Theses/Dissertations from 2018
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
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
Exposure to Estrogenic Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Brain Health, Mark Preciados
Material Girls: Consumption and the Making of Middle Class Identity in the Experiences of Black Single Mothers in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area, Aysha L. Preston Ph.D.
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
Search Rank Fraud Prevention in Online Systems, Md Mizanur Rahman
Short Selling: Implications for Corporate Governance and Capital Structure, Mohammad Anisur Rahman
Improved Methods for Network Screening and Countermeasure Selection for Highway Improvements, Md Asif Raihan
Brain Connectivity Networks for the Study of Nonlinear Dynamics and Phase Synchrony in Epilepsy, Hoda Rajaei
Interior Damage of Residential Building Due to Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion, Farzaneh Raji
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
Survival at the Summits: Amphibian Responses to Thermal Extremes, Disease, and Rapid Climate Change in the High Tropical Andes, Kelsey E. Reider
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