Dissertations from 2013
DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF POLYMER - MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE COMPOSITES FOR USE IN BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS, Roland Stone
CORRELATION OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF CHONDROITIN SULFATE TO ITS IN-VITRO ABSORPTION AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY, Lahari Surapaneni
INFLUENCES OF RIPARIAN LAND-USES ON HABITAT USE AND INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION OF STREAM-DWELLING SALAMANDERS: EVIDENCE FROM BLUE RIDGE & PIEDMONT, Thilina Surasinghe
A RAWLSIAN INSTRUMENT FOR THE EVALUATION OF JUSTICE IN EDUCATIONAL POLICY DOCUMENTS, Ronald Thompson
DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF A NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION PLATFORM BETWEEN ASSISTIVE ROBOTS AND THEIR USERS, Anthony Threatt
Joint Location and Dispatching Decisions for Emergency Medical Service Systems, Hector Toro-diaz
Electrospun Nanofiber Yarns for Nanofluidic Applications, Chen-Chih Tsai
HYDROTHERMAL CHEMISTRY, CRYSTAL STRUCTURES, AND SPECTROSCOPY OF NOVEL FLUORIDES AND BORATES, Christopher Underwood
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMER LAYERS FOR CONTROL OF FLUID TRANSPORT, Fehime Vatansever
Functionalized nanomaterials and their biological applications, Pallavi Vedantam
Essays on Service Strategies: Evidence from Banking and Healthcare Industries, Sriram Venkataraman
EFFECT OF GRAPHITIC CARBON NANOMODIFIERS ON THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING EFFECTIVENESS OF LINEAR LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES, Byron Villacorta Hernandez
Bayesian Hypothesis Testing and Variable Selection in High Dimensional Regression, Min Wang
OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY STUDY AND ITS IMPACT ON SOUTH CAROLINA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, Tingting Wang
Bullying among U.S. school children: An examination of race/ethnicity and school-level variables on bullying, Weijun Wang
Approximation in Multiobjective Optimization with Applications, Lakmali Weerasena
BIOFABRICATION OF SCAFFOLDS FOR INTERVERTEBRAL DISC (IVD) TISSUE REGENERATION, Benjamin Whatley
Sensing Highly Non-Rigid Objects with RGBD Sensors for Robotic Systems, Robert Willimon
Factors Influencing the Distribution and Structure of Tropical Vascular Epiphyte Communities at Multiple Scales, Carrie Woods
INTEGRATING BIOMECHANICS AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY TO UNDERSTANDING IVD NUTRITION AND CELL HOMEOSTASIS, Yongren Wu
Attaining Sustainable Behavior among Non-environmentally-motivated Individuals: A Formative Experiment, Brooklynn Wynveen
ADAPTIVE MODEL BASED COMBUSTION PHASING CONTROL FOR MULTI FUEL SPARK IGNITION ENGINES, Baitao Xiao
Gesture-Based Robot Path Shaping, Paul Yanik
CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE NEUTRON-RICH IRON-GROUP ISOTOPES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF FUN CAIS, TIANHONG YU
ON THE CUSPIDALITY OF MAASS-GRITSENKO AND MIXED LEVEL LIFTS, Dania Zantout
A NOVEL HYBRID HYDROGEL FOR SCAFFOLD-MEDIATED GENE DELIVERY, Jeremy Zhang
Robust and Efficient Regression, Qi Zheng
PERFLUOROCYCLOBUTYL POLYMER THIN-FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE FABRICATION, PLASTICIZATION AND PHYSICAL AGING, Jinxiang Zhou
Surface Shape Perception in Volumetric Stereo Displays, Meng Zhu
THERMOELECTRIC STUDY OF INSB SECONDARY PHASE BASED NANO COMPOSITE MATERIALS, Song Zhu
Dissertations from 2012
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TURNING POINTS AND TRAVEL STYLES: A STUDY OF FIRST GENERATION OLDER KOREAN AMERICANS, Young-joo Ahn
SURFACE DAMAGE IN RETRIEVED TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT FEMORAL COMPONENTS, Estefania Alvarez
DYNAMIC AND STATIC EFFECTS IN WETTING OF CAPILLARIES AND FIBERS, Taras Andrukh
Essays on Attractiveness of Multinational Corporations, Nikolay Anguelov
ESSAYS IN FAMILY ECONOMICS, Bing Bai
DISTRICTING AND DISPATCHING POLICIES TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE (EMS) SYSTEMS, Damitha Bandara
Improving Accuracy in Ultra-Wideband Indoor Position Tracking through Noise Modeling and Augmentation, Salil Banerjee
Flushing of a Dense Fluid from an Isolated Urban Canyon, Zahra Baratian-ghorghi
An Examination of Predictive Factors Related to School Adjustment for Children with Disabilities Transitioning into Formal School Settings, Cynthia Baughan
EFFECTIVENESS OF CEO BLOGS AS A RECRUITING TOOL: IMPACT OF MESSAGE CONGRUENCE WITH APPLICANT PERSONALITY AND IMPLICIT LEADERSHIP THEORIES, Rebekkah Beeco
On factoring Hecke eigenforms, nearly holomorphic modular forms, and applications to L-values, Jeff Beyerl
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF NANOMATERIALS, Priyanka Bhattacharya
ADOLESCENT PERCEPTIONS OF DIGITAL PLAY: A STUDY IN THIRD-PERSON EFFECTS, Wendy Blanchard
Essays in Labor Economics, Adam Blott
Phase Transformation in Ti-Mo-O, Herbert Boeckels
Factors Influencing Nonprofit Leaders' Intention to Build Capacity, Kimberley Brown
Nature-based recreationists' perceptions of climate change and attitudes towards climate change mitigation in natural environments, Matthew Brownlee
The Demand for Green Cards, Richard Bruns
BeSocratic: An Intelligent Tutoring System for the Recognition, Evaluation, and Analysis of Free-form Student Input, Samuel Bryfczynski
THE POWER OF THERMONUCLEAR SUPERNOVAE AFTER ONE YEAR, Ginger Bryngelson
TIMING OF EXPOSURE TO TOXIC TALL FESCUE: EFFECTS ON BEEF CATTLE REPRODUCTION, Matthew Burns
CHIEF STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICERS' INTERPRETATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MINIMUM LEGAL DRINKING AGE AND THE AMETHYST INITIATIVE: A DISCURSIVE POLICY ANALYSIS, Rebecca Caldwell
Information Technology (IT) Identity: A Conceptualization, Proposed Measures, and Research Agenda, Michelle Carter
ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF SOFT AND CONDENSED NANOMATERIALS, Pengyu Chen
UNDERSTANDING NANOPARTICLE-CELL INTERACTION, Ran Chen
GLOTTAL EXCITATION EXTRACTION OF VOICED SPEECH - JOINTLY PARAMETRIC AND NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES, Yiqiao Chen
Key Strategies of Sustainable Real Estate Decision-Making in the United States: A Delphi Study of the Stakeholders, Pernille Christensen
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOSCALE FLUORESCENT POLYMER FILMS, Maryus Chyasnavichyus
Essays in International Trade, Matthew Clance
Camera Creatures: Rhetorics of Light and Emerging Media, Anthony Collamati
Use of Portable Electronic Assistive Technology to Improve Independent Job Performance of Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities, James Collins
A Formative Experiment to Promote Disciplinary Literacy in Middle-School and Pre-Service Teacher Education through Blogging, Jamie Colwell
A Case Study in Collaborative Efforts at Spartanburg Community College, Frederick Cooper
Sparsity Regularization in Diffuse Optical Tomography, John Cooper
Invisible Woman? Narratives of Black Women Leaders in Southeastern Two-Year Colleges, Shelia Counts
The Development of Freshman College Calculus Students' Mathematics Identity and How it Predicts Students' Career Choice, Jennifer Cribbs
POLICY EVALUATION USING COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS: EMPIRICAL RAMIFICATIONS FOR TWO POLICY ISSUES, Elizabeth Crouch
Design of Meta-Materials Outside the Homogenization Limit Using Multiscale Analysis and Topology Optimization, Christopher Czech
ASSESSING ONGOING SOURCES AND FATE OF DISSOLVED POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS (PCBs) IN A STREAM, Viet Dang
Engineering single-molecule, nanoscale, and microscale bio-functional materials via click chemistry, Michael Daniele
Spider Mediation of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Transport and Transformation Across Riparian Ecotones, Diana Delach
ANALYZING NURSE-PHYSICIAN DISCURSIVE PRACTICES IN ACUTE PATIENT CARE, John Dinolfo
Hybrid Query Expansion on Ontology Graph in Biomedical Information Retrieval, Liang Dong
Villager Participation in the Relocation of El Gourna, Egypt, Paul Duggan
Geographic Information Systems for Real-Time Environmental Sensing at Multiple Scales, Samuel Esswein
ENDOCRINE CONTROL OF OVULATION AND COORDINATION OF FETAL AND UTERINE INTERRELATIONSHIPS IN DAIRY CATTLE, Jillian Fain
Phoneme Weighting and Energy-Based Weighting for Speaker Recognition, Eric Fang
Analysis and Evaluation of Existing and Novel Turbulent Dynamic Pressure Based Methods for Measuring Bridge Pier and Abutment Scour, Murray Fisher
Intersecting Identities of Female College Student Intramural Sports Officials: A Grounded Theory, April Flint
On Simulation and Modeling of Turbulent Non-Premixed Reacting Shear Flames at Low and High Pressure, Justin Foster
NANOPILLAR BASED ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSOR FOR MONITORING MICROFLUIDIC BASED CELL CULTURE, Rajan Gangadharan
Sensitivity Analysis in Magnetic Resonance Elastography and a Local Wavelength Reconstruction based on Wave Direction, Christopher Gillam
REGULATION OF THE LIPID RAFT LOCALIZATION OF THE GAL/GALNAC LECTIN, AN ADHESIN ON THE SURFACE OF THE HUMAN PROTOZOAN PARASITE, ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA, Amanda Goldston
A PROCESS ANALYSIS OF ENGINEERING PROBLEM SOLVING AND ASSESSMENT OF PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS, Sarah Grigg
Development and Application of Novel Detection Methods For Aqueous Radioactive Iodine, Kelly Grogan
Photo-thermal Processing of Semiconductor Fibers and Thin Films, Nishant Gupta
A NEW CIVICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE: CONNECTING ONLINE AND OFFLINE ACTIVISM IN LITHUANIA, Liepa Gust
Sorption and Enantiomerization of Current Use Chiral Pesticides, April Hall
ESSAYS ON SOURCING DECISIONS: A BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVE, David Hall
THE LAST THING WE HAVE LEFT: A SINGLE-CASE STUDY OF A SMALL, RURAL, MILL-TOWN SCHOOL CLOSING, Amy Hallenbeck