Rural American communities are ever evolving as complex and often ambiguous challenges are presented. For many rural communities, the rural opioid epidemic has only contributed to preexisting stressors associated with the ...

The objective of this dissertation was to investigate the effects of avatar sex, explicitness of avatar sex, and player gender on less conscious embodied emotional arousal and valence versus consciously perceived emotional ...

Microfluidic separation is a promising analytical approach in biomedical and clinical research for cell and protein analysis, genetic testing, and disease diagnosis. Compared with immunological and morphological techniques, ...

As the number of consumers voluntarily adopting a gluten-free diet continues to climb, so does the prevalence of front-of-package (FOP) labeling claims. The “Gluten-Free” FOP claim has risen in popularity and is found on ...

With increased questioning about the value of obtaining a college education based on increased costs of attendance, now the second largest investment for a family behind the purchase of a home, it has become vital that ...

This insider action research study examined how educator confidence and capacity can increase to provide data-driven, targeted, campus-based, research-based best practices for student intervention. Targeted, individual ...

Two beef finishing studies were conducted at the Texas Tech Burnett Center to evaluate a novel direct-fed microbial (DFMs) Lactobacillus Salivarius L28. The newly isolated strain of L. salivarius L28 has demonstrated ...

Women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related careers are a vulnerable population due to the stigma and sexism they often face. Hispanic/Latina women are also underrepresented in STEM and ...

Despite enjoying considerable popularity, research on horror video games and enjoyment of them is limited. This dissertation utilized media psychophysiology in order to assess appetitive and aversive motivation activation, ...

This dissertation consists of an original musical setting of the Mass for the Dead, an analysis of the piece, and a discussion of text setting in other settings of the Mass for the Dead, from the Renaissance to the 20th ...