Dissertations from 2014
“Gathering Thinglessness”: Samuel Beckett’s Essayistic Approach To Nothing, Dena Marks
Sign Learning Kink based Quantum Monte Carlo Applied to Multiple Large Systems H2O, N2, F2, Xiaoyao Ma
The Pulpit and the Nation: Clergymen, Political Culture, and the Creation of an American National Identity, Spencer W. McBride
Influence of Aedes aegypti Saliva on the Vertebrate Host Response to Dengue Virus, Michael Kevin McCracken
The Devil Made Her Do It: Three Horror Film Case Studies in the Exorcism Subgenre, Charles Austin McDonald II
Sense of Place, Place Attachment, and Rootedness in Four West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Bars, John Winsor McEwen
Combinatorial minimal free resolutions of ideals with monomial and binomial generators, Trevor McGuire
Design, synthesis, and exploration of a chimeric antioxidant and new crosslinkers for molecular imprinting, Danielle Songe Meador
Characterization of a Novel Negative Regulator of Toxoflavin Production, ntpR, in the Plant Pathogen Burkholderia glumae that Causes Bacterial Panicle Blight of Rice, Rebecca Ann Melanson
Neutron Scattering Studies of Unusual Spin Structure and Local Correlation in Complex Oxides, Dalgis Mesa
Applications of the Variational Approach to Fracture Mechanics, Ataollah Mesgarnejad
"Post Your Version Here!": Performances in/of Online, Noncommercial, Video-to-Video Adaptations, Lyndsay Michalik
Evaluation of Triploid Oysters as a Tool to Assess Short- and Long-term Seafood Contamination of Oil Spill-impacted Areas, Martin Scott Miles
Lopsided, Scarred, and Squint-Eyed: Ugly Women in the Work of Southern Women Writers, Monica C. Miller
Evaluating Teaching Efficiency in Reading and Spelling Instruction, Sarah Joanne Miller
A Great Korean Music Pioneer Min-Chong Park: A Performance Guide of His Selected Violin Works, Sin Myung Min
Analysis of hydrodynamic drag forces acting on suspended fine particle in porous media, Seyed Amin Mirsaeidi Farahani
Touching plantation memories : tourists and docents at the museum, Eddie Arnold Modlin Jr
Object-Based Coastal Morphological Change Analysis Based on LiDAR and Hurricane Events, Bedoor Adel Mohammad
Species Composition and Spatial Ecology of Amazonian Understory Mixed-Species Flocks in a Fragmented Landscape, Karl Mokross
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Selected Birth Defects and Risk Factors in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area, Aimee H. Moles
A historical and theoretical look at the percussion ensemble work 'October Mountain' by Alan Hovhaness, Joe Willie Moore III
With Xavier, however, there will be this distinction: Mapping the Educational Philosophy of Saint Katharine Drexel in the Intellectual Tradition of Black Higher Education in New Orleans, Louisiana, Berlisha Roketa Morton
Extremal Problems in Matroid Connectivity, John Tyler Moss
Staging the voice : towards a critical vocal performance pedagogy, Derek Mudd
Leader Benefits: Exploring How Leaders Benefit from LMX, Jeffrey Muldoon
Recalled Bullying: Development of a Measure to Identify Childhood Victims and Perpetrators by Adults, Melissa Munson
Particle formation in ambient mass spectrometry, Thabiso Musapelo
A Data-Driven Storm Surge Analysis for the U.S. Gulf Coast, Harold Francis Needham
An examination of the impact of postsecondary transition program models on college self-efficacy beliefs of first-generation college students, Shaneá Morrison Nelson
A Standardized Ultrasonography Classification for Channel Catfish Ovarian Development, Noel D. Novelo
Three Essays on U.S. Meat Goat Production: Goal Structure, Selection of Breeding Stock, and Meat Goat Marketing, Narayan Prasad Nyaupane
Avis de Recherche : Valentine Penrose, œuvre et vie d'une artiste surréaliste, Séverine Aline Orban
Predictors of National Broadcast and Cable Television News Coverage of the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Jeremy Padgett
Catalytic Active Site, Mechanistic and Kinetic Studies of Dry (CO2) Reforming of Methane over Lanthanum Zirconate (La2Zr2O7) Pyrochlores, Devendra Pakhare
Damage prediction of low-rise buildings under hurricane winds, Fang Pan
Search-based Model-driven Loop Optimizations for Tensor Contractions, Ajay Panyala
The Control of Amplitude and Direction in Bimanual Coordination, Zhujun Pan
Thrillology: Affective Intensities and the Everyday-Spectacular in American Literature and Culture, Peter James Pappas
Analysis and Modeling of Manual Traffic Control for Signalized Intersections, Scott Alexander Skip Parr
Efficient Indexing for Structured and Unstructured Data, Manish Madhukar Patil
Phylogenetic and Morphological Community Structure of North American Desert Bats, Lorelei Elizabeth Patrick
Enhancement of Gulf killifish, Fundulus grandis, fitness and reproduction, Joshua Thomas Patterson
Ito formula and Girsanov theorem on a new Ito integral, Yun Peng
The Influence of Colorism and Hair Texture Bias on the Professional and Social Lives of Black Women Student Affairs Professionals, Rhea Monet Perkins
Battered men and our changing attitudes toward intimate partner violence, Ashley Marie Perry
The Hard Decisions: A Qualitative Study of Marital Reconciliation, Hannah Pearce Plauche
Chatting about science : a qualitative study on increasing the number and depth of science-based conversations among aquarium visitor groups, Erika Kristen Poarch
The Romano-Parthian Cold War: Julio-Claudian Foreign Policy in the First Century CE and Tacitus' Annales, John J. Poirot
The Contribution of Fly Ash Components to PCDD/F Formation, Phillip M. Potter
Climate extremes in the Southeast United States : variability, spatial classification, and related planning, Emily J. Powell
Adaptive Divergence and Speciation across Depth in a Caribbean Candelabrum Coral, Carlos Andrés Prada Montoya
Study of ¹⁸NE using the array for Nuclear Astrophysics and Structure with exotic nuclei, Laura Pratt
Spin-Mediated Transport in Superconducting and Spin-Polarized Systems, Joseph C. Prestigiacomo
The Efficacy of Interactive Journaling® in Reducing Alcohol Use and Alcohol-Related Problems among Mandated College Student Drinkers, Steven Lee Proctor
Polymer Micro- and Nanofluidic Systems for In Vitro Diagnostics: Analyzing Single Cells and Molecules, Swathi Reddy Pullagurla
Image enhancement methods and applications in computational photography, Qinchun Qian
United States Meat Goat Production Economic Performance Measures: A Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis, Berdikul Qushim
Slow Fashion: Developing a Conceptual Apparel Design Process, Stefanie Ann Ramirez
GUMBOS- and Ionic Liquid-Coated Quartz Crystal Microbalance Sensors for Detection and Molecular Weight Determination of Organic Vapors, Bishnu Prasad Regmi
Liberalism and the Dilemma of Cultures, Ali Rezaie
Characteristics of Dental Follicle Stem Cells and Their Potential Application for Treatment of Craniofacial Defects, Maryam Rezai Rad
Revealing the Jewishness of Hannah Arendt, Jennifer Richard
The impact of a freshmen-year seminar on students' second-year retention, Lori Henry Richard
Precarious Positions: Toward a Theory and Analysis of Rhetorical Vulnerability, David Riche
Observations of Terrestrial Gamma Flashes with TETRA And LAGO, Rebecca Ringuette
Systematics and Species Delimitation in New Guinea Skink Species Complexes (Squamata: Scincidae), Eric Nikolaus Rittmeyer
Reductive Alkylation of Proteins Towards Structural and Biological Applications, Kevin Jerome Roberson
Advanced and novel modeling techniques for simulation, optimization and monitoring chemical engineering tasks with refinery and petrochemical unit applications, Gregory M. Robertson
Militant Feminism and the Women of the Weather Underground Organization, Mona Cristina Rocha
A Forgotten Composer and His Music: Two Viola Compositions by Arends, Monica Pamela Rodriguez de la Hoz
Raising the Black Flag : state capacity, geography, international law, and the resurgence of maritime crime, Samuel Richard Rohrer
The twin taboos of discussing religion and politics : a study of six "basic" emotions and interpersonal relationships in response to Rick Perry's "Strong", Michael Francis Rold
Has the FASB and IASB's Shift toward an Asset/Liability View Enhanced the Predictive Usefulness of ROE?, Regina Cavalier Rosa
Topics in Quantum Metrology, Control, and Communications, Bhaskar Roy Bardhan
Analysis and expressive performance : four selected works by Chopin, Timothy David Saeed
Alberto Ginastera's Twelve American Preludes : descriptive analysis and performer's guide, Alejandra Saez
The Role of Histone Methyltransferases in Determining Developmental Potential of Bovine Oocytes, Jairo Alberto Sarmiento
Numerical Investigation of Cryopreserved Zebrafish Sperm Cell Activation in Microchannels, Thomas Foster Scherr
A Longitudinal Model of Posttraumatic Stress and Posttraumatic Growth in Adults Affected by Hurricane Katrina, Mark Allen Schexnaildre
The Transition from Clinical Practice to Academic Citizenship in Nursing Faculty, Valerie S. Schluter
Investigation of factors controlling the dynamics of beach surface moisture content, Phillip P. Schmutz
Vocabulary matching : potential for a diagnostic performance indicator, Jodie Schraven
The influence of personal and educational demographic factors on the productivity of farmers in selected geographic regions of the Ukraine, Viacheslav L. Sereda
Characteristics of High Energy Particle Interactions from the Study of Irregular Air Showers, Amir Hosein Shadkam
Scheduling in Transactional Memory Systems: Models, Algorithms, and Evaluations, Gokarna Sharma
Methods for the Characterization of Deep-Sea Benthic Megafauna in the Vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon Macondo Well, Stephanie Marie Sharuga
Construct Validity of the Autism Spectrum Disorders-Child Version (ASD-C) and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Kimberly Tureck Sheffield
Liberalism and Globalization: An Essay On Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Manent, Trevor Shelley
Image-Based Pore-Scale Modeling of Inertial Flow in Porous Media and Propped Fractures, Yijie Shen
Genetics and genomics studies of rice disease resistance and development of alternative disease management methods for bacterial panicle blight and sheath blight, Bishnu Kumar Shrestha
A Perfomance Guide to Anthony Brandt's Creeley Songs, Penny Reid Shumate
Design, Synthesis, and Antibacterial Properties of Dual-Ligand Inhibitors of Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase and Mechanism of Action for the Antibacterial Agent Moiramide B, Molly Anne Silvers
Auditor Regional Industry Specialization: Effect on Audit Pricing and Audit Quality, Andrey Alexandrovich Simonov
Cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms in South Louisiana estuaries : a synthesis of field research, management implications, and outreach, Emily Anne Smith
A Case Study Analysis of Web 2.0 Technology Use in Higher Education: Effects of Using a Wiki on Outcomes and Attitudes in Legal Education, Patrick Allan Smith
Spectrum sensing, spectrum monitoring, and security in cognitive radios, Erfan Soltanmohammadi