Theses/Dissertations from 2009
An Oxidized Fat Containing Diet Decreases Weight Gain but Increases Adiposity in Mice Fed a Low Fat Diet, Mary Katherine Schneider
I Remember..., Jessica Scott-Felder
An Application of Armitage Trend Test to Genome-wide Association Studies, Nigel A. Scott
Learning Outcomes in Two Divergent Middle School String Orchestra Classroom Environments: A Comparison of a Learner-Centered and a Teacher-Centered Approach, Bernadette Butler Scruggs
Delirium Tremens, Charles Austin Segrest
An Analysis of Glycolytic Enzymes in the Cellular Response to Metal Toxicity, Anupama Shanmuganathan
Synthesis, Structure and Function Studies of Selenium and Tellurium Derivatized Nucleic Acids, Jia Sheng
Essay 1: 'An Examination of the Efficiency, Foreclosure, and Collusion Rationales for Vertical Takeovers' Essay 2: 'Determinants of Firm Vertical Boundaries and Implications for Internal Capital Markets', Jaideep Ranjal Shenoy
Motivating Emotional Content, Benjamin Sheredos
Female Students and Achievement in Secondary School Mathematics, Barry P. Shildneck
STCP: A New Transport Protocol for High-Speed Networks, Ranjitha Shivarudraiah
KATP Channel Action in Vascular Tone Regulation During Septic Shock: Beyond Physiology, Weiwei Shi
Consumer Goods?, Matt Sigmon
An Adaptive Mesh MPI Framework for Iterative C++ Programs, Karunamuni Charuka Silva
Evaluation of Decentralization Outcomes in Indonesia: Analysis of Health and Education Sectors, Rentanida Renata Simatupang
"When the Dog Bites..." A Socio-ecological Approach to Dog Bite Injury Prevention by Targeting Dog Owners in the United States, Saswati Dolly Sinha
Election Boycotts and Regime Survival, Ian Oliver Smith
Wangechi Mutu: Feminist Collage and the Cyborg, Nicole R. Smith
Leading in Diverse Schools: Principals' Perceptions of Building Relationships with Hispanic/Latino Families, Sage Doolittle Smith
The Quest to Retain Teachers: One School System's Story of Teacher Movement, Karen Smits
Dichotomous Musical Worlds: Interactions between the Musical Lives of Adolescents and School Music-Learning Culture, Todd Edwin Snead
R&D Investment Strategies of Firms: Renewal or Abandonment. A Real Options Perspective, Pingping Song
Endothelial Cell Factors Involved in Bartonella Bacilliformis Pathogenesis, Tanushree Soni
The Nature of Feedback Provided to Elementary Students in Classrooms where Grading and Reporting are Standards-Based, Dawn Hopkins Souter
Changes in Branding Strategy: A Discourse Analysis of NATO Publications and Speech Regarding its Russian Relationship and the NATO-Russia Council, Alexandra Kornilia Sowers
Coke vs. Pepsi: The Cola Wars in South Africa during The Anti-Apartheid Era, John Kirby Spivey
CDC.gov's Web-based Outreach Channels for H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu), Joanne Lisa Stein
The Mystery of the Body: Embodiment in the Nancy Drew Mystery Series, Katie Still
An Autoethnography:A Mathematics Teacher's Journey of Identity Construction and Change, Anthony B. Stinson
Correlational Study for Predictor Variables Affecting Duration on Bubble CPAP, Alison Louise Stoeri
Investigating the Efficacy of Video versus Text Instruction for the Recall of Food Safety Information, Charlotte Ellenor Stokes
Epicurean Friendship: How are Friends Pleasurable?, Melissa Marie Strahm
Organizational Accessibility and Community Connections: Examining Changes in the Spatial Proximity of Pubic Housing Residents to Social Service Providers and Providers' Responses to Redevelopment, Kimberly Ann Stringer
Modernist Aesthetics of "Home" in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier, James Harper Strom
The Production of Political Discourse: Annual Radio Addresses of Black College Presidents During the 1930s and 1940s, Vickie Leverne Suggs
International Students' Psychological and Sociocultural Adaptation in the United States, Seda Sumer
High Performance Simulation of DEVS Based Large Scale Cellular Space Models, Yi Sun
A Task-Centered Visualization Design Environment and a Method for Measuring the Complexity of Visualization Designs, Xiaoyuan Suo
Investigation of Interactions of the Rubella Virus P150 Replicase Protein with Host Cell Proteins in Infected Cells, Suganthi Suppiah
Emerging Paths to Literacy: Modeling Individual and Environmental Contributions to Growth in Children's Emergent Literacy Skills, Deanne W. Swan
A Spatial Analysis of the Relationship between Pedestrian Crash Events and Features of the Built Environment in Downtown Atlanta, Emily Palmer Taquechel
Do Wedge Issues Matter?: Examining Persuadable Voters and Base Mobilization in the 2004 Presidential Election, James Benjamin Taylor
The Ecology of the Availability and Access to Healthy Food in Atlanta, Georgia, Tina M. Taylor
An Analysis of Postpartum Depression and Care Seeking Behaviors in Georgia, Sarah Elizabeth Tennyson
Friending Your Way to Political Knowledge: A Field Experiment of Computer-Mediated Social Networks, Holly A. Teresi
Heterocyclic Diamidines Induce Sequence Dependent Topological Changes in DNA; A Study Using Gel Electrophoresis, Denise Susanne Tevis
A Monte Carlo Study Investigating the Influence of Item Discrimination, Category Intersection Parameters, and Differential Item Functioning in Polytomous Items, Carol Jenetha Thurman
The Moderating Role of Adult Connections in High School Students' Sense of School Belonging, Amy Dutton Tillery
Comparing Obesity Trends in Rural Versus Urban Peru from 1991 to 2005, Dana Timar
MTSR is a Dual Regulator that Controls Virulence Genes and Metabolic Functions in Addition to Metal Homeostasis in Group A Streptococcus, Chadia Toukoki
A Multi-Wavelength Investigation of Seyfert 1.8 and 1.9 Galaxies, Margaret Trippe
The Moral Reality of War: Defensive Force and Just War Theory, Maj Robert E. Underwood III
Implementing Energy-Saving Improvements to the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Protocol, Marco Valero
Trusting IT Artifacts: How Trust Affects our Use of Technology, Anthony Osborn Vance
Subversion of Natural Killer Cell Defenses Induced by a Deadly Zoonotic Virus, Mugdha Vasireddi
Applications of Linear Algebra to Information Retrieval, Jhansi Lakshmi Vasireddy
Jamaican Girls' Ethnic Identity and The Mathematics Classroom: An Ethnographic Case Study, Sandra Vernon-Jackson
Inconsistency and Incompleteness in Relational Databases and Logic Programs, Navin Viswanath
Distributed Energy-Efficient Solutions for Area Coverage Problems in Wireless Sensor Networks, Chinh Trung Vu
Prevalence and Correlates of Gender Based Violence among Conflict Affected Women: Findings from Two Congolese Refugee Camps in Rwanda, Etobssie Wako
The Thirteenth-Century Fresco Decoration of Santa Maria Ad Cryptas in Fossa, Italy, Ashely Wilemon Walker
Taking Eudora Welty's Text Out of the Closet: Delta Wedding's George Fairchild and the Queering of Saint George, James R. Wallace
Invisible at Every Turn an Examination of Lesbian Intimate Partner Violence, Mikel L. Walters
Some Contributions in Statistical Discrimination of Different Pathogens Using Observations through FTIR, Dongmei Wang
CEO Risk Taking and Firm Policies: Evidence from CEO Employment History, Lingling Wang
Predicting Protein Calcium Binding Sites, Xue Wang
Batch Scheduling in Optical Burst Switching Networks, Yichuan Wang
Literature as Prophecy: Toni Morrison as Prophetic Writer, Khalilah Tyri Watson
Factors Affecting Construction of Science Discourse in the Context of an Extracurricular Science and Technology Project, Horace P. Webb
Does the Relationship Matter? A Closer Examination of the of Relationship Quality in Program Fidelity Research, Joanna Rose Weinberg
An Examination of the Influence of Stress and Coping on Psychosocial Functioning in Caregivers of Children with Sickle Cell Disease, Josie S. Welkom
Biological Inference using Flow Networks, Kelly Anthony Westbrooks
Death and Dying in Assisted Living, Amanda M. White
What is Mathematics? An Exploration of Teachers' Philosophies of Mathematics during a Time of Curriculum Reform, Kimberly White-Fredette
Bartonella Clarridgeiae: Invasion of Human Microvascular Endothelial Cells and Role of Flagella in Virulence, Anne M. Whitney
Theoretical and Numerical Study of Tikhonov's Regularization and Morozov's Discrepancy Principle, MaryGeorge L. Whitney
Clay Mineralogy and Illite Crystallinity in the Late Devonian to Early Mississippian Woodford Shale in the Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma, USA, Richard Allen Whittington II
Baseline Knowledge Assessment of Cobb County Safe Kids Inspection Station Participants, Laurie Elizabeth Whorton
From Countrypolitan to Neotraditional: Gender, Race, Class, and Region in Female Country Music, 1980-1989, Dana C. Wiggins
Subtypes of Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Implications for Early and Future Diagnosis, Lisa D. Wiggins
Family Processes Promoting Achievement Motivation and Perceived School Competence among Latino Youth: A Cultural Ecological-Transactional Perspective, Natalie Jayne Wilkins
On the Border of a New Culture: Spanish-Speaking Middle School Newcomers' Perceptions, Expectations and Attitudes, Margo H. Williams
The Easy Way versus The Hard Way: Middle-Class Black Male Students' Perceptions of Education as it Relates to Success and Career Aspirations, Rita D. Williams
Not Trying: Reconceiving the Motherhood Mandate, Kristin J. Wilson
Spatial Politics and Discourses of the Public Voice in the Remaking of Marietta, Georgia, Margarett Elaine Wilson
Haven for all Hungry Souls: The Influence of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools on Morris Brown College, Serena Celeste Wilson
Essays on Interarea Wage Determination, John V. Winters
El Reguetón: Análisis Del Léxico De La Música De Los Reguetoneros Puertorriqueños, Ashley Elizabeth Wood
Welcome to America: A Culturally-Appropriate Resource Manual for Karen Refugees in DeKalb County, Georgia, Jamie Woods
Body, Speech and Mind: Negotiating Meaning and Experience at a Tibetan Buddhist Center, Amanda S. Woomer
Information: Moving forward with New Media through Experiments in Digital and Video Art., Benjmain James Worley
Connected Dominating Set Construction and Application in Wireless Sensor Networks, Yiwei Wu
Modeling and Querying Graph Data, Hong Yang
Design and Synthesis of Boronic Acid-Modified Nucleotides for Fluorescent Sensing and Cell Imaging, Xiaochuan Yang
Reinsurance Contracting with Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard: Theory and Evidence, Zhiqiang Yan
Congressional Debates Over Prisoner Education: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Mark Timothy Yates