Dissertations from 2016
An Investigation of Environmentally Persistent Free Radical (EPFR) Formation in Contaminated Soils Using Surrogate-Based Model Systems, Ugwumsinachi Godwin Nwosu
Production of Fermentable Sugars from Energy Cane Bagasse, Saeed Oladi
Use of X-ray K-edge Tomography and Interferometry Imaging Techniques for the Studies of Brominated Flame Retardants, Mutairu Bolaji Olatinwo
Complexity Theory and its Applications in Linear Quantum Optics, Jonathan Olson
Challenging Roman Domination: The End of Hellenistic Rule and the Rise of the Parthian State from the Third to the First Centuries BCE, Nikolaus Leo Overtoom
Linker Histone Functions of HMO1- Implications for DNA repair, Arvind Panday
Single Crystal Growth and Physical Property Investigations of Ca-FeAs-Based Superconductors, Jiayun Pan
The Contribution of Self-Regulation to Reading Comprehension in Adolescent Learners, Rebecca Lynn Parker
The Influence of Enrollment in Career and Technical Education Courses on the Achievement of High School Special Education Students, Melinda Simoneaux Partin
Studies on Development of End Rot in Sweetpotato, Ratchanee Pattaravayo
Multimodal Affect Recognition Using Facial Expression, Body Posture and Speech Input, Amol Sriniwas Patwardhan
Particulate inorganic carbon flux and sediment transport dynamics in karst: Significance to landscape evolution and the carbon cycle., Randall Lee Paylor
Beyond the Tails of the Colored Jones Polynomial, Jun Peng
Yy1 Gene Dosage Effect and Allele-Specific Expression Analysis of Peg3, Bambarendage Pinithi Upekka Perera
Succession in Family Owned Businesses: The Influence of Succession Planning and Demographic Characteristics on Succession Success, Steven Thomas Perret
On Properties of Matroid Connectivity, Simon Pfeil
Unsettling Feminist Traditions: Domesticities and Agency in U.S. Black Women's Life Writing, 1850-1926, Martha Pitts
Essays in Economics of Institutions and Culture, Luiza Valeriyevna Pogorelova
Necessary Medicine: Rethinking Health Communication at Burning Man, Raquel Irene Polanco
Synthetic Efforts Towards the Synthesis of Prostaglandin PGF2a, Amy Marie Pollard
A Performance Guide for Thomas Pasatieri's Bel Canto Songs for Voice and Piano, Amy Robin Porter
Participation in Active and Passive Music Interventions by Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Effects on Agitation, Robert J. Prattini
An Examination of Students' Perceptions of the Louisiana ACT Mandate on their Postsecondary Education Decisions, Thelma Carol Purnell
How do Social Norms Affect Physical Activity and Performance on an Endurance Task?, Keith David Randazzo
Thermophysical and Thermochemical Property Measurement and Prediction of Liquid Metal Titanium Alloys with Applications in Additive Manufacturing, Jonathan Richard Raush
Nucleobindin-2: A Novel Regulator of Immune-Metabolic Interactions, Anthony Ravussin
Systematics of targeted flat sedges (Cyperus, Cyperaceae) of the Americas, including a floristic analysis of an imperiled sedge-rich prairie community, Christopher Simon Reid
Violent Conventions: An Analysis of the Unintended Aesthetics of On-Stage Accidents, Jeremy Matthew Reynolds
On the Degradation of Lubricating Grease, Asghar Rezasoltani
Vegetation Influences Microbial Community Structure and Methane Emissions in Southeastern Louisiana Wetlands, Anthony Jason Rietl
Effects of Various Seating Arrangements on Disruptive Classroom Behavior, Natalie Marie Robichaux
Adding Flesh to Sullivan’s Bones: The Legacy of St. Amant v. Thompson, Eric P. Robinson
Numerical Simulation of Pile Installation and Following Setup Considering Soil Consolidation and Thixotropy, Firouz Rosti
A Conductor's Analysis of Poetry and Music in J. A. C. Redford's Antiphons, Brenda Lowe Rudd
Effects of Pitch and Rhythm Priming Tasks on Accuracy and Fluency during Sight-reading, Christine Renee Russell
What Do Teachers Know about Differentiated Instruction?, Sharmayne Raby Rutledge
Impacts of Rock-Brine Interactions on Petrophysical Properties of a Sandstone Reservoir, Utilizing Geochemical and Pore Network Modeling, Masoud Safari-Zanjani
Development of Single-Well Gas Assisted Gravity Drainage Process for Enhanced Oil Recovery, Bikash Deep Saikia
Programmed Shifts in Reward Quality and Quantity: A Planned Positive and Negative Contrast Analysis, Michael Schafer
Walter Lippmann's Search for a Sustainable Liberalism, Eric Schmidt
Towards Theory and Applications of Generalized Categories to Areas of Type Theory and Categorical Logic, Lucius Traylor Schoenbaum
Evolution Semigroups for Well-Posed, Non-Autonomous Evolution Families, Austin Keith Scirratt
Internal Cooling Using Novel Swirl Enhancement Strategies in A Slot Shaped Single Pass Channel, Del Alan Segura
Tip-Enhanced Laser Ablation Sample Transfer for Mass Spectrometry, Chinthaka Aravinda Seneviratne
The Politics of Sensations: Body and Texture in Contemporary Cinema and Literature (Argentina - Cuba - Ireland), Guillermo Abel Severiche
Design of Surface Texture for the Enhancement of Tribological Performance, Cong Shen
East Meets West: A Musical Analysis of Chinese Sights and Sounds, by Yuankai Bao, Jiazi Shi
Automated Cloud Datastore and Infrastructure Management Under SLA, Subhajit Sidhanta
Quantum Radiation Pressure Noise: Exposing the Quantum Mechanics of Optomechanical Interactions, Robinjeet Singh
The Role of Religious Coping in the Marital Stability of Strong, African American Couples: A Strengths-Focused Approach., Antonius Delvecco Skipper
Riemann-Hilbert Formalism in the Study of Crack Propagation in Domains with a Boundary, Aleksandr Smirnov
Black Girl Magic: How Black Women Administrators Navigate the Intersection of Race and Gender in Workspace Silos at Predominantly White Institutions, Allison Michelle Smith
Inconspicuous Fandom: Exploring Subtle Female's Expressions of Science Fiction and Fantasy Fandom through Dress, Dina C. Smith-Glaviana
The Mnemonic Maid: Joan of Arc in Public Memory, Tara Beth Smithson
Application of Biomass Derived Materials in Nanocomposites and Drilling Fluids, Kunlin Song
Design and Implementation of QCM Virtual Sensing Schemes for Analyses of Volatile Organic Compounds, Nicholas Colby Speller
Visible Light and Electron Transfer Chemistry for O-Glycosylation and Remote Hydroxylation, Mark Louis Spell
Immunopathogenesis Of Herpes Simpex Viruses: Design And Testing Of Novel Vaccines To Prevent Herpes Viral Infections, Brent Allison Damico Stanfield
Developmental Math Education: The Bermuda Triangle of Student Success--Many Enter, but Few Succeed., Julia Elizabeth Paxton Sullivan
Relay Selection Strategies for Multi-hop Cooperative Networks, Hui Sun
McLuhan.js: Live Net Art Performance with Remote Web Browsers, Benjamin Francis Taylor
Understanding Chemical Reactions In Novel Materials: From Metal Organic Frameworks to Oxyallyl Cations, Kiara Taylor-Edinbyrd
Leveling the Playing Field: Sport and Resistance in Low-Wealth Communities, Danielle Jo Thomas
Process Monitoring and Data Mining with Chemical Process Historical Databases, Michael Carl Thomas
Investigating the Structure of the Papain-Inhibitor Complex using SPR and NMR, Margaret Sara Thomasson
The Political Imagination of Cormac McCarthy, Drew Kennedy Thompson
Wrestling with Neptune: The Political Consequences of the Military Inundations during the Dutch Revolt, Robert Tiegs
The Effects of Using Knee Wraps on Back Squat and Vertical Jump Performance., Cardyl Trionfante
Thiol-Acrylate Polymerization Kinetics and Applications in Microfluidics, Michael Perrin Tullier
Buying In and Selling Out: African-American Ownership of Record Labels in the Twentieth Century, Stuart Lucas Tully
Adaptive Behavior Deficits in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder- Cutoff Scores for the ASD-D-A according to DSM-5 Criteria., Nicole Cassandra Turygin
An Ideal-Type through Innovation Diffusion: Recording the Construction History of Football Stadiums in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), Patrick Michael Tutka
Discovering Potential Protein, Carbohydrate, and Lipid Based Food Ingredients in a Co-Culture of Microalgae, Chelsea Tyus
Strengthening Shear Deficient Thin-Walled Steel Beams by Bonding Pultruded GFRP Sections, Tuna Ulger
Tracing the Development of Willie Stark and Its Place in American Opera, Betsy Marie Uschkrat
The Thomism of Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Indians of the New World, Thomas Francis Xavier Varacalli
Identification and Characterization of a Relish-type NF-kB, DvRelish in Dermacentor variabilis, the American Dog Tick, Victoria Irene Verhoeve
Spectral Properties of Photonic Crystals: Bloch Waves and Band Gaps, Robert Paul Viator Jr
Relational Effects of Person-Centered Comfort, Andrea Jean Vickery
Idling Women: The Domestic Bildungsroman and the American City, 1830-1900, Jordan L. Von Cannon
The Darkest Nation: American Melancholia in Modernist Narratives of the First World War, Michael Von Cannon
The Impact of Weight Bias on Psychological Functioning: The Role of Weight Discrimination and Internalized Weight Bias, Krystal Marie Waldo
21st Century Transformational Leadership: The Neo-Stereotypical Phenomenon of a Black Female Principal, Terri Valentine Wallis
Essays on Regional Economic Growth in China, Ting Wang
Cobalt-based Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass-derived Syngas to Ethanol and Higher Oxygenates, Zi Wang
Modeling Relationships Among Affective Measures of Food Choice: Acceptance, Emotions And Satisfaction, Wisdom Wardy
Automated Generation and Visualization of Initial Construction Schedules from Building Information Models, Yibrah Weldemihret Weldu
An Integrated Approach to Ambrosia Beetle Management in Ornamental Tree Nurseries: Biology of and Control Measures for Exotic Xyleborina, christopher werle
Relational Red Flags: Detecting Undesirable Qualities in Initial Romantic Encounters, Richard C. White
A Novel without a Self: Decentering the Protagonist in the Modernist Bildungsroman, Logan Wiedenfeld
Silent Suffering: A Phenomenological Study of African American Women Facing Infertility & Lessons Learned For Work-Life Balance, Kimberley Faye Williams
Perceived Barriers to Autism Spectrum Disorder Services, Lindsey Willis Williams
Mexican Rice Borer (Eoreuma loftini) Pheromone Trap Efficacy and Role in Invasive Species Monitoring and Pest Management, Blake Emerson Wilson
“Þe Inglis in seruage”: Textual Englishness, 1175 – 1330, Joseph Richard Wingenbach
God's Children without a Nation: German Missionaries, Settlers, and Africans in Southwest Africa, 1915-1960, Jason Michael Wolfe
A Background, Analysis, and Performance Guide for Eugene Goossens's Concerto in One Movement for Oboe and Orchestra, Grace Ellen Woodworth
Interactions Between Local Magnetic Moments and Itinerant Charge Carriers in Fe-based systems, Yan Wu