Master's Projects from 2021
Malware Classification with BERT, Joel Lawrence Alvares
Hosting Open Access Journals on BYU's Institutional Repository, Ellen Amatangelo
Sound localization through multi-scattering and gradient-based optimization, Feruza Amirkulova, Samer Gerges, and Andrew Norris
Using Competitive Learning to Increase Student Engagement, David C. Anastasiu and Gheorghi Guzun
A Cultural History of Furniture: Volume 3: A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Exploration, Christina M. Anderson and Elizabeth A. Carroll
Sonnets in Viral Times, Sarah Kate Anderson
Meanings and experiences associated with computer use of older immigrant adults of lower socioeconomic status, Lynne Andonian
Solutions in Action from the Forum's Curriculum Toolbox – Virtual Study Abroad in OT Online Education, Lynne Andonian, Megan Chang, Alison George, and Gigi Smith
Ethnic Studies as a Vehicle of Empowerment: Students of Color and Their Educational Journey, Briana Anguiano
Higher-order Link Prediction using Node and Subgraph Embeddings, Kalpnil Anjan
Prediction of higher-order links using global vectors and Hasse diagrams, Kalpnil Anjan, Willam Andreopoulos, and Katerina Potika
Differences In Brand-Logo Size Preferences Between Racial/Ethnic Groups, Elliot David Ansari
Sent out or sent home: understanding racial disparities across suspension types from critical race theory and quantcrit perspectives, Yolanda Anyon, Kathryn Wiley, Ceema Samimi, and Miguel Trujillo
The interrelationship between water access, exclusive breastfeeding and diarrhea in children: a cross-sectional assessment across 19 African countries, Paschal A. Apanga, Ann M. Weber, Lyndsey A. Darrow, Mark S. Riddle, Wei-Chen Tung, Yan Liu, and Joshua V. Garn
Nursing Academic Leadership: An Urgent Workforce Shortage in Nursing Education, Lynette V. Apen, Ruth Rosenblum, Nanette Solvason, and Garrett K. Chan
Using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Network to Predict Negative-Bias Temperature Instability, Fanus Arefaine, Meng Duan, Ravi Tiwari, Aadit Kapoor, Lee Smith, Souvik Mahapatra, and Hiu Yung Wong
Korean Vet Shot in Bar Argument (poem), Cathy Arellano
Salvation on 24th Street, Cathy Arellano
Ethnic Identity, Self-Esteem & Intra Group Conflicts Amongst Latinos, Christian Arevalo
Predicting Bus Travel Times in Washington, DC Using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), Stephen Arhin, Babin Manandhar, Hamdiat Baba Adam, and Adam Gatiba
Educated Activism, Cole G. Armstrong and Ted Butryn
Centering Black Genius in the Classroom: A book review of “Cultivating Genius, an Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy.”, J. Asato and Allison Briceño
Pandemic Diaries, Sally Ashton
The University of Washington Ice-Liquid Discriminator (UWILD) improves single-particle phase classifications of hydrometeors within Southern Ocean clouds using machine learning, Rachel Atlas, Johannes Mohrmann, Joseph Finlon, Jeremy Lu, Ian Hsiao, Robert Wood, and Minghui Diao
Statistical Analysis of Adult Cyclists’ Sociodemographic Factors and Helmet-Wearing Behavior, Karl Auer, Poojitha Vurtur Badarinath, Fatemeh Davoudi Kakhki, and Maria Chierichetti
Coloring in the Progressive Illusion: An Introduction to Racial Dynamics in Minnesota, Amy August
Indirect Socialization in Preschool: How Teachers Harness Children’s Ability to Shape Peer Behavior, Amy August
SpartanGold: A Blockchain for Education, Experimentation, and Rapid Prototyping, Thomas H. Austin
Mobile Ka-Band Polarimetric Doppler Radar Observations of Wildfire Smoke Plumes, TAYLOR B. AYDELL and CRAIG B. CLEMENTS
Operational basis for crossover model conformance during compensatory tracking, Edward Bachelder and Bimal Aponso
Estimating handling qualities ratings from hover flight data using SCOPE, Edward Bachelder, Jeff Lusardi, Bimal Aponso, and Martine Godfroy-Cooper
Learning from the Student Experience: Impact of Shelter-in-Place on the Learning Experiences of Engineering Students at SJSU, Patricia R. Backer, Maria Chierichetti, Laura E. Sullivan-Green, and Liat Rosenfeld
The Effects of COVID-19 on Faculty in the College of Engineering at San Jose State University, Patricia R. Backer, Laura E. Sullivan-Green, and Maria Chierichetti
Integrating Environmental Impact and Globalization into Senior Capstone Courses in Mechanical Engineering, Patricia Ryaby Backer, Laura Sullivan-Green, Nicole Okamoto, and David Parent
A machine learning approach as a surrogate for a finite element analysis: Status of research and application to one dimensional systems, Poojitha Vurtur Badarinath, Maria Chierichetti, and Fatemeh Davoudi Kakhki
A Novel Differential Power Processing Architecture for a Partially Shaded PV String Using Distributed Control, Mohamed O. Badawy, Somanna Mallangada Bose, and Yilmaz Sozer
The context of terrorism for managing people in multinational enterprises: Toward a human resource management terrorism-response theory, Benjamin Bader and Carol Reade
Extreme fire weather associated with nocturnal drying in elevated coastal Terrain of California, Richard B. Bagley and Craig B. Clements
[Review of] We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems by Mitchell Weiss, Christa Bailey
Engaging First Year Students in Information Literacy through Gamification, Christa Bailey, Jane Dodge, and Bobbi Makani
Entrepreneurialism as Precarity: American Bookkeepers and Technological Transformation, Melanie Maxwell Bailey
Team Combat Identification: Effects of Gender, Spatial Visualization, and Disagreement, Anthony L. Baker, Joseph R. Keebler, Emily C. Anania, David Schuster, and John P. Plummer
AMBER Alert System: An Analysis on how Access to Technology has Affected Effectiveness, Elizabeth Balcom
“It’s in the Air”—Sponsored Editorial Content as a Path for Stealth Government Propaganda: The Case of Israeli Media, Anat Balint
Species and population specific gene expression in blood transcriptomes of marine turtles, Shreya M. Banerjee; Jamie Adkins Stoll; Camryn D. Allen; Jennifer M. Lynch; Heather S. Harris; Lauren Kenyon; Richard E. Connon; Eleanor J. Sterling; Eugenia Naro-Maciel; Kathryn McFadden; Margaret M. Lamont; James Benge; Nadia B. Fernandez; Jeffrey A. Seminoff; Scott R. Benson; Rebecca L. Lewison; Tomoharu Eguchi; and For full author list, see comments below
Caregiver-Child Verbal Engagement During Everyday Activities in English- and Spanish-speaking families, Janet Bang, Mónica Muévar, Arlyn Mora, Virginia Marchman, and Anne Fernald
Advancements in the Field of Reinforcement Learning, Apoorva Sunil Banubakode
Diversity of genetic alterations of primary central nervous system lymphoma in Hispanic versus non-Hispanic patientsNo Title, Mohamad Barakat, Maher Albitar, Robin Whitney, and Haifaa Abdulhaq
Characterization of substance use among underrepresented sexual and gender minority participants in The Population Research in Identity and Disparities for Equality (PRIDE) Study, Branden T. Barger, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Matthew R. Capriotti, Mitchell R. Lunn, and Annesa Flentje
Ako Ay May Lobo (I Have a Balloon), Tiffany Unarce Barry
Filipino Folk Songs, Tiffany Unarce Barry
Songs of the Sun, Tiffany Unarce Barry
Songs of the Sun: Filipino Folk Songs for the Musical Classroom, Tiffany Unarce Barry
Why We Imitate, Tiffany Unarce Barry
From ethnic enclaves to transnational landscapes: A review of immigrant entrepreneurship research, Anuradha Basu and Sarika Pruthi
Using silicon-vacancy centers in diamond to probe the full strain tensor, Kelsey M. Bates, Matthew W. Day, Christopher L. Smallwood, Rachel C. Owen, Tim Schröder, Edward Bielejec, Ronald Ulbricht, and Steven T. Cundiff
Observational Analysis and Modeling of the "B" Regional Dust Storm on Mars, Courtney MaryLou Batterson
Global political responsibility for the conservation of albatrosses and large petrels, Martin Beal; Maria P. Dias; Richard A. Phillips; Steffen Oppel; Carolina Hazin; Elizabeth J. Pearmain; Josh Adams; David J. Anderson; Michelle Antolos; Javier A. Arata; José Manuel Arcos; John P.Y. Arnould; Jill Awkerman; Elizabeth Bell; Mike Bell; Mark Carey; Scott A. Shaffer; and For full author list, see comments below
The future is big - And small: Remote sensing enables cross- scale comparisons of microbiome dynamics and ecological consequences, Deanna S. Beatty, Lillian R. Aoki, Olivia J. Graham, and Bo Yang
Difficulty in Video Games, Jason Bechdolt
Scenic Design for "Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle", Andrea Bechert
Examining Privilege in Engineering Socialization Through the Stories of Newcomer Engineers, Kacey Beddoes
Engineering Students Coping With COVID-19: Yoga, Meditation, and Mental Health, Kacey Beddoes and Andrew Danowitz
Learning from Universities’ Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for the New Normal, K. Beddoes and A. Danowitz
Developmental ethanol exposure causes central nervous system dysfunction and may slow the aging process in a Drosophila model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, Khaoula Belhorma, Nahed Darwish, Elizabeth Benn-Hirsch, Annalisa Duenas, Hillary Gates, Navneet Sanghera, Jodie Wu, and Rachael L. French
Multi-Electrode Plasma Torch Characterization for Rapid Wound Healing and Sterilization, Bhavya Bellannagari, Syed Hassan A. Kazmi, and Sohail H. Zaidi
Combined UVC and DBD Plasma Deactivation of Aerosolized Bacteria, Bhavya Bellannagari, Sohail H. Zaidi, and Prasun K. Datta
Caregiver characteristics and outcomes associated with level of care complexity for older adults, Janice F. Bell, Robin L. Whitney, Victoria Keeton, and Heather M. Young
Intelligent Approaches for Fault-Tolerance in Radio Communication of Autonomous Vehicles, Yazid Benazzouz, Oum El Kheir Aktouf, Rachid Boudour, and Jerry Gao
SOEs with SFE: Forwarding the Work of the Liberal Arts in Democratic Community, Jacquelyn R. Benchik-Osborne, Susan S. McDonough, and Brad J. Porfilio
Evaluation of GPU Acceleration for WRF–SFIRE, Joshua Benz
Rethinking entrepreneurship through distribution: distributive relations and the reproduction of racialized inequality among South African entrepreneurs, Melissa Beresford
The Influence of Teleconnection Patterns on Renewable Energy Resources, John Kyle Bergerson
List-antimagic labeling of vertex-weighted graphs, Zhanar Berikkyzy, Axel Brandt, Sogol Jahanbekam, Victor Larsen, and Danny Rorabaugh
Evaluation of a Pilot Study to Standardize Social Determinants of Health Data Collection within an Integrated, Multi-Specialty Healthcare System, Rachel Berkowitz, Linh Bui, Zijun Shen, Alice Pressman, Maria Moreno, Stephanie Brown, Anne Nilon, Chris Miller-Rosales, and Kristen Azar
Evaluation of a social determinants of health screening questionnaire and workflow pilot within an adult ambulatory clinic, Rachel L. Berkowitz, Linh Bui, Zijun Shen, Alice Pressman, Maria Moreno, Stephanie Brown, Anne Nilon, Chris Miller-Rosales, and Kristen M.J. Azar
I never quite got it, what they meant: an introduction to poetic teaching, Alecia Beymer and Scott Jarvie
Translating Natural Language Queries to SPARQL, Shreya Satish Bhajikhaye
Electronic structure and estimation of Curie temperature in Ca2BIrO6(B = Cr, Fe) double perovskites, Shalika Ram Bhandari, Santosh KC, Sarita Lawaju, Ram Kumar Thapa, Gopi Chandra Kaphle, and Madhav Prasad Ghimire
Analysis of Camera Trap Footage Through Subject Recognition, Nirnayak Bhardwaj
Identifying Bots on Twitter with Benford’s Law, Sanmesh Bhosale
International Conference on Communication, Computing and Electronics Systems: Proceedings of ICCCES 2020, V. Bindhu, João Manuel R.S. Tavares, Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos, and Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
International Conference on Communication, Computing and Electronics Systems: Proceedings of ICCCES 2020, V. Bindhu, João Manuel R. S. Tavares, Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos, and Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
Supercharging Plant Configurations Using Z3, Nikolaj Bjørner, Maxwell Levatich, Nuno P. Lopes, Andrey Rybalchenko, and Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
SAASC Presents Joanna Black from William E. Colby Memorial Library, Joanna Black
Gaps: When Not Even Nothing Is There, Charles BLATTBERG
A revised position for the primary strand of the Pleistocene-Holocene San Andreas fault in southern California, Kimberly Blisniuk, Katherine Scharer, Warren D. Sharp, Roland Burgmann, Colin Amos, and Michael Rymer
Understanding Alcohol and Marijuana Use among Sexual Minority Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study, Lauren A. Bochicchio, Laurie A. Drabble, Ellen D.B. Riggle, Cat Munroe, Angie R. Wootton, and Tonda L. Hughes
Sound in Video Games: How Sound Is an Important Aspect of the Virtual Experience, James Boen
Strategies for incorporating graphene oxides and quantum dots into photoresponsive azobenzenes for photonics and thermal applications, Anuja Bokare, Jehanzeb Arif, and Folarin Erogbogbo
TiO2–graphene quantum dots nanocomposites for photocatalysis in energy and biomedical applications, Anuja Bokare, Sowbaranigha Chinnusamy, and Folarin Erogbogbo
OT Practitioners' Knowledge, Clinical Preparedness, and Attitudes for Working With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients, Deborah J. Bolding, Angela Acosta, Brigitte Butler, April Chau, Brenna Craig, and Fiona Dunbar
Incivility in the Occupational Therapy Workplace: A Survey of Practitioners, Deborah J. Bolding, Cameron McCallister, Kate Poisson, David M. Pufki, Angelica Ramirez, Claire Rickly, and Victoria Scattini
A Survey of Incivility in the OT Workplace, Deborah J. Bolding, Cameron McCallister, Kate Poisson, David Pufki, Angelica Ramirez, Claire Rickley, and Victoria Scattini
BayesSPsurv: An R Package to Estimate Bayesian (Spatial) Split-Population Survival Models, Brandon Bolte, Nicolás Schmidt, Sergio Béjar, Nguyen Huynh, and Bumba Mukherjee
Jan van Kessel I. Catalogs and Painting: Redefining the Role of Animals in Seventeenth-Century Fish Landscapes., Ana Borlas-Ivern
Administrator Stress and Well-Being: Lessons Learned from Retired Administrators, Carrie Bosco
An Analysis of Job Stress As Experienced by Public School Site Administrators, Joseph A. Bosco
Mitigating the piston effect in high-speed hyperloop transportation: A study on the use of aerofoils, Aditya Bose and Vimal K. Viswanathan
