Dissertations from 2008
Cause of Hispanic homicides in major metropolitan areas, Michael Gregory Bisciglia
Concentration of Phosphorylated Proteins Using Modified PMMA Microanalytical Devices, Jowell Guerra Bolivar
Survival, growth, and behavior of Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) and Heliothis virescens (F.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on genetically engineered cotton expressing the Vip3A insecticidal protein, Padma Latha Bommireddy
Language Learning through Storybook Reading in HeadStart, Patricia Minnis Brazier-Carter
Cluster kinetics modeling of glassforming materials, Lisa Ann Brenskelle
A century of land use and water quality in watersheds of the continental U.S., Whitney P. Broussard III
Heterogeneous catalyzed macromolecular hydrogenations in oscillating systems, Alan Bussard
New firm emergence: the significance of social embeddedness and resource bootstrapping to the process of nascent firm emergence, Warren Byabashaija
Fate and Transport of Microorganisms in Coastal Subsurface-Experiment and Modeling, Haibo Cao
A novel automated approach of multi-modality retinal image registration and fusion, Hua Cao
Evolutionary history and hybridization in Passerina buntings, Matthew D. Carling
The gallant six hundred: performing the Light Brigade into a heroic icon, Elizabeth Carrick Cawns
The synthesis of water soluble N-acyl chitosan derivatives for characterization as antibacterial agents, Lakia Monique Champagne
Is oxidative stress the cause of death when recalcitrant Spartina alterniflora seeds are dried?, James Hammond Chappell
Teachers' perspectives on the unintended consequences of high stakes testing, David Christopher Charles
Essay 1: Does ownership structure matter? Essay 2: Asset sale in mutual fund industry, Fan Chen
Ecological genomics of high altitude adaptation in Rufous-collared sparrows (Zonotrichia capensis), Zachary A. Cheviron
Exploration of New Ternary Gallides and Investigation of Their Structure-Property Relationships, Jung Young Cho
Louis Aragon and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle: Servility and Subversion, Oana Carmina Cimpean
Detection of rare TP53 and Kristen-Ras mutational frequencies in human sperm, Derek N. Cole
Participant positioning and the Positioning of Participatory Pronouns in the academic lecture, Robert Thomas Connor
Essays on models for financial volatility, Mihaela Oana Craioveanu
When Shakespeare meets Al Gore: imagine interactions, communication competence, and immediacy traditional and online-based distance education, Tammy L. Croghan
Digital storytelling as a literacy-based intervention for a sixth grade student with Autism Spectrum Disorder: an exploratory case study, Brent A. Daigle
Internet Use and Environmental Justice: An Exploratory Study, Jane Catherine Dailey
A performer's guide to Libby Larsen's: Try Me, Good King : Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII, Angela R. Day
Degradation and water quality dynamics of sugarcane residue in South Louisiana, Jose Roberto Deras
Visual language representation for use case evolution and traceability, Coretta Willis Douglas
Towards an extended microscopic theory for upper-fp-shell nuclei, Kalin Drumev
Teaching presence: a focus on the instructor's role in online collaborative learning, Keisha Smith Dubuclet
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry for the analysis of collected bioaerosols, Alton John Dugas
Evidence for symplectic symmetry in ab initio no-core shell model results, Tomas Dytrych
Syntheses of trimethylamine- and phosphonate- substituted carboranylporphyrins for application in boron neutron cancer therapy, Michael William Easson
Catalytic synthesis of ethanol from biomass-derived syngas, Adefemi Adelanwa Egbebi
One rhizome, two unstoppable blossoms: environmental communication and ecological rhetoric, Kevin James Ells
Solid-Phase Synthesis of Asymmetrically Substituted Phthalocyanines, Sultan Sibel Erdem
Incorporation of Cα,α-Disubstituted Amino Acids into Model Peptide Systems: Conformational Analysis and Possible Applications as Therapeutic Agents, Marcus A. Etienne
Chemotactic and inflammatory responses to and recognition of Encephalitozoon spp. of microsporidia, Jeffrey Lynn Fischer
The investigation of treatment outcomes for adults with chronic brain injury following intensive multidisciplinary treatment, Donna Mineo Fitzgerald-DeJean
A house performs, Lisa Flanagan
How to remember thee?: problems of memorialization in english writing, 1558-1625, Sean Flory
Administrative responses to hurricane-induced mobility, Christopher J. Fontenot
A phenomenological study of couples who pursue infertility and the impact on their lives, Mary Catherine Fontenot
The diet of saltmarsh consumers, Kari Ann Galvan
Bioanalytical methods for studies of homocysteine and novel cardiovascular disease indicators, Arther T. Gates
Investigation of Antimonide Structure Types and the Structural Studies of Molybdates, Dixie Plaisance Gautreaux
"I will learn you something if you listen to this song": southern women writers' representations of music in fiction, Courtney George
A rhetoric of existentialism, Zachary Gershberg
The initial reliability and construct validity of the Autism Spectrum Disorder-Diagnostic (ASD-DC) in children, Melissa Luke Gonzalez
Academic impropriety: violation of normative teaching behaviors as identified by nursing educators, Melanie Hilburn Green
Nonperturbative dynamics of strong interactions from gauge/gravity duality, Hovhannes Roman Grigoryan
Electrochemical fabrication of AuCo nanostructures, Maoshi Guan
A multilevel discrete - time hazard model of retention data in higher education, Christopher W. Guillory
Molecular diversity and coat protein expression of Sweet potato leaf curl virus, Dina Lida Gutierrez Reynoso
Species boundaries, biogeography, and intra-archipelago genetic variation within the Emoia samoensis species group in the Vanuatu Archipelago and Oceania, Alison Madeline Hamilton
Searching for gravitational waves from binary systems in non-stationary data, Chad Hanna
The rhetorical myth of the athlete as a moral hero: the implications of steroids in sport and the threatened myth, Karen L. Hartman
The construct validity of the clinical assessment of working memory ability, Benjamin David Hill
Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary, Anthony Hoefer
Swamp ecology in a dynamic coastal landscape: an investigation through field study and simulation modeling, Susanne Sigrid Hoeppner
A longitudinal study of married women's probability of being housewives in reforming urban China, Chiung-Yin Hu
Neglecting parameter changes in GARCH option pricing models and VAR, Burak Hurmeydan
Novel Oncolytic Herpesviruses for Breast Cancer Treatment, Anna Israyelyan
Phylogenetics and New Approaches to Vaccine Development for West Nile, Arun Venkatesh Iyer
Genetic and mechanistic analysis of heterochromatin spreading in the yeast S.cerevisiae, Nithya Jambunathan
Rational approximation schemes for solutions of abstract Cauchy problems and evolution equations, Patricio Gabriel Jara
The songs of black (women) folk: music, politics, and everyday living, Rasheedah Quiett Jenkins
Fabrication and Evaluation of Specialty Nonwoven Materials, Nan Jiang
Trophic control of saltmarsh invertebrates, David Samuel Johnson
The effects of cross-age mentoring in an online collaborative environment, Gail Lorraine Johnson
The second coming of Paisley: militant fundamentalism and Ulster politics in a transatlantic context, Richard Lawrence Jordan
A Genetic Bayesian Approach for Texture-Aided Urban Land-Use/Land-Cover Classification, Wenxue Ju
Reservoir characterization using seismic inversion data, Subhash Kalla
A pedagogical analysis of selected pieces from Preludes, Op. 38, by Dmitri Kabalevsky, Sayaka Kanno
Investigation of superconductivity and physical properties of intermetallic compounds: MoN, Mo₃Sb₇, MgCNi₃ and transition metal diborides, Amar Bahadur Karki
Isolation and Characterization of Two siamese Phenotypic Modifiers and Their Role in Endoreplication and Trichome Development, Remmy Wekesa Kasili
Neuropsychological performance and dementia symptoms in a HIV positive population, Kathleen E. Kendra
From the mountains to the podium: the rhetoric of Fidel Castro, Brent C. Kice
Off-line MALDI mass spectrometry of bioaerosols, Jae-Kuk Kim
Wax extraction and characterization from full-fat and defatted rice bran, Junghong Kim
Enzymatic Production and Biological Activities of Cellobio-oligosaccharides from Lignocellulose, Misook Kim
Performing photographs: memory, history, and display, Melanie A. Kitchens
A 5000-year history of Caribbean environmental change and hurricane activity reconstructed from coastal lake sediments of the West Indies, Jason Thomas Knowles
Isang Yun and his selected cello works, Jee Yeoun Ko
Assessing the effectiveness of the response to instruction model for english language learners by utilizing a non-language-based intervention, Chisato Komatsu
Legislative participation in the American states: determinants and consequences, Mileah Kay Kromer
New media in new democracies: perceptions of good governance among traditional and Internet-based media users in Kyrgyzstan, Svetlana Viktorovna Kulikova
Differential geometry in cartesian closed categories of smooth spaces, Martin Laubinger
Retrotransposon mediated genomic variation in the human and chimpanzee lineages, Jungnam Lee
Functional studies on the extrinsic proteins of Photosystem II, Haijun Liu
Mercury transport through a capped sediment, Jianrong Liu
Optimal robust fault detection, Nike Liu
Bayesian model averaging on hydraulic conductivity estimation and groundwater head prediction, Xiaobao Li