Theses/Dissertations from 2018
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
Special and General Education Teachers’ Assessment of Their Participation in a Peer Assistance and Review (PAR) Program, Alexandre Lopes
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
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
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
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
The Development of Spatial Vocabulary, Rosalie Odean
The Development and Initial Validation of a Self-Assessment for Global Leadership Competencies, Sabrena A. O'Keefe
Novel Role of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa LptD Operon, Sundar Pandey
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
Exposure to Estrogenic Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Brain Health, Mark Preciados
Evaluation of a Brief Intervention to Improve Human Papillomavirus-Related Awareness, Knowledge, and Attitudes Among Ethnically and Sexually Diverse College Students, Sharice M. Preston
Monstrous Maternity: Folkloric Expressions of the Feminine in Images of the Ubume, Michaela Leah Prostak
Short Selling: Implications for Corporate Governance and Capital Structure, Mohammad Anisur Rahman
The Investigation of Photocatalytic and Adsorptive Properties of Humic Acid Grafted Magnetite Nanoparticles for the Remediation of Arsenic, Selenium and Phosphorous from Water, Mohammad Mamunur Rashid
Augmented Terrain-Based Navigation to Enable Persistent Autonomy for Underwater Vehicles in GPS-Denied Environments, Gregory M. Reis
Trinucleotide Repeat Instability Modulated by DNA Repair Enzymes and Cofactors, Yaou Ren
Study on Strut and Node Behavior in Strut-and-Tie Modeling, Nazanin Rezaei
Cross-sectional Predictors of HIV Risk among Latino Migrant Workers, Ailin Rodriguez
Three Essays in International Finance, Iván Marcelo Rodríguez Jr
Perceptions of Leadership and Climate in the Stressor-Strain Process: Influences on Employee Appraisals and Reactions, José F. Rodríguez
Synthesis and Characterization of Fe8-based Materials as Electron Acceptors for Solar Energy Applications, Alan J. Rodriguez-Santiago
Impact of San-mediated Signaling on Glioblastoma and Neuroblastoma Metabolism, Monica Rodriguez Silva
Environmental Dynamics of Dissolved Organic Matter and Dissolved Black Carbon in Fluvial Systems: Effects of Biogeochemistry and Land Use, J. Alan Roebuck Jr.
Identification Through Movement: Dance as the Embodied Archive of Memory, History, and Cultural Identity, Lauren D. Romaguera
Aptamer Sensors for Drugs of Abuse and Medical Biomarkers: Design, Engineering and Application in Complex Samples, Daniel Roncancio
Poly (Ionic Liquid) Based Electrolyte for Lithium Battery Application, Meer N. Safa
Mending Identity: The Revitalization Process of the Muisca of Suba, Paola A. Sanchez Castaneda
The Adaptive Evolution of Herbivory in Freshwater Systems, Jessica Lynn Sanchez Montelongo
Kill Your Darlings: The Afterlives of Pepe The Frog, Sherlock Holmes, and Jim Crow, Allison E. Sardinas
Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Total Phosphorus Concentration in Soil and Surface Water in the Everglades Protection Area, Shishir Kumar Sarker
Social Comparison in Eating Disorder Recovery: A Mixed-Methodological Approach, Jessica Faye Saunders
The Relationship Between District Concert Band Music Performance Assessment Participation and Student Achievement in Miami-Dade County Public Middle Schools, Arthur J. N. Scavella
Impact of Person-Environment Fit upon Strain and Well-Being for Emergency Responders, April D. Schantz
Application of High Resolution Mass Spectrometry for the Screening and Confirmation of Novel Psychoactive Substances, Joshua Zolton Seither
Changes in Soil Microbial Functioning in Coastal Wetlands Exposed to Environmental Stressors and Subsidies, Shelby M. Servais
The Thermal-Constrained Real-Time Systems Design on Multi-Core Platforms -- An Analytical Approach, SHI SHA
Three Essays in Health, Welfare, and International Economics, Amin Shoja
Pennsylvania's Loyalists and Disaffected in the Age of Revolution: Defining the Terrain of Reintegration, 1765-1800, Rene J. Silva
Development and Application of Aquatic Toxicology Studies for the Assessment of Impacts Due to Chemical Stressors Using Non-Standard Indigenous Organisms, Abraham Jeffrey Smith
Thermodynamic Evaluation and Modeling of Grade 91 Alloy and its Secondary Phases through CALPHAD Approach, Andrew Logan Smith Mr.
Identifying the Origins of Volcanic Ash Deposits Using Their Chemical and Physical Compositions, Emmanuel Soto
Anomalous Properties of Sub-10-nm Magnetic Tunneling Junctions, Mark Stone
Using Introduced Species of Anolis Lizards to Test Adaptive Radiation Theory, James T. Stroud
Structure-Function Relationships in Hexacoordinate Heme Proteins: Mechanism of Cytoglobin Interactions with Exogenous Ligands, Antonija Tangar
Novel Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection Approaches for Composite and Metallic Structures, Shervin Tashakori
A Philosophical Inquiry into the Role of Universities in American Democratic Society, Justin W. Taylor
The Greatest is Love, Leslie Charles Taylor
Recovery of Amphibian and Reptile Communities During Tropical Secondary Forest Succession, Michelle E. Thompson
Evolutionary and Population Dynamics of Crustaceans in the Gulf of Mexico, Laura Timm
Privacy-Preserving Protocols for IEEE 802.11s-based Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure Networks, Samet Tonyali
Employees’ Responses to Positive Feedback from Customers and Managers, I Hsuan Tsai
International Trade and Environmental Regulation, Qingru Tu
Truffles Have Never Been Modern: An Actor-Network Theorization of 150 Years of French Trufficulture, Eric Van Vleet
Evaluating Changes to Natural Variability on a Warming Globe in CMIP5 Models, Heather Vazquez
Three Essays on International Trade and Migration, Yun Wang
The Evolution and Domestication Genetics of the Mango Genus, Mangifera (Anacardiaceae), Emily Warschefsky
Addressing Alcohol and Marijuana use Disparities among Latino Adolescents, Jessica Weissman
The Oscillatory Shear Index: Quantifications for Valve Tissue Engineering and a Novel Interpretation for Calcification, Alex Williams
On Some Ridge Regression Estimators for Logistic Regression Models, Ulyana P. Williams
Drivers and Mechanisms of Peat Collapse in Coastal Wetlands, Benjamin J. Wilson
Elucidating the Role of Neighborhood Deprivation in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy, Kelly M. Winter
Financial Sector Development, Economic Growth and Stability, Wenjun Xue
A Simplified Secure Programming Platform for Internet of Things Devices, Halim Burak Yesilyurt
On the Performance of some Poisson Ridge Regression Estimators, Cynthia Zaldivar
Alliance Networks Management: A Study of Global Automotive Industry, Yue Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Stability of Uranium-Bearing Precipitates Created as a Result of Ammonia Gas Injections in the Hanford Site Vadose Zone, Alberto Javier Abarca Betancourt
A Floristic Study of Halmahera, Indonesia Focusing on Palms (Arecaceae) and Their Seed Dispersal, Melissa E. Abdo
The Effects of Artemisia Derived Natural Products on Adipogenesis, Steven Abood
Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wireless Localization in Search and Rescue, Virgilio Acuna
The Relationship between Information Literacy and Global Learning, Valda J. Adeyiga
Synthesis of Antimicrobial Polymers to Overcome Antimicrobial Resistance, Md Salauddin Ahmed
Analysis of Eye-Tracking Data in Visualization and Data Space, Sayeed Safayet Alam
History, Material Culture, and the Search for the Mythic American Dream in Angie Cruz’s Let it Rain Coffee, Michelle Almonte
Policymaking in the Gulf Region: The Case of Privatization Policy in the State of Kuwait, Shahed Altammar
Development of a Lightweight Hurricane-Resistant Roof System, Ehssan Amir Sayyafi
The Study of Tissue-Specific DNA Methylation as a Method for the Epigenetic Discrimination of Forensic Samples, Joana AP Antunes