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Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Influence Function-based Empirical Likelihood Inferences for Lorenz Curve, Bing Liu

Characterization of DrrAB Complex from Streptomyces Peucetius as A Multidrug Transporter, Wen Li

Francesca Caccini (1587-1641): Composer, Performer, and Professor Represented in Il Primo Libro Delle Musiche, Marina Lobato Miranda

Arts Integration: Models and Methods in Elementary Art Education, BRIANA M. LONG

Institutional Development and Monetary Policy Transmission, Luciana Teagno Lopes

The Impact of Systematically Hiring Top Talent: A Study of Topgrading as a Rigorous Employee Selection Bundle, Michael S. Lorence

Maternal Ministry, Other Mothering, And Finding Power For Women In The Black Church: A Phenomenological Exploration, Shauntia Lovett

J-Setting in Public: Black Queer Desires and Worldmaking, Lamont Loyd-Sims

Role of the Nucleus Accumbens and Mesolimbic Dopamine System in Modulating the Memory of Social Defeat in Male Syrian Hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus), Cloe Luckett

"Between the Devil and the Deep Sea": The Freedmen's Bureau at Marietta, Georgia, Jason Lutz

The Effects of Visual Color Stimuli on Zebra Finch Behavior and Stress Response, Bao Chau Ly

The Impact of Inventory Leanness and Slack Resources on Supply Chain Resilience: An Empirical Study, David J. Lyons

A Comparative Analysis of the Health Status of Children Under 5 Years of Age in the Dominican Republic and Dominican Bateyes, Fitumai Madrid

An Auto-ethnographic Study of Teaching Methods that Support Meaning Making in Middle School Art, Brenda Major

Investigating the Effects of Delivering Content Based on a Waves Learning Progression on Learning Outcomes in an Online High School Physics Unit, Timothy Maley

Algorithms for Viral Population Analysis, Nicholas Mancuso

NeuroRhetoric(s) and NeuroComposition: Foundational Questions for Future Research, Robert Manfredi

Process and Product: High School English Learners Redefined, Sarah Mantegna

An Examination of Factors Associated with the Use of Breast, Cervical, and Colon Cancer Screening Among Foreign-Born and Non-Foreign Born Individuals in the United States, Netsai Mariga

Making it in America: How Charles Dickens and His Cunning Manager George Dolby Made Millions from a Performance Tour of The United States, 1867-1868, Jillian Martin

Detection of Microvariability in a New Class of Blazar-Like AGN, Jeremy Maune

White Trash Cherub, Ashley Maxwell

The Effects Of Using Visual Statistics Software On Undergraduate Students' Achievement In Statistics And The Role Of Cognitive And Non-Cognitive Factors In Their Achievement, Kori Lloyd Hugh Maxwell

Beyond Your Perception: An Exploratory Study of Black Parent-Daughter Relationships and Hip Hop Influences on Adolescent Girls, Sherell A. McArthur

Using Molecular Dynamics to Elucidate the Mechanism of Cyclophilin, Lauren McGowan

Understanding the Health-related Challenges Experienced by Former State Prisoners Living with HIV: A Qualitative Study, Rene' Meadors

Stilz and Simmons on Justification, Legitimacy and Coercion, Laurie Mehrwein

Establishing 21st Century Expressionisim, Philip Messina

Performing Specters of Imperialism: Affect, Terror, and the Body in Naveed Mir's The Cinco Sanders Show, Andrea Miller

Wordsworth’s Prelude: The Continuing Relevance of the Epic in Education, David Miller

A Transformative Effect of Migration on Tolerance? Theory Building on Democratic Learning with Empirical Investigation in Romania, Raluca Miller

Samuel Butler's Ernest Pontifex, or The Way of All Flesh: Evolution, Religion, and Wealth, Carla Mills

Using Burke’s Dramatism to Unpack Intractable Conflict: Bush 43 and the Process of Peace in the Middle East, Trent Mills

The Nine-Week Bridge: A Middle School Art Curriculum with Focus on the Development of Drawing Skills, Julie W. Mitchell

Language and Literacy Multilevel Constructs in Young Nonmainstream American English Speakers: Examining Relationships between Latent Variables, Souraya Mansour Mitri

The Impact of Psychological Contract Fulfillment on Employee Engagement in the Millennial Generation: The Moderating Effects of Generational Affiliation, Traron Moore

South to Freedom? Anti-Apartheid Activism and Politics in Atlanta, 1976-1990, Lauren E. Moran

How School Library Media Specialists Support Reading and Information Literacy Skills Instruction for English Language Learners, Melinda Morin

The Impact of Help Seeking Attitudes, Perceived Racism, and Racial Identity on Intentions to Seek Counseling Amongst African American Undergraduate College Students, T.M. Mosley

Housing Demand, Commuting Patterns, and Land Use Responses to Public Investments, Chris Mothorpe

Parent-Child Behavioral Interactions During Pediatric Immunizations in a Latino Sample, Ifigenia Mougianis

Can Victims’ Compensation Reduce Revictimization Risk? Examining the Role of Victims’ Compensation and Satisfaction, Sadie Mummert

The Effect Of Student Default Rates For The Underprivileged: Engaging The University, Katherine Napier

Paying for the Gift of Education: A Critical Discourse Analysis of The Intown Academy of Atlanta, Scott Nesbit

On the Unity and Continuity of Science: Structural Realism's Underdetermination Problem and Reductive Structuralism's Solution, Anthony Blake Nespica

Essays on Strategic Risk Management, Sampan Nettayanun

The Debate of Immigration: Democracy, Autonomy, and Coercion, Brenny B. Nguyen

Hemispheric Asymmetries for Color and Number Working Memory Tasks, Trang Nguyen

The Horrific 'Mother/ Monster' and the Spaces Between in Ridley Scott's Alien and James Cameron's Aliens, Terri M. Nicholson

Sleeping Beauty: A New Problem for Halfers, Michael Nielsen

Effects of Phrase-Reading Ability, Syntactic Awareness, and Reading Rate on Reading Comprehension of Adolescent Readers in an Alternative Setting, Patsy Nomvete

Refugee Viral Hepatitis Coalition of Georgia: An Assessment of Capacity Building, Jenelle Nurse

Health Sector Strategy and Economic Development in Cameroon: History, Challenges and Perspectives., Valery Nzima Nzima

Information Sharing Tears of Irony: An Exploratory Study of the Information Sharing Paradox in the Intelligence Community, Kevin Odom Sr.

Maintenance of Neuron Activity by Homeostatic Alterations in Receptors and Ion Channels in a Rett Syndrome Mouse Model, Max Oginsky

The Relationships among the Experiences of Racial Microaggressions in Supervision, Traumatic Experiences, and the Supervisory Working Alliance in Professional Counselors and Counselors-in-Training, Caroline O'Hara

The Strategic Alignment of Organizational Interventions for Salesperson Development with Salesperson Lifecycle Management Model, Joon-Hee Oh

Postcolonial Trauma Narratives: Traumatic Historiography and Identity in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome, Jennifer Olive

Victimology, Andrea Orourke

The Effects of School and Neighborhood Characteristics On Delinquency, Drug and Alcohol Issues, Early Childbearing, and Welfare Receipt, Bobette Otto

The Clinton Administration's Use of Hermeneutic Opportunities in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide During the Bosnia and Rwanda Genocides, Kimberly Overmier

Inner-Shell Photoionization Of Free And Confined Mg, Prabha Padukka

Biochemical mapping of the measles virus H and F envelope glycoprotein protein-protein interface, Neha Arun Panchbhai

Conduits of Intratumor Heterogeneity: Centrosome Amplification, Centrosome Clustering and Mitotic Frequency, Vaishali Pannu

A Paleoethnobotanical Perspective on Late Classic Maya Cave Ritual at the Site of Pacbitun, Belize, Megan Parker

An Examination of the Impact of Pedagogical Preparation, Teaching Experience and Future Career Plans on Mathematics Graduate Teaching Assistants' Efficacy, Patrice Parker

The Role of Regret and Its Applications in IS Decision Making, EunHee Park

Stellar Variability: A Broad and Narrow Perspective, James Parks

Performance Management System Design and Implementation in Police Agencies: Is Following Recommended Practices Worth It?, Obed Pasha

Relationship Between Daily Protein Distribution and Body Composition in Elite Gymnasts, Julie A. Paszkiewicz

Teachers' Perceptions of Accent on Formative Reading Assessments, Meghan Pendergast

Spatial and Temporal Variation in Water Quality Along an Urban Stretch of the Chattahoochee River and Utoy Creek in Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, Charity Perkins

Metabolic Activities and Diversity of Microbial Communities Associated with Anaerobic Degradation, Verlin Perry

A Systematic Review on the Risk Factors Associated with the Resurgence of Pertussis in Highly Immunized Countries within the Last Ten Years (2004-2014), Lindsey Philip

Narratives of Caring in the Elementary Art Room, Lauren Christine Phillips

Tri-Octahedral Domains and Crystallinity in Synthetic Clays: Implications for Lacustrine Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, Rebecca Pickering

Nothing Good without Pain: Hans Memling's Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation, Megan Piorko

Words of Experience: Semantic Content Analysis and Individual Differences among Successful Second Language Learners, Brittany Polat

Forever Adolescence: Taylor Swift, Eroticized Innocence, and Performing Normativity, Valerie Pollock

The role of social and endocrinological context in regulating life history transitions among reproductive phenotypes in in the bluebanded goby, Lythrypnus dalli, Devaleena Pradhan

The role of social and endocrinological context in regulating life history transitions among reproductive phenotypes in the bluebanded goby, Lythrypnus dalli, Devaleena S. Pradhan

The Effects of an Experimenter on the Response to Inequity in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella), Sara Price

Mobility in the Neoliberal City: Atlanta's Left Behind Neighborhoods, Mechelle Puckett

Development of Novel Protein-Based MRI Contrast Agents for the Molecular Imaging of Cancer Biomarkers, Fan Pu

MRI Signal Intensity Analysis of Novel Protein-based MRI Contrast Agents, Yan Qian

Modeling the Dynamic Decision of a Contractual Adoption of a Continuous Innovation in B2B Market, Yingge Qu

Who Cares About Small Arms Anyway? An evaluation of research and policy, Joel Raffety

Evaluating and Improving Title IX and Related Federal Mandate Compliance as They Relate to Sexual Violence at Berea College, Sirajah Raheem

Histone acetylation modulates uncoupling protein1 expression in brown adipocytes, Anubama Rajan

The New Negro Teaches Writing: G. David Houston's Activist Rhetoric at Howard University, Jimisha I. Relerford

The Relationship between Moderate, Within Day Protein Intake and Energy Balance on Body Composition of Collegiate Sand Volleyball Players, Barbara B. Richardson

From Death to Depravity: How "Missing the Mark" Became "Original Sin", Grace A. Rivenbark

The Prevalence and Distribution of Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Type Two Diabetes Mellitus Among Young Adults Aged 20-40 Years, Utilizing NHANES Data from 1999-2010, Zachary Roach

Patterns of interaction in peer response: the relationship between pair dynamics and revision outcomes, Audrey P. Roberson

Empowered Princesses: An Ethnographic Examination of the Practices, Rituals, and Conflicts within Lolita Fashion Communities in the United States, Kyla Daniéll Robinson

Understanding Barriers to Enrollment and Completion of Evidence-based Interventions for Trauma Exposed Youth: the Potential Predictive Role of Parental Trauma Exposure, Sarah J. Roby

Emergent Bilinguals' Use of Social, Cultural, and Linguistic Resources in a Kindergarten Writing Workshop, Sanjuana C. Rodriguez

Latino Youth with Diabetes: A Mixed Methods Examination of Adherence and Metabolic Control within the Context of Sociopolitical and Policy Challenges, Alvina Rosales

The New Racism in the Media: a Discourse Analysis of Newspaper Commentary on Race, Presidential Politics, and Welfare Reform, Joseph P. Rose

Requisite Parental Involvement: Perceived Impact Upon Student Achievement and School Climate in a Magnet MiddleSchool, Elizabeth Rosner