Theses/Dissertations from 2018
POPULATION STRUCTURE, DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL NICHE OF THE SAND FLY DISEASE VECTOR LUTZOMYIA SHANNONI (DYAR) (DIPTERA: PSYCHODIDAE) IN THE U.S., MEXICO, AND COLOMBIA, Matthew E. Wolkoff
CITY OF TYLER HUB-AND-SPOKE BICYCLE LANE NETWORK, Pedro A. Zavagna
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
AN EXACT ANALYSIS FOR FOUR-ORDER ACOUSTO-OPTIC BRAGG DIFFRACTION WHICH INCORPORATES BOTH INCIDENT LIGHT ANGLE AND SOUND FREQUENCY DEPENDENCIES, Adeyinka Sunday Ademola
Quality of Prenatal Care and Pregnancy Outcomes: Centering Pregnancy Versus Traditional Prenatal Care, Lisette M. Allender
EXAMINING THE MANAGERIAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES NEEDED TO TRANSITION FROM A TRADITIONAL PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL TO A DEVELOPMENTAL PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL, James S. Aller III
MICROBIOME ANALYSIS OF TWO SYMPATRIC FUNGUS-GARDENING ANTS, TRACHYMYRMEX SEPTENTRIONALIS AND TRACHYMYRMEX TURRIFEX, Mattea Allert
THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF PARENTS WITH CHRONIC SORROW WHO ARE CARING FOR CHILDREN WITH A CHRONIC MEDICAL CONDITION, Lori L. Batchelor
IMPLEMENTATION AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF LONG TERM EVOLUTION USING SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO, Kedar Bhusal
Phylogenetic and ecological analysis of two populations of the Kitsatchie Painted Crayfish, Orconectes maletae (Decapoda: Cambaridae), Larrimy Beth Brown
A DELPHI STUDY: GUIDELINES FOR RESEARCHERS WORKING WITH TEENAGE MOTHERS, Alison M. Chamberlain
SUCCESSION PLANNING IN THE RELIGIOUS NON-PROFIT SECTOR: UNDERSTANDING ASSOCIATE PASTORS’ EXPERIENCES OF SERVING AS INTERNAL INTERIMS, Darius Mason Chapman
Behavior of Petrie Lines in Certain Edge-Transitive Graphs, Ruby A. Chick
Analyzing Organizational Commitment and the Effect on Job Turnover in Nurse Residents, Cory D. Church
EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REGISTERED NURSES’ TURNOVER AND THE BENEFITS OF AN AFFIRMING CLIMATE OF DIVERSITY AS MEDIATED BY WORKPLACE OUTCOMES, James Mark Clardy
"Our attachments are our temples": Addiction, Recovery, and the Metamodernist Movement, Ashlie M. Contos
THE USE OF BILATERAL MOTOR TASK TRAINING TO AUGMENT COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN OLDER ADULTS, Colby Craddock
“THAT DARK PARADE”: EMILY DICKINSON AND THE VICTORIAN "CULT OF DEATH”, Carol M. DeGrasse
Language Proficiency and Academic Success of Bilingual Hispanic Nursing Students, Cristina Dominguez
META-REGRESSION: PROGNOSTIC MODELS AS OBJECTIVE PREDICTORS OF MORTALITY AMONG ICU CANCER PATIENTS, Sheila Donnell
The American Dream, Micronationalisms, and the Three Part National Identity as Presented by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Brianna J. Doucet
CLONING AND EXPRESSION OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA ELASTASE FOR ELUCIDATING THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECT ON LUNG TISSUE, Derek T. Draper
TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF FISH AND MACROINVERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGES ON MILITARY LAND IN WESTERN LOUISIANA, Janey Dudley
EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MESOHABITATS AND FRESHWATER MUSSELS IN AN EAST TEXAS RIVER, Andrew R. Glen
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
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
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
Exploration of Factors Affecting Nurse Faculty Use or Resistance to Online Education, Lisa M. Harless
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
SMOKING PREVALENCE AND MEDIA IMPACT ON SMOKING BEHAVIORS AMONG ADULT LGBT PERSONS, Christina Tuell
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
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
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
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
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
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