Dissertations from 2010
Application-level optimization of end-to-end data transfer throughput, Esma Yildirim
Method of Riemann surfaces in modelling of cavitating flow, Anna Zemlyanova
Identifying and quantifying factors affecting traffic crash severity in Louisiana, Hong Zhang
Spatial analyses of pedosphere carbon stock and sequestration potential in Louisiana's watersheds, Biao Zhong
Dissertations from 2009
Three essays on environmental issues associated with broiler production in Louisiana, Nirmala Adhikari Devkota
The structure of 4-separations in 4-connected matroids, Jeremy M. Aikin
Categorization and Indentification of Mechanisms of Sugarcane Resistance to the Sugarcane Aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae), Waseem Akbar
Studies of homogeneous dirhodium catalyst system, Catherine L. Thomas Alexander
Physical layer security in wireless networks: intelligent jamming and eavesdropping, George Traian Amariucai
Psychopathology in person with and without co-morbid autism, Martin Nicholas Ancona
Integrated Model-Centric Decision Support System for Process Industries, Daira Aragon
Slab-on-girder prestressed concrete bridges: linear and nonlinear finite element analysis and experimental load tests, Marcio Costa Araujo
Latin Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra and magical realism in Alejandro Cardona's String Quartet No. 4, Alejandro José Arguello
Particle-chemical interactions and environmental chemodynamics of fine and ultrafine particles in a natural disaster scenario, Nicholas A. Ashley
Quantitative Macro- and Microscale Methods for Characterizing Cell Viability, Julianne Forman Audiffred
The virgin's daughters: Catholic traditions and the post-colonial south in contemporary women's writing, Elizabeth M. Beard
Deconstructing student perception of incivility in the nursing education triad, Jennifer Wibbenmeyer Beck
Under construction: recollecting the museum of the moving image, Andrée Elise Comiskey Betancourt
Amyloid Aggregation-Mitigating Peptides As Potential Alzheimer's Drugs, Cyrus Kipkurui Bett
Biogenesis of iron-sulfur clusters and intracellular iron metabolism, Jacob Philip Bitoun
"Why do I have fifty pairs of shoes?": characterizing and explaining acquisitive buying behavior, Mousumi Bose Godbole
Integrated management of creeping rivergrass in rice, Sunny Lynn Bottoms
Bacterial characterization of Louisiana groundwater contaminated by DNAPL-containing chloroethanes and other solvents, Kimberly Bowman
Studies of states and state transitions in low mass X-ray binaries, Charles Bradley
Collpas as activity hotspots for frugivorous bats (Stenodermatinae) in the Peruvian Amazon: underlying mechanisms and conservation implications, Adriana Bravo Ordonez
Assessing linkages between petroleum platforms and pelagic fishes using telemetry with emphasis on blue runner (Caranx crysos), Harmon Brown
Children of men: the American jeremiad in twentieth and twenty-first century science fiction and film, Joseph Franklin Brown Jr.
Investigations of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ergosterol biosynthesis, Kristy Marie Brumfield
Comparative phylogeography of Neotropical birds, Curtis Wade Burney
Innate Immune Responses in the Central Nervous System Following Toll-Like Receptor (TLR) 7 and TLR9 Activation, Niranjan Babu Butchi
Task Specific Ionic Liquids for Enantiomeric Recognition and Nanomaterials for Biomedical Imaging, David Kipkogei Bwambok
Impulsive control systems, Wei Cai
An examination of Louisiana Educational School Improvement Legislation, Policy Decisions, Initiatives, and Fiscal Expenditure from 1997 to 2005, Belinda Marie Cambre
Algorithms related to subgroups of the modular group, Constantin Cristian Caranica
The problems solving styles of emergency operations center staffs of local and state government agencies, Glynn Cavin
A modular approach to high throughput microsystems, Pin-Chuan Chen
Topics in quantum optical metrology, Aravind Chiruvelli
Copula-Based Multivariate Hydrologic Frequency Analysis, Hemant Chowdhary
Function Spaces, Wavelets and Representation Theory, Jens Gerlach Christensen
Unavoidable minors in graphs and matroids, Carolyn Barlow Chun
Children's production of verbal -s by dialect type and clinical status, Lesli H. Cleveland
Testing of GdCl3 Doping in Water Cherenkov Antineutrino Detectors, William Fitzgerald Coleman
The Murrow Tradition: What Was It, and Does It Still Live?, Raluca Cozma
Community social capital and suicide rates, Anna Cutlip
Testicular toxicity and the potential for 1, 2 -ethlyene dichloride (EDC) to initiate epigenetic disruption of the paternal genome, Harold J. Daigle
Entrepreneurial Learning in Project Ventures: Implications of Prior Venture Experience for Error Avoidance, Innovation, and Project Performance, Yves Damoiseau
The fate and transport of light petroleum hydrocarbons in the Lower Mississippi River Delta, Samantha Nicole Danchuk
Global Positioning System in Curved Space-Time and Other Applications of General Relativity, Argenis Daniel Da Silva
Production and application of antibodies produced against the flagella and hemolysin of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Shreya Datta
Environmental effects on adolescents exposed to hurricane Katrina, Karen Laslie Davidson
Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Premixed Combustion in Gas Turbines, Ashoke De
Attacking Jim Crow: black activism in New Orleans 1925-1941, Sharlene Sinegal DeCuir
The effects of geomorphology and primary productivity on neotropical leaf litter herpetofauna: implications for Amazonian rainforest conservation, Jessica L. Deichmann
System identification of bridge and vehicle based on their coupled vibration, Lu Deng
Characterization of the 'glutamate effect' on the solution thermodynamics and function of the large fragments of the type I DNA polymerases from E.coli and T.aquaticus, Daniel J. Deredge
Functional implications of the neuromuscular transform in decapod crustacean locomotion, Richard Burkett Dewell
Physical and chemical factors controlling carbon gas emissions and organic matter transformation in coastal wetlands, Syam Kumar Dodla
A critical examination into motivation and gender in youth physical fitness testing, Elizabeth A. Domangue
Merged electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, Jianan Dong
Do TOPS eligibility requirements predict in-system college retention?, Jason J. Droddy
Progressive Water-Oil Transition Zone Due to Transverse Mixing Near Wells, Shengkai Duan
The extended picture group, with applications to line arrangement complements, Charles Richard Egedy
Task scheduling and placement for reconfigurable devices, Mostafa Elbidweihy
Assessing the development of high school chemistry students' conceptual and visual understanding of dimensional analysis via supplemental use of a proprietary interactive software program, Jennifer Tennille Pinder Ellis
Single-Molecule Detection of Unique Genome Signatures: Applications in Molecular Diagnostics and Homeland Security, Jason M. Emory
Analysis of progessive lag reinforcement schedules and environmental cues on verbal response variability, Brian Esteve
White noise methods for anticipating stochastic differential equations, Julius Esunge
Herminie a performer's guide to Hector Berlioz's Prix de Rome cantata, Rosella Lucille Ewing
Identification of falls risk factors in community-dwelling older adults: validation of the Comprehensive Falls Risk Screening Instrument, Jennifer Marie Fabre
Stochastic Navier-Stokes equations with fractional Brownian motions, Liqun Fang
Appropriate technology, human capital, and economic development, Beatrice Farkas
Detection of stress biomarkers in sperm, embryonic, and early larval states of aquatic invertebrates following pesticide exposure, Karen Perry Favret
Phytochemical Analyses of Bioactive Compounds in the Roots of Cassia Alata Linn and the Anti-Angiogenic Evaluation of Rhein as a Therapeutic Agent against Breast Cancer Cells, Vivian Esther Fernand
The expansion and diversification of the export sector and economic growth: the Costa Rican experience, Gustavo Filipe Canle Ferreira
The feasibility of using select landscape species for phytoremediation of cumene and 4-cumylphenol contaminated groundwater, Kathryn Karsh Fontenot
Residential building damage from hurricane storm surge: proposed methodologies to describe, assess and model building damage, Carol J. Friedland
Matrix metalloproteinases in the equine systemic inflammatory response: implications for equine laminitis, Lee Ann Fugler
Development and application of Dissociable Antibody Microarray (DAMA) staining technique, Guanyuan Fu
Experimental Design, Synthesis and Application of Molecular Micelle Modified Polymeric Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery Systems and Free Radical Detection, Gabriela M. Ganea Visser
Remittances, foreign direct investment and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, Pablo Antonio Garcia-Fuentes
Culture and persuasion online: Predicting attitudes, cognitions, and behavioral intentions in a culturally diverse online marketplace, Gennadi Gevorgyan
Super resolution and dynamic range enhancement of image sequences, Lutfi Murat Gevrekci
Evidence that the Boundary Element-Associated Factors BEAF-32A and BEAF-32B affect chromatin structure in Drosophila melanogaster, Matthew Kenneth Gilbert
Quantum nonlinear optics: applications to quantum metrology, imaging, and information, Ryan Glasser
Home of the Brave: Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction, Alison Graham-Bertolini
Benthic microalgae on the Louisiana inner continental shelf: biomass, distribution, and contribution to benthic food-webs, Mark Alan Grippo
All My Pretty Ones by Stephen Paulus; A Song Cycle for Soprano and Piano on a Text by Michael Dennis Browne, Emily Grundstad Hall
A regularization technique in dynamic optimization, Alvaro Guevara
Tumor necrosis factor induced oxidative stress in the central nervous system contributes to sympathoexcitation in heart failure, Anuradha Guggilam
Subaqueous, hurricane-initiated shelf failure morphodynamics along the Mississippi River Delta Front, north-central Gulf of Mexico, Walter Scott Guidroz
The effect of rhythm-based computer-assisted music instruction designed for individual learning style preferences on the learning of preservice elementary education majors, Judy Arnette Guilbeaux-James
Essays on environmental issues associated with the diary production region in Louisiana, Larry Michael Hall
Strangers in the postcolonial world, Thomas F. Halloran
The relationship between self-esteem and academic success among African American students in the Minority Engineering Program at a research extensive university in the Southern portion of the United States, Sandra Latrice Harris
Micro Characterization of Deformations in Granular Materials during Shear, Alsidqi Hasan