A collection of Sciences Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Effects of weaning age on body composition and growth of ex situ California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) pups, Brandon Davis
Modeling Risk for Sexually Transmitted Infections in Women in a Court-Ordered Substance Treatment Program, Frances Deavers
Outcomes of Perceived Workplace Discrimination: A Meta-Analysis of 35 Years of Research, Lindsay Dhanani
The Development and Testing of a Measurement System to Assess Intensive Care Unit Team Performance, Aaron Dietz
Effects of biotic interactions on coastal wetland communities with applications for restoration, Melinda Donnelly
Catholic Healing Masses: Intersections of Health and Healing in Yucatan, Suzanne Draper
Quantitative Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy of Thick Samples and of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles on Polymeric Surfaces, Aniruddha Dutta
The effect of free primary education programs on marriage for Kenyan women., Joanna Eisele
Dog Ownership as a Catalyst of Conflict and Relationship Maintenance in Romantic Relationships, Ashley Elrick
A Spatial Analysis of Chachapoya Mortuary Practices at La Petaca, Chachapoyas, Peru, Lori Epstein
Comparison of Second Order Conformal Symplectic Schemes with Linear Stability Analysis, Dwayne Floyd
Degradation of Hydrazine and Monomethylhydrazine for Fuel Waste Streams using Alpha-ketoglutaric Acid, Carolina Franco
Driving Performance Adaptation Through Practice With And Without Distracters In A Simulated Environment, Marc Gentzler
Explaining State Crisis Behavior Using the Operational Code, William George
Using Land Cover Mapping and Landscape Metrics to Evaluate Effects of Urban Development on Ecological Integrity in Florida, Michael Gilbrook
Pro-Life Progressivism: The Effect of Abortion Attitudes on Attitudes Towards Government Welfare Programs, Lauren Gilmore
Cognitive Dissonance in the Classroom: The Effects of Hypocrisy on Academic Dishonesty, Joanna Goldonowicz
Pinning Motherhood: The Construction of Mothering Identities on Pinterest, Kate Griffin
How Do Teams Become Cohesive? A Meta-Analysis of Cohesion's Antecedents, Rebecca Grossman
'Til Death Do I Wait: Experiences of Food Insecurity Among Elders on the Meals on Wheels Waiting List, Marie Gualtieri
A Senior Water Aerobics Class as a Subculture, Sarah Halbert
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
Theoretical and Numerical Studies of Phase Transitions and Error Thresholds in Topological Quantum Memories, Pejman Jouzdani
Electronic Properties And Atomic Scale Microscopy Of Two Dimensional Materials: Graphene And Molybdenum Disulfide, Jyoti Katoch
The Effects of State Leader Psychology on Civil War Lethality, Brandon Kelley
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
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 Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a New Measure of Self-Objectification, Danielle Lindner
Tiling the Integers, Shasha Li
Novel properties of ferromagnetic p-wave superconductors, Christopher Lorscher
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
Evaluation of the three-dimensional patterns and ecological impacts of the invasive Old World climbing fern (Lygodium microphyllum), Alexis Maldonado
Multifunctional and Responsive Polyelectrolyte Nanostructures, Astha Malhotra
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
Photoactivatable Organic and Inorganic Nanoparticles in Cancer Therapeutics and Biosensing, Mona Mathew
Group Differences in Perceived Workplace Mistreatment: A Meta-Analysis, Mallory McCord
Assessing the Effectiveness of Workload Measures in the Nuclear Domain, Joseph Mercado
Marital Adjustment in Parents of Multiple Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Rachel Mills
Terahertz and Sub-Terahertz Tunable Resonant Detectors Based on Excitation of Two Dimensional Plasmons in InGaAs/InP HEMTs, Esfahani, Nima Nader
Optical and Magnetic properties of nanostructures, Neha Nayyar
An Examination of the Connection Between Genuine Dialogue and Improv, Kathleen O'Neal
Video game self-efficacy and its effect on training performance, Skilan Ortiz
Bioarchaeological assessment of diet and changes in femoral and humeral stable isotopic values among subadults at Medieval Alytus, Lithuania., Katherine Page
Performing on the Screen: An Exploration of Gender Representation in Technology Video Advertisements, Subriena Persaud
Tea Time: A Comparative Analysis of the Tea Party Caucus and House Republican Conference in the One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Stephen Phillips
Economic Inequality and Democratic Representative Institutions Across Western Industrialized Democracies, Donald Plungis
The Modern Gender Gap in Partisanship and Ideology: a Cross-National Analysis, Tiffany Quick
Character Evolution and Microbial Community Structure in a Host-associated Grasshopper, Tyler Raszick
How Many Are Out There? A Novel Approach For Open and Closed Systems, Zia Rehman
Traversing the Terrain: A Least Cost Analysis on Intersite Causeways in the Maya Region, Alexander Rivas
Advertising Risk: A Comparative Content Analysis of Contraceptive Advertisements Targeting Black and White Women, Tiffany Rogers
Electronic transport and correlations in single magnetic molecule devices, Javier Romero
Nano-pipette as nanoparticle analyzer and capillary gated ion transistor, Yauheni Rudzevich
On the range of the Attenuated Radon Transform in strictly convex sets., Kamran Sadiq
Exploring Stereotype Threat in the Workplace with Sexual Minorities, Elizabeth Sanz
Evaluation of a Digitally-Automated Alcohol Curriculum Designed to Alter Expectancies and Alcohol Use in First Year College Students, Amy Schreiner
The Effects of Viewing Sexually Explicit Materials on Men's Body Image Satisfaction, Interest in Pursuing Cosmetic Surgery, and Body Change Behaviors, Elizabeth Schuster
Structural and Functional Studies of Glycine Riboswitches and Development of Fab Chaperone Assisted RNA Crystallography, Eileen Sherman
Movements, fishery interactions, and unusual mortalities of bottlenose dolphins, Steven Shippee
Creating Constructs Through Categorization: Gender and Race, Joshua Simpkins
Dynamical spin injection in graphene, Simranjeet Singh
Experiments in Graphene and Plasmonics, Christian Smith
Leadership Distrust, Need for Power, and the Initiation of Militarized Interstate Disputes, Gary Smith
Perceptions of Education as an Avenue to Life Course Success: A Study of Millennials, Patrick Smith
Impacts of Complexity and Timing of Communication Interruptions on Visual Detection Tasks, Sally Stader
The Pre-Emptive Election: How the Mass Media Determine Winners and Losers in Presidential Primaries, 1988-2012, Joshua Stewart
Fluorescence Off-On Sensors for F-, K+, Fe3+, and Ca2+ Ions, Binglin Sui
Twitter Implementation Within Megachurches: An Examination of the Social Media's Effectiveness, Andrea Thompson
Integral Projection Models Reveal Interactive Effects of Biotic Factors and Disturbance on Plant Demography, Matthew Tye
Nonlinear Dispersive Partial Differential Equations of Physical Relevance with Applications to Vortex Dynamics, Robert VanGorder
Supranational Organizations and Legitimacy: How the 2008 Global Economic Crisis has affected Public Opinion on Membership in the EU, Briana Vargas-Gonzalez
Hispanic Immigrant Parental Messages of Resiliency and Emotional Regulation to their Children: An Examination of Important Variables and an Intervention, Rodrigo Velezmoro
Electrical Conductivity Imaging via Boundary Value Problems for the 1-Laplacian, Johann Veras
Synthesis of Fluorescent Molecules and their Applications as Viscosity Sensors, Metal Ion Indicators, and Near-Infrared Probes, Mengyuan Wang
Diet at medieval Alytus, Lithuania: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of bone and dentin collagen, Katie Whitmore
When Leaders Repress: A Study of African States, Ashley Wilkes
The Effects of Divided Government on Women's Organizations' Political Activity in Developed Democracies, Alexandria Wilson
Novel Developments on the Extraction and Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Environmental Samples, Walter Wilson
Plugging Up the Leaky STEM Pipeline with a Stereotype Threat Mentoring Intervention, Luiz Xavier
The effects of non-native species on two life-stages of the Eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica, Wei Yuan