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

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Theses/Dissertations from 2001

A descriptive study of the empowerment process of mothers of children who have disabilities, Lori Biederman-Weinstein

Reconcilable differences, a dark comedy, John A. Bond

Understanding the cycle of violence: an examination of bully and victim social roles in early childhood, Emily E. Branscum

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Construction and screening of A cDNA library for the C3 gene(s) of the Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma Cirratum), Janette Cristina Builes

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A formal architectural specification of the automatic validation of the Everglades National Park hydrology system, William S. Caldwell II

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Francophone regionalism and its impact on west african integration, Sekou Camara

Flagler street: a strategy to revitalize and reconnect downtown Miami's city blocks, Marina Capocchi

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The effects of defendant account on damage award decisions, Tracey Renee Carpenter

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An analysis of the South Florida commuter assistance program's implementation of transportation demand management initiatives, Elizabeth Carrera

Population estimates and behavioral analyses of managed cat (Felis Catus) colonies located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, parks, Daniel Castillo

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A performance measurement tool for the resource access decider authorization service prototype, Suresh R. Chegireddy

A flexible multimedia query and presentation interface for multimedia database systems, Qiong Chen

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Oxidation of Zeaxanthin and characterization of 3'-Alkyl Lutein ethers, Jie Chi

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Multilevel data compression techniques for transmission of audio over networks, Craig Chin

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An approach for clarification of the mechanism of inactivation of ribonucleotide reductases with 3'<¹⁷O>-labeled 2'-azido-2'-deoxynucleotides, Saiful Mahmud Chowdhury

Cytokine analisys in atlantic bottlenose dolphins: molecular characterization of IL-4, IL-6, and IL-10, Robert E. Cirocco

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The differential effects of American and British trial proceedings on juror decision-making, Marisa Evelyn Collett

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Assessing the construct validity of a measure of learning agility, James Connolly

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Land use of riparian zones in two communities in the Palcazu basin, central Andean Amazon, Peru, Rosa E. Cossio-Solano

Defending the double monastery: aldhelm of Malmesbury's de Virginitate and seventh-century England, Thomas Cramer

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Defending the double monastery: aldhelm of Malmesbury's de Virginitate and seventh-century England, Thomas Cramer

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Predictive performance modeling and simulation, Garth Crosby

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Titanium dioxide photocatalytic degradation of aliphatic ethers and their primary oxidation products, Vivian Cruz

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Management, retrieval, and visualization of spatial data from airborne light detection and ranging system (LIDAR) survey, Zheng Cui

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Itch, Thomas DeMarchi

Distribution of light on the human retina, Liset Diaz

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Self-regulated learning : the role of a journal in the learning process for students and teachers, Lilia C. DiBello

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Apollo and Daphne : an analysis of the work composed by Kari Henrik Juusela, Amy Dickinson

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Toward a unified theory of task-oriented and relationship-oriented leader behavior: a multi-country generalizability study, Ellen Antoinette Drost

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Lower Manhattan and the East River: an investigation into the renewal of the Lower East Side waterfront, Todd A. Edge

The event argument and the light verb construction, Burgel Rosa Maria Faehndrich

Machismo and masochism in Ernest Hemingway, Richard Fantina

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Architecture as friendly interface a digital information facility for the village of Islamorada, Linda Feinberg

Music Performance Thesis, David Fernandez

Software tool that generates hierarchical predicate transition nets (HPRTNETS) notation from a unified modeling language (UML) class diagram notation, Rigoberto Fernandez

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Dean of the School Board: An Oral History of the Distinguished Career of G. Holmes Braddock, Elizabeth Ann Ferreria-Alves

Cruise Ships Port Planning Factors, Jeth Al Fogg

Wrist dynamics in the posteroanterior plane: model and experiments, Juan Forero

The impact of the Miami Cuban exile's political culture on the 1996 fiscal crisis of the City of Miami, Alexander Franco

Comparison of two mentoring programs for at-risk black adolescents : a traditional one-to-one mentoring program and a school-to-work transitional program, Garnett Noel Frederick

Kyoto city hall plaza: redesigning an urban open space, Michiyo Fujita

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A Study of Teachers' Espoused Instructional Beliefs, Lauren Sherrill Gach

Straits of fortune, Anthony Dale Gagliano

Ecosystem responses to hydrologic change and mechanisms of nitrogen sequestration in seasonally flooded tree islands of the southern Everglades, Tiffany Troxler Gann

Mexican political caricature : the crises of the early 1900s and 1990s, Abigail Garces

Ultra Wideband Antennas for Personal Communication Devices, Kamal Garg

Analysis of Slot Antennas Using the Finite Difference Time Domain Method, Nimisha Garg

The reproductive biology of ruellia succulenta (acanthaceae) and the effects of habitat fragmentation, John H. Geiger

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A master-slave architecture for parallel speaker recognition, Sunil Kumar Godavarthi

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La mujer en defensa de la mujer: voces femeninas del romanticismo cubano (Poesía y cuento), Luis Marcelino Gómez

Breastfeeding practices and nutritional status of adolescent mothers and infants that participate in the women, infants, and children nutrition program (WIC), Rebecca J. Granda

Factors positively influencing academically successful, highly motivated african-american high school students, Linda Caldwell Grant

Thin films fabricated from a nanoparticle beam, Peter D. Griffiths

The effects of Kangaroo care on the vital signs of preterm infants, Megan Moore Grindstaff

Evaluation of automotive lenses for forensic applications, Susan T. Gross

Performance improvement in a grid computing environment using condor and beowulf clusters, Bangalore Rao Guruprakash

Centrally managed distributed networks-management and integration scheme, Yonas Hambissa

Electrically tunable microstrip line hairpin filter using yttirum barium copper oxide (YBCO) high temperature superconductor and strontium titanate (STO) ferroelectric patches, Jude Lincoln Hankey

Language maintenance and use in South Florida hispanic university students: do educational programs matter?, Deborah Judith Hasson

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Botánicas: absence in Cuba, proliferation in the United States, José A. Lammoglia

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Geophysical Analysis of a Central Florida Karst Terrain using Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Derived Surfaces, Juana Maria Montane

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A Case Study of the Ellison Model's Use of Mentoring as an Approach Toward Inclusive Community Building, Claire Michele Rice

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Geochemical variation among small eruptive centers in the central SVZ of the Andes : an evaluation of subduction, mantle and crustal influences, Murong Sun

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Embedded Heat Pipes in Cofired Ceramic Substrates for Enhanced Thermal Management of Electronics, Marc A. Zampino

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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The distribution and abundance of the exotic and native urban avifauna in Miami-Dade County Florida, Omar Zaid Abdelrahman

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Examination of the overlap between DSM-111-R overanxious disorder and DSM-IV generalized anxiety disorder in childhood, Candice A. Alfano

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Digital signal processing implementation for near real-time wavelet transformation system for binary images, Ovidio Alfonso

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The relationship between cognitive ability, the big five, task and contextual performance: a meta-analysis, Alexander Alonso

Dynamic job quoting system for printed circuit board fabrication, Mohammed Imtiaz Alvi

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Elementary music and classroom teachers' time-use: a comparison by grade level, time of day, and day of the week, Marilyn Jane Anderson

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A simulation-based heuristic for fleet assignment, Sonia Rosario Anorga

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Process inventory and pollution prevention overview for the citrus industry, Carmen Alicia Aponte

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Further evidence for the relationship between eating frequency, body mass index, and physical activity, Mona Jahjah Ashchi

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Integration and querying of heterogeneous, autonomous, distributed database systems, Rukshan Indika Athauda

Physical activity and nutrition related variables in hispanic and non-hispanic college students, Holly Jean Baker

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Rastafarianism and the Nation of Islam as institutions for group-identity formation among blacks in the United States : a case study comparing their approaches, Michael A. Barnett

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Ammonite biostratigraphy, lithofacies variations, and paleoceanographic implications for barremian-aptian sequences of northeastern Mexico, Ricardo Barragan

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Typologies of teachers in Florida tobacco use prevention education (tupe) programs, Jessica E. Barr

Nutritional status of United States Coast Guard law enforcement detachment groups before and after a deployment, Carolyn Marie Bauer

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Aspects of the transplantation, storage and maintenance of corals (Montastraea Faveolata, Acropora Cervicornis and A. Palmata), Lillian C. Becker

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Clinician perceptions of factors that enhance patient compliance in physical therapy, Victoria R. Benea

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A phenomenological perspective of the lived experiences of Jewish holocaust survivors seeking health care in the United States today, Marsha Berger

Effect of delay of first interview and repetition of interview on accuracy and confidence of recall of a flashbulb-type memory, Richard Allan Berg

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Dynamic data retrieval on the world wide web, Dmitriy Beryoza

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Engineering access control for distributed enterprise applications, Konstantin Beznosov

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Picking up the pieces: body parts and female power in Shakespeare's The rape of Lucrece, Daphne Blum

Molecular detection using metallic nanowires with quantized conductance, Albert Bogozi

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The United States and the politics of trade: the banana war with Europe and the Caribbean, Niala Boodhoo

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World coffee markets and national coffee parastatals since 1989: a comparative study of Colombia and Cote D'ivoire, Laura Elizabeth Boudon

The acceptability and utility of voir dire questionnaires in Florida circuit civil court, Kendra Horstmyer Brennan

Pioneers in the study of motion, Susan Briante

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A test of a tripartite framework of team strategy development, Kevin William Brown

Racial/ethnic differences on the body image perceptions and weight concerns of fourth grade girls, Kara Ann Burnstine

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Exploring the role of therapy process and outcome in interventions that target adolescent identity and intimacy, Janene R. Bussell

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Social networks of immigrant preadolescents : network structure,sources of support, and psychological well-being, Gastón Luis Bustos

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The role of death qualification in venirepersons' evaluations of aggravating and mitigating circumstances in capital trials, Brooke M. Butler

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Schools and the formation of black identity during the civil rights movement: change and resistance in Holly Springs, Mississippi, 1964-1974, David Marcos Callejo-Perez

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Parental behaviors in child anxiety: an observational study, Delight Hicks Carmichael

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Countering the consideration of extra-legal factors in damage award decisions, Tracey Renee Carpenter

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The function and failure of plantation government: interpreting spaces of power and discipline in representations of slave plantations, Karen Michelle Carson