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Emily Dickinson And Poetic Presentation, Eirinn Flanagan May 2026

Emily Dickinson And Poetic Presentation, Eirinn Flanagan

Theses & ETDs

No abstract provided.


Callie Goes To College, Callie Flemming May 2026

Callie Goes To College, Callie Flemming

Theses & ETDs

This document discusses the musical process, influence, and construction of the alternative rock album callie goes to college, released in 2026. It was self- produced over four years on New College of Florida’s campus by Callie Flemming, who is also the author of this thesis. It starts with a discussion of the album’s broad influences and its general sonic profile, then moves onto specific analysis of consistent and repeated ideas in harmonic and melodic composition, the presence of several different types of counterpoint, the appearances of improvisatory solo sections, the emotional implications of the lyrics and the impact that composition …


Synthesis And Characterization Of Bis(Pyrazolate) Metal-Organic Frameworks For Carbon Dioxide Adsorption And Sequestration, Emily Granville May 2026

Synthesis And Characterization Of Bis(Pyrazolate) Metal-Organic Frameworks For Carbon Dioxide Adsorption And Sequestration, Emily Granville

Theses & ETDs

There has been an increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels for energy, vehicle transportation, industrial factories, and deforestation. This is harmful to the environment as it is the primary factor of climate change and ocean acidification. To help solve this issue, scientists have been using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to adsorb and sequester the CO2 due to the highly porous crystalline structures and open metal sites of the MOFs. Hard metal cations act as hard Lewis acids that would coordinate in the open metal site, which attracts the lone pair on …


Effects Of Early Life Karenia Brevis Exposure On Bottlenose Dolphin Calves In Sarasota Bay, Florida, Elizabeth Fry May 2026

Effects Of Early Life Karenia Brevis Exposure On Bottlenose Dolphin Calves In Sarasota Bay, Florida, Elizabeth Fry

Theses & ETDs

Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) have increased in frequency, intensity and geographic distribution in the past several decades. Florida is an epicenter for an HAB, commonly referred to as red tide, caused by the algal dinoflagellate Karenia brevis, which produces the neurotoxin brevetoxin. Acute exposure to brevetoxin causes respiratory distress and has been associated with large scale marine mammal mortalities and fish kills. However, potential chronic effects of exposure, including via maternal transfer, have not been well characterized. Fetal and juvenile mammals may be particularly susceptible to the neurobiological effects of excitotoxins due to their developmental stage. Many resident coastal bottlenose …


Canvascram Automating The Generation Of Learning Materials Using Retrieval Augmented Generation (Rag), Paige Grimes May 2026

Canvascram Automating The Generation Of Learning Materials Using Retrieval Augmented Generation (Rag), Paige Grimes

Theses & ETDs

An increasing number of students across the globe have been utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in their studies. These tools can be beneficial when assisting students in understanding different topics; however, hallucinations that provide incorrect explanations by these models may negatively impact the learning process. CanvasCram is proposed to create an alternative approach to generating learning materials by integrating the use of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) into the generation process for both students and teachers. RAG relies on a knowledge base, rather than solely relying on public training data that base models use to generate their output. Additionally, a Canvas …


Rhetorical Models Of Conspiracy Theories How Two Political Commentary Youtubers Build Narrative Authority, Riley Bucklin May 2026

Rhetorical Models Of Conspiracy Theories How Two Political Commentary Youtubers Build Narrative Authority, Riley Bucklin

Theses & ETDs

The purpose of this study is to explore the rhetoric that independent political commentators on YouTube used to develop conspiracy theories in the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder. On September 10th, 2025, Charlie Kirk — a prominent conservative political commentator and activist — was assassinated at a Turning Point USA event on Utah Valley University campus. Following the shooting, various conspiracy theories developed online as the narrative from the federal investigation was still developing. This study is necessitated by the rapid pace at which digital subcultures have displaced traditional media outlets and reshaped what is considered trustworthy reporting. To …


Inbreeding Effects On Fitness-Related Traits: Evidence From Two Populations Of The Least Killifish (Heterandria Formosa), Abigail Hansen May 2026

Inbreeding Effects On Fitness-Related Traits: Evidence From Two Populations Of The Least Killifish (Heterandria Formosa), Abigail Hansen

Theses & ETDs

Inbreeding, the mating of closely related individuals, can affect the fitness and overall health of natural populations by reducing genetic diversity and exposing deleterious recessive alleles. To better understand the effects of inbreeding, a controlled lab experiment was conducted using the Least Killifish species, Heterandria Formosa. Many species have evolved behavioral and demographic mechanisms to avoid inbreeding; however, these mechanisms can be constrained in small or structured populations. This species was purposely chosen for this experiment as the fish appear in two diverse populations; a population with high density from the Wacissa River (WR) located in South-Central Jefferson county, Florida …


Honduras’ Stagnant Development: An Institutional And Solow Growth Analysis From 1990-2022, Alejandra Martinez May 2026

Honduras’ Stagnant Development: An Institutional And Solow Growth Analysis From 1990-2022, Alejandra Martinez

Theses & ETDs

For the past 33 years, Honduras has been persistently one of the poorest Latin American countries, classified as a lower-middle income country with high crime rates and political corruption. Honduras, like other Latin American countries, is known for being rich in natural resources, but despite over 60 years of foreign aid has yet to develop itself domestically and internationally, as Western standard deems it. Previous research on Honduras’ poverty and economic development are typically centered around a specific region and the rural sector, but there is a gap in the literature that analyzes the economic disparity of the country as …


Sunless, Gabriel Olah May 2026

Sunless, Gabriel Olah

Theses & ETDs

My thesis is simple. It is a novella which I have been working on in one form or another for the better part of a year and a half. Over my lengthy times working on this work, it has changed shape drastically, just as any proper story should. Characters were added and dropped, locations were visited and left behind, ideas and plotlines developed or removed, all eventually being boiled down into this current version. This is a version I hold no belief in being perfect, for perfect is the enemy of done, but I am of the belief that it …


Corporate Leverage And Private Investment: Short-Run Constraints And Long-Run Financing In The U.S., Brandon Sisneros May 2026

Corporate Leverage And Private Investment: Short-Run Constraints And Long-Run Financing In The U.S., Brandon Sisneros

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the relationship between corporate leverage and private investment in the United States using quarterly macroeconomic data from 1971Q2 to 2025Q2. The framework employed consisted of an Engle-Granger cointegration framework and an error correction model (ECM), the analysis finds evidence of a consistent long-run equilibrium between corporate leverage and real gross private domestic investment as a share of GDP. The long-run estimates return a positive and statistically significant relationship. Conversely, the short-run ECM output shows that increases in leverage reduce investment, while both contemporaneous and lagged coefficients confirm a negative persistent effect. In addition, the error correction term …


Inverse Problems On Networks With Self-Loops And Related Problems In Electrical Impedance Tomography, Hope Steen May 2026

Inverse Problems On Networks With Self-Loops And Related Problems In Electrical Impedance Tomography, Hope Steen

Theses & ETDs

The central topic of this thesis is the inverse problem for random walks on graphs, i.e. finding the transition probabilities of some Markov chain restricted to a rooted tree graph with known topology and a set of joint distributions of first hitting time and hitting place. It has already been shown by de la Peña et al. in the case where self-transitions are prohibited that the transition probabilities of such a Markov chain can be determined given these joint distributions on two ’boundary layers.’ This thesis proves that the problem can be solved for Markov chains allowing self-transitions, via an …


Industry Analysis In The Event Clothing Retail: Market And Price Strategies, Challenges And Implications, Sports Promotions Group Case Study, Pablo Herrera Jara May 2026

Industry Analysis In The Event Clothing Retail: Market And Price Strategies, Challenges And Implications, Sports Promotions Group Case Study, Pablo Herrera Jara

Theses & ETDs

The event clothing retail sector occupies a unique space within the broader apparel industry, offering customized products tied to specific occasions such as sports events, concerts, or festivals. This segment of the market benefits from emotional engagement and time‑limited availability, but it also presents challenges due to production cycles or fluctuating inventory. In this thesis, the Industry Strategy is applied to a case study: Sports Promotion Group, a company specializing in event‑specific apparel for sports events. By analyzing the various situations and interactions that shape the firm’s choices, the study extracts insights relevant to businesses operating in the event-clothing retail …


I’Ll Have A Who Christmas Without You: A Case Study On The One-Person Show Through Who’S Holiday, Caitlyn Turner May 2026

I’Ll Have A Who Christmas Without You: A Case Study On The One-Person Show Through Who’S Holiday, Caitlyn Turner

Theses & ETDs

This thesis discusses the experience and history of the one-person show, or monodrama, through a performance of Who’s Holiday by Matthew Lombardo. Who’s Holiday was first performed in November 2017 at the Westside Theatre Off-Broadway. This thesis is in three parts: History & Theory, Analysis of the Play, and a Reflection of the performance. My professor Tim O’Donnell directed my performance of the play, which was performed in December 2025.


Pro Rege Chr. Brass Band: A Century Of Sound, Jonathan T.J. Henneveld May 2026

Pro Rege Chr. Brass Band: A Century Of Sound, Jonathan T.J. Henneveld

Dissertations

The Christian Brass Band Pro Rege of Heerenveen, The Netherlands, celebrated its one hundredth birthday in 2024. As one of the most prominent community-based brass bands in the region, Pro Rege is part of a Dutch wind ensemble tradition that goes largely undocumented. While they and other bands like them function as cultural and educational institutions, academic literature remains limited, almost ignoring them completely. This dissertation wishes to address this oversight by providing an historical study of the brass band from its establishment in 1924 to the present day.

Starting out in the Dutch ensemble tradition of the Fanfare band, …


Simulated Battles, Real Lessons: Analyzing The Impact Of The U.S. Navy’S Fleet Problems On Battle In The Pacific War, Jackson T. Volkert May 2026

Simulated Battles, Real Lessons: Analyzing The Impact Of The U.S. Navy’S Fleet Problems On Battle In The Pacific War, Jackson T. Volkert

Master's Theses

The historiography of the Pacific Theater of World War II is thorough in regard to its coverage of the war itself. The technology, doctrine, and personnel practices of both the Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States Navy are well understood by historians in the field. In addition to this, a less thorough but still healthy understanding exists as to how the belligerents in question adopted the methods and tactics they used on the battlefields of the Pacific. What currently exists in this field of study places more analytical emphasis on the cultural and strategic level impacts of the interwar …


Sustainability Savvy: The Role Of Competence And Efficacy In Promoting Pro-Environmental Behavior, Lorenna Graham May 2026

Sustainability Savvy: The Role Of Competence And Efficacy In Promoting Pro-Environmental Behavior, Lorenna Graham

Environmental Studies Honors Projects

Combatting environmental issues requires both large-scale and individual change. While many understand that personal pro-environmental behavior (PEB) is necessary, individuals do not always engage in this behavior (Hines, 1986, Goh, 2022). Thus, there is a need to investigate psychological factors which encourage PEB. Prior research suggests competence and outcome efficacy as likely PEB predictors (Bentler, 2023, Lavergne & Pelletier, 2015, Priolo, 2016), while cognitive dissonance has been shown to both encourage and discourage PEB (Bouwman, 2022, Dickerson, 1992, Ehrich & Irwin, 2005). Study 1 investigates the relationship between cognitive dissonance and PEB with competence and outcome efficacy as potential moderators. …


Common Data Set 2025-2026, Clemson University May 2026

Common Data Set 2025-2026, Clemson University

Common Data Sets

No abstract provided.


Mckee Minute May 2026, Southern Adventist University May 2026

Mckee Minute May 2026, Southern Adventist University

McKee Minute – McKee Library This Month

The May 2026 edition of McKee Minute includes information on end of semester deadlines, Campus Research Month, the library's summer hours, Mental Health Awareness month, and summer reading with Libby.


Sustainability Concepts In "Lab" Projects For Calculus I, Ii, And Iii (Poster), Joshua Holden May 2026

Sustainability Concepts In "Lab" Projects For Calculus I, Ii, And Iii (Poster), Joshua Holden

Faculty Publications - Mathematics

No abstract provided.


Title Page - Lamp, Jason C. Nelson May 2026

Title Page - Lamp, Jason C. Nelson

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.


Petrified Tree Stump, M. Candace Thomas May 2026

Petrified Tree Stump, M. Candace Thomas

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.


Moon In The Window: Musings In Montmartre, Mardelle Fortier May 2026

Moon In The Window: Musings In Montmartre, Mardelle Fortier

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.


Wet And Warm, Khadijah Rashid May 2026

Wet And Warm, Khadijah Rashid

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.


April Snow, Karen Janas May 2026

April Snow, Karen Janas

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.


Energy, Lee Kelly May 2026

Energy, Lee Kelly

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.


Outdoor Beauty, Daniel Gomez May 2026

Outdoor Beauty, Daniel Gomez

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.


Mouse, Meet Mole, Emily Spelson May 2026

Mouse, Meet Mole, Emily Spelson

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.


Pieces Of Home, Justina Rodriguez Carrozzo May 2026

Pieces Of Home, Justina Rodriguez Carrozzo

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.


Back Cover - Storytelling, Susan Becker May 2026

Back Cover - Storytelling, Susan Becker

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.


Complete Issue - Spring 2026 May 2026

Complete Issue - Spring 2026

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.