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Theses/Dissertations from 1998

Investigation of generation-recombination noise and related processes in aluminum-gallium arsenide tegfets and hall structures with quatum wells, Yuping Chen

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The effect of cooperative learning on the attitudes toward science and the achievement of students in a non-science majors' general biology laboratory course at an urban community college, Genevieve C. Chung-Schickler

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The role of overseas Chinese investment in the emerging countries of Southeast and East Asia : a confucian model of the foreign direct investment decision making process using factors unconsidered in the west, Linda Dunn Clarke

Impossible paradise, Pete James Collins

The relationship between calling and body condition in hyla cinerea, Christy Angela Combs

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Affectivity and job satisfaction: a meta-analysis, James J. Connolly

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Occupational therapists' assessment of the caregivers of their elderly patients, Ernest Vincent Corradetti

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Comparative reproductive biology of two Florida pawpaws asimina reticulata chapman and asimina tetramera small, Anne Cheney Cox

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Content-Area teachers' perceptions of the effect of the meta training on their instructional practices, Sylvia R. Crespo

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Sensitivity and specificity of a nutrition screening tool for patients admitted to general medical and surgical services, Vanessa Cruz

Clonal diversity in populations of the seagrass thalassia testudinum in rabbit key basin, Florida bay, Jenny L. Cutler

Investigating how phosphorus controls structure and function in two Everglades wetland plant communities, Robert J. Daoust

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Determining interspecific interactions between the dominant macrophytes of tropical, atlantic seagrass meadows, Braxton C. Davis

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The contamination level of campylobacter jejuni in retail chicken quarters, Lynne Jenny Deason

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Degradation of azo dyes in aqueous solution by H2O2/Fe2+ and H2O2/Fe, Sangeeta Dhulashia

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Sorption measurements and behavior of monosodium methanearsonate and arsenic (+5) in aqueous suspensions of floridian soil fractions, George William Di Carlo

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Low vision, stimulus encoding and information processing: a characterization of performance of partially sighted users on computer-based tasks, Max A. Dixon

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Social capital and high school football: a game plan for the development of human and cultural capital, Blane R. Dobey

Three-dimensional image analysis using confocal microscopy, Sonia Duranza

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Adaptive segmenting of non-stationary signals, Christopher Albin Edmonds

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Grandfamilies--Grandchildren raised by Grandparents: Impact on students and school services, Oliver Wayne Edwards

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Pollination and breeding of jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus lam.) in South Florida, Sherine El-Sawa

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Safety habits promoted by hispanic parents for school-aged and adolescent children, Mary Ellen Ernst

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Crack tip stress study for elastic-perfectly plastic materials with some applications, Ivan Enrique Esparragoza

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Integration of fault tolerance and hardware redundancy techniques into the design of mobile platforms, Miguel Angel Espina

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An assessment of nurses' knowledge and attitudes toward patients with sickle cell disease, Marie Osline Etienne

Transnational migrant media: A study of South Florida Haitian Radio, Emmanuel Eugene

The identification of specific job stressors as perceived by occupational therapists and their relationship to job strains, Heidi V. Factor

A study of the herpetofaunal assemblages in the floodplain habitats of the Kissimmee river, Christopher Jon Farrell

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Profile of planning: a study of a three year project on the implementation of collaborative library media programs, Sybil M. Farwell

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The influence of weak parental and peer attachment on academic achievement among late adolescent college students, Michael Erik Fass

Frecuency and value of role performance in the Icelandic population, Kristjana Fenger

Design, development and testing of a computerized data acquisition and control system for a nanoparticle deposition system, Guillermo De Jesus Fernandez

Caregivers description of illness in children with asthma, Carla Ianni Ferrugio

A frame analysis of the leadership styles of dental and medical school deans, Paul J. Flaer

Soil seed stocks of tropical hardwood hammocks in southern Florida : implications for restoration, Laura J. Flynn

A study of teachers' perceptions of the principal as an instructional leader: A comparative analysis of elementary, middle, and senior high school principals, Steve Gallon III

Mechanics of batch slurry mixing by means of rotating impellers in a cylindrical vessel, Victor Manuel Gamez

A study of the state-of-the-art in journalism education in the Miami-Dade county public schools, Fernando Ganivet

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Maria W. Stewart: America's first black feminist, Jennifer Anne Garcia

And A Long Slow Rain- A Novel, Howard Alan Gengarelly

Estimation of global systematic risk for securities listed in multiple markets, Gauri L. Ghai

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A sem-odb application for the western cultures database, Raquel Ghersgorin

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Occupational therapy in Iceland attitude, knowledge and cooperation, Gunnhildur Gisladottir

A retrospective descriptive comparative study: Case management of hospitalized inmates and it's effects on cost containment, Sonia C. Grannum

Dissociative recombination of AR2+ : life time measurements, Mircea Guna

Listening-to-perfume house a novel, Liang Guo

Perceivers' Impressions of self-presentation tactics: The effects of age and gender, Xiaohui Guo

Sexual harassment of Miami-Dade county public school students by school personnel, David Gupta

The usefulness and appropriateness of a federalist perspective as a theoretical construct for the study of government and civics at the secondary level The usefulness and appropriateness of a federalist perspective as a theoretical construct for the study of government and civics at the secondary level, Robert Gutierrez

What are the reasons EMS workers are refusing hepatitis B immunization ?, Martin Edward Hagopian

Remotely controlled dynamic automation, Rizwan Hanif

Intuition as it relates to curriculum, instruction, and resulting academic success in elementary school, Sallie Lott Harris

Attitudes of adult child caregivers from the greater Reykjavik area of Iceland toward autonomy and paternalism in relation to care of the elderly, Valerie Jacqueline Harris

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

Self-tuning algorithm for dsp-based motion control in cnc applications, Cesar David Aguilar

Photocatalytic decomposition of organophosphonates fluorophenols in irradiated titanium dioxide suspensions, Martha Aguilar

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Effect of child care subsidies on price and quality of care for low -income families, Sudhersena Alalasundaram

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An investigation into the lived experiences of racism among African -American nurses, Paula Alexander-Delpech

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Substructuring in four populations of African descent, Margarita Teresa Almeida

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An investigation of the relationships among self-care behaviors, health beliefs, and metabolic control in the non-insulin-dependent diabetic adult, Sonia R. Anglin

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Design and evaluation of a consulting system for database design, Solomon Raj Antony

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The role of exploration and critical decision making and problem solving in making life choices, Ondina Arrufat

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The role of individualism and collectivism as predictors of attributions for unethical work behavior : an empirical examination across two culturally diverse groups, Ana Azevedo

Touch of AIDS : A love story, Michele Dunn Baker

Intra-racial relations among blacks in the United States: dissimilarities, partnerships, and common identities, Michael Antonio Barnett

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Firefly curios and sundry lights, Maidel H. Barrett

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Design and construction of a portable force-reflecting manual controller for teleoperation systems, Pattaraphol Batsomboon

Quantification of standards of proof thresholds in criminal and civil litigation, Richard Allan Berg

Studies on nitrogen and phosphorus uptake by the carnivorous bladderwort utricularia foliosa L. in South Florida wetlands, Amanda Louise Bern

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A study of the effects of a service-learning experience on student success at an urban community college, Judith Sheryl Berson

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Influence, policy formation, and higher education in Florida : 1989-94, Edward Allen Blackwell

City of a hundred fires, Ricardo De Jesus Blanco

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Risk-taking propensity of faculty, administrators and academic departament heads at large, urban, multicampus community college, Lois Hanson Bolton

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Elder malnutrition: A meta analysis of studies using the nutrition screening initiative determine checklist, Carmen Teresa Brain Urrunaga

Surfactant solubilization and subsequent bioavailability of phenanthrene, Debbie-Ann Bramwell

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Effects of nutrition education on the nutrition knowledge of future aerobic dance instructors, Abbe Michelle Breiter

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Social and cultural influences in the formation of identity: a cross-national/cultural study., Ervin Briones

The effects of a creative movement program on long-term incarcerated women, Michele Metz Brockway

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The relationship between participation in unethical behaviors during the nursing student experience and participation in unethical behaviors as a registered nurse, Lynne J. Bryant

Interaction of the parasitic angiosperm cassytha filiformis L. (Lauraceae) with the exotic schinus terebinthifolius RADDI (Anacardiaceae) in southern Florida, James N. Burch

Cooperation within nato: the influence of european democracies on U.S. foreign policy, Milan Bures

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Psychosocial variables associated with the co-occurance of risky sexual behavior with alcohol consumption among university students, Morris F. Burnham

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Valued occupational roles and life satisfaction among south Florida HIV-infected and Non-infected homosexual males : an exploratory study, Kenneth Morton Byers

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The effect of three positions of shoulder flexion on grip strength, John David Canyock

Remote control & communication of systems through power lines, Joaquin Castillo

A comparison of breathing patterns in normal full term infants in supine versus right side-lying during quiet and active behavioral sleep states, Carol A. Catanzaro

Government control in Mexican television: The struggle between the public and private interest, Maria Eugenia Ceballos

Enhancing the Case Tool Supporting Moses Methodology for Multi-user Environment, Suresh Kumar Chaurasia

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Object access control to enable internet commerce, Chengqiang Chen

Closing the productivity gap and trade policy, Yuna Chen

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The lived experience of healing touch with cancer patients, Charlene Ann Christiano

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Mode choice modeling with neural network : Boston area case study, Soon Chung

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Computer anxiety and nursing informatics needs of graduate nursing students, Margot Elizabeth Clark

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The effects of the advanced placement examination for credit policy by the Florida state universities on the acceleration of a student's postsecundary education, Denise A. Collado

Factors that motivate RNs to return to school for the BSN and to remain in school to complete the degree, Shirley Ann Corbett

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Feature geometry, underspecification and child substitutions, Cynthia Williams Core

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Contingent-relations description facilitates rule-following in a subsequent generalization task, Noel Alexander Crooks

Mitochondrial inheritance during a parasexual cycle in fusarium oxysporum forma specialis cubense, Naomi D'Alessio

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Occupational stress in private schools: a teacher profile, John P. Davies

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A sociological look at the Maria paradox, Cecilia Juana De Sola Potharst