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THE TRANSITION FROM MONTESSORI K-8 TO A NON-MONTESSORI HIGHSCHOOL: A NARRATIVE ANALYSIS
(2025-12)The transition to high school is a critical developmental period, yet experiences of students moving from alternative educational models like Montessori into traditional secondary settings are under-researched. Given ... -
TRANSFORMACIONES ACUÁTICAS EN REPRESENTACIONES DE AMORES PATOLÓGICOS: DISTINTAS EXPRESIONES DEL DARWINISMO FEMINISTA EN LAS OBRAS DE MARÍA LUISA BOMBAL, GUADALUPE NETTEL Y MERCÈ RODOREDA
(2025-08)Las distintas expresiones de metamorfosis acuáticas en las obras de María Luisa Bombal,Guadalupe Nettel, y Mercè Rodoreda permiten entender los modos poshumanos en que sus personajes femeninos desafían las normas masculinas. ... -
TERROIR STUDY OF HONEYCRISP APPLES IN WISCONSIN, USA: INSIGHTS FROM SOIL, LEAF, AND FRUIT CHEMISTRY
(2025-08)Wisconsin agriculture forms an integral part of the state's economy. Although cranberries and cherries serve as the state’s most exported fruit, a lesser known but popular local crop is apples. Terroir, the study of ... -
THEORY OF Zn-STRUCTURES
(2025-08)The goal of this dissertation is to extend the notion of $\mathcal{Z}$-structures to the family of Type $F_n$ groups; those being groups whose $K(G,1)$ complex has a finite $n$-skeleton. At the heart of this extension lies ... -
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEURODIVERSITY ATTITUDES AND THE IMPACT OF STUTTERING ON ADULT STUTTERERS
(2025-08)This study explored the relationship between adult stutterers’ endorsement of neurodiversity attitudes and the perceived impact of stuttering on daily life. Seven adult stutterers completed the Stuttering and Neurodiversity ... -
The Zombie in Black and White: Racialized Gender in Early English-Language Zombie Narratives
(2025-08)During the 1915-1934 U.S. occupation of Haiti, U.S. politicians and military officials insisted that their imperial project was not imperialist. To justify these claims, they relied on discourses of paternalism which ... -
Sources and Transport Mechanisms of Contaminants during Flooding Events
(2025-08)Persistent contaminant concentrations in groundwater, especially uranium, present significant challenges, as flooding events can remobilize these contaminants from subsurface hydrogeological compartments. Despite the ... -
SIMULATING THE SEARCHING BEHAVIOR OF MARINE ZOOPLANKTON AND COUNTING PARKING SEQUENCES
(2025-08)Marine zooplankton respond to a variety of chemical signals in order to better navigate their environment. Using observations of Gnathia marleyi and Orbicella faveolata as a comparison, we create a series of models to ... -
A Bootstrap Goodness-of-Fit Test for Parametric Survival Models Under Random Censoring
(2025-08)In many scientific disciplines, finding a suitable model compatible with real-world observations is the basis for statistical inference and prediction. In survival analysis, this task is further complicated by censoring. ... -
A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF BLACK WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES WITH EXCLUSIONARY DISCIPLINE IN K-12 AND ITS IMPACT
(2025-08)A growing body of literature highlights Black girls’ experiences with exclusionary discipline during K-12 education. Yet, less of this work explores how these experiences shape their lives into adulthood. Using Black ... -
SEX , STORAGE AND SYMBIONTS: OPTIMIZING MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA GERMPLASM FOR KELP AQUACULTURE
(2025-08)As climate change and anthropogenic stressors accelerate the degradation of marine ecosystems, the need for resilient, reproductively competent germplasm to support seaweed aquaculture and restoration has never been more ... -
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: INSTITUTIONAL POWER AND DISCOURSES ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION – THE CASE OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY AND LARRY NASSAR
(2025-08)Sexual assault and gender-based violence are pervasive across all aspects of our society, pointing to their deeply systemic nature. Such acts of violence occur not only in private and intimate spheres but also in institutional ... -
DOUBLY STOCHASTIC MODEL WITH COVARIATES FOR REPLICATED POISSON POINT PROCESSES
(2025-08)Poisson point processes (PPPs) are powerful tools for modeling random point occurrencesin multidimensional spaces, with applications across various fields. Although the traditional literature has focused on single realizations, ... -
Nostalgia for the Closet: Tender Connections in Contemporary American Adolescent Literature
(2025-08)This dissertation examines the tenderness and nostalgia for the closet in contemporary American adolescent literature. I build a focused timeline from approximately 2010 to 2023, selecting mainstream American texts aimed ... -
Kostant's Formula and Parking Functions: Combinatorial Explorations
(2025-08)In the first part of this work, we focus on Kostant’s weight multiplicity formula. Let L(λ) denote the irreducible highest weight representation of the classical simple Lie algebra g with highest weight λ. Kostant’s weight ... -
Emotion Mindset of Sixth Grade Students: Association With Emotion Regulation Difficulties and Experiences of Psychological Distress
(2025-08)The mindset framework indicates that an individual’s beliefs about the changeability or controllability of their abilities are associated with their behaviors. Individuals with a fixed emotion mindset believe their emotions ... -
Using Common Fate Model in Examining Dyadic Therapeutic Presence and Session Quality with Working Alliance as a Mediator
(2025-08)This study aimed to explore how therapeutic presence contributes to the development of the working alliance and overall session quality. The dataset comprised 15,145 sessions conducted by 409 master’s-level trainee therapists ... -
Educating for Social Justice: An Examination of Factors Influencing Nursing Students' Social Justice Advocacy
(2024-08)Background: Social justice advocacy (SJA) is central to nursing and involves action on the detrimental social, political, and economic factors that negatively impact health. Urgent calls for nursing engagement in issues ... -
SILICON USE BY PHYTOPLANKTON: COMPARISONS BETWEEN FRESHWATER AND MARINE SYNECHOCOCCUS AND A FRESHWATER DIATOM
(2025-08)Silicon (Si) plays a crucial role in aquatic ecosystems, primarily through its uptake by diatoms for formation of cell walls, or frustules. Observations over recent decades in Lake Michigan show rising dissolved silica ... -
Memory, Mascots, and Midwestern Identity: On the Necessity of Critical Forgetting
(2025-08)Through qualitative interviews and archival research, this project explores the intersections between memory, mascots, and Midwestern identity. I examine two Midwestern towns: my hometown of Pekin, IL, whose former mascot ...
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