Dissertations from 2012
Hypercube diagrams for knots, links, and knotted tori, Ben McCarty
Pressures, centralization, economics, technology, and ethics: factors that impact public information officer - journalist relationships, Christopher Jon McCollough
Principals matter- principal technology proficiency: creating a culture of technology competence, Tiffanye Renee' McCoy-Thomas
Advances in quantum optical metrology and the establishment of an invisible quantum tripwire, Steven Blane McCracken
Queer utopian geographies and Cold War poetry, Brigitte Natalie McCray
Environmental and landscape determinants of population genetic structure and diversity of the great fruit-eating bat, Artibeus lituratus, in Atlantic forest remnants in South America, Eve Sutherland McCulloch
Ayahuasca characterization, metabolism in humans, and relevance to endogenous N,N-dimethyltryptamines, Ethan Hamilton McIlhenny
Food cravings and food cue responding across the menstrual cycle, Megan Apperson McVay
Adaptation as Anarchist: A Complexity Method for Ideology-Critique of American Crime Narratives, Kristopher Mecholsky
Trans-Atlantic circulation of black tropes: Èsù and the West African griot as poetic references for liberation in cultures of the African diaspora, Jean-Baptiste Meunier
The role of atypical semantic activation in schizotypy: implications for odd speech and creativity, Kyle S. Minor
Development of an estradiol-dopamine anagonist protocol for inducing ovulation in seasonally anovulatory mares, Pamela Boliew Mitcham
Dialogues, dysfunctional transitions, and embodied plot schemas: (Re) considering form in Chopin's sonatas and ballades, Jonathan Edward Mitchell
Energy, environment, and sustainability: a hierarchical analysis of south Louisiana, Matthew Korbel Moerschbaecher
Identification and incorporation of quantitative indicators of ecosystem function into single-species fishery stock assessment models and the associated biological reference points, Melissa Hedges Monk
Law student knowledge of legal interviewing: a case study of self-evaluation using video annotation, William Taggart Monroe
Development of innovative stationary phases for chiral and protein separations in open tubular capillary electrochromatography, Leonard Moore, Jr.
Exploring the influence of civic community structures on family poverty in a multilevel context, Candice A. Myers
Three essays on the efficiency of rural hospitals in the United States, Iustin Cristian Nedelea
Defense gland protein from Coptotermes formosanus, Ioan-Horia Negulescu
Perception, power, plays, and print: Charles II and the restoration theatre of consensus, Christopher William Nelson
Hierarchical Linear Modeling versus visual analysis of single subject design data, Elizabeth Godbold Nelson
De l'Autre Coté du Periph': Les Lieux de l'Identité dans le Roman Feminin de Banlieue en France, Mame Fatou Niang
Investigations into the Role of Humic Acid in Biomembrane Permeability and the Effects of Naturally Formed Gold and Silver Nanoparticles on These Interactions, Loice Marklyne Ojwang
Syntheses and characterization of water-soluble phythalocyanines for diagnosis and treatment of cancer, Benson Getenga Ongarora
Constructing wilderness: the nexus of preservation and ocean-space in the United States, Ryan Orgera
Sugarcane growth, sucrose content, and yield response to the ripeners glyphosate and trinexapac-ethyl, Albert Joseph Orgeron
Recurrent novae and Type Ia supernova progenitors, Ashley Sara Pagnotta
Examining the relationship between the exchange rate, foreign direct investment and trade, Shanta Parajuli
Metabolic downregulation during diapause in embryos of Artemia franciscana, Yuvraj Nanasaheb Patil
William Blayney - clarinetist and teacher, contributions and influences on clarinet playing in the twenty-first century, Branko Pavlovski
What does the ¹⁴C method for estimating photosynthetic rates in the ocean really measure?, Shaofeng Pei
IT outsourcing governance: a conceptual framework for theory and practice, Santiago Pena
Single-molecule detection of molecular beacons generated from LDR on thermoplastic microfluidic device for bioanalysis, Zhiyong Peng
Perpetual requirements engineering, Manuel Alfonso Peralta
A posthuman curriculum: subjectivity at the crossroads of time, Brad M. Petitfils
Challenges in the Discovery and Characterization of Magnetic Intermetallics, William A. Phelan
Modeling the spatial and temporal dynamics of coastal marsh birds, Bradley A. Pickens
Studies on a dirhodium tetraphosphine hydroformylation catalyst, Darina Polakova
Regulating the republic: violence and order in the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, 1820-1840, Adam Jeffrey Pratt
The decline in trust in the European Union, Nathan Donald Price
Intra-individual variability in adult ADHD: an exploration of the viability of distinct purely inattentive condition, Daniel Proto
Performance, preference, promotion: political mobility of Chinese regional leaders, Liang Qiao
Stability problems in constrained pendulum systems and time-delayed systems, Prashanth Ramachandran
Effects of Rhyming Instruction on Learning the Alphabetic Principle, Phonemic Awareness, and Rhyming Complexity Skills with At-Risk Prekindergarten Students, Crystal Randolph
Magnetic compensation in the bimetallic oxalates and the cerium volume collapse, Peter Leo Reis
Reinhold Niebuhr's ethics of rhetoric, Joseph E. Rhodes
The use of discrete computer simulation modeling to estimate the direct and diffusion effects of leadership development intervention on the return on investment, Brett Wayne Richard
Entanglement, uncertainty and relativity in fundamental mechanics with an application in QKD, Christopher David Richardson
Biologically dominated engineered coastal breakwaters, Jon David Risinger
Geometrical and electronic structure of metal oxide nanoparticles on silica and alumina, Udaya Indike Rodrigo
Comparison of alumni donors and alumni nondonors on selected demographic, educational and involvement factors, Arlette Barbara Rodriguez Rodrigue
Graham's variety and perverse sheaves on the nilpotent cone, Amber Russell
Virgil's shipwreck: how a Roman poet made and unmade the epic in the west, Jesse Bryan Burchfield Russell
Unraveling Ecological Effects on Social Behavior. Insights from Tent-roosting Bats, Maria Sagot
Turbine Blade Internal Cooling: Trailing Edge, Coolant-Passage Entry, Bend Effect and Improvement in Thermal Performance, Krishnendu Saha
A new model for coalition formation games, Alfred Samman
The effect of test design on student motivational strategies for learning and student retention, Jeanne Carol Samuel
The existence of preference outlier committees in the 1999-2008 Louisiana House of Representatives, Trisha Mari Sandahl
Conduct issues with fraternities and sororities: university processes evaluated at four-year universities, Jonathan Burnard Sanders
Examining Customer Felt Gratitude and Indebtedness in Exchanges: Their Conceptualizations, Causes and Consequences, Dora Elizabeth Schmit
Investigations into the Role of Natural Organic Matter as an Interface between Aquatic Organisms and Environmental Pollutants, Caroline Lillian Schneider
Insights into the role of PFKFB3 in cancer, Minsuh Seo
Understanding public perceptions of global warming, Wanyun Shao
A Modeling, Optimization, and Analysis Framework for Designing Multi-Product Lignocellulosic Biorefineries, Paritosh Kumar Sharma
Multiscale viscoplastic-viscodamage analysis of shape memory polymer fibers with application to self healing smart materials, Amir Shojaei
Strategies for real time reservoir management, Yuanyuan Shuai
Skill assessment and optimization of the third generation wave models for applications in Gulf of Mexico, Seyed Mostafa Siadatmousavi
Early voting in the 2004 presidential election, James Michael Siira
Investigating the physiological roles of YqjA and YghB: members of the conserved DedA membrane protein family in Escherichia coli, Rakesh Sikdar
Application of genetic and statistical tools for improvement of Louisiana rice, James Silva Garcia
Design and Analysis of Cloaked Fluorophores for Rapid Detection and Visualization of Cancer Cells Containing NAD(P)H:Quinone Oxidoreductase-1, William Silvers
Structural and dynamical properties of liquid and solid phases of ionic liquids confined inside nanoporous materials, Ramesh Singh
Copper-Cobalt Catalysts for Conversion of Syngas to Ethanol and Higher Alcohols, Miranda Louise Smith
Painting a surrealist case study tableau: culturally relevant post-disaster education programming, Jolanta Smolen Santana
Genomic approaches to understand sweetpotato root development in relation to abiotic factors, Julio Solis Sarmiento
Programmable CMOS Analog-to-Digital Converter Design and Testability, Rajiv Soundararajan
Anatomical studies of canine vascular and ligamentous ear structures with revelance to acute-onset deafness, Cathryn Kay Stevens-Sparks
Comparison of epididymal and ejaculated sperm collected from the same Holstein bulls, Michael A. Stout
Aggregate analyst forecast errors, price delay, and business cycle, Ping-Wen Sun
The new stochastic integral and anticipating stochastic differential equations, Benedykt Szozda
A syntax-based reading intervention for English as second-language learners, Christina Tausch
The role of music-making in the identity construction of members of an adult community concert band, Pamela G. Taylor
Playing the Christ Card: Courting Christians through Religious Appeals in Political Campaigns, Matthew Lee Thornton
Software architectural support for tangible user interfaces in distributed, heterogeneous computing environments, Cornelius Toole
Cluster based jamming and countermeasures for wireless sensor network MAC protocols, David Trammell
Mechanisms of urban influence on precipitation in the southeastern United States: precipitation enhancement, storm bifurcation, and synoptic characteristics, Anna Marie Trevino
A church musician's resource guide to the available resources from the Choral Public Domain Library for the Liturgical Year A, Michael John Trotta
Three essays on technology adoption and the roles of off-farm labor, human capital, and risk in contemporary US agriculture, Hiroki Uematsu
Shades of grey: slaveholding free women of color in antebellum New Orleans, 1800-1840, Anne Ulentin
Essays on social networks, Emre Unlu
Synthesis and Characterization of Red and Near-Infrared BODIPY-based fluorophores for various Biological Applications, Timsy Kaur Uppal
Diversity of yeasts associated with wood and the gut of wood-feeding insects, Hector Raul Urbina
Examination of the relationship between specific classes of social skill behaviors and academic competence on the social skills improvement system rating-scales, Michael James Vance
A critical ethnography of The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana with ruminations on hauntology, Holley Ann Vaughn