Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Land Use and Water Quality Correlations in Miami-Dade, Florida, Audrey R. Becnel
Neuroscience and Hindu Aesthetics: A Critical Analysis of V.S. Ramachandran’s “Science of Art”, Logan R. Beitmen
Neuromuscular Changes in Older Adults during the Lateral Step Task, Tatiana Bejarano
UV-Induced Melanoma Mouse Model Dependent on Endothelin 3 Over-Expression, Ana Paula Benaduce
Out of View: Stories, Justin Bendell
Mosquito Larvicides from Cyanobacteria, Gerald A. Berry
First Time Measurements of Polarization Observables for the Charged Cascade Hyperon in Photoproduction, Jason S. Bono
Curriculum development in a heritage language community-based school: A Qualitative inquiry regarding a Brazilian-Portuguese program in South Florida, Ivian Destro Boruchowski
Fiber Pathways for Language in the Developing Brain: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Study, Iris J. Broce
The Roles of Microcystin and Sulfide in Physiology and Tactic Responses of Pathogenic and Non-Pathogenic Mat-Forming Cyanobacteria, Abigael C. Brownell
Vocal Synthesis and Deep Listening, Chelsea A. Bruno
Syndemic Health Disparities and Resilience Processes Related to HIV Transmission Risk among African American/Black Men in South Florida, Mance E. Buttram
El Posnacionalismo en la Narrativa Cubana Actual: Reivindicación de lo Privado y lo Homoerótico, Raul Cabrera
Dictionary of Storms, Marci Calabretta
Identification of Characteristic Volatile Organic Compounds Released during the Decomposition Process of Human Remains and Analogues, Norma Iris Caraballo
A Deconstruction of Elie Wiesel's The Time of the Uprooted, Cristina T. Carbonell
Synthesis of a PbTx-2 photoaffinity and fluorescent probe and an alternative synthetic route to photoaffinity probes, Ryan T. Cassell
Non-Consumptive Effects of Predators in Coral Reef Communities and the Indirect Consequences of Marine Protected Areas, Laura Catano
Operational Actual Wetland Evapotranspiration Estimation for South Florida Using MODIS Imagery, Cristobal N. Ceron
Gender In Motion: Negotiating Bengali Social Statuses Across Time and Territories, Mayurakshi Chaudhuri
Design and Synthesis of S-ribosylhomocysteine Analogues, Christiane Chbib
Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-γ Coactivator 1-α (PPARGC1A) Genetic Associations with Type 2 Diabetes in Three Ethnicities, Amanpreet K. Cheema
Essays on Intergenerational and Regional Aspects of Water Management, Yu Chen
Democracy Promotion and Turkey, Bilal Ciplak
Using Sonic Enhancement to Augment Non-Visual Tabular Navigation, Jonathan M. Cofino and Armando Barreto
A Critical Examination of the Experience of being a Gay Officer in the Masculinized Industry of Law Enforcement, Joshua C. Collins
Sustainable Public Pension System for Florida Local Governments: Financial Solvency, Paradigm Switch, and Interperiod Equity, Yongqing Cong
The Effect of a Multi-Component Consultation Intervention on the Pragmatic Language Skills of Students with Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Brittney M. Cooper
The Efficacy of San Lazaro and His Manifestations: Divine Mediators of Health Within Miami's Cuban-American Santeria Community., Marisol Cribeiro
Life Is Good-If But Briefly, Tim P. Curtis
Variable Speed Limit Strategies to Reduce the Impacts of Traffic Flow Breakdown at Recurrent Freeway Bottlenecks, Ali Darroudi
Three Essays on the Economics of Defense Contracting, Output and Income Inequality, Edward M. DeCambra
Exploring the Use of Everglades Agricultural Area Canal Water as Base Medium for the Mass Production of Algae for Biofuels, Nina N. De la Rosa
Reanalysis of the 1954-1963 Atlantic Hurricane Seasons, Sandy Delgado
The Lines We Crossed, Jane Deon
The Response to an ESL Population Boom in the Beaufort County, South Carolina School System: A Case Study, Amanda G. de Varona
The Ecology and Economics of Seagrass Community Structure, Bryan Dewsbury
Analysis of Kepler Active Galactic Nuclei Using A Revised Kirk, Rieger, Mastichiadis (1998) Model, Sarah M. Dhalla
Canopy Gaps as Foci of Succession in a Florida Keys Tropical Hardwood Forest, Joshua M. Diamond
A Multi-core Testbed on Desktop Computer for Research on Power/Thermal Aware Resource Management, Ashley Dierivot
Three Essays on Taxation, Growth and Consumption, Yi Ding
Development of a Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Method for the Detection of Benzodiazepines in Urine, Erika L. Doctor
What Does Board Capital Really Bring to the Table? Exploring the Effect of Directors’ Human and Social Capital on Effective Governance During International Expansion, Whitney G. Douglas Fernandez
Personnel Selection, Safety Performance, and Job Performance: Are Safe Workers Better Workers?, Erica N. Drew
Enhanced Anchorage of Tissue-Engineered Cartilage Using an Osteoinductive Approach, Rupak Dua
Spatial Articulations of Race, Desire, and Belonging in Western North Carolina, LaToya Eaves
Socio-ecological Vulnerability to Climate Change in South Florida, Emily Eisenhauer
Foundations of Quantitative Information Flow: Channels, Cascades, and the Information Order, Barbara Espinoza Becerra
Real-Time Scheduling of Embedded Applications on Multi-Core Platforms, Ming Fan
Odú in Motion: Afro-Cuban Orisha Hermeneutics and Embodied Scholarship, Life Reflections of a Lukumí Priest, Alexander Fernandez
Household Preferences for Financing Hurricane Risk Mitigation: A Survey Based Empirical Analysis, Damon Fitzgerald
A Scalable Multimedia Content Processing Framework with Application to TV Shopping, Fausto C. Fleites
Influence of Gender and Life Stressors on Longitudinal Depression Treatment Outcomes Among Older Primary Care Patients, Karen Fortuna
Simply Genre Films: Extracting “King Lear” from “House of Strangers” and “Broken Lance", Sophia G. I. Funk
Novel Insights into the Mechanisms of Regulation of Tyrosine Kinase Receptors by Ras Interference 1, Adriana Galvis
An Institutional, Socio-economic, and Legal Analysis of Fisheries Co-management and Regulation in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica, Alejandro J. Garcia Lozano
The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status, Course Delivery Method, and Student Success at a State College: A Single Institution Analysis, Rolando Garcia
China's Military Modernization, Japan's Normalization and its Effects on the South China Sea Territorial Disputes, Zenel Garcia
Engineering Analysis in Imprecise Geometric Models, Riccardo Gasparini
Linear and Nonlinear Motion of a Barotropic Vortex, Israel Gonzalez
Anti-Romance: How William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” Informed John Keats’s “Lamia”, Shelly S. Gonzalez
Essays on Migration: Nexus with Policy, Trade, and Development, Michael Good
Predictors of Independent Living Outcomes Among Older Women Receiving Informal Care, Julie Grochowski
The Effects of Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) as Intensivists in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) on Patient Outcomes, Healthcare Charges, and APN Intensivist Services in the SICU, Francisco Guido-Sanz
Comprehending Performance of Cross-Frames in Skewed Straight Steel I-Girder Bridges, Jawad H. Gull
Freshwater Resource Supply Modeling for Developed and Undeveloped Watersheds, Kelly C. Gustafson
A Visual Critical Ethnography Of Youth Development In A Rio de Janeiro Favela, Bryn E. Hafemeister Ed.D.
The Validity of Broad and Narrow Personality Traits For Predicting Job Performance: The Differential Effects of Time, Michael B. Harari
Stakeholder Perceptions and Preferences for Coral Reef Restoration and Sustainable Resource Management, James Wilkinson Harper
Analyzing Invasion Success of the Mayan Cichlid (Cichlasoma urophthalmus; Günther) in Southern Florida, Elizabeth Harrison
Bleaching To Reach: Skin Bleaching as a Performance of Embodied Resistance in Jamaican Dancehall Culture, Treviene A. Harris
Cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety disorders in youth: Treatment specificity and mediation effects, Ileana Hernandez
Does the Pareto Distribution of Hurricane Damage Inherit its Fat Tail from a Zipf Distribution of Assets at Hazard?, Javiera I. Hernandez
Maternal-Fetal Attachment and Health Behaviors among Women with HIV/AIDS, Julieta P. Hernandez
Ficción Extrema: Deslizamientos en la Realidad a Través de la Relación Entre Arte y Literatura (Max Aub, Leonora Carrington y Enrique Vila-Matas), Adriana Herrera
Elevated Progesterone In Yolk As a Moderator of Prenatal and Postnatal Auditory Learning in Bobwhite Quail, Joshua A. Herrington
The Effects of Resilience and Social Influences on Preventing Repeat Adolescent Pregnancies in Parenting Adolescent Mothers, Nola A. Holness
Influence of Chemical Composition and Water on the Bulk Modulus of Pyrope, Shu Huang
The Development of a Hybrid Optimization Algorithm for the Evaluation and Optimization of the Asynchronous Pulse Unit, Eric Inclan
Images and Perceptions of Muslims and Arabs in Korean Popular Culture and Society, Maria M. Jamass
Harlemites, Haitians and the Black International: 1915-1934, Felix Jean-Louis III
A Geochemical Study of Crustal Plutonic Rocks from the Southern Mariana Trench Forearc: Relationship to Volcanic Rocks Erupted during Subduction Initiation, Julie A. Johnson
Haiti, 1965 - A Novel, Fabienne Sylvia Josaphat
Synthesis and Characterization of Thermoelectric Nanomaterials, Kamal Kadel
Comparing Remote Data Transfer Rates of Compact Muon Solenoid Jobs with Xrootd and Lustre, Gary H. Kaganas
Techniques for Efficient Execution of Large-Scale Scientific Workflows in Distributed Environments, Selim Kalayci
Experimental Deuteron Momentum Distributions with Reduced Final State Interactions, Hari Khanal
Understanding rapport-building in investigative interviews: Does rapport's effect on witness memory and suggestibility depend on the interviewer?, Jenna M. Kieckhaefer
Menopause, Rurality, And Obesity in Rural African American Women, colleen kilgore
Hermes, a Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, Tyler T. Kimmel
Environmental Influences on Bacterio-phytoplanktonic Coupling and Bacterial Growth Efficiency in a Sub-tropical Estuary, Rachel Kotkowski