Dissertations from 2011
OXYGENATE SYNTHESIS DURING CO HYDROGENATION ON CoCuZnO- BASED CATALYSTS, Yu-tung Tsai
SOCIAL CAPITAL: MEASUREMENT, DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIONS, AND PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS, James Turner
ZOOS AS EXPERIMENT ENVIRONMENTS: BIOLOGY OF LARVAL AND ADULT MOSQUITOES (DIPTERA: CULICIDAE), Holly Tuten
Bridging the gap between structures and properties: An investigation and evaluation of students' representational competence, Sonia Underwood
CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTALS PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS IN RENEWABLE NANOCOMPOSITES, Esteban Urena benavides
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY CONSIDERATIONS DURING PLANNING AND DESIGN: A FRAMEWORK OF PROCESSES FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, Rodolfo Valdes Vasquez
INTERFACIAL FORCE FIELD PARAMETERIZATION USING THE DUAL FORCE FIELD CHARMM PROGRAM FOR THE ACCURATE SIMULATION OF PEPTIDE-SURFACE INTERACTION, Nadeem Vellore
LIPID METABOLISM IN Trypanosoma brucei: MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS AND UPTAKE, Patrick Vigueira
New Algorithms for Computing Groebner Bases, Frank Volny
Tactile Interfaces: Epistemic Techne in Information Design, Josephine Walwema
Synthesis and Characterization of Extended Solids Containing Nano-Sized Transition Metal Oxide Lattices, Matthew Williams
Crime, Punishment, and Institutions, David Wilson
Investigation into the Role of Airfield Pavement Deicer in Concrete Pavement Deterioration, David Wingard
System integration for a novel positioning system using a model based control approach, Chan yet Wong
Effects on Hydrogen Adsorption and Activation on Platinum in a Fuel Cell Catalyst, Jack Zhang
THE EFFECTS OF FUNDAMENTAL MIXTURE PARAMETERS ON HOT-MIX ASPHALT PERFORMANCE PROPERTIES, Wenbin Zhao
Modification and Characterization of Fluorescent Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles for Single Molecule Detection, Yueli Zheng
ELECTROKINETIC TRANSPORT AND MANIPULATION OF PARTICLES IN CURVED MICROCHANNELS, Junjie Zhu
INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR: THE EFFECTS OF RELATIONALISM ON THE SELECTION OF INFORMATION SOURCES, Chris Zimmer
Dissertations from 2010
A STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN FOREST LANDOWNERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR LAND ETHIC AND FOREST STEWARDSHIP, Keenan Adams
Inspiring Awe in the Outdoors: A Mechanistic and Functional Analysis, Joel Agate
Helping Families Play: Developing a Framework for Family Recreation Programming, Sarah Agate
DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDANCE FOR STATES TRANSITIONING TO NEW SAFETY ANALYSIS TOOLS, Priyanka Alluri
Maintaining the faith: Factors that promote a Muslim religious identity, Majdouline Aziz
DESIGN OF ADVANCED ION-EXCHANGE MEMBRANES AND THEIR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT FOR DOWNSTREAM CHROMATOGRAPHIC BIOSEPARATIONS, Bharatkumar Bhut
Essays in Contemporary Tax Law Changes, Arpita Biswas
Vehicle Steering Systems - Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulator, Driving Preferences, and Vehicle Intervention, Jesse Black
Protocols for dynamic spectrum access in cognitive radio networks, Steven Boyd
Successional Vegetation in the Jocassee Gorges, South Carolina, Maxwell Boyle
Prediction of Liquid Crystalline Content and Molecular Structures Present in Carbonaceous Pitches, Ward Burgess
A SOLUTION-BASED APPROACH TO THE FABRICATION OF NOVEL CHALCOGENIDE GLASS MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES, Nathan Carlie
Black and White and Read in Profile: The Silhouette as Race Manirhetoric in Flannery O'Connor and Kara Walker, Michelle dacus Carr
Improved Accuracy for Fluid Flow Problems Via Enhanced Physics, Michael Case
DEVELOPMENT OF TISSUE ENGINEERED TEST SYSTEMS TO STUDY MAMMARY CELL INTERACTIONS IN VITRO, Cheryl Cass
CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF BOTANICAL PRODUCTS: COMPREHENSIVE SPECIATION BY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY PARTICLE BEAM MASS SPECTROMETRY, Joaudimir Castro georgi
Isolating Petroleum Pitch Oligomers via Multistage Supercritical Extraction, Eduardo Cervo
Characterization of anti-proteolytic and anti-proliferative activities of pentagalloylglucose; its potential application as a therapeutic agent in vascular diseases, Chaitra Cheluvaraju
Prioritizing Patients for Emergency Evacuation From a Healthcare Facility, Ashley Childers
SIMULATING AND ASSESSING THE SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE SPOT GROWTH ON MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS USING GIS-BASED MODEL AND 3-D LANDSCAPE VISUALIZATION, Chiao-ying Chou
EXAMINING THE BEHAVIORAL INTENTIONS OF OLDER ADULTS AS VIRTUAL TOURISTS IN THE CONTEXT OF A SECOND LIFE DESTINATION, Dorinda Christian
NOVEL VASCULAR GRAFTS BASED ON POLYPHENOL-STABILIZED ACELLULAR TISSUE SCAFFOLDS, Ting-hsien Chuang
The Regulatory Roots of the 2007 Financial Crisis, Jane Coetsee
Essays in Public Economics, Ancuta Cojoc
Functional Communication Training to Increase Communication Skills for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Terri Collins
ARE DISTRACTED DRIVERS AWARE THAT THEY ARE DISTRACTED?: EXPLORING AWARENESS, SELF-REGULATION, AND PERFORMANCE IN DRIVERS PERFORMING SECONDARY TASKS, Matthew Crisler
Identification and Characterization of MicroRNAs in Porcine Gametes and Pre-Implantation Embryos, Erin Curry
Batch Testing, Adaptive Algorithms, and Heuristic Applications for Stable Marriage Problems, John Dabney
POLY (ACRYLONITRILE-CO-1-VINYLIMIDAZOLE): A NEW MELT PROCESSABLE CARBON FIBER PRECURSOR, Wenjin Deng
PSLR(1): Pseudo-Scannerless Minimal LR(1) for the Deterministic Parsing of Composite Languages, Joel Denny
BIODEGRADATION AND BIOREMEDIATION OF HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE ISOMERS, CHLORINATED ETHENES, CHLORINATED BENZENES AND BENZENE, Vijaikrishnah Elango
Mapping quantitative trait loci associated with chilling requirement and bloom date in peach, Shenghua Fan
MOLECULAR PHYSICS OF ELECTRICAL DOUBLE LAYERS IN ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITORS, Guang Feng
The Relationship Between Energy Balance Understanding and Measures of Wellness, Stephanie Fishel-brown
Robust Analysis of Electromagnetic Responses of Resonant Structures using Early-time and Low-Frequency Data, James Frye, jr.
CELL-MEDIATED ELASTIC MATRIX REGENERATION TOWARD REGRESSION OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS, Carmen Gacchina
SPIDROIN N-TERMINAL DOMAIN: A PH SENSOR IN THE SPIDER SILK ASSEMBLY PROCESS, William Gaines
CATALYSIS OF ETHANOL SYNTHESIS FROM SYNGAS, Jia Gao
College Football Players: The New Nontraditional Student, Michael Godfrey
Evaluation of Factors that Modulate Cellular Adipogenesis for Breast Tissue Engineering Strategies, Cheryl Gomillion
Event-driven Similarity and Classification of Scanpaths, Thomas Grindinger
ORDER PICKING AND STORAGE USING STACKABLE PALLETS IN A WAREHOUSE, Ahmed Hassan aly
Synthesis and Optical Properties of Silver Nanostructures, John Heckel
Rhiz|comics: The Structure, Sign, and Play of Image and Text, Jason Helms
ENERGY AND NUTRIENT RECOVERY FROM ANAEROBIC TREATMENT OF ORGANIC WASTES, Christian-dominik Henrich
PERFLUOROALKYL PHOSPHONIC AND PHOSPHINIC ACID ELECTROLYTES FOR PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS, Mahesha Herath
NOVEL π-CONJUGATED MATERIALS PLUS THEIR CHARACTERIZATIONS AND APPLICATIONS, Xiuxian He
Screen/Writing: Time & Cinematics in an Age of Rhetorical Memory, Joshua Hilst
Self-Assembly of Architecturally Complex Block Copolymers, Juan Hinestrosa
EFFECT OF IMPURITIES ON PERFORMANCE OF PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELL COMPONENTS, Kitiya Hongsirikarn
Longitudinal Trend Analysis of Performance Indicators for South Carolina's Technical Colleges, Mohammad Hossain
Debugging Techniques for Locating Defects in Software Architectures, Kyungsoo Im
A Reasoning Framework for Dependability in Software Architectures, Tacksoo Im
A LYAPUNOV BASED APPROACH TO ENERGY MAXIMIZATION IN RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, Erhun Iyasere
CANDIDATE GENE STUDIES IN PATIENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, Pamela Jackson
Modeling the Galactic 511 keV Positron Annihilation Emission, Production, and Propagation, Bethany Johns
Need-based Moderators of Relational and Resource Concerns and Their Relationship to Procedural Justice, Jonas Johnson
INTERNAL TRANSITIONS IN NUCLEI AND APPLICATIONS TO ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOCHEMISTRY, Joseph Johnson
A Framework for Virtual Device Driver Development and Virtual Device-Based Performance Modeling, Zachary Jones
OCCURRENCE AND FORMATION OF DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCTS IN INDOOR SWIMMING POOLS WATER, Amer Kanan