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Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Dissertation: A Training Intervention for Middle School Teachers on Culturally Relevant Instruction and Culturally Relevant Classroom Management Strategies, Vivian Yakpo Newton

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Dissertation: Exploring the Aftermath of Cyber and Traditional Bullying Victimization of Adolescent’s Mental Health and Academic Success, Latasha L. Young

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Dissertation: American Epidemic: The Societal and Multi-generational Impacts Caused by the Mass Incarceration of Women in the United States, Jessica Younts

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Entry Level Capstone: Program Development at a Nonprofit Organization for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities, Victoria E. You

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Entry Level Capstone: Culminating Capstone Project: Critical Illness Myopathy, Min S. Yu

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Entry Level Capstone: Doctoral Capstone Experience in Advocacy and Administration - Stay In Step, Mariana Zelaya

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Thesis: Reliability of Methods to Evaluate Sensitivity Caused by In-office Bleaching Procedures, Ahmed Abuzinadah

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Dissertation: Perceptions of Elementary Teachers Towards the Effectiveness of Community Resources for Reducing Achievement Gap, Carl L. Adams

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Dissertation: Examining Factors Associated with Failure to Fail in the Clinical Setting, Dee A. Adkins

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Dissertation: An Approach to Twitter Event Detection Using the Newsworthiness Metric, Jonathan Adkins

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Dissertation: The Link Between Animal Cruelty and Violent Crime Victimization: An Assessment of the Lifetime Impact of Animal Cruelty on Secondary Victims, Amber Ahern

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Perspectives of Online Instructors Towards Distance Learning Technologies at the Saudi Electronic University (SEU), Ayman Alfahid

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Thesis: Effect of Silver Diamine Fluoride on Candida albicans Associated with Early Childhood Caries, Sarah Al Kukash

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Dissertation: A COVID-19 Induced Shift: From Introducing High School Females to Computing Careers to an Assessment of Technological Readiness Among STEM Teachers, Jareau Almeyda

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Dissertation: SNS as an Educational Tool: Effect on Academic Performance and Learners’ Perceptions, Nawwaf Mohssen Altalhi

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Dissertation: Apart yet Still Together: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of How Coparents Navigate Conflict Post-Divorce, Rebecca Anderson

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Dissertation: Identifying Physicians’ User Experience (UX) Pain Points in Using Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems, Elizabeth Janelle Arceneaux

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Thesis: Interactivity, Ethical Behaviors, and Transmediation in Esports: An Analysis of Pokémon Through Uses and Gratifications Theory, Kaitlin S. Armstrong

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Dissertation: Diversity in School Leadership: Re-Conceptualizing the Narrative of Black Male School Principals and Assistant Principals for Recruitment and Retention, James Avery

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Thesis: Heat Generation of Bulk-fill Composites Polymerized by Multipeak Versus Single Peak Light Curing Units, Fahad Baabdullah

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Thesis: Dentists’ Communication Skills as Determinants of Patient Initiation of Treatment, Nojoud Omar A Balubaid

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Dissertation: The Effects of a Computer Based Program on Student Mathematics Achievement Within an Urban Middle School in Georgia, Sheree Barnes

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Dissertation: A Hierarchical Temporal Memory Sequence Classifier for Streaming Data, Jeffrey Barnett

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Dissertation: The Experiences of Minority Female Leaders in Educational Leadership: A Generic Qualitative Study, Gale Denise Beasley

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Thesis: Helping Nsu'S Multilingual and International Students Overcome Language Limitations: A Recommendation Report, Ana Theresa Benavidez Hernandez

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Dissertation: Portrait of a Novice Medical Family Therapist, Working in a Medical Setting with Head and Neck Cancer Patients Observed Through a Bowen Family Systems Theory’s Lens, Venetia Bennett

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Thesis: The Role of Bacterial Symbionts and Bioluminescence in the Pyrosome, Pyrosoma atlanticum, Alexis Berger

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Dissertation: Improvements to Iterated Local Search for Microaggregation, Tracy Bierman

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Dissertation: Organizational Culture and Knowledge Transfer in Enterprise Social Media, Garry Blackstock

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Dissertation: Head-Impact-Related Outcomes by Position in Retired NFL Football Players, Maria Cecilia Boix Braga

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Dissertation: Investigating Student Perceptions of the Effectiveness of a First-Year Experience Online Program on Student Retention, Jennifer P. Bowman-Wilson

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Capstone: Overview of Environmental Stressors, Avian Diseases, and Contaminants in South American Seabirds, Hunter Boykin

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Thesis: Life History, Biology, Fisheries, and Management for Six Lesser Known Species of Hammerhead Sharks (Family: Sphyrnidae), Emma M. Brennan

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Dissertation: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Adults Who Have Experienced a Parental Divorce: Identifying Collaborative Divorce Aspects as They Adjusted to Adulthood, Arlene Brown

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Dissertation: Pediatric Insomnia and Sensory Processing: Exploring the Role of Occupational Therapy Practitoners in Sleep Medicine, Jason Browning

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Thesis: Prioritizing the Largest, Oldest Corals for Disease Intervention in a Coral Disease-Ravaged Area: Southeast Florida Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation Area, Alysha Brunelle

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Dissertation: Heart Work: A Phenomenological Analysis of School-Embedded Program Facilitators In High-Need South Florida Schools, Takia Bullock

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Dissertation: Why Would I Want To Talk To Them? An Exploration of Perceptions of Talking Across Political Divides, Melinda Burrell

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Dissertation: Protecting the Protector: Mapping the Key Terrain that Supports the Continuous Monitoring Mission of a Cloud Cybersecurity Service Provider, Chris Bush

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Thesis: Investigation of Sulfur Cycling in Marine Sponge Cinachyrella Spp. from a South Florida Reef, Shelby K. Cain

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Thesis: Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Analysis of Mangrove Ecosystems Using GIS, Kayla Caldwell

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Dissertation: Neck Muscle Composition in Persistent Whiplash Associated Disorder: A Relationship with Disability, Bradford G. Callan

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Dissertation: A Novel Cognitive Stress Test for the Detection of Early Alzheimer’s Disease in African Americans, Kimberly Capp

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Dissertation: Measuring the Social and Emotional Skills of Hispanic American Students in an Afterschool Karate Program, Noel Adrian Castillo

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Thesis: Fostering Community in an Online Basic Writing Course: Best Practices for Teaching Online Basic Writing at a Four-Year Institution, Nikki Chasteen

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Thesis: "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken": Ontological Insecurity in "Game of Thrones" and Other Fantastic Transmedial Storyworlds, Nicole I. Chavannes

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Factors Affecting Software Defined Networking Adoption by Research and Educational Networks, Vasilka Chergarova

Dissertation: Exploring Young Refugees’ Potential for an Alternative to Non-Violent Political Resistance in Western Sahara, Sabrina Chikhi

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Thesis: Fish Assemblages Associated with a Newly Deployed Eco-Engineered Artificial Seawall in the Intercoastal Waters of Port Everglades, Olmo Cinti

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Dissertation: Neurophysiological Effects of Dry Needling to the Thoracolumbar Junction Multifidi in Subjects with Low Back Pain and Decreased Hamstring Length, Nicole Ginette Clark

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Dissertation: Organizational Conflict and Perceptions of Gender Equality in the United States Military, April Coan

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Dissertation: Voice of the Employer: A Mixed-Methods Study of Winning Messages for NLRB Elections, John Mark Codd

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Dissertation: An Empirical Assessment of Audio/Visual/Haptic Alerts and Warnings to Mitigate Risk of Phishing Susceptibility in Emails on Mobile Devices, Molly Marie Cooper

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Dissertation: Does the range of walking speeds produced by community-dwelling older adults relate to or predict function, disability, and community mobility?, Michelle Germaine Criss

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Dissertation: White Marriage and Family Therapy Students’ Experiences in Diversity Courses: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Porshia Cunningham

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Dissertation: The Impact of Self-Efficacy, Teacher Mentoring and Administrative Support on Teacher Retention in Title 1 Schools, Holly Cwiklinski

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Applied Clinical Project (ACP): Creative Use of Vision Boards in SFBT: A Training for Therapists, Janel Daniel

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Dissertation: Haitian Centenarians: An Undocumented Phenomenon, Erna Dasilma

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Dissertation: Presidential Authoritarianism in the United States and Russia During the Metamodern Era, Christopher Davis

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Dissertation: Cybersecurity Risk-Responsibility Taxonomy: The Role of Cybersecurity Social Responsibility in Small Enterprises on Risk of Data Breach, Keiona Davis

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Capstone: Algal Coverage Detection and Classification Using Envi: Correlation with Dissolved Oxygen Levels in Elkhorn Slough, CA, Jason Dawson

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Dissertation: Awareness of the Use of Self in Therapy: An Autoethnographic Inquiry into the Training Experiences of a Black, Single, Female MFT Doctoral Student, Phyllis Days

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Dissertation: The Second Shift.” Female Police Officers and the struggle of Work/Life Balance and Promotion, Ashlyn DeCruise-Fortune

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Thesis: Sonic Rhetoric and Meaning Making in Video Game Sound Design, Adam DeRoss

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Thesis: Linking Crude Oil and Dispersant Effects To Gene Expression of Marine Sponge Cinachyrella, Yvain Desplat

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Thesis: Using Track Widths of Loggerhead (Caretta Caretta) Sea Turtles as a Proxy for Predicting Nesting Characteristics, Kelly M. Detmer

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Dissertation: Cognitive Performance In A Retired NFL Population: Does Position Played And Racial Identity Impact Cognition?, Kimberly Chantelle Diah

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Capstone: Identifying Attitudes and Knowledge Deficits Regarding Constipation in the Neurosurgical Patient: A Quality Improvement Project, Denise Trestyn Diaz

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Thesis: Hair: How Naturals are Using Social Media to Reshape the Narrative and Visual Rhetoric of Black Hair, Shari E. Drumond

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Dissertation: Unsolvable? Assessing the Accuracy of Missing Person Case Data, Scott Duncan

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Dissertation: Impact of Strength and Range of Motion on Loss of Ambulation and Functional Change Measures in Boys with DMD, Tina Duong

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Applied Clinical Project (ACP): Finding Our Voice: An Ethnographic Study of the Experiences of Black Millennial Therapists, Antionette Edmonds

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Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Empirical Assessment of Cybersecurity Readiness and Resilience in Small Businesses, Darrell Eilts

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Dissertation: Prediction of Sudden Cardiac Death Using Ensemble Classifiers, Ayman Momtaz El-Geneidy

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Dissertation: Community College Faculty Perceptions of Their Role in Student Retention: A Replicated Study, Maureen Ellis-Davis

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Capstone: Decreasing nurses’ stress in the emergency room utilizing mindfulness meditation, Andrea L. Entus

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Dissertation: Adaptive Batch Size Selection in Active Learning for Regression, Anthony L. Faulds

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Dissertation: Gender Differences in Management: Employee Preference between Male and Female Managers, Aimee Fernandez

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Thesis - NSU Access Only: Writing Center - Based Peer Writing Fellows for Online Composition Courses, Richard Finch

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Dissertation: Psychometric Analyses of a Comprehensive Neuropsychological Battery for Retired NFL Players, Kimberly Ethridge Fitzgibbon

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Dissertation: Understanding the Distinctive Presentations of Therapist Countertransference with Cluster B Personality Disorders, Sara Ashley Florence

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Applied Clinical Project (ACP): Medical Family Therapy Training and Supervision: A Participatory Action Research, Daron Flory

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Capstone: Depression Screening in Outpatient Neurology, Lakicia Foster

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Thesis: Whiteness in Sports Media: Analyzing Mediated EPL Content for Racialized Narratives, Bradley A. Fountain

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Dissertation: Implications of a Multicomponent Sleep Program After Brain Injury: A Mixed Methods Study, Brandi M. Fulwider

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Dissertation: An Investigation of the Factors that Contribute to the Perceived Likelihood of Compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule among Healthcare Covered Entities and Business Associates, James Furstenberg

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Capstone: Implementation of an Anxiety Screening and Treatment Protocol in Primary Care, Danielle E. Garcia

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Thesis: Examination of Parasite Assemblages in Killifish of the Genus Fundulus Across the Atlantic Coast of the United States and Canada, Derek Garvey

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Thesis: The Invisible Professional: Visual Culture of Successful Black Women, Sophonie Gaspard

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Dissertation: Job Stress Effects on Job Satisfaction and Attrition in 9-1-1 Call Centers, Damarys Jaile Gilligan

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Thesis: Dental Visual Support Schedule App for Behavior Management of Pediatric Dental Patients with Autism: Pilot study, Ana Lina Gonzalez Caceres

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Dissertation: Status of Women’s Leadership in the Instructional Technology Field, 2014-2018, Kerrian A. Gordon

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Applied Clinical Project (ACP): Applied Clinical Perspective on Utilizing Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) with Adolescent Males Committed to the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice., Tyrone K. Grandison

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Dissertation: SNS Use, Risk, and Executive Behavior, Andrew Green

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Capstone: Development of the Steppin' Up for Success Program, Darlene F. Guckenberger

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Dissertation: Teacher Perspectives of Fidelity With Universal Design for Learning in the Classroom, Sharon Rehenea Hamilton

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Dissertation: A Silent Dilemma: The Challenges Black collegiate Women Face Disclosing Sexual Victimization, Lawrence William Henry

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Dissertation: The Impact of Grief Work on Hospice Mental Health Providers Through a Bowen Family Systems Lens, Joshua Hernandez

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Dissertation: Does the Type of Dual Cognitive Task Impact Gait Variability Using the Quantitative Timed Up and Go (QTUG) in Community-Dwelling Adults?, Laurie G. Hiatt

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Dissertation: Toward A Biopsychosocial Model of Obesiy: Can Psychological Well-Being Be the Bridge to Integration?, Alexia Holovatyk