Works in this series are the final written component of a masters degree program at Grand Valley State University.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
“The cracked pots of humanity”: Post-World War II American Literary Perspectives on Psychiatric Treatment/Containment of Mental Disorders, Jennifer Chichester
Yellow Perch Genetic Stock Structure in Eastern Lake Michigan: What is the Importance of Drowned River Mouth Lakes?, Gregory M. Chorak
Vascular Effects of Dietary Supplement BMPEA on Mesenteric Porcine Vasculature, Clifford Cooper
Reckoning: Detroit’s Literary Crisis of Conscience, Danielle E. J. Cope
Effects of Aging and Dietary Phytoestrogens on Sperm Production in Sprague Dawley Rats, Brian Cutler
Query Expansion Techniques for Enterprise Search, Eric M. Domke
The Role of Affective Forecasting and the Impact Bias in Nutritional Health Behaviors, Matthew D. Fallon
The Effect of Dietary Specialism and Generalism on Evolutionary Longevity in an Early Paleogene Mammalian Community, Samantha Glonek
Nutrition and the Person-in-Environment Perspective: Implications for Social Work, Kayla Harter
A Comparative Content Analysis of Sports Concussions in News and Entertainment Print Media Publications in 2005 versus 2015, Shayla N. Henrikson
A CFD Study of a Multi-Element Front Wing for a Formula One Racing Car, Shardul C. Kachare
Phosphorus Retention in West Michigan Two-stage Agricultural Ditches, Emily Kindervater
Spatial Ecology of the Adult and Neonate Eastern Box Turtle in a Forested Landscape, Patrick B. Laarman
Seasonal Ecology of Mottled Sculpin and Brown Trout in a Coldwater Michigan Stream, Susanna K. LaGory
Assessing the Potential Benefits of Recreational Therapy on Functioning Outcomes, Samantha R. Lamkin
Religion, Science, and Truth in the Human Experience: Poetry as Living Synthesis in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Karen E. Luidens
The Romance That Didn’t Last: An Analysis of Language in Chrétien de Troyes Le Chevalier de la Charette, Elizabeth F. Pafford
Racial Ideology and Black Students’ Leadership Experiences at a Historically White Institution, ReChard Peel
Midwives for Haiti: Process Evaluation, Denielle M. Riley
Reasons for Their Departure: A Look at Undergraduate Women who Abandon STEM Majors, Nicole S. Rombach
From Subject to Cyborg: Reframing Identity within Female Spaces in Neil Gaiman's Black Orchid and A Game of You, Mary A. Ruge
The Effect of Good Form Running Gait Retraining on Lower Extremity Kinematics and Ground Reaction Forces, Alyssa Schaefbauer
Effect of Arm Motion on Standing Lateral Jump Performance, Arif Ahmed Sohel
Visualization of the Cardiac Excitation and PVC Arrhythmia on a 3D Heart Model, Pranav Sreedharan Veliyara
Recently Released Women’s Time Spent with Mentors and Achieving Reentry Goals, Rebecca R. Stoddard
The Role of Metastasis Suppressor CD82 in the Deactivation of the c-Met Signaling Pathway in Prostate Cancer, Katie L. Uhl
Information Theoretic EEG Analysis of Children with Severe Disabilities in Response to Power Mobility Training: A Pilot Study, Joshua O. Usoro
Embedded processors on FPGA: Hard-core vs Soft-core, Vivek J. Vazhoth Kanhiroth
Using Figurative Language in American English: Challenges and Successes of Adult English Learners, Abbey L. Ventrone
Brook Trout Behavioral Thermoregulation and Habitat Selection in a Small Michigan Coldwater Stream: Implications for Successful Management, Justin Emory Wegner
Identification of Deletions in the Hdc Gene of Drosophila Melanogaster Generated Through Transposon-Excision Mutagenesis, Gregory A. Wesseling
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Detection and Attribution of Long-Term Vegetation Changes in Northern Alaska, Robert Barrett
Design and Realization of a Nonlinear Vibration Energy Harvester for Cost Effective Additive Manufacturing, Rodrigo Barriuso de Juan
Reading Vice: The Christian Text in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Brittaniae, Nancy S. Bell
Health Care Fraud Across Time and Delivery Systems: Assessing the Legal Impact of the Affordable Care Act, Dana K. Bonnell
In This Together: Secondary Language Arts Teachers’ Responses to Learning Labs, Lisa A. Britten
“Such night till this I never passed” : How the Dreams of Adam and Eve Lead to the Decision to Fall in Paradise Lost, Robert B. Chapman
The Effects of Three Seating Arrangements on Players’ Preference of Sound in a String Orchestra, Tammy J. Clark
Does Phosphorus from Agricultural Tile Drains Fuel Algal Blooms?, Delilah R. Clement
Scalable Parallelization of a Markov Coalescent Genealogy Sampler, Philip E. Davis
The Effect of Seasonal Fish Migration on Energy Budgets in Two Coastal Michigan Streams, Emily M. Dean
From Land to Lake: Contrasting Microbial Processes Across a Great Lakes Gradient of Organic Carbon and Inorganic Nutrient Inventories, Deborah K. Dila
A Transcutaneous Data and Power Transfer System for Osteogenesis Monitoring Sensors, Deepak Dileepkumar
Aerodynamics of Race Car Wings: A CFD Study, Simon Durrer
Chance, Chaos, and Chloral: Lily Bart Gambles It All in The House of Mirth, Stacey L. Fitzpatrick
Racial Identity Development of African American Students in Relation to Black Studies Courses, Ja'Kia M. Fuller
Macroinvertebrate Community Composition, Food Web Structure, and Emergence Rate in Neotropical Cloud-Forest Streams in Mindo, Ecuador, Anna M. Harris
Assessment of a New Healthy Food Policy at Two Food Pantries in Grand Rapids, MI, Katherine D. Hekstra
Evaluation of the Nutritional Options for Wellness (NOW) Program: Mitigating Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes through Food Pantries, Sarah L. Henning
Trophic Transfer of a Naturally Occurring Algal Toxin from a Freshwater Lake to Little Brown Bats, Devin Jones
Re-optimization of Radiation Therapy Dose to the Prostate Using CBCT: Reducing Dose to Organs at Risk, R. Charles Keider Jr.
Perception of Roles of General Education Teachers & Special Education Teachers in Regard to the Inclusion of Students with a Cognitive Impairment in the General Education Classroom, Justine B. Keuning-LaFrence
Becoming Self: A Jungian Approach to Paradise Lost, Geoffrey Kishbaugh
Madness, Death, and Civilization: Non-European Women under Patriarchy and Imperialism, Mengying Li
Building Principals’ Self-Efficacy Regarding Their Ability to Supervise Special Education Programing and Staff, Candida J. Marek
“The Mirror of Desire”: Britomart and Spenserian Perception in The Faerie Queene, Brandon J. Muri
Coming Home: How Identity Plays a Role in Students who Study Abroad in an Area That is Representative of Their Heritage, Mariana I. Naddaf
American Marten Denning Behavior in Michigan, Melissa J. Nichols
Experimental and Numerical Study of Dysphagia, Yash G. Potdar
Registration and Segmentation of Multimodality Images for Post Processing of Skeleton in Preclinical Oncology Studies, Vineeth Radhakrishnan
Examining the Effect of Climate Change on the Upper Mesophotic Coral Montastrea cavernosa (Linnaeus 1767), John Skutnik
Retaining Staff Members of Color at a Midwestern Predominantly White Institution, Tiffany L. Steele
Categorization of Food Value via Crayfish Aggression, Justin Thanh-Tuan Tran
Inquiry-Based Biotechnology Education For Kent Intermediate School District Early College Program, Meāgan N. Treadway
State Estimation – New Models on Power Distribution Networks Based on Weighted Least Squares Method in Line Current Measurements, Hugo Vicente Barrera
Investigating pH Banding Kinetics of Chara corallina in Alternating Light Conditions with Rectangular Pulse Voltammetry, Matthew C. Zandee
Evaluating Foraging Habits, and Estimating Prey Consumption, and Growth of Brook Trout in a Coolwater Michigan Stream, Graeme R. Zaparzynski
Changes in the EEG Spectrum of a Child with Severe Disabilities in Response to Power Mobility Training, Nadina Zweifel
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Students’ Motivations and Barriers to Online Education, Vladimir Abramenka
Reading Intervention Strategies for General Education Middle School Students: Providing a Space for Teachers to Share Effective Methods, Amy Michelle Baas
Documenting Annual Differences in Vegetation Cover, Height and Diversity near Barrow, Alaska, Timothy Frederick Botting
Think Again: The Decision Making Process in King Lear and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, Elizabeth Burgess
Assessment of Northern Bobwhite Survival and Fitness at Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas, Jacob W. Doggett
Families, General Strain, Social Control and Adolescent Pain Killer Use, Melinda S. Furtaw
Nerds: A Reclamation of an Identity, Angiola L. Gabriel
Subcutaneous Tissue Depth Over Intraosseous Infusion Sites in a Cadaveric Model, Megan Marie Glazier
Evaluation of Teachers of Students With Low-Incidence Disabilities, MartyAnn Guiney
“Struck with Her Tongue”: Speech, Gender, and Power in King Lear, Kate Downey Hickey
Functional Movement Screen Score by Somatotype Category, Amanda Kelch
Metafiction, Fairy Tale, and Female Desire in A.S. Byatt‘s Possession: A Romance, Susan Marie Kieda
Adult Rainbow Trout Habitat Selection in the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River, Idaho, Zachary Kuzniar
Computational Modeling of β5-β6 Carbapenemase Loop in Wild Type and Selected Mutants of OXA-24 Class D β-Lactamase, James Roland LaFleur
Undocumented Latino College Students and Identity Development: A Qualitative Analysis of Undocumented Latino College Students’ Movement Towards Developing Purpose, Theresa Danielle Lyon
Measuring the Adult Literacy Rate in English: The Case of the Grand Rapids West Hope Zone, Lindsay M. McHolme
Evaluating Accuracy and Bias in Genetic Monitoring Under Scenarios of Population Decline, Susan K. Munster
An Exploration of Negative Family Factors and Substance Use amongst Adolescents: The Lasting Effects of Family Substance Use, Parental Criminality, and Parental Corporal Punishment, Melissa Ann Murray
The Impact of Study Abroad on Multicultural Competency Among Student Affairs Graduate Students, Matthew N. Musser
Comparison of Sutures and Devices Used in Closure Following Partial Nephrectomy Suturing, Bikal Paka
Divergent responses of cryptic invasive watermilfoil to treatment with auxinic herbicides in a large Michigan Lake, Syndell R. Parks
Sociodemographic Characteristics of Heart Failure Associated Hospital Readmissions in Michigan Medicare Patients, Kelsey A. Peterson
