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Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

The Caffeine Consumption Habits, Sleep Quality, Sleep Quantity, and Perceived Stress of Clinical Nurses, Mykin R. Higbee

Hemingway and the Soča Front, Rebecca Johnston

AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN'S PROSTATE CANCER KNOWLEDGE AND SELF-EFFICACY FOR INFORMED DECISION-MAKING: A MIXED METHODS STUDY, Dionne J. Jones-Dendy PhD

TESTING THE MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE OF DATA FROM THE UTRECHT WORK ENGAGEMENT SCALE BY GENERATIONAL COHORT FOR EMPLOYEES IN THE LEISURE AND HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY, Greggory Keiffer

EXPLORING MILLENNIAL GENERATION EMPLOYEES’ AND MANAGEMENTS’ PERSPECTIVES OF THE POTENTIAL OVERUSE OF SMARTPHONES IN THE WORKPLACE BY THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION, Brooke Kincade

NEURAL EXPRESSION AND FUNCTION OF AUTISM CANDIDATE GENES IN ZEBRAFISH, Elyse P. Kite

A PHENOMENOLOGICAL CASE STUDY OF TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING IN A NON-TRADITIONAL DIVERSITY TRAINING PROGRAM, Ame Lambert

Examining the Relationships Between Performance Appraisal Reactions and Employee Engagement, Kenneth B. LeVan

IMPACTS OF POWER SYSTEM-TIED DISTRIBUTED GENERATION ON THE PERFORMANCE OF PROTECTION SYSTEMS, Terver T. Maor

EAST MEETS WEST: CULTURAL VALUES AND DUTY TO CARE FOR DISASTER RESPONSE, Tracy J. Nash

DIFFERENTIATING THE NECHES RIVER ROSE MALLOW (HIBISCUS DASYCALYX) FROM ITS CONGENERS BY MEANS OF PHYLOGENETICS AND POPULATION GENETICS, Julia Norrell

Conrad's Pronoun Usage as a Stylistic Marker and Its Relation to His Density of Text and Themes, Jennifer K. Onishi

POLYPLOIDY AND HYBRIDIZATION HAVE A ROLE IN PLANT DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES: A BIOINFORMATICS STUDY, Andrea Ortiz

EFFECT OF ACTIVITY TRACKERS AND TEXT MESSAGING ON EXERCISE, FITNESS, AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY SELF-EFFICACY OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS, Alison F. Pittman

REEVALUATING THE OCCURRENCE AND PHYLOGENY OF THE PIGTOE UNIONID MUSSELS FUSCONAIA ASKEWI, FUSCONAIA LANANENSIS, FUSCONAIA FLAVA, AND PLEUROBEMA RIDDELLI IN TEXAS, Charles J. Pratt

Emerging Cold War Ideologies During the Populist Era in Latin America and the US Media Response, Katherine D. Prince

GREENHOUSE GAS METHANE AND NITROUS OXIDE PRODUCTION AND MIRCOBIAL FUNCTIONING GENE CHARACTERIZATION IN GRASSLANDS AND THE INFLUENCES BY GRAZING LAND MANAGEMENT, Maura M. Purcell

POSTMODERN PUZZLES: CREATING VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH AND IDENTITY IN MARGARET ATWOOD’S THE ROBBER BRIDE, ALIAS GRACE, AND THE BLIND ASSASSIN, Maggie Raymond

EFFECTS OF A SCRIPTED ONLINE VIDEO ON SCHOOL NURSE PERCEPTIONS OF CONCUSSION MANAGEMENT, Kathleen Holligan Schneider

HELL IN THE SNOW: THE U.S. ARMY IN THE COLMAR POCKET, JANUARY 22 - FEBRUARY 9, 1945, Clinton W. Thompson

THE ROLE OF TRIBUTARIES IN STRUCTURING MUSSEL COMMUNITIES, Cassie M. Vaughan

Design and Simulation of an 8-Bit Successive Approximation Register Charge-Redistribution Analog-To-Digital Converter, Sumit K. Verma

Caspar David Friedrich, the Romantic Hero, and Early German Nationalism, Morgan D. Ward

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

A FOLLOWER - CENTRIC MODEL: PREDICTORS OF JOB SATISFACTION AND PERCEPTION OF LEADER EFFECTIVENESS IN LEBANESE REGISTERED NURSES, Rana S. Abdel Malak

BREAST CANCER-RELATED LYMPHEDEMA IN HISPANIC WOMEN: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY, Juanita C. Acebedo

BARIATRIC SURGERY WEIGHT-LOSS MAINTENANCE AMONG HISPANICS: A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY, Minerva Aguilera

ENERGY MODELS OF THE TxAIRE HOUSES, Tajudeen Amadu Annafi

INTEGRATING HABITAT SUITABILITY MODELING AND RADIO TELEMETRY TO DESCRIBE HABITAT USE OF THE WESTERN MASSASAUGAS, SISTRURUS T. TERGEMINUS, IN TEXAS, Mitchell R. Barazowski

EFFECT OF A YOGURT INTERVENTION ON ADIPOSITY AND METABOLIC OUTCOMES IN WOMEN, Eryn N. Boyet

Hydraulic and Hydrologic Properties of the Sabine River, Annie L. Bryant

The World of Elagabalus, Jay Carriker

EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGICAL TERRITORIALITY THROUGH THE DOMESTIC GOTHIC IN BELOVED AND MAMA DAY, Lori L. Cook

CHICAGO HOMICIDES COMPLETED WITH A FIREARM FROM 1971 TO 1993: A LENS OF SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION THEORY AND FIREARM LEGISLATION, Andrew Dehart

A COMPARISON OF MANAGERIAL AND LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS OF VETERAN AND CIVILIAN DEVELOPED LEADERS IN A CIVILIAN CONTEXT, John C. Dexter

EFFECTS OF A SLEEP HYGIENE TEXT-MESSAGE INTERVENTION ON SLEEP IN COLLEGE STUDENTS, Christine S. Gipson

THE MODERATING EFFECT OF INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEE ATTRIBUTES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION AND EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION IN TIMES OF CHANGE, Ashley Hall

Exploration of Factors Affecting Nurse Faculty Use or Resistance to Online Education, Lisa M. Harless

AN EXAMINATION OF LMX AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE ON PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SATISFACTION WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF A DISTRIBUTED WORKPLACE ARRANGEMENT, Debra A. Herd

MORAL DISTRESS, LEADERSHIP INTEGRITY, ETHICAL CLIMATE AND TURNOVER INTENT IN CRITICAL-CARE NURSES, Desha L. Johnson Makiya

THE IMPACT OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR ON EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICAL CULTURE IN NIGERIA, Adayehi B. Peter

POPULATION DYNAMICS AND GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION OF THE THREATENED FRESHWATER MUSSEL SPECIES FUSCONAIA ASKEWI, FUSCONAIA LANANENSIS, AND PLEUROBEMA RIDDELLII, Edith D. Plants-Paris

VALIDATING A TAXONOMY OF NURSING PRACTICE FOR ONCOLOGY CLINICAL TRIAL NURSES, Michelle A. Purdom

PRECISION STUDY OF STOCHASTIC PREDICTORS FOR DXA SCANS, Raul Ramos

Impact of Nurse Fatigue and Nursing Handoffs on Patient and Nurse Safety, Melody A. Seitz

EXPLORATION OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR DIAPHORINA CITRI THE PRIMARY VECTOR OF CANDIDATUS LIBERIBACTER ASIATICUS, Gretta Marie Sharp

SUPERVISOR’S ENGAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION OUTCOMES: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT ON TASK PERFORMANCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR, Romell Thomas

SMOKING PREVALENCE AND MEDIA IMPACT ON SMOKING BEHAVIORS AMONG ADULT LGBT PERSONS, Christina Tuell

EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROCEDURAL JUSTICE, PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT, ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST, ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT, AND INTENT TO LEAVE AMONG TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES, Kristen Waddell

From Longinus to Tolkien: A Theory of the Fantastic Sublime, Seth Wilson

A Survey of Graphs of Minimum Order with Given Automorphism Group, Jessica Alyse Woodruff

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Examining the Influence of Organizational Culture on Employees' Ethical Behavior in Public Sector Organizations, Richard H. Afedzie

Nurses' Self-Efficacy for Managing Elder Abuse, Alana Anderson

Automatic License Plate Recognition Using Deep Learning Techniques, Naga Surya Sandeep Angara

Enhancing the Cohesiveness of a Cognitive Diverse Team: the Role of Leadership, Upatham Atiwate

Molecular Mechanism of Cytokine Production by Human Lung Fibroblast in Response to Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Elastase, Kourtney Bass

Confirmation of Potential Cyprinid Hosts for a State Threatened Freshwater Mussel of East Texas, Erin P. Bertram

Disaster Preparedness Education and Resource Needs for Pregnant and Post-Partum Families, Ellen A. Erickson Bonner

The Rise and Fall of the World War Machine, Justin Jacob Brown

Differential Geometry: Curvature and Holonomy, Austin Christian

The Shared Services Organizational Model in Higher Education Enrollment Management: the Application of the Transactional Components of the Burke-Litwin Model of Organizational Performance and Change and the Moderating Effect of Employee Engagement on Individual Motivation, Rosemary Cooper

Factors Influencing Critical Care Nurses to Speak Up When Patients are at Risk for Harm: Development of an Instrument, Deborah Ruth Crumpler

Lignocellulose Metabolism in a Fungus-Gardening Ant Symbiosis, Alexandria DeMilto

Job Embeddedness: the differences between registered nurses and health care assistants, Zelda Gibbs

Determining Best Practices for Freshwater Mussel Relocation Using Burrowing and Behavior, Lindsey Marie Griffin

Social Support to Reduce Uncertainty in Childhood Cancer in South Texas: A Case Study, Martha Danielle Gunter

Eric Shanower and the Visual Mythography of Age of Bronze, Michael R. Hale

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Democracy: Comedy and Politics in the Twentieth Century, Robin Haynie

An Integrative Approach to Species Delimitation in the Massasauga Rattlesnake (Sistrurus Catenatus) with an Emphasis on the Western Massasauga, S.C. Tergeminus, and Desert Massasauga, S.C. Edwardsii in Texas, Steven R. Hein

Ecological Niche Modeling of Pteronotropis Hubbsi, the Bluehead Shiner: Evaluating the Effects of Spatial Filtering and Maxent Features Across Various Spacial Extents, Justin Matthew Hernandez

Comparison of Ballet and Modern Dance in terms of Kinetics, Kinematics and Muscle Activation during Landing for College Dancers, Yayoi Jones

Using Ecological Niche Modeling and Genetics to Evaluate the Conservation Status of the Texas Gartersnake, Thamnophis Sirtalis Annectens, Kayla N. Key

Fast Semivariogram Computation Using FPGA Architectures, Yamuna Sri Lagadapati

Christian Lady Rhetorica: Americanization of Marian Rhetoric in Early American Sentimental and Seduction Novels, Stephanie Laszik

Bactericera Cockerelli (SULC) (hemiptera: triozidae): Nearly Complete Mitochondrial Genome, Single Mitochondrial Genes and Complete Mitochondrial Genome Comparison, and Insecticide Resistance Genes of Potato Psyllid Populations from North America, Amalia Rosa Lopez Montiel

Measured and Predicted Performance of a Photovoltaic Grid-Connected System in a Humid Subtropical Climate, Racquel Lovelace

The Random Forest Algorithm with Application to Multispectral Image Analysis, Barrett E. Lowe

Live Model Simulation: Improving Nursing Students' Attitudes and Knowledge of Alzheimer's Disease, Teresa Maharaj

Cultural Competence Among Nursing Faculty, Colleen Marzilli

Child Sex Trafficking-Recognition, Intervention, and Referral: an Educational Framework to Guide Health Care Provider Practice, Cathy L. Miller

Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Elastase Induces Restructuring of Actin Cytoskeleton by Phosphorylation of RhoA Proteins, Bidisha Pal

Stochastic Assessment of Bone Fragility in Human Lumbar Spine, Rajeshwar Rao Pinninti

God's Rebel: Christian Socialism in East Texas, 1911-1917, Austin Quinten

Triatominae (Hemiptera:Reduviidae) in Texas: Mitochondrial Genome Assembly, Trypanosoma Cruzi Detection, and Bacterial Community Analysis, Chissa-Louise Rivaldi

Development of Clinical Judgement for Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Nursing Students: a Comparison of Traditional and Simulated Clinical Experiences, Eve Marie Rodriguez

Fitzgerald's and Hemingway's Muses of Disillusionment, Allison Rogers

The Downregulation of Short Neuropeptide Receptor (SNPFR) in the Red Imported Fire Ant Solenopsis Invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and the Tawny Crazy Ant Nylanderia Fulva (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) using RNA Interference, and the Use of an Anthranilic Diamide as a Novel Management Technique, Megan Rudolph

Manipulation of the Solenopsis Invicta Virus-1 by RNA Interference in the Red Imported Fire Ant Solenopsis Invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and Examination of Differences in Resulting Micro RNA Expression, Patrick Rydzak

Distinguishing the Neches River Rose Mallow, Hibiscus Dasycalyx, from its Congeners Using DNA Sequence Data and Niche Modeling Methods, Melody P. Sain

RNA Interference: Potato/Tomato Psyllid, Bactericera Cockerelli, Oral Delivery of Double-Stranded RNAI Construct, Bijaya Kumar Sharma

Illness Beliefs and Adherence among Louisiana Adults with Type 2 Diabetes, Denise L. Stagg

Virtual Electronics Laboratory for Visualized Education and Training, Sreelatha Aihloor Subramanyam

Technostress Effects on Technology Acceptance by Nurse Faculty, Joseph W. Tacy

Defining "Independent Practice" for Nurse Practitioners in the State of Texas: envisioning a workable model, Hines Ann Tracy

Investigation of Views on Mental Health Treatment Seeking, Huy Tran

Implementation of Compressive Sensing Algorithms on Arm Cortex Processor and FPGAs, Dinesh Veeramachaneni

Effects of 6-week Squat, Deadlift, and Hip Thrust Training Programs on Speed, Power, Agility, and Strength in Experienced Lifters, Michael Zweifel

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Blattabacterium Genome: Structure, Function, and Evolution, Austin Alleman

Exploring Different Operationalizations of Employee Engagement and Their Relationships with Workplace Stress and Burnout Among IT Professionals in Community Hospitals, Paula E. Anthony-McMann

Exploring Generational Differences Between Generation Y and Baby Boomers in Work-Life Balance, Afton Barber

The Role of PiuA, an Outer Membrane Iron Receptor, in the Pathogenesis of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Brandon J. Beddingfield