Dissertations from 2017
Isolation, Detection, and Prevention of Foodborne Bacteria in Irrigation Water and Dairy Food, Mohammed Saleemallah Alhejaili
"Leave All That You Have, That You May Take All:" What Hugo Distler's Totentanz Reveals About His Life and Music, Alison Elizabeth Allerton
The Immediate and Extended Effect of Diet and Exercise on Metabolic Flexibility, Timothy Allerton
Evaluation of Compositional Effects on Gas-Oil Miscibility and Gas-Assisted Gravity Drainage (GAGD) EOR Process, Mohamed Al Riyami
The Fooding of Narrative in Contemporary Women's Transnational Fiction, Stacey Marie Amo
Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 Using Metal Nanoparticles, Evan Michael Andrews
Colombian Composer Adolfo Mejia, Four Works for Small Ensembles, Alvaro Jose Angulo Julio
Prison to School to Redemption: A Full Circle Channel to the Complete ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline’, Kristen Alana Antoine
Healing Mechanism Investigation of Self-Healing Concrete by Microencapsulated Calcium Nitrate, Gabriel Andres Arce Amador
An Examination of the Impact of Venture Philanthropy on the Mission of Higher Education, Shon Baker
Epigenetic Profiling of Mammalian Retrotransposons, Arundhati Bakshi
A Vast Injustice: The Public Debate and Legislative Battle over Compulsory Eugenic Sterilization in Louisiana, 1924 -- 1932, Adelaide Hair Barr
Ecotoxicological Assessment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the Mississippi River Coastal Watershed and Offshore Shoaling Regions of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Laura Marie Basirico
Ecology and Biology of the Redbanded Stink Bug, Piezodorus guildinii (Westwood) in Louisiana, Anup Bastola
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Substrates and Probes, Srismrita Basu
Development of a Mode and Destination Type Joint Choice Model for Hurricane Evacuation, Ruijie Bian
Becoming Engineers: Exploring Gender, Choice and Intersectional Identities Among Women in Undergraduate Engineering, Emily Gwen Blosser
Integration of Shape-Memory Alloys and Self-Healing Microcapsules to Enhance Concrete Durability, Luis Adolfo Bonilla
Epigenetic Response of Imprinted Domains during Carcinogenesis, Corey Lane Bretz
Televising the American Nightmare: The Twilight Zone and Postwar Social Criticism, David Brokaw
Application of Grating-Based Interferometry to Additive Manufacturing, Lithium-ion Batteries, and Crystals, Adam Joseph Brooks
A Performer's Guide to Joelle Wallach's A Revisitation of Myth, Lauren Brown
Determining the Influence of Imidacloprid and Glufosinate Ammonium on the Population Dynamics of Twospotted Spider Mite Populations in Louisiana Cotton, Sebe Anthony Brown
Microbial Distributions and Survival in the Troposphere and Stratosphere, Noelle Celeste Bryan
A Multiple Case Narrative Examining the Experiences of Alumni of a Minority Research and Training Program, Gretchen Schneider Burton
Assessing and Modeling Community Resilience to Coastal Hazards Using a Bayesian Network, Heng Cai
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 UtilizingBloom’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