Dissertations from 2007
THE MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE VIRUS AND VIRUS-LIKE AGENTS PRESENT IN TA TAO 5 GERMPLASM OF PRUNUS PERSICA , Diana Marini
Histologic Examination of Host-Parasite Interactions in the Gulf Killifish, Fundulus grandis, Marlee Marsh
τέχνη and Quest-Oriented Learning, Sarah Matzko
LMX Theory Related to Administrator and Educator Perceptions, Theodore Mauro
Examining the Effects of Fatigue on Decision-Making in Nursing: A Policy-Capturing Approach, Laura Mcclelland
Hydrothermal Crystal Growth of Oxides for Optical Applications, Colin Mcmillen
Influence of Mercury-Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) Complexation on Toxicity in Natural Waters, Christina Mcnaughton
AN ANALYSIS OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL CONFERENCE STRUCTURE, CONFERENCE OFFICIALS, AND THEIR POTENTIAL EFFECT ON REVENUES, Kris Mcwhite
THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FEASIBILITY OF INCORPORATING WETLANDS INTO A WATER QUALITY TRADING PROGRAM AT THE WATERSHED SCALE , Gregory Mikota ii
Antimicrobial powders and bio-based films, Byungjin Min
The lss supernodulation mutant in Medicago truncatula: Genetics, Characterization and Mapping, Arijit Mukherjee
Hybrid Image/Model Based Gaze-Contingent Rendering, Hunter Murphy
QUALITATIVE ASPECTS OF MATE AVAILABILITY AND THEIR EFFECTS ON INTRA-HOUSEHOLD BARGAINING POWER, Brighita Negrusa
ESSAYS IN DEFENSE ECONOMICS: VETERANS' HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND MILITARY PROCUREMENT CHOICE, Sebastian Negrusa
Apparent Quality of Alternative Halftone Screening When Compared to Conventional Screening in Commmercial Offset Lithography, Garth Oliver
Nesting And Foraging Characteristics Of The Black Carpenter Ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus (DeGeer) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Donald Oswalt
DEVELOPMENT OF FULLERENE BASED STURCTURES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC AND ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS, Amit Palkar
Characterization of the Anti-angiogenic Properties of KDR-Ig4-7 and its Variants as Potential Anti-cancer Therapeutics, Jang pyo Park
Functional Genomics of the Angiotensin II Type 2 Receptor in the Developing Brain, Traci Pawlowski
DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE OF ANTS AT FOREST EDGES , Eric Paysen
Synthesis, Reactions, and Applications of Bis-ortho-diynyl Arene (BODA) Monomers, Polymers, and Derivatives, Mark Perpall
Sediment Transport Upstream of Orifices, David Powell
FUNCTIONALIZED NANOMATERIALS: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND APPLICATIONS, Liangwei Qu
KINETICS OF SURFACE-INITIATED PHOTOINIFERTER-MEDIATED PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION AND SYNTHESIS OF STIMULI-RESPONSIVE POLYMER BRUSHES, Santosh Rahane
Numerical and Physical Modeling of Turbulent Shear Flows, John Raiford
Ultrahydrophobic Surface Modification of Polymeric Fibers and Inorganic Substrates, Karthik Ramaratnam
Low-complexity iterative detection techniques for Slow-Frequency-Hop spread-spectrum communications with Reed-Solomon coding., Harish Ramchandran
RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC EVIDENCE FOR ANHARMONIC PHONON LIFETIMES AND BLUESHIFTS IN 1D STRUCTURES, Rahul Rao
Product Liability Litigation: An Issue of Merck and Lawsuits Over Vioxx, Kurt Rotthoff
Nonlinear Control Strategies for Advanced Vehicle Thermal Management Systems, Mohammad Salah
Factors Affecting the Formation of Interest Groups, Aileen Sampson
Embedded Strategies in Mathematics Vocabulary Instruction: A Quasi-Experimental Study, Sharon Sanders
Chloroplast Comparative Genomics: Implications For Phylogeny, Evolution, and Biotechnology, Christopher Saski
MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS OF HYDROMECHANICAL EFFECTS IN FRACTURED ROCK, Todd Schweisinger
Techniques for Improving the Performance of Coupled Oscillator Arrays, Venkatesh Seetharam
PERMUTATION DECODING OF CODES FROM GRAPHS AND DESIGNS, Padmapani Seneviratne
Improving the Performance of Software Defined Radio by Employing Digital Feedback of Radio Frequency Properties, Joel Simoneau
Equitable Efficiency in Multiple Criteria Optimization, Vijay Singh
EVALUATION OF LITHIUM BASED DEICING CHEMICALS FOR MITIGATING ASR IN CONCRETE PAVEMENT, Senthil Soundarapandian
BIOINFORMATICS TOOL DEVELOPMENT AND SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF ROSACEAE FAMILY EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS, Margaret Staton
Water quality dynamics of Lake James in the Catawba River Basin of North Carolina, Susan Stokes
Personality Predictors of Motivation to Lead, Tracey Tafero
Control of Nonlinear Mechatronic Systems, Enver Tatlicioglu
Multi-Objective Generation Scheduling with Hybrid Energy Resources, Manas Trivedi
Meaningful Learning at a National Historic Site: How Interpretive Tour Message Content Affects Visitor Learning Transfer, Christine Van winkle
Essays on Sports Economics, Octavian Vasilescu
Manufacturable process and tool for high performance metal/high-k gate dielectric stacks for sub-45 nm CMOS & related devices, Aarthi Venkateshan
HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY, DIETARY INTAKE, AND ANTHROPOMETRIC ASSESSMENT OF DOMINICAN CHILDREN, Elizabeth Wall
Non-Boltzamann Sampling for the Accurate Calculation of Peptide-Surface Adsorption Free Energy, Feng Wang
TOWARD A MODEL OF INTENTION TO PERFORM PARTNERSHIP BEHAVIORS: AN APPLICATION OF THE THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR, Melissa Weddell
CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS FOR THE LANDSCAPE NURSERY INDUSTRY: NUTRIENT ASSIMILATION AND REMOVAL, Sarah White
Journey to Leadership: Women Administrators in Architecture, Margaret Woosnam
THERMODYNAIMIC STUDY OF NUCLEIC ACIDS RECOGNITION BY AMINOGLYCOSIDES , Hongjuan Xi
Electronic Structure of MoS2 Nanotubes, Lingyun Xu
Development of an In Vitro Test System for Breast Cancer Research, Chih-chao Yang
Three Essays in Political Economy, Melissa Yeoh
The Differential Effects of Two Critical Osteoclastogenesis Stimulating Factors on Bone Biomechanics, Yuyu Yuan
On the Stability of Region Count in the Parameter Space of Image Analysis Methods, Li Yu
Biohydrogen Production by the Hyperthermophilic Bacterium Thermotoga neapolitana, Xiaohui Yu
USING CROSS-SECTIONED MULTILAYER POLYMER FILM AND SURFACE MODIFICATION TO FORM CHEMICALLY PATTERNED SUBSTRATES , Chun Zhang
Issues in Model Selection, Minimax Estimation, and Censored Data Analysis, Meng Zhao
Spin Density Wave Phases in Semiconductor Superlattice, Liqiu Zheng
Dissertations from 2006
MODELING OF THE TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR OF HEAT PIPES WITH ROOM-TEMPERATURE WORKING FLUIDS, Pascal Brocheny
INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF SUBGRID-SCALE TURBULENCE ON RESOLVABLE-SCALE STATISTICS, Qinglin Chen
Financial Aid as a Predictor of Retention at a Two-Year College, Cheryl Davids
MODELING LONG-TERM PLUTONIUM TRANSPORT IN THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE VADOSE ZONE, Deniz Demirkanli
TRIBOLOGICAL SYSTEMS FOR THE EVALUATION OF SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE STERILIZED ULTRA-HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE, John DesJardins
USE OF PERSONAS FOR USER INTERFACE DESIGN: RESULTS OF FIELD AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES , Pallavi Dharwada
PATH INTEGRAL FORMULATION OF LANGEINV DYNAMICS WITH APPLICATIONS TO RARE-EVENT SYSTEMS, Bradley Dickson
AN INVESTIGATION OF PROPORTIONAL THINKING AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, Kirsten Dooley
The Relationship Between Work Motivation and Leadership Practices Among Graduates of a Master's Degree Program, Marjorie Dowd
SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY MODEL OF NEAR-SURFACE SEDIMENTS, SITE RESPONSE, AND BUILDING DAMAGE: 1886 CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA EARTHQUAKE, Cedric Fairbanks
Onset and Persistence of Biogenic Meromixis in a Filling Pit Lake-A Limnological Perspective , Oscar Flite
HARMONIC DETECTION OF RESONANCE IN MICRO- AND NANO- CANTILEVERS, Jay Gaillard
CONTROLLING STEAM FLOOD MIGRATION WITH AIR INJECTION WELLS, Rex Hodges
Managing Product Line Asset Bases, John Hunt
WORLD REVISION OF THE GENUS TRIAENODES (TRICHOPTERA: LEPTOCERIDAE), Junmi Hur
Stabilization of Vascular Elastin by Treatment with Tannins, Jason Isenburg
Identification of the Rassf3 Gene as a Potential Tumor Suppressor Responsible for the Resistance to Mammary Tumor Development in MMTV/neu Transgenic Mice, Isabelle Jacquemart
Elevated Neutral-to-Earth Voltage in Distribution Systems Including Harmonics, Jian Jiang
A Multidimensional Scaling and Participatory Design Approach to Classify Open Ended Aircraft Maintenance Data, Kunal Kapoor
The Interaction Between Hydrogen and Various Carbon Allotropes Calculated Using Bond-Order Potentials, Michael Knippenberg
INVESTIGATION OF FLOW AND MICROSTRUCTURE IN RHEOMETRIC AND PROCESSING FLOW CONDITIONS FOR LIQUID CRYSTALLINE PITCH, Santanu Kundu
ELIMINATING LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES IN PACKED READY-TO-EAT POULTRY PRODUCTS BY COMBINING IN-PACKAGE PASTEURIZATION WITH NISIN AND/OR LYSOZYME, Sunil Mangalassary
Preservice Teachers' Procedural and Conceptual Understanding of Fractions and the Effects of Inquiry-Based Learning on this Understanding, Hope Marchionda
The Technical College Image in South Carolina, Charles McLafferty
PERFLUOROALKYL (ARYL) SULFONIMIDE ZWITTERIONS, Hua Mei
Survival, Nesting Success, and Habitat Selection of Wild Turkey Populations in the Upper Coastal Plain of South Carolina, William Moore
INVESTIGATION INTO COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN REPAIR MATERIAL AND SUBSTRATE CONCRETE USING EXPERIMENTAL AND FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, Rashmi Pattnaik
Paying Attention to Welfare: Supplemental Security Income, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and the Incentives of Parents, Jason Rudbeck