Dissertations from 2012
Factors affecting university STEM faculty job satisfaction, Lisa Babin Verret
How faith and leadership are connected: a study of Catholic women administrators in a southern public institution of higher education, Mary Blanchard Wallace
Moonlight Shadows and Night Thoughts (Symphony No. 1) and an analysis of Qigang Chen's Extase II, Wennan Wang
Semantically-aware data discovery and placement in collaborative computing environments, Xinqi Wang
A discourse on geospatial technology applications in predictive analytics and evidence-based decision support for disaster research and management, Steven Matthew Ward
An evaluation of alternative approaches for simulating animal movement in spatially-explicit individual-based models, Katherine Shepard Watkins
Composing a method: écriture féminine as performance practice, Brianne Waychoff
Dynamic characterization of vocal fold virbrations, Zhenyi Wei
The influence of the introduction of baccalaureate degree programs on the awarding of associate degrees at public community colleges, David Joseph Wesse
Canning foods and selling modernity: the canned food industry and consumer culture, 1898-1945, Kristi Renee Whitfield
A thermodynamic framework for the modeling and optimization of crystallization processes, David John Widenski
Operational methods for evolution equations, Lee Gregory Windsperger
Income inequality and mortality: a test of competing pathways, Lisa Winters
Comparing symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorders using the current DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria and the proposed DSM-V diagnostic criteria, Julie A. Worley
Dynamics of the sweetpotato potyvirus aphid pathosystem in Louisiana, Everlyne Nafula Wosula
Online reviews and consumers' willingness to pay: the role of uncertainty, Yinglu Wu
Immigration, the welfare state and income inequality in sixteen OECD countries, 1970-2007, Ping Xu
A performer's guide to Stephen Paulus' Mad Book, Shadow Book: Songs of Michael Morley, Jin Hin Yap
Hadronic physics from extensive air showers, Guofeng Yuan
Reflections on en-teaching: Dewey, Heidegger and Lao Tzu, Jie Yu
Multifunctional carbon/epoxy glass microballons nanocomposite, Ephraim Fentahun Zegeye
Accounting comparability, audit effort and audit outcomes, Joseph Hongbo Zhang
Advanced ceramics and composites based on rice hulls, Peigen Zhang
Osmoregulation and acid-base tolerance in fish, Shujun Zhang
Fatigue performance of existing bridges under dynamic loads from winds and vehicles, Wei Zhang
Experimental Study of Lean Blowout with Hydrogen Addition in a Swirl-stabilized Premixed Combustor, Shengrong Zhu
Dissertations from 2011
Preparation and Studies of Ratiometric Fluorescent Chemosensors Based on the Attenuation of Excitation Energy Transfer, Jiba Raj Acharya
Effects of mindfulness on body image, affect, and smoking in women, Claire E. Adams
The northern clergy and the Pilgrimage of Grace, Keith Altazin
Essays on the economics of crime, Duha T. Altindag
On the Thermodynamics of Degradation, Mehdi Amir Darehbidi
Synthesis, biological and photophysical studies of novel compounds for cancer therapy, Edith Khavwajira Amuhaya
A comprehensive study of dust formation and evolution in core collape supernovae, Jennifer Erin Andrews
An agent-based simulation model for business reopenings in New Orleans post Hurricane Katrina, Helbert Arenas
An assessment of atmospheric factors impacting tropospheric ozone in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana non-attainment zone, Andrew Douglas Augustine
"The colossal vitality of his illusion": the myth of the American dream in the modern American novel, James E. Ayers
The relationship between ethnic identity, disordered eating and body image among Chinese and Caucasian students, Lauren E. Baillie
The relationship between music and visual arts formal study and academic achievement on the eighth-grade Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) test, Richard Allen Baker Jr.
The effect of in-school opera performance and related curriculum on music cognition and attitude, Sara Harris Baker
Latinos, immigration policy, and geographic diversification: examining the effects of concentrated poverty, segregation, and low-skill employment on homicide, Raymond Barranco
Arginine metabolism in the Edwardsiella ictaluri- channel catfish macrophage dynamic, Wes Arend Baumgartner
Microphytobenthos of the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic area and their role in oxygen dynamics, Melissa Millman Baustian
Studies of inhomogeneous superconducting states in novel materials, Robert Pearson Beaird
Inhibition and nucleic acid binding studies of the carboxyltransferase component of bacterial acetyl-CoA carboxylase, Brian Benson
Climate Change Displacement and Global Governance: a Case Study of Three Intergovernmental Organizations and the Conflict Between the Member States and Bureaucracy, Andrea C. S. Berringer
Agroecological factors impacting stem borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) dynamics in Gulf Coast sugarcane and rice, Julien M. Beuzelin
Ethnic online newspapers vs. mainstream online newspapers: a comparison of the news coverage of the 2010 health care reform debate, Masudul Biswas
Transatlantic Baggage: Expatriate Paris, Modernism, and the Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Blair Bonds
The evolution of the tuba quartet and its repertoire, Bradley Bryant Boone
Influence of turfgrass coverage on nutrient and pesticide transport as affected by water and sediment displacement during surface runoff, Steven Michael Borst
Growth after the storm: cognitive processing and social support as mediators of the relation between religious coping and posttraumatic growth in hurricane-affected women, Julia Vigna Bosson
A Survey of Rudy Davenport's BYNA: Life Songs of a Southern Appalachian Woman of Cherokee Indian Descent (A Chamber Work for Soprano, Piano, Oboe and Cello), Tiffany I. Bostic-Brown
Fatalities due to Hurricane Katrina's impacts in Louisiana, Ezra Clay-Kelly Boyd
Le minaret des sovenirs: representations litteraires, visuelles et cinematographiques de l'identite pied-noir, Jean X. Brager
Learning and teaching conducting through musical and non-musical skills: an evaluation of orchestral conducting teaching methods, Jose Mauricio Valle Brandao
Accountability models for alternative schools, Belinda B. Brand
Process as product: the culture of development and the twenty-first century American dramatist, John Patrick Bray
Auditor tenure and audit quality, Li Zheng Brooks
Playing class: a case study of ludic pedagogy, Jessica Broussard
The relationship between visual attention and prospective memory, Noelle L. Brown
Fewer rainy days for those who praise: a psychological examination of religion and depression, Teri Brown
Lee Hoiby's I Have a Dream, Terrance DeAce Brown
Characterization and prototyping of the rotating modulator hard x-ray/gamma-ray telescope, Brent Budden
The influence of budget allocation by function on student retention of public community colleges in the sixteen states in the Southern Region Education Board, Clayton Clendenin Burton
Influences of landscape characteristics on the nesting ecology of female wild turkeys and behavior of raccoons, Michael E. Byrne
Automated Semantic Understanding of Human Emotions in Writing and Speech, Ricardo A. Calix
Spatial ecology of adult spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus, in Louisiana coastal waters, Jody Lynn Callihan
Essays in health economics and public policy, Colin Darren Cannonier
(Be)coming home: the complexity of home as revealed in young adult novels of disaster, Charity Elise Cantey
The Role of Inflammatory Molecules in Hypertension, Jeffrey Paul Cardinale
Following the Path of Involuntary Change: The Emotional Effects, Susan B. Carriere
Redox-active Liposome Delivery Agents With Highly Controllable Stimuli-responsive Behavior, Nicole Hollabaugh Carrier
Rapid identification of oil contaminated soils using visible near infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, Somsubhra Chakraborty
Interpretation and expressive imagery in The Butterfly Lovers violin concerto on double bass: transcribed by Yung-Chiao Wei, Min-Tzu Chao
On Greenberg's question: an algebraic and computational approach, David H. Chapman
Fully integrated microsystem for bacterial genotyping, Hui-Wen Chen
A contour tree based spatio-temporal data model for oceanographic applications, Yuliang Chen
Semiconducting Polymers and Block Copolymers Prepared by Chain-Growth Living Polymerization, JinWoo Choi
Arbovirus phenotype alters transmission potential, Rebecca C. Christofferson
Capturing elements in matroid minors, Deborah Chun
The Devil in the Belfry a rhapsody for viola and orchestra & Edgar Allan Poe, Claude Debussy, and "The Fall of the House of Usher", Maíra Cimbleris
Evaluation of knowledge transfer in an immersive virtual learning environment for the transportation community, Mary Leah Caillier Coco
Testing and improving the luminosity relations for Gamma-Ray Bursts, Andrew Collazzi
An examination of errors of coherence in adolescent sentence combining, Ginger Gunter Collins
Radical realms: a materialist theory of fantasy literature, Rich Paul Cooper
The ecology of congeneric resprouters and reseeders (Hypericum spp.) along fire-frequented pine savanna ecoclines, Raelene Marie Crandall
Plasma nitrite reserve and vascular function before and after handgrip training in patients with heart failure, Daniel Paul Credeur
A general approach for vitrification of fish sperm, Rafael Cuevas Uribe
An evaluation of post-Katrina emergency preparedness strategies in hospitals on the U.S. Gulf of Mexico coastline, Holly Houk Cullen
Application of Scanning Probe Microscopy for New Physical Measurements and Studies of Surface Chemical Reactions of Materials at the Molecular Level, Stephanie Loletha Daniels
Paley-Wiener theorems with respect to the spectral parameter, Susanna Dann
Three essays on the labor allocation decisions of the modern farm family, Jeremy Michael D'Antoni
The economics of processing ethanol at Louisiana sugar mills: a three part economic analysis of feedstocks, risk, business strategies, and uncertainty, Paul Michael Darby
Proteomic Analysis of the Blood of Alligator mississippiensis, Lancia Nadinia Fallen Darville-Bowleg