Dissertations from 2011
Assessment of core stability: developing practical models, Andy Waldhelm
Eight is not enough: a historical, cultural, and philosophical analysis of the flash mob, Rebecca Walker
From Native to Nation: Copway’s American Indian Newspaper and Formation of American Nationalism, David Shane Wallace
Understanding the selective detection of Homocysteine and studies toward the synthesis of vinigrol, Dong Wang
Structural and electronic properties of noble metals on metal oxide surfaces, Fei Wang
Simplicillium lanosoniveum, a mycoparasite of Phakopsora pachyrhizi and its use as a biological control agent, Nicole A. Ward
Some classes of graphs that are nearly cycle-free, Lisa Warshauer
The attitudes of African American students towards the study of foreign languages and cultures, Katrina Watterson
Landscape, mobilities, and performance: an autoethnographic and visual engagement with public protests in Washington, DC, Paul Ronald Watts
Birth matters: discourses of childbirth in contemporary American culture, Jennifer Ellis West
Cognitive Radio Network with a distributed control channel and quality-of-service solution, Urban Terrell Wiggins
The influence of selected demographic and biographical characteristics on the level of cultural intelligence among mid-level managers of home health care systems in the United States, Martha Stuart Williams
An Historical Study of Teaching Biology to Science-Illiterate Students in Eighteenth-Century France: Instructional Strategies Employed by Madame du Coudray - Royal Midwifery Educator, Trudy Lynn Gammill Witt
The impact of oral fluency and silent fluency on the comprehension of fourth graders, Julie Adele Wright
Essays on risk and volatility, Junyue Xu
Next generation multi-scale quantum simulations for strongly correlated materials, Shuxiang Yang
Thermodynamics of DNA binding and break repair by the Pol I DNA polymerases from Escherichia coli and Thermus aquaticus, Yanling Yang
Molecular Mechanisms of Bacillus thuringiensis Resistance in the Sugarcane Borer, Yunlong Yang
Molecular mechanisms of Bacillus thuringiensis resistance in the sugarcane borer, Yunlong Yang
Data-aware workflow scheduling in heterogeneous distributed systems, Dengpan Yin
Purification of Fish Oils and Production of Protein Powders with EPA and DHA Enriched Fish Oils, Huaixia Yin
Large-scale influences on tropical cyclogenesis for selected storms in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Jinwoong Yoo
A study of horn fly, Haematobia irritans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae), target-site sensitivity, susceptibility, and resistance management at selected sites in Louisiana, Cole David Younger
Integrating multiple clusters for compute-intensive applications, Zhifeng Yun
Characterization of Novel Akermanite:Poly-E-Caprolactone Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering Aapplications Combined with Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells, Andre S. Zanetti
Essays on the Random Parameters Logit Model, Tong Zeng
Chinese influence on western women's dress in American Vogue magazine, 1960-2009, Yao Zeng
Three essays on real estate finance, Shuang Zhu
Historical études for oboe: 17th-20th centuries, Linwood William Zoller IV
Dissertations from 2010
Point-of-care immunoassay system using carbon nanotube labels, Adeyabeba Abera
Analysis of Teacher Efficacy and Perspectives about Literacy Implementation in Selected Elementary Schools, Joy Rene' Abernathy-Dyer
Elastohydrodynamic Analysis of Spur Gears Using Load-Sharing Concept: Running-In and Steady-State, Saleh Akbarzadeh
The interdependence of modality and Theory of Mind, Danielle Rachel Alfandre
Modeling thermal phenomena and searching for new thermally induced monitor signals in large sale gravitational wave detectors, Rupal Shashikant Amin
Structure and organization of canopy bird assemblages in lowland neotropical rainforests, David Lawrence Anderson
Land use, individual attributes, and travel behavior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Anzhelika Antipova
Predator-prey interaction in estuarine bivalves: size selection, effects of salinity, and indirect interactions, Barry Richard Aronhime
Antioxidant Nanoparticles as Delivery Systems, Carlos Ernesto Astete R.
The illumination of E. E. Cummings' poetry in J. A. C. Redford's "love is the every only god", Amy Louise Aucoin
Characterization of quantitative traits using association genetics tetraploid and genetic linkage mapping in diploid cotton (Gossypium spp.), Ashok Badigannavar
Supercritical Pyrolysis of n-Decane, Sean Bagley
Data transfer scheduling with advance reservation and provisioning, Mehmet Balman
Other tomorrows: postcoloniality, science fiction and India, Suparno Banerjee
Cross-race advising relationships: the role of race in advising relationships between Black doctoral student protégés and their White faculty advisors, Marco Javon Barker
Hamilton-Jacobi theory for optimal control problems on stratified domains, Richard Charles Barnard
Examination of the relationship between academic achievement and traumatic stress following Hurricane Katrina, Audrey Baumeister
Person or place? A contextual event-history analysis of homicide victimization risk, Emily R. Berthelot
Transient Study of the Wetting Films in Porous Media Using 3D X-Ray Computed Micro-Tomography: Effect of Imbibition Rate and Pore Geometry, Pradeep Bhattad
Essays on three price judgments: price fairness, price magnitude, and price expectation, Sandeep Bhowmick
Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano, Op. 80,by Sergei Prokofiev: A Guide to Interpretation, Boris Blagoev
Study of microstructure effect on the thermal properties of Yttria-stabilized-Zirconia thermal barrier coatings made by atmospheric plasma spray and pressing machine, Monica Bohorquez de Silva
A taxometric analysis of Autism Spectrum Disorders in toddlers, Jessica Ann Boisjoli
Individual Differences and Memory Aging Concerns of Older Adults, Emily Olinde Boudreaux
The care plan as an indicator of change in nursing science instruction: a textbook-based analysis, Lindsay Bratton-Mullins
Investigation of a classroom-based reading intervention strategy for older elementary students with poor decoding skills, Shara Brinkley
The influence of computer user knowledge and selected demographic characteristics the academic achievement of high school seniors, Michael E. Brown
Social change, social capital, and civic community: a qualitative study of the long-term effects of industrial restructuring on a coastal community, Timothy C. Brown
Dynamic model of ecological factors impacting the Gulf of Mexico dead zone, Jimmie Arnold Brumfield II
Bel canto rarities: a performance guide to rarely performed tenor arias from the works of Gaetano Donizetti, Zachary Bruton
Reflections on teaching: dwelling in a third space, Sean William Buckreis
Generalized curvilinear advection formalism for finite volume codes doing relativistic hydrodynamics, Jay Michael Call
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Applied to Mixed-metal Iron-based Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts, Andrew Allen Campos
The influence of a state law enforcement training academy on future performance of law enforcement officers in a Southeastern state of the United States, Cary Allen Caro
Deterrents to participation in web-based graduate nursing programs, Suzanne H. Carpenter
The effect of a planned instructional program on the empathy levels of registered nurses at a metropolitan hospital in Southern Louisiana, Deborah K. Charnley
Dynamic trip distribution models for hurricane evacuation, Guangxiang Cheng
Essays on the Effect of Financial Institution’s Dual Holdings of Debt and Equity Securities, Jiun-Lin Chen
Subgroups of the Torelli group, Leah R. Childers
Popular sovereignty, slavery in the territories, and the South, 1785-1860, Robert Christopher Childers
Diatom stratigraphy defining ice sheet grounding chronology, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Juan Manuel Chow
Testing models of biological diversification: morphological evolution and cladogenesis in the neotropical furnariidae (Aves: Passeriformes), Santiago Javier Claramunt Tammaro
Examining spiritual development in collegiate athletes participating in individual and team sports, Jessica Lauder Clarke
Dimer models for knot polynomials, Moshe Cohen
Pharmaceutical compounds in treatment wetlands: potential removal and effects on microbial processes, Jeremy Landon Conkle
Staging polemics: Charles Palissot, Voltaire, and the "theatrical event" in eighteenth-century France, Logan James Connors
Jennifer Higdon's Oboe Concerto: the composition, transformation, and a performer's analysis, Janice Elizabeth Crews
Multigrid methods for Maxwell's equations, Jintao Cui
Perverse poisson sheaves on the nilpotent cone, Jared Lee Culbertson
"Chromatic Fantasy Sonata" by Davide Brubeck, Vasil Atanasov Cvetkov
"Blessed be the critics of newspapers": journalistic criticism of journalism 1865-1930, Yasmine Tarek Dabbous
Traditionalism and temporal variance in predictors of gendered homicide, 1970-2000, Julia Maria D'Antonio-Del Rio
Modeling the impacts of pulsed riverine inflows on hydrodynamics and water quality in the Barataria Bay estuary, Anindita Das
Fabrication of Receptor-Modified Microfluidic Surfaces for Applications in Glycoprotein Screening, Jennifer Macalindong De Guzman
The effects of a freshwater diversion of nekton species biomass distributions, food web pathways, and community structure in a Louisiana estuary, Kim de Mutsert
The evolution of freeze tolerance in a historically tropical snail, Alice B. Dennis
Ageism and psychological well-being in older adults, Jenny Denver
Highly efficient selection, enumeration, enrichment, and molecular profiling of low-abundance biological cells, Udara R. Dharmasiri Rasika Dharmasiri
Revealing the role of receptor WSX1: a double-edged sword in tumor progession, Denada Dibra
Principals' perceptions of meeting vision and collaboration standards in alternative schools, Perry DiCarlo
The roles of transcription factors in Nucleotide excision repair in yeast, Baojin Ding
A Study of the Interactions of Lipid Bilayers and Dendrimers Using Small Angle X-Ray Scattering and Freeze Fracture Transmission Electron Microscopy, Derek R. Dorman
Child acquisition of referring expressions, Carlton M. Downey