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UCF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

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

'Til Death Do I Wait: Experiences of Food Insecurity Among Elders on the Meals on Wheels Waiting List, Marie Gualtieri

Martin Cenquizqui, Christina Guillen

Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of United Launch Alliance Delta IV Hydrogen Plume Mitigation Strategies, Stephen Guimond

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

An Unsupervised Consensus Control Chart Pattern Recognition Framework, Siavash Haghtalab

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

Digital Interactive Games for Assessment: A Study of the Effectiveness of a Digital Game as a Measure of Students' Understanding of Boolean Logic, Mohammad Ali Haji

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

A Senior Water Aerobics Class as a Subculture, Sarah Halbert

Evaluation of Iron and Manganese Control for a Volcanic Surface Water Supply Treated with Conventional Coagulation, Sedimentation and Filtration Processes, Christine Hall

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

Acoustic Analysis of Prolonged Vowels In Adolescents and Young Adults With Friedreich's Ataxia, Kaylea Hardin

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

Sharing Aloha on the mainland: Cultural Identity and Connecting to Heritage through Commercial Luau Shows in Central Florida, Brittany Hoback

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 the Narcissism Trend in Generation Y Through Digital Narrative Film, Joshua Ingle

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

Learning to Grasp Unknown Objects using Weighted Random Forest Algorithm from Selective Image and Point Cloud Feature, Md Shahriar Iqbal

These Romantic Dreams in Our Heads, Sean Ironman

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

High resolution time-resolved imaging system in the vacuum ultraviolet region, Yuseong Jang

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

Recollections: An Internal Analysis of Memory and Perception, Samuel Jimenez

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

Minnie and Ivy: Minnie Moore-Willson, Ivy Stranahan, and Seminole Reform in Early Twentieth Century Florida, Sarika Joshi

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

Growing Up Village, Malemute, Carlee Kauffman

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

Highly-Sensitive Stoichiometric Analysis of YAG Ceramics Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Jahromi, Ali Kazemi

The Effects of State Leader Psychology on Civil War Lethality, Brandon Kelley

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

(Tele)presence in Mediated Worship: The Influence of Antecedent Traits and the Effect on Memory, Enjoyment and Behavior, Brian Klebig

Down in the Mouth: Homelessness and Oral Health, Jessica Kleinberger

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

Study of the Formation and Control of Disinfection By-Products Originating from a Surface Water Supply on the Volcanic Island of Guam, Erica LaBerge

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

Determination of Critical Rest Interval using Repeated Sprint Ability Testing, Michael La Monica

Stranger Species, Devin Latham

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

Tiling the Integers, Shasha Li

Semiconductor Laser Based on Thermoelectrophotonics, Xiaohang Liu

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

RF Energy Harvesting for Implantable ICs with On-chip Antenna, Yu-Chun Liu

Practical Issues in GPRAM Development, Yin Li

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

Mechanical and Thermal Characterization of Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Pyrolysis-Derived Carbon-Matrix Composites, Donovan Lui

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

Real time monitoring of Cell-Nanoparticles interaction and tracking internalization process by mechanical probing using Atomic Force Microscopy, Anh Ly

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

Evaluation of the three-dimensional patterns and ecological impacts of the invasive Old World climbing fern (Lygodium microphyllum), Alexis Maldonado

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

Multifunctional and Responsive Polyelectrolyte Nanostructures, Astha Malhotra

Nondestructive Analysis of Advanced Aerospace Materials via Spectroscopy and Synchrotron Radiation, Albert Manero

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

Chert Tool Production and Exchange at Two Late Postclassic Coastal Maya Households, Marc Marino

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

Speaking with the Orishas: Divination and Propitiation in the Lukumi Religion, Kristi Marrero

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