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Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Dolores' Last Will and Testament, Victoria Calderin

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Wolbachia Response to Insulin Signaling and Nutritional Status of the Drosophila Melanogaster Host, Moises Camacho

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Exonuclease Digestion Assay for Streamlining Aptamer Characterization, Engineering, and Sensor Development, Juan Canoura

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Understanding Exosomal Extracellular Vesicles and Morphine in the Neuropathology of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Differential Zika Virus Strain-associated Pathology, Allen Caobi

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The Relationship between Gifted Selection Criteria and Student Performance on Fifth-Grade Science Achievement, Teresa Vega Cereijo

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The Role of Inositol Polyphosphate-4-Phosphatase Type II B (INPP4B) in Normal and Neoplastic Physiology of Diet-Induced Obese Mouse Models, Yasemin Ceyhan

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Three Essays on Healthcare Economics, Esteban Chinchilla

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Hydration Status, Association of Body Composition and Bone Mass in Children and Adolescents, Priscilla Kay Clayton

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Body Weight Related Interactions Between Health Care Professionals and Women with Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes, Ivonne M. Cobelo

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Do Home Invasion Serial Killers Warrant a Distinct Classification from Other Serial Killer Location Types? A Retrospective Comparative Examination, Caroline V. Comerford

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Hydrologic Properties of Mangrove and Sawgrass Peat in Shark River Slough, Everglades, Florida, Nicole Cordoba

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Science and Madness: Echoes of Freudian Psychoanalysis in the Works of H.P. Lovecraft and the Weird, Brandon J. Cordova

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"We Need Educational Confession": A Philosophical Inquiry of Curriculum as Confession, Christopher M. Cruz

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Afro-Cubans, Incorporation, and Cubanidad in Miami, FL, Elena M. Cruz

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Fins & Limbs, Katherine G. Cruz

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Jewish Conversion during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Victoria Davide

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The Relationship between Perceived Organizational Support, Perceived Career Mobility, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment on Job Performance, and Turnover Intentions, Everod A. Davis

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Perils, Pitfalls & Dilemmas in Responding to Transnational Organized Crime Groups., Juan Del Rio

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A Resilience Assessment Framework of Infrastructure Systems by Integrating Social Equity to Support Disaster Resilience Decision Making, Sunil Dhakal

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Psychological and Agentic Effects of Human-Bot Delegation in Open-Source Software Development (OSSD) Communities: An Empirical Investigation of Information Systems Delegation Framework, Spurthy Dharanikota

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Means to an End: A Qualitative Interview Study on Medical Students and Debt, Alberto Juan Diaz Jr

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El Señor De Los Milagros: Religious Globalization in Miami, Rachaell Dayanara Diaz

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Celluloid Subversion: A Queer Reading of 1980s Teen Slasher Cinema, Yates Diaz

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The Effect of Participation in Production Ideation Crowdsourcing on Affective Commitment as a Driver of Customer Loyalty in the United States Lodging Industry, Clay Dickinson

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Essays on The Economic Effects of Income Inequality, Adir dos Santos Mancebo Junior

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Study of the Etaprimepi0 System in GlueX, Rupesh Dotel

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Imagining Costumbrismo: Connecting Image and Text in Nineteenth-Century Colombian Cuadros de Costumbres, María Sol Echarren

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Assessment of factors affecting dropout intentions during the first year in a modeling school, Mauro Echeverri

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In Silico Characterization of Protein-Protein Interactions Mediated by Short Linear Motifs, Heidy Elkhaligy

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Local Health Department Capacity to Improve Public Health - The Impact of Public Health Accreditation and Public Health Funding, Nancy S. Elliott

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Exploring Psychopathy Predictors in Males and Females, Teresa M. Encalada

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Treatment and Transport Study of the Problematic Pollutants: Application of Iron Oxide Based Humic Acid Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles and Natural Amendments, Anahita Esmaeilian

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Homoerotic Medievalism: Looking at Queer Desire in the Homosocial Relationships of Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale” and Fletcher and Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen, Juan P. Espinosa

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Discovery of First-in-Class Small Molecule Agonists of the RXFP2 Receptor as Therapeutic Candidates for Osteoporosis, Maria Esteban Lopez

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Hybrid Experimental-Numerical Methodology and Field Calibration for Prediction of Peak Wind Effects on Low-Rise Buildings and Their Appurtenances, Johnny Estephan

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The Politics of the Self: Psychedelic Assemblages, Psilocybin, and Subjectivity in the Anthropocene, Joshua Falcon

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Facilitating Emerging Non-volatile Memories for Ensuring Security and Device Trust, Farah Ferdaus

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The Impact of The Affordable Care Act on Clinically Recommended Preventive Care Services Among Medicare Beneficiaries 65 Years and Older, Michelle E. Fields

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Causal Mechanisms of Food Web Structure and Function - A Tale of Three Drivers: Spatiotemporal Variation, Ecosystem Engineering, and Invasive Species, Peter J. Flood

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Topics on Patient Safety Culture in Hospitals, Jayson J. Forbes

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A Phenomenographic Study of K-8 Mathematics Teachers’ Conceptualizations and Their Accounts of Enacting Integrated STEM Education, Elizabeth Forde

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Decision-making Culture and Change: Toward Democratic Equity and Inclusion, Dale Francis

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Narrative Inquiry: A Focus on Haitian Immigrant English Learners in the Mainstream Classrooms, Emma Caris Francois

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Honeypot-based Security Enhancements for Information Systems, Javier R. Franco

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An Investigation to Corroborate Volatile and Biological Profiles of Human Odor for Forensic Subject Identification, Chantrell J.G. Frazier

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Gamified Coding Platforms and Student Motivation: An Investigation into Motivation and Academic Performance in Computer Programming Students, David C. Freer

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A Group of Hyenas is a Cackle, Kristin Gallagher

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Determinants of Waterpipe Smoking Trajectories and the Effects of Pictorial Health Warning Label among Young Waterpipe Smokers in the US, Prem Gautam

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Examining the Effects of Individual and Neighborhood Factors on HIV Transmission Risk Potential among People With HIV, Semiu Olatunde Gbadamosi

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Assessment of the Toxicity of Legacy and Next-Generation Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Early-Life Stages of Freshwater and Marine Fish, Kiflom Gebreab

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Observation to Action: A Stakeholder Driven Analysis and Assessment of a Data-Limited Fishery, Carissa L. Gervasi Bloom

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Novel Applications for Forensic DNA Analysis, the Human Genome and Beyond, Mirna Salim Ghemrawi

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Longing for the Homeland: The Palestinian American Diaspora and Palestinian Advocacy in the United States, Mohamed Khaled Ghumrawi

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The Investigation of Human Scent as a Biometric through Targeted and Untargeted Chemometric Analyses, Vidia A. Gokool

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Little Intangible Wrongdoings, Jaden Gongaware

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How to Leverage Strategic Alliances: The Success Factors of Strategic Alliance in Property Management, Luis A. Gonzalez Jr.

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Overcoming Liability of Foreignness: A Study on Product Country Image, its Antecedents, and How Product Labeling Influences Purchase Intentions, Luis A. Gonzalez

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Polarimetric Imaging of the Uterine Cervix, Mariacarla Gonzalez

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Beyond Honor: Historicizing Sexual Coercion in Late Colonial Lima, 1750-1821, Morgan C. Gray

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Serverless Enabled Framework for Machine Learning Applications: Architecture, Solutions, and Evaluations, Boyuan Guan

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Development of a High-Resolution Digital Elevation Model of a Pilot Study Area in Basin 6, Located Near the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), New Mexico, USA, Gisselle A. Gutierrez-Zuniga

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Climatology of Rainfall Distribution and Asymmetries of Tropical Cyclones: A Global Perspective, Oscar Guzman Rey

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Evaluating Fatigue Resistance of the Fiber-reinforced 100% RAP Content Asphalt Mixture Rejuvenated with Waste Vegetable Oil, Farshad Haddadi

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Understanding the Lived Experiences of Academic Advisors Utilizing Coaching Skills and Techniques, Jennifer C. Halpern

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Emotional Competence in Children: A Unifying Framework and Novel Measure, Megan Hare

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Assembly of Invaded Plant-pollinator Communities in a Fire-adapted Pine Rockland in the Lower Florida Keys, Brittany M. Harris

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Volitional Control of Lower-limb Prosthesis with Vision-assisted Environmental Awareness, S M Shafiul Hasan

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Studying Changes To Face Encoding After Category Learning Through Sensitivity Thresholds, Jason Hays

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La poesía de Juan Ramón Jiménez en América, Habey Hechavarria

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Sex Trafficking in India: The Role of Formal and Informal Support Providers, Claire E. Helpingstine

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Geochemical Characteristics of the Barremian-Aptian Transition in Three Localities (Organyà Town, Cuchía, La Frontera) of the Iberian Peninsula: Implications for the Record of Organic-Rich Deposits in the Tethyan Realm around Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a, Carlos Herdocia

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Synthesis of Phenyl Carbamoylated Guanidine Functionalized Chitosan, Eduardo Hernandez Requejo

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The Influence of a Showup Identification on a Subsequent Witness Description, Kelsey Lynne Hess

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Trouble in Bibleland and Other Stories, Jordan Hill

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Collaboration for Public Services: Explaining Outputs and Outcomes, Jennifer Hilton Montero

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A Look at Contributing Factors that Affect Female Underrepresentation in Management, in the United States, Nushine W. Hosseini

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The Role of Conformational Changes in Viral and Bacterial Protein Functions, Md Lokman Hossen

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Twice Enslaved: African Slavery in the Colonial Florida Indian Trade, Clinton L. Hough

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Development of Human Valvular Calcification via Fluid-Induced Oscillatory Shear Stress-Based Cell and Tissue Culture, Chia-Pei Hsu

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Male Teachers' Exit Decisions: A Qualitative Interview Study Examining the Experiences of Male Teachers Who Left Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), Tierney E. Hunter

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PrEParing to Break Barriers: A Mixed Methods Exploration of the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions of HIV, PrEP, and HIV Risk Behaviors among Women of Color in Miami, Florida, Amanda C. Ichite

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Degree of Technology, Adequacy of Infrastructure, and Stimulus Rainy-Day-Fund as Determinants of a Firm’s Performance during a Pandemic, Palpouguini G. Idani

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Distributed Machine Learning Algorithms for Resource-Constrained Heterogeneous Internet-of-Things Environments, Ahmed Imteaj

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State of Inequity: Three Essays on Disparities in Justice Provision, William T. Jackson

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The Role of Prefrontal-Hippocampal Circuit in the Memory for Sequences of Events, Maanasa N. Jayachandran

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Urban Transitions toward Risk Resilience: Sustainable Solutions for Social and Ecological Wellbeing, Meenakshi Jerath

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Examining the Relationship of Interoception, Self-Regulation, Eating Domains, and Eating Outcomes in College Students, Shanté Curlina Jeune

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A Link Between Brevetoxin Exposure, Oxidative Stress, and the Unfolded Protein Response in Human Lymphoblast Cells, Jordan Jobson

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The Influence of Stress and Change in Subjective Social Status on Mental Health and Sleep Duration among Recent Latino/a Immigrants, Shaina A. Johnson

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A Culturally Sustaining Book Club: The Examination of African American students' Motivation and Literacy Achievement, Brittney C. Jones

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The Forgotten: The Internalized Effects of School Specific Slow Violence, Kala Jones

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A Multi-Taxa Metagenomic Evaluation of the Everglades Soil Microbiome and the Impact of Salinity on Community Structure and Biogeochemical Cycles with a Soil Forensic Application, Deidra Christina Jordan

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Applications of Quantitative Information Flow to Property-Revealing Encryption and Differential Privacy, Mireya Anita Jurado

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Essays on Gender Economics, Tamanna Kabir

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Social Class and Workplace Norms: How African American and White Women and Men from Working-class Backgrounds Learn Workplace Norms as They Experience Career Mobility, Anna Kallschmidt

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A Mixed Methods Study: How Cultural messages Through Experiences Influence Occupational Pursuit of Muslim Female Computer Science Students, Maral Kargarmoakhar

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Turbulent Transport in the Inner-Core of Tropical Cyclones and Its Role in Storm Intensification, Jeremy Katz

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Hiring People with Disabilities from an Employer’s Perspective and Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Claude B. Kershner IV

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Characterization of Endophytic Microbiomes of Medicinal Plants for their Antimicrobial Activities, Ganesh Khadka

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Parameter Estimation and Charge Control in Standalone and Grid-tied Batteries, Asadullah Khalid