Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Gulf Trade Networks and Family Ties: French Migration via New Orleans to the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1848-1881, Kristen D. Kline
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Hablando De Negocios: Three Rio Grande Valley Businesses during the Great Depression, 1929-1939, Karla A. Lira
Formation of LiFePO4-Pan Submicron Fibers Via Forcespinning ® for Battery Cathode Applications, Ashlee L. Lopez
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Global-to-local-to-global: A model for tutoring ESL students in the writing center, David Aguilar
A comparative approach to Question Answering Systems, Josue Balandrano Coronel
Relationships between Texas tortoise carapace length, home range size, and habitat selection at sites with invasive grass, Kiley V. Briggs
Adult Hispanic students' attitudes toward writing in English in a U.S. bilingual community, Analynn Bustamante
Development of Arginyl-tRNA synthetase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a platform to screen for inhibitors of protein synthesis, Daniel Cantu
Map of the problematique: An analysis of muse through a rhetorical lens, Triauna R. Carey
Discriminacion a un martir: The ballad of Felix Longoria, Cristobal A. Carrizales
The formal approaches and multicultural considerations of assessing aphasia for the neurogenic population from the perspective of a monolingual clinician, Lauren C. Carter
Repair severed nerve connections through a multi-branch microchannel scaffold to control the direction of the regenerated nerve, Luis Enrique Castanuela Ramon
A case study of Hispanic female school superintendents in rural schools of the Rio Grande Valley in deep south Texas, Irma C. Castillo
Elucubraciones con cicatrices y gritos, Exal Chong
La expresión y posición de los clíticos en el español L2 de hablantes nativos del portugués brasileño en el sur de Texas, Mark A. Cisneros
Characterizing benthic invertebrate communities at five South Texas Banks, Maria T. Cooksey
Palatalizacion del fonema /d/ ante vocal anterior en el español como segunda lengua de los brasileños en el sur de Texas, Carlos Cornejo
If this heart had a mouth: A forbidden romance narrated through mimesis: Poems, Julieta V. Corpus
Apoptotic and necrotizing mechanisms of recombinant Panton-Valentine leukocidin in THP1 monocytes., Heriberto DeLeon III
Smoked Blood and Lavender, Diana L. Elizondo
You either laugh or cry, Laura Espinoza
The spatial and temporal distribution of residential burglary in Brownsville, South Texas, Sonia Figueredo
Design of three-dimensional near-zero refractive index metamaterials, David Flores III
Archaeological potential of the Rio Grande Valley: A look at Brazos Island with a historical focus on the Civil War, Robin L. Galloso
Elementary educators' perspective of physical education and the physical education teacher, Jennifer M. Garcia
The effectiveness of teacher involvement in the design of a writing curriculum, Jennifer O. Garcia
The acute effects of aerobic exercise with blood flow restriction cuffs on arterial compliance in males and females, Maria M. Gonzalez
Comunicando emociones: Language preferences for Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley, Elim Hernandez
Alzamiento de vocales medias en el español como L2 de brasileños en el sur de Texas, Estela Hernandez
Sparse representation for the ISAR image reconstruction, Mengqi Hu
Essays on the role of institutional ownership in bank governance, Mohammad Jafarinejad
La traducción e interpretación como trasfondo y consecuencia en los personajes de la novela "Malinche" de Laura Esquivel, Blanca Jaimes-Luna
Global Entropy Based Greedy Algorithm for discretization, Sai Jyothsna Jonnalagadda
Un testimonio del abismo: The figuring and disfiguring effects of trauma, addiction, and autobiography, Erin D. Knobloch
Router security effect on performance of a network, David L. Leal
Save my Sins for Sunday, Gabriel Leal
Nonlinear dynamics of electrostatically actuated nanotweezers, Bin Liu
Lie symmetry to nonlinear oscillator systems and applications, Xiaoyan Li
On hypergroups of order at most 6, Jordy C. Lopez
Jatropha curcas protoplast isolation and inhibitory effects of culture, Christopher S. Lukaszewski
Cuentos de verano antología de cuentos, Mayra C. Mancera
Development of a phased array using LNBs with non-synchronized clocks, James I. Murray
The fallen female: A testimony, Husney Farwa Naqvi
Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre, Kathryn M. O'Neal
The Canción Cannibal Cabaret and other songs: Feminists of a dystopian future repurpose a punk past, Amalia L. Ortiz
Identification of synthetic chemical compound inhibitors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa protein synthesis and the development of lead series, Stephanie O. Palmer
Using computer-mediated communication as a tool for mentoring to Latina/o sophomore college students, Carly C. Peden
Elementary students' perceptions of teacher-student relationships, Jayne S. Pocquette
(Re)constructing American Linguistic Identity: Disrupting the American linguistic standard in first year composition, Brittany N. Ramirez
Analysis and simulation of a social network, Twitter: a case study, Jonatan Reyes
Profitability and Financial Characteristics of U.S. Publicly Traded Health Services Companies, Alessandra Rios
Mapping borderlands horror: Tales in terror, trauma, and Latinx immigrant experiences in recent fiction, Cynthia Saldivar
Carbon and nitrogen dynamics of anthropogenically disturbed seagrass ecosystems, Alison Shepherd
Understanding long-term English language learners in the developmental classroom of a community college, Stanley S. Snelson
Hydrodesulfurization of dibenzothiophene using CoMoS2, Jacob S. Sollner
Coming of age on social media: Platforms for discussion and critique on the novels of Sarah Dessen, Liza M. Soria
Impact of virtualization on cloud network security, Koushicaa Sundar
Handcrafted electrocorticography electrodes for a rodent neural activity, Nishat Tasnim
Añoranza, Victor H. Tijerina
Molecular dynamic simulation studies of the androgen receptor complexed with 5α-dihydrotestosterone and an allosteric ligand, Everardo Villarreal II
Graphene-based nanomaterials for hydrogen generation and storage, Lin Wei
The artists journey- Strolling the edges of the universe, Mary P. Williams
Opinion formation about childhood immunization and disease spread on networks, Shan Shan Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Comparing reproductive capacity of nearshore and offshore red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, on artificial reefs in the western Gulf of Mexico, Ricky J. Alexander
Molecular modeling and mutational mapping of the GPR119 binding site, Shane M. Askar
Validating side scan sonar as a fish survey tool, Michael A. Bollinger
Pressure field estimation using particle image velocimetry, Jean O. Calzada
Exploring Hispanic teacher candidates' beliefs about the value of play in children's learning and development, Diana H. Cortez-Castro
Decomposition and nitrogen dynamics of turtle grass (Thalassia testudinum) in a subtropical estuarine system, Monica Delgado
Computational analysis of the sir mathematical model for the dengue fever, Joseph Phillip Diaz
Examination of the chagas disease vector, Triatoma gerstackeri, in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Alfredo Flores
Activation of microglia in the rotenone Lymnaea stagnalis model of Parkinson's disease, Xiomara Galvan
First astrophysical observations with the low frequency all sky monitor, Emma Youmans Handzo
Tabacaleros al grito de guerra: The Mexican tobacco industry and the U.S.-Mexico War, Jorge A. Hernandez
A handcrafted multi-branch nerve scaffold for in vivo peripheral nerve regeneration, Ridwan Fayaz Hossain
Facile sol-gel molten salt synthesis of double perovskite La 2NiMnO6 as an electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reactions, Padmini Kukkapalli
Racial intolerance during the California Gold Rush, Raul David Lopez
Balanus eburneus (crustacea: cirripedia) as a potential indicator of estuarine system recovery in south Texas: A study of recruitment, growth and stable isotopes, Crystal Martinez
Modeling the residual useful life of railroad bearing grease, Thania Alejandra Martinez
A new American fiction: Personal essays, observances, and interviews, Daniel M. Mendoza
3D reconstruction of close range objects using free and open source software and Raspberry Pi technologies, Juan Lorenzo Monrreal
Identifying Elements of a Climate for Sustainability, Rosemond A. Moore
Re: publics: Woman of color feminist rhetorical process shaping safe spaces for a rehumanizing discourse, Eloisa E. Moreno
The competitive environment of community banking and the potential impact on microenterprise entrepreneurs' access to bank financing, Robert D. Morrison
The effect of a writing course on the English language arts state assessment examination in a South Texas high school, Esmeralda V. Munoz
Landslide: The 1984 presidential election, Colin J. Newton
Influence of property school wealth on fifth grade student achievement in reading and mathematics, Jesus R. Reyna
My true father, David Rice
An exploratory investigation of tele-counseling: Looking at the power of therapeutic alliance in improving wellness, Jorge Rostro
Liberty, equality, indebtedness: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the problem of debt in a revolutionary age, Martha Salazar Cantu
De vida, regalos e historias, Monica Skrzypinski
I never left the borderland, Rosa E. Trevino
Historias de psicopatas desidiosos y solitarios en la frontera, Silvia H. Vera-Huesca
The Bourbaki-Jacobson correspondence, Jose R. Vera