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Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Jinetera, Yousi Mazpule

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The Relationship Between Spiritualilty, Knowledge and Tuberculosis (TB) Medication Adherence Among African Americans And Haitians., Regina Y. McDade

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Left Behind: A Farmer’s Fate in the Age of Sustainable Development, Cristian J. Melo

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Branch and Price Solution Approach for Order Acceptance and Capacity Planning in Make-to-Order Operations, Siddharth D. Mestry, Martha A. Centeno, Jose A. Faria, Purushothaman Damodaran, and Chen Chin-Sheng

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How Do Partnerships Lead to a Competitive Advantage? Applying the Resource Based View to Nascent Social Ventures, Moriah A. Meyskens

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The Relationship Between Prekindergarten Social and Emotional Development and Academic Success among Hispanic Children from Low-Income Families, Christina More Muelle

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Sex-Specific Patterns of Movement and Space Use in the Strawberry Poison Frog, Oophaga pumilio, Seiichi Murasaki

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Essays On Political Economy, Daniel O. Murgo

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Screening and Identification of Everglades Algal Isolates for Biodiesel production, Priyanka Narendar

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Anxiety Sensitivity’s Facets in Relation to Anxious and Depressive Symptoms in Youth, Kristin A. Nichols-Lopez

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4-Hydroxy Estradiol-Induced Oxidant-Mediated Signaling Is Involved In The Development Of Breast Cancer, Victor Okoh

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Arctic Ecosystem Responses to Changes in Water Availability and Warming: Short and Long-Term Responses, Paulo C. Olivas

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Structure of International Cooperation in Trade, Investment and Environment, Harun Onder

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Developing A Leadership Identity: A Case Study Exploring a Select Group of Hispanic Women at a Hispanic Serving Institution, Suzanne M. Onorato

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Language Learning Strategy Use by Colombian Adult English Language Learners: A Phenomenological Study, Elsie E. Paredes

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Development of Meshfree method for Certain Engineering Analysis Problem, Sunil Kumar Pasupuleti

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Synthesis of Aromatic Monothiols and Aromatic Dithiols to Increase the Folding Rate and Yield of Disulfide Containing Proteins, Amar S. Patel

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Engagement Experiences of Hispanic Generation 1.5 English Language Learners at a Massachusetts Community College, Jacqueline Peña

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Impact of a Comprehensive Nutrition and Lifestyle Education Intervention on Body Weight and Health-Related Outcomes in Morbidly-Obese Hispanic-Americans Following Laparoscopic Roux-En Y Gastric Bypass, Monica Petasne Nijamkin

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A Comparison of Job Responsibility and Activities between Registered Dietitians with a Bachelor's Degree and Those with a Master's Degree, Stephanie M. Pillow

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Bilirubin: an Animal Pigment in the Zingiberales and Diverse Angiosperm Orders, Cary L. Pirone

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New Organogermanium Substrates for Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions. Application of Organogermanes towards the Synthesis of Carbon-5 Modified Uridine Analogues, Jean-Philippe Pitteloud

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Navigating Racial Boundaries: The One-Drop Rule and Mixed-Race Jamaicans in South Florida, Sharon E. Placide

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How Employees with Different National Identities Experience a Geocentric Organizational Culture of a Global Corporation: A Phenomenological Study, Maria S. Plakhotnik

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The Role of Community College Faculty in Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development, Anouchka Rachelson

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Improving Publicly Funded Human Services: Incorporating Capacity Building into the Contracting Relationship between Children’s Services Councils and Nonprofit Organizations, Catherine Raymond

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Evaluation Of The Internal Structural Validity Of The Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition) Anxiety Disorders In Children And Adolescents, Yasmin Rey

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Hallelujah Shoes, Laura E. Richardson

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An Agent-based Model of Team Coordination and Performance, Jose A. Rojas-Villafane

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The Interactive Effects of Predators, Resources, and Disturbance on Freshwater Snail Populations from the Everglades, Clifton B. Ruehl

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Translating International Norms: Filters to Women's Rights in Lebanon, Rita A. Sabat

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Developing of Germyldesulonylation and Thiodesulfonylation Reactions for the Synthesis of Novel Nucleoside Analogues. Efficient Synthesis of Novel (α-Fluoro)vinyl Sulfides, Pablo R. Sacasa Jr

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Turkey and Neo-Ottomanism: Domestic Sources, Dynamics and Foreign Policy, Mustafa G. Sahin

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Community Development Districts: The Entrepreneurial Side of Government, Gina Scutelnicu

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Investigation of Mantle Dynamics from Platinum Group Elements and Rhenium-Osmium Isotope Systematics of Mantle Xenoliths from Oahu, Indra S. Sen

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Material Synthesis and Characterization on Low-Dimensional Cobaltates, Hao Sha

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Employee Engagement: An Examination of Antecedent and Outcome Variables, Michael B. Shuck

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Health Monitoring of Round Objects using Multiple Structural Health Monitoring Techniques, Gurjashan Singh

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Monitoring the Health of Plates with Simultaneous Application of Lamb Waves and Surface Response to Excitation Approaches, Gurjiwan Singh

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An Investigation of the Strategies used by Organizations Participating in the Welfare-to-Work Network Programs and Correlation of the Strategies with the Retention Data to Determine Best Practices for Job Retention among Former Welfare Recipients., Pauline J. Smith and

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Essays on International Lending and Increasing Returns to Scale, Thomas J. Snyder

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Characterization of Oscillatoria spp. and their Role in Black Band Disease of Coral, Dina Stanic

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Cancer Therapy Combining Modalities of Hyperthermia and Chemotherapy: in vitro Cellular Response after Rapid Heat Accumulation in the Cancer Cell, Yuan Tang

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International Education and the Post-9/11 Syndrome: A Study of International Educators in Selected Miami-area Colleges, Oluyinka Tella

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Re-Imagining Yerevan in the Post-Soviet Era: Urban Symbolism and Narratives of the Nation in the Landscape of Armenia's Capital, Diana K. Ter-Ghazaryan

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An Analysis of Efficiency and Melt Curve Effects on Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) Inhibition, Robyn E. Thompson

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Web Service Reliability for Deactivation and Decommissioning Knowledge Management Information Tool (D&D KM-IT) Vendor Management with Mobile Applications, Gowthami Thota

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Tailoring Heme-Thiolate Proteins into Efficient Biocatalysts with High Specificity and Selectivity, Hui Tian

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An Investigation of the Relationship Between Antemortem and Postmortem Drug Concentrations in Blood, Samantha S. Tolliver

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Detection of Modality-Specific Properties in Unimodal and Bimodal Events during Prenatal Development, Jimena Vaillant

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Enhanced Zinc Oxide and Graphene Nanostructures for Electronics and Sensing Applications, Ved P. Verma

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An Incremental Multilinear System for Human Face Learning and Recognition, Jin Wang

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Characterizing InternetWorm Spatial-Temporal Infection Structures, Qian Wang

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Globalizing Governmentality: Sites of Neoliberal Assemblage in the Americas, Jason R. Weidner

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Mediational Effects in Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents, Sandra Williams

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Parental Absence and Academic Achievement in Immigrant Students, Chrysalis L. Wright

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Kinetics of E. coli Topoisomerase I and Energetic Studies of DNA Supercoiling by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry, Xiaozhou Xu

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Principal Component Analysis and Assessment of Language Network Activation Patterns in Pediatric Epilepsy, Xiaozhen You

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Blood-Brain Barrier in vitro Model: A Tissue Engineering Approach and Validation, Zhiqi Zhang

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Digital Surveillance Based on Video CODEC System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Platforms, Wei Zhao

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Minimizing Makespan for Hybrid Flowshops with Batch, Discrete Processing Machines and Arbitrary Job Sizes, Yanming Zheng

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The Christology of Jesus' Disciples, Michael V. Zolondek

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Executive Characteristics and Going Concern Opinions, Angie M. Abdel Zaher

Extended program notes for thesis recital, Masami Adachi

The rise of Islamism amongst Muslim youth in the UK, Rebecca Almazan

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This was uncalled for : Dave Eggers' A heartbreaking work of staggering genius subverts the genre of traditional autobiography as an attempt at rendering his life, Krystal Alvarez

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Optimization of three-dimensional branching networks of microchannels for thermal management of microelectronics, Ricardo Ardila

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Formal verification and testing of software architectural models, Gonzalo Argote Garcia

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Flood risk analysis of the White Oak Creek watershed in Oak Ridge, Tennessee using MIKE SHE and MIKE 11 software, Camilo Arias

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The Use of Hyphenated Spectrometric Techniques for the Environmental Forensic Assessment of Non-Traditional Pollutants and Degradates in the Greater Florida Everglades, Luis E. Arroyo-Mora

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Base rates of counterproductive work behaviors, Candace Atamanik-Dunphy

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Economic assessment of best management practices in the Mara River Basin : toward implementing payment for watershed services, George Atisa

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A Research Platform for Artificial Neural Networks with Applications in Pediatric Epilepsy, Melvin Ayala

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Estimation of Ravine Sediment Production and Sediment Dynamics in the Lower Le Sueur River Watershed, Minnesota, Luam A. Azmera

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The Effect of Osteoporosis Education on Calcium Intake and Physical Activity in a Group of Community-Dwelling Black Older Adults, Oyinlola T. Babatunde

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Physiological performance measures and tolerance limits of estuarine indicator species in South Florida, Pamela Marie Bachman

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An analysis of five original compositions, Ashley Mae Baker

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Mitigating Inconsistencies by Coupling Data Cleaning, Filtering, and Contextual Data Validation in Wireless Sensor Networks, Qutub A. Bakhtiar

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Plasma And Cold Sprayed Aluminum Carbon Nanotube Composites: Quantification Of Nanotube Distribution And Multi-Scale Mechanical Properties, Srinivasa R. Bakshi

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Examining the Effects of Epiphanies on Possible Selves, Michelle L. Barreto

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Risk factors of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases among Jamaican adolescents, Sheila C. Barrett

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The United States Congress and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, Mariano J. Beillard

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Private higher education policy in Ohio, 1980-2006 : a case study demonstrating the usefulness of Zumeta's public policy posture model, Timothy S. Bessler

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Improving Storage Performance Through Layout Optimizations, Medha Bhadkamkar

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Waveguide microgripper for identification, sensing and manipulation, Amit G. Bhanushali

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Effects of student-faculty interactions on persistence of underprepared community college students., Deoraj Bharath

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Identity formation and public perception in the history of American Mormonism, Jaquelinne M. Biver

Annotated bibliography of Salomon de la Selva's collected poems, Luis M. Bolanos-Salvatierra

Democratic purgatory : the failure of democracy in Venezuel, Christopher M. Brown

Half a century of mourning : a look at Galway Kinnell's family elegies and his reflections on love and loss, Belkis Lissett Cabrera

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Mercury characterization in soil collected nearby the Department of Energy Oak Ridge reservation, Julio Cesar Cabrera

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Development of a hurricane-resistant roof-to-wall connection using high-performance fiber composites, Cetin Canbek

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Aerodynamic Load Characteristics Evaluation and Tri-Axial Performance Testing on Fiber Reinforced Polymer Connections and Metal Fasteners to Promote Hurricane Damage Mitigation, Iván R. Canino-Vazquez

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Re-thinking place in international relations : phenomenology and the geopolitics of knowledge in Latin American-U.S. relations, Mauro J. Caraccioli

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Phonics Instruction using Pseudowords for Success in Phonetic Decoding, Jessica M. Cardenas

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Effects of Adolescent Depressive Symptoms, Pubertal Development, and Interpersonal Relationship Satisfaction on Sexual Risk Behaviors in Adolescent Romantic Couples, Rona Carter

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Tocqueville in Miami : political culture and political organizing in Miami's Cuban community, Robert Ceresa

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Mineral chemistry and origin of the olivine-rich zone of the Palisades sill, Kevin Xavier Chau

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Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Florida Bay, South Florida, Using Benthic Foraminifera, Jie Cheng

Development, validation and uncertainty analysis of quantitative structure and activity relationship models for Log P of disinfection by-products, Rena Zhanglei Chen