Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Santeria as an Informal Psychosocial Support Among Latinas Living with Cancer, Adelaida M. Rosario
Obesity, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Weight Loss in a Population of Adult Mexican Americans, Janisse Rosario
Improved Criteria for Estimating Calibration Factors for Highway Safety Manual (HSM) Applications, Dibakar Saha
The Role of the Transcription Factor Ets1 in Melanocyte Development, Amy Saldana Tavares
Movement Effects on the Flow Physics and Nutrient Delivery in Engineered Valvular Tissues, Manuel Salinas
OPEC and the International System: A Political History of Decisions and Behavior, Reza Sanati
Paleoenvironments and Geochemical Signals from the Late Barremian to the Middle Aptian in a Tethyan Marginal Basin, Northeast Spain: Implications for Carbon Sequestration in Restricted Basins, Yosmel Sanchez Hernandez Mr.
Characterization of Rhizobial Diversity and Relationship of Rhizobial Partner and Legume Performance in Four South Florida Pine Rockland Soils, Vanessa Sánchez
Cultural Intelligence: Extending the Nomological Network, Ena Sawhney
Valuation of Ecosystem Services for Environmental Decision Making in South Florida, Nadia A. Seeteram
The Relationships between Elementary School Principals' Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Style and School Culture, Mirta R. Segredo
Investigating the Role of a Less Uranium Tolerant Strain, Isolated from the Hanford Site Soil, on Uranium Interaction in Polyphosphate Remediation Technology, Paola Sepulveda Medina
Exploring Oral Health Problems in Adult Hispanic Migrant Farmworkers: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Claudia A. Serna
Access to Better Education: The School Choice Experience of Families Served by Low-Performing Elementary Public Schools in Miami-Dade County, LeTania Severe
Advanced Methodologies in Dynamic Traffic Assignment Modeling of Managed Lanes, Shaghayegh Shabanian
Development of a Lab-on-a-Chip Device for Rapid Nanotoxicity Assessment In Vitro, Pratikkumar Shah
The Effects of Paternal and Maternal Nurturance and Involvement on Young Adult Academic Outcomes, Tara Sheehan
Text Analytics of Social Media: Sentiment Analysis, Event Detection and Summarization, Chao Shen
An Alternative Goodness-of-fit Test for Normality with Unknown Parameters, Weiling Shi
U.S. Construction Worker Fall Accidents: Their Causes And Influential Factors, Sohaib Siddiqui
Life Experiences of Youth Who Were Born with HIV Infection in Puerto Rico: The Voices of Young Survivors, Georgina Silva-Suarez
Dear Little Me: A Response to My Former Self, Carly Steele
Speciation, Metabolism, Toxicity, and Protein-binding of Different Arsenic Species in Human Cells, Szabina A. Stice
Human-driven Benthic Jellyfish Blooms: Causes and Consequences for Coastal Marine Ecosystems, Elizabeth W. Stoner
Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry of South Florida Coastal Marine Ecosystems, Sarah Elise Strand
Islam and Christianity: Comparing the Theory of Supersession Concerning Abraham, Mark Sweeney
Grey Slate, Brittany R. Szabo
Endogenous Risk Perception, Geospatial Characteristics and Temporal Variation in Hurricane Evacuation Behavior, Subrina Tahsin
Event Mining for System and Service Management, Liang Tang
Jesus as the Son of Man in Mark, Andres A. Tejada-Lalinde
Spatio-temporal Analysis of Chilling Events in Mangrove Forests of South Florida, Bina Thapa
Covalent Protein Adduction of Nitrogen Mustards and Related Compounds, Vanessa R. Thompson
Without an empire: Muslim mobilization after the caliphate, erik tisthammer
Con la Mocha al Cuello: The Emergence and Negotiation of Afro-Chinese Religion in Cuba, Martin Tsang
Hispanic Orientalism: The Literary Development of a Cultural Paradigm, from Medieval Spain to Modern Latin America, Svetlana V. Tyutina
Investigating Miami English-Spanish Bilinguals' Treatment of English Deictic Verbs of Motion, Erica Verde
The Effect of Rapport Building in Police Interrogations: Can Rapport Improve the Diagnosticity of Confession Evidence?, Daniella K. Villalba
The Influence of Gene Environment Interaction on the Risk of Cognitive Impairment: Reducing Sexual Risk Behaviors and Alcohol Use in HIV-infected Adults, Karina Villalba PhD
The Caribbean Court of Justice: An Investigation of the Impact of Elites on its Creation and Present Structure as it relates to Original Jurisdiction, Nicole A. Warmington-Granston
Recent Changes in Central and Eastern Pacific El Niño, Peter M. Washam
Rwanda's Miracle: From Genocide and Poverty to Peace and Economic Prosperity, Laura H. Wicks
Oxidative DNA Damage Modulates Trinucleotide Repeat Instability Via DNA Base Excision Repair, Meng Xu
Sources, Fate and Transformation of Organic Matter in Wetlands and Estuaries, Chao Ya
Statistical Dialog Management for Health Interventions, Ugan Yasavur
Rethinking the National Question: Anti-Statist Discourses within the Kurdish National Movement, Ozum Yesiltas
Understanding Immigrants' Travel Behavior in Florida: Neighborhood Effects and Behavioral Assimilation, Nishat Zaman
The Effects on Students' Self-Efficacy Beliefs Regarding Their Comprehension of American Literature When Aesthetic Reading and Reader Response Strategy are Implemented, Charlotte A. Zeitsiff
Implications of FIN 46 for Accruals Quality and Investment Efficiency, Fang Zhao
Quantitative Analysis and Determination of Microcystin in water by Capillary Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometry, Bingxue Zheng
Towards Next Generation Vertical Search Engines, Li Zheng
Integrity-Based Kernel Malware Detection, Feng Zhu
Mechanisms Governing the Eyewall Replacement Cycle in Numerical Simulations of Tropical Cyclones, zhenduo zhu
Cosmopolitan Imperialism: Mann, Sarmiento, and the Origins of Universal Education in Nineteenth-Century Boston and Buenos Aires, Carolina Zumaglini
Alienated Selfhood and Heroism: A Poststructuralist Reading of John le Carré’s Spy Fiction Novels, Milton Zuniga
Hegel's Critique of Contingency in Kant's Principle of Teleology, Kimberly Zwez
Analysis of White Latex Paints using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Forensic Applications, Melissa Zwilling
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Three Essays on Market Depth in Futures Markets, Alexandre Aidov
Climate, Land Use and Hydrologic Sensitivities of Stormwater Quantity and Quality in Complex Coastal Urban Watersheds, Shams Al-Amin
The Mediating Effect of Innovation on the Relationship between Corporate Reputation and Performance in U.S. Firms, Marcelo J. Alvarado-Vargas
Trends in Water Quality within the Broward County Portion of the Biscayne Aquifer, Leigh Auwers Ammon
Microspheres for Liver Radiomicrospheres Therapy and Planning, Alejandro Amor-Coarasa
Gaining Insight into Teaching: A Phenomenological Exploration of the Lived Experience of the Teachers of the Year, Robin F. Amparo
Give Us This Day, Barbara L. Anderson
A Decision Support Framework for Infrastructure Maintenance Investment Decision-Making, Farrukh Arif
Hazard Mitigation Element Quality in Coastal Comprehensive Plans in a State with Strong Requirements for Hazard Mitigation Plan Elements, Evelio E. Astray-Caneda III
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa AmpR Transcriptional Regulatory Network, Deepak Balasubramanian
Mixed Spatial and Nonspatial Problems in Location Based Services, Jaime Ballesteros
Photo Degradation of Cotnaminants of Emerging concern (CECs) under Simulated Solar Radiation: Implications for their Environmental Fate, Sudha Rani Batchu
Selection and Passage of County Land Preservation Voter Referendum: The Role of Government, Susan P. Beaghen
Fault Line, Kacee Lynn Belcher
Acclimatization of the Tropical Reef Coral Acropora millepora to Hyperthermal Stress, Anthony John Bellantuono
The Role of Teleost Grazers in a Relatively Pristine Seagrass Ecosystem, Cindy Bessey
Pressure Induced Structural Changes and Gas Diffusion Pathways in Monomeric Fluorescent Proteins, Yuba R. Bhandari
Buckwheat as a Cover Crop in Florida: Mycorrhizal Status, Soil Analysis, and Economic Assessment, Daria Boglaienko
Materials and Techniques in D’improvviso da immobile s’illumina, for Bass Clarinet, Two Orchestras, Piano and Percussion, Federico Bonacossa
The Anuvrat Movement: Theory and Practice, Shivani Bothra
Wildfire Assessment Using FARSITE Fire Modeling: A Case Study in the Chihuahua Desert of Mexico, John Brakeall
Blessed are the Peacemakers: Transnational Alliance, Protective Accompaniment and the Presbyterian Church of Colombia, Michael C. Brasher
Root:Shoot Ratio and Specific Leaf Area Along an Elevational Gradient in the Peruvian Andes, Catherine Heidy Bravo Avila
Implicit Eyewitness Memory, Rolando N. Carol
The Broken Mirror: Maternal Agency and Identity in Charles Dickens's Bleak House, Sarah E. Cash
The Effect of Reciprocal Mapping on High-Risk Sixth-Grade Students' Social Studies Achievement, Tina Cash
Intraspecific Relationships in Paracalanus quasimodo [Calinoideae] and Temora turbinata [Calinoideae] along the Southeastern Coast of the United States, Richard Y. Chang
Four Essays of Environmental Risk-Mitigation, Chiradip Chatterjee
Leakage Temperature Dependency Aware Real-Time Scheduling for Power and Thermal Optimization, Vivek Chaturvedi
Funtional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Study of Language, Joint Attention and Motor Skills, Ujwal Chaudhary
Structural Data Acquisition Using Sensor Network, Sainath Chidambar Munavalli
Political Strategy, Leadership, and Policy Entrepreneurship in Japanese Defense Policy and Politics: A Comparison of Three Prime Ministerships, Daniel L. Clausen