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Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Thesis Template (Version 2024)

usmthesis is a LaTeX class for typesetting a Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) postgraduate research thesis. (V6 Updated February 05, 2024 by Joseph Boon Han, Ooi to best match the latest template provided by the university. Please read the comments in usmthesis.tex as well as the changelogs in usmthesis.cls and CHANGELOG.txt.)

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The Emerging Impacts of Tourism on The Economy of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Comparative Study of Oil and Tourism , Dania Abu Jabal

Women’s Rights in Limited Democracies: Comparative Study of Femicide in Turkey and Bulgaria , Elif Acarlar

Chaucer’s Lists and the Parson’s Priests: Heresy, Censorship, and The Parson's Tale , Samantha Burleson

Salinity Tolerance of Flowering Rush, Butomus umbellatus , Andrew Coomes

Shaping the Supreme Court , Evelyn Danielle Guerra

Gestalt Language Processing in Accredited Communication Sciences and Disorders Programs , William Harris

3D Analysis of Fe-Ti Oxides and How They Affect Crystal-Plastic Deformation in Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge , Sarah Hill

The Effects of Amphibole- and Sulfide-Producing Melts on Crustal Strength in Gabbros of Lower Oceanic Crust in Oceanic Core Complexes, Mid-Atlantic and Southwest Indian Ridges , Trevor Hoffmann

Tides of War: Privateering, The British Economy, and The Winning of the American Revolution, 1772-1783 , Michael Andrew Howell

Satellite Image Analysis and Sidewalk Classification using Deep Learning Models , Subeksha Khanal

Examining the Effects of Food Supply on Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Larval Performance and Settlement Potential in Delaware Bay and Mississippi Sound , James C. Klein

The Role of Maternal Emotion Regulation in the Relationship Between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Negative Parenting, and Child Externalizing Behaviors , Maddison Knott

The Communicative Experiences of Potential New Members (PNMS) in Greek Life Recruitment , Ashley Lankford

Evaluating the Efficacy of Detection Instructions on Additive and Contradictory Misinformation in Older and Younger Adults Using Eyewitnessed Visual Scenes , Monika Mazela

How Speech-Language Pathologists Account for Self-Determination Across the Progression of Dementia , Emilee McGahee

The Assessment of Autonomic Function in Young Adults with an Elevated Risk of Metabolic Syndrome , Ta'Quoris Newsome

The Impact of Target Sex Typicality on Participant's Willingness To Engage in Prosocial Behaviors , Olajuwon Olagbegi

Black Women in Hattiesburg During World War II: War Work and Community Activism on the Home Front , Jerra Runnels

Assessing the Independent Role of Moral Foundations In Attitudes Toward Various Justifications For Abortion , SABA SHAHID

Cost-Risk Analysis of the ERCOT Region Using Modern Portfolio Theory , Megan Sickinger

Supplemental High-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication Experiences: a Study on Graduate Student Self-Efficacy, Confidence, and Knowledge with Pre-Service Training , Emily Sikes

Molecular Characterization of Stress Response in Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) , Faizan Tahir

Outside Influence and Troop Deployment , Cara Wilson

Theses from 2023 2023

HYDROTHERMAL FLUID TRANSPORT PATHWAYS ALONG FRACTURES AND VEINS AT BROTHERS VOLCANO, SOUTHERN KERMADEC ARC , Robert Atnip

A META-ANALYSIS OF IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING: THE EFFECTS ON TEACHERS’ TREATMENT ADHERENCE AND QUALITY WHEN IMPLEMENTING BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS , Taylor Ben

HOW SEWAGE POLLUTION AFFECTS DISTRIBUTION AND LIFE HISTORY TRAITS OF THE SOUTHERN HOUSE MOSQUITO, CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS , Catherine Dean Bermond

Predicting Suicide Risk Among Youths Using Machine Learning Methods , Saswati Bhattacharjee

Comparative Analysis of Rhizosphere and Endosphere Microbiome of Different Blueberry Species (Vaccinium sp.) , Niladri Bhowmik

I Was Looking for God: A Study of Wehrmacht Personnel and their Personal Relationships with Religion , Christopher Bishop

A PROOF OF CONCEPT FOR DETECTION OF PALATO-LINGUAL CONTACT WITHOUT INTRAORAL ELECTRODES IN A HUMAN PARTICIPANT , Amitava Biswas

SOCIAL ANXIETY AND RELATIONAL AGGRESSION IN THE PEER RELATIONSHIPS OF COLLEGE WOMEN , Summer Boggs

PREDICTIVE ABILITY OF A 3D BODY SCANNING MOBILE APPLICATION FOR METABOLIC HEALTH RISK , Caleb Brandner

The Implications of Sexual Assault Awareness on Sexual Overperception Bias , Zach Buckner

THE RELATIONS BETWEEN RUMINATION, THOUGHT CONTROL, AND SUICIDAL THINKING , Morgan Buerke

BEYOND THE CLINIC: MODIFIED INTERNET-DELIVERED PARENT-CHILD INTERACTION THERAPY , Terreca Cato

SOLVING THE CABLE EQUATION, A SECOND-ORDER TIME DEPENDENT PDE FOR NON-IDEAL CABLES WITH ACTION POTENTIALS IN THE MAMMALIAN BRAIN USING KSS METHODS , Nirmohi Charbe

Negotiating National Identity: A Study of Nationalist Rhetoric during the British Voluntary Recruiting Movement, 1914-1916 , Emily Cloys

The Examination of a Teacher Mentorship Intervention on Junior Teachers' Stress and Self-Efficacy , Cagla Cobek

AN EXPLORATION OF SYMPTOM SEVERITY AND SUICIDAL IDEATION WITHIN A SEX ADDICTION SAMPLE , Emily A. Cordova

UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACTS OF TOPOBATHYMETRIC DATA ON STORM SURGE MODEL PREDICTIONS , Sydni Crain

HIDE AND SEEK: AN EXPLORATION OF ANTIPREDATOR AND PREDATOR AVOIDANCE MECHANISMS IN ORTHOPODOMYIA SIGNIFERA IN RESPONSE TO PREDATION FROM TOXORHYNCHITES RUTILUS , Nathaniel Dahlberg

Freckled Darter (Percina lenticula) And Other Fishes’ Usage Of Wood Pile Habitat , Noah Daun

MULTISPECIES USE OF VARIOUS HABITATS IN THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND WITH AN EMPHASIS ON FUTURE OYSTER REEF CONSTRUCTION , Austin Draper

CHARACTERIZATION AND ESTIMATION OF MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN USING MACHINE LEARNING , Boluwatife Faremi

Disability Identity in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Letters , Jackson Fields

Geospatial Business Location Implications for Mississippi-Based Nissan Group Changing to Electrical Vehicle (EV) Production , Sudheer Galla

Whose Woods These Are: Human-Environment Relationships Among Stakeholders of South Mississippi's Longleaf Pine Ecosystem , Helen Greene

Habitat use of Gulf Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi) in Pascagoula River holding areas and in estuarine and marine environments including Ship Island, Mississippi and Mobile Bay, Alabama , Elizabeth M. Greenheck

Estimation of Angular Response Curves Using a Phase Differencing Bathymetric Sonar , Kandice Gunning

Porotic Hyperostosis and Cribra Orbitalia in the Adult Population of Tipu , Miranda Hahn

The Relationship Between Religiosity and Tobacco Use in a Mexican Spanish Speaking Sample in the United States , Lauren Hales

Using Behavior BINGO to Increase Academically Engaged Behavior in a General Education Elementary School Population , Faith Elizabeth Hamilton

The role of emotion regulation and alexithymia in the relationship between sleep and social functioning , Lillian A. Hammer

Caregiver Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Education and Training: A Survey of Caregiver and SLP Perspectives , Michelle Hasenkampf

UNDERSTANDING THE PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND: OBSERVATIONAL CLIMATOLOGIES, TRENDS AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE SOUND AND COMPARISON OF THE SURFACE CURRENTS OF OCEAN MODELS WITH HIGH FREQUENCY RADAR DATA , TASNIM ISLAM

RAMIE (BOEHMERIA NIVEA): AN UNDERUTILIZED PLANT FOR A MULTIPURPOSE INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; A PERENNIAL PLANT WITH PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION USING MALDI-MS, A BIOSORBENT FOR Hg (II) REMOVAL FROM WATER AND AS A BAST FIBER PRODUCTION VIA ENZYMATIC DEGUMMING , Abdul Rashid Issifu

The King and His Court: The Culture of Royal Power and the Creation of the Angevin Empire Under Henry II , Joseph Jarrell

Annotation of Non-Model Species’ Genomes , Taiya Jarva

College Athletes as Endorsers: A Study of NIL Advertising , Zach Johnson

Determining the Refractive Index of Phytoplankton via Direct Measurement of Cellular Structures , Michael Kamowski

FATHERS, SONS, AND PETS: INTERGENERATIONAL DESIRE AND TRAUMA IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF GAY ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY IN I'LL GET THERE. IT BETTER BE WORTH THE TRIP AND THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE , Mehdi Khan

ESTIMATION OF QUANTITATIVE GENETIC PARAMETERS OF THE EASTERN OYSTER (CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA) IN THE GULF OF MEXICO , Heather King

Cultural Behaviors and Their Influence on the Proximal Femur: Comparisons of Postural Behavior, Occupation, and Subsistence-Settlement Between a Pre-Contact and Historic Sample , Joanna Klein

IDENTIFICATION OF SPRING AND FALL SPAWNED EGGS AND THE GENETIC DISTINCTION OF GULF STURGEON IN THE CHOCTAWHATCHEE RIVER, ALABAMA-FLORIDA , Nicholas Lamey

Examining the Effect of Positive Greetings at the Door on Student Academic Engagement and Disruptive Behavior , Abigail Lawson

Effects of Increased Shoe Collar Height and Limb Dominance on Landing Knee Biomechanics in Collegiate Volleyball Players , Lindsey Legg

NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE PALEOVEGETATION OF THE ANCIENT UNDERWATER FOREST LOCATED IN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO , Karla Lizarraga Garcia

Beginnings of the Nuevo South: Mexican Migration in 1970s and 1980s Mississippi , Isabel Loya

THE CLASSROOM PASSWORD GROUP CONTINGENCY WITH RANDOMIZED REINFORCERS , Emily Maxime

GENETIC PARAMETERS FOR HEAT AND SALINITY STRESS TOLERANCE IN NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO EASTERN OYSTER, CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA , Paul McDonald

ASSESSING DYNAMICS AND TRENDS OF CO2 FLUX ON THE LOUISIANA SHELF , Claire McGuire

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY DYSFUNCTION AND AGGRESSION IN A SAMPLE OF AT-RISK YOUTH , Chloe O'Dell

The mental health of LGBTQ+ graduate students: Examining the role of lifestyle factors , Lindsey Ostermiller

BENTHIC HABITAT MAPPING OF MOUNTAIN TOP BANK WITHIN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO THROUGH INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL AND VISUAL DATA ANALYSIS , Bethany Pertain

UNDERSTANDING THE FLOW DYNAMICS OF THE PEARL RIVER, MS, THROUGH HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING , Nahruma Mehzabeen Pieu

COMPARING EFFECTS OF PRAISE RATES ON CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR , Brittany Pigg

A Minor Place: A Short Story Collection , Nathaniel Pyle

ASSESSING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PROXIMITY TO EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION DELIVERY , Kenneth Ross

THE IMPACT OF SEA-LEVEL RISE ON COASTAL WETLANDS USING IN-SITU MESOCOSM EXPERIMENTS, LANDSCAPE MODELING, AND TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE MAPPING , Kelly San Antonio

ASSESSING STEREOTYPE CONTENT AND ACCURACY OF THE POOR: INTERPERSONAL WARMTH AND SOCIAL COMPETENCE DIMENSIONS , Shiza Shahid

Introspective accuracy for social cognition across the psychosis spectrum: Influence of sleep disturbance , Cassi Springfield

THE INFLUENCE OF RANGE SHIFTS AND WIND ENERGY ON THE ATLANTIC SURFCLAM (SPISULA SOLIDISSIMA) AND OCEAN QUAHOG (ARCTICA ISLANDICA) FISHERIES ON THE U.S. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF , Stephanie Stromp

Driving Demands of a Successful Protest: A Comparative Analysis of Drivers That Leads To a Successful Outcome of Protest , Prince Tetteh

Brazilian Camming: The Monetization of Intimacy in Online Sex Work , Fernanda Veiverberg

“THIS UNHALLOWED SOURCE OF ENTERTAINMENT” ; CARNIVAL INFECTION IN THE MOUNTEBANK’S CHILDREN AND “THE NEW MOTHER” , VeAndre Watkins

ESTIMATION OF MORTALITY RATES FOR THE GULF MENHADEN STOCK AND REFERENCE POINT IMPLEMENTATION FOR THE FISHERY , Catherine Wilhelm

STRUCTURAL AND KINEMATIC INVESTIGATION OF THE DADEVILLE COMPLEX-BREVARD ZONE CONTACT (SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS): POLYPHASE EMPLACEMENT OF AN ALLOCHTHONOUS TERRANE ON THE LAURENTIAN MARGIN , Andrew Williams

EVALUATING HABITAT USE BY NEKTON IN WIDGEON GRASS (RUPPIA MARITIMA), SHOAL GRASS (HALODULE WRIGHTII), AND UNVEGETATED BOTTOM HABITATS IN THE GRAND BAY NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERVE , Jessica Woodall

Genetic Population Structure and Effective Number of Breeders in Systems Across the Range of the Gulf Sturgeon , Jacob Zona

Theses from 2022 2022

INDUCED SPAWNING OF CAPTIVE TRIPLETAIL LOBOTES SURINAMENSIS , Nicholas Adams

Influence of Altitude and Scan Angle on UAS-LiDAR Ground Height Measurement Accuracy in Juncus roemerianus Scheele (Black Needle Rush)-dominated Marshes , Michael Amelunke

the hungarian word for owl , Anna Bagoly

EMPLACEMENT OF THE DADEVILLE COMPLEX OF THE SOUTHERNMOST INNER PIEDMONT WITHIN THE 7.5 MIN. CUSSETA QUADRANGLE, CHAMBERS COUNTY, ALABAMA: CHANNEL FLOW, KLIPPE KINEMATICS, OR OROGEN PARALLEL TRANSLATION , Timothy Black

The Impact of Environmental Variability on Perceptions of Parental Ability From Bodily Cues , Kaitlyn Boykin

CHANGES IN THE MORPHOLOGY OF WIDGEON GRASS (RUPPIA MARITIMA) WITH THE ONSET OF REPRODUCTION AND IMPACTS ON FISH ASSEMBLAGES AT THE CHANDELEUR ISLANDS, LA , Matthew Byrnes

The Rhetoric of Blame: A Rhetorical Framing Analysis of Othering and Blame in Historical Health Crises , Colin G. Cameron

MILITANT MAIDS: DOMESTIC WORKERS’ PARTICIPATION IN BUS BOYCOTTS, VOTER REGISTRATION, AND HEAD START PROGRAMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH , Brittany Ann Carey

TEACHING OLD CALIPERS NEW TRICKS: USING CRANIOMETRICS FOR ANCESTRY ADMIXTURE ESTIMATION VIA FUZZY MATH , Kristi Carnahan

THE KNIVES I USED , KateLin Carsrud

DISABILITY, GENDER, AND SOCIO-RELIGIOUS STIGMA IN THE BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE , Abby Cawley

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