Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Toward an Understanding of Faculty Perceptions about Factors that Influence Student Success in Online Education, Michael Porter
Intracellular Signaling and Trafficking in Cancer: Role of Rab5-GTPase in Migration and Invasion of Breast Cells, Nicole Porther
Plant Diversity and Endemism in Cuba, Ramona Oviedo Prieto
"New" Social Movements: Alternative Modernities, (Trans)local Nationalisms, and Solidarity Economies, Mamyrah Prosper
Neglected Masterpieces of Cinema, Louis Proyect
Public Service Motivation in Public and Nonprofit Service Providers: The Cases of Belarus and Poland, Palina Prysmakova
Data Verifications for Online Social Networks, Mahmudur Rahman
Vertical Handoff Target Selection in a Heterogeneous Wireless Network Using Fuzzy ELECTRE, Mukesh Ramalingam
Caffeine Intake and its Association with Disease Progression, Sleep Quality and Anxiety Symptoms and Nutritional Alterations in People Living with HIV in the Miami Adult Studies on HIV Cohort, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy
[Presentation and Closing Remarks] Design = $ <-‐> affluent = context DNA, Christopher Ramey
Foreign Language Education in Colombia: A Qualitative Study of Escuela Nueva, Daniel A. Ramirez Lamus
The Economics of Trademarks, Jorge V. Ramos
[Presentation] Rapid Prototyping Technologies and Creative Thinking Throughout the Design Process, Marlo Ransdell
[Presentation] The FabStudio: Experiences and strategies for developing, maintaining, and teaching in a digital fabrication lab., Marlo Ransdell
Keynote Address by Karim Rashid, Karim Rashid
Regulation of Bone Marrow Stem Cells through Oscillatory Shear Stresses - A Heart Valve Tissue Engineering Perspective, Sasmita Rath
Design and Synthesis of Novel Nucleoside Analogues: Oxidative and Reductive Approaches toward Synthesis of 2'-Fluoro Pyrimidine Nucleosides, Ramanjaneyulu Rayala
Work Creativity as a Dimension of Job Performance, Angela C. Reaves
Multi-Objective Analysis and Optimization of Integrated Cooling in Micro-Electronics With Hot Spots, Sohail R. Reddy
FCE LTER Mid-term Review field trip to SRS-6, Peter Regier
FCE LTER Mid-term Review field trip to SRS-6, Peter Regier
FCE LTER Mid-term Review field trip to Shark River sites, Jennifer S. Rehage
FCE LTER Mid-term Review field trip to Shark River sites (SRS-4 and SRS-6), Jennifer S. Rehage
FCE LTER Mid-term Review field trip to SRS-6, Jennifer S. Rehage
Factors Affecting Current and Future Treeline Locations and Dynamics in the Peruvian Andes, Evan Rehm
A Comparison Between Graphene and WS2 as Solid Lubricant Additives to Aluminum for Automobile Applications, Sara Rengifo
The Landscape Parks of Jane Austen: Gender and Voice, Lauren N. Rey
Vegetation Trends in Indicator Regions of Everglades National Park, Jennifer H. Richards and Daniel Gann
Racing to Build Solutions to Slow Sea Level Rise, Daniela Rios and Wilnette Ortega
Determination of Extracellular Molecules Produced by Vibrio Harveyi Using MS/MS, Jose G. Roble
[Pecha Kucha Presentation] Ileana Rodriguez, Ileana Rodriguez
Écfrasis y Lecturas Icono-textuales en las "Leyendas" de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Jose Rodriguez
Digital Library Migration at Florida International University, Jamie Rogers
Resistance Performances: (Re)constructing Spaces of Resistance and Contention in the 2010-2011 University of Puerto Rico Student Movement, Alessandra M. Rosa
The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami - Civil Rights and America's Tourist Paradise: 1896 to 1968, Chanelle N. Rose
A Digital Collection Center's Experience: ETD Discovery, Promotion, and Workflows in Digital Commons, Kelley F. Rowan
Between the Graduate School and Cataloging: How a Digital Collections Center Contributes Quality to the ETD Process, Kelley F. Rowan
From the Elementary to the Circuitous: Digital Processing Workflows at FIU, Kelley F. Rowan
METS Editor: The Basics, for use with dPanther, Kelley F. Rowan
The Case of the 35 Gigabyte Digital Record: OCR and Digital Workflows, Kelley F. Rowan
WiFi and LTE Coexistence in the Unlicensed Spectrum, Nadisanka Rupasinghe
The True GDP and Foreign Debt of Cuba, Jorge Salazar-Carrillo
China, The U.S. and Financial Crises, Jorge Salazar-Carrillo and Xu Li
Leaf Functional Traits and Forest Structure of Tropical Dry Forest Species Along a Rainfall Gradient in Florida and Puerto Rico, Ramon L. Salazar II
Evaluation of the Scent Collection System for Its Effectiveness in Volatile Organic Compound Collection and Use in Canine Training, Claudia L. Sanchez Ms
Time-Delay Switch Attack on Networked Control Systems, Effects and Countermeasures, Arman Sargolzaei
Intracranial Volume Estimation and Graph Theoretical Analysis of Brain Functional Connectivity Networks, Saman Sargolzaei
Gaseous Carbon Emissions (Methane and Carbon Dioxide) from Wetland Soils in a Re-created Everglades Landscape, Bradley R. Schonhoff
The Martian: A NASA-tionalist Utopia, Bryant W. Sculos
Automatons, Robots, and Capitalism in a Very Wrong Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay on Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie, Bryant William Sculos
Utopia, A Must: A Review Essay on Benjamin Kunkel’s Utopia or Bust, Bryant William Sculos
Marx in Miami: Reflections on Teaching and the Confrontation with Ideology, Bryant W. Sculos and Sean N. Walsh
The Effects of Fire on Spore Viability of Lygodium microphyllum (Old World Climbing Fern), Nicole Sebesta
“We Are Men:” Self-Determination Defense and Black Masculinity, Nathan Seeley
Best Practices: Lessons Learned by a South Florida Non-Profit Community Based Organization while Designing and Implementing a Career Exploration Evidence Informed Framework in Urban Communities, Rehana Seepersad Ed.D, Robyn McLymont, Keisha S. Hill-Grey, Arlene Connelly, Jeanette Gordon-Marshall, and Newton Sanon
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Discrete Trial Procedures for Teaching Receptive Discrimination to Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Desiree J. Sepulveda
The World of the United States Foreign Policy Elite: A Case Study of the U.S. Foreign Policy Think Tanks' Debates in the General Elections of 2004, 2008, and 2012, Seyed Hamidreza Serri
Association Between Childhood Sexual Abuse and HIV-Related Risk Factors for HIV-Positive Haitian Women, Marie Sandra Severe
Comparison of Some Improved Estimators for Linear Regression Model under Different Conditions, Smit Shah
Regulatory mechanisms of Leishmania Aquaglyceroporin AQP1, Mansi Sharma
Evaluating the Sandcastles Program: A Group Intervention for Children of Divorce, Lauren A. Shure PhD, Alvaro Domenech LCSW, Linda Fieldstone M.Ed., Isadore Newman PhD, Gerene Starratt PhD, and Tori Burgess
Application of an Education Research Lab (ERL) Model to a Community Sailing Program, Lauren Shure, Emilie Ney, Precious Broffee, Gerene K. Starratt, and Andy Roberts
A Case-Only Genome-wide Association Study of Gender- and Age-specific Risk Markers for Childhood Leukemia, Sandeep Kumar Singh
Tunable Room Temperature THz Sources Based on Nonlinear Mixing in a Hybrid Optical and THz Micro-Ring Resonator, Raju Sinha, Mustafa Karabiyik, Chowdhury Al-Amin, Phani Kiran Vabbina, Durdu O. Guney, and Nezih Pala
Zora Neale Hurston and the Narrative Aesthetics of Dance Performance, Jennifer M. Sittig
Ballots for Equality: An Approach to the Radical Tradition in U.S. Electoral Politics, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
On and Off the Stage at Atlanta Greek Picnic: Performances of Collective Black Middle-Class Identities and the Politics of Belonging, Synatra A. Smith
Business Cycle Effects on US Sectoral Stock Returns, Keran Song
C-MEMS Based Micro Enzymatic Biofuel Cells, Yin Song
Intraoperative Guidance for Pediatric Brain Surgery based on Optical Techniques, Yinchen Song
The Music and Reading Connection: Improving Literacy with Rapid Naming of Words and Music Notes, Karin Barbara Soria
Essays on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relationship, bimal soti
A Mixed-Methods Examination among Young Adult Racially/Ethnically Diverse Bariatric Surgery Patients, Christine E. Spadola
Repeated Reading Strategy for Students with Intellectual Disabilities, David T. Spell
Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Theranostic Applications, Supriya Srinivasan
On Record: Soundscapes as Metaphor and Physical Manifestation of Memory in Early Holocaust Novels and Contemporary Criticism, Mariane Stanev
Development and Application of a Multi-dimensional Strategy for Measuring Fidelity of Implementation of a Districtwide Intervention, Gerene K. Starratt, Maria R. Ligas, Russsell W. Clement, Isadore Newman, Steve J. Rios, and Latrell Carr
Workplace Aggression: A Reconceptualization of The Construct & an Exploration of Strain Based Outcomes, Jason K. Steinert
Liquid Continents: Historicizing the Seas as Spaces of Collective Experience - Aurora Morcillo and Rufina Santana, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs
Re-imagining the Primitive: Tourism and the Golden Age in Haiti from 1946-1956, Tonya St. Julien
Characterization of an Epoxide Hydrolase from the Florida Red Tide Dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis, pengfei sun
Study of Ammonia Borane and its Derivatives: Influence of Nanoconfinements and Pressures, Yongzhou Sun
Emergence and Fate of Siloxanes in Waste Streams: Release Mechanisms, Partitioning and Persistence in Three Environmental Compartments, Sharon C. Surita
Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Japanese Chronic Disease Patients’ Quality of Life and Perceived Stress, Hideaki Tanaka
Automatic Extraction of Number of Lanes from Aerial Images for Transportation Applications, LI TANG
The Relationship of Heteroptera Species Richness, Abundance, and Morphology to Elevation Gradients and Land-use Regimes on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Joseph P. Tardanico
Fast Detection and Chemical Characterization of Gunshot Residues by CMV-GC-MS and LIBS, Anamary Tarifa
Dynamic Behavior and Fatigue Life of Highway Bridges Due to Doubling Heavy Vehicles, Arash Tarighi
[Presentation] Mischief-Makers and Rabble Rousers: Building a culture of engagement and activism, Liz Teston
[Presentation] Smart Cities, Smart Design, Liz Teston
"A Special Relationship": The Political and Economic Links between Cuba and Venezuela, The Cuban Research Institute and Florida International University
Multimode Analysis of Nanoscale Biomolecular Interactions, Purushottam Babu Tiwari
Cobalt Ferrite Nanoparticles Fabricated via Co-precipitation in Air: Overview of Size Control and Magnetic Properties, Dennis Toledo
[Presentation] Thinking Outside the (Function) Box: What We Can Learn from Philip Johnson and Mies, Stephanie Travis