At Minnesota State University, Mankato, every graduate student completes a capstone for their program. Most programs include a thesis/dissertation or alternative plan paper (APP) option, but many programs provide other capstone opportunities.

This is a collection of theses submitted by graduate students from various programs.

A thesis is an extensive original research paper resulting in a significant contribution to new knowledge.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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The Power of Perserverance: Creating the Roles of Hippodamia and Pythia in Atreus, Lindsey L. Oetken

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Proposed Data Governance Framework for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs), Rejoice Okoro

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Resident Centered Behavioral Health: A Program Evaluation, Anna Olinger

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Comparing the Acceptability of Treatment Rationales for Two Psychotherapies, Marin Gail Olson

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Mediating the German Case System Through Concept-Based Instruction in an Online Learning Environment, Lea Pienkoss

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Redefiniendo la Protesta Indígena en los Andes: Representaciones en (y a Través de) la Literatura y los Medios Audiovisuales, Adriana Milena Rojas Castro

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Aquatic Macrophyte Communities in Five Sibley County (Minnesota) Lakes and the Factors that Affect their Distribution, Samuel A. Schmid

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Aeolian Sand Stringers in the Upper Midwest, USA: Morphology, Stratigraphy, and Paleoenvironmental Significance, Kenzie L. Shandonay

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Implementation of Model-Free Adaptive Power Flow Control for Dual-Active-Bridge-Based AC-DC Converters, Qinghang Shen

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Xtreme-NoC: Extreme Gradient Boosting Based Latency Model for Network-on-Chip Architectures, Ilma Sheriff

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Navigating Integration: A Grounded Theory of Practicing Clinicians' Experiences Integrating Neuroscience in their Mental Health Clinical Practice, Barbara K. Skodje-Mack

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Effects of Voluntary Exercise on Pressure-Induced Natriuresis in Hypertensive Female and Male Rats, Keshari Sudasinghe

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Comparison of Sexual Risk Behaviors Between Junior Male and Female Students at Pierz High School, Sandy Tautges

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Because Wonder Will Always Get Us There: Directing Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky, James C. Van Oort

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Assessing and Forecasting Chlorophyll Abundances in Minnesota Lake using Remote Sensing and Statistical Approaches, Ben Von Korff

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Understanding Resident-to-Resident Conflicts in Long Term Care Settings from the Perspective of Administrative Staff, John F. Walker

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Analysis of Three-phase Rectifier via Three Different Control Methods and Switch Power Loss Comparison, Yichao Wang

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Too Illegit to Quit: The Impact of Illegitiate Tasks on Turnover Intentions and Well-Being, Jacob Wessels

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Novaturient, Robert Tyler Willmore

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The Relationship Between the Stigmatization of Mental Illness, Communication Apprehension and the Willingness to Communicate, Madeleine Louise Winkler

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Younger Hmong People’s Willingness to Communicate About Depression, Wa Yang

Apeman Lake, Jesse Zucker

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Comments, Gifts and Kudos: Community and Gift Economy in Harry Potter Fanfiction, Deanna Almquist

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Indoor Navigation for Visually Impaired Person Using Inertial and Geomagnetic Information, Jayanth Ammanabrolu

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Understanding Communication Dynamics in Group Home Setting, Jacinta O. Anyanwu

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“A Chilling Effect for Sexual Assault Survivors”: An Examination of Campus-Based Advocacy and the Proposals to Title IX Under the Trump Administration, Hunter J. Beckstrom

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Directing Nocturne, Trevor Belt

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Exploring Artificial Intelligence-Mediated Communication (AIMC) as a sub-field of Communication Studies. A Textual Examination, Md Nurul Karim Bhuiyan

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The Impact of Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act on Accessibility and Availability of Primary Health Care, Aaron Amaning Boaitey

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An Evaluation of a Brief Mindfulness and Values Training on Cyber Bullying Behavior in College Students, Emily M. Boduch

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Disparities Within School Discipline: An Examination of Race, English Language Learner Status, & Suspension, Serena Boyce

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Comparison of Minnesota Teachers’ Sex Education Instructional Practices with Professional Preparation and Development, Lisa Brichacek

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Screens, School District Employees, and Sleep: Is There a Relationship?, Mary Kay L. Bruihler

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Disabled Women in a Dictatorial regime: Sexual Assault and Disability in Zimbabwe, Paidamoyo Chikate

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Performing the 2nd Witch’s Character in Macbeth, Martha Juliana Cubillos Caceres

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The Difference in Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Between Men and Women in the 45-55-Year Age Group, Maren Christina Davis

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Know Before You Play: Associations Between Race, Education, and HIV Susceptibility, Anfa Mohamed Diiriye

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A Four-Port Bidirectional DC-DC Converter for Renewable Energy System and Microgrid, Xia Du

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The Effects of Cognitive Training on Behavioral Functioning in Persons with Dementia, Abigail J. Dye

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Evaluation of the Activity of Zn-65 Isotope and Radiation Dose Delivered to Drosophila melanogaster, Wasiu Ajani Erinoso

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"The Cruelest of Ills": Irregular Practitioners, the Royal College of Physicians, and the "French Pox," c. 1550-1630, Sarah Fischer

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The Effects of Positive and Negative Humor at Work, Trevor Frey

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The Effects of a Cognitive Training Program for Healthy Older Adults: A Program Evaluation Study, Jacklyn Gehling

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Queer Memory in Translation: The Work of Pedro Lemebel, Jordan GeRue

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The Surabhi Theatre–An Oasis of Telugu Theatre, Pradeep Aswini Gurrala

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Observation, Beth Ann Hamilton

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An Assessment of Knowledge, Behavior, and Consumption Patterns Surrounding Sugar- Sweetened Beverages Among Young Adults, Anne Harguth

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Heat Kernel Voting with Geometric Invariants, Alexander Harr

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There is Somebody There: Directing 'Cloud 9', Seth M. Honerman

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Wild Connections, Sarah Huttner

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“In My Feelings”: Millennial African Americans’ Perception, Understanding, and Experience of Healthy Romantic Relationships, Chelsea-Alexis Jackson

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Assessing Competitive Oral Interpretation Speakers: What We Expect Students to Learn, Kelsey Johnson

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The Moderating Influence of the Strength of Racial Identity on the Relationship Between Teacher-Student Racial Similarity-Dissimilarity and Classroom Engagement, Md Enamul Kabir

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A Mathematical Model for Malaria with Age-Heterogeneous Biting Rate, Sho Kawakami

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Sex Trafficking: A Systematic Review of Operational Definitions, Firdavs Khaydarov

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The Effects of Exercise on Pressure Natriuresis, Janet Komolafe

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Creating the World of Newsies: The Musical, Benjamin Kramer

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Experimental Studies of Interfacial Behavior of Contact System During Liquid Mediated Rough Surfaces Separation, Nhat Le

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A Photometric Study of the South Polar Terrain of Enceladus, Bereket Daniel Mamo

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Geomorphology and Chronology of Sand Stringer Deposition Beyond the Ice Margin: Southeastern Minnesota and Western Wisconsin, USA, Richard J. Mataitis

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The Impact of United States of America College Education on the Japanese Students’ Keigo Toward Their Senpai, Manami Matsuoka

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Virtual Impedance Based Decentralized Control for a Microgrid System, Ramkrishna Mishan

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The Victimization of the African Girl Child: Primary Schools as Unsafe Spaces for Girls in Cameroon, Sandra Bume Nambangi

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A Four-Port DC-DC Converter for a Hybrid Wind/Solar Energy System, Jiahong Ning

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Relationship Between Economy, Education, Population, Healthcare and Prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, Bernard Odelola

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Family Language Policy and Heritage Language Development of Children in Transnational Immigrant Families: A Case of Two Nepali Families in the US, Laxmi Prasad Ojha

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Fault Detection and Classification of a Single Phase Inverter Using Artificial Neural Networks, Ayomikun Samuel Orukotan

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Expectation Versus Reality: Star Trek, Nyota Uhura, and the Female Role, Cecelia Otto-Griffiths

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Sexual Consent in Middle School Sex Health Education: An Analysis of Health Education Standards in Minnesota, Ashley Parent

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Vegetation Surveys in Southern Minnesota Prairies: Management, Invasive Species and Future Directions, Ainsley Peterson

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Development of Machine Learning Tutorials for R, John Pintar

My Mother Gave Me a Man's Name, Connor Poff

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Perceptions, Attitudes, Self-Efficacy, and Behaviors of Mouthguard Use Among Collegiate Athletes, Heather Prosser

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Intracellular Localization of the Novel PolyQ Protein FAM171B, Dulanjani Rajaguru

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Medical Utilization in the Context of Culture: Analyzing the Concepts, Benefits and Drawbacks of Sri Lankan Biomedical and Ayurvedic Healthcare, Miriah Rajaguru

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Binder Saturation, Layer Thickness, Drying Time and Their Effects on Dimensional Tolerance and Density of Cobalt Chrome - Tricalcium Phosphate Biocomposite, John Ruprecht

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World Englishes Approaches to the Teaching of Writing: A Survey of Afghan University English Teachers, Abdul Khaliq Sahibzada

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Voices of First-Generation Students: An Examination of First-Generation Stories on Collegiate Websites, Jillian Schemenauer

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The Monster at the End of This: A Feminist Media Analysis of Coverage of Representative Ilhan Omar, Emma L. Schlei

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Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection and Vaccine Knowledge and Attitudes among University Students, McKenzie Schmitz

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Barriers to Utilizing Resources for the Dementia Caregiver, Rebecca L. M. Shanafelt

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An Investigation into the Perceptions of Elderspeak and How It Effects Mood Among an Assisted Living Population, Paige T. Shoutz

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Theory of Principal Components for Applications in Exploratory Crime Analysis and Clustering, Daniel Silva

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Overcoming Tools of Oppression: Plain Language and Human-Centered Design for Social Justice, Michela Sims

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Assessing Preferences for Montessori-Based Activities in Persons with Memory Impairment, Katelyn Danielle Smith

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Automatic Distinction Between Twitter Bots and Humans, Jeremiah Stubbs

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Characterizing Minneopa State Park Visitor’s Prairie Attitudes, Views of Conservation and Knowledge Through the Development and Implementation of the Prairie Attitude and Knowledge Survey (PAKS), Addeline R. Theis

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Diverse Teams, Team Effectiveness, and the Moderating Effect of Organizational Support, Hannah Tilstra

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Taking a Walk on the Wild Side: Case Studies of Programs that Integrate K-12 Curricula with Adventure Sports and Outdoor Learning, Jonathan Trzepkowski

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Characterization of Deiodinase Expression in the Hypothyroid Developing Cochlea, Maria A. Uscategui Calderon

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Intercultural Communication Apprehension: A Multidimensional Perspective of Communication Between International and Domestic Students, Christina van Essen

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Dark Tourism in the Midwest, Rachel Walden

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The Biological Manifestation of Health, Culture, and Disease in Turn of the Twentieth Century San Francisco, Trisha Walker

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Rendering 20th Century Peruvian Folklore for a 21st Century Reader: ES>EN Translation and Analysis of Peruvian Folktales and Mythology, Angela Walsh

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Control of a Grid-Tied Single-Phase Inverter for Renewable Energy Integration, Dianzhi Yu

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Prey and Predators, Roberta Zamma Gallarati

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Assessment of Perceived Levels of Stress and Coping Mechanisms Among University Students, Nancy Adomako-Saahene

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The Effect of Dorsal Rhizotomy on Renal Sodium Excretion Following Dorsal Spinal Stimulation, Tanko Tijani Ahmed

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The Concept of Substrate Integrated Circularly Polarized Horn Antennas, Venkata Naga Kalyan Ram Akunuru

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Developing a Testing Instrument to Evaluate the Performance Of 3D-Printed Body-Powered Prosthetic Hands, Araz Al-dawoodi