Theses from 2012
Impact of plug-in electrical cars on energy demand, on power system and on environment, Sital Tiwari
Thermal and pore pressure history of the Haynesville Shale in north Louisiana: a numerical study of hydrocarbon generation, overpressure, and natural hydraulic fractures, William C. Torsch
Extending job embeddedness theory to the family domain: development of a construct and measure for family embeddedness and integration through a work-family balance perspective, Tatiana H. Toumbeva
Alfred von Waldersee, monarchist: his private life, public image, and the limits of his ambition, 1882-1891, Wade James Trosclair
Putting family back in work-family conflict: the moderating effect of family life stage on the work-family interface, Rachel C. Trout
An examination of the relationship between autism spectrum disorder, intellectual functioning, and social skills in children, Kimberly Tureck
Do learning logs have an impact on the conceptual mastery of force and motion?: subtitle, John Arthur Underwood
Factors controlling Macondo oil biodegraqdation on a rapidly eroding coastal headlands beach, Marilany G. Urbano
Fundamental characterization of asphalt mixtures: warm mix asphalt technologies in flexible pavement systems, BHANU VIJAY VALLABHU
Investigation of the Growth and Survival of Bacteria from Mars Analog Environments When Exposed to Mars-like Conditions, Bharathi Vallalar
Leaving Oz, Rachel Ann Van Sickle
The effect of extrinsic rewards in the high school classroom, Amanda Vargo
"Pure Americanism": building a modern St. Louis and the reign of Know Nothingism, Vanessa Varin
Advice in troubles talk conversations between strangers: the role of problem seriousness and the impact of advice on helper supportiveness and the desire for future interactions, Andrea Jean Vickery
The truth about lying: the memorial effects of deliberately producing misinformation, Kathleen M. Vieira
Structural and molecular pathology of the atrium in boxer arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, Jorge Luis Vila
Yogurt cultures survive upon exposure to two antimicrobials and Streptococcus thermophilus ST-M5 acquired resistance to both antimicrobials, Maria Carolina Vives Habeych
Predictors of resiliency in women affected by Hurricane Katrina, Valerie L. Walls
High Strain Rate Programming Of Shape Memory Polymers, Anqi Wang
Economic assessment of rapid land-building technologies for coastal restoration, Hua Wang
Evaluation of Bacillus thuringiensis corn containing pyramided traits for management of sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis (F.), David Sindani Wangila
Boron composite nanoparticles for enhancement of bio-fuel combustion, Neng Wang
Modeling population patterns in New Orleans 2000-2010: a density function approach, Weijie Wang
Identification of blood protein in Louisiana clay sediment: subtitle, Michelle D. Whipp
The context of public acceptance of hydraulic fracturing: is Louisiana unique?, Crawford White
The strategic mind of Zbigniew Brzezinski: how a native Pole used Afghanistan to protect his homeland, John Bernell White Jr
Development and validation of the Adolescent Thought Control Questionnaire (TCQ-A), Reanna (Sara) Elise Whiting
Juvenile justice in Louisiana: an exploratory study of trends surrounding juvenile incarceration, Sabrina Michelle Whitney
Clarity Speaks of a Crystal Sea, Afton Wilky
I saw life, David Clayton Williams
Accessibility to public high schools and school performance in metropolitan Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1990-2010, Shaun E. Williams
Louisiana's suitability for a low-level radioactive waste storage facility, Charles Algeo Wilson
"A Damned Set of Rascals" the Continental Army vs. the Continental Congress: tensions among revolutionaries, Megan Wilson
A city and its river: an urban political ecology of the Loop and Bridgeport in Chicago, Garrett Charles Wolf
Determining the performance of breakwaters during high energy events: a case study of the Holly Beach breakwater system, Andrew Keane Woodroof
Designing pots: determining Orange Incised design variation and distribution at the Rollins Shell Ring site and the Guana Shell Ring site in Florida, Margaret Kathryn Wrenn
Optimal production and delivery scheduling models for a supply chain system of deteriorating items, Bingqing Wu
Non-rigid registration of 2-D/3-D dynamic data with feature alignment, Huanhuan Xu
Towards the development of biotin carboxylase driven robotic nanoswimmers, Rachel Yates
Programming and healing temperature effects on the efficiency of confined self-healing polymers, Yves Quentin Yougoubare
Soil Accretion and Organic Carbon Accumulation in the Tidal Salt Marshes of the Liaohe Delta, China, Nicholas Lawrence Yuknis
Examining the use of social media among Four-H alumni in Louisiana, Kali Boudreaux Zammit
Effect of hurricane forward speed and approach angle on coastal storm surge, Chenguang Zhang
GIS-based spatial analysis of place names in Yunnan, China, Ling Zhang
RSD-2 mediates RDE-4-independent antiviral silencing in Caenorhabditis elegans, Rui Zhang
A novel RNA extraction method for cyanobacteria, Zenghui Zhang
Simulations of the primary cement placement in annular geometries during well completion using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Muhammad Zulqarnain
Theses from 2011
Pavement structural evaluation using the Rolling Wheel Deflectometer, Ahmed Moustafa Abdel-Khalek
Costs and benefits of induced responses in soybean, Amanda K. Accamando
Adams-Jefferson: An inquiry into human, nature, politics, and the implications for a republic, Adetoyese Itunu Adedipe
Are local chemical releases causing an increase in cancer rates in East Baton Rouge Parish?, India T. Anderson
Comparison of different integral histogram based tracking algorithms, Sriharsha Atluri
The latent landscape, May Ann Babcock
Marriage in seventeenth-century French theater, Adam Michael Babin
Mechanical evaluation of aluminum oxide roughened screws in equine third metacarpal bone, Petrisor Baia
Hyperspectral Change Detection Using Mahalanobis Distance, Marcus DeJuan Baines
Foldable substrates for micro-ultrasonic transducers, Karthik Balasubramanian
A partial order on classical and quantum states, Arka Bandyopadhyay
Agnolo Gaddi: issues of patronage and narrative in the selection of the True Cross Cycle at Santa Croce, Florence, Tracey Hirstius Barhorst
Simulated subaverage performance on the Block Span task of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales-Fifth Edition, Alyse Ann Barker
Contextual influences on faith development in adolescents and emerging adults, Katheryn A. Barker
Comparing mand-training efficiency with selection-based and topography-based communication systems, Kathryn E. Barlow
Course over ground, Kyle James Bauer
Obesity Treatment Alternatives: Foods to Surgery, Brooke Erwin Bayham
Citizens United and the balance between individual and corporate political speech, Eric John Berken
Development and implementation of a dual-porosity pore network structure using X-ray computed tomography for pore network modeling purposes, Samuel Taylor Best
Family supportive organization perceptions, work role overload, and burnout: crossover effects of burnout on recovery, Suzanne Marie Booth
Social work students' attitudes toward teenage pregnancy prevention: the importance of religiosity and feminist ideology, Pilar Thompson Borne
Using the ambulatory phonation monitor to measure the vocal parameters of older people with and without Parkinson's disease, Danielle Marie Boudreaux
Use of harvest aid in soybean: application timing, economics and interactions in IPM programs, Joseph Michael Boudreaux
A look at the integration of wetlands and hazard mitigation planning in coastal Louisiana, Kathleen Melissa Bowers
Expression, Identification, and Bioactivity of Recombinant Human Erythropoietin from LMH/2A (Leghorn Male Hepatoma)Cell Line, Amanda Cecile Broussard
Developmental responses to abiotic conditions during aquatic and air incubatoin of the Gulf killifish (Fundulus grandis): subtitle, Charles Alexander Brown
Pool boiling enhancement via micro ratchets, Lance Austin Brumfield
Performance of control room operators in alarm management, Dileep Buddaraju
Electrochemical etching of isolated structures in p-type silicon, Joel Nino Bugayong
Lord Sugar, William M. Burke
V2O5-WO3 composite films and surface-coated LiCoO2 for enhanced Li-ion intercalation properties, Chuan Cai
"Are you better off"; Ronald Reagan, Louisiana, and the 1980 Presidential election, Matthew David Caillet
Priceless portals: the bronze doors of the Florentine Baptistery, Sarah P. Cambas
From "courtesy of the red, white, and blue" to "if you're reading this": patriotic themes in country music between 2000-2010, Claire S. Carville
Communiplaytion: getting our hands dirty together, Brooke Tyson Cassady
Foreign aid's impact on economic growth: conditional on accountable institutions?, Anna Monique Castrillo
Investigations of wave-induced turbulent structures in vegetated flows, Agnimitro Chakrabarti
Resistant starch in the diet of rodents promotes an increase in fermentation and a reduction in body fat in an animal model of dietary obesity, Jason Andrew Charrier
Long-term continuity moment assessment in prestressed concrete girder bridges, Veeravenkata S Murthy Chebole
Alternative pretreatment of sorghum bagasse for bio-ethanol production, Cong Chen
Environmental Factors Impacting Coastal Beach Health, Kevin Michael Chenier
An intelligent Othello player combining machine learning and game specific heuristics, Kevin Anthony Cherry
Performance assessment of innovative framing systems through building information modeling based energy simulation, Santhosh Reddy Chinnayeluka
The American Empire: a content and textual analysis of the media coverage of the 2009 U.S. and Colombia military base agreement, Britt Don Christensen
Pore-scale lattice Boltzmann simulations of inertial flows in realistic porous media: a first principle analysis of the Forchheimer relationship, Chukwudi Paul Chukwudozie
Discrete Element Modeling of Cone Penetration in JSC-1A Lunar Regolith Simulant, Mehmet Burak Cil
Provenance and origin of Holocene beach ridge and modern beach sands from the Costa de Nayarit, western Mexico, Ruben Abe Cisneros
Motion of Souls, James A. Claffey