Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations

 
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Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Agency of Mexican/Tejano Union Recruits during the United States Civil War: An Archival Case Study of Private Pedro Garcia, Andy Najera

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Comparing experiences, perceptions, and achievement of students in fully online and web-enhanced courses to assess differences in course quality, Jose A. Banda

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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

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Hablando De Negocios: Three Rio Grande Valley Businesses during the Great Depression, 1929-1939, Karla A. Lira

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Formation of LiFePO4-Pan Submicron Fibers Via Forcespinning ® for Battery Cathode Applications, Ashlee L. Lopez

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Global-to-local-to-global: A model for tutoring ESL students in the writing center, David Aguilar

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Microwire regenerative peripheral nerve interfaces with wireless recording and stimulation capabilities, Ali Ajam

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A comparative approach to Question Answering Systems, Josue Balandrano Coronel

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Relationships between Texas tortoise carapace length, home range size, and habitat selection at sites with invasive grass, Kiley V. Briggs

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Adult Hispanic students' attitudes toward writing in English in a U.S. bilingual community, Analynn Bustamante

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Development of Arginyl-tRNA synthetase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a platform to screen for inhibitors of protein synthesis, Daniel Cantu

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Map of the problematique: An analysis of muse through a rhetorical lens, Triauna R. Carey

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Discriminacion a un martir: The ballad of Felix Longoria, Cristobal A. Carrizales

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The formal approaches and multicultural considerations of assessing aphasia for the neurogenic population from the perspective of a monolingual clinician, Lauren C. Carter

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Repair severed nerve connections through a multi-branch microchannel scaffold to control the direction of the regenerated nerve, Luis Enrique Castanuela Ramon

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A case study of Hispanic female school superintendents in rural schools of the Rio Grande Valley in deep south Texas, Irma C. Castillo

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Elucubraciones con cicatrices y gritos, Exal Chong

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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

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Characterizing benthic invertebrate communities at five South Texas Banks, Maria T. Cooksey

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Palatalizacion del fonema /d/ ante vocal anterior en el español como segunda lengua de los brasileños en el sur de Texas, Carlos Cornejo

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If this heart had a mouth: A forbidden romance narrated through mimesis: Poems, Julieta V. Corpus

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Apoptotic and necrotizing mechanisms of recombinant Panton-Valentine leukocidin in THP1 monocytes., Heriberto DeLeon III

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Smoked Blood and Lavender, Diana L. Elizondo

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You either laugh or cry, Laura Espinoza

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The spatial and temporal distribution of residential burglary in Brownsville, South Texas, Sonia Figueredo

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Design of three-dimensional near-zero refractive index metamaterials, David Flores III

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Archaeological potential of the Rio Grande Valley: A look at Brazos Island with a historical focus on the Civil War, Robin L. Galloso

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Elementary educators' perspective of physical education and the physical education teacher, Jennifer M. Garcia

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The effectiveness of teacher involvement in the design of a writing curriculum, Jennifer O. Garcia

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The acute effects of aerobic exercise with blood flow restriction cuffs on arterial compliance in males and females, Maria M. Gonzalez

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The effects of project-based learning on the academic and linguistic achievement of emergent bilingual learners: A mixed methods approach, Melinda Hardy

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Comunicando emociones: Language preferences for Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley, Elim Hernandez

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Alzamiento de vocales medias en el español como L2 de brasileños en el sur de Texas, Estela Hernandez

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Sparse representation for the ISAR image reconstruction, Mengqi Hu

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Essays on the role of institutional ownership in bank governance, Mohammad Jafarinejad

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La traducción e interpretación como trasfondo y consecuencia en los personajes de la novela "Malinche" de Laura Esquivel, Blanca Jaimes-Luna

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Global Entropy Based Greedy Algorithm for discretization, Sai Jyothsna Jonnalagadda

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Un testimonio del abismo: The figuring and disfiguring effects of trauma, addiction, and autobiography, Erin D. Knobloch

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The relationship between entity beliefs and socioeconomic status-based rejection sensitivity: Academic achievement in a predominantly Hispanic sample, Anna Kushner

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Router security effect on performance of a network, David L. Leal

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Save my Sins for Sunday, Gabriel Leal

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Nonlinear dynamics of electrostatically actuated nanotweezers, Bin Liu

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Lie symmetry to nonlinear oscillator systems and applications, Xiaoyan Li

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On hypergroups of order at most 6, Jordy C. Lopez

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Jatropha curcas protoplast isolation and inhibitory effects of culture, Christopher S. Lukaszewski

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Cuentos de verano antología de cuentos, Mayra C. Mancera

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Development of a phased array using LNBs with non-synchronized clocks, James I. Murray

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The fallen female: A testimony, Husney Farwa Naqvi

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Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre, Kathryn M. O'Neal

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The Canción Cannibal Cabaret and other songs: Feminists of a dystopian future repurpose a punk past, Amalia L. Ortiz

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Identification of synthetic chemical compound inhibitors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa protein synthesis and the development of lead series, Stephanie O. Palmer

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Using computer-mediated communication as a tool for mentoring to Latina/o sophomore college students, Carly C. Peden

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Elementary students' perceptions of teacher-student relationships, Jayne S. Pocquette

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(Re)constructing American Linguistic Identity: Disrupting the American linguistic standard in first year composition, Brittany N. Ramirez

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La incorporación de los elementos del latín y griego en la enseñanza del español en las ciencias médicas: Un plan metodológico experimental, Jesus Ramos

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Analysis and simulation of a social network, Twitter: a case study, Jonatan Reyes

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Profitability and Financial Characteristics of U.S. Publicly Traded Health Services Companies, Alessandra Rios

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Mapping borderlands horror: Tales in terror, trauma, and Latinx immigrant experiences in recent fiction, Cynthia Saldivar

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Carbon and nitrogen dynamics of anthropogenically disturbed seagrass ecosystems, Alison Shepherd

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Understanding long-term English language learners in the developmental classroom of a community college, Stanley S. Snelson

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Hydrodesulfurization of dibenzothiophene using CoMoS2, Jacob S. Sollner

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Coming of age on social media: Platforms for discussion and critique on the novels of Sarah Dessen, Liza M. Soria

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Impact of virtualization on cloud network security, Koushicaa Sundar

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Handcrafted electrocorticography electrodes for a rodent neural activity, Nishat Tasnim

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Añoranza, Victor H. Tijerina

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Molecular dynamic simulation studies of the androgen receptor complexed with 5α-dihydrotestosterone and an allosteric ligand, Everardo Villarreal II

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Graphene-based nanomaterials for hydrogen generation and storage, Lin Wei

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The artists journey- Strolling the edges of the universe, Mary P. Williams

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Opinion formation about childhood immunization and disease spread on networks, Shan Shan Zhao

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Comparing reproductive capacity of nearshore and offshore red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, on artificial reefs in the western Gulf of Mexico, Ricky J. Alexander

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Molecular modeling and mutational mapping of the GPR119 binding site, Shane M. Askar

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Validating side scan sonar as a fish survey tool, Michael A. Bollinger

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Pressure field estimation using particle image velocimetry, Jean O. Calzada

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Exploring Hispanic teacher candidates' beliefs about the value of play in children's learning and development, Diana H. Cortez-Castro

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Decomposition and nitrogen dynamics of turtle grass (Thalassia testudinum) in a subtropical estuarine system, Monica Delgado

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Computational analysis of the sir mathematical model for the dengue fever, Joseph Phillip Diaz

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Examination of the chagas disease vector, Triatoma gerstackeri, in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Alfredo Flores

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Activation of microglia in the rotenone Lymnaea stagnalis model of Parkinson's disease, Xiomara Galvan

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First astrophysical observations with the low frequency all sky monitor, Emma Youmans Handzo

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Tabacaleros al grito de guerra: The Mexican tobacco industry and the U.S.-Mexico War, Jorge A. Hernandez

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A handcrafted multi-branch nerve scaffold for in vivo peripheral nerve regeneration, Ridwan Fayaz Hossain

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Facile sol-gel molten salt synthesis of double perovskite La 2NiMnO6 as an electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reactions, Padmini Kukkapalli

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Racial intolerance during the California Gold Rush, Raul David Lopez

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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

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Modeling the residual useful life of railroad bearing grease, Thania Alejandra Martinez

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A new American fiction: Personal essays, observances, and interviews, Daniel M. Mendoza

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3D reconstruction of close range objects using free and open source software and Raspberry Pi technologies, Juan Lorenzo Monrreal

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Identifying Elements of a Climate for Sustainability, Rosemond A. Moore

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Re: publics: Woman of color feminist rhetorical process shaping safe spaces for a rehumanizing discourse, Eloisa E. Moreno

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The competitive environment of community banking and the potential impact on microenterprise entrepreneurs' access to bank financing, Robert D. Morrison

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The effect of a writing course on the English language arts state assessment examination in a South Texas high school, Esmeralda V. Munoz

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Landslide: The 1984 presidential election, Colin J. Newton

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Influence of property school wealth on fifth grade student achievement in reading and mathematics, Jesus R. Reyna

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My true father, David Rice

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An exploratory investigation of tele-counseling: Looking at the power of therapeutic alliance in improving wellness, Jorge Rostro

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Liberty, equality, indebtedness: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the problem of debt in a revolutionary age, Martha Salazar Cantu

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De vida, regalos e historias, Monica Skrzypinski

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I never left the borderland, Rosa E. Trevino

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Historias de psicopatas desidiosos y solitarios en la frontera, Silvia H. Vera-Huesca

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The Bourbaki-Jacobson correspondence, Jose R. Vera