This growing collection consists of dissertations, master's theses and master's reports from 1998-present submitted with their authors' permission for either open access or Michigan Tech only access.

This collection is not comprehensive prior to 2012 and represents a subset of available material. Works not found within this repository may be located by searching the Van Pelt and Opie Library catalog.

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Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2025

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KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATED DEEP LEARNING FOR ENHANCED FAULT DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS FOR ROTATING MACHINERY AND ITS APPLICATIONS ON MARINE SYSTEMS, Yunsheng Su

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EVALUATING CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR BUCKTHORN CLASSIFICATION IN SHADOWED ENVIRONMENTS, Moses Tangwam

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CLIMATE PLANNING, ENERGY SOVEREIGNTY, AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE PERCEPTIONS AMONG MICHIGAN’S TRIBAL NATIONS, Alexis Belle Tater

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PROCESS TO DESIGN AND ANALYZE DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT TEST FIXTURES (PDADYE), Cora J. Taylor

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Examining Student and Faculty Perspectives on Hidden Curriculum in Computing Education, Joseph R. Teahen

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Examining Video-Based Learning in Higher Education, Kay (Catherine) L. Tislar

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STUDYING THE HADRONIC NATURE OF ULTRA-HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA-RAY EMISSION USING WIDE-FIELD-OF-VIEW INSTRUMENTS, Rhiannon M. Turner

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COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR PROTEIN CLASSIFICATION IN METAGENOMES, Fawad Ullah

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COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF AORTIC AND ATRIAL FLOWS, Brennan J. Vogl

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DESIGN AND CONTROL OF REVERSIBLE ADHESION: SWITCHABLE ADHESIVE MOLECULES AND ELECTROCHEMICAL APPROACHES, Kan Wang

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MICROBIAL HYDROCARBON DEGRADATION AND CARBON CYCLING IN MARINE AND FRESHWATER SEDIMENTS: A COMPARATIVE METAGENOMIC ANALYSIS, Yogita M. Warkhade

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NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENT CYANINE PROBES FOR MONITORING NAD(P)H DYNAMICS IN LIVING CELLS AND DROSOPHILA LARVAE, May Waters

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Schaper numbers, palindrome partitions, and symmetric functions, with applications to characters of the symmetric group, Karlee J. Westrem

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FROM PLASMONICS TO SUPERFLUORESCENCE: ENGINEERING LIGHT- MATTER INTERACTIONS FOR QUANTUM OPTICAL PHENOMENA, Aaron J. Wildenborg

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INNOVATIONS IN BALANCED MIX DESIGN: ESTABLISHING GWP THRESHOLDS FOR VARIOUS NMAS AND EVALUATING SUPERPAVE VS. BMD IN HIGH CONTENT RUBBER ASPHALT, Kai Xin

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PERFORMANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF WASTE GLASS ASPHALT IN COLD REGIONS, Kai Xin

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Effects of Spatial Variability on Bearing Capacity of Deep Soil Mixing Columns, Kipkorir Y. Yano

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BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES FROM CATECHOL OXIDATION, Zhongtian Zhang

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STATISTICAL METHODS FOR JOINT ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE TYPES OF PHENOTYPES IN GENETIC STUDIES, Meiling Zhou

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BOUND PRESERVING DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS FOR EULER EQUATIONS AND NONEQUILIBRIUM FLOWS, Fangyao Zhu

Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2024

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A MULTI-LOSS WASSERSTEIN GAN FRAMEWORK FOR GEOSTATISTICAL SIMULATION, Charles O. Addai

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EARLY SCREENING OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE THROUGH VERBAL COMMUNICATION AND USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMS), Venkatanand ram Addepalli

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ESTABLISHING A TWO-COLOR FLUORESCENCE PROBE ASSAY FOR THE SIMULTANEOUS SCREENING OF GLUT5 AND GLUT2 FRUCTOSE TRANSPORTERS IN LIVE CELLS, Oluwanifesimi Mary Afolabi

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BAYESIAN INFERENCE OF LONGITUDINAL BINARY AND ORDINAL DATA UTILIZING MULTIVARIATE PROBIT MODELS, Sunyoung Ahn

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Exploring the Molecular Pathways of Cell Death Induced by PDE3 Modulators, Aqsa Ahsan

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ENHANCING STUDENTS’ USER EXPERIENCE WITH A CODE CRITIQUER, Laura E. Albrant

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EXPLORING CONSEQUENCES OF STATUTORY LAW THROUGH LIGHTWEIGHT MODELING, Joshua T. Alele-Beals

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Investigating Microphysical Variability and Entrainment in Clouds Using Airborne Digital Holography, Machine Learning, and Large Eddy Simulations, Nithin Allwayin

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IS THE MAGIC IN THE HANDS OR EYES? STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF DRIVER MONITORING STRATEGIES ON SITUATION AWARENESS, MIND WANDERING, AND CHANGE DETECTION BEHAVIOR IN LOW AND MEDIUM FIDELITY SEMI-AUTOMATED DRIVING ENVIRONMENTS, Shruti Amre

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A LONGITUDINAL EXPLORATION OF THE DYNAMICS IN MARIJUANA CONSUMPTION PATTERNS USING MIXED EFFECTS MODELS AND GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS (GEE), Vivian Anyanwu

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CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL APPLICATION OF SENSITIVE RNA, Alexander T. Apostle

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MULTI-FUNCTIONAL GELATIN-DITHIOLANE HYDROGELS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING, Saad Asim

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Study of Particle Accelerators in the Universe with the HAWC Observatory, Rishi Babu

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V2I-BASED ADAPTIVE COLLISION AVOIDANCE FOR SAFETY AND TRAFFIC EFFICIENCY, Vaishnavi Balambeed

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HALIDE-ASSISTED GROWTH OF TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES, Vinaayak Sivam Balasubramaniam

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COMPUTATIONAL EVALUATION OF SOME BASIC MATERIAL PARAMETERS IN COBALT-ALUMINUM ALLOYS, Hemanth Kumar Reddy Basireddy

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COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH-PRESSURE HYDRAULIC IMPEDANCE TUBE FOR VIBROACOUSTIC ATTENUATOR CHARACTERIZATION, Matthew D. Beals

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Validation and Improvement of Forest Health Risk Maps: A Case Study with Maple Decline/Dieback, Joseph R. Beeson

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High Temperature Strength Reduces Soldering In Aluminum High Pressure Die Casting, Jacob A. Belke

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DESIGN, TESTING AND NEURAL NETWORK MODELING OF A LOW-FRICTION WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER TESTBED, Vasu Bhardwaj

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DIVERGENT RESPONSE TO ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGE WITHIN THE SONGBIRD TAXON: INSIGHTS FROM THE RANGE EXPANSION OF THE NORTHERN CARDINAL AND MITIGATION MECHANISMS FOR MIGRATORY BIRD-BUILDING COLLISIONS, Jenna Brewer

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IMPROVING CAST STEEL RAIL COUPLER FATIGUE RESISTANCE THROUGH LOCAL WIRE-ARC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, Andrew M. Bunge

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HYDROLOGIC PATHWAYS OF A NORTHERN HARDWOOD CATCHMENT IN THE GREAT LAKES BASIN USING END MEMBER MIXING ANALYSIS, Cory C. Burkwald

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Model Guided Memory Optimization For Key-Value Caches, Daniel Byrne

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ENGINEERING SELF-EFFICACY AND SPATIAL VISUALIZATION: CONNECTING THE SPATIAL DOTS, Katrina L. Carlson

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DEPENDENCE OF ENERGY TRANSFER ON CURVATURE SIMILARITY IN COLLISIONS INVOLVING CURVED SHOCK FRONTS, Justin Cassell

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NOVEL METHODS OF TREE IMPROVEMENT IN THE GENOMIC ERA, Swapan Chakrabarty

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Endothelial Traction Dynamics And Mechanotransduction In Response To Time-Varying Fluid Shear Stress (FSS), Mohanish Kishor Chandurkar

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SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN PET AND POLYOLEFIN PLASTICS SUPPLY CHAINS IN THE U.S. AND MICHIGAN: A SYSTEMS ANALYSIS APPROACH, Utkarsh Shailesh Chaudhari

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Chemical Synthesis of Sensitive DNA, Komal Chillar

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F-TEMPER VS O-TEMPER BRAZING OF 3003 ALUMINUM RETURN BENDS, Mieka R. Clark

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CHANGES IN FLANKER TASK PERFORMANCE FOLLOWING HIGH-INTENSITY EXERCISE IN ENDURANCE ATHLETES, Felix E. Cottet-Puinel

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ENHANCING PRIVACY WHILE REVEALING VULNERABILITIES: STRATEGIES FOR ADAPTATION, OPTIMIZATION, AND MODEL EXTRACTION, Madhureeta Das

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ASSESSING TROPICAL MAMMAL DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION USING NONINVASIVE METHODS, Tiff L. DeGroot

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NONLINEAR HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING AND CONTROL OF WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS, Tania Demonte Gonzalez

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AUTONOMIC MODULATION OF CARDIAC FUNCTION IN HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY, Jenna Rose Disser

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Modeling Pulsatile Flows Using Truly Incompressible Finite Volume Lattice Boltzmann Model, Akshay S. Dongre

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2D DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF LOW-PRANDTL NUMBER RAYLEIGH-BÉNARD CONVECTION, Reed Downs

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Directional Dependent Fracture Characteristics of 3D Printed Mechanical Metamaterials, Thomas Draper

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The Influence of Chlorine In Corrosion Initiation on Alumina, Lisa M. Eggart

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Sustainable Materials for Environment − Multifunctional Material Made from Dead Leaves and Nanostructured Materials for Antibiotic Degradation, Siyuan Fang

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OPTIMIZING DIABETES DIAGNOSTICS: ELECTROPHORETIC SEPARATION AND DETECTION OF HEMOGLOBIN A1C WITH BORONATE, Rixlie Fozilova

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Molecular Modeling of Phenolic Resin for Carbon-Carbon Composites, Ivan Gallegos

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Initial Solution Improvements to a Tethered Robotic Path Planner using Random Geometric Graph Configurations and Biased Sampling, Austen J. Goddu

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Transient Simulations of Power Systems with Inverter Interfaced Resources, Gaurish Shreedhar Gokhale

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ELECTRIFICATION OF A HEAVY-DUTY OFF-ROAD MATERIAL HANDLER: ENERGY SAVINGS AND EMISSION REDUCTIONS, Bryant Goodenough

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ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING ENGINE KNOCK IN MODERN SPARK IGNITION GASOLINE ENGINES TO IMPROVE ENGINE EFFICIENCY, Siddharth Gopujkar

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DATA TO PHYSICS: BRIDGING MODELING FRAMEWORKS FOR METASTRUCTURES, Hrishikesh Suhas Gosavi

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CONSTRUCTING THE 4TH HAWC CATALOG OF VERY-HIGH-ENERGY SOURCES USING AN AUTOMATED LIKELIHOOD PIPELINE SEARCH, Samuel J. Groetsch

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A Physicochemical Characterization of Protein Aggregates: Influence of Lipid Membranes and Surfaces, Connor J. Hall

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ANALYTICAL AND MACHINE LEARNING MODELING OF DIRECT CARBONATION OF NATURAL SILICATE MINERALS, William Hanson

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SYNTHESIS OF CHLORINATED DEOXYGUANOSINE NUCLEOTIDES AT THE N2 CARBON TO PREVENT SUBSTITUTION ERRORS DURING THE CAPPING STEP FOR THE CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF LONG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDES, J. Parker F. Harstad

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Contribution of Gaze Behavior in Reactive Balance due to Decreased Environmental Lighting, Lily K. Hart

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TROPHIC INTERACTIONS OF SYMPATRIC CYPRINODONTIFORM FISHES INHABITING LOUISIANA SALTMARSHES, Ryan Heines

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A MULTIMOLECULAR PERSPECTIVE ON THE SUCCESS OF WOLF RECOVERY AND RELOCATION, Samuel D. Hervey

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AN INCREMENTAL MULTISCALE NON–LINEAR MANIFOLD APPROXIMATION METHOD, Praveen T.W. Hettige

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SILPHID AND CARABID BEETLES IN AN EXPERIMENTAL FOREST TRIAL: iDNA AND DIETS, AND INSECT-HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS CAN BETTER INFORM FOREST MANAGEMENT, Katherine E. Higdon

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Investigation of Operational Parameter Differences between the Standard RON Test Method and Knock-Limited Modern Spark-Ignition Engine Operation, Alexander Hoth

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CONFRONTING THE WILDFIRE CRISIS: UNDERSTANDING EQUITY AND DECISION-MAKING IN WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES, Katherine Huerta Sanchez

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Data Driven and Machine Learning Based Modeling and Predictive Control of Combustion at Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition Engines, Behrouz Khoshbakht Irdmousa

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“NOT MUCH OF A JOB”: EVERYDAY LIFE AND LABOR AT CAMP AU TRAIN, Josef T. Iwanicki

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ANOMALY MAPPING OF HEAVY AND LIGHT RARE EARTH ELEMENTS IN CENTRAL UPPER PENINSULA OF MICHIGAN USING GEOSTATISTICS AND FRACTAL ANALYSIS, Sunday Joseph

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Stories, People, and Industrial Heritage Landscapes: Integrating Spatial Narratives and Deep Mapping for use in Public Heritage, James A. Juip

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DEVELOPING ROBUST AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES WITH ROS, Dylan J. Kangas

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DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS FOR COMPRESSIBLE MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENTS AND APPLICATIONS IN RESERVOIR SIMULATION, Yue Kang

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ASSESSING THE NUTRITIONAL QUALITY AND FATE OF SAGINAW BAY DREISSENID MUSSEL VELIGERS, Mitch R. Kehne

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NOVEL ANALYTICAL APPROACHES FOR THE STUDY OF ENERGY AND NUTRIENT FLOW IN STREAMS, Michelle Catherine Kelly

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APPLICATIONS OF INDEPENDENT AND IDENTICALLY DISTRIBUTED (IID) RANDOM PROCESSES IN POLARIMETRY AND CLIMATOLOGY, Dan Kestner

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TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOOD MODELING OF HURON CREEK IN HOUGHTON, MICHIGAN, Sara Khoshnevis

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THE ADOPTION AND IMPACT OF CLEAN ENERGY POLICIES, Dong Min Kim

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Wave Energy Converter Wave Force Prediction Using a Neural Network, Morgan Kline

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DEEP LEARNING, MULTI-STAGED MACHINE LEARNING, AND REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TO IMPROVE CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY, Kristoffer A. Larsen

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THE QUESTION OF QUESTIONING: STUDYING THE SENSEMAKING PROCESS IN AMBIGUOUS SCENARIOS, Betsy R. Lehman

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ASSESSING THE SOUND QUALITY OF CONSUMER PRODUCTS USING DATA-DRIVEN METHODOLOGIES, Daniel Jeffery Lesko

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ENHANCING RESILIENCE OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURAL SYSTEMS AGAINST SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS, Miaomiao Li

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ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS DENSITY ESTIMATION USING DEEP LEARNING: INSIGHT FROM NEON GROUND-TRUTH DATA AND SIMULATED GEDI WAVEFORM, Ashish Mahaur

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PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF A POINT-CLOUD-BASED PATH PLANNER IN OFF-ROAD TERRAINS, Casey D. Majhor

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ASSESSING WAVE DYNAMICS INDUCED COASTAL FLOODING ALONG THE SOUTHERN SHORES OF LAKE SUPERIOR, Saumik Mallik

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SEA LEVEL RISE DRIVEN GROUNDWATER INUNDATION: EFFECTS OF ISLAND HYDROGEOLOGY ON FRESHWATER LENS DYNAMICS, Lauren K. Mancewicz

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CONSTRUCTING CHILDHOOD JUSTICE WITHIN POSTCOLONIAL/DECOLONIZED DIGITAL AFRICAN CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES: PHILANTHROPIC WEBSITES AS SITES OF POSSIBILITY, Fredrica Markson Eduaful