Theses/Dissertations from 2013
GENDER AND THE AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND, Ashley Parks
PRUNING INTERSTELLAR SPACE: ROTATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF SMALL ORGANIC MOLECULES, Maria Phillips
HEAR ME SIGN: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE DEAF CULTURE OF SARASOTA, FLORIDA, Jessica Ploss
All Your Base Are Belong To me! The Relation of Personality, Sociability, and Addiction in the Virtual Place, Christopher Pollman
BODY, MIND, AND BELLY: COMPARING BODY IMAGE AND PERCEIVED STRESS BETWEEN BELLY DANCERS AND DANCERS OF OTHER STYLES, Rebecca Porzig
THE EFFECTS OF VIDEO GAME TRAINING ON THE VISUOSPATIAL COGNITION OF OLDER ADULTS, Makenzie Pryor
TAX HAVENS AND AN EXPANDING ECONOMY: POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHINA, Timothy Richardson
MEANINGFUL RUINS: PUBLIC MEMORY AND THE TRANSITIONAL LANDSCAPES OF THE BRADEN CASTLE OF BRADENTON FLORIDA, Rachel Roach
NEUROIMAGING OF MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: A VOXEL-BASED ANALYSIS OF SMRI AND DTI DATA, Graham Robart
ASCENDING THE HEAVENS ON CONJURED DRAGONS: DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN MAGIC AND RELIGION IN CHINESE DAOIST PRACTICE, Estefan Rodriguez
DIAGNOSING MENTAL ILLNESS USING MACHINE LEARNING, Jack Rogers
Theoretical Kinetics Calculations on Reactions in the Interstellar Medium, Benjamin Rooks
EFFECTS OF ETHANOL EXPOSURE AND WITHDRAWAL ON EX VIVO CEREBELLAR SLICES, Stacy Roudabush
OVERPOPULATION: MITIGATION AND NORMATIVE DIFFUSION, Jordan Royal
Ideas of Selfhood in Movement: Gaga, Subjectivity, and Embodiment in Contemporary Dance, Wendy Rucci
"A STRANGER WITHIN THE GATES": THE CONSTRUCTION OF NON-NORMATIVE GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THREE FIN-DE-SIECLE, Emily Ryan
DEEPWATER HORIZON DISPERSANT USE: AN ANALYSIS OF COVERAGE BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, Puneet Sandhu
HISTORICAL AND MODERN CONCEPTUALIZATION OF ADHD: A NEUROBIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE, Nikolas Santamaria
Alternate Paths to Modernity: The Second Reich and Meiji Japan, Eric Schmitt
TURNING OUR DARKNESS TO DAWN: THE EFFECT OF THE PREFERENCE CLAUSE ON THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ELECTRICITY MARKET, Willis Schueler
GOGOL'S "SHINEL" IN ENGLISH: A COMMENTARY AND TRANSLATION, Morgan Shafter
ADDRESSING DIVERSITY: THE CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNITY IDENTIFIERS IN THE DEVON AVENUE STREETSCAPE PLAN, Madhuri Shukla
Kinetic Characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans postembryonic Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, Ruth Silimon
REACHING NEW AUDIENCES: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AT HISTORYMIAMI MUSEUM AND THE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART, Jehan Sinclair
ACROSS BORDERS: A HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO PLANTATION LANDSCAPES IN FLORIDA, JAMAICA, AND WESTERN CUBA, Travis Small
SCIENCE BLOGGING: SCIENCE JOURNALISTS OF THE INTERNET, Allison Smith
DISEQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS OF A CENTRALLY PLANNED SOVIET-TYPE ECONOMY: AN APPLICATION TO THE CASE OF CUBA 1970-2010, Keith Sommers
AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE? Non-Governmental Development Organizations, State Capacity, and Education in Kenya and Tanzania, Anne-Sophie Staebler
EN EL REBUSQUE: HE INITIAL EFFECTS OF THE US-COLOMBIA TRADE PROMOTION AGREEMENT ON LABOR RELATIONS IN COLOMBIA, Barbara Suarez
Digitizing Privacy: Evolving Fourth Amendment Interpretation, Andrew Swain
ABOUT FACE OR STRATEGIC RETREAT: DIVERGENT PATHS TOWARDS DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION AFTER MILITARY REGIMES IN LATIN AMERICA, Rosanna Tavarez
A LITTLE STARLING TOLD ME: A MODERN DAY TRANSLATION OF OLGA MARTYNOVA'S SOGAR PAPAGEIEN UBERLEBEN UNS, Dorothea Trotter
REVERSE GENETICS AND REAL-TIME PCR TO IDENTIFY GENES THAT REGULATE EARLY MAIZE KERNEL DEVELOPMENT, Jillian True
DOES FIRMNESS OF CONVICTION CAUSE OBJECTIVISM ABOUT A MORAL ISSUE?, David Turon
Iraq in Jordan: An Anthropological Examination of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan, Silvia Ulloa
PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE FROM DROSOPHILA SUZUKII, Valeria Valbuena
A CONSEQUENTIAL GEOGRAPHY: COMPLEX SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF SPACE AND POWER IN SOUTH AFRICA, Wenonah Venter
AT THE HANDS OF THE PAPACY: THE DECLINE OF SACRAL KINGSHIP AND THE REIGN OF KING HENRY IV, Shelby von Hofe
THE ILLUSIONS OF IMMERSIVE NARRATIVE, Gregory Washko
Education by Class: Observations from an Elite School, Diana Watson
EXPOSING BOUNDARIES: INTERSECTIONS OF SPACE, TIME AND THE BODY IN FRANCESCA WOODMAN'S PHOTOGRAPHS, Rachel Weisman
FOLLOWING THE SIREN'S SONG: FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY IN UNDINE, THE LITTLE MERMAID, AND WIDE SARGASSO SEA, Sandra Werb
A COMPARISON OF BIOLOGICAL STRING SIMILARITY ALGORITHMS APPLICATION TO SOURCE CODE PLAGIARISM DETECTION, Colin Wielga
Lorentz Symmetry Violating Extensions of the Nuclear Shell Model, Steven Wilcox
CLASS CEILINGS: FILMING AN ELITE SALVADORAN FAMILY, Alexander Wilson
NEW RESEARCH TOWARDS THE SYNTHESIS OF 1,4-DIBENZYL-1,4,7-TRIAZACYCLONONANE-7-MONOACETATE TO MODEL OXALATE DEGRADING METALLOENZYMES, Jaclynn Windsor
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, ANIMAL SACRIFICE, AND COMMUNITY MAINTENANCE: FROM HIALEAH TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, Lewis Winstanley
THE IMPACT OF THE NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA SEAWALL PROJECT ON THE ADJACENT SEAGRASS, Cassandra Wood
REPRODUCING INEQUALITY?: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL RELATIONS IN NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, Mariana Zapata
SELF-DESTRUCTION IS THE ONLY WAY OUT!: THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN 'OBLITERATED' SELF IN THE WORK OF YAYOI KUSAMA, Irini Zervas
YIELDING TO THE OCTOPUS AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE, IMPERIALISM, AND LANDLESSNESS IN GUATEMALA, Sophia Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
"This is the Value of Our Labor" The Nonmajority Union Approach in U.S. Manufacturing, Essie Ablavsky
Relationships among Alexithymia, Altruism, and Interpersonal Trust, Felix Acuna
In Search of Lost Caregivers Gender, Sexuality and the Body in Proust's Recherche, Emily Adams
Matter'-ing' the Body Strategies of Resistance in Contemporary Art, Aria Alamalhodaei
"You Always See Something, But You Never See All" Narative Devices and the Reader's Role in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Andrei Bely's Kotik Letaev, Jacqueline Aldrich
Deleuze's Cinematic Imperative An Ethico-Politics of Belief in this World, Jonathan Amos
What About the Agape? Understanding the Communal Love-Feast of Early Christianity, Delaney Anderson
Investigating the Potential Existence of Endophytic Bacteria in Early Stage Maize Kernels, Matthew Anderson
Guerrilla Clusters for Science The Application of Genetic Algorithms to Spectroscopy, Noah Henry Anderson
Stigma Against People with Depression, It's Effect on Test Performance, and Role Models' Influence on This Effect, Katya Ariano
What Are You Looking For? The Associations of Attachment and Romantic Relationship Ideals with Attraction, Cheryl Askey
Learning to Live and to Lead How Post-Secondary Religious Education Helps Women to Shape Modern Orthodox Judaism in Israel, Rachel Atwood
Terror Management and Humor Can Viewing a Cartoon About Death Reduce Death Concerns?, Alisabeth Ayars
My Dog Is Better Than Yours An Examination of The Pain Attenuating Properties Associated With Exposure To a Familiar Dog, an Unfamiliar Dog, and a Plant, Emma Jane Ballantine
The Coelomocytes And Inflammation In The Sea Urchin Lytechinus Vareigatus (Lamarck, 1816), Katrina Bang
Attitudes About Hispanics and Spanish-English Bilingual Education, Rachel Barnard
Economics of the European Union Unravel or Unite, Victoria Barnette
Matilda of Canossa and the Role of Women in Medieval Politics, Maika Beard
The Adaptation and Appropriation of Shakespeare in Neil Gaiman's Graphic Novel The Sandman, Bianca Beebe
Grit and Graduation A Meta-Thesis, M. Faith Benamy
Ethnographic Cinema in the 21st Century, Jacqlyn Bender
Development-Induced Displacement and the Environmental Consequences of Large Infrastructure Projects in China, Chelsea Benjamin
Silver and Gold Victorian Masculinities of the Nineteenth-Century American West, Elizabeth T. Bennett
ECO3 Can a Tri-force of Sustainability Reforms $ave the Four Winds Cafe, Johannah Birney
In Site Out Placing Emancipatory Practice in Installation and Site-Specific Work, Katelyn Bobek
Who Speaks for the Wolves? An Exploration of the Human-Wolf Conflict in the Continental United States, Kaitlyn Bock
The Linguistic Construction of Ethnic Identity in a Greek-American Community, Natalie Boyd
Curiosity may not have Killed the Cat After All The Potential Relationship Between Self-esteem, Self-compassion, and Curiosity, Elizabeth Brewer
Transformations of "White Snake", Kathleen Brindley
This Land is My Land, This Land is Our Land The Intersection of Property Law and Development in China, Maximillion Brown
Rewilding Towards a Neo-Shamanic Phenomenological Consciousness, Bradley Bryant
Growth Rate of an Invasive Apple Snail, Pomacea insularum (d'Orbigny), and its Potential Impact on Native Florida Ecosystems, Allegra Buyer
The Modernization of Buddhism In Taiwan A Case Study of Tzu Chi and Fo Guang Shan, Rafaela Calatchi
An Analysis of Age and Diet Related Changes in The Venom Composition of Sistrurus Iliarius Barbouri, Andrew Carothers
Talking Back Effects of Training Session Occurrence on Captive Dolphin Vocal Behavior, Jennie Caskey
Czechmate Redefining the Relationship Between Bohemia and the German Empire, 973�1086, Grayson Chester
The Local Consumed Recreating Native-Place on China's Hilltop Herb Farm, Rebecca Catherine Christoforo
Deposits Grow, Disempowerment Lingers Economic Status and Social Empowerment in a Women's Self- Help Group Microfinance Program in Rajasthan, India, Claire Comiskey
Crossing the Threshold An Examination of the Duration of Self-Regulatory Tasks within the Ego Depletion Paradigm, Kelsey Cooke
State Attachment, Anxiety Sensitivity, and Drinking Motives The Effect of Priming State Attachment on Anxiety Sensitivity and Drinking Motives, Corey Kennedy Costello
Archaeology Rolls into the Public Sphere An Introduction to Florida Public Archaeology Network's Archaeocart, Rozalyn E. Crews
Diel Activity of the Poison Frog Oophaga Pumilio in Response to Weather Conditions in Bocas Del Toro, Panama, Raluca Cruceanu