Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Life Is Good-If But Briefly, Tim P. Curtis
Variable Speed Limit Strategies to Reduce the Impacts of Traffic Flow Breakdown at Recurrent Freeway Bottlenecks, Ali Darroudi
Three Essays on the Economics of Defense Contracting, Output and Income Inequality, Edward M. DeCambra
Exploring the Use of Everglades Agricultural Area Canal Water as Base Medium for the Mass Production of Algae for Biofuels, Nina N. De la Rosa
Reanalysis of the 1954-1963 Atlantic Hurricane Seasons, Sandy Delgado
The Lines We Crossed, Jane Deon
The Response to an ESL Population Boom in the Beaufort County, South Carolina School System: A Case Study, Amanda G. de Varona
The Ecology and Economics of Seagrass Community Structure, Bryan Dewsbury
Analysis of Kepler Active Galactic Nuclei Using A Revised Kirk, Rieger, Mastichiadis (1998) Model, Sarah M. Dhalla
Canopy Gaps as Foci of Succession in a Florida Keys Tropical Hardwood Forest, Joshua M. Diamond
A Multi-core Testbed on Desktop Computer for Research on Power/Thermal Aware Resource Management, Ashley Dierivot
Three Essays on Taxation, Growth and Consumption, Yi Ding
Development of a Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Method for the Detection of Benzodiazepines in Urine, Erika L. Doctor
What Does Board Capital Really Bring to the Table? Exploring the Effect of Directors’ Human and Social Capital on Effective Governance During International Expansion, Whitney G. Douglas Fernandez
Personnel Selection, Safety Performance, and Job Performance: Are Safe Workers Better Workers?, Erica N. Drew
Enhanced Anchorage of Tissue-Engineered Cartilage Using an Osteoinductive Approach, Rupak Dua
Spatial Articulations of Race, Desire, and Belonging in Western North Carolina, LaToya Eaves
Socio-ecological Vulnerability to Climate Change in South Florida, Emily Eisenhauer
Foundations of Quantitative Information Flow: Channels, Cascades, and the Information Order, Barbara Espinoza Becerra
Real-Time Scheduling of Embedded Applications on Multi-Core Platforms, Ming Fan
Odú in Motion: Afro-Cuban Orisha Hermeneutics and Embodied Scholarship, Life Reflections of a Lukumí Priest, Alexander Fernandez
Household Preferences for Financing Hurricane Risk Mitigation: A Survey Based Empirical Analysis, Damon Fitzgerald
A Scalable Multimedia Content Processing Framework with Application to TV Shopping, Fausto C. Fleites
Influence of Gender and Life Stressors on Longitudinal Depression Treatment Outcomes Among Older Primary Care Patients, Karen Fortuna
Simply Genre Films: Extracting “King Lear” from “House of Strangers” and “Broken Lance", Sophia G. I. Funk
Novel Insights into the Mechanisms of Regulation of Tyrosine Kinase Receptors by Ras Interference 1, Adriana Galvis
An Institutional, Socio-economic, and Legal Analysis of Fisheries Co-management and Regulation in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica, Alejandro J. Garcia Lozano
The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status, Course Delivery Method, and Student Success at a State College: A Single Institution Analysis, Rolando Garcia
China's Military Modernization, Japan's Normalization and its Effects on the South China Sea Territorial Disputes, Zenel Garcia
Engineering Analysis in Imprecise Geometric Models, Riccardo Gasparini
Linear and Nonlinear Motion of a Barotropic Vortex, Israel Gonzalez
Anti-Romance: How William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” Informed John Keats’s “Lamia”, Shelly S. Gonzalez
Essays on Migration: Nexus with Policy, Trade, and Development, Michael Good
Predictors of Independent Living Outcomes Among Older Women Receiving Informal Care, Julie Grochowski
The Effects of Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) as Intensivists in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) on Patient Outcomes, Healthcare Charges, and APN Intensivist Services in the SICU, Francisco Guido-Sanz
Comprehending Performance of Cross-Frames in Skewed Straight Steel I-Girder Bridges, Jawad H. Gull
Freshwater Resource Supply Modeling for Developed and Undeveloped Watersheds, Kelly C. Gustafson
A Visual Critical Ethnography Of Youth Development In A Rio de Janeiro Favela, Bryn E. Hafemeister Ed.D.
The Validity of Broad and Narrow Personality Traits For Predicting Job Performance: The Differential Effects of Time, Michael B. Harari
Stakeholder Perceptions and Preferences for Coral Reef Restoration and Sustainable Resource Management, James Wilkinson Harper
Analyzing Invasion Success of the Mayan Cichlid (Cichlasoma urophthalmus; Günther) in Southern Florida, Elizabeth Harrison
Bleaching To Reach: Skin Bleaching as a Performance of Embodied Resistance in Jamaican Dancehall Culture, Treviene A. Harris
Cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety disorders in youth: Treatment specificity and mediation effects, Ileana Hernandez
Does the Pareto Distribution of Hurricane Damage Inherit its Fat Tail from a Zipf Distribution of Assets at Hazard?, Javiera I. Hernandez
Maternal-Fetal Attachment and Health Behaviors among Women with HIV/AIDS, Julieta P. Hernandez
Ficción Extrema: Deslizamientos en la Realidad a Través de la Relación Entre Arte y Literatura (Max Aub, Leonora Carrington y Enrique Vila-Matas), Adriana Herrera
Elevated Progesterone In Yolk As a Moderator of Prenatal and Postnatal Auditory Learning in Bobwhite Quail, Joshua A. Herrington
The Effects of Resilience and Social Influences on Preventing Repeat Adolescent Pregnancies in Parenting Adolescent Mothers, Nola A. Holness
Influence of Chemical Composition and Water on the Bulk Modulus of Pyrope, Shu Huang
The Development of a Hybrid Optimization Algorithm for the Evaluation and Optimization of the Asynchronous Pulse Unit, Eric Inclan
Images and Perceptions of Muslims and Arabs in Korean Popular Culture and Society, Maria M. Jamass
Harlemites, Haitians and the Black International: 1915-1934, Felix Jean-Louis III
A Geochemical Study of Crustal Plutonic Rocks from the Southern Mariana Trench Forearc: Relationship to Volcanic Rocks Erupted during Subduction Initiation, Julie A. Johnson
Haiti, 1965 - A Novel, Fabienne Sylvia Josaphat
Synthesis and Characterization of Thermoelectric Nanomaterials, Kamal Kadel
Comparing Remote Data Transfer Rates of Compact Muon Solenoid Jobs with Xrootd and Lustre, Gary H. Kaganas
Techniques for Efficient Execution of Large-Scale Scientific Workflows in Distributed Environments, Selim Kalayci
Experimental Deuteron Momentum Distributions with Reduced Final State Interactions, Hari Khanal
Understanding rapport-building in investigative interviews: Does rapport's effect on witness memory and suggestibility depend on the interviewer?, Jenna M. Kieckhaefer
Menopause, Rurality, And Obesity in Rural African American Women, colleen kilgore
Hermes, a Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, Tyler T. Kimmel
Environmental Influences on Bacterio-phytoplanktonic Coupling and Bacterial Growth Efficiency in a Sub-tropical Estuary, Rachel Kotkowski
Ecohydrology, Evapotranspiration and Hydrogeochemistry of Carbonate Mangrove Wetlands, David Lagomasino
Mechanisms of Diatom Assembly in a Hydrologically-Managed Subtropical Wetland, Sylvia S. Lee
Novel Approaches for the Synthesis of C-5 Modified Pyrimidine Nucleosides, Yong Liang
Mining the Online Social Network Data: Influence, Summarization, and Organization, Jingxuan Li
Next Generation of Recommender Systems: Algorithms and Applications, Lei Li
New Bivariate Lifetime Distributions Based on Bath-Tub Shaped Failure Rate, Mengying Li
Background Traffic Modeling for Large-Scale Network Simulation, Ting Li
Can Compensation Committees Effectively Mitigate the CEO Horizon Problem? The Role of Co-opted Directors, Ruonan Liu
Delay-Sensitive Service Request Scheduling for Cloud Computing, Shuo Liu
Formal Modeling and Analysis Techniques for High Level Petri Nets, Su Liu
Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres": A Feminist Revision of "King Lear", Diana Lombardic
Simulating Everglades National Park hydrology and phosphorus transport under existing and future scenarios using numerical modeling, Stephanie Long
La tentación del abismo en Armonía Somers: entre el expresionismo de vanguardia y el gótico postmoderno, Anamaria Lopez-Abadia Laya
Loose Ends, Julio Machado
Identity, Purpose, and Well-Being Among Emerging Adult Hispanic Women, Vanessa L. Madrazo
Numerical Modeling of the Effects of Hydrologic Conditions and Sediment Transport on Geomorphic Patterns in Wetlands, Mehrnoosh Mahmoudi
Adaptation Preferences and Responses to Sea Level Rise and Land Loss Risk in Southern Louisiana: a Survey-based Analysis, Sandra Maina
Assessing Organizational Image: Triangulation Across Different Applicant Perceptions, Website, and Facebook Features, Alejandra Matamala
Ritual Performance of the Santo Daime Church in Miami: Co-constructive Selves in the Midst of Impediments to Local Acculturation, Alfonso Matas
Development of Hardware in the Loop Real-Time Control Techniques for Hybrid Power Systems Involving Distributed Demands and Sustainable Energy Sources, Ali Mazloomzadeh
The Saints of Banias, Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Time Trends and Predictors of Initiation for Cigarette and Waterpipe Smoking Among Jordanian School Children: Irbid, 2008-2011, Karma L. McKelvey PhD
The relationship among serum levels of manganese superoxide dismutase and mtDNA 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine, and dietary antioxidants intake in Type 2 Diabetes, MICHAEL ANDREW MCLEAN
Ethnic and American Identity Development: A Developmental Systems Approach, Alan Meca
Effect of Aquafeed on Productivity of Red Amaranth and on Water Quality under Aquaponic Cultivation, Miles D. Medina
Modeling of a Heat-Induced Buckling of Plates Using the Mesh-free Method, Humberto Mejia
A New method for Testing Normality based upon a Characterization of the Normal Distribution, Davayne A. Melbourne
Two-Bit Pattern Analysis For Quantitative Information Flow, Ziyuan Meng