Theses and Dissertations produced by graduate students at Florida International University.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Framing Infectious Diseases and U.S. Public Opinion, Mita Saksena

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Character Education in a Muslim School: A Case Study of a Comprehensive Muslim School's Curricula, Patricia Z. Salahuddin

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Alternatives to Steel Grid Bridge Decks, Muhammad A. Saleem

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Heart Valve Tissue Engineering: A Study of Time Varying Effects and Sample Geometry, Manuel Salinas

Teoria y Practica del Neobarroco en Severo Sarduy, Maribel San Juan

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Living Positive: Life in Community Among Puerto Rican Men Living with HIV in Boston, Francisco Sastre

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A Gender Study Investigating Physics Self-Efficacy, Vashti Sawtelle

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The Relationship Between a Retention Program and the Persistence and Graduation Rates of First-Generation Low-Income Students at an Urban, Public University, Dorret E. Sawyers

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Imah on the Bimah: Gender and the Roles of Latin American Conservative Congregational Rabinas, Valeria N. Schindler

Ghost-Jet, Alexis B. Sellas

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User-centric Music Information Retrieval, Bo Shao

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The Development of Hardware Multi-core Test-bed on Field Programmable Gate Array, Mohan Shivashanker

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Vacuum Brazing of Alumina Ceramic to Titanium Using Pure Gold as Filler Metal for Biomedical Implants, Mohammad S. Siddiqui

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The Peopling of the Bahamas: A Phylogeographical Perspective, Tanya M. Simms

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Audit Committee Director Turnover, Meghna Singhvi

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Essays on Corporate Reputation: Antecedents and Consequences, Abrahim Soleimani

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The Impact of Perceived Challenge and Hindrance Stress on Individual Well Being, Role Satisfaction, and Role Performance, Jason K. Steinert

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Determination of Nutrient Limitation on Trees Growing in Loxahatchee Impoundment Landscape Assessment (LILA) Tree Islands, Florida, Suresh Chandra Subedi

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Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions on Tree Islands in the Everglades, South Florida, Pamela L. Sullivan

The Blind Arcade, David C. Svenson

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Synthesis of Azulenylsilane Nitrones as Diagnostic Tools for Superoxide Detection, Relina Tamrakar

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An Investigation into Equations for Estimating Water Requirements and the Development of New Equations for Predicting Total Water Intake, Stacey L. Tannenbaum

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Essays On Audit Report Lag, Paul N. Tanyi

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Evaluation of Wind-Induced Internal Pressure In Low-Rise Buildings: A Multi Scale Experimental and Numerical Approach, Amanuel Sebhatu Tecle

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Predicting the In-Term Persistence of Community College English-as-a-Second-Language Students, Carolyn A. Tonge

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Does Management Capacity Increase Organizational Performance? An Empirical Analysis of Public Housing Agencies, John Topinka

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Medical Advice, Diabetes Self-Management, and Health Outcomes of a Multi-Ethnic Population from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007-2008, Joan A. Vaccaro

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Life Pathways of Haitian-American Young Adults in South Florida, Patricia N. Vanderkooy

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Habitat Use and Foraging Ecology of a Batoid Community in Shark Bay, Western Australia, Jeremy Vaudo

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The Role of Emotional Intelligence in College Students' Success, Joyce G. Walsh-Portillo

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A Large-scale Dynamic Vector and Raster Data Visualization Geographic Information System Based on Parallel Map Tiling, Huan Wang

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Modeling and Estimation for Transit On-time Performance Improvement, Xiaobo Wang

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The Impact of Institutional Complexity and Top Management Characteristics on Executive Compensation and Firm Performance, Yu-Kai Wang

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Inference about Reliability Parameter with Underlying Gamma and Exponential Distribution, Zeyi Wang

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Characterization of Recombinant Chloroperoxidase, and F103A and C29H/C79H/C87H Mutants, Zheng Wang

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Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Investigation of the Native and Modified Active Site Structure of Heme Proteins, Zhonghua Wang

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Secondary Stakeholders as Agents of Influence: Three Essays on Political Risk, Reputation and Multinational Performance, David A. Wernick

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Enigmatic Faunal Declines at La Selva, Costa Rica: Patterns and Processes in a Collapsing Neotropical Herpetofauna, Steven M. Whitfield

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Modeling of Pipeline Transients: Modified Method of Characteristics, Stephen L. Wood

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A Domain Specific Modeling Approach for Coordinating User-Centric Communication Services, Yali Wu

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Hybrid Approaches to Estimating Freeway Travel Times Using Point Traffic Detector Data, Yan Xiao

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A Q Factor Analysis of College Undergraduate Students' Study Behaviors, Yang Yang

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Development of Methods for Spatial Modeling of Sediments Quality in Lake Okeechobee, Florida, Yao Yan

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The Order Selection and Lot Sizing Problem in the Make-to-Order Environment, Zhongping Zhai

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Development of distributed generation infrastructure for microgrid connectivity to operational power systems, Nayeem Mohammad Abdullah

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Freedom of religion : a case study of the Church of Lukumí Babalú Ayé v. City of Hialeah, David Maurice Aelion

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Development of Innovative Load Transfer Mechanism to Reduce Hurricane-Induced Failures in New and Existing Residential Construction, Sheikh Saad Ahmed

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Politics at the Water's Edge: The Presidency, Congress, and the North Korea Policy of the United States, Taehyung Ahn

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Design and development of an enzyme-linked biosensor for detection and quantification of phosphate species, Serkan Akar

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Orientating, Developing, and Promoting an Islamic Christology, Alexander Albert

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Assessment of nutritional status of patients on hemodilaysis: a single center study from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia., Khadija A. Alharbi

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Pressure ulcers and nutritional deficits in elderly long-term care patients : effects of a comprehensive nutritional program on pressure ulcer healing, length of hospital stay and charges to patients, Beverlin Allen

A girl from Ohio, Jennifer Lee Ammon

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The Economic-Dynamics of the Military in Communist Regimes: A Comparison of Cuba, China and Vietnam, Michael J. Aranda

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Development of Face Recognition: Infancy to Early Childhood, Melissa Ann Argumosa

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Immigrant High School Students's In-depth Understanding of the Value of Heritage Language and Bilingualism, Edwin D. Arrieta

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Molecular characterization of GcC8 alpha, the functional homologue of human C8 alpha in the shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum, Lydia Tatiana Aybar

High-performance liquid chromatography measurement of carotenoids in human serum, etoposide in pig cerebrospinal fluid and measurement of the aggregation of xanthophylls in aqueous solutions, Darwin O. Babino

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Women of African Descent: Persistence in Completing A Doctorate, Vannetta L. Bailey-Iddrisu

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The Effects of Peer Teaching of Infant Massage on General Self-Efficacy and Mother Infant Attachment Among Mothers in a Residential Rehabilitation Facility for Drug Addiction and Substance Abuse, Vivian M. Bango-Sanchez

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Spectroscopy of Electroproduced Light to Medium Mass Lambda Hypernuclei, Pavlo Baturin

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Secondary School Inclusion Rates: The Relationship Between the Training and Beliefs of School Site Principals and the Implementation of Inclusion, Jacques Bentolila

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Exploring Armenian keyboard music : roots to modern times, Marina Berberian

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The Perceptions, Attitudes and Practices of Registered Dietitians Regarding Functional Foods, Amanda Berhaupt

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Effects of light and nutrient supply on stable isotope composition and fractionation in nitrogen-limited seagrass beds, Rebecca Jane Bernard

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A Phenomenological Exploration Of How West Indian Professionals In South Florida Perceive Their Career Construction, Judith D. Bernier

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The bass as a melodic voice in jazz : extended program notes for thesis recital, Mark Curtis Beverley

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Multi-objective optimization of the molecular structure of refrigerants, Suvrat Bhargava

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Trading Democracy for Security? The Effects of the International Drug War on the Quality of Democracy in the Dominican Republic, 1996 -2008, Leah H. Blumenfeld

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A survey of music educator's understanding and use of advanced audio technology in their instructional methods and strategies, Francesco Paolo Boccuzzi

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Mock-ups in design : the implications of utlizing [sic] a mock-up review process in professional practice, Charles M. Boggs

Gravel music, Peter Andew Borrebach

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The Development of High Performance Liquid Chromatography Systems for the Analysis of Improvised Explosives, Megan N. Bottegal

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Larger Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy, Systematics And Paleoenvironments of The Avon Park Formation and Ocala Limestone, Highlands County, Florida, Jacqueline Bowen Powell

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Adaptation of Trailing Spouses: Does Gender Matter?, Anne M. Braseby

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Inter-subjective and Transnational Racial Effects: The Role of the United States in the Formation and Evolution of the Collective Perception and Racial Relations in Cuba, 1898-1902, Tiffany Y J Bryant

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Solution of Nonlinear Transient Heat Transfer Problems, Donovan O. Buckley

Sources of nutrition information for persons living in Trinidad and Tobago, Dianne C. Buckmire

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Modeling of Loose Contamination Scenarios to Predict the Amount of Contamination Removed, Duriem Calderin Morales

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An American Political Economy: Industry, Trade, and Finance in the Antebellum Mind, Christopher W. Calvo

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Regional variation in tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) abundance and habitat use, Kathryn Cameron

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Life-cycle cost study of ground source heat pumps in hot humid climate zone, Cetin Canbek

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Age trends and suggestibility : the effects of social influence, Rolando N. Carol

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Sucralose : a unique tracer for wastewater intrusion, Mark Jonathan Cejas

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An Empirical Study of Kirkpatrick’s Evaluation Model in the Hospitality Industry, Ya-Hui Elegance Chang

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A generalized multidimensional index structure for multimedia data to support content-based similarity searches in a collaborative search environment, Kasturi Chatterjee

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Three essays on entrepreneurial entry, serial entrepreneurship, and labor turnover, Jing Chen

Removal of cyanotoxins by cyclodextrin complex, titanium dioxide photocatalysis and C₆₀ photocataly, Lin Chen

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Synthesis and Characterization of Photochromic Indolyl Substituted Fulgides and Fulgimides, Xi Chen

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A Highly Efficient Biometrics Approach for Unconstrained Iris Segmentation and Recognition, Yu Chen

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An Improved Framework for Dynamic Origin-Destination (O-D) Matrix Estimation, Hongbo Chi

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Sales Tax Enforcement: An Empirical Analysis of Compliance Enforcement Methodologies and Pathologies, Philip C. Christian

Intuition and its component parts in the heuristic processing of deception detection : hunch, evidence, and reliance on intuitive efficacy, Kimberly Coffman

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Through the Prisms of Gender and Power: Agency in International Courtship between Colombian Women and American Men, Jasney E. Cogua-Lopez

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The effect of after-school music programs in at-risk students' self-esteem and social skills in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen D. Collazo

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Misinterpreted experiences : the tension between imagination and divine revelation in early 19th century Anglo American Gothic fiction, Diana I. Dabek

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An Economic Valuation Analysis of Buccoo Reef Marine Park, Tobago, West Indies, Dionne J. Da Costa

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Biomimetic Modeling of the Nitrogen-centered Radical Postulated to occur during the Inhibition of Ribonucleotide Reductases by 2'-Azido-2'-deoxynucleotides., Thao P. Dang

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Glycemic Control: Risk Factors, Quality of Life, Workforce Participation, and Mortality Among US Adults with Type 2 Diabetes, Evelyn P. Davila

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A multi-scale and multi-approach investigation of sediment yield and runoff flux in the Mara River basin, Kenya, Mengistu Balew Defersha