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Design, Fabrication, and Evaluation of On-chip Micro-supercapacitors, Majid Beidaghi

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Development of Local Homeland Security Networks in the State of Florida: A Social Network Analysis Approach, Patrick M. Bell

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Invasion of Bracken Fern in Southern Mexico: Local Knowledge and Perceptions in Two Indigenous Communities in the Chinantla Region, Oaxaca, Mexico, Carolina Berget

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Explaining Investor Preferences: The Significance of Socio-demographic, Ideological, and Attitudinal Factors, Abdul Beydoun

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Affect-based Modeling and its Application in Multimedia Analysis Problems, Abhishek Bhattacharya

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The Nature of Microvariability in Blazar 0716+714, Gopal Bhatta

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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Tumor Segmentation and Quantification: Development of New Algorithms, Ruchir N. Bhatt

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Assessing the Impact of Business Group Diversification on the Internationalization of their Affiliates: The Case of Latin American Firms, Armando J. Borda

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Ecosystem structure in disturbed and restored subtropical seagrass meadows, Amanda Bourque

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Determination of Signature Volatile Odor Chemicals Emanating from Novel Biological Specimens by Non-invasive Analytical Techniques for the Potential use in Forensic Identifications, Jessica S. Brown

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Top Down Control in a Relatively Pristine Seagrass Ecosystem, Derek A. Burkholder

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Reduced vowel production in American English among Spanish-English bilinguals, Emily Byers

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A Graduate Guitar Recital Consisting of Works by Leo Brouwer and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco with Extended Program Notes, Enrique Caboverde III

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The Discrimination and Association of Float Glass and The Quantitative Analysis of Liquids from Aerosols and Microdrops using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, Erica M. Cahoon

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The Effects of Carbon Dioxide Fertilization on the Ecology of Tropical Seagrass Communities, Justin E. Campbell

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Morning, Guillermo M. Cancio Bello

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The Impact of Round II Urban Empowerment Zones on Local Communities, Agatha S. Caraballo

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Personality and Performance: Assessing the Mediating Role of Mental Model Formation in the Personality-Performance Relationship, Eric Cartaya

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Operational Prediction of Groundwater-phosphorous Interaction Over Surficial Aquifers of South Florida, Yirgalem A. Chebud

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Cross-Layer Design for Energy Efficiency on Data Center Network, Tosmate Cheocherngngarn

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Study on a Hierarchy Model, Suisui Che

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The Impact of Friends on Newly Immigrant Children’s Emotional and Behavioral Adjustment, Ayse Cici Gokaltun

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The Endocrine Basis for Reproductive Life-history Trade-offs during the Previtellogenic Resting Stage in the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti, Mark E. clifton

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Extended Program Notes for Thesis Voice Recital, John J. Cogollo

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The Anagó Language of Cuba, Maria J. Concordia

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Development of an Integrated Surface and Subsurface Model of Everglades National Park, Amy Cook

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Melinis repens Seed Bank Longevity in Miami-Dade County, Cara A. Cooper

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Intermittently Forced Vortex Rossby Waves, Amaryllis Cotto

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Arthur and Una: Mis-pairings and Delays in 'The Faerie Queene' Book 1, Laura E. Creel

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Rise of Public Works and Sanitation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1765-1823, Monica Lynn Crowe

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The Relationship Between Parental Involvement and the Persistence of First-Generation Hispanic Millennial College Students, Anthony Cruz

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Factors Influencing the Implementation of Substance Use Prevention Programs in Elementary Schools, Jackie Cruz Wagener

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Computational Evaluation of Wind Loads on Low- and High- Rise Buildings, Agerneh Dagnew

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Egyptian Activism in the Modern Era and the Role of Information and Communication Technologies, Ramsey Dahab

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Carbon Nanostructure Based Electrodes for High Efficiency Dye Sensitize Solar Cell, Santanu Das

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Natural Disasters and Comparative State-Formation and Nation-Building: Earthquakes in Argentina and Chile (1822-1939), Quinn Dauer

The Clairvoyant of 8th Street, Anjanette Delgado

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A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Graduate Education Students' Understandings of Instructor Power in a Higher Education Classroom, Antonio Delgado

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Scheduling Medical Application Workloads on Virtualized Computing Systems, Javier Delgado

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Houngas and Mambos of the Diaspora: The Role of Vodou Ritual Specialists in Group Re-integration, Identity Creation and the Production of Health among Haitians in Little Haiti, Dorcas Dennis

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Tin Oxide Based Composites Derived Using Electrostatic Spray Deposition Technique as Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries, Abirami Dhanabalan

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Essays on Emissions Trading Markets, Kishore Dhavala

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The Development of Rubrics to Measure Undergraduate Students' Global Awareness and Global Perspective: A Validity Study, Stephanie Paul Doscher

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Small Farmer Market Knowledge and Specialty Coffee Commodity Chains in Western Highlands Guatemala, Courtney M. Dowdall

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The Distribution of Toxic and Essential Metals in the Florida Everglades, Zhiwei Duan

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The State of our Toolbox: A Meta-analysis of Reliability Measurement Precision, Krzysztof Duniewicz

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Multiuser Detection in Multiple Input Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Systems by Blind Signal Separation Techniques, Yu Du

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Facility 47 - A Novel, James N. Elens II

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AC/DC Smart Control and Power Sharing of DC Distribution Systems, Mohamed A. Elshaer

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Caretaker-Child Interactions At Bedtime: A Bidirectional Analysis of Noncompliant Bedtime Behavior, Desiree J. Espinal

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Relative Importance of False Positives in the Selection Process, Julio E. Fernandez de Cueto

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A Comprehensive Study of Bankruptcy Prediction: Accounting Ratios, Market Variables, and Microstructure, Giovanni Fernandez

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Personal and Institutional Factors: Relationship to Self-Efficacy of Persistence to the Senior Year in College among Self-Identified Black Undergraduate Students in a Hispanic Serving Institution, Sandra E. Fletcher

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Direct and Indirect Effects of Organic Matter Sources on Denitrificaton in Florida Rivers, Megan Fork

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Predictors of Adolescent Sexual Intentions and Behavior: Attitudes, Parenting, and Neighborhood Risk, Anne S. Frankel

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Measurement of the Induced Polarization of Lambda(1116) in Kaon Electroproduction with CLAS., Marianna Gabrielyan

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Examining Argumentative Coherence in Essays by Undergraduate Students of English as a Foreign Language in Mainland China and Their English Speaking Peers in the United States, Lianhong Gao

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The Role of Redox Signaling in the Molecular Mechanism of Tamoxifen Resistance in Breast Cancer, Nana Aisha Garba

Evaluating the Effects of Initial Participation in the Group Therapy Process, Arlene Garcia

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Deconstructing Domesticity and the Advent of a Heterotopia in Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby, Jeanette Garcia

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Evaluating Heavy Episodic Drinking Effects on Educational Attainment., Tracey A. Garcia

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Social and Environmental Regulation of Signal Plasticity and Signal Reliability in the Electric Fish Brachyhypopomus gauderio, Sat Gavassa Becerra

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Genetic Diversity in the Himalayan Populations of Nepal and Tibet, Tenzin Gayden

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Assessment of Biodegradable Magnesium Alloys for Enhanced Mechanical and Biocompatible Properties, Puneet Kamal S. Gill

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Development and Testing of a Second Generation Hand-held Optical Imager, Jean Gonzalez

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The Use of Computer Graphic Organizers For Narrative Writing By Elementary School Students With Specific Learning Disabilities, Mary K. Gonzalez-Ledo

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A Novel 3-D Segmentation Algorithm for Anatomic Liver and Tumor Volume Calculations for Liver Cancer Treatment Planning, Mohammed Goryawala

Hurricane Wilma: A Love Story, Dan A. Grech

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Effect of pH and temperature on the carbonate promoted dissolution of sodium meta-autunite, Ravi Krishna Gudavalli

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Career Technical Education Adjunct Faculty Teacher Readiness: An Investigation of Teacher Excellence and Variables of Preparedness, Jorge Guerra

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Improving Storage with Stackable Extensions, Jorge Guerra

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Essays in Economic Growth, Political Economy and Institutions, Ece Handan Guleryuz

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Raman Spectroscopy Study of Graphene Under High Pressure, Ali Hadjikhani

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Temporal Mapping and Connectivity using NIRS for Language Related Tasks, Michael A. Hall

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Teeth and Other Tales, Alexandra M. Handwerger

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The Factor Structure of the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment in a Clinic-referred Sample of Anxious Latino Youth, Devi Hausman

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Historiographic Metafiction and the Neo-slave Narrative: Pastiche and Polyphony in Caryl Phillips, Toni Morrison and Sherley Anne Williams, Christiane Hawkins

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The Influence of Spirituality, Race/Ethnicity and Religion on Parent Grief and Mental Health at one month and three months after their Infant's/Child's death in the Neonatal or Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Dawn M. Hawthorne

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The Moderating Mediation Effects of Maternal Psychological Control and Maternal Acceptance on the Relation Between Maternal Acculturation and Youth Anxiety, Ileana Hernandez

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Effects of Elevated Prenatal Progesterone on Postnatal Emotional Reactivity in Bobwhite Quail (Colinus Virginianus) Neonates, Joshua A. Herrington

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Essays of Strategic Alliance Portfolio Configuration— Its Performance Properties, Strategic Antecedents and Consequential Effects on Multinational Firms’ Continuing Foreign Expansion, Wei He

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Spatial and Temporal Patterns in the Distribution, Behavior, and Activity of Fishes in Canals of the Everglades, Ann C. Hijuelos

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History and Evolutionary Trajectory of the Iranian Nuclear Program, Mohammad Homayounvash

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A History of Bones, Amanda C. Hosey

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Exploring Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Selected Transition Elements under Extreme Conditions: Experiments at High Pressures and High Temperatures, Rostislav Hrubiak

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Power and Thermal Aware Scheduling for Real-time Computing Systems, Huang Huang

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Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Expected Loss Costs in Hurricane Models, Antonio R. Hudson

Birds of Ohio, Amy L. Hughes

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Examining the Validity of the GRE General Test Scores and Undergraduate GPA for Predicting Success in Graduate School at a Large Racially and Ethnically Diverse Public University in Southeast Florida, Myung Sook Hyun

Imagining Equality, Shifting Human Consciousness Toward Ecological Sustainability, Sarah Jacob

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Essays on the Effect of Tax Exemption on Competitiveness, Performance and Portfolio Risk of Credit Unions and Subchapter S Banks, Ajeet Jain

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Ab Initio Quantum Chemical Studies on Neutral-Radical Reactions of Ethynyl (C2H) and Cyano (CN) with Unsaturated Hydrocarbons, Adeel Jamal

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An Economic Analysis of Carbon Sequestration and Storage Service by Mangrove Forests in Everglades National Park, Florida, Meenakshi Jerath

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An Energy Based Nanomechanical Properties Evaluation Method for Cementitious Materials, Kaushal K. Jha

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Mechanisms of Chloroperoxidase-catalyzed Enantioselective Reactions as Probed by Site-directed Mutagenesis and Isotopic Labeling, Lin Jiang

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Host and Network Optimizations for Performance Enhancement and Energy Efficiency in Data Center Networks, Hao Jin

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A Bilateral Analysis of the South China Sea Dispute: China, the Philippines, and the Scarborough Shoal, Adam Nieves Johnson

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Examining the use of Simarouba glauca Seed Oil as a Feedstock for the Production of Biodiesel using a Small Scale Model Developed in India, Andrew Aaron Jungman

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VHITS: Vertical Handoff Initiation and Target Selection in a Heterogeneous Wireless Network, Faisal Kaleem

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Developing a High Density Pt/Alumina Hermetic Feedthrough, Ali Karbasi