Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The Development of Early Spatial Thinking, Carla Abad
Developing Ocean Color Algorithm using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Sensor for Shallow Coastal Water Bodies, Mohd Manzar Abbas
Supervisory Practices in a Virtual Internship Program: A Multi-Case Study, Elizabeth Adadi
Discovery and Targeted Monitoring of Biomarkers Using Liquid Chromatography, Ion Mobility Spectrometry , and Mass Spectrometry, Kendra J. Adams
Santeria Ritual Sacrificial Practices in Miami, Erhomarhua Afure
Hybrid Electrochemical Capacitors: Materials, Optimization, and Miniaturization, Richa Agrawal
Imaginative Ecosystems: Clamoring for Visibility and Opacity in Miami's Climate Justice Movement, Laura Maria Aguirre
Plasmonic Nanoplatforms for Biochemical Sensing and Medical Applications, Arash Ahmadivand
Energy Demand Response for High-Performance Computing Systems, Kishwar Ahmed
The Effect of Vitamin D3 Supplementation of Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress and Glycemic Status in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes, Sahar Ajabshir
Promoting Healthy Eating Habits and Physical Activity among School-aged Children in Kuwait – “My Healthy Habits" Summer Camp, Ghanima Alabdullah
A Dynamical System Approach for Resource-Constrained Mobile Robotics, Tauhidul Alam
The Effects of Frequent Atmospheric Events and Hydrologic Infrastructure on Flow Characterization in Tims Branch and its Major Tributary, SC, Mohammed Albassam
Racial Constructions and Activism Within Graphic Literature. An Analysis of Hank McCoy, The Beast, Juan D. Alfonso
The Effects of Video Prompting on Teaching Daily Living Tasks to Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Mashal Salman Aljehany
Developing Medicine: Cuba, Modernization, and Public Health, 1898-1945, Jessica Leigh Allison
Design of Low Impact Development and Green Infrastructure at Flood Prone Areas in the City of Miami Beach, FLORIDA, USA, Noura Alsarawi
A Field Study Examining the Effect of High Intoxication Levels and Identification Format on Witnesses' Memory for Faces and Events, Christopher Altman
Regulation of Juvenile Hormone Synthesis by 20-Hydroxyecdysone in the Yellow-fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti, Maria Areiza
Clairvoyance in Jainism: Avadhijñāna in Philosophy, Epistemology and Literature, Kuldeep Ashok Kumar
Synthesis, Processing, and Fundamental Phase Formation Study of CZTS Films for Solar Cell Applications, Osama Awadallah
Dynamics of Iranian-Saudi Relations in the Persian Gulf Regional Security Complex (1920-1979), Nima Baghdadi
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Arctic Nearshore Fish Community and Food Web Structures, Mark B. Barton
Identifying and Intervening on Neural Markers of Attention to Threat in Children with Anxiety Disorders, Michele Bechor
Occurrence and Consequences of Surprise Internal Control Disclosures, Hambisa Belina
Pyrolysis of Jet Propellants and Oxidation of Polycyclic Aromatic Radicals with Molecular Oxygen: Theoretical Study of Potential Energy Surfaces, Mechanisms, and Kinetics, Daniel E. Belisario-Lara
On-line Condition Monitoring, Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Electrical Machines and Power Electronic Converters, Alberto Berzoy
Making African Civil Society Work: Assessing Conditions for Democratic State-Society Relations in Rwanda, Fiacre Bienvenu
A Confluence of Invasion, Behavioral, and Theoretical Ecology: What Drives Ephemeral Metacommunity Re-assembly?, Jesse Ryan Blanchard
This Terrible Silence, Jeff Bonar
Do Community Food Security Assessments Contribute to a Reduction in Food Insecurity at the County Level?, John D. Buschman
Structure and Mechanism of Mycobacterial Topoisomerase I, nan cao
Re-Imagining the Victorian Classics: Postcolonial Feminist Rewritings of Emily Brontë, Yannel Celestrin
Buffer States in Sub-Systemic Rivalries: Analyzing Nepal's Role in Sino-Indian Security Dynamics, Bibek Chand
Memory-Aware Scheduling for Fixed Priority Hard Real-Time Computing Systems, Gustavo A. Chaparro-Baquero
Saltwater Intrusion and Vegetation Shifts Drive Changes in Carbon Storage in Coastal Wetlands, Sean Patrick Charles
Eating Frequency and the Role of Snacking on Body Weight of WIC Preschool Children, Andrea Charvet
The Catalytic Performance of Lithium Oxygen Battery Cathodes, Neha Chawla
Sabermetrics - Statistical Modeling of Run Creation and Prevention in Baseball, Parker Chernoff
North Atlantic Black, Chazz R. Chitwood
Rethinking the I/O Stack for Persistent Memory, Mohammad Ataur Rahman Chowdhury
An Investigation of the Effects of Taking Remedial Math in College on Degree Attainment and College GPA Using Multiple Imputation and Propensity Score Matching, Meghan A. Clovis
Mandala Springs, Juleen Collins
Elemental Characterization of Printing Inks and Strengthening the Evaluation of Forensic Glass Evidence, Ruthmara Corzo
The Room You Just Left, Bertha I. Crombet
La representación del Otro en el siglo XIX: la diversidad en Ricardo Palma, Primavera Cuder
Predicting the Geographic Origin of Heroin by Multivariate Analysis of Elemental Composition and Strontium Isotope Ratios, Joshua S. DeBord
Promoting Peace Amid the Terror: The Work of the Ahmadiyya in Miami, Emmanuel Dennis
Antibiotic Resistance and Cell-Wall Recycling in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Supurna Dhar
An Efficiency Evaluation of Procedures to Evoke Vocalizations in Children with Autism, Alejandro Rene Diaz
Religion, Politics and War In the Creation of an Ethos of Conflict in Colombia; The case of the War of the Thousand Days (1899-1902), Margarita J. Diaz Caceres
The Role of ID3 and PCB153 in the Hyperproliferation and Dysregulation of Lung Endothelial Cells, Mayur Arvind Doke
Cultural Politics of Community-Based Conservation in the Buffer Zone of Chitwan National Park, Nepal, Yogesh Dongol
Impact of Herbivory, Structural Complexity, and Sediment on Caribbean Coral Reefs, Alain Duran
Secure Control and Operation of Energy Cyber-Physical Systems Through Intelligent Agents, Mohamad El Hariri
Impact of a Nutrition and Yoga Intervention in Breast Cancer Suvivors' Quality of Life, Tammy C. Fogarty
Synthesis & Fundamental Formation Mechanism Study of High Temperature & Ultrahigh Temperature Ceramics, Paniz Foroughi
Gender, Party, and Political Communication in the 114th Congress, Maria Gabryszewska
Quantitative Spatial Upscaling of Categorical Data in the Context of Landscape Ecology: A New Scaling Algorithm, Daniel Gann
Study of Proteoforms, DNA and Complexes using Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry-Mass Spectrometry, Alyssa Lynn Garabedian
The Effect of Microbial Growth on the Spectral Induced Polarization Response in Hanford Vadose Zone Sediment in the Presence of Autunite, Alejandro Garcia
China's Eurasian Foreign Policy: Region-Building Through State-Building Since 1991, Zenel Garcia
Radar Signal Processing for Interference Mitigation, Zhe Geng
Iran and the Constitutionalism: History and Evolution and the Impact on International Relations, Farshad Ghodoosi
Three Essays on Growth, Housing Market and Inequality, Shahrzad Ghourchian
Ultrahigh Speed Direct PCR: A Method for Obtaining Y-STR and STR Based Genotypes in Under 20 Minutes, Georgiana C. Gibson-Daw
Reconfigurable Antennas Using Liquid Crystalline Elastomers, John Gibson
Sensitivity of Marine Cynobacteria and Green Microlage to Nano and Bulk Zinc Oxides, Jennifer Gil-Acevedo 3664585
The Lived Experiences of Caregivers of Lung Transplant Recipients, Joy Adella Glaze
Azúcar agridulce: memoria, discursos y paisajes azucareros en la nación y la cultura cubana (1791–2017), Deborah Gomez
Jewish Women’s Transracial Epistemological Networks: Representations of Black Women in the African Diaspora, 1930-1980, Abby S. Gondek
An Adaptation of an Auditory Perception Test, Daniel Gonzalez
The Empathy of Immersion: An Exploration of Battlefield 1 Through the Lense of Empathetic Virtual Reality, Katelynn N. Gonzalez
HIV Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Risk Behaviors among Women from Trinidad, Rosemarie Graczkowski
User-Centric Privacy Preservation in Mobile and Location-Aware Applications, Mingming Guo
Self-Referential Features in Sacred Texts, Donald Haase
Secure Large Scale Penetration of Electric Vehicles in the Power Grid, Abla Hariri
Understanding the Organizational Factors that Impact Police-Community Relations, Andrea Marie Headley
An Instructional Strategy with Simulations Used to Increase Statistical Literacy among Students in a Hispanic Serving Institution, Eric O. Hernandez
Public Service Values and Disparate Performance: The Case of Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program, Melissa Gomez Hernandez
The Use of Elemental Databases in Forensic Science: Studies on Vehicle Glass Interpretation and Milk Powder Provenancing, Tricia Marie Hoffman
Resource Nationalism and Energy Integration in Latin America: The Paradox of Populism, Brian Hollingsworth
Essays on Trade and Growth, Yulin Hou
PATTERNS OF CARBON METABOLISM, STORAGE, AND REMINERALIZATION IN SEAGRASS ECOSYSTEMS, Jason Lee Howard
Modulating Adipogenesis: Key Role of Ras-related Protein Rab5 and its Effectors, Yongjun Huang
Queering The Clown Prince of Crime: A Look at Queer Stereotypes as Signifiers In DC Comics’ The Joker, Zina Hutton
Three Essays on Financial Statement Comparability, MOHAMMAD NAZRUL ISLAM
Seeking Friends With Benefits In A Tourism-Based Sexual Economy: Interrogating The Gambian Sexscape, Mariama jaiteh
Cervical Infection with high risk Human Papillomavirus Anogenital Subtypes in Indigenous Women in Alta and Baja Vera Paz Guatemala, Anne Jeffries
Three Essays on the Behavioral Responses to Coastal Hazards and Vulnerability, Fan Jiang
Search for Supersymmetry in Proton-Proton Collisions at 13 TeV with the CMS Detector using Identified Top Quarks, Yagya R. Joshi
Facing the Rising Tide: How Local Governments in the United States Collaborate to Adapt to Sea Level Rise, Vaiva Kalesnikaite
Impact of a Lifestyle Modification Intervention on Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes in a Mexican American population: A Mixed-methods Study, Ramandeep Kaur
The Effect of Institutional Dimensions and Cultural Dimensions on the Level of Entrepreneurial Activity Across Countries, Jung Hoon Kim
The Effect of Uncertain and Weak Modal Words in 10-K Filings on Analyst Forecast Attributes, Myung Sub Kim