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Spring 2024

Kang, Seongdae

Organic semiconductors have become increasingly recognized for their inherent mechanical flexibility, tunable electronic properties, and solution processability. These offer an unprecedented advantage over their inorganic counterparts for the cost-effective and scalable manufacture of organic...

Spring 2024

Qadri, Ali H

Background COVID-19 has impacted health and well-being globally; some populations have been disproportionately impacted. The experience of Indigenous peoples living in Northern Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic is influenced by their cultural and geographical context. Indigenous peoples in...

Spring 2024

Zhang, Xin

Clathrate hydrate is a multi-component system in which the “guest” gas molecules are accommodated by the “host” water. It has many potential applications in CO2 capture and sequestration, gas separation and others. We wish to promote the formation of clathrate hydrate in these applications since...

Spring 2024

Sama Manzoor

The rising levels of carbon dioxide emissions stemming from the combustion of fossil fuels necessitate immediate attention to implement sustainable energy solutions. Hydrogen as a fuel, holds significant potential for establishing CO2-neutral systems, and the utilization of microwave pyrolysis of...

Spring 2024

Pemachandra, Beddage Veenavi W

As the world shifts its focus toward achieving net-zero emissions, every contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, including the electricity industry, is transitioning to eco-friendly solutions such as renewable generation. Simultaneously, the significant increase in electrical consumption has...

Spring 2024

Obinwanne, Ndidi M

The problem of missing data is unavoidable in many research fields, especially in education where data can be missing for justifiable reasons. Missing data causes bias in analysis, and traditional methods like complete case analysis and single imputation are suboptimal yet typically used to...

Spring 2024

Barsukova, Yuliya

Three-dimensional (3D) food printing is a rapidly developing technology that transforms digital data as input to create a 3D edible physical product as output. It has the potential to change the food industry by offering highly customizable nutritional profiles and designs, while reducing food...

Spring 2024

Phan, Duy Thanh Anh

This study explores factors that might motivate or demotivate English majors' autonomous language learning beyond the classroom (ALLBC) at a Vietnamese public higher education institution (HEI) from the perspectives of both students and their instructors. Purposive sampling was used, and data...

Spring 2024

Tan, Bin

Response time data has gained extensive attention in recent years, thanks to the increasing use of computer-based assessments. Previous studies examined the relationship between response time and test performance, yielding inconsistent findings such as positive, negative, and no relationship. To...

Spring 2024

Bandi Kenari, Nahid

In this thesis project, three studies were conducted, aimed at identifying the causal variants responsible for phenotypic/genotypic sex discordance in cattle, copper toxicosis in Dalmatian dogs, and low fertility/infertility in cattle. In all three studies, whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and...