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Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Selected Tropical Cyclone Satellite Analyses with an Emphasis on 37 GHz Color Composite Imagery, Margaret Kieper

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Gender Differences, Vitamin B6, Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, and Inflammation-related Diseases, Hyojung Kim

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Identifying Mediators, Moderators and High-Risk Latent Classes of Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight Among Pregnant Women in Rural Mysore, India, Sandra Kiplagat

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How Weeds Affect Insects in Mango Cultivation of South Florida, Blaire Kleiman

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Turkey-Russia Relations in 2001-2020: Deepening Partnership and Heightening Competition Amid Regional Restructuring, Muhammet Koçak

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Rethinking the Functions of Regional Economic Communities: Why African Small States Join and Remain in Sub-Regional Entities, Cliff Kodero

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Stoicism and Just War Theory, Leonidas D. Konstantakos

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A Web-Based Nutrition Education Intervention for Asian Indian Fathers in Florida, Priya Krishnakumar

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The Use of Religion in Violent Conflict, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding: Cases from Uganda and Sierra Leone, Sedinam Akosua Kumah

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The Nomad Selves: The American Women of The Spanish Civil War and Exile, Maria Labbato

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Shadows of the Morning Twilight, Philip A. LaPadula

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Family Firms in the Developing Context: Essays on Internationalization, Women, and Generational Changes, Maria Lapeira

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Development of a Miniature Pipe Crawler for Application in Fossil Energy Power Plants, Caique C. Lara

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Perceptions of Support and Teacher Retention in Secondary Schools, Amaris Leal

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Individual Investors’ Response Around Earnings Announcements, Their Preferred Trading Time, and the Effects Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, E. Jin Lee

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Mediators and Moderators of the Associations between Unstructured Socializing with Peers, Substance Use, and Handgun Carrying among Adolescents, Anna Leimberg

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Examining the Relationship between Ideological Misfit and Employee Attitudes and Behaviors, Danilo R. Le Sante

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In Situ Arsenic Speciation using Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and the Coffee Ring Effect, Valery Liamtsau

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Unit Energy Consumption, Production, and Cost of Innovative Treatment Systems of Different Wastewater Streams, Jinze Li

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Parents' Experiences After the Death of an Only Child in the U.S., Juanjuan Li

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The Effects of Population Diversity on the Economic and Household Welfare of Metropolitan Areas in the U.S., LIRIA M. LITANO

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Enabling Distributed Applications Optimization in Cloud Environment, Pinchao Liu

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Examining the Relationships between Factors of Employees’ Perceptions of Knowledge Worker Productivity, Psychological Well-Being, and Performance, Walter Liu

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Essays on Migration, Entrepreneurship, and Risk Hedging, Yiming Liu

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Impacts of U.S. Immigration Detention and Transfers on the Well-Being of Those Detained Within a Punitive For-Profit System, Karina J. Livingston

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We Have the Land Titles: Indigenous Litigants and Privatization of Resguardos in Colombia, 1870s-1940s, Gloria Lopera

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Towards a Model for Public Private Partnership (P3) Success: Understanding the Critical Success Factors of Public Private Partnerships (P3s) for Local Government Services and Infrastructure Delivery, Antonio M. Lopez

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El teatro cubano entre dos aguas: dos siglos y dos orillas (1986-2019), Ivonne O. Lopez Arenal

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Experimental Investigations of the Aerodynamics and Wind Loading of Buildings with Balconies, Lisette Ludena

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Technical Interviews: Another Barrier to Broadening Participation in Computing?, Stephanie Jill Lunn

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A Study of Non-datapath Cache Replacement Algorithms, Steven G. Lyons Jr.

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Effects of a Cooking and Gardening Nutrition Intervention in Food Insecure College Students, Alison K. Macchi

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Tolerance to Psychostimulant Medication Among Children with ADHD, Fiona Macphee

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Identification of Human Topoisomerase I Poison and Catalytic Inhibitors, Christian Madeira

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The Novice Assistant Principal: Support Needs in the Transition to the Administrative Role, Alyssa Nicole Maestas

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Managing Collaborative Networks in Post-Disaster Recovery: A Case Study of 2015 Nepal Earthquake, Barsha Manandhar

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Development of a Real-Time Single-Lead Single-Beat Frequency-Independent Myocardial Infarction Detector, Harold Martin

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Alibi Generation and Discriminability: Improving Innocent Suspects' Accuracy and Examining Alibi Discriminability, Kureva Pritchard Matuku

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Cuban Exiles and U.S. Foreign Policy, Caroline Ranawn McCulloch

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A Comprehensive Evaluation of an Offender-Focused Domestic Violence Policing Strategy Using the EMMIE Framework, Sara C. McFann

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The Death of Superman, Shane F. McFarlane

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Living Precariously: The Cultural Politics of Becoming Transgender in Postcolonial Jamaica, Kemar McIntosh

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The Potential of Makerspaces within the University to Aid in Student Professional Development, Sophia M. Medina

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Three Essays in Applied Economics, Mohammad Javad Mehregan

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The Pedagogy of the Youth Teachers of the Cuban Literacy Campaign, Yuleisy Mena

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Impact of Multimodal First-Year Composition Courses on Student Success, Satisfaction, and Growth, Abdullah Mir

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Geometric Quantizations Related to the Laplace Eigenspectra of Compact Riemannian Symmetric Spaces via Borel-Weil-Bott Theory, Camilo Montoya

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Undermining Witnesses' Perceptions of Police Belief Improves Eyewitness Identification Accuracy in Showup Procedures, Alexis T. Mook

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Uncharacterized Isosporoid Parasite in the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum floridanus), Matthew S. Morris

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Understanding Critical Impacting Factors and Trends on the Future of Bridges, A.M.M. MUHAIMIN

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Con pluma propia: nación, patria e identidad en los escritos de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Salomé Ureña y Clorinda Matto de Turner, Beatriz Muller-Marqués

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In-vitro Micropropagation and Acclimatization of Selected Florida Native Orchids, Andrew Mullin

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Primitivismo y poesía femenina en el Cono Sur: Gabriela Mistral, Alfonsina Storni y Juana de Ibarbourou, Ramon Muniz

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Optical Two-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy of Many-body Dynamics in Quantum Materials, Maria Fernanda Munoz

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Evaluation of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Models in Wrong-way Driving Crash Severity Prediction, Sajidur Rahman Nafis

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Non-Target Analysis Using High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry to Characterize and Remediate Urban Waters, Brian Ng

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Three Essays In Corporate Governance, Dung Thanh Nguyen

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Hydrology and Fire History Drive Patterns in Post-Fire Recovery in Everglades Wetland Ecosystem, Jenisha Oli

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Advance Solutions for Voltage Control and Optimization in Smart Grids, Temitayo Olayemi Olowu

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Mental Health, Intersectionality of Religious Identity Struggles, and Islamophobia in Muslim Young Adults in South Florida: An Exploratory Study, Amani Othman

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Peer2Peer Support and Information Sharing Among After-School Staff: Promoting Emotional Well-Being via Effectiveness and Connectedness, Rachel R. Ouellette

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An Integrated Software and Hardware Architecture for Gravity-driven and Remotely-operated Water Release, Dogukan Ozecik

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Exercise, Cognition, and Cannabis Use in Adolescents, Ileana Pacheco-Colón

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An Information Theoretic Approach to Characterizing the Attention Shifts in the Fruit Fly During Flight, Nicholas A. Palermo

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Extended Functional Connectivity of Convergent Structural Alterations Among Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-Analysis and Functional Connectivity Analysis, Brianna S. Pankey

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Three Essays on Insurance Coverage in the U.S. Healthcare System, rochelle parrino

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Is Price Why Students Don't Get Their Books? Undergraduate Acquisition Of Class Materials, Joseph Todd Patton

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Perceptions of Speech-Language Pathologists on Childhood Bilingualism, Sherlie V. Paz

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Integrating Compound Flood Conditions Through 2D Hydraulic Modeling for Simulating Flood Risk Processes In Coastal Cities, Francisco Pena Guerra Mr.

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Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of Submerged Steel Bridge Piles in Natural Waters in Presence of Marine-Fouling, Samanbar Permeh

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Fixed Effects Estimation of Private Health Insurance Influence on Factors Affecting Workplace Outcomes: Survey of income and program participation analysis, Scott Phillips

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The Corrosion Inhibition Behavior of Thermally Aged Chromate Conversion Coating applied to Aerospace Aluminum 2219, Michelle Stephane Pierre

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Perceiving Sociable Technology: Exploring the Role of Anthropomorphism and Agency Perception on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Jose Pineda

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Adaptive Delivery as a Means to Increase Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes, Juan M. Pinera

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Neurocognitive Mechanisms Associated with Real-world Financial Savings among Individuals from Lower Income Households, Ranjita Poudel

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Examining Positive Behavioral Supports for Children with Challenging Behaviors across Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Head Start Settings, Bridget Poznanski

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Evaluation of Harvesting Time for Industrial Hemp (Cannabis Sativa L,) Pilot Project Varieties Grown in South Florida, Jordan W. Prats

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Novel Attacks and Defenses for Enterprise Internet-of-Things (E-IoT) Systems, Luis C. Puche Rondon

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Design and Realization of Fully-digital Microwave and Mm-wave Multi-beam Arrays with FPGA/RF-SOC Signal Processing, Sravan kumar Pulipati

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Development of Phosphorus-Based Electrode Materials for Energy Storage Applications, Amin Rabiei Baboukani

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The Adoption of Automated Vehicles: Accounting for Attitudes and Heterogeneity, Alireza Rahimi

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Associations of Sociocultural Stressors with Psychological Distress and Self-rated Health among Hispanic Emerging Adults, Abir Rahman

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Securing the Internet of Things Communication Using Named Data Networking Approaches, Sanjeev Kaushik Ramani

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The Development of Reward Processing and Risky Behaviors in the Brain, Michelle L. Ramos

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Digital Processing of Magnetic, Angular-Rate and Gravity Signals for Human-Computer Interaction, Neeranut Ratchatanantakit

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Secure Distributed Systems Over Satoshi Blockchains, Ruben Recabarren Velarde

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Investigation of Memory Related Cortical Thalamic Circuitry in the Human Brain, Puck C. Reeders

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Three Essays on US Pension Plans, Robinson Reyes Pena

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Social Media and Public Discourse Participation in Restrictive Environments, Jobany J. Rico

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Correlation of Acute Radiation Dermatitis to Tissue Oxygenation in Radiation Therapy treated Breast Cancer Subjects, Edwin Alexander Robledo

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Epigenetic Mechanisms as Drivers of Environmental Responses in Stony Corals, Javier A. Rodriguez Casariego

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Adolescent Social Networks and Violence in Rural Colombia, Ana L. Rodriguez de la Rosa

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The Impact of Demographic, Academic, and Financial Variables on Predicting Four- and Six-Year Graduation at an Urban, Public, Hispanic-Serving Institution, Maria Rosado

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Functional Regionalization in the Fly Eye as an Adaptation to Habitat Structure, Carlos A. Ruiz

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Agent-Based Modeling of Near Miss Incidents by Integrating Construction Site Dynamics with Enriched Worker Behavior, M Ahmed Rusho

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Cyber Dating Abuse Among Emerging Adult Latina Women, Yanet Ruvalcaba

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Objects/Slow Hours, Camila E. Saavedra

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Alternative Connections for Accelerated Construction of Simple for Dead load and Continuous for Live load Steel Bridge System, Amir Sadeghnejad

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Integrated Approach for Diversion Route Performance Management during Incidents, Rajib Chandra Saha

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Examining the Role of Knowledge and Cultural Values on Utilization of Mammograms Among a Sample of Saudi Women, Afrah saif