Dissertations from 2017
Decentralized Scheduling for Many-Task Applications in the Hybrid Cloud, Brian Lyle Peterson
The Machine Gun Hand: Robots, Performance, and American Ideology in the Twentieth Century, Benjamin Michael Phelan
Enhancing the Performance of Anaerobic Bioreactors for the Biological Degradation of Volatiles Organic Compounds in Groundwater Using Alternate Electron Acceptors, Leslie Michele Pipkin
Selected Works of Richard Burchard: A Resource Guide, William Floyd Plummer
WOM Or eWOM, Is There A Difference?: An Extension of the Social Communication Theory to Consumer Purchase Related Attitudes, McDowell Porter
A Narrative of a Teacher's Perspective of Over-Age Students Who Are Out-of-Grade in the Middle School Classroom, Melissa J. Porter
Energy-Constrained Quantum Communication and Digital Dynamical Decoupling, Haoyu Qi
Chemical Synthesis: New Methods for O-Glycosylation and the Preparation of Organic Thin Films, Rashanique Deondria Quarels
A Multi-Scale Approach for Modeling Shock Ignition and Burn of Granular HMX, Pratap Thamanna Rao
Songs from Liquid Days by Philip Glass: A Performer's Guide, Jonathan Michael Ray
Vibration Control in Wind Turbines for Multi Hazards, Milad Rezaee
Microscopic Evaluations of Bone in Equine and Muroid Models, Heather Ashley Richbourg
An Assessment of Metal Profiles in Sediments from Mississippi River Estuaries and Offshore Shoaling Regions, Hannah Paula Rockett
Convergent Styles: A Study of Dave Brubeck's Points on Jazz, Ethan Loyd Rogers
Folie et Stratégies d'évasion dans les romans postcoloniaux au Maghreb (Maroc-Algérie) et à l'Île Maurice, Fouzilla Saady
Manipulating physical properties of complex materials by processing, Mohammad Saghayezhian
From Products to Politics: Understanding the Effectiveness of a Celebrity Political Endorsement, Melissa Sanati
The roles of AVR4 in fungal virulence,cercosporin biosynthesis and its potential use in host induced gene silencing for controlling cercospora leaf blight disease of soybeans, Josielle Santos Rezende
New Synthetic Reactions Towards Global Chlorination and Enamides Functionalization, Mirza Ardella Saputra
The Relative Importance of Physicochemical Properties of Organic Contaminants in Aquatic Ecosystems, Parichehr Saranjampour
Dorothy Day's Distributism and Her Vision for Catholic Politics, William Patric Schulz
Patterns of Diversification in a Neotropical Radiation of Birds (Aves: Furnariidae), Glenn F. Seeholzer
Hierarchical Fusion Based Deep Learning Framework for Lung Nodule Classification, Kazim Sekeroglu
Three Essays on Consumption Behavior, Credit, and Labor Supply of Farm Households in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Uganda, Seydina Ousmane Sene
Development of Artificial Intelligence Approach to Nowcasting and Forecasting Oyster Norovirus Outbreaks along the U.S. Gulf Coast, Shima Shamkhali Chenar
A Study of Very Short Intermittent DDoS Attacks on the Performance of Web Services in Clouds, Huasong Shan
Sustained Flow Index: A Stochastic Measure of Freeway Performance, Siavash Shojaat
An Integrated Framework for Self-disclosure on Social Networking Sites, Asim Shrestha
Grounds for Displacement: Issues of Migration on Louisiana's Disappearing Coast, Jessica Rose Simms
Extraction of Displacement Fields in Heterogeneous Media Using Optimal Local Basis Functions, Paul Derek Sinz
Private vs. Public: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Student Experiences and the Influence of Anti-discrimination Policies With Respect to Religion, Shalonda Michelle Skidmore
Assessing the Effects of the Smartphone as a Learning Tool on the Academic Achievement and Motivation of High School Agriculture Students in Louisiana, Henry Eric Smith
Coupled Plasmon/Molecule Dynamics Near Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Ultrafast Characterization, and Quantum/Classical Modeling, Holden Tyler Smith
Artisan Entrepreneurship: Staying True to the Social Movement in the Face of Contradictory Conventional Wisdom., Shelby John Solomon
Ethnic Audiences In a Fragmented Media Era: Ethnic Audiences' Selective Exposure to Likeminded Media, Mingxiao Sui
Empirically Tuning HPC Kernels with iFKO, Md Majedul Haque Sujon
Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 is a Novel Protein Sensor in Pregnancy, Elizabeth Frost Sutton
Local Embeddedness Matters: A Study of Hip-Hop Artists' Interaction With Their Local Community, Castel Vette Sweet
A Decision Making Tool for Incorporating Sustainability Measures in Rigid Pavement Design, Neveen Samy Talaat Soliman
Nanopatterns of Zinc Phthalocyanines, Gold Nanoparticles, and Porphyrins Prepared Using Particle Lithography: Characterization of Patterning Steps with Scanning Probe Microscopy, Ashley Marie Taylor
Audere est Facere: Reconsidering Proactivity and Examining its Impact on Teams, Erik C. Taylor
The Holistic Undergraduate Growth Experience: A Case Study Exploring the Development of a Student Success and Retention Program, Bianca Briana Teats
Evolutionary Interactions of Feather Molt in Birds, Ryan Scott Terrill
Reduced Order Models for Beam-Wave Interaction in High Power Microwave Sources, Lokendra Singh Thakur
Termite Gut Microbes as Tools and Targets for Termite Control, Chinmay Vijay Tikhe
Analysis and Optimization of Scientific Applications through Set and Relation Abstractions, M. Tohid (Rastegar Tohid, Mohammed)
Autobiography as Hybrid Text in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Vivir para Contarla, Mario Vargas Llosa's El Pez en el Agua, Patrick Chamoiseau's Autobiographical Trilogy and Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory, Jose Francisco Velasquez Gago
Improved Protein Characterizations using Ionic Liquids: PAGE and MALDI-MS, Punprabhashi Vidanapathirana
Organizational Misconduct within the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Khirey Bennie Walker
The Effects of Instrumental Noise on Searches for Generic Transient Gravitational Waves in Advanced LIGO, Marissa Walker
Reported Child Sexual Abuse: Impact of Adaptive Skills and Association with Psychological Adjustment, Seandra Jean Walker
Deterritorializing Dichotomies in Teacher Induction: A (Post)Ethnographic Study of Un/Becoming an Elementary Science Teacher, Maria Ferris Greene Wallace
Functional And Structural Analyses Of A Bacterial Antifreeze Protein, Chen Wang
The Role of Defects in the Metal-Nonmetal Transition in Metallic Oxide Films, Gaomin Wang
Documentation of Siderophore Activity, Metal Binding, and its Effect on Symptomatology of Cercospora Leaf Blight Caused in Soybean by Cercosporin from Cercospora cf. flagellaris, Brian Michael Ward
The Effect of Rule-Based Scaffoldings on Second Grade Students' Digital Storytelling, Xue Wen
"In the School, Not of the School": Co-Performing Critical Literacies with English Amped, Anna Catherine West
Influences of Hurricanes, Floods, and Organic Production on River-Delta Evolution over Decadal to Centennial Time-Scales, Crawford M. White
Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Innovative BODIPY-Peptidic Conjugates for Biological Application, Tyrslai Menyaee Williams
Campus Sexual Violence and LGBTQ Students: A Mixed Methods Study of Risk, Decision-Making, and Resource Awareness, Sara Carrigan Wooten
Ethical Leadership: A Study of Traits and Behaviors of Leaders in Higher Education Today, Samuel L. Wyatt
Spatio-temporal Modeling of Louisiana Land Subsidence Using High-resolution Geo-spatial Data, Hanyu Xiang
Multimode Approach to Classical and Quantum Diffraction, Zhihao Xiao
Ex-companions of Supernovae Progenitors, Zhichao Xue
Modeling of Size Effects in Metallic Samples of Confined Volumes, Mohammadreza Yaghoobi
Thermomechanical Modeling of Polymerica Actuators, Qianxi Yang
Nonlinear Model-Based Control for Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation, Ruzhou Yang
Faculty and Staff Knowledge and Perceptions of African American College Students with Bipolar Disorder Experiences While Attending a Predominantly White Institution, Tiffany Sharell Zachery
The Role of Histone H2A.Z Abundance in Modulating Responses to Phosphorus Deficiency in Rice, Sara Zahraeifard
Design and Validation of Novel Potential High Entropy Alloys, Boliang Zhang
Computational Studies on Fluid and Particle Dynamics, Chenguang Zhang
Consumer Acceptance of Licensed Brand Extensions: An Analysis of Key Success Factors for Extending into Fashion Categories, Langchao Zhang
Ghost Rags by William Bolcom: A Descriptive Analysis and Performance Guide, Vera Zholondz
Distributed Kalman Filters over Wireless Sensor Networks: Data Fusion, Consensus, and Time-Varying Topologies, Jianming Zhou
Mining Social Media Data for Improved Understanding of Disaster Resilience, Lei Zou
Dissertations from 2016
Dynamic Resonant Scattering of Near-Monochromatic Fields, Gayan Shanaka Abeynanda
Architectural Selection for Time and Energy Considerations, Sameer Abu Asal
Structure and Functional Potential of Microbial Communities in Subglacial Lake Whillans and at the Ross Ice Shelf Grounding Zone, West Antarctica, Amanda Marie Achberger
Caregiver Choice in Autism Intervention: Selections and Influential Factors, Hilary Lynn Adams
Detection and Alleviation of Pesticide Residue in Food and Water, Olubode James Adeniyi
Global a priori Estimates and Sharp Existence Results for Quasilinear Equations on Nonsmooth Domains., Karthik Adimurthi
Application of the Finite Element Method to Solve Coupled Multiphysics Problems for Subsurface Energy Extraction, Milad Ahmadi
Design and Analysis of Geothermal Wellbore Energy Conversion System Working on Zero Mass Withdrawal Principle, Ildar Akhmadullin
Development of a biosensor system to detect bacteria in food systems, Luis Alonso Alfaro Sanabria
Ecological-Hydrological Feedback in Forested Wetlands, Scott Thomas Allen
Biological Invasions: Biogeography and Multitrophic Interactions, Warwick Allen
Statistical Reservoir Characterization, Simulation, and Optimization Of Field Scale-Gas Assisted Gravity Drainage (GAGD) Process with Uncertainty Assessments, Watheq Jasim Mohammed Al-Mudhafar
Investigating Curriculum Use and Its Impact on Teachers and Their Practice, Tiah B. Alphonso
Mathematical Scaling and Statistical Modeling of Geopressured Geothermal Reservoirs, Esmail Ansari
Fairness and Approximation in Multi-version Transactional Memory., Basem Ibrahim Assiri
Identification of Genes Associated with Resistance to Brown Rust in Sugarcane and Prevalence of One Major Gene, Mavir Carolina Avellaneda Barbosa
Characterization of Boundary Element-Associated Factors BEAF-32A and BEAF-32B and Identification of Novel Interaction Partners in Drosophila Melanogaster, S. V. Satya Prakash Avva
Contemporary Organic Transformations Enabled by Novel Cationic Processes, Caitlan Elizabeth Ayala