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Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Immunomodulation by Shark Cartilage Extracts, Liza Merly

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The Role of Contingency and Gaze Direction in the Emergence of Social Referencing, Mariana V. Molina

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The Use of Curriculum Modifications and Instructional Accommodations to Provide Access for Middle School Students with Autism to the General Curriculum, Whitney Moores-Abdool

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Internal Control Reporting by Non-Accelerated Filers, Vishal Munsif

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Theoretical Investigations of Communication in the Microcirculation: Conducted Responses, Myoendothelial Projections and Endothelium Derived Hyperpolarizing Factor, Sridevi Nagaraja

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An Analysis Of Five Compositions Representing The Fusion Of Jazz, World, and Latin American Rhythms, Hector D. Neciosup

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Stress and Coping Style: An Extension to the Transactional Cognitive-Appraisal Model, Kerry A. Newness

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Simulation of Rising Bubbles Dynamics Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method, Merlin Ngachin

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Sediment Dynamics of a Shallow Hypereutrophic lake: Lake Jesup, Florida, USA, Shauna Nielsen

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Do Payments for Hydrological Services Reduce Poverty and Strengthen Social Capital? An Examination of Household Welfare and Collective Action in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, Mexico, Lindsey R. Nieratka

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The Civic Achievement Gap: A Study on the Civic Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes of Hispanic Students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Sergio Nieves

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Landscape Genetics of Phaedranassa Herb. (Amaryllidaceae) in Ecuador, Nora Oleas

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Risk Evaluation of a Mercury Containment System, Cristian A. Ortez Garay

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La Kábala Dentro del Discurso Contemporáneo y Urbano: El Ejemplo de Marcos Ricardo Barnatán, Janet Otero Toledo

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An Integrated Multi-Agent Framework for Optimizing Time, Cost and Environmental Impact of Construction Processes, Gulbin Ozcan-Deniz

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Does Response Topography Affect Response Rates and Behavioral Persistence in Fixed-ratio Schedules?, Paloma Pedraza

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Experiential Hospitality Environments: The Roles of the Interior Architectural Features in Affording Meanings of Place, Tari Pelaez

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Thioredoxin and Jab1 Control Estrogen- and Antiestrogen-Mediated Progression of the Cell Cycle Through p27 Interactions, Rosalind B. Penney

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GRE as a Predictor of Graduate Student Success at a Hispanic Serving Institution of Higher Education, Katherine Perez

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The Role of Perceived Control in the Relation Between Parental Control and Anxiety among Anxious Youth, Maria Pienkowski

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Perceptions and Preferences of Commercial Fishers in the Florida Keys for Alternative Management Frameworks, Brett P. Pierce

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Local Biomass Control on the Composition and Reactivity of Particulate Organic Matter in Aquatic Environments, Olivia Pisani

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On the Creation of Matter, Paul W. Poston

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Isotopic Studies of the Guerrero Composite Terrane, West-Central Mexico: Implications for Provenance of Crustal Rocks and Genesis of Ore Metals, Adriana Potra

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Development of Micro Immunosensors to Study Genomic and Proteomic Biomarkers Related to Cancer and Alzheimer's Disease, Shradha V. Prabhulkar

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Administrators' Perspectives of Culture at a Multicampus Community College, Richard D. Prentiss

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Tom Stoppard: Humanizing Chaos, Elaine C. Pritzker

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The Relationship between the Secondary Mathematics Curriculum, College Persistence, and Success at an Urban Community College, Avis R. Proctor

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Collective Bargaining And Faculty Unionization: An Administrative Perspective, Colleen M. Quinn

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The Development of a Qualitative Extension of the Identity Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood (IDEA) Measure Using Relational Data Analysis (RDA), Shannon M. Quintana

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Exergoeconomic Analysis of Solar Organic Rankine Cycle for Geothermal Air Conditioned Net Zero Energy Buildings, Rambod Rayegan

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The Effects of Simulated Peccary Extirpation on Leaf Litter Dynamics, Reptiles, and Amphibians in a Neotropical Forest, Kelsey Reider

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The Effects of Parental Nurturance and Involvement on Peer Relationships and Psychosocial Functioning of Young Adults, Maria L. Reid

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Graduate Flute Recital, Lidayne Reyes

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Three Essays on Corporate Governance and Meeting-Beating or Missing Analyst Forecasts, Maria F. Rickling

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A Developmental Intervention Science Outreach Research Approach to Promoting Positive Youth Development, Roberto L. Rinaldi

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A Youth Vision of the City: The Socio-Spatial Lives and Exclusion of Street Girls in Bogota, Colombia, Amy E. Ritterbusch

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A Study on Uncertain Dynamic Disaster Management Tasks, Knowledge Sharing, and Task Performance, Jose Rocha

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Three Essays on Hospital Efficiency, Alfonso Rodriguez

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The Effect of the Business Cycle on the Performance of Socially Responsible Equity Mutual Funds, Andrea Roofe Sattlethight

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A Social Survey of Demography and Attitudes of Residents Regarding the Marine Protected Area in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, Alexis Roque

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Ant-diarrheal Plants of Central Anatolia: Do They Inhibit Diarrhea-causing Bacteria?, Janna L. Rose

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Automated Detection of Hematological Abnormalities through Classification of Flow Cytometric Data Patterns, Mark A. Rossman

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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