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

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Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Paleolimnological investigation of recent sediments from Lake Monroe, Florida, USA., Bryan P. Carroll

The performing arts are in need of entertainment to survive as a business, Carlos Castro

A graduate piano recital, Ramon E. Catalan

The vulnerability of aquatic systems of the Upper Napo River Basin (Ecuadorian Amazon) to human activities, Jorge Emilio Celi-Sangurima

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The thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of protein folding, Prem P. Chapagain

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Technology professional development for principals : impact on the integration of technology in elementary schools, Tarek Chebbi

Interval estimation and point estimation for the location parameter of the three-parameter Weibull distribution, Dongming Chen

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A definition and measure of workflow modularity, Dawn-Marie Chin

Elementary school student beliefs about the causes of success and failure in music instruction, Eddy Ciné

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The impact of information technology on organizations : a study of enterprise resource planning system influences on job design and organizational culture, Susan Yvonne Clemmons

The composition, a chamber opera, Paul Clem

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Evaluation of field sampling and analysis methods for fire investigation including electronic noses and adsorption sampling/gas chromatography mass spectrometry, Laura Conner

Patronage and bribery in sixteenth-century Peru : the government of Viceroy Conde del Villar and the visita of licentiate Alonso Fernández de Bonilla, Luis Miguel Costa

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The analogy of skin in architecture revisited, Rene Croteau

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Analyzing characteristics of Java classes as related to implementation-based testing, David C. Crowther

A study of Spanish nominal ellipsis, Maria Victoria Cubau

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Phenology, sexual reproduction, and the factors affecting sexual reproduction of the marine angiosperm, Thalassia testudinum, in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS), Kevin M. Cunniff

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The analytical determination of the uniqueness and persistence of the volatile components of human scent using optimized collection methods, Allison Marsh Curran

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Spectroscopic, electrochemical and mass spectrometric investigation of anion binding by tripodal molecular receptors, Richild Alecia Currie

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The political party system and democratic crisis in Bolivia, Jennifer Marie Cyr

Anton Bruckner's Requiem in D Minor (1849)-a critical examination, Georgi Danchev

The role of repeated attitudinal expressions in predicting juror behavior, Erin Michelle Danielsen

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Practical secure information flow in programming languages, Zhenyue Deng

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Autonomy and authority in the lives of children who work as domestic servants in Ghana, Cecilia Nana Derby

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Optimal image deconvolution by range and noise moment constraints, Angelica Maria Diaz

Eyewitness decision-making with showups : probative or perilous?, Jason James Dickinson

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Effect of scaling on hydraulic conductivity in a Karst Aquifer, Vincent J. DiFrenna

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Factors affecting the alignment of grades and reading scores for third grade students on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Kristine L. Dittmar

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Effect of blood flow patterns on localized platelet adhesion under physiologic flow conditions using two-dimensional and three-dimensional stent models - an experimental and computational approach, Nandini Duraiswamy

An investigation of parents' and children's beliefs of early literacy acquisition from a cross-cultural perspective, Althea Duren

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Perceived energy expenditure for physical activity in male and female adults, Su-Nui Escobar

Investigation of the causes of serious injury and fatal crashes : an analysis using econometric models, Elio R. Espino

Trust computation in ad-hoc networks, Ahmad Farhat

Experiments in the dissociative recombination of xenon and krypton, Miguel A. Faxas Jr.

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Subsidizing Entertainment Projects As A Strategy For Urban Economic Development: A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Miami’s American Airlines Arena, Marcos Feldman

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Reactive architecture : Urban Recreational center, Michael Figueredo

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Politics and prayer in West Perrine, Florida : civic social capital and the black church, Susan Oltman Fink

Inmanencia mística en la obra de Federico García Lorca, Patricia A. Fitzpatrick

Lois-Ann Yamanaka's women : transcending the spaces of bodily contamination, Maureen Fonts

Identification of D21S11 haplotypes based on single nucleotide polymorphisms found in the 5' flanking sequence, Melanie Froimzon

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Architecture as contextual re-interpretation : a mixed-use cultural center in Old Havana, Cuba, Gabriel Fuentes

Numerical simulation of gas flows in a De-Laval micro nozzle, Venkata Vishnu Vardhan Gadepalli

An approach to optimal and dense stereo image correspondence, Luis E. Galarza

An aspect-oriented approach to designing role-based access control services, Shu Gao

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The use of capillary electrophoresis (CE) in drug analysis, Agnes D. Garcia

Promoting positive youth development : using within-regression analysis to estimate group process growth curves as mediators of intervention change in multi-problem youth, Arlen J. Garcia

Abortion and consumption : toward a political reading of Epiphanius of Salamis' "Gnostics", Rubén Garrote

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Secure routing and trust computation in multihop infrastructureless networks, Tirthankar Ghosh

Volume transport and nutrient loading between Florida Bay and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary through Long Key Channel, Johathan Patrick Gibson

Ecology of the endangered Florida bromeliad Catopsis berteroniana (Schult.f.) Mez (Bromeliaceae), Philip Allen Gonsiska

Red Apple Rest, Myra Gross

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Long term monitoring of trichloroethylene degradation indicator parameters using sensors, Ravi Krishna Prasanth Gudavalli

Improving the scientific reliability of biological detection of explosives by Canis Familiaris : active odour signatures and their implications, Ross James Harper

Stimulus contingency and perinatal auditory learning in northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) chicks, Christopher W. Harshaw

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Monstrum in femine figura : the patriarchal devaluation of the Irish goddess, the Mor-rioghan, Kelley Flannery Rowan

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Framework for Enterprise Systems Engineering, Oscar Alejandro Saenz

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The Study of Sonar for Imaging of the Solid-Liquid Interface Inside Large Tanks, Nitin Sood

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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A study of gas holdup properties of selected non-Newtonian simulants, Milena Abarca

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Teachers' knowledge, awareness, and pedagogy of global education in secondary schools, Abubakar Sadiq Abdullahi

The effect of a reform on a school organizational culture after receiving a failing Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test rating, Mona Abou-Assali

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Design and analysis of micro-channel heat-exchanger embedded in Low Temperature Co-fire Ceramic (LTCC), Hari Kishore Adluru

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A framework for policy based coordinated adaptation in mobile systems, Saurabh Agrawal

Portable architecture, Maria Mayela Alfaro

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Feasts of power : how food reveals Eve's influential role in John Milton's epic poem, "Paradise Lost", Jeanne M. Ali

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The therapeutic effects of Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III assessment feedback, Andrea Allen and Andrea Allen Keener

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Kit-of-parts architecture : an exploration into the standardization and simplification of an urban residential building unit, John Anderson Allmand

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The impact of looping of fourth grade students on their reading achievement, Mary Jo Almeida-Shore

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The acculturation of middle income Hispanic households, Cecilia Maria Alvarez

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A comparison of the Kodaly method and the traditional method to determine pitch accuracy in grade 6 choral sight-singing, Merissa Amkraut

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Norms and Greek foreign policy : 1981-2000., Arghyris Arghyrou

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Program notes and translations for a graduate voice recital, Sara Arias Ruiz

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Retail centers for community : addressing both pedestrian and car traffic, Luis Asturias

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Risk and resilience factors associated with delinquent behavior among African American adolescent males, Lynette Atteloney

A software tool that generates symbolic model verifier (SMV) input language from a predicate transition net, Amany Z. Awadallah

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Rainfall variability in the upper Napo River Basin, Ecuadorian Amazon, Marcelo Vicente Ayabaca

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The impact of migration and intergenerational changes on the Cuban family in the United States, Darna Aybar Guardia

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Parallel relationships, architecture and water : the urban spa, Tobi Aycock

The effects of hydroperiod on the life-history parameters of Lucania goodei (fundulidae) in the Florida Everglades, J. Shawna Baker

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An examination of Bernard Connor's The History of Poland (1698) and its depiction of the political, religious, and cultural history of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, John Paul Bardunias

A graduate piano accompanying recital, Sara M. Barton

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Analysis and design of tall concrete buildings : an investigation regarding the use of cracked versus un-cracked moment of inertia, Anas Bataineh

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The phonological analysis of bilingual Creole/English children living in South Florida, Carolyn F. Beaubrun

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Student perceptions of the school physical fitness testing program : the Fitnessgram, Jacqueline Becker-Busha

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Navigating the past, envisioning the future : Octavia Butler's heroines, Dixie-Ann Belle

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Acculturation and Hispanic identity/ethnicity as a predictor of change on the brief situational confidence questionnaire, Simy Benchimol

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Vertical attenuation of light predicts the sequence to dawn song in a tropical forest avifuana, Karl Stephen Berg

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The design, implementation and production process of creating a viable series of Latin shows in Hollywood, Florida, Cynthia Gredel Berrios

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Mobile architecture : offering new perceptions of the city, Valeria G. Bettoli

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Palm Cottage Garden Historic Preservation, Vrushali J. Bharadwaj

Internet Protocol (IP) design and implementation for efficient mobility to devices in wireless networks, Arpit Bhatnagar

Once a Catholic : a novel in stories and poems, Mona Birch

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Occupational therapists' attitudes toward family-centered care, Elise M. Bloch

The isolation, characterization, and application of WRKY genes as useful molecular markers in tropical trees, James William Borrone

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A descriptive study of the ratio of approval to disapproval demonstrated by music teachers and classroom teachers in first, second, and third grades, Manuel Emilio Brenes

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A recital of selected repertoire for the soprano voice, Emily Brennan

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Predictors of client retention in alternative to prison substance abuse programs, Jolae Brocato

Effects of instruction on first, second and third grade children's ability to decenter when assessed on discrimination between contrasting musical characteristics, Daniel A. Brodhead

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Jump! How high?, Tracey Ann Broussard

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Improving performance of a permeable reactive barrier in the degradation of trichloroethylene using ultrasound, Jonathan A. Bulley

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Retention and special education referral practices before and after the implementation of high-stakes testing, Sue L. Buslinger-Clifford