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Theses/Dissertations from 2008

Kaon photoproduction of the proton : contribution of higher angular momentum and energy resonances to the cross-section and polarization asymmetries through an effective lagrangian model, Alejandro M. De la Puente

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Kaon photoproduction of the proton: contribution of higher angular momentum and energy resonances to the cross-section and polarization asymmetries through an effective Lagrangian model, Alejandro M. de la Puente

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The role of language in early childhood mathematics, Raquel Munarriz Diaz

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More than roses : the journey toward selfhood in Beauty, Rose Daughter, and Beast, Gricel Dominguez

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Measuring Effectiveness in International Financial Crime Prevention: Can We Agree on a Performance Metric?, Jayesh D’Souza

Apocalypse girls, Andrea Dulanto

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Temporal variation in dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima) habitat use and group size off Great Abaco Island, the Bahamas, Meagan Mná Dunphy-Daly

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Effect of Performance Feedback on Perceived Knowledge and Likelihood to Pursue Continuing Education, Lindsey Elizabeth Eberman

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Promoting self-construction and self-discovery processes : a multi-stage longitudinal comparative design stage II evaluation of the changing lives program, Kyle R. Eichas

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A Comprehensive Portfolio Construction Under Stochastic Environment, Ahmed Elshahat

Rooftop equipment wind load and mitigation techniques, James William Erwin

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Eyewitness Memory: Balancing the Accuracy, Precision, and Quantity of Information through Metacognitive Monitoring and Control, Jacqueline Evans

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Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotopic Patterns in South Florida Coastal Ecosystems: Modern and Paleoceanographic Perspectives, Samantha Lorraine Evans

The running of bulls, Jose Luciano Fallad

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An Exergy Based Engineering and Economic Analysis of Sustainable Building, Ming Feng

Mathematical method for physiological interpretation of diffuse reflectance spectroscopic signals, Bradley A. Fernald

Community protected areas and the conservation of jaguar (Panthera onca) and their prey in the Chinantla Region of the Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico, Joe James Figel

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Municipal accountability : should regulations similar to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act apply to the local sector?, Douglas Ray Fink

Education policy and national income distribution : new evidence from recent cross-country data, Robert Jeffery Foran

Group presence in virtual worlds : supporting collaborative e-learning, Katherine G. Franceschi-Diaz

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Genetic diversity and population structure of non-indigenous burmese pythons (Python Molurus Bivittatus) in Everglades National Park, Florida, Barbara L. Freeman

Graduate violin recital, Rafael Galvan-Herrera

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An Epistemic Event-based Correlation Scheme for Pervasive Network Management, Vinayak Ganapathy

The Development and Evaluation of a Relational Data Analysis Coding Template (RDA-CT) for the Participating Evaluation Rating Form (PERF), Arlene Garcia

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A Capability Maturity Model to Assess Supply Chain Performance, Heriberto Garcia

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Successful and Sustained Leadership: A Case Study of a Jesuit High School President, Guillermo M. García-Tuñón, S.J.

Tracking the effects of limnological changes using chironomids and Chaoborus from Lake Annie, Florida, Elaine Gaspar Fontes

Flourescence-enhanced optical imaging on 3-D phantoms using a hand-held probe based frequency-domain intensified charge coupled devide (ICCD) optical imager, Jiajia Ge

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The relationship of immigrant status to perceptions of reading and reading literacy among young black students : a test of the cultural-ecological theory of school performance, Shelby G. Gilbert

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Synthesis and investigation of highly conductive Cu-Cr-MWCNT composites, Puneet K. Singh Gill

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Lattice Boltzmann Method for Flow and Heat Transfer in Microgeometries, Seckin Gokaltun

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Coherent Rho Meson Electroproduction off Deuteron, Atilla Gönenç

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Essays in Open Economy Macroeconomics, Ramon Antonio Gonzalez Hernandez

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Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior in the Exercise Domain: A Study of Community College Students in an Urban Multicultural Setting, Marilyn Smith Gordon

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Effective Knowledge Integration in Emergency Response Organizations, Arvind Gudi

Design and implementation of a multisite data repository for pediatric epilepsy, Magno Roboam Guillén Benavides

Multi-scaled patterning of plant-soil-water interactions across tree islands and marshes within the prairie and slough landscapes of everglades national park, Erin Jean Hanan

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Psychological and Cognitive Factors that Influence Post-Exercise Energy Intake in Normal Weight and Overweight Sedentary Males, Cristen Lynn Harris

Study on willingness to participate in the payment for environmental services scheme in the Mara Basin, Koji Hashimoto

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Attributes of Identity Document Credibility: A Synthesis of Expert Knowledge, Kenneth Robert Henry

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Essays on Risk Aversion, Diversification and Non-Participation, Ann Marie Hibbert

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Social Network Structure as a Critical Success Condition for Open Source Software Project Communities, David Hinds

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In God We Trust: Faithbased Development, Spiritual Transformation, and Economic Change in Southern Andean Indigenous Communities, Emily Jane Hogue

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Development of Surface Flaw Thresholds for Pre-Cured Fiber Reinforced Polymer and Groove Size Tolerance for Near Surface Mounted Fiber Reinforced Polymer Retrofit Systems, Ahmet Serhat Kalayci

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Seismic Performance of Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Polymer-Concrete Pier Frame Systems, Bin Li

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Periodic Polymer Photonic Bandgap Structures for On-chip Optical Cavities, Tao Liu

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What Makes Online Grocers Work? A Case Study Analysis of Factors Contributing to Online Grocery Store Profitability, William D. Lucky, Jr.

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Hispanic Adolescents With Severe Substance Abuse Issues: Parental Involvement, Acculturation-Related Factors and Attachment, Conchita Smith Lundblad

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Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduced Parallel Interference Cancellation Multicarrier-Code Division Multiple Access System with Anti-Interference Property, Jun Luo

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A Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical System (MOEMS) for Microstructure Manipulation, Jose Antonio Martinez

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Genetic Individualization of Cannabis sativa by a Short Tandem Repeat Multiplex System, Maria Angelica Mendoza Baez

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A Behavior Based Approach to Virus Detection, Jose Andre Morales

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A Comparative Analysis of Corporate Finance in the United States and Japan From 1880 to 1930, Yumiko Morii

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A Deontic Analysis of Inter-Organizational Control Requirements, Vu Nguyen

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Inventing indigenous religious belief and practice within the spaces of Ghanaian Pentecostalism : the Mame Wata healing churches of Half Assini, Genevieve Nrenzah

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The Career Development of Black Female Chief Nurse Executives, Joan M. Osborne

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Genetic Algorithms and Investment Strategies: A Global Perspective, Ivelina Pavlova

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An Innovative Approach to Teaching Structural Induction for Computer Science, Irene Polycarpou

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Application of Intervention Analysis to Evaluate the Impacts of Special Events on Freeways, Jing Qi

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The Practice and Use of Picuristes (Lay Injectionists) among Haitian Immigrants in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Guitele Jeudy Rahill

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The role of market knowledge in recognizing and exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities in technology intensive firms, Anna-Maija Renko

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The Effect of a Clinical Practicum on Elementary Education Preservice Teachers' Development of Reading Expertise, Helen Jean Robbins

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Essays on Durable Goods Consumption and Firm Innovation, Zhao Rong

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Impact of a Cognitive-Behavioral Weight Control Program on Body Weight, Diet Quality, and Smoking Cessation in Weight-Concerned Female Smokers, Jennifer Sallit

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Three Essays on the Interrelationships Among Financial Restatements, Corporate Governance, Market Microstructure and the Firm's Rate of Return, Siddharth Shankar

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Freeway Travel Time Estimation and Prediction Using Dynamic Neural Networks, Luou Shen

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Essays on Exchange Rate Economics, Yan Shu

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The Relationship of Fear of Intimacy, Body Image Avoidance and Body Mass Index, Elliot Montgomery Sklar

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Effects of Real-Time Captioning and Sign Language Interpreting on the Learning of College Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Valorie Smith-Pethybridge

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Hydrological Dynamics between a Coastal Aquifer and the Adjacent Estuarine System, Biscayne Bay, South Florida, Jeremy Chenoweth Stalker

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Gender Differences in Audit Committees, Sheela Thiruvadi

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The Rise of Islamism Among Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands, Gönül Tol

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Development of Risk Based Treatability and Engineering Measures for Reducing Exposure to Lead Contaminated Media in the Miami Inner City, Florida, Tarla TaMia Toomer

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Cooperative and Adaptive Medium Access Control in Multi-hop Wireless Networks, Zhiwen Wan

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Demographic Effects of Thatch Harvest and Implications for Sustainable Use of Irapai Palm (Lepidocaryum tenue, Mart.), by Riverine Communities in the Peruvian Amazon, L. Alíce Warren

A graduate viola recital with extended program notes, William V. Whitman

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Examining Moderators of the Hindsight Bias in the Context of Civil Legal Decision-Making: Counterfactuals, Causal Proximity, and Self-Referencing, Rachel Michelle York

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Foundational Forensic Techniques for Cellular and Ad Hoc Multi-hop Networks, Xiwei Zhao

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Design Strategies for an Artificial Neural Network Based Algorithm for Automatic Incident Detection on Major Arterial Streets, Xuesong Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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Physical dynamic simulation of shipboard power system components in a distributed computational environment, Nagy Youssef Abed

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High energy three-body breakup of three-nucleon systems, Tigran Abrahamyan

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The non-timber forest products sector in nepal : policy issues in plant conservation and utilization, Ranju Shresthal Acharya

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A model of self-transformative identity development in troubled adolescent youth, Richard E. Albrecht

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Neuroendocrine control of a dynamic communication signal, Susan J. Allee

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Mirror self-recognition in a gorilla (gorilla gorilla gorilla), Melinda R. Allen

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A method for enhancing digital information displayed to computer users with visual refractive errors via spatial and spectral processing, Miguel Alonso Jr.

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Calculations on the end-group conformational barrier in carotenoids and a study of the bioavailability of xanthophyll esters in humans, Francesca Alvarez-Calderon

Lattice boltzmann modeling of fluid flow to determine the permeability of a karst specimen, Pedro Felix Alvarez

Treatment attrition among racial/ethnic minority adolescents participating in a brief motivational intervention for substance use problems : the influence of individual, social, cultural, and treatment factors, Ashley Austin

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The persistence of memory : slavery and trauma in Tony Morrison's Beloved, Helena Austine

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Role of carbon nanotube dispersion in fracture toughening of plasma sprayed aluminum oxide - carbon nanotube nanocomposite coating, Kantesh Balani

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Landscape of fear : a social history of the missile during the early years of the cold war, 1950-1965, Jessica Rose Barrella

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Coping with life events through possible selves, Michelle L. Barreto

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Socioemotional Outcomes of Children Sexually Abused during Early Childhood, Jennifer L. Becker

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La caída del hombre nuevo : narrativa Cubana del período especial, Sonia Behar

Assessment of silicone polymer composites for the trace extraction of herbicides : a tool for environmental forensics, Stephanie K. Bell

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I had a different way of governing : the evangelical presidential style of Jimmy Carter and his mission for middle east peace, D. Jason Berggren

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Colombian Jazz dance suite : a synthesis of the music of the colombian andes and modern jazz, Alvaro Bermudez

Monitoring Tool Wear and Chatter by Using an Index Based Reasoning Approach, Kimberly L. Bickraj

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Mitigation of roof uplift through vortex suppresion techniques, Collette Marguerite Blessing