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Spring 2024

Jacobs, Nicholas

Death is an ungraspable phenomenon that will grasp us all, and while humans may go to great lengths to avoid confrontations with death, it inevitably seethes its way into the psyche. The mortal condition of humanity warrants thoughtful and careful consideration, including the ways in which it is...

Spring 2024

Ouyang, Yunzhu

Leadership is a crucial force in shaping group identity and initiating collective changes within groups, particularly during times of uncertainty. The use of affirmations in rhetoric to convey a clear group identity that reduces uncertain feelings can garner more support for leaders when group...

Spring 2024

Ahmadian, Nasim

This thesis explores the aesthetics of sorrow and melancholic expression in Iranian classical music, with special focus on the discursive and performing aspects of its pedagogical tradition. Although barely defined by performers, the ethos of huzn (sorrow) and melancholic ardor of suz (a burning...

Spring 2024

Zhang, Gaoxin

With the increasing demand for energy storage and declining lithium stores around the globe, sodium is emerging as an alternative source due to its natural abundance and similar reaction kinetics and chemical properties to lithium. While sodium-ion and lithium-ion batteries started development at...

Spring 2024

Wei, Fei

Hydrogen proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) vehicles present a viable solution for decarbonizing the heavy-duty and long-distance transportation sector. They convert the chemical energy of hydrogen directly into electricity, with the only by-products being heat and water and, therefore,...

Spring 2024

Garcia Rodriguez, Guido

The organic-rich mudstones of the Upper Devonian Duvernay Formation constitute an unconventional reservoir in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, developed for over a decade using hydraulic fracturing technology. Integrating natural fracture characterization with lithofacies analysis,...

Spring 2024

Al-Tamimi, Ahmed

The heat transfer from a hot to a cold medium occurs first in transient state before reaching a steady state. Hence, heat flux and surface temperatures fluctuate with changing times during the transient phase till they stabilizes after a period, and reach a steady phase. Heat conduction depends...

Spring 2024

Manawat, Vaibhav N

Wildfire management agencies must continue to evolve and adjust to the dynamic nature of their industry. They face pressures that include a changing climate with the prospect of intense future fire seasons, tighter government budgets for wildfire detection and suppression, and the fast-pace of...

Spring 2024

Zhang, Ziyang

The low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) family includes 13 transmembrane protein members sharing a conserved structure and common repeats. Their importance has been shown in a variety of physiological and pathophysiological events including lipid metabolism, nervous system development and...

Spring 2024

Syfers, Lily

A leader's rhetoric can have profound impacts on the groups that they lead. Leaders use their words to evoke uncertainty, define group boundaries, and articulate their vision to the group. Leaders’ can use rhetoric that constructs the group as facing or undergoing a rupture (i.e., social...