Technical and Professional Communication scholarship indicates that creating accessible
texts should be an essential component of the discipline in order to meet the diverse
needs of users, yet we have thus far failed ...
There are many marine applications for 3D reconstruction ranging from the analysis of coastal erosion and bathymetric mapping using LiDAR to assisting in the structural health assessment of ships using photogrammetrically ...
Cognitive reappraisal is considered an effective emotion regulation technique for reducing pain. Current categorizations of cognitive reappraisal are generally divided into self-focused versus situation-focused. Recent ...
Flash to Eternity is the title of Michael Walton’s MFA thesis exhibition that was on display in the Gillespie Gallery at George Mason University on November 7, 2022, through November 18, 2022. The exhibition was an exploration ...
Stream restoration is a common management practice to meet regulatory or voluntary
efforts to improve water quality via carbon and nutrient retention, including in the
Chesapeake Bay watershed. However, restoration ...
Over the last decade, optogenetic manipulation of neuronal activity has redefined functional circuit analysis in the central nervous system. Combined with promoters for specific neuron types, optogenetic actuators permit ...
This study seeks to examine the determinants of the increasing rates of school dropout
among non-native English speakers in Northern Virginia high schools between 2010 and
2020. It examines the differences in student ...
This project aimed to investigate the relationship between the volume of the
caudate nucleus (CN) and repetitive motor behaviors (RMB) in an autistic sample, and
whether sex assigned at birth moderates this relationship. ...
Social isolation has devastating effects on the brain. The damage inflicted becomes further heightened in populations with conditions that are, in and of themselves, isolating - such as Alzheimer’s disease. We see an uptick ...
This thesis is a memoir, told in the form of a series of personal essays that examine how love and loyalty exist alongside abuse and misunderstanding in the narrator’s family. The narrator explores her own vulnerability ...
Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 (HTLV-1) is the causative agent of Adult T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma (ATLL) and HTLV-1 associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). Extracellular vesicles (EVs)—membrane-bound ...
This research examines the differences in the way large and small organizations approach
software development to better understanding if small organizations should attempt
to model large organizations’ practices. Practices ...
This thesis is an excerpt from a book-length essay about my early twenties in St. Louis, Missouri, braiding personal narrative with research about place attachment and the city’s built history.
This thesis presents twenty-eight poems written during my time as an M.F.A. candidate at George Mason University. The three principle subjects are subjectivity, art, and translation. The order of presentation follows roughly ...
This thesis is a collection of prose poems which intend to take part in the discourse of prose / poetry, lineation (and the lack thereof), fragment, and the relationship of a signifier to its signified. Themes in the thesis, ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently surged in the last few years, facilitating revolutionary
state-of-the-art solutions in healthcare, banking, data & business analytics, transportation,
retail, and much more. The ...
In the United States, public life is regulated and dominated by heteronormativity, which
in turns pushes out and oppresses individuals that live non-heterosexual lives. One such
marginalized group is Men-Who-Have-Sex-With-Men ...
This research explores wildfire burn mapping using Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture
Radar (SAR) imagery for the 2021 Woods Creek Fire in the Helena-Lewis and Clark
National Forest in Montana and the 2021 French Fire near ...
A variety of lipid classes play important roles in neuronal structure and function. One of these lipids is cardiolipin, a phospholipid exclusive to the mitochondria and important to processes such as mitophagy and apoptosis ...
My thesis work focuses on gender identity, religion, and speculative design. The thesis
exhibition and body of work is simply named REFLECTION for its quality to reflect the
identity of myself and the identities of ...