Dissertations from 2003
Water resource management by the ancient Maya of Yucatan, Mexico, Terance Lynn Winemiller
A study and an approach to historical performance practices in the French Baroque based on François Couperin's Treiziéme Concert à 2 instrumens à L'unisson, James Jeffery Womack
Control of transport dynamics in overlay networks, Qishi Wu
Fractal compression and analysis on remotely sensed imagery, Ke Xiao
How to make a girl: female sexuality in young adult literature, Ann Elizabeth Younger
Design and implementation of an ocean observing system: WAVCIS (Wave-Current-Surge Information System) and its application to the Louisiana coast, Xiongping Zhang
Dissertations from 2002
Body and soul: food, the female (in) corporeal, and the narrative effects of mind/body duality, Andrea Adolph
Molecular systematics, phylogeography, and population genetics of Xiphorhynchus (aves: Dendrocolaptidae) in the Amazon basin, Alexandre Aleixo
A factorization approach for solving the Hamilton-Jacobi equations in nonlinear optimal control, Mohammad Dikko Aliyu
Extraction of physically-realistic pore network properties from three-dimensional synchrotron microtomography images of unconsolidated porous media, Riyadh Ibrahim Al-Raoush
Effects of a screening instrument and parent handouts on physicians recognition and intervention of childrens behavioral and emotional problems, Heather Rech Applegate
Neo-onnagata: professional cross-dressed actors and their roles on the contemporary Japanese stage, William Hamilton Armstrong IV
Optimal channel equalization for filterbank transceivers in presence of white noise, Ehab Farouk Badran
The influence of the use of recommended management practices on milk production in southeast Louisiana, Ronald David Bardwell
Feedback seeking in customer service relationships, Aletta Machell Barnard
Narrative patterns of racism and resistance in the work of William Faulkner, Janet Elizabeth Barnwell
Multidemensional goals of farmers in the beef cattle an dairy industries, Aydin Basarir
A comparison of Louisiana secondary career and technical teachers and academic teachers on learning type and perception of school climate, Tracy Andries Beard
A model for evaluation of selected compositions for unaccompanied solo trumpet according to criteria of serious artistic merit, Michael Craig Bellinger
Aspects of the behavioral ecology, life history, genetics, and morophology of the Hawaiian kuhliid fishes, Lori Keene Benson
Does archieving social policy goals insure positive outcomes: from welfare reliance of wage work in rural Louisiana, Lydia Bentin Blalock
Factors influencing the efficacy of delayed auditory feedback in treating dysarthria associated with Parkinson's disease, Paul Gerard Blanchet
Costs and benefits of Daphnia antipredator behavior and consequences on community stability, Wiebke Johanna Boeing
Peroxynitrite-mediated oxidations: nitration and nitrosation, Rachel Bolzan
La poetique du paysage dans l'oeuvre d'Edouard Glissant, de Kateb Yacine et de William Faulkner, Nabil Boudraa
Outcrop to subsurface stratigraphy of the Pennsylvanian Hermosa Group southern Paradox Basin U.S.A., Alan Lee Brown
Cognitive Complexity, Transformational Leadership, and Organizational Outcomes, Suzette Plaisance Bryan
Precursors for copper chemical vapor deposition, Muna BuFaroosha
Performing hyphenates: a study in contemporary Irish-American identity and cultural performance, Patrick Michael Bynane
Sorority rituals : rites of passage and their impact on contemporary sorority women, Mari Ann Callais
Space and organizations: the ecology of rural NGOs in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Patricia Marie Campion
On properties of linear control systems on Lie groups, Fabiana Cardetti
Superfetation in beef cattle, Joel Andrew Carter
Evaluation of Bacillus thuringiensis transgenic field corn for management of Louisiana corn pests, Boris A. Castro
Delayed phytotoxicity syndrome in Louisiana rice caused by the use of thiobencarb herbicide, Chiliang Chen
Three-dimensional micromachined on-chip inductors for high frequency applications, Nimit Chomnawang
A potential nutraceutical from Leuconostoc mesenteroides B-742 (ATCC 13146); production and properties, Chang-Ho Chung
Bacillus anthracis Spore Concentrations at Various Carcass Sites, Pamala Rose Coker
Effects of fire frequency and the red imported fire ant on native insects in a Louisiana longleaf pine savanna, Deanna M. Colby
"Getting above your raising" : the role of social class and status in the fiction of Lee Smith, Sharon Elizabeth Colley
The effectiveness of managerial leadership development programs: a meta-analysis of studies from 1982-2001, Doris B. Collins
Hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase and early embryo development, Michael Gerard Collins II
The role of attention in affect perception: an examination of Mirsky's four factor model of attention in chronic schizophrenia, Dennis R. Combs
The Greek sophists : teachers of virtue, David Dwyer Corey
Text and structure in Schoenberg's Op. 50, and an original composition, symphony #1, Thomas, Jr. Michael Couvillon
Nitrogen use efficiency of cotton following corn in rotation and foliar fertilization of cotton using leaf blade analysis, Charles Chism Craig
Factors affecting the selection of business arrangements by hog producers in the United States, Christopher Gazzara Davis
A catalogue of twentieth-century Spanish music for cello and piano, Gabriel Delgado Morán
Ontogeny and intervals of development in five reef-associated species of blenny from the northern Gulf of Mexico (Teleostei: Blenniidae), James G. Ditty
X-ray spectroscopy of geometrically constrained systems, Edward Earl Doomes
Techniques to explore time-related correlation in large datasets, Sumeet Dua
Essays on international trade and Bayesian forecasting, Dennis S. Edwards
Pathogenic mechanisms of Photobacterium damselae subspecies piscicida in hybrid striped bass, Ahmad A. Elkamel
Synthesis and properties of novel macrocycles and related chromophoric benzenoid compounds, Jorge O. Escobedo Cordova
The ligase detection reaction: the evolution of a mutation detection strategy, Hannah D. Farquar
Pay satisfaction consequences : development and test of a theoretical model, Larry Hugh Faulk II
Beef producer perferences for various livestock revenue protection products: a conjoint approach, Deacue Fields III
Experimental evaluation of control fluid fallback during off-bottom well control in vertical and deviated wells, Fernando Sebastian Flores-Avila
On the stabilization and regularization of rational approximation schemes for semigroups, Simone Flory
Organizational politics and multisource feedbacklh[electronic resource], John M. Ford
Fabricating microfluidic devices in polymers for bioanalytica applications, Sean M. Ford
Prelude to a text : the autobiography of Abdelkebir Khatibi, Ruth Louise Gaertner
Electronic and structural properties of rare gas cation clusters, Jose Alejandro Gascon
Improvement of resonant harmonic filter effectiveness in the presence of distribution voltage distortion, Herbert L. Ginn
Alban Berg's filmic music: intentions and extensions of the Film Music Interlude in the Opera Lula, Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith
Perceptions of active graduate faculty at a research extensive university regarding electronic submission of Theses and Dissertations (ETDS), Ursula Irene Anna Goldsmith
The culture of crime: representations of the criminal in eighteen-century England, Daniel Gonzalez
A study of the effect of multisensory writing instruction on the written expression of the dyslexic elementary child, Carolyn Williams Gore
Bollworm (Lepidoptera: noctuidae) ecology on genetically engineered Bollgard and Bollgard II cottons, Jeffrey Gore
Violence and the scapegoat in American film: 1967-1999, Paul E. Graham III
Mixed-symmetry shell-model calculations in nuclear physics, Vesselin Gueorguiev Gueorguiev
The effects of local hydrodynamics on mass transfer in disordered porous media, Gang Guo
The relationship between perceived leader behavior and alcohol consumption among university students who are members of social fraternities, Joe Randy Gurie
Tryptophan requirements and the effects of supplemental tryptophan on growth performance, plasma metabolites, and meat quality in nursery, growing, and finishing pigs, Amy Christina Guzik
Complexity and heuristics in ruled-based algorithmic music composition, Nigel Gwee
Barium and lithium in foraminifera: glacial-interglacial changes in the North Atlantic, Jenney M. Hall
"Uncouth Shapes" and sublime human forms of Wordsworth's The Prelude in the ligh of Berdyaev's personalistic philosophy of freedom, Elena V. Haltrin Khalturina
A variable response time lag module for car following models using fuzzy set theory, Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu
Christio-Conjure in Voodoo dreams, Baby of the family, The salt eaters, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, and Mama Day, Laura Sams Haynes
The "minor" author and the major editor: a case study in determining the canon, Christopher Andrew Healy
Expectations and experiences: case studies of four first-year teachers, Sandra B. Hebert
Efficient parallel computation on multiprocessors with optical interconnection networks, Min He
Synthesis and study of new materials for the visual detection of biomolecules, Ming He
Somatic complaints and health care utilization in children exposed to violence, Kellie Ann Hilker
A qualitative analysis of figural memory performance in persons with epilepsy, Deborah Schrager Hoffnung
Memory optimization techniques for embedded systems, Jinpyo Hong
An empirical analysis of the macroeconomic effects of government purchases, Eric Horent
Markov models to estimate and describe survival time and experience in cohorts with high euthanasia frequency, Giselle Louise Hosgood
Patterns of nucleotide substitution within and among mitochondrial gene regions in sea star (Leptasterias spp), Adam Wayne Hrincevich
Development of diagnostic tools for detecting expression of resistance-associated esterases in the tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens (F.), Huazhang Huang
Plasmid-Mediated Expression of Foreign Genes in Ehrlichia Canis, Langston Dolphus Hull