• An exploration of the academic honesty culture at the University of Delaware 

  Fernbacher, Michael J. (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Academic honesty is the cornerstone of any academic institution. Most students coming to the University of Delaware likely know that copying from another student during an exam is wrong and that cutting and pasting words ...
• Hypoxia and ocean acidification in two large eutrophic estuaries: Pearl River Estuary and Chesapeake Bay 

  Su, Jianzhong (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Eutrophication-induced hypoxia in the coastal oceans has increased in spatial extent, duration, and severity since at least the 1950s. The sources of organic matter that fuels microbial degradation remain an issue closely ...
• Home away from home: federal domesticity and displaced families, 1933-1945 

  Everidge, Michelle (University of Delaware, 2019)

  In the twentieth century, “federal domesticity” emerged as a result of the combined effects of massive internal migration in the United States, a growing federal bureaucracy, and increasing government interest in shaping ...
• Understanding crystallization mechanisms of a biodegradable copolymer poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-(R)-3-hydroxyhexanoate] (PHBHx) and the inhibition of its crystallization using aluminum oxide and pseudoboehmite 

  Liu, Changhao (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Bacterially derived, biodegradable poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] (PHB) and its random copolymer poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-(R)-3-hydroxyhexanoate] (PHBHx) have gained substantial interest as environmentally friendly ...
• Laboratory investigations of Aitken mode particle growth by α-pinene ozonolysis 

  Krasnomowitz, Justin M. (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Atmospheric aerosols represent the greatest remaining uncertainty in the overall understanding of climate change. Currently climate models do not accurately predict cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations leading ...
• The only woman in the room: exploring the interaction between institutional, structural, and cultural factors that contribute to the gender gap in multidistrict litigation 

  Alvare, Dana J. (University of Delaware, 2019)

  This dissertation analyzes the persistent disadvantaging of women in multidistrict litigation (MDL) leadership appointments. First, it quantifies the gender gap by examining MDL dockets filed with the United States Judicial ...
• Waves and strongly-sheared currents: extensions to coastal ocean models 

  Banihashemi, Saeideh (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Interaction between surface gravity waves and mean flows has implications for wave propagation, breaking and changes in the mean circulation pattern. These physical processes subsequently modify material transport and ...
• The multiplayer game: user identity and the meaning of home video games in the United States, 1972-1994 

  Impellizeri, Kevin Donald (University of Delaware, 2019)

  This dissertation analyzes the changing meanings surrounding home video game usage and consumption during the first two decades of their commercial presence in the United States. It explores the evolution of home video ...
• MeV spectroscopy for ultra-intense laser-matter interactions 

  Luo, Siyu (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Strong and ultrastrong field light-matter interactions encompass topics across atomic and molecular physics, high harmonic generation, fusion science, quantum control, and molecular imaging, which includes x-ray ionization, ...
• Mathematical decomposition and multivariate analysis applied to Raman imaging 

  Holahan, Erin C. (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Chemometrics is a widely used method that is very useful in data analysis. By applying it to various types of data, more detailed information can be obtained that would have potentially been obscured otherwise. This ...
• Credit recovery as a path to on-time graduation 

  Sanger, Matthew J. (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Students fail ninth grade more than any other grade in high school (Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011). Failure to recover credits at an accelerated pace threatens a student’s ability to graduate on time and increases ...
• Urbanization impacts on red maple (Acer rubrum L..) in deciduous forests embedded in cities 

  McDermot, Covel Rashique (University of Delaware, 2019)

  The urban forest should be viewed as living ‘public health’ and an environment ‘bio-recording’ infrastructure in urban environments. This infrastructure is extremely vital to achieving ‘greener’ cities, as the globe becomes ...
• Semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials for the infrared 

  Wei, Dongxia (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Light is one of the most important media to transport information. Optical metamaterials are artificial materials that are fabricated on the subwavelength scale so people can manipulate light-matter interactions in a ...
• Engineering Escherichia coli for growth on methanol through dynamic regulation and protein engineering 

  Rohlhill, Julia (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Industrial microbial fermentation is frequently used to produce a wide array of desirable products, including amino acids, vitamins, recombinant proteins, pharmaceuticals, and alternative renewable fuels. Production of ...
• The van der Waals epitaxy of bismuth chalcogenide topological insulators for terahertz plasmonic applications 

  Ginley, Theresa P. (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Bismuth chalcogenide topological insulators are of great interest to scientist due to their unique band structures. They are characterized by linear surface states that cross the bulk band gap. In these surface states, ...
• Subsets of groups exhibiting regularity in differences 

  Cesarz, Patrick G. (University of Delaware, 2019)

  This thesis is primarily concerned with subsets of groups that exhibit a regularity of differences (if written additively). In it, both non-existence results and existence results shall be established, along with the ...
• Analysis and modeling of inelasticity in tendon: viscoelasticity, damage, and plastic deformation 

  Naghizadeh Safa, Babak (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Tendons are soft connective tissues that connect the muscular system to the skeleton. Tendons are abundant in human body and their primary function is to enable transmission of mechanical force. These tissues are prone to ...
• Soil water potential response to double funneling of precipitation on a forested, Mid-Atlantic hillslope 

  Hudson, Sean A. (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Soil matric potential measurements were taken on a hillslope beneath a 74 cm diameter at breast height (dbh) Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. (American beech) tree between January 2012 and November 2014. Thirty-six sensors were ...
• Normative consensus and regional orders: Saudi reaction to systemic crises in the Middle East 

  Tuzgen, Abdullah Enes (University of Delaware, 2019)

  This study focuses on the systemic crises in the Middle East regional state-system. The main question I deal with is “why are there frequent systemic crises in the region?” The current Middle East regional state-system, ...
• Software-defined architecture and routing solutions for mobile ad hoc networks 

  Dusia, Ayush (University of Delaware, 2019)

  A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a self-organizing infrastructure-less network of mobile nodes needing multi-hop communication. MANETs support a wide range of applications in vehicular, mesh, sensor, and IoT networks, ...

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