Theses from 2010
Multi-scale habitat associations of shorebirds during spring migration in southwestern Louisiana rice fields, Rachel K. Villani
"To liberate communication": the Realist and Paul Krassner's 1960s, Terry Joel Wagner
Christian community and the development of an Americo-Liberian identity, 1824-1878, Andrew N. Wegmann
Getting off the ground with AP Calculus, David Frank Woods
Prepartum maternal cortisol concentrations on postnatal cortisol concentration and immunoglobulin absorption in neonatal dairy calves, Dana Nadine Wooley
Play pretty, Brad Wreyford
Experimental study on single cement fracture exposed to CO2 saturated brine under dynamic conditions, Tevfik Yalcinkaya
Copula and default correlation, Dongxiang Yan
Rare earth elements as an investigative tool into the source, age, and ecology of late Miocene to late Pleistocene fossils from the Tunica Hills, Louisiana, Lindsey Theresa Yann
Over the rim where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, Jungrim Yea
Nanomechanics of muscovite subjected to nanoindentation and the pertinent indentation size effect, Hang Yin
Reproduction in female diploid and triploid eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica): comparison of gonadal changes correlated with prostaglandin E2, Esther Faith Young
Rapid microwave-assisted acid extraction of chromate copper arsenate (CCA)-treated southern pine, Bin Yu
A study of the aspectual complements of 'begin' and 'start', Xinzheng Zhao
Design and fabrication of micronozzles for drug delivery applications, Yuxuan Zhou
Speciation of heavy metals in disturbed and undisturbed sediments from Atchafalaya Bay, Houma Navigation Canal, and Southwest Pass, Louisiana, Amanda Jo Zimmerman
Theses from 2009
The effect of stimulus choice on a discrimination task: pictures vs. objects, Kristen Abbondante
Leaving special educators behind?: an analysis of the No Child Behind Act and its impact on special education teachers, Joseph Martin Abel
Do laminated sediment-gravity-flow deposits on the Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf record ice sheet grounding events?, Vincent Clyde Adams
Assessing the Accuracy of Task Time Prediction of an Emerging Human Performance Modeling Software - CogTool, Oluwakemi Damilola Adio
Mechanistic foam modeling and simulations: gas injection during surfactant-alternating-gas processes using foam-catastrophe theory, Ali Afsharpoor
Characterization of endoreplicated nuclei in Arabidopsis thaliana, Rasheed A. Ahmad
Prioritization of safety countermeasures for the state of Louisiana using fuzzy inference systems, Meisam Akbarzadeh
Asynchronous replication of metadata across multi-master servers in distributed data storage systems, Ismail Akturk
Atomistic simulations of lipid bilayers in the presence of dimethylsulfoxide, Raghava Alapati
The Plame Game: framing a political scandal, Misty Dawn Albrecht
Dynamic behavior of unsaturated soils, Prathima Alla
Writers on writing instruction: experiences and advice from professional writers, Sheri Allen
Provenance studies of volcanic clasts from the Santa Fe Group, San Luis Basin, Colorado: a guide to tectonic evolution, Corine Kay Armstrong
A geochemical paleoecological analysis of Miocene mammalian mega fauna of Fort Polk, Louisiana, Travis Lamar Atwood
Fundamental characterization of unbound base course materials under cyclic loading, Aaron Matthew Austin
Certification: implications for sustainable forest management and timber export trade in Ghana, Abraham Baffoe
Mathematics Grade 8 LEAP scores: a predictor of student success in dimensional analysis?, Martha Lauren Baggett
Creating an empirically derived community resilience index of the Gulf of Mexico region, Ariele Nicole Baker
The role of Fabiana Aziza Cunningham in Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: a production thesis in acting, Leigh-Erin Balmer
Integrated technology: does it affect learner outcomes?, Adam Ross Barrett
Markets rising, Philip Bastian
Greedy methods for approximate graph matching with applications for social network analysis, Partha Basuchowdhuri
Thermal characterization of plain and carbon nanotube reinforced syntactic foams, Pratap Chandrashekhara Bhat
Seasonal growth and shading potential of sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) and shade response of perennial weeds, Mariana Ferreira Bittencourt
Comparison of brachial artery vasoreactivity in elite athletes and age-matched controls, Paul Joseph Blalock
Comparison of helical tomotherapy and mixed beam treatment plans for superficial head and neck cancers, Olivier C. Blasi
Impact of watershed delineation detail on hydrologic process modeling in low slope areas, Jason Alexander Braud
The stereotypic portrayal of women in slasher films: then versus now, Chad Brewer
Effect of milk replacer composition on growth and rumen development of neonatal Holstein calves, Anthony Joseph Bridges
Fine- to basin-scale distributions of Calanus finmarchicus and its predators in three deep basins of the Gulf of Maine during December 1998 and 1999 from Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) data, Christian Briseño-Avena
Forever New Orleans?: a look back and beyond, Blair Alexis Broussard
Your land is my land: exploring land policy in Tangerang, Indonesia using Kingdon's Multiple Streams Model, Milla Budiarto
Enhancing reductive dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes and ethanes in a natural treatment system, Caroline Burda
Nutrient and sediment losses from surface runoff during bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon L.) establishment on a levee embankment, Robert Wilson Burwell, Jr.
The hyperinsulinemia-hyperleptinemia syndrome in horses: assessment of methods of diagnosis and differential effects of insulin injection on glucose, glucagon and nonesterified fatty acids in plasma, Thomas Joseph Caltabilota
Sociolinguistic characteristics of the Latino population in the Baton Rouge metro area, Dally Campos Molina
Putting a face on prehistory: reconstructing Late-Mississippian faces, Alicia Canfield
A comparative study of geometry curricula, Robyn Williams Carlin
Numerical modeling for long term performance of soil-bentonite cut-off walls in unsaturated soil zone, Sukanta Chakraborty
Determination of minimum safe cooking temperatures for shrimp to destroy foodborne pathogens, Sailaja Chintagari
Functionally gradient syntactic foams, Kanakaji Chittineni
Influence of tick transmission on the host response to Rickettsial infection, Soma Chowdhury
How to Break Article Noun, Carolyn Barlow Chun
The Modification, System Software Development, Validation, and Clinical Trial of a Novel Ankle Stiffness Testing Device, T. Tyler Clement
Comparisons of physicochemical properties of watermelon juice treated with pulsed electric fields and thermal pasteurization, Lauren Nicole Cook
Concepts of freedom: ethical, epistemological, ontological, Marijo Cook
Pulsed electric field influences on acid tolerance, bile tolerance, protease activity and growth characteristics of Lactobacillus acidophilus LA-K, Olga Antonina Cueva
Laser assisted friction stir welding: finite volume method and metaheuristic optimization, Shivani Daftardar
An evaluation of endurance and combined endurance and resistance training on fitness and C-reactive protein, Laura A. Daray
Ficta as mentalia: surveying theories of fiction in search of plausible ontology, Joseph John Dartez
A simulation-based evaluation of alternative initial responses to gas kicks during managed pressure drilling operations, Majid Davoudi
The role of Yusef Akbar Azziz Al-Nassar Gamel El-Fayoumy and the construction of specific relationships in the play The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis, Kaluhath Kenneth De Abrew
A sense of community and community change: an ethnographic study of a contemporary Louisiana juke joint as it compares to historical literature on the subject, Kristopher Ian Debnam
Resiliency of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina: a study of communities three years after the storm, Lauren Marie DeFrank
Development and thermal characterization of cellulose/clay nanocomposites, Christopher D. Delhom
Sialic Acid Conjugated Chitosan for the Attenuation of Amyloid-beta Toxicity, Dhruva Dilip Dhavale
Life history characteristics of alligator gar, Atractosteus spatual, in the Bayou DuLarge area of southcentral Louisiana, Kayla Cheree DiBenedetto
Nutrition and eating habits in adolescent television programs: a content analysis of food and beverage consumption on popular teen television, Carly Nicole Dickson
Using the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) to discriminate between children with autism and children with language impairments without autism, Whitney Nicole Dolan
Effects of warming end of lay broiler breeder eggs during the storage period on hatchability, Jennifer Michelle Dowden
City as prison: negotiating identity in the urban space in the nineteenth-century novel, Anita Michelle Dubroc
A Non-Invasive Semiconductor Optical System To Measure Skin Tension, Anna Charron Dugas
Heidegger and Dewey: science in a post-metaphysical world, Michael Allen Dusch
Supercritical fluid extraction and analysis of plant oils, Tianchuan Du
Segmented field electron conformal therapy with an electron multi-leaf collimator, John Gordon Eley
Realtime reservoir characterization and beyond: cyber-infrastructure tools and technologies, Yaakoub Youssef El-Khamra
La música popular como arena de negociación en la literatura caribeña contemporánea, Telba Espinoza Contreras
Jewish identity on the stage: the roles of Saint Matthew and Caiaphas the Elder in Stephen Adly Guirsis's' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Andrew Paul Fafoutakis
Yours, mine, & ours, Mallory Lynn Feltz
Geometric Capacity Studies for DTV Transmitter Identification By Using Kasami Sequences, Xiaoyu Feng
Hydrodynamic response to cold fronts along the Louisiana coast, Zhixuan Feng
A decision making framework for hurricane evacuation and sheltering, Jason Fennell
Self-healing of fiber reinforced polymer compoistes [sic], Nebiyu Fikru
Hearing assessment of forest loggers, Antonio A. Fonseca
Effects of acephate on the distribution of tarnished plant bugs within the cotton plant profile, Kyle Andrew Fontenot
The development of a pore pressure and fracture gradient prediction model for the Ewing Banks 910 area in the Gulf of Mexico, Jeffrey Steven Fooshee
The use of the online tutorial and assessment system, MathXL, in teaching of Algebra I, Darlene Noble Ford
The expedition, Shawn Quincy Foreman
Reflections on pleasure: the fourteenth-century Alhambra, Amanda Sharon Foret
Altering sweet potato starch functionality by amino acids and pH treatments, Jonathan Futch