Masters Theses
JMU Scholarly Commons is the home for electronic theses from 2020 to the present.
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Theses from 2023
The response of Microcystis and the microbiome to exogenous hydrogen peroxide, Bryan A. Puma
Examining the influence of spectral envelope shape on pitch, Laura Reinert
Understanding context dependent responses to climate change in Arizona Tiger Salamanders (Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum), Kentrell Richardson
Utility of including a verification stage when VO2max testing in normobaric hypoxia, Brittany Roenker
Impact of creatine supplementation on repeated sprint performance in normobaric hypoxia, Anthony Russomano
“I like people… who are like me:” Attitudes of southern white conservative males on diversity, Kevin Patrick Schell Jr.
The Daniel Harrison house project: Heritage education programs at a historic house museum, Megan Schoeman
Pasturelands as natural climate solutions: a socioecological study of tree carbon and beef production trade-offs, Bela Starinchak
Distinguishing high-quality audio: The unique contribution of bit-depth resolution?, Benjamin Stone
The ubiquitous path to war: A British perspective on their relationship with the Spanish empire from 1734-1739, Giuseppe Gerardo Vitale
Analysis of predictive factors for aggression within inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, Autumn N. Wild
Temporal relevance of parent qualities and behaviors for predicting young adults’ emotion regulation and romantic relationships, Saleena Wilson
Theses from 2022
Does a sender’s and recipient’s relationship influence readers’ interpretation of message tone?, Allison Arp
The impact of IAA and tryptophan on Microcystis bloom community dynamics, Hunter R. Baylous
The impact of habitual dietary fat intake on postprandial lipemia in older adults, Sophia A. Bollinger
The effect of dietary nitrate supplementation on physical and cognitive performance during load carriage in military cadets, Nicholas C. Bordonie
Responses to partner comments and acknowledgements in students with and without Autism, Kaitlyn Bresette
Shape-note music traditions of the Shenandoah Valley, Tyler Brinkerhoff
Assessing red spruce (Picea rubens) restoration potential under current and future predicted climate change in Virginia, Christian Brown
Cycles of domination and resistance: A performance autoethnography of a Black woman at a PWI, Savannah Brown
The Effect of creatine supplementation on body composition and total body water measured by multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance, Emily A. Buck
The Child Development Act of 1971: The closest America has ever gotten to universal child care, Rory Cochran
What is a folk song? An exploration through collection, Gregory S. Conway
America's Main Street misremembered: The myth of Route 66, Jessica Corsentino
Nest, Camillia Elci
An examination of working memory in subtle and mild cognitive impairment, Kara Eversole
The effects of cannabidiol isolate on menstrual-related symptoms, Morgan L. Ferretti
The effect of intensity and duration of verification stages on the efficacy of VO2max testing, Andrew Foster
Representation in visual schedules for individuals with disabilities, Colleen Fowkes
Pilfering passerines? Inter-Class competition: A new direction in foraging ecology, Shannon Gillen
A comparative analysis of Montpelier's, Monticello's, and Mount Vernon's collaborative effort with their descendant communities, Rachel Gregor
The effect of acute caffeine withdrawal on exercise performance in habitual caffeine users, Timothy D. Griest
An exploration of higher education assessment and the role of diagnostic classification modeling in student learning outcomes, Samantha Harmon
Making band class rock!: Incorporating modern band into a traditional band class, Melissa Harper
Like, it’s important: The frequency and use of like in autism spectrum disorder, Rebekah Jones
More than just food, Haden King
Measuring referential communication dynamically in older children with ASD, Caitlin Lee
Badger state nationalism: World War I, the Ku Klux Klan, and the politics of 'Americanism' in 1915-1930 Wisconsin, William Levi
The rationale for the utilization of under desk bikes in office settings, Danielle Little
Evaluating the effectiveness of stimulus presentation order in receptive identification skills training, Jazmin Mack
A review of dietary monitoring applications and eating disorder/disordered eating symptomatology, Donald Mellott Jr.
The effects of a carbohydrate hydrogel beverage on gastrointestinal symptoms and running performance in comparison to conventional carbohydrate beverages, Nicholas Minichiello
Two studies on binary program stylometry: A white-box analysis and a deep learning analysis on some crypto ransomware, Alexander Mitchell
Writing while Black: African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and perceived writing performance, Jaylin N. Nesbitt
Effectiveness of pictorial preference assessments for children with disabilities, Emma Oliver
A dual-function gene in Zea mays that encodes two β-amylase proteins with different cellular locations and functions, Kenan Ozcan
Walking the Line: The Legacy of the Lost Cause in Redefining Femininity at the Normal, 1909-1942, Jennifer D. Page
Walking the line: The legacy of the lost cause in redefining femininity at the normal, 1909-1942, Jennifer D. Page
God and reason: An intellectual religious journey through the mind of Thomas Paine, Jason R. Patterson
Identifying key stream restoration variables in an agriculturally impaired Chesapeake Bay watershed, Julia Portmann
Praying for the south: Catholics and the Confederacy, Thomas Richardson
Teaching specials teachers to use behavior specific praise in elementary school, Elizabeth Rich
Expiratory flow limitation in youth endurance-trained and recreationally active females, Sarah Ridgeway
The theory of reasoned action as a basis for investment in cryptocurrency, WRR Rinaldo
Spinning plates, Anikó K.L. Sáfrán
Rapid response behavior before and during the pandemic, Katarina E. Schaefer
Developing students' rhetorical and genre awareness in first-year writing classrooms, Arta Sejdiu
Analyzing the validity of self-reports of emotional responding using an electronic device, Tiffany E. Shiflet
Does a bout of acute resistance exercise attenuate the post-prandial lipemic response to a high fat meal in 50-80 year-old adults, Summer Simulcik
Early career music teachers and trauma: A mixed methods study, Tiffany N. Sitton
Yet it was good of you to share in my troubles: An autoethnographic study of a mother-daughter relationship experienced through a wounded body, Kathleen Smith
Toward an informal informed classrooms: Professional musicians' informal music learning experiences, Rachel M. Smith
The development, evaluation, and pilot-test of a nutrition education tool kit at a mobile food pantry in Virginia., Caitlin Swanson
Urbanization drives changes in avian communities, which are reflected in the song of a vocal mimic, Jaclyn Tolchin
The effects of cannabis on sleep, circadian rhythms, and cognition in young adults, Catharine Trice
“but for those of us who live here”: Performance of work and community by women employed in rural, predominantly white, small-town schools, Telena M. Turner
Internet art: An interactive timeline resource, Laurel Vaccaro
The discourse communities of multi-level marketing, Jessie Wiggins
Theses from 2021
Binge-watching and the spacing effect, Michael R. Austin
Investigating the self in self-report, Samantha L. Boddy
Military religions in Roman Dacia: Patterns of epigraphic dedications in urban centers, Jamie Bone
Plant-pollinator network dynamics of the Little Fork Shale Barren, Sarah N. Brown
An exploration of embodiment, narrative identity, and healing in Dungeons and Dragons, Joshua D. Crigger
Heuristically secure threshold lattice-based cryptography schemes, James D. Dalton
Relation between academic advisor and cohort support with well-being in graduate students, Morgan DeLong
Factors influencing student continuance in instrumental music classes: A quantitative analysis, Andrew Duncan
Better together? Effects of dyadic collaboration on intertemporal preference, Emily Edgington
Is immediate flexibility present in a vocal mimic, the gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis), across an urban gradient?, Shannon K. Eppert
Comparing the effect of four propagation techniques on hybrid chestnut seedling quality, Taylor Evans
Stonington’s Revolution: The role of small port towns in the American Revolution, Jay Feyerabend
Social exclusion and children’s detection of Duchenne Smiles, Paige Fischer
A stable-isotope probing approach to modeling bidirectional nutrient exchange in the Microcystis phycosphere, Malia Gardner
Antidepressants, circadian rhythms, and cognition: The effects of SSRIs and SNRIs on circadian rhythms and cognitive performance, Gabriel Gilmore
Video game sound as educational space, Leonard Grasso
Effects of first- and third-person point of view on the acquisition of behaviors using video modeling, Robert Harper III
The effects of video prompting in completion of activities of daily living for individuals with traumatic brain injury, Jessica Hiter
The effect of headline manipulation on memory and reasoning, Kathryn R. Hogan
Physical activity in a university community before and after a COVID-19 shutdown, Brynn Hudgins
Immigration after the great famine: A case study of the passengers of the S.S. Canadian, Erin Kelly
