and the Brain of the Healthy Oldest-Old, Sara A. Sims
Increasing Naloxone Access for Persons Who Use Opioids: An Online Recruitment and Training Approach to Opioid Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution, Michelle L. Sisson
Monoclonal Antibody-Mediated Cancer Treatment: Development, Manufacturing and Evaluation, Yingnan Si
Insulation and Paper, Mary Elizabeth Skinner
The Adoption of New Cancer Drugs in Non-Academic Cancer Centers, Warren M. Smedley
The Role of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate Signaling in Arteriovenous Fistula Maturation, Maheshika S. Somarathna
Experimental Characterization of a Multispecies Plasma in the Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Films, Braden Spiller
Strategic Balance in Healthcare Organizations, Corey Spraberry
Method Development of Drug Court Samples, Kourtney Michelle Steen
Contributions of Off-Season Training and Food Security Status on Body Composition and Performance in Collegiate Football Players, Kathryn Lee Stowers
The Effect of Laser-Plasma Conditions in ß-FeSe Epitaxy by Pulsed Laser Deposition, Kamron Strickland
Invisible No More: LGBTQ History & Archiving Projects at Universities in the South, Maigen Sullivan
Filtration and Adsorption Performance of Activated Carbon Fiber: Applications for Respiratory Protection, Margaret C. Summers
Study of Microrna-23A Cluster in Bone Formation, Revati Suryawanshi
Promoting the Safe Mobility of Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Austin M. Svancara
Preventing Unintentional Childhood Injuries in Rural Uganda: Caregiver Perceptions and Promotion of Personal Safety Skills Through Classroom-Based Instruction, Marissa H. Swanson
Comparing the Efficiency of Molar Protraction Using Herbsts and Temporary Anchorage Devices, Ishita Zem Taneja
Life-Space Mobility in the Older Adult, Community-Dwelling Cancer Survivor in the Deep South: A Secondary Data Analysis, Richard A. Taylor
meVisit: Value-Based Approach to Primary Care Delivery by mTelemedicine Utilization Applied Through Lean Principles, Neil Coyer Thornbury
Ultrafast Broadband Dynamics in Novel Classes of Metamaterials, Uddhab Tiwari
The Requirement of Transcriptional Lim Complex Co-Regulators for Pancreatic Endocrine Cell Development and Function, Eliana Davi Toren
The Role of Processing Efficiency in Cognitive Outcomes of Pediatric Cancer Survivors, Julie A. Trapani
Analysis of Excess Mortality at the County Level in Alabama by Socioeconomic Factors, Abigail Jo Tucker
The Effect of Training on Eye Movement While Learning to Use a Non-Foveal Retinal Locus, Jason Eugene Vice
Alterations in Synaptic Structure and Tau Phosphorylation in Alheimer's Disease, Courtney K. Walker
Early Detection of Acute Kidney Injury in Neonates After Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Tennille N. Webb
Dr. Susie Weems Wheeler: A Narrative Case Study of a Philanthropic Educator During the Civil Rights Era, Alisha D. Wheeler
Multiplicities of Polygon Numbers, Alyssa R. Wilke
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on College Students with Disabilities or Pre-Existing Conditions: A Qualitative Dissertation, Caro Celestine Holmes Wolfner
Engineering Studies Towards Simultaneous Imaging of Membrane Potential and Calcium Transients in Beating Hearts, Garrett Wood
Epigenetic Regulation by O-GlcNAc Alters Anti-Fibrotic Gene Expression in IPF Fibroblasts, Qiuming Wu
Evaluation of Ventilation Performance and Respirable Particles in Food Trucks, Dong Lee Yang
History of Allergy, Atopy, Infectious and Autoimmune Disease and Risk of Multiple Myeloma, Tony B. Zbysinski III
Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Metastatic Lung Cancer Time to Treatment Initiation, Health Care Resource Utilization, and Costs in the United States, Teresa M. Zyczynski
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Applying Inverse Dynamics To A Biomechanical Model To Determine The Safety Of The Motogaitor, Ezzuddin Abuhussein
The Assessment Of Neuro-Mechanics Of Inspiratory Muscles During Mechanical Ventilation, Hassan Y. AbuNurah
Kink-Resistant Vascular Grafts With Integrated Capacitance-Based Hemodynamic Monitoring System, Kiran Raj Adhikari
From Classrooms To Polluted Communities: Scientific Inquiry In Birmingham, Alabama And Beyond, Sarah Jeanne Adkins-Jablonsky
Characterization of RNA Polymerase I Trigger Loop Mutations, Collin Ainslie
Statistical Methodology for Mendelian Randomiztion Analysis, Phillip Hunter Allman
Joint Specificity Of Stretch-Shortening Cycle Potentiation, Marzouq Khalaf Almutairi
Pain-Related Injustice Appraisal and Chronic Low Back Pain Among Arabs in the United States, Albatool Homoud Alnojeidi
Pain Among Older Adults with Cancer-Results from the Cancer and Aging Resilience Evaluation (CARE) Registry, Mustafa Al Obaidi
A Novel In Vitro Model To Study Immune Interactions In Glioblastoma, Hasan Alrefai
Financial Performance of Participating Hospitals in Accountable Care Organizations, Abdulrhman Alzhrani
The Pathomechanistic Role of Neuropeptide Y in the Skin: Overexpression of NPY Induces Chronic Inflammation and Skin Pathology, Zoya Tatiana Anderson
External Apical Root Resorption In Asian Orthodontic Patients In Alabama, Najd Aswad
A Stress Process Approach to Assessing Caregiver Burden, Depressive Symptoms, and Quality of Life: The Role of Attachment in Adult Relationships, Ghislaine Celine Atkins
Nutritional and Metabolic Effects of Elexacaftor/Tezacaftor/Ivacaftor in Adults and Adolescents with Cystic Fibrosis, Julianna Bailey
Effectiveness Of A University Employee Assistance Program Using The Workplace Outcome Suite And Client Satisfaction Survey, Josephine Jackson Banks
Socioeconomic Status In Adolescence And Dna Methylation In Young Adulthood, Malcolm Barker-Kamps
Suppressing Islet Graft Rejection With Antioxidant-Based Encapsulation Materials, Jessie Marie Barra
Cultural Narratives Of Methamphetamine Using Parents And Children, Blake Beaton
Structural changes to desmosomal architecture during assembly and maturation, Reena R. Beggs