The ability to regulate emotion positively impacts one’s mental and physical health. One adaptive emotion regulation strategy is cognitive reappraisal, which involves changing one’s appraisal of an aversive situation to make it feel less negative. Across two different research aims, I examined how cognitive reappraisal relates to health indices via ...

Religion is often seen as a taboo and controversial topic in the workplace; however, it also plays an important role in many people’s lives. Over the past few decades, the religious landscape of the American workforce has become increasingly diverse. Unfortunately, as religious diversity in organizations has grown, so has the number of Equal Employment ...

Modeling and simulating the transport of oxygen in blood provides critical insight on the planning of cardiovascular surgeries. Mathematical simulation provides a quantitative angle on the understanding of changes in hemodynamics. Due to the complexity of the cardio- vascular circulation, this is a computationally challenging task. Further, oxygen ...

This thesis introduces and analyzes an efficient two time-grid parallel algorithm that reduces time and storage requirements of traditional gradient-based methods for time-dependent optimal control problems. Each iteration of a classical gradient-based method requires solving a forward-in-time state equation followed by a backward-in-time adjoint ...

The writings of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa are greatly influential in Chicanx and Southwest Studies, with her work being recognized for its value in feminist and queer theory; art, culture, and literary criticism; and the portrayal of a uniquely and unapologetically Mexican-American historical narrative that seeks to highlight hybridity and porousness ...

This thesis introduces a modification for traditional, Newton-based methods to improve the efficiency of solving smoothed, risk-averse PDE-constrained optimization problems arising from optimal control applications. Instead of only maximizing the expected performance of a system, risk-averse formulations penalize deviations of actual performance that ...

The past half-century has been characterized by a rise in teamwork that has aligned with shifting demographic characteristics reflecting the world’s aging and increasingly diverse population. As a result, organizations and researchers alike have shifted their attention toward understanding the conditions under which team demographic diversity can ...

The ability to read words aloud requires the coordination of the cognitive system responsible for visual word recognition and that responsible for speech production. The most prominent theory of reading – the dual-route cascaded (DRC) model (Coltheart et al., 2001) – proposes that this is accomplished by series of processes that start with initial ...

The present study conducts a nationwide study of the association of toxic industrial pollution and the facilities that produce it on trust and civic engagement. Data on pollution exposure come from the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators Geographic Microdata (RSEI-GM) and Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) datasets for the years 1995 to 1999. Data on ...

This thesis investigates alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM)-based methods for time-domain decomposition (TDD) formulations of linear-quadratic partial differential equation (PDE)-constrained optimization problems. The solution of such optimization problems is computing time and memory intensive. TDD formulations split the time-dependent ...