Theses/Dissertations from 2012
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Teammates in Growth An Examination of the NFL’s 1982, 1987, and 2011 Work Stoppages: How Collaborative Strategies Can Aid In the Future Growth of the NFL, William K. Wright IV
A Brief Compilation of Documents 722.23.6790021 AG – 700.24.6790021 AG, Rachel Zavecz
Influence of Communication and Rituals on Military Members’ and Spouses’ Growth Post- Deployment, Bryanna Zawodniak
Novel Books: The Power of Metafiction in Female Victorian Writing, Joanna Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Threads: A Collection of Short Stories, Samantha Alleman
St. John’s Wort and Artemisia Extracts Modulate Adipocyte Development and Function, Zhaleh Amini
Accounting Methods to Effectively Measure the Performance of Public Universities' Academic Units and Increase Allocation Efficiency: The Role of Research Grants, Madeleine Arivett
Reactions to psychological contract breaches: An experimental manipulation of severity, Theresa Atkinson
At First Glance, Laura Baker
PlayRight: A Portfolio and Reflection on the Craft, Christine Baniewicz
The Esplanade Mall, Lauren Baye
MULTIPARTY NEGOTIATIONS AND THEIR SETTINGS: HOW A CHANGE IN LOCATION CAN CHANGE BARGAINING STRATEGIES, Danielle Borel
An Explication and Analysis of the Possible Economic Consequences Resulting From the Fiscal Position of the United States and an Evaluation of the Possible Corrective Fiscal Measures, Edward Francis Bukaty IV
The Function and Mechanism of RRF-1 in Antiviral RNAi in C. elegans, Amanda Lynn Callegan
Athletic Women Make Secret Progress, Querida Christian
“Human Rights, Development, and Global Justice”, Ian Cruise
Oxidative Derivatization of Folic Acid Monitored by Capillary Electrophoresis with UV Absorbance and Fluorescence Detection, Jeffrey P. Cunniff
Synthesis of Oligopeptide Fragments for an Skp1 Mimetic, Jarret Curtis
Preliminary Assessment of Hybridization and Introgression of Morone Species in the Toledo Bend Reservoir, Louisiana, Kelsey L. Daroca
The Relation between Children‟s Socio-Economic Status and their Performance on the Passive Subtest of the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation – Norm Referenced, Maggie Faulk Deville
Unsupervised Semantic Classification Methods, John Gilmer
Emotional Regulation and Memory: The Effects of Reappraisal on Source Decisions, Chad Gremillion
Middle Eastern Conflict and Syrian Economic Policy, Emily Halk
The Immunophenotypic and Cytokine Characterization of the Osteoarthritic Human Patellar Fat Pad: Comparison to Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue, Katie Marie Hamel
Attitudes toward Education: Parental Involvement and Family Structure, Claire Hanchey
Sediment History from K‟ak‟ Naab‟ Column Sample 2: Human-Environment Interaction at a Classic Period Maya Salt Works Site, Jessica Harrison
Shared Appreciation Mortgages—SAMs or SCAMs in the Foreclosure Crisis, Phoebe A. Hathorn
Tools for a Greater Union: The Implications of the Lisbon Treaty for the European Union, Lacy Hebert
Creative expression through dance: The effect of direct instruction versus inquiry learning teaching methods, Christy Hedlund
Dental Genetic Traits of Selected Maya Burials from Wild Cane Cay and Moho Cay, Belize, Kelly Heim
News that isn’t “fit to print”, Emily H. Holden
Une exploration du retour impossible d’Aimé Césaire et de Pham Van Ky, Nicole Horne
Coming of Age in Louisiana, Black and White Southern Womanhood, Christina Jones
A Tutorial of Manual Segmentation Using the Visualization Program Avizo® as Illustrated by the Skeleton of the Spiny Dogfish Shark, Squalus acanthias, Mateusz A. Lapucha
Plexus: A New Model for New Orleans Public Healthcare, Jonathan LeJune
Bachelor’s Thesis in Physics: A Chernoff Analysis of an Invisible Quantum Tripwire with Photon Loss, Daniel Lum
Martel: The Transitional Frank, Nicholas Wallace Mataya
The Worst Case Discharge Scenario, Noah McGill
An Examination into Fundamental Attunements: Anxiety, Boredom, Depression, and Joy, John Milligan
The Sacrum of the Poole-Rose Ossuary: Health Status, Variation, and Demography, Elizabeth A. Moffett
p53-Independent Apoptosis and Autophagy as a result of RNAi Knockdown of Nopp140 in Drosophila melanogaster, Courtney Mumphrey
The Art of Losers: Images of Women, Children, Farmers, Soldiers, and Clergy in Republican Spanish Civil War Propaganda Posters, Emily Perkins
How Ordinary Objects Become Extraordinary: Artcurial and the Brancusi Sale, Marie Katherine Perret
PURITAN SELF-EXAMINATION Solitude and Relationship in the Devotional Literature of the New England Puritans, Christine Pyle
The Impact of Image and Gender Politics In Hillary Clinton‘s and Angela Merkel‘s Pursuit of Chief Executive Offices, Lindsay C. Rabalais
Effect of the tRNA Gene tV(UAC)D on the Transcriptional Regulation of the Neighboring CIS1 Gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Jessica Rosselot
Unfolding the Graticule of the Microcontext, Mari Claire Russ
Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Mixed-Method Study of the Mentoring Relationships that Guide Student-Athletes toward Career Decisions, Andrew J. Schwehm
What Readers Want: Motivation, Interaction, and Value as Key Factors Influencing the Future of Book Publishing, Stephanie A. Stevens
I Will Return As Millions: Bolivia’s Experiment with Neoliberalism and Decentralization, James Stowe
Citizenship, Social Protest, and Possible Foundations for Institutionalizing Conflict Resolution in China, Aubrey Kenton Thibaut
The Impact of Minority Status and Language Fluency on Vietnamese Asian Americans in the Predominately English-speaking American Workplace, Lily L. Truong
The Effects of Context Dependency in Recognition Memory and Source Memory, Aljeandra Vargas
The Relationship between Family Structure and Social Anxiety in Young Adults, Brandie Michelle Wagner
Modeling a Model Organism: The Lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, Bradley M. Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The “New Media” Campaign The Role of Social Networking and Online Tools in Political Campaigning, Clayton Allen
EFFECTS OF DIETARY FAT ON RESISTANT STARCH FERMENTATION IN MICE, Diana Badkoobeh
EFFECTS OF DIETARY FAT ON RESISTANT STARCH FERMENTATION IN MICE, Diana Badkoobeh
Genetic diversity of selected sea oats (Uniola paniculata L.) lines using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP), Sarah E. Bertrand
Plankton Community Respiration and Productivity for the Louisiana Offshore Ecosystem, July 2007 Results, Brandon Michael Boyd
Identification of Yeasts from the Gut of Cotinis nitida using ITS and LSU rRNA D1/D2 Gene Sequences, Kevin Campbell
The DedA Protein Family in Selected Bacterial Species, James Cox
The Effects of Media on Collegiate Worldview and Engagement, Micaela deGruy
Development and application of a pexophagy sensor in Caenorhabditis elegans, Jamie Dolezal
Increasing Lipoxygenase Solubility through Fusion of Highly Acidic Peptides, Rachel Fabacher
The Rainbow Family of Living Light: Anarchy, Individuality and Communitas in a Contemporary Alternative Culture, Joseph Falcon-Freeman
“Hydraulic Fracturing Efficiency in the Olmos Sand Formation”, Lauren N. Fogarty
Mothers’ Speech to Infants With and Without Down syndrome, Christina M. Gary
The Role of Norms in UN Peacekeeping Operations: European Union Member States and Collective Identity Formation, Sarah Gates
A GENDERED PROFESSION Chaucer‟s Prioress as a Satirical Representation of Medieval Female Monasticism, Laura Godfrey
Using the Stimulus Equivalence Paradigm to Teach Coin Discrimination to Visually Impaired Children, Nicole Hanney
Semi-classical approaches to below threshold harmonics, James A. Hostetter
Models for Interpreting Consumption and Identity: The Case of House X from Minoan Kommos, Rachel Hungerford
The Cytotoxicity of Nitrite and Nitrate in E. coli, Aaron P. Landry
Embodying the Current Middle Ages: Gender and Performance in the Society for Creative Anachronism, Chelsea Lewis
The Moroccan Struggle for Media Development, Margaret Looney
Item Analysis of the Grammar Subtests of the CDI: Words & Sentences for African American Children, Zainab Maqsood
Unfurling, Alyssa Matthews
Third-Wave Feminism in Select Young Adult Literature, Colleen McKinney
DOUBLE TAXATION AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE AMERICAN FOREIGN TAX CREDIT: A PRIMER, Emily J. Meyers
AUDITOR SWTICHING AND AN ANALYSIS OF 2008 AUDITOR SWITCHES, Sarah Adele Miller
Lessons Learned from Nature: The Sweet Way to Preserve Cells, Shhyam Moorthy
The Interface between Politics and Higher Education, Alyson Neel
Groupthink Theory and the Great Crash of 1929, Paige E. Nichols
MAKING TRIFLES OF TERRORS, Ellen Ogden
White College Student’s Attitudes toward the Use of Torture, Abigail Omojola
Social Networking: A Tool or aggregator of the news?, Madeline Peters
HATCHABILITY OF END-OF-LAY BROILER BREEDER EGGS AS INFLUENCED BY COOLING DURING INCUBATION, James Rabalais
REGULATION OF INTEGRIN αIIbβ3 LIGAND BINDING AND SIGNALING BY THE METAL ION BINDING SITES IN THE β I DOMAIN, Joel Raborn
Interactions of the High Mobility Group Box Homolog 2 with distorted duplex DNA, Wedad Rahman
Dresden and the Ethics of Strategic Bombing in World War II, Michael J. Richard
EFFECTS OF PASTURE VS. HOUSE FARROWING SYSTEMS IN LOUISIANA ON PRODUCTION TRAITS AND MOTHERING ABILITIES OF SOWS, Elizabeth Roeling