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Doctoral Dissertations

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

The Effects of Narrative and Achievements on Learning in a 2D Platformer Video Game, Joseph Fanfarelli

Treatment-Specific Approaches for Analysis and Control of Left Ventricular Assist Devices, George Faragallah

Particle Manipulation Via Optical Forces and Engineering Soft-Matter Systems With Tunable Nonlinearities., Shima Fardad

Game-based Strategies Implementation During Social Skills Training for Non-Elementary Aged Individuals, Joan Fenaughty

Techniques For Characterization Of Third Order Optical Nonlinearities, Manuel Ferdinandus

A Framework of Critical Success Factors for Business Organizations that Lead to Performance Excellence Based on a Financial and Quality Systems Assessment., Melissa Francisco

Degradation of Hydrazine and Monomethylhydrazine for Fuel Waste Streams using Alpha-ketoglutaric Acid, Carolina Franco

Investigators' Perceptions of Inter-Jurisdictional Law Enforcement Information Sharing On Criminal Investigative Success: An Exploratory Analysis, Jennifer Freeman-Walker

Nanocomposite Coating Mechanics via Piezospectroscopy, Gregory Freihofer

Composing the Classroom, Constructing Hybridity: Writing Technology in(to) First-Year Composition Course Design, Christopher Friend

An analysis of the difference between assessed instructional practices, value-added measures, and learning gains of secondary reading teachers, Ronald Fritz

Tractors and Genres: Knowledge-Making and Identity Formation in an Agricultural Community, Marcy Galbreath

An Exploration of Communication Perceptions Between Elementary School Staff and the Parents of the Children They Serve, Cynthia Gardner

Driving Performance Adaptation Through Practice With And Without Distracters In A Simulated Environment, Marc Gentzler

CONAE MicroWave Radiometer (MWR) Counts to Brightness Temperature Algorithm, Zoubair Ghazi

Using Land Cover Mapping and Landscape Metrics to Evaluate Effects of Urban Development on Ecological Integrity in Florida, Michael Gilbrook

Kaleidoscopic Community History: Theories of Databased Rhetorical History-Making, Amy Larner Giroux

A Time-Course Analysis of Behavioral Plasticity and Differential Gene Expression Patterns in Response to Density in Schistocerca americana (Orthoptera: Acrididae), Steven Gotham

iPads for Students with ASD: Comparing Delivery Modes for Visual Activity Schedules, Jillian Gourwitz

Multicultural Counseling Competence of School Counselors: Relationship to Multicultural Behaviors and Perceived School Climate, Jennifer Greene

A Phenomenological Analysis of Undergraduate Teaching in the United States and the United Kingdom from the Perspective of Current and Former Exchange Students, Barry Griffiths

Hope and Low Level Literacy of Haitians in Petit-Goave: Implications for Hope Theory and Adult Literacy Education, Donita Grissom

How Do Teams Become Cohesive? A Meta-Analysis of Cohesion's Antecedents, Rebecca Grossman

Computational Fluid Dynamics Uncertainty Analysis For Payload Fairing Spacecraft Environmental Control Systems, Curtis Groves

The Effect of Jyoti Meditation on Student Counselor Emotional Intelligence, Stress, and Daily Spiritual Experiences, Daniel Gutierrez

A Comparison Of Teachers' Beliefs Of The Use Of Inquiry Teaching, Origin Of Knowledge Of Inquiry Teaching, And Student Achievement Between International Baccalaureate And Non-International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme Schools, Lucy Haddock

Inventory Management Problem for Cold Items with Environmental and Financial Considerations, Ali Hajiaghabozorgi

A Curricula Assessment And Improvement Quantitative Model For Higher Education: A Design For Six Sigma Methodology, Abdullah Halawany

Identifying the Initial Mental Health Messages of Army ROTC Students and Exploring Their Connection to Mental Health Stigma and Help-Seeking Behaviors, Kristopher Hall

Privatization of Florida Juvenile Residential Facilities, Katherine Hancock

Community College Faculty with Corporate Leadership Experience and Full Range Leadership Theory, Gloria Hardee

Development of Treatment Train Techniques for the Evaluation of Low Impact Development in Urban Regions, Mike Hardin

Predictors of School Engagement for Females with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities, Stacey Hardin

The Effect of Habitat for Humanity Homeownership on Student Attendance and Standardized Test Scores in Orange County Florida School District, Charles Harris

Tiling Properties Of Spectra Of Measures, John Haussermann

Functional Scaffolding for Musical Composition: A New Approach in Computer-Assisted Music Composition, Amy K. Hoover

Stochastic Optimization for Integrated Energy System with Reliability Improvement Using Decomposition Algorithm, Yuping Huang

The Design And Evaluation Of A Video Game To Help Train Perspective-taking And Empathy In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Darin Hughes

Offender Reentry: A Mixed Model Study of Interorganizational Commitment to Partnership, Gail Humiston

Closing the reading achievement gap between African American students and their peers at a suburban middle school: The impact of school improvement plans., Jason Hutchins

Visual Analysis of Extremely Dense Crowded Scenes, Haroon Idrees

Examining Emotional Responses to Effective Versus Ineffective Virtual Buddies, Kathleen Ingraham

Evaluating Faculty And Staff Customer Satisfaction Of A Technology Support Office In A Large University In Florida, Laurence Jaffe

Genetic and biochemical characterization of the roles of two putative purine transporters in the infectious cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi, Sunny Jain

Examining Preservice Teachers' Performances And Pedagogies Of Practice In An Urban Classroom Through The Use Of A Simulated Learning Environment, Kelly Jennings

Reformation and Renaissance: An Examination of America's Education Reform Movement, Craig Johnson

Specialty Fiber Lasers and Novel Fiber Devices, Clemence Jollivet

Threat Communication As it Relates to Perception of Victimization: A Study of Awareness of Concealed Weapon Permit Issuance, Cody Jordan

Theoretical and Numerical Studies of Phase Transitions and Error Thresholds in Topological Quantum Memories, Pejman Jouzdani

The U.S. Environmental Movement 1890-2002: Discourse Divisions, Environmental Crisis Events, And Strategic Concessions, Wendi Kane

Electronic Properties And Atomic Scale Microscopy Of Two Dimensional Materials: Graphene And Molybdenum Disulfide, Jyoti Katoch

Multifunctional, Multimaterial Particle Fabrication Via an In-Fiber Fluid Instability, Joshua Kaufman

Teachers' Utilization of Field Trips: A Comparative Study, Joshua Kenna

Defining and Building Excellence: A Model for Professional Development at Arete Charter School, Shloe Kerness

Modeling and Spray Pyrolysis Processing of Mixed Metal Oxide Nano-Composite Gas Sensor Films, Seyed Mohammad Navid Khatami

Photo-induced Protonation of Polyaniline Composites and Mechanistic Study of the Degradation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls with Zero-Valent Magnesium, Candace Kirkland

In-situ synchrotron studies of turbine blade thermal barrier coatings under extreme environments, Kevin Knipe

Action potentials as indicators of metabolic perturbations for temporal proteomic analysis, Aditya Reddy Kolli

Studying Short-Period Comets and Long-Period Comets Detected by WISE/NEOWISE, Emily Kramer

Inversion of the Broken Ray Transform, Roman Krylov

The role of freedom in assessing the relationship between tourism competitiveness and quality of life: The case of Central America, Marketa Kubickova

Factors Associated With Information Literacy Competencies Of The Traditional Baccalaureate Nursing Student, Patricia Lafferty

The Impact Of A Group Counseling Intervention On Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, And Queer Older Adolescents' Levels Of Hope, Coping, And Suicidality, Catherine Lamb

Development of Traffic Safety Zones and Integrating Macroscopic and Microscopic Safety Data Analytics for Novel Hot Zone Identification, JaeYoung Lee

Managerial Process Of Discount Decision-making In The Lodging Industry: The Role Of Human Agency, Seung Hyun Lee

Human-robot Interaction For Multi-robot Systems, Bennie Lewis

On Kernel-base Multi-Task Learning, Cong Li

An uncooled mid-wave infrared detector based on optical response of laser-doped silicon carbide., Geunsik Lim

Laser Filamentation - Beyond Self-focusing and Plasma Defocusing, Khan Lim

A Short Window Granger Causality Approach to Identify Brain Functional Pattern Associated with Changes of Performance Induced by Sleep Deprivation, Muyuan Li

The Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a New Measure of Self-Objectification, Danielle Lindner

An Examination of School Principals' Moral Reasoning and Decision-Making along the Principalship Track and across Years of Experience, Trent Ling

Semiconductor Laser Based on Thermoelectrophotonics, Xiaohang Liu

High Performance Three-Dimensional Display Based on Polymer-Stabilized Blue Phase Liquid Crystal, Yifan Liu

A New Multidimensional Psycho-Physical Framework for Modeling Car-Following in a Freeway Work Zone, Taylor Lochrane

From Frances Elliott Clark to Today's Higher Education Music Educators: An Exploration of the Perceptions and Usage of Digital Audio via Electronic Reserves and Digital Databases, Kathleen LoPresti

Novel properties of ferromagnetic p-wave superconductors, Christopher Lorscher

Design And Implementation Plan For The "i Am Potential" Financial Literacy Education Program, Tureka Louis

Creation and Application of Routines for Determining Physical Properties of Asteroids and Exoplanets from Low Signal-To-Noise Data Sets, Nathaniel Lust

Examining the Impact of Error Encouragement on Training Outcomes, Rebecca Lyons

Decentralized Power Management and Transient Control in Hybrid Fuel Cell Ultra-Capacitor System, Seyed Omid Madani

Identifying Influential Agents In Social Systems, Mahsa Maghami

Investigating the relationships between preferences, gender, and high school students' geometry performance, Bhesh Mainali

Nonlinear integrated photonics on silicon and gallium arsenide substrates, Jichi Ma

Structural Health Monitoring Using Novel Sensing Technologies And Data Analysis Methods, Seyedmasoud Malekzadeh

Multifunctional and Responsive Polyelectrolyte Nanostructures, Astha Malhotra

A Framework For Workforce Management An Agent Based Simulation Approach, Mario Marin

Examining the Effects of Interactive Dynamic Multimedia and Direct Touch Input on Performance of a Procedural Motor Task, Matthew Marraffino

Functional Data Analysis and its application to cancer data, Evgeny Martinenko

Entangled Photon Pairs in Disordered Photonic Lattices, Lane Martin

Photoactivatable Organic and Inorganic Nanoparticles in Cancer Therapeutics and Biosensing, Mona Mathew

An Evaluation of the Iowa State University Ecosystem, Cherie Mazer

Effect Of Acute L-alanyl-l-glutamine (sustamine) And Electrolyte Ingestion On Plasma Electrolytes, Physiologic Measures, And Neuromuscular Fatigue During Endurance Exercise, William McCormack

The Role of Invitational Theory on Minority Student Enrollment in Advanced Placement Courses, Jason McDonald

The Impact of Computer-Assisted Instruction on Ninth- and Tenth-Grade Students, Melanie McNeely

Uncertainty treatment in performance based seismic assessment of typical bridge classes in United States, Mohammad Mehdizadeh

Assessing the Effectiveness of Workload Measures in the Nuclear Domain, Joseph Mercado

A Multiple Case Analysis of Technology Integration Knowledge by Practicing Elementary Teachers in an Urban Charter School, Kendra Lynn Minor

Parity-time and supersymmetry in optics, Mohammad Ali Miri

Complementary Layered Learning, Sean Mondesire