Dissertations from 2002
The development and validation of the Parent Instruction-Giving Game with Youngsters (PIGGY) in a Head Start population, Stephen Danial Anthony Hupp
Numerical study of water coning control with Downhole Water Sink (DWS) completions in vertical and horizontal wells, Solomon Ovueferaye Inikori
Scientific and management perspectives in wetland groundwater hydrology, Lorna Veronica Inniss
Use of actigraphy to objectively measure motor restlessness in Restless Legs Syndrome, Tai Anderson Istre
Prophet singer: the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie, Mark Allan Jackson
Pleasure principles: the social construction of gambling and sex addiction treatment, M. Kelly James
Tidal dynamics in the Bab el Mandab Strait, Ewa Jarosz
Modeling canopy structure effects on loblolly pine growth, Mauricio Jerez Rico
Endocrine and reproductive responses to implants of deslorein acetate in horses, Carrie Ann Johnson
The role of initial coping strategies on subsequent appointment attendance in individuals with HIV: a longitudinal analysis, DeAnn Morris Johnson
The cultural ecology of pastoralism in Eritrea: a geographical inquiry, Woldetensae Tewolde Kahsaye
Exotic integral witt equivalence of algebraic number fields, Changheon Kang
Characterization of chitinase activities, and cloning, analysis, and expression of genes encoding pathogenesis-related proteins in strawberry, Anwar Ahmad Khan
The sound of meaning: theories of voice in twentieth-century thought and performance, Andrew McComb Kimbrough
Role of chondrocyte apoptosis in the pathogenesis of equine osteoarthritis, Dae Young Kim
Vagal modulation of the heart and central hemodynamics during dynamic handgrip exercise and forearm occlusion following forearm exercise training, Heidi A. Kluess
Adult-mediated reading instruction for third through fifth grade children with reading difficulties, Randy Paul Lachney
The relation between electrodermal activity in sleep, negative activity affect, and stress in patients referred for nocturnal polysomnography, Laura Elaine Lajos
Liberty and authority in Colonial Georgia, 1717-1776, Andrew C. Lannen
The effects of stimulant medication on the social behavior of children with ADHD during times of play, Robert, Jr. H. LaRue
Family violence exposure and family relationship skills in adolescents exposed to community violence, Monique M. LeBlanc
A game theoretic analysis of U.S. rice exports under alternative Japanese and South Korean policy scenarios, Dae-Seob Lee
Three essays on real estate research, Ming-Long Lee
The role of cysteine 230 and lysine 238 of biotin carboxylase in the deprotonation of biotin and synthesis of bisubstrate analogy inhibitor of carboxyltransferase, Keith Logan Levert
High resolution modeling of transport in porous media, Guangli Liu
Numerical studies of reactive polymer flows in porous materials, Honggao Liu
Fast scalable visualization techniques for interactive billion-particle walkthrough, Xinlian Liu
Critical performative pedagogy : Augusto Boal's Theatre of the oppressed in the English as a second language classroom, Ross McKeehen Louis
An analysis of the plays of Margaret Macnamara, Patricia Ellen Lufkin
The works of Manuel Quiroga: a catalogue, Ana Luque Fernandez
A monotone follower control problem with a nonconvex functional and some related problems, Jamiiru Luttamaguzi
Infertility and marital adjustment: the influence of perception of social support, privacy preference and level of depression, Margaret Haviland Maillet
Qualitative scoring of the Rey 15-Item Memory Test in a forensic population, James A. Martin
Motivational processes and performance: the role of global and facet personality traits, James Haven Martin
The Matson and Mayville (M&M) seizure scale: an assessment of psychological and environmental variables contributing to seizure activity in persons with mental retardation, Erik Andrew Mayville
Organizational perceptions and their relationships to job attitudes effort, performance and organizational citizenship behaviors, Keith Douglas McCook
Audience and the African American playwright : an analysis of the importance of audience selection and audience response on the dramaturgies of August Wilson and Ed Bullins, Ladrica C. Menson-Furr
Television and video game violence: age differences and the combined effects of passive and interactive violent media, Kelly Stephen Meyers
LMX dyad agreement: construct definition and the role of supervisor/subordinate similarity and communication in understanding LMX, Barbara Dale Minsky
The impact of institutional stock ownership on a firm's earnings management practice: an empirical investigation, Santanu Mitra
Molecular systematics of barbets and trogons: pantropical biogeography African speciation, and issues in phylogenetic inference, Robert Glen Moyle
A stylistic and analytical study of Concerto No.2 for Piano and Orchestra, Op.33, by Lee Hoiby, Ji-Won Mun
Explicit multiplicative relations between Gauss sums, Brian J. Murray
Molecular dynamics simulations of adhesion and nanoidentation of gallium arsenide, Francis Brent Neal, Jr.
Racks, quandles and virtual knots, Victor Samuel Nelson
The impact of gruesome evidence on mock juror decision making : the role of evidence characteristics and emotional response, Robert J. Nemeth
Numerical reservoir characterization using dimensionless scale numbers with application in upscaling, Djuro Novakovic
Essays on the Bayesian inequality restricted estimation, Asli K. Ogunc
Essays on endowment fund management, Kurtay N. Ogunc
The combined effects of salinity and sulfide on the growth and physiology of the freshwater marsh plant Pancium hemitomon J.A. Schultes, James Wesley Pahl
Experience-based language acquisition: a computational model of human language acquisition, Brian Edward Pangburn
Spatial models of Hawaiian streams and Hawaiian stream fish habital, James Elliott Parham
Hydrodynamics and freshwater diversion within Barataria Basin, Dongho Park
The post-translational methylation of arginine in the glycine arginine rich region of CHO nucleoin, Gregory James Pellar
The relationship between author and audience: case study of a young-adult author and a student audience, Keitha Ilene Phares
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in fishes, German Antonio Poleo
Social exchange and customer service: the relationship between perceived organizational support, leader-member exchange, and customer service behavior, Lisa Michelle Polly
Effects of high-load eccentric exercise training on rat soleus muscle myofibrillar disruption following one-week of hindlimb suspension unloading and subsequent reloading, Rhonda Dianne Prisby
Adoption of best management practices in the Louisiana dairy industry, Noro C. Rahelizatovo
Odorant receptors: regulation, signaling, and expression, Michele Lynn Rankin
Mode specific photoionization dynamics in polyatomic molecules, Gerald Jeffery Rathbone
Relationship between weight loss and body image in obese individuals seeking weight loss treatment, Deborah Lynn Reas
An introduction to American song composer Daron Aric Hagen (b.1961) and his miniature folk opera: Dear Youth, Jane McCalla Redding
Production of transgenic goats by somatic cell nuclear transfer, Brett C. Reggio
Timber, trade, and transformation: a historical geography of mahogany in Honduras, Craig Stephen Revels
Northern pintail nest site selection, nest success, renesting ecology and survival in the intensively farmed prairies of southern Saskatchewan: an evaluation of the ecological trap hypothesis, Kenneth Daniel Richkus
The effects of strategic corporate philanthropy on consumer perceptions: an experimental assessment, Joe M. Ricks, Jr.
Clear-cutting eden: representations of nature in Southern fiction, 1930-1950, Christopher B. Rieger
Phylogeny of Ericameria, Chrysothamnus and related genera (Asteraceae : Astereae) based on nuclear ribosomal DNA sequence data, Roland P. Roberts
Dynamic econometric modeling of the U.S. wheat grain market, Carlos Walter Robledo
The future in feminism : reading strategies for feminist theory and science fiction, Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan
The effects of songs in the foreign language classroom on text recall and involuntary mental rehearsal, Claudia Smith Salcedo
Service learning: a study of administrators' goals at a Research I university, Christy Sanders
American transcendental vision: Emerson to Chaplin, Bill R. Scalia
Communication characterizing successful long distance marriages, Andrea Towers Scott
Nicholas Rowe's writing of woman as feminist hero, Henry Herbert Sennett Jr.
Community organization staff perceptions about the importance of selected practices in building effective community-university service and learning partnerships, Bobbie Ruth Dixon Shaffett
Group automorphisms and the decomposition of Plancherel measures, David Slay
Constructing womanhood in public: progressive white women in a New South, Mary Jane Smith
Nursing as social responsibility: implications for democracy from the life perspective of Lavinia Lloyd Dock (1858-1956), Soledad Mujica Smith
Aspects of cognition in human mate selection, Michael J. Stasio
The Body Morph Assessment Version 2.0 (BMA 2.0): a psychometric study, Tiffany M. Stewart
Nonlinear dynamics in nuclear structure, Guergana Stoianova Stoitcheva
Control of two perennial grasses in southern turfgrasses, Ronald Eugene Strahan
Local, regional, and global patterns of woodpecker (Picidae) diversity: ecological explanations and practical applications, Alison Robinson Styring
Factors which influence faculty attitudes and perceptions of distance education in analytical subject areas, Jeffrey G. Sumrall
Screening and characterization of pathogenic fungi for possible control of Coptotermes formosanus, Jianzhong Sun
Thermal rheological analysis of cure process of epoxy prepreg, Liangfeng Sun
Sediment transport in wind-exposed shallow, vegetated aquatic systems, Allen Michael Teeter
Treatment acceptability for the prevention of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus: the effects of ethnicity, weight, and genetic predisposition, Jean Marie Thaw
It came from outer space: the virus, cultural anxiety, and speculative fiction, Anne-Marie Thomas
An analysis of student collaboration and task completion through project based learning in a web-supported undergraduate course, William Randall Thomas