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Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Parent Emotional Functioning, Parent Responsiveness, and Child Adjustment, Melody Whiddon

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Emotional Intelligence and Leadership in Organization: A Meta-analytic Test of Process Mechanisms, Daniel S. Whitman

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Optimization Models for Selecting Bus Stops for Accessibility Improvements for People with Disabilities, Wanyang Wu

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Resource Management and Optimization in Wireless Mesh Networks, Xiaowen Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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Anti-Quorum Sensing Agents from South Florida Medicinal Plants and their Attenuation of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Pathogenicity, Allison L. Adonizio

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Modified continuous ant colony algorithm for function optimization, Alexandre Aidov

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The Fullness of time, Kevin Allen

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Small sample confidence intervals for the mean of a positively skewed distribution, Cherylyn Almonte

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Evaluating the effectiveness of signal timing optimization based on microscopic simulation evaluation, Patricio Alvarez Mendoza

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Synthesis of copper carbon nanotube composite and its electrical conductivity measurement, Sushma Amruthaluri

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The impact of standards-based practices in mathematics on the achievement of low-performing students, Marcus V. Anglin

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Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Fluid Flow and Solute Transport in Karst Aquifers, Shadab Anwar

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I want out of the labels : how Chuck Palahniuk's characters challenge the dominant discourse, Jose Antonio Aparicio

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Essays on the Impact of Stakeholders' Sentiment on the Financial Decision Making Process, Aravinthan Arunachalam

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An Examination of Lotka’s law in the Field of Library and Information Studies, Consuella Antoinette Askew

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Conceptualizing American power and security in a post-9/11 security context : conflict, resistance, and global security, 2001-present, Marvin Astrada

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Workplace accommodations : potential moderators of perceived fairness, Veronica Wenette Averhart

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Buddhism and its relation to women and prostitution in Thai society, Sandra Avila

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Perceptions of Underprepared Community College Students regarding their Educational Achievement, Peter Barbatis

Apple, Jennifer Bartman

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Investigation of particle identification methods for the analysis of the photoproduction of neutral kaons on a liquid deuterium target, Brian Beckford

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Investigating the origin of PM2.5 in Baltimore using highly time-resolved organic molecular markers measured during the Baltimore PM-supersite, Anna R. Bernardo-Bricker

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Predicting delay reductions from freeway traffic diversion for incident management, Jie Bian

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Numerical groundwater flow modeling in the Wakal River basin, India, Himadri Biswas

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Biohazard neutralization based on lipid technology, Edelmira Bosques

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Melanocytes in the developing and adult atrioventricular valves of the murine heart, Flavia Carneiro Brito

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Global Factors Affecting Women's Participation in Leadership, Amanda M. Bullough

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Growth of uniform cobalt nano magnetic dots on titanum dioxide surface, En Cai

Same sex sexual harassment : perceptions of female-female sexual harassment, Mariana E. Carlucci

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Assessing Administrative and Political Factors in Implementing a Living Wage Ordinance, Teodoro Enrique Carrasco

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Elemental Analysis of Biological Matrices by Laser Ablation High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-HR-ICP-MS) and High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (HR-ICP-MS), Waleska Castro

Intravenous oxygenator : enhancement of surface properties to minimize bubble size, Laura Elizabeth Causey

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El paradigma ético de la escritura martiana : desbordes de la modernidad, Carlos E. Cenzano

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Mechanical properties of self-consolidating concrete with pozzolanic materials, Indra Prasad Chapagain

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Development of lead-free thick film resistor, Xudong Chen

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An Autoregressive Conditional Filtering Process to remove Intraday Seasonal Volatility and its Application to Testing the Noisy Rational Expectations Model, Jang Hyung Cho

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Modified predator-prey (MPP) algorithm for single-and multi-objective optimization problems, Souma Chowdhury

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Improving concept learning in green building by addressing students' learning styles and prior knowledge, Sreelatha Chunduri

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Development and evaluation of a catheter deliverable artificial aortic heart valve prosthesis and delivery system, Thomas Edward Claiborne III

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The Lone Palm, Joe Clifford

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Rich and poor, white and black, slave and free : the social history of Cuba's tobacco farmers, 1763-1817, Charlotte A. Cosner

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Hello, Clothing, Phillip Scott Cunningham

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Quantifying the effects of temperature and concentration on variable-density flow in numerical modeling of groundwater systems : implications for predictive uncertainty and data collection, Alyssa Marie Dausman

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