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Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

An Emerging Market: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Underserviced Consumers within the U.S. Banking Subsector of the Financial Services Industry, Rebecca Staunton

The Masking Effect: A comparison of pre and post folic acid fortification periods for vitamin B-12 deficiency without macrocytosis in the United States, Benjamin D. Steele

Psychometric Properties of the Saint Louis University Mental Status Examination (SLUMS) for the Identification of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) in a Veteran Sample, Susan Stern

Competencies in Animal Assisted Therapy in Counseling: A Qualitative Investigation of the Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes Required of Competent Animal Assisted Therapy Practitioners, Leslie A. Stewart

Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts: An Organizational and Historical Approach to Understanding Socialization and Gendered Leadership, Natalie Stewart

Knowledge Assets and Firm Boundaries, Todd Stonitsch

A Catalyst Toward Caring: Middle School Art Lessons that Embrace the Value of Compassion, Lauren Ashley Stovall

Institutionalized Speech: The Presidency and the Domestic Auto Industry, Steve A. Stuglin

Teacher Beliefs and Practices in Designing and Implementing Problem Based Learning in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom: A Case Study, Umamaheswari Subramanian

Atom-Specific Modification of Uracil Bases with Selenium for RNA Structure and Function Studies, Huiyan Sun

Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Inference For The Pietra Ratio, Yueju Su

Perceptions and Roles of School Psychologists in Transition Services for Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Devadrita Talapatra

Justice-Based Normative Recovery Expectations in Enterprise Information Technology Services: The Effect of Failure Severity and Criticality on Disconfirmation and Satisfaction, Andrew C. Tang

A Comparison of Two Modeling Techniques in Customer Targeting For Bank Telemarketing, Hong Tang

Parallel Discrete Event Simulation on Many Core Platforms Using Parallel Heap Event Queues, Govardhan Tanniru

Towards "The World House": Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Gobal Vision of Peace and Justice, 1956-1968, Bryan Terry

Fatherhood from their Voices: Discovering the Meaning of Black Non-Residential Fatherhood, Amberly Thompson

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Literacy Instruction, and Teacher Decision Making: A Formative Experiment Investigating Shifts in Teachers' Beliefs and Practices, Natasha A. Thornton

A Mathematical Model For Population Dynamics of Antibiotic Treatment, siyu tian

Black Voices: A Trilogy of Twenty-First Century Plays Addressing the Hidden Bruises and Inner Strength of a Generation of African Americans, Willie L. Todd Jr.

The Haunted Don's House: Architectural Liminality, Socio-poltical Conservation and Burgeoning Modernism in Montague Rhodes James's "Episode of Cathedral History", Daniel Townsend

Identification of Medical Interpreter Services in Atlanta Metropolitan Area, Huong Giang Tran

Effects of Morphographic Instruction on Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students' Morphographic Analysis Skills, Jessica W. Trussell

Effects of Theory of Mind Training on the False Belief Understanding of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Prekindergarten and Kindergarten, Stacey L. Tucci

The Rhetorical City: (Re)Arranging and (Dis)Placing Atlanta's Urban Space, Scott Tulloch

Assessing the Prevalence, Participants, and Predictors of Coproduction: The Case of Atlanta, Georgia, Kelechi Uzochukwu

Taking Care: An Exploration of Care Through Art and Intimacy, Megan Van Deusen

A meta-analysis of Type I error rates for detecting differential item functioning with logistic regression and Mantel-Haenszel in Monte Carlo studies, Eva Van De Water

Molecular Dynamics Simulations Towards The Understanding of the Cis-Trans Isomerization of Proline As A Conformational Switch For The Regulation of Biological Processes, Hector Velazquez

"You Ain't Got No Blueprint on It": How Discovery Channel's Moonshiners Re-Presents and Revises Southern Appalachian Cultural Memory, Kelly Vines

A Preliminary Analysis of the Relationship between Hazards in the Home and the Potential for Abuse with Families At-Risk, Jyll Walsh

From "Click" to "Click and Release", Using Inverse Electron Demand Diels-Alder Reaction for Chemical and Medicinal Applications, Danzhu Wang

Data Assimilation for Agent-Based Simulation of Smart Environment, Minghao Wang

One DNA minor groove, many possibilities: from sequence recognition to transcription factor inhibition, Shuo Wang

Data Mining Analysis of the Parkinson's Disease, Xiaoyuan Wang

Children's Imitation of a Weight Sorting Rule, Zhidan Wang

Abjection and Empathy: The Shared Spaces and Blurred Boundaries of Infinite Jest, Emily Washburn

Shadow, Skin, and Surface; Examining the Work of Viviane Sassen, Christina P. Washington

The Function of Timbral Processes In Webern’s Symphonie op. 21, mvt I, Connor Way

Untouchable Hunger: Framing Of Childhood Poverty In India, May 2012-April 2014, Amber L. Welch

Supporting Preschool Teachers’ Use Of Positive Behavior Strategies Through Conjoint Behavioral Consultation, Lisa Wells

Factors That Influence Application Migration To Cloud Computing In Government Organizations: A Conjoint Approach, Barry C. West

A Proposed Evaluation Plan for Kaiser Permanente’s Diabetes Disease Management Program, Kathryn Wiedeman

Navigating a Moratorium of Identities: An Autoethnography Analyzing Cultural Capital in the Mathematics Classroom, Candace Williams

Cleavage of Lipids and DNA by Metal Ions and Complexes, Dominique Williams

Physical Activity and Psychological Stress Resilience: Considering Anxiety Vulnerability, Nicole Wilner

Meta-Didactical Slippages: A Qualitative Case Study of Didactical Situations in a Ninth Grade Mathematics Classroom, Nathan J. Wisdom

Who's Afraid Of The Wicked Wit?: A Comparison Of The Satirical Treatment Of The University System In Terry Pratchett's Discworld And Evelyn Waugh's Decline And Fall, Mary Alice Wojciechowski

A Rhetoric of Data: How a Technology Company Communicates Research, Laurissa Wolfram-Hvass

Comparative Modalities of Network Neutrality, Kyle Wrather

"Coarse Grained" Bead Modeling of Macromolecules Transport in Free Solution and in a Gel, Hengfu Wu

The Black Middle Class: Negotiating Literacy Identities In Church And School, Kamania Wynter Hoyte

Interdisciplinarity among Academic Scientists: Individual and Organizational Factors, Fang Xiao

Data Assimilation Based on Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Dynamic Data Driven Simulation, Haidong Xue

Modeling Assemblies and Interactions at the Replication Fork: Sliding Clamps and Clamp Interacting Enzymes, Xiaojun Xu

Personal Practical Knowledge of Graduate Spanish-Teaching Assistants: An Issue of Experience, Nancy Yanez-Pinto

Mapping the Relationships among the Cognitive Complexity of Independent Writing Tasks, L2 Writing Quality, and Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency of L2 Writing, Weiwei Yang

Releasing The Power Within: Exploring The Magical Girl Transformation Sequence With Flash Animation, Danielle Z. Yarbrough

Global Poverty, Migration, and Guest Worker Programs, Carson Young

Essays on Financial Risk Modeling and Forecasting, Jinyu Yu

HIV Drug Resistant Prediction and Featured Mutants Selection using Machine Learning Approaches, Xiaxia Yu

Integration Of Extracellular And Intracellular Signals Via The Calcium Sensing Receptor (CASR), Chen Zhang

Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Inferences for the Skewness and Kurtosis, Yan Zhang

Understanding The Influence Of Participants' Preferences On The Affiliation Network Of Churches Using Agent-based Modeling, Yingzhi Zhang

The Shapes of Cultures: A Case Study of Social Network Sites/Services Design in the U.S. and China, Jin Zhao

Vibrational Properties of Quinones in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers, Nan Zhao

Maximum Energy Subsampling: A General Scheme For Multi-resolution Image Representation And Analysis, Yanjun Zhao

Ambiguous Space: the Research of Transparency and Shallow Space in Architecture, Yue Zhao

Characteristics and Odds of Having LTBI among Risk Groups (NHANES, 2011-2012), Mirwais Zhuben

African American Parents' Socialization Around Racism in the Education System, Allana Zuckerman

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Effects of Escapin Intermediate Products (EIP-K) on Biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Marwa Nabil Abdelaziz Ahmed

Refashioning After the Split: Morocco and the Remaking of French Christianity After the 1905 Law of Separation, Whitney E. Abernathy

Lifting the Veil Between George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil" and Henry James' "The Beast in the Jungle, Dan Abitz

Indium Nitride Surface Structure, Desorption Kinetics and Thermal Stability, Ananta R. Acharya

The Thought Experiments are Rigged: Mechanistic Understanding Inhibits Mentalistic Understanding, Toni S. Adleberg

Examining the Relationship Between Participation in Cross Career Learning Communities and Teacher Retention, Comfort Y. Afolabi

Scientific High Performance Computing (HPC) Applications On The Azure Cloud Platform, Dinesh Agarwal

Transforming High School Physics With Modeling And Computation, John M. Aiken

Nonparametric Inferences for the Hazard Function with Right Truncation, Haci Mustafa Akcin

A Framework for Discovery and Diagnosis of Behavioral Transitions in Event-streams, Arash Akhlaghi

Mechanisms of Localization of Symbiont-produced Natural Products in Host Colony, Fahmina Akhter

Is Pinterest Really Killing Feminism?, Lauren E. Alford

The Effect of Aerosol Devices and Administration Techniques on Drug Delivery in a Simulated Spontaneously Breathing Pediatric Model with a Tracheostomy, Bshayer R. Alhamad

To Give and To Receive: Examining Feedback in Three Coaching Dyads From the Perspective of a University Coach and Teach For America Corps Members, Monica M. Alicea

Diagnosing Social Support and Performance Management: A Case Study of Contextual Ambidexterity in a Manufacturing Company, Darren K. Allen

"I Stay to Myself": Relocated Public Housing Residents' Neighboring Strategy, Renée Skeete Alston

The Impact of Ethiopian Health Services Extension Program on Maternal and Child Health Outcomes:The Case of Tigray Region, Selamawit A. Amare

The Effect of an Educational Intervention in Women with Gestational Diabetes: A Pilot Study, Janeen S. Amason

The Good, The Bad, and The Funny: A Neurocognitive Study of Laughter as a Meaningful Socioemotional Cue, Richard Amoss

A Common Monitoring & Evaluation Framework Guided by the Collective Impact Model: Recommendations to Enhance the Tobacco Control Effort in Sub-Saharan Africa, Meenu Anand

The Intersection of Working Memory and Emotion Recognition in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Sharlet Anderson

How Partisanship and Racial Trust Translate into Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ryan Arbuckle

A Plain Apology: Teaching Plain Style in First-Year Composition, Benjamin H. Austin

Increasing Effective Self-Advocacy Skills in Elementary Age Children with Physical Disabilities, Mary Jane T. Avant

Adolescent Sexual Victimization: The Role of Social Support and Risky Lifestyle, Andia M. Azimi

An Examination of the Association between Malaria Knowledge and Bed Net Use of Pregnant Women Receiving Antenatal Care at Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, Nigeria., Modupe Babalola

Bichas, Sapatões e Putas: Director Sandra Werneck Advocates for Human Rights Through Three Brazilian Films, Kristen R. Badger

The Relationship Between Unmetabolized Folic Acid and Serum Folate Concentrations and Cancer Risk in Older US Adults, Regine L. Baldauff

Folk Medicine Use Among The Gullah: Bridging The Gap Between Folk Medicine And Westernized Medicine, Tiara S. Banks

Literacy Instruction in the Wake of Common Core State Standards, Jennifer Barrett-Mynes