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Open Access Master's Theses

The University of Rhode Island archives and provides access to master's theses through DigitalCommons@URI. Theses prior to 2013 may or may not be available here. Please consult the URI library catalog to see all titles. For those theses available only in print, the library can usually scan a copy upon request.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Lawrence, Thomas. EVALUATING THE OCEAN STATE OCEAN MODEL FOR STUDYING COASTAL DYNAMICS OF RHODE ISLAND SOUND

Leahy, Annabelle. EXPLORATORY ANALYSES OF AMERICAN LOBSTER HABITAT PREFERENCES AND CATCHABILITY IN VENTLESS TRAP SURVEYS

Leung, Michelle. SOLVENT GELS FOR TEXTILE CONSERVATION

Li, Jessica. Exploring CLIP Feature Vectors for Improved Out-of-Distribution Detection

Lintz, Caleb. COMPARISON OF CONCURRENT MEASUREMENT OF RAYLEIGH WAVES USING A DISTRIBUTED ACOUSTIC SENSOR AND GEOPHONES

Lopez, Miguel Alessandro. EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF A TUBULAR FUEL ELEMENT IN THE CENTRIFUGAL NUCLEAR THERMAL ROCKET

Maciolek, William. 3D PRINTING MULTIFUNCTIONAL STRUCTURES WITH ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL CAPABILITIES

Maio, Justin P.. OPTIMIZING AUTONOMOUS MULTI-AGENT SEARCH PATTERNS USING SWARM INTELLIGENCE

Manetta, Joseph Vincent. DISTRIBUTION AND VARIABILITY OF BLUE CARBON IN TIDAL MARSH SOILS OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND

Manzella, Emma. EFFECT OF WIND-WAVE MISALIGNMENT ON DRAG COEFFICIENT

McCarron, Brendan. POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS OF AMORPHOUS CALCIUM CARBONATE (ACC) IN WATER TREATMENT OPERATIONS

McCormick, Declan James. EARLY LIFE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LOBSTERS (HOMARUS AMERICANUS) IN COASTAL SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND WATERS

McDonagh, Shalan. ON THE UTILITY OF MULTI-SPECIES FORAMINIFERA-BOUND δ15N RECORDS FOR SUBTROPICAL FRONT MIGRATION ANALYSIS

Mesquita, Pedro. MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES FOR MICROPLASTICS SEPARATION AND IDENTIFICATION

Miller, Andria M.. IMPACTS OF SEASONAL VARIATIONS ON PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH AND GRAZING IN NARRAGANSETT BAY

Miller, Hannah. EFFECTS OF INSTALLATION ON THE MONOTONIC STATIC UPLIFT CAPACITY OF HELICAL ANCHORS

Miller, Jami Marie. THE IMPACT OF ARTISANAL FISHERS ON FOOD SECURITY AND SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS IN RHODE ISLAND

Morgan, Gregory. RESPONSE OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES TO DYNAMIC AND EXTREME LOADING CONDITIONS

Morris, James Michael. INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC SENSING FOR HEALTH MONITORING OF O-RING SEALS

Mucci, Nicole. Benthic nutrient fluxes response to seasonal hypoxia in coastal zones

Naguib, Merna. ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND NORTH AFRICAN FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS

Naprstek, Rebecca. DAWN OF THE CENOZOIC: VERTEBRATE-BEARING POST-DINOSAUREXTINCTION PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF CORRAL BLUFFS, CO, USA

Neilitz, Stephanie. CREATING MUSEUM CURRICULUM: ENSLAVED PEOPLE’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO TEXTILE AND APPAREL PRODUCTION C. 1775-1865

Neugebauer, Philipp. GREEN ERGONOMICS: A DECADE’S CALL UNANSWERED? A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Ologunowa, Abiodun John. REAL-WORLD MEDICATION MANAGEMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE

Otte, Leonie Samira. ANALYSIS OF VOTE-BY-MAIL PROCESSING AND TABULATION: A TIME STUDY FROM SALT LAKE CITY

Parisi, Phillip M.. FURTHERING USABILITY AND EFFICIENCY OF MASSIVELY PARALLEL GAUSSIAN PROCESS REGRESSION AS APPLIED TO MULTI-BEAM SONAR DATA

Pauley, Elizabeth. AN EVALUATION OF METHODS FOR HANDLING MISSING DATA IN RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS WITH OMITTED MODERATION EFFECTS

Pelletier, Corey. BROOK TROUT HABITAT SELECTION AND MOVEMENT RESPONSE TO CRITICALLY HIGH TEMPERATURES IN FRAGMENTED STREAM NETWORKS

Perle, Sebastian. A MULTI-LAYER PREFETCHER INTERACTION ANALYSIS: TOWARDS AN IMPROVED PREFETCHER SYSTEM DESIGN

Petit, Hannah. EFFECTS OF MATE CHOICE ON THE REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS OF NEW ENGLAND COTTONTAILS (SYLVILAGUS TRANSITIONALIS)

Pham, Thao Nguyen Ngoc. CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR CLASSIFICATION TEEG AND EEG

Placido, Owen. ADVANCED SEPTIC SYSTEMS CONTRIBUTE NITROGEN AND PER AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES TO COASTAL GROUNDWATER

Potter, Michael Shawn II. HARD CLAM (Mercenaria mercenaria L.) RESPONSE TO A WARMING ENVIRONMENT: A MESOCOSM EXPERIMENT

Quevedo, Jose D.. IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING.

Rahman, Muhammad Akif. STUDY OF ANISOTROPIC THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF GAS ADSORBED TWO DIMENSIONAL COVALENT ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS

Richards, Skye. EXAMINING THE METABOLIC REQUIREMENTS AND PHYSIOLOGIC RESPONSES OF ACTIVE-ASSISTED AND RECUMBENT CYCLING IN HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS

Rivera, Kevin. PLANAR PASSIVE WIRELESS TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN SENSORS FOR AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS

Rothstein, Melissa C.. IMPULSIVITY FACETS ASSOCIATED WITH CO-USE AND CONSEQUENCES OF ALCOHOL AND CANNABIS VIA PERCEIVED NORMS

Runyan, Alexandra T.. DEVELOPING A LOW-COST STEREO IMAGING SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE VISUAL MODELING OF MARINE ENVIRONMENTS

Sapronov, Alexander. MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF GYROIDS UNDER DYNAMIC LOADS

Schmidt, Sierra. EXAMINING THE REGULATION OF THE BS21 HOMOLOGS IN FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS

Senerchia, Maria. THE COPING SKILLS OF LABORATORY SCHOOL DIRECTORS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON JOB ENGAGEMENT

Sherlock, McKensie. COMPACT FIBERID READER USING OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (OFDR)

Simmons, Andrew. "Fewer and Better Doctors:" Medical School Admission in the United States, 1900-1970

Sisouvong, Lily. EXAMINATION OF VARYING PAIR PROGRAMMING STRATEGIES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORY ENVIRONMENTS

Sternin, Shulmit. A LONGITUDINAL DYADIC ANALYSIS OF TECHNOLOGY MEDIATED SEXUAL INTERACTIONS IN LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS

Tavares, Karina. THE RELATION BETWEEN ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES AND HEALTH BEHAVIORS IN ADULT WOMEN

Trinh, Catherine D.. INTERACTION OF CANNABIS MOTIVES WITH SAVORING ON CANNABIS-ASSOCIATED CONSEQUENCES

Tulungen, Christian Pieter. A Loosely Coupled Surface and Groundwater Model to Assess Drought in the Chipuxet Watershed, Rhode Island

Tustison, Nathan. MODELING ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION NEAR THE ATLANTIS II SEAMOUNTS

Unger, Julia. IS IT FREEDOM YOU WANT?: FEMINIST MORMON HOUSEWIVES “DEAR FMH” COLUMN AS A PARTICIPANT IN THE ETHICS OF CARE IN AMERICAN WOMEN’S ADVICE COLUMNS

Valentin, Patricia. ASSESSING WELL-BEING IMPACTS OF SARGASSUM EVENTS IN PUERTO RICO

Vieira, Julia J.. BEE VISITATION TO THREE CLOVER SPECIES (TRIFOLIUM SPP.), COMMON SELFHEAL (PRUNELLA VULGARIS) AND CREEPING THYME (THYMUS SERPYLLUM)

Wagstrom, Lilith. THE TREE-DEPTH AND CRITICALITY OF UNICYCLIC GRAPHS

Wallace, Thomas Kinser. ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF MEDICALLY IMPORTANT HARD TICKS AND ASSOCIATED IXODES-BORNE PATHOGENS IN RHODE ISLAND

Wang, Shuang. VARIABLE SELECTION AND ESTIMATION IN BAYESIAN CAUSAL MEDIATION ANALYSIS

Whaling, Isabel C.. EVOLUTION OF COASTAL BARRIER SYSTEMS IN SOUTHWESTERN RHODE ISLAND IN RESPONSE TO STORMS AND ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING

Yanishevsky, Tatyana. CARBON FILTER EFFICIENCY IN REMOVING PFAS FROM DRINKING WATER IN BARNSTABLE, MA

Yonchak, Alexander. DEVELOPMENT OF TARGETED DRUG COMBINATIONS BLOCKING MULTI-DRIVER ONCOGENESIS

Young, Jordan E.. POSITIVE FEEDING PRACTICES, TOTAL FRUIT INTAKE, TOTAL VEGETABLE INTAKE, AND OVERALL DIET QUALITY IN CHILDREN OF ETHNICALLY AND RACIALLY DIVERSE FAMILIES

Zhang, Ke. CALDICELLULOSIRUPTOR BESCII GENOME-SCALE METABOLIC MODEL SERVES AS A PLATFORM TO REVEAL THE STRATEGIES TO INCREASE ETHANOL AND 2,3-BUTANEDIOL PRODUCTION

Zhang, Ke. POWER AND SAMPLE SIZE CALCULATIONS FOR EVALUATING SPILLOVER EFFECTS IN NETWORKS WITH NON-RANDOMIZED INTERVENTIONS

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Ameral, Natalie. ASSESSING HORSESHOE CRAB (LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS) POPULATION STRUCTURE WITHIN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND

Baez, Daniel. CHANGES IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND QUALITY-OF-LIFE FOLLOWING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC RESTRICTIONS IN SMOKERS WITH AND WITHOUT COPD

Bailey, Paige. HOME GROWN: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF HOME-METHODS OF MOLD REMOVAL ON TEXTILE SUBSTRATES

Bell, Katherine Elizabeth. Seasonal hypoxia impacts nutrient fluxes and microbial communities in Narragansett Bay sediments

Beshara-Flynn, Kevin. Trade-offs among signal correlation, SNR, and number of snapshots for direction of arrival estimation using sparse arrays

Bottenus, Tyson. Equity Impacts of Offshore Wind

Bouchard, Kelly Lynn. MATERNAL EXPERIENCES OF DISCUSSING COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING IN PRIMARY CARE

Bruckner, Mark. Proof of Concept Prototype for a Phased Array Radar with In-Sensor Neural Network Preprocessing

Buglio, Matthew S.. MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF CONSTITUENT MATERIALS USED IN PLAIN WEAVE NYLON REINFORCED INFLATABLE DROP STITCH STRUCTURES

Burke, Noah Alexander. WIRELESS TEMPERATURE SENSING USING TRANSIENT SINTERING BEHAVIOR OF GLASS CERAMICS

Cao, Wenqiu. Estimating Optimal Treatment Regimes using Pairwise Comparison

Carney, Sarah. The Home Literacy Environment's Effect on Language and Literacy Outcomes in Monolingual and Bilingual First and Second Grade Students

Carper, Mary. DIVING IN: LEARNING BEST PRACTICES FROM BELIZE’S MANAGED ACCESS PROGRAM FISHERIES POLICY

Casteel, Isabella. SHEAR WAVE INVERSION USING FIBER-OPTIC DISTRIBUTED ACOUSTIC SENSING ON THE SEAFLOOR

Ceres, Emma. CHILDHOOD MEDICAL TRAUMA AND ITS EFFECT ON EMERGING ADULT MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES

Chaloux, Nicholas P.. APPLYING NEW METHODS IN RAPID PROTOTYPING TO ADVANCE LOW-COST DEEP-SEA EXPLORATION

Cirella, Stephen M. Jr.. EXAMINING EATING BEHAVIOR, BODY IMAGE, AND SOCIAL IDENTITY AMONGST NCAA STUDENT-ATHLETES

Clark, Austin. AUTOMATED EXTRACTION OF FASTENERS USING DIGITAL TWIN ROBOTICS SOFTWARE AND DCNN VISION SYSTEM

Conley, Elizabeth. ANGLER’S SENSE OF PLACE AS AN INDICATOR FOR PERCEPTIONS OF VULNERABILITY AND LIFE SATISFACTION RELATIVE TO SHIFTING STOCK DISTRIBUTIONS

Deeb, Sandra. Measuring and Modeling Turbulence Using Particle Image Velocimetry and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics; Applications to External Flows

Dunton, Katie Lynn. Differentiation of glutamatergic cortical neurons into transcriptionally defined subtypes during motor training

Eastus, Caroline. FIVE YEAR CHANGES IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVEL IN SMOKERS WITH AND WITHOUT CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE

Elkus, Jenny. Transnational Construction Site: Building American/Buying Chinese at the Panama Canal, 1885-1887

Fateiger, Anna R.. A SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF THE AMERICAN WOODCOCK

Ferreira, Dylan. POPULATION MONITORING OF WHITE-TAILED DEER IN RHODE ISLAND

Frink, Travis. ENHANCED DEEP TEMPLATE-BASED OBJECT INSTANCE DETECTION

Gezer, Emir Cem. A Generic Guidance Navigation and Control Framework For Marine Vehicles

Gilboa, Roy. DESIGN AND SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION OF A LOW-COST USV FOR COASTAL OBSERVATION

Gjergji, Mikel. Graph Learning from code for Heterogeneous Device Mapping

Graham, Kendra. SWIMMERS’ BICEPS AND TRICEPS BRACHII ACTIVATION AND ELBOW ANGLE IN SWIMMERS WITH AND WITHOUT SHOULDER PAIN

Groetsch, Felix. Assessing the impact of subaerial vegetation to mitigate coastal erosion during extreme storms

Haskell, Hannah. DO ENVIRONMENTALLY RELEVANT CONCENTRATIONS OF MICROPLASTICS POSE A THREAT TO THE EASTERN OYSTER, CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA?

Heer, Maximilian Jakob. Parallelized implementation of a Genetic Algorithm on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to provide heuristic solutions for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP)

Hill, Nicholas. Bioconcentration of PFAS from AFFF Environmental Exposure: Evidence of Precursor Bioaccumulation in Fathead Minnows

Hiltz, Jessica Marie. EXPERT ELICITATION REGARDING EFFECTIVENESS OF RECENT NORTH ATLANTIC RIGHT WHALE PROTECTION AGREEMENT

Hunter, Justin C.. DEVELOPING A NOVEL SMALL-SCALE TEST TO PREDICT LARGE-SCALE EXPLOSIVITY

Jacobs, Derek. PREDICTING PAIN PRESENCE IN ICU PATIENTS USING PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS