Theses/Dissertations from 2016
An investigation into the use of grade retention as an intervention strategy in Volusia County, Florida, Wesley Porter
Verification and Automated Synthesis of Memristor Crossbars, Arya Pourtabatabaie
Deposition and characterization studies of boron carbon nitride (BCN) thin films prepared by dual target sputtering, Adithya Prakash
Smart Grasping using Laser and Tactile Array Sensors for UCF-MANUS- An Intelligent Assistive Robotic Manipulator, Kiran Prakash
High Temperature Shock Tube Ignition Studies of CO2 Diluted Mixtures, Owen Pryor
Assessing the Effect of Social Networks on Employee Creativity in a Fast-Food Restaurant Environment, Mitchell Rabinowitz
A Model-Based Approach to Mobile Learning and Digital Literacy, Zena Ramsey
The effect of glycerol on readily biodegradable chemical oxygen demand (RBCOD) in a wastewater stream, Rojina Rawut
Pearl Necklaces, Jordan Redmond
An Examination of Serial Arguing and Marital Satisfaction in Premarital Cohabiters and Direct Marriers, Rachel Reymann
The Reproducibility and Validity of Using the Dmax Method to Predict Physical Working Capacity at Fatigue Threshold, Joshua Riffe
Women With Influence: Creating A Powerful Woman Leader Identity Through Impression Management, Alex Rister
Cognitive Flexibility: Using Mental Simulation to Improve Script Adaptation, Javier Rivera
a priori synthetic sampling for increasing classification sensitivity in imbalanced data sets, William Rivera
The Community College Student's Social Construction of Global Learning in the Florida College System, Jennifer Robertson
Integrating Spray Aeration and Granular Activated Carbon for Disinfection By-Product Control in a Potable Water System, Angela Rodriguez
Electrostatic control over temperature-dependent tunneling across single-molecule junctions, Alvar Rodriguez Garrigues
Navigating Sociotechnical Power Structures: Dynamics of Conflict in World of Warcraft's Player versus Player Events, Rachael Root
Nature Records Itself: Concepts of Truth and Representation in Nature Film and Nature Television Shows, Rashaad Rosalle
Ideas, Beliefs, Strategic Culture, and Foreign Policy: Understanding Brazil's Geopolitical Thought, Marcos Rosas Degaut Pontes
A Comparison of Sixth Grade Student Achievement in Reading and Mathematics at School Transition Year, Julie Roseboom
Diet and Migration in Coastal Oaxaca: Identifying Effects of Political and Social Collapse through the Utilization of Stable Isotope Analysis, Jacklyn Rumberger
Prehabilitation (Prehab): Prevention in Motion, Billie Russell
Building Lax Integrable Variable-Coefficient Generalizations to Integrable PDEs and Exact Solutions to Nonlinear PDEs, Matthew Russo
Political, Economic, and Health Determinants of Tuberculosis Incidence, Ashley Rutherford
Analysis of Driving Behavior at Expressway Toll Plazas using Driving Simulator, Moatz Saad
Examining presence and influence of linguistic characteristics in the Twitter discourse surrounding the women's right to drive movement in Saudi Arabia, Abdulsamad Sahly
Towards Energy-Efficient and Reliable Computing: From Highly-Scaled CMOS Devices to Resistive Memories, Soheil Salehi Mobarakeh
Habitat selection in transformed landscapes and the role of novel ecosystems for native species persistence, Lina Maria Sanchez Clavijo
Individual Differences in Trust Toward Robotic Assistants, Tracy Sanders
Effects of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the Everglades landscape., Daljit Sandhu
Nightgaze: A Microbudget Visual Mixtape, Maillim Santiago
Elizabeth Tudor: Her Youth, Education, and the Development of the Legend of the Virgin Queen, Katrina Santi
Investigation of the effect of rain on sea surface salinity, Andrea Santos Garcia
Development of enzyme-free hydrogen peroxide biosensor using cerium oxide and mechanistic study using in-situ spectro-electrochemistry, Shashank Saraf
Compressive and Coded Change Detection: Theory and Application to Structural Health Monitoring, Omid Sarayanibafghi
El efecto de la variación dialectal en el procesamiento, Kirsten Schanze
The Effect of Vibrations on Cryogens Boil Off During Launch, Transfer and Transport, Erin Schlichenmaier
Flying under the LiDAR: relating forest structure to bat community diversity, Anna Schneider Swanson
Advanced Metrology and Diagnostic Loss Analytics for Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics., Eric Schneller
Cerebrovascular Burden and Depression: Examining a Process Model of Geriatric Developmental Psychopathology, Rosanna Scott
Structural and functional characterization of enzymes of a novel group of tryptophylquinone cofactor containing oxidases, Esha Sehanobish
Impact of Dynamic Message Signs on Driver Behavior Under Reduced Visibility Conditions, Ryan Selby
Investigating the Influence of the Built Environment on Energy-Saving Behaviors, Brittany Sellers
Inclusion: A Question of Practice, Stance, Values and Culture, June Sellers
Baby Bird & the Electronic Abyss, Alexis Senior
Antecedents of Emotional Labor and Job Satisfaction in the Hospitality Industry, Valeriya Shapoval
A mathematical model for feral cat ecology with application to disease., Jeff Sharpe
Attitudes Toward Cohabitation: A Cross Sectional Study, Kensington Shields-Dutton
Virtual resistance based DC-link voltage regulation for Microgrid DG inverters., Siddhesh Shinde
The Impact of Various Characteristics of Prekindergarten Services for Students with Disabilities on Later School Performance, Tanya Shores
SuperWhoLock: An Analysis of Subculture in a Microblogging Setting, Dean Short
BMP-7 Inhibits p38 and JNK Pathways and Increases M2 Macrophage Differentiation to Reduce Atherosclerosis in Apolipoprotein E-/- Mice, Heidi Shoulders
Stress-induced Phase Change Sintering: A Novel Approach to the Fabrication of Barium Chloride Transparent Ceramic Scintillators, William Shoulders
Unseen America, Jeffrey Shuster
The Source and Impact of Student Engagement for Black Students in an Urban High School, Deshawn Sims
Transforming the Aquatic Urban Landscape: Nutrient Status and Management of Stormwater Basins, Lindsay Skovira
The development of motuporamine derivatives and an investigation into their biological properties, Kristen Skruber
The Mechanical Response and Parametric Optimization of Ankle-Foot Devices, Kevin Smith
A New Path Planning Guidance Law For Improved Impact Time Control of Missiles and Precision Munitions, Mark Snyder
Lives of Przemysl: War and the Population of a Fortress Town in Galicia, Austrian Poland, 1914 - 1923, Kevin Stapleton
Pasture Management, the Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) and Dung Beetle Mediated Ecosystem Services, Christen Steele
"The Cause of Zion": Divisions Between Southern Baptists in Antebellum North Carolina, Kristian Steele
What's your focus? The impact of regulatory focus on resource acquisition., Regan Stevenson
Modeling rogue waves in deep water, Maria Strawn
Food Insecurity, Social Inequality, and Social Policy, Sara Strickhouser
Transitions in Polyamorous Identity and Intercultural Communication: An Application of Identity Management Theory, Allison Table
Remote Sensing of Coastal Wetlands: Long term vegetation stress assessment and data enhancement technique, Subrina Tahsin
Confluence of Vision and Natural Language Processing for Cross-media Semantic Relations Extraction, Amara Tariq
Catalytically Enhanced Heterogeneous Combustion of methane, Anthony Terracciano
Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Policies and Youth Tobacco Use in Florida Public Schools, Amanda Terry
The Role of Occupational Branding in the Professionalization of Technical Communication, Chelsea Thomas
A Study to Determine the Degree of Fairness Resulting from Section 8002 of the Federal Impact Aid Program on Qualifying Local Education Agencies, Danielle Thomas
Intramuscular TNF-alpha signaling in response to resistance exercise and recovery in untrained males., Jeremy Townsend
Combat Related Guilt and the Mechanisms of Intensive Exposure Therapy, Benjamin Trachik
Hegemony of the Fourth and Fifth Estates: Exploration of Ideology and False Consciousness in the Media, Anna Turner
Sinkhole Monitoring Using Groundwater Table Data, Ton Tu
Supporting Prekindergarten Teachers Through Appropriate Professional Development Practices, Catherine Twyman
Data-driven Predictive Analytics For Distributed Smart Grid Control, Hamed Valizadehhaghi
Internet Reading and Learning in a Guided Reading Context, Jennifer Van Allen
Sensing using Specialty Optical Fibers, Amy Van Newkirk
Evaluation of Echogenicity Within and Between Ultrasonographic Images of the Vastus Lateralis, Alyssa Varanoske
Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life of Patients with End-stage Renal Disease, Shabu Varghese
Smart Grid Demonstration: Distributed Active and Reactive Power Control, Siddarth Vellakovil Rajamani
Theoretical-Experimental Study of the Two-Photon Circular Dichroism of Helicenes and Aromatic Amino Acids in the UV Region: From the Structure-Property Relationship to the Final Implementation, Yuly Katherine Vesga Prada