Theses and Dissertations
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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Effect of instruction and textbook adoption procedures on kindergarten students' learning of the concept of rectangle, Francisco Rivera
The Relationship Between Social Presence, Student Satisfaction and Academic Achievement in Fully Online Asynchronous Courses, Martin Rodriguez
Assessing Coral Assemblages Inhabiting Relic Coral Banks Off the South Texas Coast, Rebekah E. Rodriguez
A Conversation with Rita Moreno: Examining The Employment Challenges of The Latino Actor, Valente Rodriguez
Factors impacting vocational rehabilitation employment outcomes: An analysis of state-federal service provision, Valerie Jeannette Rodriguez
A sociolinguistic study on the use of Coke in the RGV, Kylie Ross
An exploratory investigation of tele-counseling: Looking at the power of therapeutic alliance in improving wellness, Jorge Rostro
Consumer responses to imported products: The product adoption process, antecedents, and consequences, Miguel Angel Sahagun
Liberty, equality, indebtedness: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the problem of debt in a revolutionary age, Martha Salazar Cantu
Zeros of cubic Eisenstein series, Sahak D. Sandragorsian
Exploration of Nickel Tolerance and Hyperaccumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana Transformed with Streptanthus polygaloides Metal Tolerance Protein 1 (SpMTP1) cDNA, Madeleine K. Sano
Certified rehabilitation counselors working in rehabilitation agencies: An investigation of factors impacting job satisfaction and intent to quit, Cynthia A. Serrata
De vida, regalos e historias, Monica Skrzypinski
Theory of mind and inhibitory processing among bilingual Mexican American young children, Sarah E. Stegall
Essays on insider trading, Xu Sun
Determining the dynamic co-diffusion of four e-services using country-level panel data, Samer Takieddine
Differential gene expression between two developmental stages of the Gené's organ in the cattle fever tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, Jason P. Tidwell
On various solutions to a (2+1) dimensional general Camassa-Holm equation, Eric J. Tovar
I never left the borderland, Rosa E. Trevino
Functional analysis of the MMS19 gene in Carica papaya, Jorge A. Trujillo
E Pluribus Unum: The Pursuit of Linguistic Equality Through Adequation and Denaturalization, Natalie A. Tupta
Alternative Restoration Treatments to Maximize Growth and Survival of Tamaulipan Thornscrub Species During Seeding Establishment, Jennifer Lynn Vela
Historias de psicopatas desidiosos y solitarios en la frontera, Silvia H. Vera-Huesca
The Bourbaki-Jacobson correspondence, Jose R. Vera
Restoration Strategies to Migrate Shrub Encroachment into Coastal Prairies, Erick Mark Verderber
Use of a simulated directional social network to compare measures of user influence, Jose G. Villarreal Jr.
La evolución del personaje femenino y su transformación político-social en la obra de Julia Álvarez "En el tiempo de las Mariposas", Lorena M. Villarreal
Natural polymer based composite scaffolds for tissue engineering applications, Marcos R. Villarreal
Intimate partner violence in South Texas (Rio Grande Valley): An exploratory research of Latinas of Mexican descent, Georgina Villegas
Three essays on bailout banks during 2007-2009 financial crisis, Daphne Shu Nu Wang
Effects of shrub encroachment and removal on South Texas coastal prairie flora, Parker Alex Watson
Adolescent street literacy: The art of the hustle, Regina L. Welch
Mack Thomas: The total beat, James B. Welton
Lost, beat, blank: The punk unconscious in subversive and transgressive cultural productions, Joel R. West
Animal Habitat Utilization and the Impacts of Small-scale Disturbances on Vegetation Within Larch Forests in Northeastern Siberia, Aaron Phillip White
Religious consumption: Inside the minds of Apple and Catholic devotees, Yi-Chia Wu
Distributed coordinate tracking control of multiple wheeled mobile robots, Yifan Xing
Secondary complications among person's with spinal cord injury and best practices for life care planners, Noel A. Ysasi Jr.
Enhancing academic achievement and satisfaction by flipping the teacher preparation classroom, Rene R. Zuniga
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
An empirical study of some branching processes with upper barrier, Alejandro Aguilar
Preliminary transcriptome analysis and Homeobox gene isonlation for Tomocerus minor (Entomobryomorpha: Tomoceridae), Alejandro Alaniz
Seeds of Solutions™: An economical & efficient approach towards power engineering education, Eli Alvarez
A Través De La Neblina, Monica Alvarez Suarez
Mirrors of Mechanized Man: Capitalism and Intertextuality as Represented in the Works of Herman Melville, Franz Kafka and Don Delillo, Samantha J. Amberson-Dominguez
Assessment and Treatment of Elopement in Young Children with Autism, Ivette Andrade
Acute effects of whole body vibration exercises with various frequencies and amplitudes on arterial stiffness in males, Omar Apodaca
Recruitment patterns of juvenile fish at an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico, Rachel Noel Arney
Effects of vapor grown carbon nanofibers on electrical and mechanical properties of a thermoplastic elastomer, Daniel Thomas Basaldua
The Best Bullies: A Critical Analysis of Young Adult Anti-Bullying Novels, Nina Marie Bone
Developing the modern heroine of fantasy literature: An examination of Lyra from "His Dark Materials" and Clary from "The Mortal Instruments", Diana Aileen Borghols Herrera
Herman Melville and Richard Wright: Camaraderie and Revolt, Linda Braune
An evaluation of alternative methods for online survey recruitment: the equivalency of data collected through amazon mechanical turk and second life to traditional undergraduate student samples, Elizabeth M. Briones
Investigating Determinants of Employer's Perspectives to Hire and Willingness to Accommodate Individuals in Addiction Recovery: A Mixed Method Approach, Alicia D. Brown
Does optimism pass on to the employees? the impact of supervisor optimism on employees in small and medium sized businesses, Roger S. Brown
Strategy, politics and Latino graduate education: A descriptive policy analysis of the South Texas/border initiative, Emily Calderon Galdeano
The construction and performance of masculinity through the voice of Mexican American male authors: Arturo Islas' "The Rain God" and Rigoberto González's "Men Without Bliss", Edna Elizabeth Camacho
Sign me up! Determining motivation for high school chemistry students enrolling in a second year chemistry course, Nilda N. Camarena
Rates of evolution and point mutations of bacterial plant pathogens compared to bacterial vertebrate pathogens, Alejandro Cantu
A historical analysis of the reasoning and rationale behind the federal prohibition of marijuana, Carlos Caro
La Intencion Pictorica en Tres Novelas de Corte Realista de Ana Maria Matute, Viviana Carvajal
Cluster computer simulation of buffer sharing schemes under bursty traffic load, Javier Castillo
Personality and socio-institutional predictors of self-employment intentions among people with disabilities: An empirical investigation, Yuleinys A. Castillo
Expression and functional characterization of MTP genes from Arabidopsis thaliana in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Yessica E. Cerino
Distributed formation tracking control of multiple car-like robots, Chunyu Chen
Probabilistic Shortest Time Queries Over Uncertain Road Networks, Yaqing Chen
An examination of G10 carry trade during non-crisis and crisis period (2007-2009), Charles Kwame Armah Danso
A digital backend for the low frequency all sky monitor, Louis Percy Dartez
A decision support system to measure product suitability for additive manufacturing processes, Cynthia De Vasconcellos Barros
Landing: On The Other Side, Marianita Escamilla
Applications of magnetostrictive materials in the real-time monitoring of vehicle suspension components, Raul Estrada
The relationship between institutional ownership and firm performance, Javeria Farooqi
The feminization of the literary voice and the rhetorical tradition in The Lais of Marie de France, The Mirror of Simple Souls, and The Book of the City of Ladies, Elisa B. Filippone
A comparison of fish communities over different reef configurations in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Catheline Y. M. Froehlich
Postmodern and posthuman literature, John P. Gallagher
A 129NW Neural Amplifier and Gm-C Filter for EEG Using gm/ID Methodology, Samuel A. Gallegos
Can I Smile with Spirit? Towards a Process Model Associating Workplace Spirituality and Emotional Labor, Ashwini Gangadharan
Benefits of using reading strategies in elementary bilingual classrooms, Diana Arely Garcia
Mímesis, Ficción y ética: El Dinero En Los Cuentos De Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Karen Garcia Escorcia
On toroidal knots, chirality, and molecules, Ramiro Garza
Role-identity prominence of the 'migrant' role-identity in migrant college students, Raul Garza
Characterization of GaN thin films grown by RF Magnetron Sputtering for fabrication of an AlGaN/GaN HEMT biosensor, Rocio Yolanda Garza
Posmodernismo e identidad en la narrativa de Juan Villoro, Jonathan Godinez Perez
GPS-MIV: The General Purpose System for Multi-display Interactive Visualization, Irving A. Gonzalez Garza
Premenstrual experiences: The simultaneous examination of the association of self-perceived stress, college-related stress, and sleep quality, Sara Julia Gonzalez
Two dimensional mathematical model of fluid flow in a growing solid tumor, Adriana Gracia
Sedimentation and barnacle recruitment and growth in a shallow coastal lagoon of south Texas, John Jack Gray
Snow monkeys in South Texas, a thirty year study of behavioral adaptation, Lou E. Griffin
Narrative structure in the works of Frederic Rzewski, Bree K. Guerra
Conocimiento de los padres acerca del programa de educación bilingue [Parental knowledge about bilingual education programs], Eliaber Jimenez
Globular cluster simulations by MOCCA code, Dongming Jin
Exponential replication of patterns in the Signal Tile Assembly Model and experimental non-deterministic assembly of lines in the Probabilistic Tile Assembly Model, Alexandra B. Keenan
Study of creative processes that lead to successful visually narrative art products, Denissa U. Kiehl
Bicultural self-efficacy, student achievement, and persistence of Mexican American college students, Richard Kirk
Bilingualism and age of onset of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia in Hispanic Americans, Deborah M. Lawton
Language attitudes, ideologies, maintenance, and Spanish Heritage Learners in the South Texas border, Hyanghee Lee