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Graduate School - Theses and Dissertations Collections: Recent submissions
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Learning Approaches for Diverse Professional Students: Learning Module of Oral Nerve Injections
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)INTRODUCTION. Students from all different backgrounds enter dental school each year, and the students will differ in processing, understanding, and learning the same material. This study should be conducted to understand ... -
Towards Offline Adaptive Therapy for Prostate Patients using Velocity
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)The goal of this project is to assess the feasibility of three offline adaptive workflows for prostate radiotherapy (RT) through a retrospective study, potentially allowing future offline dose assessment and adaptive ... -
Colloidal Stability, Rheology, and Flexural Strength of Antiviral 3D Printable Colloids
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)Introduction: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increased need for antiviral 3D printable materials in dentistry. The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of mixing fumed silica (FS) and 5 ... -
Fragments of a Man: The Fracturing of Time and Mind in John Steinbeck's East of Eden
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)John Steinbeck (1902-1968) is one of America’s most highly regarded authors, widely recognized for his Dust Bowl Trilogy, constituted by the novels, In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and The Grapes of Wrath ... -
Developing the Ecological Self for Sustainability Leadership in Jesuit Higher Education in the United States
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)This QUAL-quan concurrent nested design study sought to reimagine the Ignatian Leadership Model by introducing leaders in Jesuit higher education to contemplative practices rooted in sustainability to discover if these ... -
Middle School Accountability and Positive Behavior Recognition: A Qualitative Case Study of the Perspectives of Parents/Guardians, Teachers, and Administrators in a Xaverian Brothers Sponsored School
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)This qualitative case study focuses on the perceptions some administrators, faculty, staff, and parents hold regarding the effective practices, policies, and interventions of Catholic schools holding middle school boys ... -
Orexin as a Chemosensor: Implications on Cardiorespiration and SUDEP in the Kcna1-null Mouse Model
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)In epilepsy patients, it is unknown who is at high-risk for SUDEP. Furthermore, the mechanism of how and why a patient cannot recover from the last generalized convulsive seizure (GCS) prior to SUDEP is unknown. We proposed ... -
Continuous Improvement in Higher Education: A Case Study of Perceptions and Sustainability
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)Higher education (HE) is facing a major dilemma: continuously improve or perish. The challenges for colleges and universities are to become more efficient, to be flexible with academic offerings, and to evolve and sustain ... -
Experiences and Perceptions of Single People Within a Fellowship of Non-Denominational Christian Churches: A Survey Experiment
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)Single people – those who are never-married, widowed, or divorced – represent a growing portion of the American population. Research has shown that stigma and stereotypes impact single people and may result in ... -
The Novel Long Non-Coding RNA Nostrill Regulates Intestinal Epithelial Defense Against Cryptosporidium parvum and Modulates Microglial-Mediated Neurotoxicity
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)Increasing evidence supports the role of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) as critical regulators of diverse cellular processes, however, their role in antimicrobial host defense and inflammatory regulation is incompletely ... -
A Phenomenological Exploration of the Lived Role Modeling Experiences of Female Executive-Level Administrators in Collegiate Recreation
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)Role modeling and mentorship are often critical strategies women must enlist to aid in career advancement and retention within male-dominate sport industries, including collegiate recreation (Adriaanse, 2016; Eagly & Carli, ... -
Forming Lay Board Members for the Future of Xaverian Education: A Quality Improvement Case Study Analysis
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)Catholic education has undergone a trying transition since the middle of the twentieth century. Decreased enrollment, the closing of schools, and the lack of religious vocations have challenged lay leaders to ensure the ... -
A Study of First-generation, Low-income, Commuter Students and Their Connection to the Campus Community
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)First-generation, low-income (FGLI), commuter students are crippled by not knowing what they do not know. Nearly 1/3 of first-generation students drop out of college before they attain a degree (Ishitani, 2016). As the ... -
Sodium Fluoride Hopper Crystals
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)Dental caries is still prevalent despite the current understanding and use of fluoride. Faster dissolving crystals of NaF in a dentifrice could improve the efficacy of current preventative treatments. In this study, crystals ... -
A Case Study of an Urban Church: Community Development in Action in the African American Community
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)Abstract This qualitative study was designed to examine how one church assists its neighborhood in engaging in community development with a goal of helping other ministries to do this type of work. The scholarly literature ... -
The QED beta-Function: A First Principles Derivation
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)Quantum electrodynamics (QED) is a quantum-relativistic theory for electromagnetism. It is among the most successful quantum field theories, which collectively describe the dynamics of elementary particles at high energies. ... -
Disparities in College Graduation Rates for African American and Latinx Students at a Small Midwestern College: A Case Study
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that lead to the disproportionality of the graduation rates of African American and Latinx students at College X. This qualitative case study utilized interviews with ... -
The Experience of Catholic School K-8 Teachers Using an Alternative Approach to Discipline
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)One of the more important aspects involved in teaching is how teachers develop classroom management and discipline practices. Many teachers rely on practices that may be counterproductive to their goal of creating an ... -
Transcriptomic Analysis of Cochlear Outer Hair Cell Heterogeneity in Juvenile and Adult Mice
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)Outer Hair Cells (OHCs) are sensory receptor cells in the mammalian cochlear organ of Corti (OC). OHCs in different regions of the OC vary in their biological properties, ultimately contributing to the sensitivity and ... -
Predicting Bankruptcy with 10-K Length and Readability
(Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2022)Written communication contains intended and unintended messages, and computational advances are allowing practitioners and researchers to identify and extract these messages and the latent information embedded in how and ...