Dissertations from 2012
Residents' Interaction with their College Living-Learning Peer Mentor: A Grounded Theory, Jonathan Wylie
BIOLOGY, HISTOPATHOLOGY, AND IMPROVEMENTS IN AXENIC CULTURE OF LABYRINTHULA TERRESTRIS, CAUSAL AGENT OF RAPID BLIGHT OF COOL-SEASON TURFGRASSES, Kirthi kiran Yadagiri
Exit, voice, and human security: Serbs in Kosovo after declaration of independence, Ekaterina Yazykova
Stochastic Tools for Network Security: Anonymity Protocol Analysis and Network Intrusion Detection, Lu Yu
Three Essays on Contingent Valuation, Samuel Zapata raudales
PROGNOSTIC AND HEALTH-MANAGEMENT ORIENTED FUEL CELL MODELING AND ON-LINE SUPERVISORY SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT, Xian Zhang
Optimal Energy Management for Microgrids, Zheng Zhao
GENETIC ENGINEERING OF TURFGRASS FOR ENHANCED PERFORMANCE UNDER ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS, Man Zhou
Dissertations from 2011
The Ethics of Obstruction, Joshua Abboud
EFFECT OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL ON IN-CABIN THERMAL COMFORT STATE, Ali Alahmer
COMPUTATIONAL-ANALYSIS ASSISTED INTRODUCTION OF FRICTION STIR WELDING INTO DEVELOPMENT OF LIGHT-WEIGHT HIGH-SURVIVABILITY MILITARY VEHICLES, Guruprasad Arakere
PILOT WEATHER DECISION MAKING AND THE INFLUENCE OF PASSENGER PRESSURE, Jaclyn Baron
ASSESSMENT OF READINESS TO PARTICIPATE IN DISTANCE LEARNING OF THE CERTIFIED FLORIDA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH WORKFORCE, George Baston
Novel Nanofiber Structures and Advanced Tissue Engineering Applications, Vince Beachley
MULTI-LENGTH SCALE MODELING OF THE HIGH-PRESSURE, LARGE-STRAIN, HIGH-STRAIN-RATE RESPONSE OF SODA-LIME GLASS, William Bell
Complex Organizations: A Cultural Analysis of a Christian College, Daniel Bennett
CHARACTERIZATION OF PIEDMONT PRAIRIE SITES IN NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, James Benson
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND FITNESS OF GPGPU AND MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES FOR SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS, Mohammad Bhuiyan
IMPACTS OF PSYCHOTROPIC PHARMACEUTICALS ON HYBRID STRIPED BASS: ALTERED PREDATION BEHAVIOR AS A FUNCTION OF CHANGES IN BRAIN CHEMISTRY, Joseph Bisesi
Optimization-Based Power Management of Hybrid Power Systems with Applications in Advanced Hybrid Electric Vehicles and Wind Farms with Battery Storage, Hoseinali Borhan
An investigation of the effects of surfactant monolayers on natural convection heat transfer and evaporative mass transfer, Steven Bower
A THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION EXAMINING DNA CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON GLYCOSYLASE FUNCTION, Allyn Brice
APPLICATIONS OF MODERATE-RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES FOR SURFACE AIR POLLUTION MONITORING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, Arika Bridhikitti
An Examination of Adaptive Leadership Processes Using Action Research, Margaret Bright
IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DECHLORINATING MICROORGANISMS FROM LAKE HARTWELL, SC, Tess Brothersen
Teams and Stress: A Meta-Analysis and Process Analysis, Brandy Brown
SEMIFLUORINATED AROMATIC ETHER POLYMERS SEGMENTED WITH POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL (PEG), Dakarai Brown
Activities of Muscadine Grape Skin and Polyphenolic Constituents against Helicobacter pylori, Joseph Brown
Avoiding Engagement with 'Invisibles:' Religious Issues and the Field of English Education, Robert Bruce
FATTY ACIDS AND LIPOGENESIS IN RUMINANT ADIPOCYTES, Taber Burns
Evaluating the Use of Functional Representations for Ideation in Conceptual Design, Benjamin Caldwell
Automated, Parallel Optimization Algorithms for Stochastic Functions, Dheeraj Chahal
IMPROVING QUALITY OF SERVICE IN EMS SYSTEMS BY REDUCING DISPARITIES BETWEEN SERVICE ZONES, Sunarin Chanta
Contaminant mass transfer during boiling in fractured geologic media, Fei Chen
A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING CONVEYANCE OPTIONS AND MODELING PASSENGER FLOW IN AIRPORT TERMINALS, Ping-nan Chiang
Fluid Mud Underflows in Coastal Dredge Disposal, Mijanur Chowdhury
A Dynamic Network Analysis of Vision in Complex Organizations, Jon Christiansen
Essays on the Link Between Alcohol Consumption and Youth Fertility, Inna Cintina
NOT YET A WOMAN, NOT YET A MOM: THE LEISURE EXPERIENCES OF PREGNANT ADOLESCENTS, Brianna Clark
POPULATION GENETICS AND SPECIES INTERACTIONS: FROM THEORY TO AGRO-ECOSYSTEMS, Cynthia Climer
IN-WHEEL COUPLED SUSPENISON AND DRIVE SYSTEM FOR ATTITUDE CONTROL AND VEHICLE PROPULSION, Robert Clippard
Essays in the Political Economy of Higher Education Funding, Benjamin Compton
ESSAYS ON CUSTOMER TRAINING AND EDUCATION IN SERVICE DESIGN, Uzay Damali
LENTIVIRAL-MEDIATED RNAi KNOCKDOWN YIELDS A NOVEL MOUSE MODEL FOR STUDYING CYP2B FUNCTION, Basma Damiri
Essays on the Performance of US Bank Holding Companies, Liliana Danila
Characterizing Mechanical Heterogeneity in Cardiovascular Cells, Sandra Deitch
Investigation of Two-Phase Behavior in Capillary Evaporators with Liquid Core Visualization, Brian D'entremont
ELECTRICAL DETECTION OF MECHANICAL RESONANCE IN NANOTUBES AND SEMICONDUCTING NANOWIRES, Doyl Dickel
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THIRD WAVE REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, Lori Dickes
Understanding the Role of Embeddedness in Shaping IT Professional Behavior, Michael Dinger
INDIVIDUAL AND SITUATIONAL MODERATORS OF THE WILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE IN A WORKPLACE ROMANCE, Jessica Doll
Measurements of Mass Accretion Rates in Herbig Ae/Be Stars, Brian Donehew
Composition and ecophysiological proficiency of tidal freshwater forested wetlands: Investigating basin, landscape, and microtopographic scales, Jamie Duberstein
The Design & Implementation of an Abstract Semantic Graph for Statement-Level Dynamic Analysis of C++ Applications, Edward Duffy
HOW UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN AT A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTION VIEW LEADERSHIP: A PHENOMENOLOGY, Carolyn Dupre
The Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes to Daphnia magna, Aaron Edgington
An Investigation of the Application of Phase Change Materials in Practical Thermal Management Systems, David Ewing
Un/Composing (Visual) Rhetorics: A (Strange) Comic(s) View of Writing in the Age of New Media, Sergio Figueiredo
Investigations of the PPi-dependent Acetate Kinase from the Parasite Entamoeba histolytica, Matthew Fowler
Does Money Matter? Investigating the Financing of Emerging Firms, Casey Frid
IT-BUSINESS STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT: ESSAYS EXAMINING TYPES OF ALIGNMENT AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FIRM PERFORMANCE, Jennifer Gerow
LIGHT-EMITTING NANOCOMPOSITES AND NOVEL AMORPHOUS POLYMERS FOR OPTICAL APPLICATIONS, Kyle Gipson
Applicant self-selection during the hiring process: Developing and testing a model of applicant withdrawal, Gary Giumetti
Modeling and Optimization of Stochastic Process Parameters in Complex Engineering Systems, Paul Goethals
SINGLE PARTICLE AND ENSEMBLE SPECTROSCOPY OF CONJUGATED POLYMER NANOPARTICLES AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT FOR PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY, Jennifer Grimland
Mechanical and Modular Verification Condition Generation for Object-Based Software, Heather Harton
You Belong Here: An 'Interpellative' Approach to Usability, Alicia Hatter
CHARACTERIZING LIQUEFACTION POTENTIAL OF PLEISTOCENE SOIL DEPOSITS IN THE CHARLESTON AREA, SOUTH CAROLINA, Tahereh Heidari
Tight Polyhedral Representations of Discrete Sets Using Projections, Simplices, and Base-2 Expansions, Stephen Henry
Fluid Dynamics of Cell Printing, Ping He
Measuring the Impact of Youth EFNEP: Questionnaire Development and Validation, Yenory Hernandez
A SURVEY OF HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION SYSTEMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BOVINE FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE AND LUTEINIZING HORMONE, Marcia Hesser
ESTIMATING AND MITIGATING RADIATED EMISSIONS FROM PCB HEATSINKS, Xinbo He
THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF NICKEL AND TITANIUM CO-INTERCALATED TITANIUM DISELENIDE, Timothy Holgate
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO ASSESSING THE RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY OF COMMUNITY BASED TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA, Patrick Holladay
VIRTUAL TOURISM: IDENTIFYING THE FACTORS THAT AFFECT A TOURIST'S EXPERIENCE AND BEHAVIORAL INTENTIONS IN A 3D VIRTUAL WORLD, Yu-chih Huang
THE EFFECTS OF CONCRETE-REPRESENTATIONAL-ABSTRACT SEQUENCED INSTRUCTION ON STRUGGLING LEARNERS ACQUISITION, RETENTION, AND SELF-EFFICACY OF FRACTIONS, Elizabeth Hughes
Exploring peer revision in writing through online collaboration in a middle grades classroom, Sarah Hunt-barron
PERSUASIVE PACKAGING: AN EYE-TRACKING APPROACH TO DESIGN, Rupert Hurley
THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AFFECTED BY AIDS: A POLICY PAPER FOCUSING ON THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION, Gita Jaffe
A METHODOLOGY FOR THE ANALYSIS OF IN-VEHICLE OPERATING DATA AND DESIGN OF INTELLIGENT VEHICLE SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY, Matthew Jensen
An Examination of Treatment Effects with a Focus on Postsecondary State Merit Aid Programs, Sherry Jensen
EXPLORING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS' PERCEPTION OF THEIR ROLE IN TEACHING CONTENT LITERACY IN THE ELEMENTARY, Lisa Jones-moore
Spatio-temporal modeling of arthropod-borne zoonotic diseases: a proposed methodology to enhance macro-scale analyses, Stephen Jones
Teacher Practices and High School Chemistry Students' Metacognitive Skillfulness, Joni Jordan