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Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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An Analysis of Performance-Based Funding Measures in Florida, Madelyn Cintron

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Love from the Machine: Technosexualities and the Desire for Machinic Bodies, Ann-Renee Clark

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Persistence among Emerging Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury in Postsecondary Settings, Ardith A. Clayton-Wright

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Examining the Cultural Intelligence and Perceptions of Educational Decision-Makers: Factors that Relate to Decision-Making for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students who may have Disabilities, Annela Costa

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Development of a Transfer of Training Measure for Law Enforcement, Daniel Costa

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Numerical Simulation of Flushing Deposits in Pipelines, Joseph S. Coverston

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Poly-strengths Skill Building for Urban Teens at High-risk for Violence Exposure: Leveraging Community After-school Programs to Promote Youth, Kelly D. Cromer M.S.

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How Town Engages Gown: Engagement and Collaboration Between Local Governments and Institutions of Higher Education, Vivian Gonzalez Cueto

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Shipbuilding, Forest Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change in Cuba in the Early Eighteenth Century, 1700-1763, Jason M. Daniel

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The Effect of Collective Efficacy and Neighborhood Structural Disadvantage on Depressive Symptoms among Adolescents in the United States, Christyl Teres Dawson

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Nucleoside Analogues for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging and to Study Radiation Mediated Generation of Radicals from Azides, Maria E. de Cabrera

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A Phenomenological Study on Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulated Learning Strategies and their Link to Persistence in Hispanic College English Language Learners, Gabriela DeFrancisco

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How are Social Studies Teachers Using Technology in the Classroom?, Stephanie Delgado

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A Hardware-Assisted Insider Threat Detection and Prevention Framework, Kyle W. Denney

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Cavity Nest Webs as a Template for Studying Non-trophic Interactions in Invasion Ecology, Joshua M. Diamond

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The Relationship of a Novel Marker of Inflammation (Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio) to Nutritional Status, Diet and Clinical Outcomes in Hemodialysis Patients, Janet Diaz Martinez

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The Mediating Effects of Problematic Internet and Video Gaming Behaviors on Family, Cultural, and Individual Constructs among Latinx and non-Latinx Black Youth, Stephanie L. Diez

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A Quantitative Study of Expatriate Hotel Managers in Mainland China: An Exploration of Perceived Organizational Justice as a Mediator of Local Employee Job Satisfaction and Their Evaluation of Expatriate Manager Leadership Performance, Wei Ding

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Exploring the Potential of Endophytes and Medicinal Plants as Sources of Antimicrobials to Control Citrus Greening, Jessica Dominguez

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Evolutionary Expansions and Neofunctionalization of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors in Cnidaria, Ellen G. Dow

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Associations Between Adolescent Cannabis Use Trajectories and Anxiety, Jacqueline C. Duperrouzel

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Coupling Telemetry and Stable Isotope Techniques to Unravel Movement: Snook Habitat Use Across Variable Nutrient Environments, Cody W. Eggenberger

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Isolated Single-stage Power Electronic Building Blocks Using Medium Voltage Series-stacked Wide-bandgap Switches, Noureldeen Mohamed Elsayad

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Revising the Status Quo of Revisionism, Grand Strategy, and International Order, Onur Erpul

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The Sanctuary of Acceptance: Love and Identity Through the Letters and Poetry of John Keats, Amanda Caridad Estevez Ms.

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Generating Alternatives: The Possible Energy Transitions for France and Germany after the Paris Accord, Anna Fache

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Virtual Patient Simulation: Training Pre-Health Professionals in Suicide Risk Prevention, Francisco Javier Fajardo

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Affective States and Work Attitudes Linking Abusive Supervision to Employee Performance and the Impact of Ethical Climate on Abusive Supervision and Work Attitudes, Armando Falcon

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Manufacturing Sin on the Frontier of Heresy. Bishops, Franciscans and the Inquisition in Cuba during the Long Sixteenth Century, 1511 - 1611., Leonardo Falcon

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Corrosion Durability of a Nano-Particle Enriched Zinc-Rich Coating System For Highway Steel Bridges, Saiada Fuadi Fancy

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Retrofitting of Bridge Elements Subjected to Predominantly Axial Load Using UHPC Shell, Mahsa Farzad

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Essays in Real Estate Securities and Financial Institutions, Zifeng Feng

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Of Horses and Mules: Timescapes, Sacrotraffic, and Veiled Transnational Ecologies of Afro-Cuban Religions – An Autoethnography, Alexander Fernandez

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No Man's Land: Critical Disability and Exile in Modernist Literature, Danny Fernandez

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Exemplars of Error in the Works of Spenser and Sidney, Rene Ferrer

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Uprooting and Rerooting Religious Identities: Understanding the Experience of Self-Identified Christian Millennial Migrants from South America in Miami, Ernesto M. Fiocchetto

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Kaleidoscope: Essays on Color, Chloe C. Firetto-Toomey Ms

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) Communications in Wireless Cellular Networks, Abdurrahman Fouda

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A Privacy Framework for Decentralized Applications using Blockchains and Zero Knowledge Proofs, David Gabay

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Continuous-time Algorithms and Analog Integrated Circuits for Solving Partial Differential Equations, Nilan Udayanga Galabada Kankanamge

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Inoculating Rhizobium and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Snap Bean Under Salinity Stress to Study Plant Growth and Glomalin Production Effects, Claudia Lyl Garcia

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Incorporating Early Life History and Recruitment in Analysis of Population Dynamics of Wetland Fishes, John Vincent Gatto

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Reduction of Pertechnetate from Off-gas Condensate using Aged Zero-valent Iron as a Reducing Agent, Abraham T. Gebru

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Dynamics of Falling Droplet Under Effects of Electric Fields, Esmaiil Ghasemisahebi

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What Factors Influence Affirmative-Action Students' Achievement in Brazilian Federal Universities?, Gabriela Martinez Gillespie

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Proper, Politic, and Fetishized Object: Representations of Body in the Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, Courtney Glass

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Memoria, identidad y literatura del yo: narrativas de la segunda generación de escritores exiliados por la Guerra Civil española, Juan Antonio Godoy

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A Visually-Enhanced Approach to Multivariate Calculus Facilitated by a Computer Algebra System, Belarmino Gonzalez

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Wavenumber-1 Vortex Rossby Wave Propagation in the Inner Waveguide of a Modeled, Barotropic Nondivergent Tropical Cyclone, Israel Gonzalez

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Motor-Language Cascades: How Fine Motor Relates to Language Outcomes Across Early Development, Sandy Gonzalez

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The Historical Evolution of the A.M.E. Church: Social Intervention to Advance Blacks Socio-Economic Position, Jasmin N. Graham

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Swiping Right and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD): Examining Venue Selection, Risky Sexual Behaviors, and STD among Persons Living with HIV, Florida, 2014-2017, Isabel S. Griffin

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Click Fraud Detection in Online and In-app Advertisements: A Learning Based Approach, Thejas Gubbi Sadashiva

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Structural Basis for Chloroperoxidase Catalyzed Enantioselective Epoxidations and Mechanisms of Selected Anticancer Drug Induced Apoptosis, Yongjian Guo

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Protection of Active Distribution Networks and Their Cyber Physical Infrastructure, Hany Fawzy Kamel Habib

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The Validity and Reliability of an Adapted Problem-Solving Inventory (PSI): The Exploration of Paradoxical Problem-Solving as a Means to Manage Organizational Conflict, Salma A. Hadeed

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Toward a Better Understanding of the Roles of Social Exchanges and Psychological Safety on Followers' Change-Oriented Behaviors, Cynthia Saldanha Halliday

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Regulation of Telomerase Activity by Rab5 Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors, Patric J. Hambleton

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Embrace the Moon, Natalie J. Havlina

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Workplace Incivility toward Individuals with Disabilities, Secure Attachment Style, and Mental Health: Focus on Mediator and Moderator Effects, Mia Heikkila

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Malware Analysis for Evaluating the Integrity of Mission Critical Devices, Robert Heras

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The Role of Number Writing in Early Math Readiness, Giselle Hernandez

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Cloud Workload Allocation Approaches for Quality of Service Guarantee and Cybersecurity Risk Management, soamar homsi

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Development of Local and Global Corrosion Sensing Technique to Monitor Structural Behavior of Prestressed Concrete Structures, Dewan Z. Hossain

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Implications of Non-equity Financing for Firm Financial Reporting Quality and Information Environment, Md Safayat Hossain

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How State Capacity Matters: A Study of the Cooptation and Coercion of Religious Organizations in Southeast Asia and Beyond, Adam Howe

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A Nutrition Education Intervention with Maternal Support Among Children Participating in Summer Camps to Prevent Overweight and Obesity in Kuwait, Mashael Huwaikem

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Graphene Foam Reinforced Shape Memory Polymer Epoxy Composites, Adeyinka Idowu

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Essays on Macroeconomic Analysis of Development, Nazmul Islam

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ABC Closure Joints: Detailing, Design and Service Life, Azadeh Jaberi Jahromi

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How Organizational Cultures Moderate the Relationship between Demographic Diversity and Intragroup Conflict: A Meta-analysis, Ryan K. Jacobson

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Multiple Criteria Decision Models for Nurse-Patient Assignment: Balancing Workload and Continuity of Care, Haoqiang Jiang

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Ultra-Wideband Phased Arrays for Small Mobile Platforms, Alexander D. Johnson

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Mitigating Colluding Attacks in Online Social Networks and Crowdsourcing Platforms, Georges Arsene K. Kamhoua

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Tuning the Coordination Properties of Pyrazoles towards Specific Applications via Judicial Choice of Peripheral Substitution, Shambhu Kandel

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The Dancing Policeman and Other Stories, Satyaki Kanjilal

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How Does the Work of the Negro Youth Study (1937-1941) Fit into the History of the Social Sciences?, Randall Haines Kaufman

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Centralized and Distributed Detection of Compromised Smart Grid Devices using Machine Learning and Convolution Techniques, Cengiz Kaygusuz

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Development of Improved Extraction/Purification Methods and Comprehensive Screening/Confirmation by LC-QqQ-MS Analysis for Novel Psychoactive Substances, Ashley N. Kimble

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After Deterrence: Policy Choices during Crises of Conventional and Nuclear Direct Deterrence Failure, Yang Gyu Kim

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Information Delivery, User Decision Approach, and Choice Environment: Examining the Effectiveness of Non-Compensatory and Customization-based Online Decision Support., Malgorzata Kolotylo

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Towards Trigonal Prismatic Hexanuclear Copper Complexes For Catalytic Water Oxidation, David I. Kreiger

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Heart Disease and Its Risk Factors Among Slum-Dwelling Women in Mysore, India, Karl Krupp

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Heat Waves, Edward Charles Krzeminski

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Organizational Factors in Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation and Chronic Disease Management in HRSA-Funded Community Health Centers, Willmarie Latorre

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Phenolate Derivatives of Octanuclear Iron-Oxo-Pyrazolato Complexes; Enantiomeric Resolution of T-Symmetry Species, Konstantinos Lazarou

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A Genealogy of Neoliberal and Anti-neoliberal Resilience in the Ecuadorian Pacific coast, Vanessa Leon Leon

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Reproducing Privilege or Hippocratic Habitus: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Personal Statements and the use of Capital to Facilitate Matriculation into Medical School, Jessica M. Lewis

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Mechanical Behavior of Ternary Metallic Glasses and Their Composites, Xue Liang

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The Effect of Young Adult Literature on Adolescents' Acceptance of Relational Aggression, ilisa j. lieberman

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Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Director Departures, Wu-Po Liu

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Spark Plasma Sintering of 2D Nitride and Carbide based Ceramics, Archana Loganathan

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Nanoparticle-Based Spintronic Computer Logic Switch, Kevin Luongo

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Unleashing Crowd Wisdom: Leveraging Cognitive Memory Structures to Increase Quality of User-Generated Content, Mahed Maddah

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Machine Learning And Image Processing For Noise Removal And Robust Edge Detection In The Presence Of Mixed Noise, Mehdi Mafi

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Trying to Save the Family: A Memoir, Roberto J. Manzano

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Effects of Phosphorus on Benthic Diatom Assemblage Network Structure, Eric M. Massa

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Identifying Gay Neighborhoods and Estimation of the Size of the Men who have Sex with Men Population in Florida who would benefit from Pre-exposure Prophylaxis, Daniel Mauck

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Interrogation of Ion-Neutral Complexes by Trapped Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry and Theoretical Calculations, Alan A. McKenzie Coe

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Edge IoT Driven Framework for Experimental Investigation and Computational Modeling of Integrated Food, Energy, and Water System, Yemeserach Taye Mekonnen