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Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases with Latency: Homogeneous Mixing and Contact Network, Keith Carlson

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Visual Scanpath Training for Facial Affect Recognition in a Psychiatric Sample, Chi Chan

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Keeping Quiet: Investigating the Maintenance and Policing of Male-dominated Gaming Space, Christopher Charles

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The Religious Beliefs and Behaviors of Baby Boomers, Generation X, and the Millennials: are there still gender differences?, Jessica Chase

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Extracurricular Activities and Substance Use Among Adolescents: A Test of Social Control and Social Learning Theory, Lynnette Coto

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Battle on the Homefront: An Auto-Ethnographic Perspective on Domestic Violence Post-Deployment, Michelle Craske

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No Ground to Stand Upon?: Exploring the Legal, Gender, and Racial Implications of Stand Your Ground Laws in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence., Denise Crisafi

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Childhood Trauma, Reflective Functioning and Attributions, Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Parenting Competence: What Happens When the Traumatized Child Grows Up and Becomes a Mother?, Annelise Cunningham

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The Russian Connection: How Russia Became a Leader in the World's Human Trafficking Market, Anthony De Mauro

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Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Chronic Arthritis Pain Group Intervention in an Outpatient Healthcare Setting, Natasha DePesa

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Declarative Memory, Theory of Mind, and Community Functioning in Schizophrenia, Andrew Deptula

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Evaluation of the Expectancy Challenge Alcohol Literacy Curriculum (ECALC) for High School Students, Alyssa Dietz

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Weighted Low-Rank Approximation of Matrices:Some Analytical and Numerical Aspects, Aritra Dutta

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Optical Parity Time Metasurface Structures, Ahmed El Halawany

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Rivalry-Prone Dyads? Interstate Religious Differences and Military Conflict, Manar Elkhaldi

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Novel Photodynamic Cancer Therapy Agent and Biochemical Phosphate Sensor Based on Nanomaterials, Alaa Fadhel

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Interval Edge-Colorings of Graphs, Austin Foster

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The Female Human Trafficker in the Criminal Justice System: A Test of the Chivalry Hypothesis, Brielle Francis

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Reading Comprehension Deficits in Children with ADHD: The Mediating roles of Working Memory and Orthographic Conversion, Lauren Friedman

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Degradation of Hexachlorobenzene, Pentachlorophenol and Pentachloroanisole using Activated Magnesium in an Acidified Ethanol/Ethyl Lactate Cosolvent System, Amel Garbou

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The Attitude-Engagement Model Within-Persons: An Experience Sampling Study of Job Attitudes and Behavioral Engagement, David Glerum

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Analysis of Employment and Earnings Using Varying Coefficient Models to Assess Success of Minorities and Women, Amanda Goedeker

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An Inconclusive Truth: An Evaluation of Speleothem Evidence for Climate Change as a Driver of Ancient Maya Culture Change, Benjamin Goldblatt

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Pyroglutamylated amyloid beta peptides enhance non-fibrillogenic aggregation of the unmodified peptide, Gregory Goldblatt

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"Sealing the Bond": A Qualitative Study of African American Funeral Rituals, Danielle (Grant) Graham

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Rethinking Drinking: A Paradigm Shift for Estimating Social and Behavioral Harm, Thomas Hall

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Classification of Silicone-Based Personal and Condom Lubricants Using DART-TOFMS, Lauren Harvey

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Emotional Intelligence in Organizational Social Networks, Andrea Hermsdorfer

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The Longitudinal Relationship between Moderate Alcohol Use and Cognitive Aging among Older Adults., Danielle Herring

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Conformations and Dynamics of Semi-Flexible Polymers, Aiqun Huang

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A Meta-Analytic Integration of What Matters in Training Transfer, Ashley Hughes

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Self-assembly of Rous Sarcoma Virus capsid protein, probed by Solid-state NMR and TEM, Jaekyun Jeon

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Public Opinion and the President's Use of Executive Orders: Aggregate- and Individual-Level Analyses Across Time, Brett Jones

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The Owl Sensor: A Smart Nanostructure for Single Nucleotide Variation Analysis, Rebekah Karadeema

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Asylum in Crisis: Structural Violence and Refugees in Siracusa, Italy, Adam Kersch

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Mothers' Temperament, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Psychological Symptoms: How Are Enduring Maternal Characteristics Related to Mothers' Perceptions of Children's Temperament, Behavior Problems, and Adaptive Functioning?, Ellen Kolomeyer

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Provider Recommendation of HPV Vaccination: Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap, Erica Landis

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Assessment of Staphylococcus aureus Genetics: Clinical versus Community Epidemiology, Matthew Lawrance

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Interactive Amusement Park Queues: Examining the Indirect Effect of Task Work Load on Guests' Perception of Wait Duration Through Task Immersion, Jonathan Ledbetter

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Psychometric Properties of a Social Skills Assessment Using Virtual Environment, Thien-An Le

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The Crossed Bands Motif: What does it mean?, Brittany Luther

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Effects of harmful algal blooms caused by Aureoumbra lagunensis (brown tide) on larval and juvenile life stages of the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica), Panagiota Makris

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Habitat distribution and abundance of crayfishes in two Florida spring-fed rivers, Tiffani Manteuffel

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Re-Conceptualizing Compassion Fatigue: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Madeline Marks

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Development of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Forensic Applications, Sara Martinez

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Comparing the Variational Approximation and Exact Solutions of the Straight Unstaggered and Twisted Staggered Discrete Solitons, Daniel Marulanda

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The Estimation of Germ Line De Novo Mutation Rates of Extended Sets of Y-STR Haplotypes to Aid in the Differentiation of Male Biological Relatives in Criminal Investigations, Nicole Masker

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Teach them to eat: Complexities of Community Based Organization and Nutrition Education Initiatives in the Prevention of Chronic Disease, Allison Matos

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Weight Discrimination Through Social Networking Sites: The Moderating Effects of Gender, Stereotype-Consistent Behavior, and Occupational Setting, Bridget McHugh

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Making the Invisible Visible: Exploring the Experiences of Black Male Professionals in Postsecondary Education, Claudine McLaren Turner

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Role of Sleep in Exposure Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in OIF/OEF Combat Veterans, Franklin Mesa

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Bioarchaeological Investigations of The Red House Archaeological Site, Port of Spain, Trinidad: A Pre-Columbian, Mid-Late Ceramic Age Caribbean Population., Patrisha Meyers

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Identifying Archetypal Attributes of Maya Ceremonial Architecture: Clues to the Late Classic Sociopolitical Status of Pacbitun, Belize, George Micheletti

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An Investigation of the Biomechanical Implications of Lower Limb Fractures and Leg Length Disparity, Elizabeth Mills

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Model Nanocatalysts with Tunable Reactivity: Tailoring the Structure and Surface Chemistry of Nanomaterials for Energy and Alternative Fuels Catalysis, Hemma Mistry

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Vulture Scavenging of Child-sized Pig Carcasses in Central Florida: Utilizing GIS to Analyze Site Variables Affecting Skeletal Dispersal, Alexander Mitchell

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Cardiac Autonomic Control in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome, Jonathan Mitchell

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On the Back of the Crocodile: Extent, Energetics, and Productivity in Wetland Agricultural Systems, Northern Belize, Shane Montgomery

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Multidimensional Room-Temperature Fluorescence Microscopy for the Nondestructive Analysis of Forensic Trace Textile Fibers, Nirvani Mujumdar

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"I Kid You Not, I am Asked a Question about Children At Least Once a Week": Exploring Differences in Childbearing Habitus in Pronatalist Fields, Alyssa Mullins

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Juvenile-Perpetrated Homicide and Family Disorganization, Brittany Murray

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From the Yellow Peril to the Model Minority: An Experimental Survey Examining Racial Attitudes towards Asian Americans, Jenny Nguyen

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Examination of Attitude-Behavior Discrepancy in Familism and its Relation to Symptoms of Depression among Latinos, Andel Nicasio

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Zooming In On The Money Shot: An Exploratory Quantitative Analysis of Pornographic Film Actors, Erin O'Neal

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Optimizing Strategies for In Vivo Exposure in the Traditional Clinical Setting, Maryann Owens

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An Examination of Domestic Violence Perpetration: A Further Look into the Gender Symmetry Debate., Michelle Parra

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She's Not Fit for the Business World: An Initial Examination of Gender, Age, and Weight, Miranda Pelkey

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Supporting situation awareness through robot-to-human information exchanges under conditions of visuospatial perspective taking, Elizabeth Phillips

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The Gold Wrapper Standard: An Investigation into the Preference for Larger Sized Condoms, Diego Plaza

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Investigating the Predictive Power of Student Characteristics on Success in Studio-mode, Algebra-based Introductory Physics Courses, Jarrad Pond

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Mothers' History of Child Maltreatment and Regulation Abilities: Interactions Among Young Children's Temperament, Attachment, and Maltreatment Potential, Jayme Puff

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Keeping Their Distance: A Comparison of 2009 and 2013 Domestic Violence cases in Seminole County that utilized GPS Technology to Determine Effectiveness of Program, Rachel Rados

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An Examination of Serial Arguing and Marital Satisfaction in Premarital Cohabiters and Direct Marriers, Rachel Reymann

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Women With Influence: Creating A Powerful Woman Leader Identity Through Impression Management, Alex Rister

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Cognitive Flexibility: Using Mental Simulation to Improve Script Adaptation, Javier Rivera

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Electrostatic control over temperature-dependent tunneling across single-molecule junctions, Alvar Rodriguez Garrigues

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Navigating Sociotechnical Power Structures: Dynamics of Conflict in World of Warcraft's Player versus Player Events, Rachael Root

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Ideas, Beliefs, Strategic Culture, and Foreign Policy: Understanding Brazil's Geopolitical Thought, Marcos Rosas Degaut Pontes

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Diet and Migration in Coastal Oaxaca: Identifying Effects of Political and Social Collapse through the Utilization of Stable Isotope Analysis, Jacklyn Rumberger

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Building Lax Integrable Variable-Coefficient Generalizations to Integrable PDEs and Exact Solutions to Nonlinear PDEs, Matthew Russo

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Examining presence and influence of linguistic characteristics in the Twitter discourse surrounding the women's right to drive movement in Saudi Arabia, Abdulsamad Sahly

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Habitat selection in transformed landscapes and the role of novel ecosystems for native species persistence, Lina Maria Sanchez Clavijo

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Individual Differences in Trust Toward Robotic Assistants, Tracy Sanders

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Flying under the LiDAR: relating forest structure to bat community diversity, Anna Schneider Swanson

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Cerebrovascular Burden and Depression: Examining a Process Model of Geriatric Developmental Psychopathology, Rosanna Scott

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Investigating the Influence of the Built Environment on Energy-Saving Behaviors, Brittany Sellers

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A mathematical model for feral cat ecology with application to disease., Jeff Sharpe

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Attitudes Toward Cohabitation: A Cross Sectional Study, Kensington Shields-Dutton

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SuperWhoLock: An Analysis of Subculture in a Microblogging Setting, Dean Short

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Transforming the Aquatic Urban Landscape: Nutrient Status and Management of Stormwater Basins, Lindsay Skovira

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Pasture Management, the Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) and Dung Beetle Mediated Ecosystem Services, Christen Steele

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Modeling rogue waves in deep water, Maria Strawn

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Food Insecurity, Social Inequality, and Social Policy, Sara Strickhouser

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Transitions in Polyamorous Identity and Intercultural Communication: An Application of Identity Management Theory, Allison Table

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Characterization of Post-Fire Priming Cup Residue Using Scanning Electron Microscopy Coupled With Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometry, Molly Terry

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Combat Related Guilt and the Mechanisms of Intensive Exposure Therapy, Benjamin Trachik

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Patterns in Dental Health: Investigating Dental Disease at the Archaeological Site of Kuelap in Chachapoyas, Peru, Vu Tran

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Hegemony of the Fourth and Fifth Estates: Exploration of Ideology and False Consciousness in the Media, Anna Turner

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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

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The Ontological Sociology of Cryptocurrency: A Theoretical Exploration of Bitcoin, Omar Eliud Villarreal Robledo