Theses/Dissertations from 2018
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 Mobile-Based Intervention for Obesity Prevention Among Female College Students in Saudi Arabia: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Abeer Hussain Alssafi
A Field Study Examining the Effect of High Intoxication Levels and Identification Format on Witnesses' Memory for Faces and Events, Christopher Altman
Understanding and Improving Older Male Participation and Older Adult Adherence in Evidence-Based Health Promotion Programs, Chelsie L. Anderson
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
Aptamer-Based Assay For Detection Of Ochratoxin A, Amanda Nicole Bartley
Exploring the Neural Mechanisms of Physics Learning, Jessica E. Bartley
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
Economic Development on U.S. Native American Reservations: A Case Study of the Tribes of Florida, Diane Benitez
The "New" Black in the New South: Negotiating Race and Space in North Carolina's Immigrant Communities, Masonya Joy Bennett
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
Social Dominance Orientation and Emotion Regulation: A Parallel Multiple Mediator Model of Instigated Incivility Moderated By Workgroup Civility Climate, Fabiana Brunetta
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
Religion and Ethnicity among Afro-Colombian Muslims in Buenaventura (Colombia), Diego Giovanni Castellanos
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
A Mixed Method Study of Prospective Teachers' Epistemic Beliefs and Web Evaluation Strategies Concerning Hoax Websites, Jennifer Coccaro-Pons
Mandala Springs, Juleen Collins
Evaluating Intensive Group Behavioral Treatment for Children with Selective Mutism, Danielle Cornacchio
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
The Racial Equation: Pan-Atlantic Eugenics, Race, And Colonialism in the Early Twentieth Century British Caribbean, Christopher Anderson Davis
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
Cooperative Learning in Seventh Graders’ Vocabulary Learning in China, yinhong duan
Impact of Herbivory, Structural Complexity, and Sediment on Caribbean Coral Reefs, Alain Duran
School Climate in the School Choice Era: A Comparative Analysis of District-Run Public Schools and Charter Schools, Christopher Damian Duszka
Forensic Toxicological Screening and Confirmation of 800+ Novel Psychoactive Substances by LC-QTOF-MS and 2D-LC Analysis, Melanie N. Eckberg
A Corpus-driven Approach toward Teaching Vocabulary and Reading to English Language Learners in U.S.-based K-12 Context through a Mobile App, Seyedjafar Ehsanzadehsorati
Automatic Extraction of Narrative Structure from Long Form Text, Joshua Daniel Eisenberg
Secure Control and Operation of Energy Cyber-Physical Systems Through Intelligent Agents, Mohamad El Hariri
Estimation and Prediction of Mobility and Reliability Measures Using Different Modeling Techniques, Fatema Hoque Farzana
The Effect of Reciprocal Mapping on Third-Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement and Reading Attitude, Olga Elena Flamion
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
The Gendered Long-Term Recovery Priorities of Internally Displaced Persons in Post-Earthquake Haiti, Nicki Fraser
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
Cuba i+real: Singularidades de lo Fantástico y la Ciencia Ficción en la Cuba Contemporánea, Licet Garcia
Mycobacterium tuberculosis inhibitors: action and resistance, Pamela K. Garcia-Moreno
China's Eurasian Foreign Policy: Region-Building Through State-Building Since 1991, Zenel Garcia
Patterns of Regularity Noncompliance Identified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Their Effects on Meta-analyses, Craig A. Garmendia
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
An Investigation into the Adduct Forming Potential of Drugs of Abuse with Peptides and Proteins, Richard Allen Gilliland
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
Unrefined Humic Substances as a Potential Low-cost Remediation Method for Groundwater Contaminated with Uranium in Acidic Conditions, Hansell Gonzalez Raymat
HIV Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Risk Behaviors among Women from Trinidad, Rosemarie Graczkowski
Superoxide Dismutase C Modulates Macropinocytosis and Phagocytosis in Dictyostelium Discoideum, Cong Gu
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