Dissertations from 2004
Students' construction of the body in physical education, Laura Azzarito
A national set of competencies for paraprofessionals in residential college or living/learning programs, Debora Elise Baker
Against biopoetics: on the use and misuse of the concept of evolution in contemporary literary theory, Bradley Bankston
Application of disturbance theory to assess impacts associated with a three-dimensional seismic survey in a freshwater marsh in southwest Louisiana, Aaron Stuard Bass
Applying the transtheoretical model to promote greater fruit and vegetable consumption: a successful approach to maintaining behavioral change, Hiba Ahmad Bawadi
The mitigation of asymmetric information through the use of earnouts, David Robert Beard
African American women administrators in higher education: exploring the challenges and experiences at Louisiana public colleges and universities, Germaine Monquenette Becks-Moody
Effective literacy instruction in the elementary grades, Marie Laurent Bergeron
The control, survival, and growth of Listeria monocytogenes on food products, Richelle Lynn Beverly
The diagnosis of dementia in persons with mental retardation: validating methods of assessment, JoAnne Bielecki
Adult attachment styles, children's self-competence, and children's cognitive ability: an ecological study, Elizabeth Benchea Block
William Faulkner and the oral text, Gregory Alan Borse
Development of a predictive model for student-athlete retention and graduation at Louisiana State University, Mary Allyn Boudreaux
The effect of program commitment on the degree of participative congruence and managerial performance in a budgeting setting, Kevin T. Breaux
The contributions of Floyd Leslie Sandle to black educational theatre in Louisiana, Ava Marie Brewster-Turner
The effects of memory knowledge on attributions of forgetfulness in younger and older adults, Susan K. J. Brigman
Spectroscopic investigation of nitrogenase: EPR and MCD studies of the FeMo cofactor and the P-cluster, Robyn B. Broach
Storytelling from the margins: the healing narratives of J. California Cooper, Cynthia Downing Bryant
The significance of selected piano compositions by Pancho Vladigerov, Boriana Kojouharova Buckles
The discipline and disciplining of Margaret Sanger: US birth control rhetoric in the early twentieth century, C. Wesley Buerkle
Partitioned pricing: can we always divide and prosper?, Bidisha Burman
A case study of a university-school partnership: impacting the success of children, teacher candidates, and inservice teachers, Paula Summers Calderon
Replication of metal-based high-aspect microscale structures by high temperature micromolding, Dongmei Cao
Leptin in horses: influences of body condition, gender, insulin insensitivity, feeding, and dexamethasone, Joshua Allen Cartmill
Flesh and spirit onstage: chronotopes of performance in medieval English theatre, Gregory Lee Cavenaugh
Dynamic performance of bridges and vehicles under strong wind, Suren Chen
The individual, the source, and the context: an investigation of antecedents and consequences of feedback seeking behavior, Robin Anne Cheramie
Bagasse fiber for production of nonwoven materials, Ovidiu Iulius Chiparus
Being otherworldly in the world: Michael Oakeshott on religion, aesthetics and politics, Elizabeth Campbell Corey
Modeling the hydrologic and particulate loadings from paved urban surfaces, Chad Michael Cristina
The relation between knowledge of ADHD and treatment acceptability in a multi-disciplinary pediatric clinic, Rebecca Owen Currier
Thermodynamic characterization of DNA binding by type I DNA polymerases from Thermus aquaticus and Escherichia coli, Kausiki Datta
The chick embryo amnion as an in vitro culture system for IVF and NT embryos, Tonya Renea Davidson
Entry-level job skills needed by wildlife management professionals, Billy Warren DeLany, Jr.
An investigation of the 150-hour requirement in developing personal competencies in accounting education, Laura Davis DeLaune
Soils of regeneration: exploring conceptualizations of the natural world as a context for an ecologically-sensitive curriculum, Emily A. DeMoor
The effects of auditory distraction on attention performance in asymptomatic college students with a history of mild head injury, John H.,II Denning
An original composition, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, and an analysis of Camargo Guarnieri's Concerto No. 5 para Piano e Orquestra, Liduino Jose Pitombeira De Oliveira
A new broad spectrum disinfectant suitable for the food industry, Giovanna Aita DeQueiroz
Isolation and characterization of carbonic anhydrase from Ostertagia ostertagi, Andrew Allan DeRosa
Seasonal occurrence of Phyllophaga species and biological studies of Phyllophage ephilida (Say) on sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas (L) Lam, in Louisiana, Aboubacar Diagne
Spatial analyses and growth of trees in selected bottomland hardwood stands, Luben D. Dimov
A distributed Quadtree Dictionary approach to multi-resolution visualization of scattered neutron data, Rion Dooley
Dynamics of complex polymer solutions: putting diffusion to work and exploring rigid rod diffusion, Garrett John Doucet
Performance as ministry: an ethnographic study of three Christian Repertory Theatre troupes, Webster Ford Drake
Transfer functions of Streptomyces plasmid pIJ101: insights into a novel bacterial conjugation system, Matthew John Ducote
Influence of the marsh edge on the structure and trophic ecology of the fish and macroinvertebrate community in a Louisiana estuarine ecosystem, Guillermo Duque
Postpurchase implications of low price guarantees and consequences of low price guarantee default, Sujay Dutta
Comparison studies of the mechanistic formation of polyhalogentaed dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans from the thermal degradation of 2-bromophenol and 2-chlorophenol, Catherine Spearing Evans
A practical guide to twentieth-century violin etudes with performance and theoretical analysis, Aaron Michael Farrell
The use of altrenogest to control reproductive function in beef cattle, Clarence Edward Ferguson
A historical approach to training the vocal registers: can ancient practice foster contemporary results?, Taylor Lee Ferranti
Optimization of a skewed logistic distribution with respect to the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, James Charles Finney
Development of dynamic travel demand models for hurricane evacuation, Haoqiang Fu
Microelectrophoresis system utilizing conductivity detection analyzing biological molecues, Michelle Galloway
Identifying students at risk for academic failure: the application of a prereferral screening model including responsiveness to intervention, Susan Lockhart Gatti
Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the politics of dwelling, David James Gauthier
DNA binding properties of histone-like protein HU from Deinoccus radiodurans suggest involvement in DNA recombination, Sharmistha Ghosh
Performing masculinities: U.S. representations of the male body in performance art monologues, Darren C. Goins
Botany in children's literature: a content analysis of plant-centered children's picture books that have a plot and characters, Sheila Lewis Goins
Spectroscopic and synthetic studies relating to a dirhodium hydroformylation catalyst, Petia Gueorguieva Gueorguieva
Statistical models and genetic evaluation of binomial traits, Jose Lucio Guerra
The influence of ethnic embeddedness on the gender role attitudes and division of household labor of married Hispanic women, Susana Guerra
The effect of beta-carotene vitamin E, and vitamin C supplementation upon work capacity during a protocol of arm curl exercise using the Biodex dyanamometer, Ivan Kenyon Guillory
Effects of practice strategies, metronome use, meter, hand, and musical function on dual-staved piano performance accuracy and practice time usage of undergraduate, Melody A. Hanberry
Investigations into DNA vaccination against Channel Catfish Virus, Heather C. Harbottle
Pan African narratives: sites of resistance in the Black diaspora, Anita Louise Harris
Herbivore movement and spatial population dynamics in a heterogeneous landscape, Kyle Jonathan Haynes
The role of mentoring in the development of African American nurse leaders, Jacqueline Jones Hill
Modulation of GABAergic signaling in retinal amacrine cells, Brian Kevin Hoffpauir
Electrodeposition of FeCoNiCu quaternary system, Qiang Huang
Behavioral and electrophysiological assessment of children with a specific temporal processing disorder, Annette Hurley
Class groups and norms of units, Costel Ionita
Preservation of sperm harvested from the rat, caprine, equine, and bovine epididymis, Aida Nioma James
Orbit structure on the Silov boundary of a tube domain and the Plancherel decomposition of a causally compact symmetric space, with emphasis on the rank one case, Troels Roussau Johansen
An original composition Symphony No. 1 "Night Symphony" and an analysis of selected traditional and non-traditional elements of harmony in Credo by Krzvsztof Penderecki, Aaron Edward Johnson
Seasons in hell: Charles S. Johnson and the 1930 Liberian Labor Crisis, Phillip James Johnson
The syntheses of novel indicators and materials for chiral separation, Rolanda Johnson
Pattern-based model transformation: a metamodel-based approach to model evolution, Sheena Judson Miller
Morphological evolution and instabilities of solid thin films and wires, Wanxi Kan
Analytical separations using packed and open-tubular capillary electrochromatography, Constantina P. Kapnissi
Routes of freedom: slave resistance and the politics of literary geography, Judith Louise Kemerait
Construct validation of an Arabic version of the Learning Transfer System Inventory for use in Jordan, Samer Abdelkarim Khasawneh
New insights into the binding site formation and the performance of molecularly imprinted polymers, Hyunjung Kim
On qualitative properties and convergence of time-discretization methods for semigroups, Mihaly Kovacs
A study of the Quintet for Piano and Strings by Richard Danielpour, Myung Jin Kuh
The relationship between social behavior and mealtime behavior problems in individuals with severe and profound mental retardation, David E. Kuhn
Analysis of factors that affect responding in a two-response chain in children with developmental disabilities, Stephanie Ann Contrucci Kuhn
A basic interpretative analysis of instrumental music education majors' approaches to score study in varying musical contexts, Jeremy S. Lane
International FFA School to School Linkage Program: case studies of two familes, Bradley Allen Leger
Imidazolinone-tolerant rice: weed control, crop response, and environmental impact, Ronald Joseph Levy, Jr.
The effect of observational method and task complexity on neuropsychological test performance, Linda S. Lindman
A genetic study of resistance to kernel infection by Aspergillus flavus in maize (Zea mays L.), Ruming Li