The doctoral dissertation and master's thesis reflects the scholarly research in a graduate program as required for the completion of the degree at the University of Delaware.
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 ...
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 Christiansen Effect occurs when the refractive index (n) of a given material matches that of its surrounding medium at a particular wavelength, leading to a transmission window. When air is chosen as the medium, the ...
Lafferty, Jaimie Lillian(University of Delaware, 2020)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by challenges in social communication and relationships, as well as restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests and/or activities ...
Displaying, storing, and handling objects of cultural value is ideally accompanied by scientific analysis, which is almost never performed due to the limited analytical resources of most cultural institutions. If testing ...
Muriel Draper, a much-overlooked author and tastemaker in early-twentieth-century New York, was a cosmopolitan woman with eclectic interests, including mysticism, the Soviet Union, and the Harlem Renaissance. Today, Draper ...
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 ...
Management and control of fast-moving poultry diseases such as highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) infections require a combination of steps including biosecurity, surveillance, quarantine, depopulation, disposal, ...
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 ...
Scarborough, Charles(University of Delaware, 2020)
Evapotranspiration (ET) is the combination of transpiration from plants and evaporation from land surface sources of water. Accurate accounting of actual crop ET is critical in agricultural water management, especially in ...
India, historically one of the world’s major diamond producers, is no longer a player in the global diamond economy. Nevertheless, diamond mining still occurs in the country, primarily in the greater Panna region of the ...
Millions of people world-wide are exposed to arsenic through contaminated water that is either consumed directly or through contaminated crops (Hughes et al., 2011). Arsenic is a naturally occurring compound that is ...
Nitrogen is an essential nutrient required by all plants. Although the earth’s atmosphere consists of approximately 78% nitrogen, it exists in an unusable form for plants. Current agricultural practices rely on industrial ...
Completed in 1985, architect Jon Jerde’s (1940-2015) Horton Plaza mall is an urban fairy tale that stands as both a high point of postmodern commercial architecture and a living expression of the theories of postmodern ...
In studies of early New England architecture, Southeastern Massachusetts and Plymouth Colony have received significantly less attention than the Massachusetts Bay Colony and region. This study aims to shed some new light ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wetlands can be among the most productive ecosystems in the world, providing habitat, aiding in storm water management, and improving water quality. Even though their value is well known, there has still been a large-scale ...