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Dissertations from 2013 2013

Multi-scale defect engineering and interface modifications for enhancement of thermoelectric properties in nanostructured bulk materials, Pooja Puneet

Encapsulated and Monolithic Resonant Structures for Laser Applications, Aaron Pung

BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY: PERSONALITY-BASED AND OVERT PREDICTORS OF WORKPLACE SAFETY, Christine Pusilo

FACTORS CONTROLLING SYNTHESIS OF IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLES AND THE EFFECT OF SURFACE CHARGE ON MAGNETIC HYPERTHERMIA, Bin Qi

EARLY SKELETAL MORPHOGENESIS: THE ROLE OF PHARYNGEAL ENDODERM DERIVED SIGNALING DURING SPECIFICATION OF CRANIOFACIAL SKELETON AND INTERPLAY OF MECHANICAL FORCES AND MOLECULAR SIGNALING DURING SKELETAL CONDENSATION, Poulomi Ray

BIOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION INTO INITIATION OF FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS IN THE AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMES, Sunayan Ray

APPLICATION OF IMAGE PROCESSING AND FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS IN MODELING CHLORIDE DIFFUSION IN CONCRETE, Arash Razmjoo

EXPLORING DOCTORAL STUDENT EXPERIENCES FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF MID-CAREER PROFESSIONALS IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP USING PHOTO-ELICITATION, Kenyae L. Reese

PREDICTION OF DISCRETE ELEMENT PARAMETERS FOR MODELING THE STRENGTH OF SANDY SOILS IN WHEEL/SOIL TRACTION APPLICATIONS, Timothy Reeves

UNDERSTANDING THE ANTECEDENT COMPETENCIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES, Jason Riley

EXPLORATORY SYNTHESIS OF NEW IRON(II,III)-CONTAINING POLYANION FRAMEWORK SOLIDS OF ELECTROCHEMICAL AND MAGNETIC INTEREST, Liurukara Sanjeewa

Aqueous Suspensions of Polymer Coated Magnetite Nanoparticles: Colloidal Stability, Specific Absorption Rate, and Transverse Relaxivity, Steven Saville

The mentoring-burnout relationship and predictors of nurse mentoring behavior, Meline Schaffer

SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THERMALLY RESPONSIVE POLYMER LAYERS, Michael Seeber

ASSESSING POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ACCORDING TO PROBABLE PATTERNS OF SWITCHGRASS ADOPTION IN THE SOUTHEASTERN US, Benjamin Sharp

DISTRIBUTION, ECOLOGY, AND TROPHIC RELATIONSHIPS OF A COLONIAL WATERBIRD: THE DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT, Kate Sheehan

L1 methods for shrinkage and correlation, Jie Shen

Impact-Acoustic Evaluation Method of Internal Crack in Rubber Composite Structure, Qin Shen

Public Participation in Brownfield Redevelopment: The Role of Public Participation in State Administered Voluntary Cleanup Programs, Erik Simon

Vascular Nanomedicine: Site specific delivery of elastin stabilizing therapeutics to damaged arteries, Aditi Sinha

Engineering Specifications and Mathematics for Verified Software, Hampton Smith

CONSERVED NONCODING SEQUENCES REGULATE STEADY-STATE mRNA LEVELS IN Arabidopsis thaliana, Jacob Spangler

IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL GENES REGULATING ELASTIC FIBER FORMATION THROUGH EXPRESSION PROFILING ANALYSIS OF ELASTOGENIC MODELS, Erin Sproul

Supplemental Algebra Vocabulary Instruction for Secondary Students with Learning Disabilities, Joanna Stegall

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

IN SILICO MODELING THE EFFECT OF SINGLE POINT MUTATIONS AND RESCUING THE EFFECT BY SMALL MOLECULES BINDING, Zhe 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 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

QUANTITATIVE, SPATIAL IMAGING BASED MEASUREMENTS TO ASSESS CELLULAR HEALTH AND OXYGENATION IN A TISSUE ENGINEERED TEST SYSTEM, Erik Bland

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

PRINCIPALS' EXPERIENCES REGARDING CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE LEADERSHIP PREPARATION AND PRACTICES THAT PROMOTE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS, Monica Brown

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

SAMPLE PREPARATION TECHNIQUES FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF ANALYTICAL MEASUREMENTS: CAPILLARY-CHANNELED POLYMER FIBERS EMPLOYED IN PROTEIN SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION APPLICATIONS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ACTIVE COMPONENTS IN BOTANICAL DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS, Carolyn Burdette

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

BUILDING SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: THE CASE OF STUDENT HOUSING IN PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION, Bruce Cole

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

Avian Phenology, Climate, and Land-use Conservation Assessed at Broad Spatial and Temporal Scales Using Interdisciplinary Approaches and Citizen Science, Jason Courter

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