• Country to global prediction of soil organic carbon and soil moisture using digital soil mapping 

  Guevara, Mario (University of Delaware, 2020)

  The largest carbon pool in terrestrial ecosystems is contained in soils and it plays a key role regulating hydrological processes, such as the spatial variability of soil moisture dynamics. Specifically, soil moisture and ...
• New metropolitan sites of policy innovation and resilience: civic imagination in Kibera Slum in Kenya 

  Wambui, John Mucina (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Today, slums have become prominent features of urban inequalities in developing nations. According to statistics, over half of the urban population in Africa resides in slums. This proportion is projected to reach 1.3 ...
• Efficient generation of recombinant hydrazides for the production of scarce proteins and development of chemical probes for detecting protein sulfenylation 

  Ekanayake, Oshini (University of Delaware, 2020)

  The first half of the research work documented here follows an attempt to improve existing protein engineering methods to produce difficult or complicated protein targets. Here, we are using protein hydrazides, which are ...
• Delay and collision reduction in wireless networks 

  Salehi, Seyedmohammad (University of Delaware, 2020)

  With the ever-increasing wireless data demand and limited wireless spectrum resources, to increase the capacity of wireless networks and to make more efficient use of the wireless spectrum have become two key challenges. ...
• The importance of household environments for early language development of Head Start children 

  Hurwitz, Felicia (University of Delaware, 2020)

  This dissertation explored literature from a variety of fields including sociology, economics, and child development to determine how household relationship structures and related features of the home environment may be ...
• Surface analysis of zinc oxide, silica-supported silver and platinum model catalysts under various conditions 

  Rani, Sana (University of Delaware, 2020)

  There have been tremendous efforts in last one decade to investigate molecular level interfacial chemistry of heterogenous processes under realistic conditions. Several model catalysts have been studied with the help of ...
• Generational and Experiential Differences of Leaders in the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Services Sector 

  Bailey, Caitlin Elizabeth (University of Delaware, 2002)

  To date, there are few empirical studies of leadership specific to the intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) service sector. In particular, little is known about how IDD service sector leaders approach and ...
• Improve large-scale automatic information extraction for biomedical knowledge discovery and curation 

  Ren, Jia (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Numerous efforts have been made for developing text-mining tools to extract information from biomedical text automatically. They have assisted in many biological tasks, such as database curation and hypothesis generation. ...
• RIVER: Roaming Inverter Vehicle Energy Resource 

  McGee, Rodney (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Electric Vehicles designed with bi-directional AC chargers allow the possibility of a flow of energy between an electric grid and the traction battery. Any device must go through a procedural interconnection process to be ...
• The policy and governance implications of the evolution of government-environmental NGO relations in China since the 1990s 

  Xu, Jing (University of Delaware, 2020)

  In recent years, government-ENGO relations in China have evolved to a point where collaboration is now evident. For example, the government is now purchasing a variety of services from ENGOs, such as pollution monitoring ...
• Prefrontal mechanisms of impaired cognition in a rat model of FASD 

  Heroux, Nicholas A. (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) represent a significant medical and societal problem in the United States and abroad, representing a leading preventable cause of severe intellectual and developmental disability. ...
• Physiological effects of high temperatures and the genetic architecture of heat stress response in lima bean 

  Ernest, Emmalea Garver (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Heat stress reduces yields of lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus) in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the US. High night temperatures during flowering reduce or delay pod set, resulting in delayed harvest, split pod sets and lower ...
• Improving biomass processes via structure characterization and valorization of humins and process intensification 

  Cheng, Ziwei (Lily) (University of Delaware, 2020)

  This thesis focuses on some of the grand challenges in biomass conversion to platform chemicals, and specifically, on humins and on converting batch processes to continuous processes. Humins are carbonaceous, polymeric ...
• Adaptations in neural control: motor unit response to isometric force production in healthy adults and children with cerebral palsy 

  Adams, Zachary J. (University of Delaware, 2019)

  Muscles are functionally composed of motor units, the smallest functional unit within muscles. They represent the smallest controllable unit in muscles. Patterns of how units are recruited and discharge provide insight ...
• An initiative to improve literacy at the elementary school level with a special focus on low-income students 

  Hammer, Jennifer F. (University of Delaware, 2020)

  This Educational Leadership Portfolio (ELP) focuses on improving reading achievement in high poverty schools. The problem I address is the high number of elementary school students performing below grade level in reading ...
• Modeling non-determinism of scientific applications 

  Chapp, Dylan (University of Delaware, 2020)

  As the scientific community prepares to deploy an increasingly complex and di- verse set of applications on upcoming exascale platforms, the need for methods to assess reproducibility of simulations and identify the root ...
• Two-step carbon dioxide electroreduction for sustainable chemical production 

  Jouny, Matthew (University of Delaware, 2020)

  The development of sustainable energy technologies is critically needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate anthropogenic climate change. The electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide (eCO2R) is a promising ...
• Identifying prediabetes in primary care 

  Warden, Christina S. (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Background: Type 2 diabetes is a significant, chronic health problem in the state of Maryland and nationally. Screening and identification of its’ precursor, prediabetes, has the potential to prevent or delay onset of ...
• Son preference: the case of Hong Kong 

  Wang, Di (University of Delaware, 2020)

  Hong Kong is highly developed yet heavily influenced by traditional social norms, such as the preference for sons over daughters. This paper studies son preference in Hong Kong by exploring the effect of child gender on ...
• Total body skin exams in the primary care setting 

  Keller, Kristyn N. (University of Delaware, 2020)

  A Total Body Skin Examination (TBSE) for the detection of skin cancer or precancerous lesions are not the standard of care in primary care during wellness screenings. More recent evidence, however, supports their use in ...

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