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Assessing the Impact of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) on Household Food Insecurity and Nutritional Outcomes of Women and Children in Nepal
(2025-08-06)
This study explores the relationship between Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) conditions and three critical public health outcomes in Nepal: household food insecurity, child malnutrition, and women’s nutritional status. ...
Developing a Micro-Credential Framework for Emerging Topics in Construction Education: A Case Study on Mass Timber Preconstruction and Construction
(2025-08-06)
The construction industry is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the emergence of innovative technologies and sustainable materials such as Mass Timber. Despite the growing demand for expertise in these ...
An Investigation of Tool Entry in Orthogonal Metal Cutting Using an Optical Quickstop Device and Machine Dynamics Methods
(2025-08-06)
The entry and steady-state phases of plate orthogonal metal cutting were examined using an improved optical quickstop device (OQSD) in an experimental design that included material, hardness, depth of cut, cutting speed, ...
A Historical Case Study of Trauma-Informed Leadership During a Natural Disaster
(2025-08-06)
This historical case study examined the trauma-informed leadership practices implemented at
Enterprise High School in Enterprise, Alabama, following the devastating EF4 tornado that struck on
March 1, 2007, which ...
Examining the Impact of Voltage Unbalance on Power Converter Harmonic Emissions
(2025-08-06)
The continuously evolving state of the power grid along with the increased integration of renewable energy sources have put an emphasis on power quality disturbances and the standards that adhere to them. There are multiple ...
Adversarial Attack Detection and Defense in Graph Alignment and Text-to-Image Generation
(2025-08-06)
Recent advances in machine learning have highlighted critical vulnerabilities in graph matching models and text-to-image diffusion models (T2I DMs), where adversarial attacks can significantly compromise system performance ...
International Diffusion of Privatized National Defense: A Comparative Analysis of the Privatization of War
(2025-08-06)
This dissertation examines the rapid rise of the privatization of war phenomenon from 1998 to 2022, exploring why some states have adopted military privatization policies in the last 25 years while others have not. In other ...
Minimum Weakly Saturated Graphs and Bootstrap Percolation in General Host Graphs
(2025-08-06)
Bootstrap percolation in graphs, also known as bond percolation, originates as a method to study ferromagnetism in 2D and 3D lattices, though it has more recently been used to model other more complicated networks of ...
Understanding the decision factors and decision-making styles of selecting and using over-the counter medications to treat common minor ailments among young adults
(2025-08-06)
Introduction: The prevalence of inappropriate use of over-the-counter (OTC) medication is 20-50%. Young adults are at a unique developmental and transitional life stage that makes them vulnerable to inappropriate use of ...
Effectiveness, Safety, and Cost-Effectiveness of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors for Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Leveraging Real-World Evidence
(2025-08-06)
Objective: The purpose of this doctoral dissertation project was to 1) compare the effectiveness of first-line individual immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) agents and ICI in combination with chemotherapy (ICI-Chemotherapy) ...
Manipulate polaritonic nano-light with environmental permittivity
(2025-08-06)
Polaritons, hybrid quasiparticles formed by coupling electromagnetic waves with dipolar excitations in materials, offer deep subwavelength confinement of light. This unique feature allows access to nanoscale optical fields ...
Investigating the growth cycles of titania and carbonaceous nano dusty plasmas
(2025-08-06)
Understanding and controlling dust formation in plasmas — especially from gaseous chemical precursors is a key technological goal, and the overarching theme of this dissertation. Solid nanoparticles (i.e. nano dust) which ...
Biochar Influences Soil Health and Nutrient Dynamics in Row Crop Production Systems
(2025-08-06)
Most soils in Alabama are Ultisols, which are characteristically highly weathered, low in organic matter, and inherently low in fertility. The introduction of biochar to these soils as a soil amendment has the potential ...
Development of a Screening Platform and Systems Biology Tools for Enhancing Integrated Biogas Valorization and Wastewater Remediation
(2025-08-06)
Anaerobic digestion (AD) ranks among the top contributors to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States. AD is a prevalent technology at wastewater treatment facilities (WWTF’s) that breaks down ...
Online Outrage: The Impact of Negative Social Media on Stakeholder Perceptions and Behaviors
(2025-08-06)
Stakeholders frequently encounter a diverse array of social media content about firms. Although existing research has examined how organizations use social media to influence stakeholders and vice versa, it has largely ...
Embedded Imaging of Internal Shock Boundary Layer Interactions
(2025-08-06)
Ramjets and scramjets continue to be a central developmental focus spurred by both offensive and defensive needs on the battlefield. The development of field-able versions of these supersonic and hypersonic air-breathing ...
Design and Analysis of a Dual Antenna Vector Tracking Software Defined Receiver for Robust Navigation and Mitigation of Spoofing Threats
(2025-08-06)
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) remain the best way to maintain a global position, velocity, and timing (PVT) solution for autonomous systems.
However, GNSS is susceptible to interference and degradation.
One ...
Rapid and Reliable Quantitative MRI of Central Nervous System (CNS) at Ultra-High Field MRI (7T)
(2025-08-06)
Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (qMRI) surpasses traditional MRI, which primarily focuses on local image contrast. It reveals specific physical parameters related to the nuclear spin of protons in water and ...
Acculturation, Body Ideals, and Disordered Eating in Latinas
(2025-08-06)
This study investigated the relationships between acculturation, enculturation, acculturative stress, generational status, body image internalization, and body dissatisfaction among Latina women in the United States. ...
Modeling in Complex Large-Scale Topologies Applied to Urban Water Systems
(2025-08-05)
The increasing frequency of extreme rainfall events and the growing reliance on underground conveyance infrastructure have heightened the need for reliable simulation tools that can capture rapid pressurization and mixed‐flow ...