Theses/Dissertations from 2018
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
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
Multivariate Analysis for the Quantification of Transdermal Volatile Organic Compounds in Humans by Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell System, Ahmed Hasnain Jalal
Connectivity Analysis of Electroencephalograms in Epilepsy, Panuwat Janwattanapong
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
An Exploration of Names in Social and Professional Settings for Persons with Ethnically Identifying Names, Paige Whitney Johnson
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
Investigating the Role of the Proximal Cysteine Hydrogen Bonding Network and Distal Pocket in Chloroperoxidase, Elwood Kwong Lam
Longitudinal Effects of Peer, School, and Parenting Contexts on Substance Use Initiation in Middle School Adolescence, Barry Allen Ladis
Plant Pedagogies, Salmon Nation, and Fire: Settler Colonial Food Utopias and the (Un)Making of Human-Land Relationships in Coast Salish Territories, Janna L. Lafferty
HIV Tat and Morphine-induced Neurodegeneration in a Beclin 1 Hemizygous Mouse Model, Jessica A. Lapierre
Characterization of the Uranium-Bearing Phases Produced by Novel Remediation Technologies for Sequestration of Mobile Radiological Contaminants in the Hanford 200 Area Vadose Zone, Robert Michael Lapierre
Rip Current Generation, Flow Characteristics and Implications for Beach Safety in South Florida, Stephen B. Leatherman
The Era of Global Risk Premia, Derek-Dion D. Lee
The Real Snowbirds of South Florida: Using Citizen Science to Assess the Ranges of South Florida's Overwintering Birdsh, Alexander V. Levine
Florida's Pillar Coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus): The Roles of the Holobiont Partners in Bleaching, Recovery, and Disease Processes, Cynthia Fairbank Lewis
Multimodal Imaging for Enhanced Diagnosis and for Assessing Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease, Chunfei Li
Two Ways of Burning a Cotton Field, David James Lindstrom
How Does the Nature of Accounting Standards Affect Audit Quality and Earnings Attributes?, Ran Ling
Linking Husbandry and Behavior to Enhance Amphibian Reintroduction Success, Luke Jack Linhoff
Novel Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonant Systems, Daerhan Liu
Origami Antennas for Novel Reconfigurable Communication Systems, Xueli Liu
Low Cost Scanning Arrays, Matilda Gabriela Livadaru
A Neuroimaging Web Interface for Data Acquisition, Processing and Visualization of Multimodal Brain Images, Gabriel M. Lizarraga
Special and General Education Teachers’ Assessment of Their Participation in a Peer Assistance and Review (PAR) Program, Alexandre Lopes
Mapping of the Chromium and Iron Pyrazolate Landscape, Jessica Maria Lopez
Ambient Light: Essays on Marriage, Motherhood, and Mental Health, Bonnie Losak
Inheriting Illegality: Race, Statelessness, and Dominico-Haitian Activism in the Dominican Republic, Jacqueline Lyon
QCD Process in Few Nucleon Systems, Dhiraj Maheswari
Britain Can Take It: Civil Defense and Chemical Warfare in Great Britain, 1915-1945, Jordan I. Malfoy
Understanding the Functional Group-dependent Self-assembly and Cellular Entry of Cationic Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles, Prakash Manandhar
The Sacred Space and Religious Identity among Yezidis: Accounting for the Lived Experiences of Internally Displaced Persons in Northern Iraq, Katerina Mangini
Elemental Analysis of Adhesive Tapes by Laser-Based Methods, Claudia Martinez Lopez
Election Administration within the Sphere of Politics: How Bureaucracy Can Facilitate Democracy with Policy Decisions, Nicholas S. Martinez
Experimental Investigation of Wind-induced Response of Span-wire Traffic Signal Systems, Manuel A. Matus Mr.
Traffic-Aware Deployment of Interdependent NFV Middleboxes in Software-Defined Networks, Wenrui Ma
Diatoms as tools for inferring changing environmental gradients in coastal, freshwater wetlands threatened by saltwater intrusion, Viviana Mazzei
Examining Students' Representation Choices in University Modeling Instruction, Daryl McPadden
Chiyo-ni and Yukinobu: History and Recognition of Japanese Women Artists, Kara N. Medema
Negotiating Self: An Exploration of Women's Perceptions of Their Feminist and Submissive Identities, Carolyn Meeker
For Those About to Rock: Gender Codes in the Rock Music Video Games Rock Band and Rocksmith, Elisa M. Melendez
Design Optimization of Inductive Power Transfer Systems for Contactless Electric Vehicle Charging Applications, Masood Moghaddami
Conformational Dynamics of Biomolecules by Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry Dynamics, Juan Camilo Molano-Arévalo
Investigating Scale Effects on Analytical Methods of Predicting Peak Wind Loads on Buildings, Mohammadtaghi Moravej
Engineering Colonialism: Race, Class, and the Social History of Flood Control in Guyana, Joshua Mullenite
Vietnamese Teachers’ Perspectives Regarding Task-based Approach to Vocabulary Instruction in Secondary School English as a Foreign Language Classrooms, Dung Thi Thuy Nguyen
Task-based Language Teaching versus Present, Practice, Produce: Efficacy in Language Learning and Assessment, Majeed Noroozi
The Development of Spatial Vocabulary, Rosalie Odean
The Development and Initial Validation of a Self-Assessment for Global Leadership Competencies, Sabrena A. O'Keefe
Hand Motion Tracking System using Inertial Measurement Units and Infrared Cameras, Nonnarit O-larnnithipong
Habitat Use of Three Abundant Predatory Fish Species in the Freshwater Marshes of the Florida Everglades, Alex T. Ontkos
Novel Role of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa LptD Operon, Sundar Pandey
Epigenetic Mechanisms Regulating the Functional Effects of Chronic Alcohol Exposure of Human Monocyte-derived Dendritic Cells, Tiyash Parira
Spectrum Sharing, Latency, and Security in 5G Networks with Application to IoT and Smart Grid, Imtiaz Parvez
Thin Film Based Biosensors for Point of Care Diagnosis of Cortisol, Syed Khalid Pasha
Sab Concentration Determines the Chemotherapeutic Efficacy in Gynecological Cancer, Iru Paudel
Three Essays on Managing Extreme Weather Events and Climatic Shocks in Developing and Developed Countries, Md Tanvir Pavel
Shades of Liberalism: Lawyers and Social, Political and Legal Transformations in Nineteenth Century Cuba, Ricardo Pelegrin Taboada
Fall Safety Perspective of the Construction Professionals in Miami-Dade and Broward Area, Saurav Pokharel
Exposure to Estrogenic Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Brain Health, Mark Preciados