Dissertations from 2017
The Rhetoric of Hospitality: Conditions of Death in America, Margaret Anne Callahan
Inheritance Study of Resistance to the Herbicide Quizalofop-P-Ethyl in Rice and Development of Provisia Hybrid Rice Germplasm, Jose Roberto Camacho Montero
Resonant Interactions in Strong Field Laser Physics, Seth Jacob Camp
Statistical and Technical Methodologies for Duplicated Multiple-Samples Preference and Attribute Intensity Sensory Ranking Test, Kennet Mariano Carabante Ordonez
The Formation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from the Pyrolysis of Model 1-Alkene Fuels, Eva Christine Caspary
A Graph-Based Taxonomic Intelligent Tutoring System Utilizing Bloom’S Taxonomy And Item-Response Theoretic Assessment, Dennis Gordon Castleberry II
Flirt, Fight, or Flight: Spatial and Power Dynamics in Three Courtship Motifs in Modern European, American, and Latin American Literary Works and Musicals, Amy Lynne Catania
On Braids, Branched Covers and Transverse Invariants, Jose Hector Ceniceros
The Effect of Demographic and Clinical Factors on the Performance of the Abbreviated Scoring Algorithm for the Baby and Infant Screen for Children with Autism Traits, Paige Elizabeth Cervantes
Cercospora Leaf Blight of Soybeans: Symptomatology and Biochemical Responses, Eduardo Chagas Ferreira da Silva
Self-Assembly Mechanisms of Organosilanes and Porphyrins Investigated with Scanning Probe Microscopy, Phillip Charles Chambers II
The "Missing Audience": A Query into the Future of the Orchestra and the Potential Benefits of Bringing Live Classical Music to the Community through Informal Performances, Natalie Wei-ting Chang
Evaluation of Control Tactics for Management of Sweetpotato Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Jie Chen
Conflict Reduction Techniques for GPU Transactional Memory Systems, Sui Chen
Osteogenic Potential of Poly (l-lactic acid) Scaffolds Prepared by Thermally Controlled Methods on Human Adipose Derived Stem Cells, Harish Chinnasami Shanmugam
A Study of Application-awareness in Software-defined Data Center Networks, Chui-Hui Chiu
Social Media Activism and Activist Publics: Testing an Integrative Model of Activism on Contentious Issues, Myounggi Chon
Effect of Metal Speciation in Fly Ash on Environmentally Persistent Free Radical Formation, Elisabeth Eileen Cook
Understanding How Incoming First Year College Students Develop Academic Performance Expectations: A Qualitative Case Study, Christina Marie Coovert
The White Bicycle: Performance, Installation Art, and Activism in Ghost Bike Memorials, Nicole Marie Costantini
The Effects of Aerobic Exercise and Lipolytic Stimulation on Skeletal Muscle and Adipose Expression of Perilipin 3 (Plin3) in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes and Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Jeffrey Daniel Covington
Perceived Teacher Preparation for Managing Parental Involvement in Parochial High Schools in a South Louisiana Catholic Diocese, Susan T. Crochet
Aleksander Peçi Before and After the Iron Curtain, Elida Dakoli
An Examination of Agriculture Faculty Members' Involvement in and Perceptions of Study Abroad Programs, Shelli Elizabeth Danjean
Partisanship, Ideology, and the Sorting of the American Mass Public, Nicholas T. Davis
Disease, Bread, Efficiency: Rhetorics of Victorian Education Reform, Vicki Jean Davis
Educating the "Miseducated": A Case Study of Middle School Teachers’ Experiences Providing Culturally Responsive Practices for Black Male Adolescents, Latrisha Yvette Dean
When, How, and Why Did the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat in the Ross Sea Since the Last Glacial Maximum Using Foraminiferal And Porewater Geochemistry, Matthew DeCesare
Lignocellulosic Syrup Production from Energy Cane Bagasse and Fumaric Acid Fermentation, Fang Deng
Development of Remote Hydroxylation via Redox Catalysis and Mild Activation of Thioglycosides for O-Glycosylation, Kristina Deveaux
The Influence of Three Types of Interaction: Student-Instructor, Student-Student, Student Content, and Selected Demographic Characteristics on the Cognitive Achievement of Online Graduate Students, Dagoberto Diaz-Cortes
Viking Nobility in Anglo-Saxon England: The Expansion of Royal Authority Through the Use of Scandinavian Accommodation and Integration, Lauren Marie Doughty
Maternal fatty acid and inflammatory status during pregnancy are related to infant heart rate and heart rate variability, Merritt LeAnne Drewery
Essays on the Impact of Education on Economic Outcomes in a Developing Country, Omer Bahadir Dursun
Weather Communication on Twitter: Identifying Popular Content and Optimal Warning Format Via Case Studies and a Survey Analysis, Joshua D. Eachus
Bonaparte's Dream: Napoleon and the Rhetoric of American Expansion, 1800-1850, Mark Ehlers
Who Stays and Who Leaves? Predicting College Student Persistence Using Comprehensive Retention Models, Adam C. Elder
Remembering in Spite of All: The Construction of Collective Memory of State Terrorism in Mexico, Argentina, and Chile, Telba Espinoza-Contreras
Revisions to Rainfall Intensity Algorithms in PRZM5.0 to Improve Estimates of Off-Field Runoff, Eroded Sediment and Pesticide Mass, Tammara Levey Estes
Modeling Of Two Dimensional Graphene And Non-graphene Material Based Tunnel Field Effect Transistors For Integrated Circuit Design, Md Shamiul Fahad
Hybrid Atomistic–Continuum Simulation Methodology for Handling Nanoparticle- Wall Interaction, Kasra Fattah Hesary
Human-Environment Interactions: Sea-Level Rise and Marine Resource Use at Eleanor Betty, an Underwater Maya Salt Work, Belize, Valerie Renae Feathers
The Dual Role of Price on Purchase Likelihood, Patrick Fennell
A Palynostratigraphic Investigation of Holocene Coastal Texas Bays: Implications for Future Coastal Change, Shannon Marie Ferguson
Eduardo Gamboa's Life, Music, and Inspiration. Understanding the Influence of Folk Music on his Work "Transparencias:" an Analysis, Performance Guide, and Violin Transcription, Perla del Rocio Fernandez Lopez
Characterizations of Some Classes of Graphs That Are Nearly Series-Parallel, Victoria Fontaine
Managerial Labor Mobility in the National Football League, Jeremy Joseph Foreman
Asymptotic Formulae for Restricted Unimodal Sequences, Richard Alexander Frnka
An Elusive Peace: The Foreign Policy Challenges of the Clinton Administration in a Post-Cold War World, Jennifer Perrett Galiouras
Succinct Data Structures for Parameterized Pattern Matching and Related Problems, Arnab Ganguly
A Performer's Guide to Iosif Andriasov's "Concertino for Trumpet", Andrew K. Gerbitz
A Model-Centric Framework for Advanced Operation of Crystallization Processes, Navid Ghadipasha
Channel Estimation and Symbol Detection In Massive MIMO Systems Using Expectation Propagation, Kamran Ghavami
Leveraging the Social Network to Support Engagement in an Academic Environment, Glenn M. Gibeson IV
Brazilian Surface and Upper-level Wind Characteristics Based on Ground and Model Observations from 1980–2014, Joshua M. Gilliland
Chamber Ensembles and Web Presence: Best Practices for Creating and Presenting Online Content, Arisia Amalie Gilmore
Atmospheric Boundary Layer Processes To Mimic Peak Pressures on Low-Rise Buildings: CFD Versus Full-Scale and Wind Tunnel Measurements, Hamzeh Gol Zaroudi
Disproportionality in Discipline Practices: Assessing the Impact of Unique Contextual Factors Resulting from School Reforms on Discipline, Stephanie Marie Grant
Reach Back and Get It: Community Cultural Wealth, the P-20 Pipeline, and the History of Black Illiteracy, Dari Green
Rice Hull Bioreactor for Recirculating Aquaculture, Marlon A. Greensword
Producing "Fabulous": Commodification and Ethnicity in Hair Braiding Salons, Sylviane Ngandu-Kalenga Greensword
Education as a Moral Responsibility: Foucault's Subjectivity and Confucian Cultivation, Wei Guan
Microcavity Enhanced Beaming and Magneto-Optical Switching of Light, Ali Haddadpour
Digital Osteology: 3D Surface Scanning the Os Coxa, Victoria Harrington
Maintaining High Performance Across All Problem Sizes and Parallel Scales Using Microkernel-based Linear Algebra, Md Rakib Hasan
Mapping a Beat Repertoire: Recovering Everyday Life Performances of the Women of the Beat Generation, Stephanie Patricia Heath
Applications of CFD Simulations on Chemical Processing Equipment Designs, Gongqiang He
La Garza en Bicicleta: Perceptions of Latina Faculty on the Role of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors and Institutional Engagement on Tenure and Promotion at Research 1 Doctoral Institutions, Julie Johanna Henriquez
Condition of Birds in Amazonian Rainforest Fragments and Second-Growth Forests, Angelica Maria Hernandez Palma
Incorporation of Biorationals and Trap Crop for Stink Bug Management in Soybeans, Kukuh Hernowo
Sweetpotato Virus C and Its Contribution to the Potyvirus Complex in Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas), Favio E. Herrera Eguez
Nanoscale Studies of Proteins and Thin Films Using Scanning Probe Microscopy, Zachary Lane Highland
On the Skein Theory of 0-framed Surgery Along the Trefoil Knot, Andrew Robert Holmes
Socio-Ecological Approaches to Obesity Prevention: A Collection of Exploratory Studies, Denise Marie Holston
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship: The Words and Faces of the Chinese of North America, Pengyi Huang
Friction Stir Welding Manufacturing Advancement by On-Line High Temperature Phased Array Ultrasonic Testing and Correlation of Process Parameters to Joint Quality, Daniel James Huggett
Joshua: Symphonic Suite No. 2 and James Aikman, The Violin Concerto, and the Principle of Limited Economy, Chad Edward Hughes
Manifestations of Symmetry in Polynomial Link Invariants, Kyle Istvan
Kinetic and Kinematic Variables Related to Medial Elbow Joint Space in Collegiate Baseball Pitchers, Meghan Reid Jackson
Quaternary River Erosion, Provenance, and Climate Variability in the NW Himalaya and Vietnam, Tara Nicole Jonell
Precarious Democracy: "It Can't Happen Here" as the Federal Theatre's Site of Mass Resistance, Macy Donyce Jones
Estuarine Water Quality and Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Using Field and Satellite Observations, Ishan Joshi
Essays on Economic Growth In India, Sujana Kabiraj
Numerical Simulations of Mass Transfer in Close and Contact Binaries Using Bipolytropes, Kundan Vaman Kadam
Elephants, Local Livelihoods, and Landscape Change in Tsavo, Kenya., Peter Ngugi Kamau
Symbolic and Deep Learning Based Data Representation Methods for Activity Recognition and Image Understanding at Pixel Level, Manohar Karki
Descendants of Abraham: A Comparative Approach to Jewish and Islamic Rhetorics, Brandon Katzir
Characterization of Dehalogenimonas Strains from a Louisiana Superfund Site that Reductively Dehalogenate Polychlorinated Alkanes, Trent Anthony Key
Virulence Phenotypes of Rotylenchulus reniformis: Evaluation of Host Status of Cotton and Utility of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) for Identification, Churamani Khanal
Non-centrosymmetric Superconductivity and Magnetism in the Presence of Broken Symmetries, Mojammel Alam Khan
Compiler and Runtime Optimization Techniques for Implementation Scalable Parallel Applications, Zahra Khatami
Branch and Stem Growth as Affected by Loss of Leaf Area on Selected Branches in Loblolly Pine, Shannon Dumo Kidombo
Northern Music Culture in Antebellum New Orleans, Warren Keith Kimball
American Crusade: The Political Thought of Dwight Eisenhower, John Kitch