Dissertations from 2011
LENTIVIRAL-MEDIATED RNAi KNOCKDOWN YIELDS A NOVEL MOUSE MODEL FOR STUDYING CYP2B FUNCTION, Basma Damiri
Essays on the Performance of US Bank Holding Companies, Liliana Danila
Characterizing Mechanical Heterogeneity in Cardiovascular Cells, Sandra Deitch
Investigation of Two-Phase Behavior in Capillary Evaporators with Liquid Core Visualization, Brian D'entremont
ELECTRICAL DETECTION OF MECHANICAL RESONANCE IN NANOTUBES AND SEMICONDUCTING NANOWIRES, Doyl Dickel
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THIRD WAVE REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, Lori Dickes
Understanding the Role of Embeddedness in Shaping IT Professional Behavior, Michael Dinger
INDIVIDUAL AND SITUATIONAL MODERATORS OF THE WILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE IN A WORKPLACE ROMANCE, Jessica Doll
Measurements of Mass Accretion Rates in Herbig Ae/Be Stars, Brian Donehew
Composition and ecophysiological proficiency of tidal freshwater forested wetlands: Investigating basin, landscape, and microtopographic scales, Jamie Duberstein
The Design & Implementation of an Abstract Semantic Graph for Statement-Level Dynamic Analysis of C++ Applications, Edward Duffy
HOW UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN AT A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTION VIEW LEADERSHIP: A PHENOMENOLOGY, Carolyn Dupre
The Toxicity of Carbon Nanotubes to Daphnia magna, Aaron Edgington
An Investigation of the Application of Phase Change Materials in Practical Thermal Management Systems, David Ewing
Un/Composing (Visual) Rhetorics: A (Strange) Comic(s) View of Writing in the Age of New Media, Sergio Figueiredo
Investigations of the PPi-dependent Acetate Kinase from the Parasite Entamoeba histolytica, Matthew Fowler
Does Money Matter? Investigating the Financing of Emerging Firms, Casey Frid
IT-BUSINESS STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT: ESSAYS EXAMINING TYPES OF ALIGNMENT AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FIRM PERFORMANCE, Jennifer Gerow
LIGHT-EMITTING NANOCOMPOSITES AND NOVEL AMORPHOUS POLYMERS FOR OPTICAL APPLICATIONS, Kyle Gipson
Applicant self-selection during the hiring process: Developing and testing a model of applicant withdrawal, Gary Giumetti
Modeling and Optimization of Stochastic Process Parameters in Complex Engineering Systems, Paul Goethals
SINGLE PARTICLE AND ENSEMBLE SPECTROSCOPY OF CONJUGATED POLYMER NANOPARTICLES AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT FOR PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY, Jennifer Grimland
Mechanical and Modular Verification Condition Generation for Object-Based Software, Heather Harton
You Belong Here: An 'Interpellative' Approach to Usability, Alicia Hatter
CHARACTERIZING LIQUEFACTION POTENTIAL OF PLEISTOCENE SOIL DEPOSITS IN THE CHARLESTON AREA, SOUTH CAROLINA, Tahereh Heidari
Tight Polyhedral Representations of Discrete Sets Using Projections, Simplices, and Base-2 Expansions, Stephen Henry
Fluid Dynamics of Cell Printing, Ping He
Measuring the Impact of Youth EFNEP: Questionnaire Development and Validation, Yenory Hernandez
A SURVEY OF HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION SYSTEMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BOVINE FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE AND LUTEINIZING HORMONE, Marcia Hesser
ESTIMATING AND MITIGATING RADIATED EMISSIONS FROM PCB HEATSINKS, Xinbo He
THERMOELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF NICKEL AND TITANIUM CO-INTERCALATED TITANIUM DISELENIDE, Timothy Holgate
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO ASSESSING THE RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY OF COMMUNITY BASED TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA, Patrick Holladay
VIRTUAL TOURISM: IDENTIFYING THE FACTORS THAT AFFECT A TOURIST'S EXPERIENCE AND BEHAVIORAL INTENTIONS IN A 3D VIRTUAL WORLD, Yu-chih Huang
THE EFFECTS OF CONCRETE-REPRESENTATIONAL-ABSTRACT SEQUENCED INSTRUCTION ON STRUGGLING LEARNERS ACQUISITION, RETENTION, AND SELF-EFFICACY OF FRACTIONS, Elizabeth Hughes
Exploring peer revision in writing through online collaboration in a middle grades classroom, Sarah Hunt-barron
PERSUASIVE PACKAGING: AN EYE-TRACKING APPROACH TO DESIGN, Rupert Hurley
THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AFFECTED BY AIDS: A POLICY PAPER FOCUSING ON THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION, Gita Jaffe
A METHODOLOGY FOR THE ANALYSIS OF IN-VEHICLE OPERATING DATA AND DESIGN OF INTELLIGENT VEHICLE SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY, Matthew Jensen
An Examination of Treatment Effects with a Focus on Postsecondary State Merit Aid Programs, Sherry Jensen
EXPLORING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS' PERCEPTION OF THEIR ROLE IN TEACHING CONTENT LITERACY IN THE ELEMENTARY, Lisa Jones-moore
Spatio-temporal modeling of arthropod-borne zoonotic diseases: a proposed methodology to enhance macro-scale analyses, Stephen Jones
Teacher Practices and High School Chemistry Students' Metacognitive Skillfulness, Joni Jordan
An Experimental and Computational Study of Windborne Debris in Severe Storms, Arash Karimpour
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND REACTIVITY OF BIOLOGICALLY RELEVANT COPPER(I) SELONE AND THIONE COMPLEXES, Martin Kimani
Biohydrogenation of Docosahexaenoic Acid, Catherine Klein
Pseudocodewords of Parity-Check Codes, Wittawat Kositwattanarerk
A FINITE ELEMENT MODEL FOR COUPLED DEFORMATION-FLOW ANALYSIS OF UNSATURATED SOIL-STRUCTURE SYSTEMS AND ITS VALIDATION, Hadakopan Krishnapillai
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF CARBONACEOUS PITCHES, Sourabh Kulkarni
Nonparametric Methods in Varying Coefficient Models And Quantile Regression Models, Chinthaka Kuruwita
INVESTIGATION OF TECHNIQUES FOR REDUCING UNINTENTIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC EMISSIONS FROM ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, Ho-cheol Kwak
Essays on Location Choice and the Demand for Housing Services, Ovidiu Lasca
Biologically Relevant Classes of Boolean Functions, Lori Layne
Predicting Yeast Synthetic Lethal Genetic Interactions Using Protein Domains, Bo Li
Spectral Engineering of Optical Fiber Through Active Nanoparticle Doping, Tiffany Lindstrom-james
Transport Phenomena In Semiconductor Superlattices, Florin Lung
Time-Interval Analysis for Radiation Monitoring, Peng Luo
PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES TO STABILITY AND DEFORMATION PROBLEMS IN BRACED EXCAVATION, Zhe Luo
A FORMATIVE EXPERIMENT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN STUDENTS ENGAGED IN UNDERGRADUATE TRAVEL AND TOURISM STUDIES, Cinzia Mancini-cross
CONJUGATED POLYMERS AND INTER-CHROMOPHORE INTERACTIONS: SYNTHESIS, PHOTOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATION, Anshuman Mangalum
MICRO FEATURE ENHANCED SINTER BONDING OF METAL INJECTION MOLDED (MIM) PARTS TO A SOLID SUBSTRATE, Thomas Martens
Electrical Coupling Between Micropatterned Cardiomyocytes and Stem Cells, Zhen Ma
STATE POLICY CHANGE: REVENUE DECOUPLING IN THE ELECTRICITY MARKET, Kytson Mcneil
Educational Leadership and School Culture: A Study of the Perceptions of Effective Leadership, Pearly Milton
MONUMENTAL-IT: A 'ROBOTIC-WIKI' MONUMENT FOR EMBODIED INTERACTION IN THE INFORMATION WORLD, Tarek Mokhtar
High Resolution Vision-Based Servomechanism Using a Dynamic Target with Application to CNC Machines, Carlos Montes-solano
Health beliefs and socio-cultural factors that predict cervical cancer screening behaviors among Hispanic women in seven cities in the upstate of South Carolina, Arelis Moore de peralta
DOWNSTREAM RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN DOCSIS 3.0 CHANNEL BONDED NETWORKS, Scott Moser
A Case Study Examining the Recruitment of 'Other Race' Students to a Public, Historically Black University, Yoruba Mutakabbir
Low-Resolution Vision for Autonomous Mobile Robots, Vidya Nariyambut murali
EXPANDING A VALIDATED MODEL: EFFECTS AND ANTECEDENTS OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT, Barbara Nesbitt
MODELING AND SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTIONALIZED META-POLY(PHENYLENE ETHYNYLENE) HELICAL STRUCTURES, Ha Nguyen
A RHETORICAL APPROACH TO CULTURAL LITERACIES ACROSS MEDIA, Randy Nichols
Bases and applications of Riemann-Roch Spaces of Function Fields with Many Rational Places, Justin Peachey
EFFECTS OF SURFACE STATES, DEFECTS AND DOPANTS ON THE OPTICAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS, Ramakrishna Podila
AN EXAMINATION OF VARIABLES WHICH INFLUENCE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO ENROLL IN AN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING OR PHYSICAL SCIENCE MAJOR, Christopher Porter
Implementation of Delayed-Feedback Controllers on Continuous Systems and Analysis of their Response under Primary Resonance Excitations, Yousef Qaroush
PARTICLE BEAM GLOW DISCHARGE SPECTROSCOPY AS A TOOL FOR SPECIATION AND METALLOMICS ANALYSIS, Charles Quarles jr
LEAN MANUFACTURING - AN INTEGRATED SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH TO WORK DESIGN, Mohammed Raja
EFFECT OF GOLDENSEAL (Hydrastis canadensis) ON BACTERIAL MULTI DRUG RESISTANT EFFLUX PUMPS, Jyothi Rangineni
BIOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO CARBON-BASED NANOMATERIALS, Tatsiana Ratnikova
ANTICIPATING U.S. POPULATION-LEVEL HEALTH AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS USING DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION TO GUIDE HEALTH POLICY DECISIONS, Odette Reifsnider
Fractal Jackson Networks, Mahmoud Rezaei
Accelerating Pattern Recognition Algorithms On Parallel Computing Architectures, Kenneth Rice
Comparative Forelimb Muscle Function in Turtles: Tests of Environmental Variation and Neuromotor Conservation, Angela Rivera
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS FOR UNIVERSITY/COMMUNITY TRANSIT SYSTEMS, Geary Robinson
INFLUENCE OF WARM MIX ADDITIVES UPON HIGH RAP ASPHALT MIXES, William Rogers
Anticancer Effects of Red Raspberries on Immune Cells and Blood Parameters, Jannet Romero
METAHEURISTICS FOR HUB LOCATION MODELS, Ornurai Sangsawang
APPLICATION OF NANOTECHNOLOGY FOR TARGETED DELIVERY OF ANTIBACTERIAL ENZYMES AND FOR ENZYME-BASED COATINGS ON MEDICAL DEVICES AND IMPLANTS, Rohan Satishkumar