Theses and Dissertations
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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
College Readiness Indicators of First-Generation Hispanic High School Students in South Texas, William Morley
Neuromuscular and Arterial Compliance Responses to Different Resistance Training Frequencies and Protocols, Patrick Murphy
Does a Criminal Justice Degree Produce Law Enforcement Officers?, Bryan Keith Murray
Essays on the Unintended Consequences of Banking Regulation, John Patrick Ned
Three Essays on Shareholder Activism, Khoa Huu Nguyen
Wayne Booth's Rhetoric of Pluralism, William John Ordeman
The Lived Experiences of Counseling Graduate Students and the Impact of Their Studies in Their Marital Satisfaction, Vania S. Palacios
Time Dependent Solution for an Incompressible Viscous Fluid Flow in a Cavity, Bishnu Parajuli
Please Hold: Pushing the Comedic Movie Culture Forward, LonAnthony Phillip Parker
Hormonal Influence on Female Consumption of Revealing and Sexy Fashion Products, Ngoc B. Pham
Numerical Cognition in Action: Hand Trajectories Reveal Effects of Early Musical Training on Numerical Processing in Spanish-English Bilingual Musicians, Daniel Arturo Pizaña
Problem Book on Higher Algebra and Number Theory, Ryanto Putra
Mathematical Modeling of MERS-CoV Nosocomial Epidemic, Adriana Quiroz
Existing con el Lobo, Traversing la Frontera con Mis Nepantla Coyotes, y Buscando la Vida del Zorro: An Autoethnographic Exploration of a Chicano in Academia, Ernesto Fidel Ramirez
The Origins and Development of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson's Perceptions of American Foreign Policy toward East Asia, Juan C. Razo Jr.
Discrete Element Analysis of SCB Variability: Asphalt Mixtures, David Saul Renteria
Casimir and Van der Waals Effects on Electrostatically Actuated NEMS Resonator Sensors, Christian Reyes
Testing Acceptance of Language Difference in Academia: Perceptions in a First-Year Composition Classroom, Crystal Rodriguez
Essays on Stock Market Contagion: Evidence From the Americas, Juan Andres Rodriguez-Nieto
Regression-Discontinuity Analysis of the Effects of Government Housing Policies, Alejandro Rojas
Multifunctionality of Cover Crops on Organic Vegetable Farms in South Texas, Savannah M. Rugg
Equity Mispricing, Firms' Innovation and Institutional Investors, Hamid Sakaki
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of DNA Duplex Stretching, Ramin Salimi
Effectiveness of the Flipped Classroom Model in Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory Courses at a Hispanic Serving Institution, Gerardo Sanchez
Forgot My Tribe: Meditations on Hip Hop and la Frontera, Arnulfo Daniel Segovia
Essays on Financial Decision Making, Corey A. Shank
Resilience and Social Support among College Students with Disabilities, Rachita Sharma
Through Northern Eyes: Robert E. Lee and the Northern Press, Steven D. Sheller
(Re)Defining Masculinity: Creando Conciencia y Conocimiento Sobre la Educación through Food, Jesus Aaron Sierra
The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Journey: Path to Conocimiento a Testimonio of Queer Heroics, Veronica Solis
"La Reyna es El Rey": Expressions of Gender Identity by Female Mariachis in the Southwest, Erika J. Soveranes
Randomized Approach tor Set Cover with Multiple Phases*, Ujjwol Subedi
Two Essays on International Capital Flows and Cross-Listings, Lu Sui
Essays on Non-Traditional Activities in the Banking Industry, Lijuan Sun
Antecedents and Outcomes of Customer Engagement: Bridging Customer Value Co-Creation Behavior and Customer Psychological State Engagement, Samaneh Torkzadeh
Synthesis of Tetraethyl ((2-Amino-1,4-Phenylene)Bis(Methylene)) Bis(Phosphonate): An Intermediate in the Synthesis of Amino-Substituted Conjugated Materials, Ariel Ivan Torres Burgueno
Thermal Consolidation of Dredge Sand for Artificial Reef Formations, Alexandro Trevino
Single Tower Crane Allocation Models Using Ant Colony Optimization, Carlos Abelardo Trevino
Oxidation of Dibenzothiophene to Dibenzothiophene-Sufone Using a Molybdenum (VI) Oxide Catalyst: A Kinetic Study Testing Solvent Dependency and Mole Ratio Efficiency, Tomas Trevino Jr.
Hydrodesulfurization of Dibenzothiophene Using Lanthanum Doped CoMoS2, Carolina Valdes Bracamontes
Design and Implementation of a PID Controller for the Low-speed Wind Tunnel, Carlos F. Vasquez
How to Live: Growing Up as a Brown Gay Boy in a Conservative, Traditional and Christian Homophobic Family, Felipe Vasquez
Faculty Perceptions of Effectiveness and Impact of Professional Development for Teaching, Research, and Service, Claudia Vela
Hankel Partial Contraction, Contractive Completion, Moore-Penrose Inverse, Extremal Case, Manuel A. Villarreal Jr.
Nanoenergetic Gas Generators Based on Metal Hydroxides, Srbuhi Yolchinyan
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Thermal conductivity measurements of nanomaterials, Javier Acosta Martinez
Global-to-local-to-global: A model for tutoring ESL students in the writing center, David Aguilar
Love Sex God, Magdiel G. Alfonso
False positives on neuropsychological measures of effort among bilingual neurologically intact Mexican Americans, Arnoldo Amador Jr.
Accelerating object extraction and detection using a hierarchical approach with shape descriptors, Bassam Syed Arshad
A comparative approach to Question Answering Systems, Josue Balandrano Coronel
Essays on the performance and earnings management of cross-listing firms, Klaus S. Beckmann
South Padre Island beach management: Assessment of dune restoration, Shelby Rose Bessette
Multivariate calibration of a load sensor for dynamic and static freight railcar applications, Dylan Michael Blackwell
Relationships between Texas tortoise carapace length, home range size, and habitat selection at sites with invasive grass, Kiley V. Briggs
Avian communities in an urbanizing region: Abundance patterns and effects of local habitat features, John S. Brush
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
Biocompatible microchannel scaffold with microwires for recording regenerative peripheral nerve neural spikes, Manisankar Chennamsetti
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
Destination choice in novel and mature destinations: Effects of psychographic traits and anticipated need congruity on tourist intentions, Oliver Cruz-Milan
Low temperature flexible perovskite solar cell with mesoporous TiO2 electron transport layer in high humidity environment, Felipe De La Torre
Apoptotic and necrotizing mechanisms of recombinant Panton-Valentine leukocidin in THP1 monocytes., Heriberto DeLeon III
Smoked Blood and Lavender, Diana L. Elizondo
Calculating evapotranspiration of Arundo donax along the Rio Grande, Jose R. Escamilla Jr.
You either laugh or cry, Laura Espinoza
El son de "El cuervo": The transformation of armonía practice in the mariachi tradition, Adolfo Estrada Jr.
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
Academic relationships between at-risk high school students and teachers within an alternative school setting: "It is more than just academics, it's attitude", Daniel R. Galdeano
Archaeological potential of the Rio Grande Valley: A look at Brazos Island with a historical focus on the Civil War, Robin L. Galloso
A study on the effect of higher education branding on student's college decision, David E. Garcia
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
Study of selective laser remelting of 316L S.S. to reduce roughness on inclined surface, Jafar Ghorbani
Using machine learning to predict student achievement on the state of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness examination in charter schools, Christopher D. Gonzalez
The acute effects of aerobic exercise with blood flow restriction cuffs on arterial compliance in males and females, Maria M. Gonzalez
Lie Symmetry to second-order nonlinear differential equations and its first integrals, Pengfei Gu
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
A journey to understand dual language and the bilingual world: An autoethnography of a bilingual program director in an urban district, Olivia 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
Characterizing mesophotic reef fish communities at five South Texas relic coral-algal banks, Linda Marie Jordan
Un testimonio del abismo: The figuring and disfiguring effects of trauma, addiction, and autobiography, Erin D. Knobloch