Dissertations from 2003
The Kauffman bracket skein module of the quaternionic manifold, John Michael Harris
Voegelin's History of Political Ideas and the problem of Christian order: a critical appraisal, Jeffrey Charles Herndon
On the geometry and topology of moduli spaces of multi-polygonal linkages, Michael Edward Holcomb
Will the real Jesus please stand up?: bridging the divide between the Jesus Seminar and its opponents through a Burkeian approach, Carol Melissa Hopson-Sparks
Potential functionality and digestibility of oryzanol as determined using in vitro cell culture models, Chih-chun Jean Huang
Two essays on corporate hedging: the choice of instruments and methods, Pinghsun Huang
The dual paths of a political movement: convergence and divergence in contemporary conservative public address, Lyman Davis Hunt
Regimes, institutions and foreign policy change, David Baker Huxsoll
The impact of whole-plant instruction preservice elementary teachers' understanding of plant science principles, Christine Collins Hypolite
The effect of environmental context on performance outcomes and movement coordination changes during the learning of complex motor skills, Jennifer Johnson Jeansonne
An Africanist-Orientalist discourse: the other in Shakespeare and Hellenistic tragedy, Haegap Jeoung
The effects of employee service quality provision and customer personality traits on customer participation, satisfaction, and repurchase intentions, Jeannie Denise John
Advanced turbulence modeling for industrial flows, Raymond Michael Jones
Power and empowerment in writing center conferences, Kerri Stanley Jordan
Further validation of the Child Routines Inventory (CRI): relationship to parenting practices, maternal distress, and child externalizing behavior, Sara Sytsma Jordan
Level of essentialness of a node in flowcharts and its application to program testing, Osman Kandara
Splitter theorems for 3- and 4-regular graphs, Jinko Kanno
Treatment of chlorinated volatile organic compounds using wetland systems, Gabriel Roderick Kassenga
The effects of signals on responding during delayed reinforcement, Michael E. Kelley
Identifying skills needed by office information systems graduates in the changing work environment: perceptions of administrative support occupations workers, Margaret Sepulvado Kilcoyne
Atomic and electronic structure of bulk intermetallic and heteroepitaxially grown surface alloys, Orhan Kizilkaya
The institutional determinants of property regime change in new democracies: the Russian Federation, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, R. Vanessa Krasner
Self-efficacy, motivation, and outcome expectation correlates of college students' intention certainty, Carol Couvillion Landry
Using self-determination theory to understand African American women's physical activity patterns, Joan B. Landry
The effect on water quality of riverine input into coastal wetlands, Robert Raymond Lane
Group theoretical approach to pairing and non-linear phenomena in atomic nuclei, Kristina D. Launey
Immunological, hematological, and serum biochemical effects of high level dietary fish oil and vitamin E supplementation in the dog, Casey J. LeBlanc
Fundamental properties of borate-modified oriented strandboard manufactured from southern wood species, Sunyoung Lee
Of fathers and sons: generational conflicts and literary lineage--the case of Ernest Hemingway and Ernest Gaines, Wolfgang Lepschy
Design of optimal equalizers and precoders for MIMO channels, Lijuan Li
Dynamic modeling and parameter estimation for an ethlyene-propylene-diene polymerization process, Rujun Li
Chemical coupling in wood-polymer composites, Ziqiang Lu
Beyond boundaries: political dictates found in minstrelsy, Florence Lyons-Fontenot
Manufacturing and analysis of a LIGA heat exchanger for the surface of a tube: a cooling simulation of the leading edge region of a turbine blade, Christophe Marques
Radical dialectics in the experimental poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino, Camille Martin
Optimization and automation of a thermal oyster shucking process, Daniel Edgar Martin
A comparison of life histories and ecological aspects among snappers (Pisces: Lutjanidae), Fernando Martinez-Andrade
The solo style of jazz clarinetist Johnny Dodds: 1923 - 1938, Patricia A. Martin
Empirical analysis of economic growth, Winford Henderson Masanjala
Hydrodynamic and sediment transport modeling of deltaic sediment processes, Hassan Shahid Mashriqui
The relationship between depression and feeding disorder symptoms among persons with severe and profound mental retardation, Stephen Bradley Mayville
Barriers to adherence in a free medication program for low income individual with type 2 diabetes, Bhrett A. McCabe
Barriers to participation in educational programs as perceived by first-time enrolling freshmen in higher education, Julie Cason McDonald
Abundance trends and environmental habitat usage patterns of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in lower Barataria and Caminada Bays, Louisiana, Cara Edina Miller
Carbonic anhydrase and carbonic anhydrase like genes of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Mautusi Mitra
Program participants' knowledge and perceptions of effectiveness of the French Quarter Formosan Termite Program, Alan L. Morgan
A comprehensive analysis of recently integrated human LINE-1 mobile elements, Jeremy Shawn Myers
Evolution of ecological diversity in the neotropical tanagers of the genus Tangara (Aves: Thraupidae), Kazuya Naoki
"Science in skirts": representations of women in science in the "B" science fiction films of the 1950s, Bonnie Noonan
Quantitative inheritance of calpastatin activity as an assessment measure for meat tenderness in Brahman steers, Fuad Mohammad Tawfiq Odeh
Design and synthesis of constrained dipeptide units for use as β-sheet promoters, Umut Oguz
Adherence to medical regimens in low-income adults with Type 2 diabetes: the influence of perceived control constructs, Erin L. O'Hea
Expert assessments of e-commerce in Sub-Saharan Africa: a theoretical model of infrastructure and culture for doing business using the internet, John Chituanya Okoli
Analyzing the impact of changing software requirements: a traceability-based methodology, James Steven O'Neal
Analytical study on flood induced seepage under river levees, Senda Ozkan
Electrodeposition of nickel-copper alloys and nickel-copper-alumina nanocomposites into deep recesses for MEMS, Amrit Panda
Collective efficacy: a framework for understanding classroom teacher's perceptions of integrating physical activity, Melissa Ann Park
Proportional assessment of X and Y chromosome-bearing spermatozoa in bull and boar ejaculates using conventional and real-time PCR techniques, Julius Braden Paul
Oocyte production in the early postpartum cow, Oscar Perez
Improved bottomhole pressure control for underbalanced drilling operations, Carlos Perez-Tellez
Wood laminated composite poles, Cheng Piao
High carbon dioxide requiring mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtti, Steve Vincent Pollock
Off road vehicle soil suitability analysis within the Kisatchie National Forest, Jacqueline Avellanoza Prudente
An old form newly clothed: exploration and conductor's analyses of Morten Lauridsen's Madrigali: Six "Fire-Songs" on Italian Renaissance Poems, C. Leonard Raybon, Jr.
Pollen dispersal and deposition in the high-central Andes, South America, Carl A. Reese
Psychosocial predictors of visceral adiposity, Paula C. Rhode
Staying in or getting out: social capital and occupational decision-making among Louisiana's Croatian oyster harvesters, Carl Marie Riden
Assia Djebar. Le corps invisible: voir sans etre vue, Anna Rocca
High school chemistry students' learning of the elements, structure, and periodicity of the periodic table: contributions of inquiry-based activities and exemplary graphics, Knight Phares Roddy
The nature of trust: conceptual and operational clarification, Donna M. Romano
Massively parallel molecular dynamics simulations of crack-front dynamics and morphology in amorphous nanostructured silica, Cindy Lynn Rountree
Imagining corporate culture: the industrial paternalism of William Hesketh Lever at Port Sunlight, 1888-1925, Jeremy David Rowan
The effect of scaffolding movement challenges on students' task-related thoughts and performance, Paul Bernard Rukavina
The influence of selected factors on burnout among faculty in higher education, Ronald R. Rush
Agronomic and molecular characterization of Louisiana native Spartina alterniflora accessions, Alicia Beatriz Ryan
Marginal income tax rates and the U.K. economy: three essays, Eon-Seon Rym
So-journeying: creating sacred space in education, Tayari kwa Salaam
Computer assisted screening of digital mammogram images, John Terry Sample
Narrative immediacy and first-person voice in contemporary American novels, Amy Faulds Sandefur
Gravitational radiation detectability of supernova 1987A's remnant fully matched filter for double resonant gravitational detector, Giovanni Santostasi
Block-level discrete cosine transform coefficients for autonomic face recognition, Willie L. Scott, II
Cultural competence of faculty of baccalaureate nursing programs, Lorinda J. Sealey
Studies on rice transformation and the use of transformed plants [electronic resource], Qiming Shao
Millennial-scale variations and centennial-scale events in the Southwest Asian monsoon: pollen evidence from Tibet, Caiming Shen
Design, synthesis, and applications of bio-derived crosslinking monomers for molecular imprinting, Martha Sibrian-Vazquez
The transcendental eigenvalue problem and its application in system identification, Kumar Vikram Singh
Empirical study of attributes and perceived benefits of applications integration for enterprise systems, Lester A. Singletary
Market timing and cost of capital of the firm, Kyojik Song
Influences of selected demographic variables on the career decision-making self-efficacy of college seniors, Mary Edith Whitehead Stacy
Toward a global microscopic theory for nuclear structure: mean field plus random phase approximation vs. shell model, Ionel Stetcu
Gender inequality, concentrated disadvantage, and homicide victimization: a sex and race specific analysis of homicide victimization rates in large U.S. cities, Ginger Donise Stevenson
Role of endothelin in the pathogenesis of acute laminitis in horses, Ashley Michelle Stokes
Development of the neonatal rat as a model for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: cardiorespiratory effects of ethanol, Rhett Whitman Stout
The impact of a Life-Application Learning Instructional Program on struggling readers at the middle school level, Angelle Rae Stringer
The ecology of two estuarine-dependent tonguefishes, the blackcheek tonguefish (Symphurus plagiusa) and the offshore tonguefish (S. civitatium), in coastal Louisiana, Theodore Scott Switzer