• Negotiating technological engagement: resident care, identity construction, and interactive use among older adults in assisted living 

  Snyder, Jennifer L. (University of Delaware, 2020)

  The primary purpose of this dissertation is to explore the complex relationship between technology and aging. Guided by the theoretical foundations of digital inequalities and narrative gerontology, the findings from this ...
• Understanding and defending vulnerabilities of web-based information systems 

  Zhang, Yubao (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Web-based information systems support the gathering, representation, processing, and dissemination of information on the web, and can provide value-added functions such as recommender systems and online review systems. ...
• Multi-model based reinforcement learning and application 

  Wei, Haoran (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Reinforcement learning (RL) as a category of machine learning methods learns sequential decision-making policies by interacting with the environment and maximizing a cumulative reward. The biggest challenges are 1) it ...
• Crime in micro-places: beyond urban areas 

  Wagner, Jascha (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Several evaluations support that police can be efficient and effective in preventing disorder and crime when focusing on micro-places with high rates of crime. However, which specific policing techniques work in crime hot ...
• Mindfulness and relapse prevention 

  Musau, Sylvia (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Background: The relapse rate for substance use disorders (SUD) is estimated to be between 40% to 60%. With this high rate, adjunctive interventions, such as mindfulness, that compliment pharmacological interventions to ...
• Fossil fuel subsidy reform for sustainable development in Nigeria: the role of renewable energy diffusion 

  Idrisu, Babatunde (University of Delaware, 2020)

  One of the indicators of the Sustainable Development Goal 12 (“Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns”) is the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies “in a manner that protects the poor and the affected ...
• The diffusion of civic technology: how technology and devolution are reshaping civic life in urban America 

  Turkel, Eli (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Over the last decade, urban communities in the United States and around the world have seen the diffusion of civic technology. Civic technology, or “technology for the public good”, takes various forms. In this case, civic ...
• Controlling chemical modification of chlorinated silicon surfaces via wet-chemistry approaches and morphology-preserving functionalization of metal oxide nanomaterials through two-step click reaction 

  He, Chuan (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Functionalization of semiconductor surfaces has a wide range of applications in numerous fields including sensing, catalysis, photo-electro chemistry, and energy conversion. The controlled and tunable covalent bonding is ...
• Sustainability and scaling in youth urban education organizing: a historical case study of the Philadelphia Student Union 

  Searson, Aaron (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Since 1995, the Philadelphia Student Union (PSU) has been a leading youth-led urban education organizing group. PSU has operated at several scales—including the school, district, state, and national levels—as well as in ...
• Bank reforms, competition, and stability in the Ghana banking industry 

  Antwi, James (University of Delaware, 2020)

  The central theme of my study is to assess the link between bank reforms, competition, and financial stability in the Ghana banking industry. Competition and stability are important for economic growth, but there may be ...
• The diffusion and adoption of justice reinvestment across the United States 

  Holz, Dana Beth Sorenson (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Justice reinvestment is a criminal justice policy process that has been widely adopted in the American states over the past two decades. With an explicit focus on downsizing prisons, evidence-based decision-making, and the ...
• Understanding interdisciplinary science graduate programs at the University of Delaware 

  Lakofsky, Katherine (University of Delaware, 2020)

  For more than a decade, interdisciplinary methods have been cited as instrumental in stimulating the innovation needed to solve today’s complex scientific challenges. As such, there has been increasing emphasis on ...
• The role of language status and school-based relationships in predicting student engagement 

  Czik, Amanda Algava (University of Delaware, 2020)

  The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate the association of language status and school-based relationships (e.g., teacher-student relationships, student-student relationships, and teacher-home communications) ...
• Improving student reading achievement through the use of professional learning communities 

  Johnson, Shawn M. (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Supporting adolescent reading achievement is a concern for schools around the United States. Adolescent reading achievement data has remained stagnant for nearly 30 years (NAEP, 2019). Providing teachers with a strong ...
• A rat model of prenatal Zika virus infection and associated long-term outcomes 

  Sherer, Morgan L. (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that was first isolated in 1947 from a rhesus macaque in Uganda (Cugola et al., 2016). ZIKV remained in relative obscurity for decades until 2007, when it caused its first ...
• Osteocyte mechanosensing: interstitial fluid flow, cellular response, and turnover of pericellular matrix 

  Pei, Shaopeng (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Bone is a “smart” living tissue that adapts to its mechanical environment. Yet, the mechanisms by which bone senses and responds to the external mechanical stimuli remain inconclusive. The work presented in this thesis ...
• Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions through C-O and C-N bond activation 

  Hoerrner, Megan E. (University of Delaware, 2020)

  This dissertation focuses on nickel-catalyzed cross-couplings of amine and alcohols via C–N and C–O bond activation. Chapter 1 focuses on the development of a stereospecific, nickel-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling ...
• Structural, thermal and mechanical properties of reaction bonded silicon carbide/silicon and diamond/silicon carbide composites 

  Zhang, Yuying (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Reactive sintering or Si infiltration is a proven technology for fabricating reaction bonded SiC/Si (RBSC) and diamond/SiC (RBSD) composites. Due to their outstanding properties of monolithic SiC and diamond, RBSC and RBSD ...
• The promise and problem of digital badging at Delaware Technical Community College 

  Mozeik, Celeste Kirkland (University of Delaware, 2020)

  This Educational Leadership Portfolio (ELP) examines the implementation of digital badges in a business capstone course (BUS275) offered statewide at Delaware Technical Community College (DTCC). In an effort to assist ...
• Machine learning enhanced network security 

  De Lucia, Michael J. (University of Delaware, 2020)

  The coupling of machine learning with subject matter expertise is increasingly essential to enable the rapid detection of sophisticated attacks occurring at machine speed. Moreover, these sophisticated attacks are increasingly ...

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