Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Life in the Penit: Framing and Performing Miami's Graffiti Subculture, Victor M. Merida
Racialized Sexualities within the Romance Tour Industry: the Influence of Affect and Emotion Upon Transnational Hierarchies of Desire, Julia H. Meszaros
Aerodynamic Testing of Variable Message Signs, Debbie Meyer
Development of a Precast Concrete Supertile Roofing System for the Mitigation of Extreme Wind Events, Brandon L. Mintz
The Efficacy of an Interactive Computer System for Teaching Developmental Mathematics to College Students, Jeffrey Miranda
Surviving and Thriving in a Hostile Religious Culture, Michelle Mitchell
Sizing Up Miami: A Multilevel Analysis of The Discourses and Politics of Obesity, Nicole Mixson-Perez
The Decolonization of Northwest Community College, Beverly Moore-Garcia
Exposure to Endocrine Disrupting Compounds and Reproductive Toxicity in Women, Marisa L. Morgan
A Middleware to Support Services Delivery in a Domain-Specific Virtual Machine, Karl A. Morris
Mothers and their Children: Harry Potter and Melanie Klein, Kristina Mur
High Pressure and Low Temperature Study of Ammonia Borane and Lithium Amidoborane, Shah Najiba
Environmental Performance of Multinationals: A Comparative Study Based On Climate Change Strategy, Santhosh Narayanan
Overnight Summer Music Camp and the Impact on its Youth: A Case Study, Ari Nemser
Synthesis and Electron Emission Properties of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays, Suman Neupane
Crossing Boundaries to Education: Haitian Transnational Families and the Quest to Raise the Family Up, Tekla Nicholas
The Influence of the Guatemalan Municipal Orchestra's Curriculum on the Social Relations of its Members, Jacobo Nitsch
Evidence of Climate Variability and Tropical Cyclone Activity from Diatom Assemblage Dynamics in Coastal Southwest Florida, Emily R. Nodine
A Novel Method for Rapid and Selective Extraction of Male DNA from Rape Kits using Alkaline Lysis and Pressure Cycling Technology (PCT), Deepthi V. Nori
Connectivity of fragmented amphibian populations in a Neotropical landscape, Aaron J. Nowakowski
Characterization of Juvenile Hormone Biosynthetic Enzymes in the Mosquito, Aedes aegypti, Pratik Nyati
The Effect of Prenatal Auditory Enrichment on Perceptual Narrowing in Bobwhite Quail Neonates, Briana O'Dowd
The Impact of Aphasia on Working Memory in Bilingual Adults, Giselle Ogrodnik
3D Navigation with Six Degrees-of-Freedom using a Multi-Touch Display, Francisco Raul Ortega
Distribution Fits for Various Parameters in the Hurricane Model, Victoria Oxenyuk
Microstructure Characteristics of U.S. Futures Markets, Ahmet Senol Oztekin
Post-College Transition: A Study of Evangelical Spirituality in Emerging Adulthood, Katharine R. Pals
Understanding Ten-Eleven Translocation-2 in Hematological and Nervous Systems, Feng Pan
La representación de la masculinidad y la violencia de género en la novela española de la posguerra, Alfredo M. Pastor
The Relation of Steroid Hormones and Personality Factors to Financial Performance and Risk-Taking Behavior, Fernando M. Patterson
Statistical Analysis of Meteorological Data, Sergio Perez Melo
Development of Presumptive and Confirmatory Analytical Methods for the Simultaneous Detection of Multiple Improvised Explosives, Kelley L. Peters
Mechanisms of Arsenic Detoxification and Resistance, Jitesh Kannan Pillai
Analysis of Land Use Change as a Method of Predicting Water Demands in an Urbanizing Environment: Redland, Miami-Dade County, Florida, Shiva Pokharel
Hearing the Child's Voice: Their Lived Experience in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Andrea S. Prentiss
Design and Synthesis of 4-N-Alkanoyl and 4-N-Alkyl Gemcitabine Analogues Suitable for Positron Emission Tomography, Jesse E. Pulido
Biocompatibility Assessment of Biosorbable Polymer Coated Nitinol Alloys, Chandan Pulletikurthi
Parental and Cultural Influences on Hispanic College Women's Verbal Intimate Partner Violence Victimization: An Examination of Within-Group Differences, Shannon M. Quintana
Does U.S. Counter-drug Policy Affect Nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean? A Comparative Study on the Impact of Counter-drug Policy on Nationalism in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, Krystel Ramdathsingh
The Ashram of Swami Jyotirmayananda: Examining Authority, Transmission and Identity within the Guru and Disciple Relationship, Priyanka Ramlakhan
Gnosticism, Transformation, and the Role of the Feminine in the Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.), Ellen P. Randolph
Structural Flexibility and Oxygen Diffusion Pathways in Monomeric Fluorescent Proteins, Chola K. Regmi
An Empirical Analysis of the Global Audit Market: International Financial Reporting Standards-Related Changes and Differences within the Big 4 Global Networks, William Riccardi III
Proton Form Factor Puzzle and the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer(CLAS) Two-Photon Exchange Experiment, Dipak Rimal
Confirmation bias in witness interviewing: Can interviewers ignore their preconceptions?, Jillian R. Rivard
Create, Establish, Maintain: Comparing Zones of Peace in the Nordic Area and the Southern Cone, Dylan W. Roberts
Death of a Brother or Sister: Siblings' Perception of their Health, Treatments and the Associated Health Care Costs, Rosa M. Roche
Two Adaptation Mechanisms Regulate Cellular Migration in Dictyostelium discouideum, Marbelys Rodriguez
Genetic Diversity and Conservation of Pseudophoenix (Arecaceae) in Hispaniola, Rosa Rodriguez
The Progressive Catholic Church in Brazil, 1964-1972: The Official American View, Sigifredo Romero
Santeria as an Informal Psychosocial Support Among Latinas Living with Cancer, Adelaida M. Rosario
Obesity, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Weight Loss in a Population of Adult Mexican Americans, Janisse Rosario
Improved Criteria for Estimating Calibration Factors for Highway Safety Manual (HSM) Applications, Dibakar Saha
The Role of the Transcription Factor Ets1 in Melanocyte Development, Amy Saldana Tavares
Movement Effects on the Flow Physics and Nutrient Delivery in Engineered Valvular Tissues, Manuel Salinas
OPEC and the International System: A Political History of Decisions and Behavior, Reza Sanati
Paleoenvironments and Geochemical Signals from the Late Barremian to the Middle Aptian in a Tethyan Marginal Basin, Northeast Spain: Implications for Carbon Sequestration in Restricted Basins, Yosmel Sanchez Hernandez Mr.
Characterization of Rhizobial Diversity and Relationship of Rhizobial Partner and Legume Performance in Four South Florida Pine Rockland Soils, Vanessa Sánchez
Cultural Intelligence: Extending the Nomological Network, Ena Sawhney
Valuation of Ecosystem Services for Environmental Decision Making in South Florida, Nadia A. Seeteram
The Relationships between Elementary School Principals' Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Style and School Culture, Mirta R. Segredo
Investigating the Role of a Less Uranium Tolerant Strain, Isolated from the Hanford Site Soil, on Uranium Interaction in Polyphosphate Remediation Technology, Paola Sepulveda Medina
Exploring Oral Health Problems in Adult Hispanic Migrant Farmworkers: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Claudia A. Serna
Access to Better Education: The School Choice Experience of Families Served by Low-Performing Elementary Public Schools in Miami-Dade County, LeTania Severe
Advanced Methodologies in Dynamic Traffic Assignment Modeling of Managed Lanes, Shaghayegh Shabanian
Development of a Lab-on-a-Chip Device for Rapid Nanotoxicity Assessment In Vitro, Pratikkumar Shah
The Effects of Paternal and Maternal Nurturance and Involvement on Young Adult Academic Outcomes, Tara Sheehan
Text Analytics of Social Media: Sentiment Analysis, Event Detection and Summarization, Chao Shen
An Alternative Goodness-of-fit Test for Normality with Unknown Parameters, Weiling Shi
U.S. Construction Worker Fall Accidents: Their Causes And Influential Factors, Sohaib Siddiqui
Life Experiences of Youth Who Were Born with HIV Infection in Puerto Rico: The Voices of Young Survivors, Georgina Silva-Suarez
Dear Little Me: A Response to My Former Self, Carly Steele
Speciation, Metabolism, Toxicity, and Protein-binding of Different Arsenic Species in Human Cells, Szabina A. Stice
Human-driven Benthic Jellyfish Blooms: Causes and Consequences for Coastal Marine Ecosystems, Elizabeth W. Stoner
Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry of South Florida Coastal Marine Ecosystems, Sarah Elise Strand
Islam and Christianity: Comparing the Theory of Supersession Concerning Abraham, Mark Sweeney
Grey Slate, Brittany R. Szabo
Endogenous Risk Perception, Geospatial Characteristics and Temporal Variation in Hurricane Evacuation Behavior, Subrina Tahsin
Event Mining for System and Service Management, Liang Tang
Jesus as the Son of Man in Mark, Andres A. Tejada-Lalinde
Spatio-temporal Analysis of Chilling Events in Mangrove Forests of South Florida, Bina Thapa
Covalent Protein Adduction of Nitrogen Mustards and Related Compounds, Vanessa R. Thompson
Without an empire: Muslim mobilization after the caliphate, erik tisthammer
Con la Mocha al Cuello: The Emergence and Negotiation of Afro-Chinese Religion in Cuba, Martin Tsang
Hispanic Orientalism: The Literary Development of a Cultural Paradigm, from Medieval Spain to Modern Latin America, Svetlana V. Tyutina
Investigating Miami English-Spanish Bilinguals' Treatment of English Deictic Verbs of Motion, Erica Verde
The Effect of Rapport Building in Police Interrogations: Can Rapport Improve the Diagnosticity of Confession Evidence?, Daniella K. Villalba
The Influence of Gene Environment Interaction on the Risk of Cognitive Impairment: Reducing Sexual Risk Behaviors and Alcohol Use in HIV-infected Adults, Karina Villalba PhD
The Caribbean Court of Justice: An Investigation of the Impact of Elites on its Creation and Present Structure as it relates to Original Jurisdiction, Nicole A. Warmington-Granston