Dissertations from 2010
Dynamic acromiohumeral interval changes during scapular plane arm motions, Melissa Deen Thompson
"Beat the drum ecclesiastic": Gilbert Sheldon and the settlement of Anglican orthodoxy, Heather D. Thornton
Retention of students in a diploma nursing program in the southern United States, Carol Ann Tingle
Developing tools to identify factors that limit production in coastal marshes, Vanessa Danielle Tobias
Orthogonal Grassmannians and hermitian K-theory in A¹-homotopy theory of schemes, Girja Shanker Tripathi
Lattice Boltzmann modeling for shallow water equations using high performance computing, Kevin Tubbs
A survey of professional operatic entertainment in Little Rock, Arkansas: 1870-1900, Jenna M. Tucker
A survey and guide to the most frequently programmed Lieder in the undergraduate studios of selected major music institutions in the United States, Joseph Christopher Turner
Community college success: a multi-site program evaluation of postsecondary career and technical education, Kimberly Tynes
Two essays on analyst bias and management entrenchment, Bahar Ulupinar
Influence of unstable soil movement on pile-founded concrete floodwalls and a resulting design methodology, Richard James Varuso
Studies of Small Systems in Quantum Information, Sai Vinjanampathy
Development and Sensory Characteristics of Salt Substitute Containing Bitterness-Masking Agents, Pamarin Waimaleongora-Ek
Signaling of integrin lower leg and transmembrane domains, Wei Wang
East meets west? Determinants of Chinese firms' response to pressures towards international corporate governance standards, Zhengjun Wang
Ephemeral media, persistent action: public pedagogies of collective resistance, Jessica Ketcham Weber
Maladies of modernity: scientism in politics, David Nathan Whitney
The influence of program participation in business education courses on standardized test performance among secondary students in Louisiana, Debra A. Wilkerson
The relationship between social skills and challenging behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorders, Jonathan Wilkins
Commonality, competition, and stereotypes: can whites, blacks, and Latinos play politics together in the United States, Betina Cutaia Wilkinson
Berlin & the Origins of Detente: multilateral & bilateral negotiations in the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1963, Richard Dean Williamson
Edaphic and vegetative controls on mercury cycling in oligohaline wetlands, Jonathan M. Willis
Probing the finance gap theory: does gender affect campaign contributions?, Rhonda Wrzenski
Model-based nonlinear control of active tilting-pad bearings, An Wu
Gamma ray burst redshift catalog and applications, Limin Xiao
Modeling and Simulation for Shape Memory Polymer Based Self-healing Syntactic Foam, Wei Xu
Carbon Nanotube Interconnect Modeling for Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits, Yao Xu
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