Theses and Dissertations
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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
First language use by adequate formal schooling adult English language learners in a university English language institute, Joel S. Garza
Generalizing Agent Plans and Behaviors with Automated Staged Observation in The Real-Time Strategy Game Starcraft, Zackary A. Gill
UTPB: A Benchmark for Scientific Workflow Provenance Storage and Querying Systems, Carlos F. Gomez
Self-esteem and Identity: A Case Study of Two Bilingual Education Students, Julia Gomez Montalvo
A Case Study for Financial Feasibility of Automated Costing Support in A Small Machine Shop, Benito A. Gonzalez
A third grade bilingual teacher's knowledge and practices for developing reading comprehension, Miriam Guerra
The Role of Liquidity in The Market for American Depositary Receipts: Evidence from Latin America, Alma Delia Hales
Constructing A Professional Identity: Non-Native Speakers as Teachers in College Freshman Composition Classes in an American University, Marcela Hebbard
Predicting College Success: An Analysis of Graduating Students at the University of Texas-Pan American, Esther G. Herrera
Another Sort of Life: A Novel, Andrew S. Hollinger
Prairie Bound: How Laura's Past Forged My Future, Lori J. Houston
"Aliens Say What Humans Can't": Popular Culture and Totalitarianism in "The Twilight Zone", Lisa M. Howell
Measuring The Impact of Narrative on Player's Presence and Immersion in A First Person Game Environment, Raul Huerta
"Threads of Belief", Erum S. Javed
Essays on Time-Varying Risk and Investor Sentiment: Evidence from the U.S. And G-7 Countries Using Multivariate GARCH Modeling, David William Johnk
Do U.S. Firms Fly Higher When Bypassing The U.S. Capital Markets? An Investigation of The Short- and Long-Run Performance of Foreign IPOs?, Robert N. Killins
CAPM and Irrational Market: Theories and Empirical Studies, Jaehan Koh
Load Sensor in An Elastomer Suspension Element, Jazmin Ley
The Impact of Interest on Reading Motivation for A Struggling Mexican American Adolescent Reader, Abelardo Lopez Jr.
A Study of A High Performing, High Poverty Elementary School on The Texas-Mexico Border, Cynthia Iris Lopez
Investigating elementary teachers' instructional planning and teaching experiences with long-term English learners: a qualitative study, Melinda V. Lopez
Executive Compensation, Firm Performance and Liquidity Under Imperfect Corporate Governance, Yongli Luo
Synthesis of Novel Bis-β-lactams, Jocabed Marquez
Palabras Bajo El Mar, Silvia Mar
Characterization of A Serine/Threonine Phosphatase Encoded by MG_207 of Mycoplasma Genitalium, Mario A. Martinez
Production and Characterization of Biodegradable Nanofibers via Forcespinning™ Technology, Zachary T. McEachin
Perception of Communication Training Need Among Pediatric Trauma Team Members, Monica M. Mercado
Awareness of Individual Daily Caloric Requirements and Food Energy Content and its Relation to Calorie Intake: A Multiple Baseline Design, Frances Rachel Morales
Utilization of Lithic Resources at Huerequeque, An Initial Period (2150–1000 B.C.) Site, Casma Valley, Peru, Daniel Wilson Nicholson
Mariguano, Juan Ochoa
Self-determination, Success, and College Readiness of First Generation Students in A Higher Education Institution, Manuel Ochoa
2D Modeling of Forcespinning™ Nanofiber Formation with Experimental Study and Validation, Simon Padron
Fabrication and Characterization of Polylactic Acid and Polylactic Acid/Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Nanofibers Through Centrifugal Spinning, Richard Patlan
Se la robaron (elopement) in central Mexico: An ethnographic case study from Santiago Tlacotepec, Susana Pelaez
A Comparison of Display Techniques for Large Graphs, Ana Rocio Pena
Remediation in Mathematics: A Factor in The Retention of Entering Freshmen at A Hispanic Serving Institution, Rolinda May Pena-Park
Improving The Mechanical Properties of Polymers by Adding Self-Healing Capabilities, Alma Perez
The Image of The American Revolutionary Soldier and The Problem of Historical Memory, Stephanie N. Powelson
Is Capital Structure Relevant? An Empirical Examination of Capital Structure Choices, William R. Pratt
The Past and Its Impact on The Present: The Development of Gender and Ethnic Identity in Kingston's "Woman Warrior", Mukherjee's "Jasmine" and Kincaid's "Lucy", Rachel M. Puckett
Marginalized within the borderlands: The undocumented citizen students of the University of Texas-Pan American, Christian V. Ramirez
Convolution Backprojection for SAR Image Formation, Timothy P. Ray
Family Members' Support Approaches Toward Veterans Exhibiting Symptoms of PTSD: A First Step Toward Validating The Inconsistent Nurturing as Control Theory Scale, Danielle M. Reed
Reading Programs: How Do They Measure Up with The NRPs Research About Teaching Students to Read and The Effectiveness To Develop Reading Skills for BLs, Sarai Rios Valdez
Academic Rigor in High School Curricula, College-Readiness, and Post-Secondary Performance, Sharon A. Roberts
Walking Out: The Success of The Edcouch-Elsa Student Walkout of 1968 Through The Media, David Robles
The Value of Literary Journalism: Searching for Truths Through An Objective/Subjective Dialectic, Omar Rodriguez
Assessment of Oxidative Stress Gene Expression in Brassicaceae Plant Species Using A Real-Time PCR Method, Florestella Ruiz
The Imagineknights: An Experiment in Imagination, Rachel Saldana
A History of The Texas Education Agency Instructional Facility Allotment (IFA) Program in Hidalgo County School Districts Located in The Texas Rio Grande Valley from 1997 to 2007, Michael J. Sandroussi
Essays on Hedge Fund Performance, Sang Heon Shin
Experimental setup to demonstrate low-frequency high-precision stabilization of 1500nm cavity lasers, Steven Shoen
Domain Independent Ordering of Narrative Events, Lucian T. Silcox
Evidence of Olfactory and Visual Learning in The Asian Citrus Psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), Dara G. Stockton
Development of An Assay to Screen for Novel Proteins from Bacillus Thuringiensis with Antibacterial Activity, Auriole T. Tamegnon
Qualitative Analysis of The Burgers-Huxley Equation, Jing Tian
The Relation Between Gender Role Socialization, Work-School-Family Conflict And Mexican-American College Students' Academic Performance, Alma D. Trevino
La Educación Cultural A Través De La Danza Folklórica Mexicana, Karla Y. Uvalle-Castro
Control Charts for First Order Autoregressive Analysis with An Exogenous Variable, Becky M. Vela
Perceived Anxiety Control and The Contribution of Gender in Social Anxiety Symptoms Within Latinos, Delia Yazmin Villarreal
An Analysis of Narrative Types and An Investigation into The Privileging of Narrative Types on Standardized Testing, Rachel Villarreal Garza
Negotiating Literature Discussions in Multiple Contexts: Talking About Books with Latinas in Elementary School, Joanna L. Waggoner-Norquest
Development of Algorithms and Criteria for Continuous Condition Monitoring of Railroad Bearings, Sean Michael Woods
Border Hispanics’ Physical Activity Improvement In A Chronic Disease Prevention Program, Lu Xu
Remanufacturing Cleaning Process Evaluation, Comparison and Planning, Ozan Yagar
Implementation of Wireless Temperature Sensors for Continuous Condition Monitoring of Railroad Bearings, Andoni Zagouris II
Evaluation of Security Availability of Data Components for A Renewable Energy Micro Smart Grid System, Leonel Aguilera Zambrano
Synthesis and Characterization of Biodegradable Electrospun Polyurethanes For Biomedical Applications, Xujun Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Study of The Parasitic Fauna in Sciaenops Ocellatus, Lower Laguna Madre, Texas, Veronica Abrigo
The Effects of Physical Activity on Self-Injurious Behavior, Lynnette D. Aguilar
Relationship among superior-subordinate communication, job satisfaction, and internal customer satisfaction in higher education, Tanzeer Ahmed
Consumer Experience Intensity: Towards A Conceptualization and Measurement, Ebru Ulusoy Akgun
“Oye: Words are One Big Mind” A Collection of Poems, Samuel Arizpe
Spanish/English language definitions for Applied Behavior Analysis terminology, Claudia Arteaga
Design for soft error tolerance in FPGA-implemented asynchronous circuits, Yu Bai
Mameluk Una novela corta, Ruben Baldazo
Essays on the dynamics of stock returns in emerging markets: Roles of volatility and sentiment in Turkey, Sidika Gülfem Bayram
Triangular desire in Sandra Cisneros's “Never Marry a Mexican”, Laura V. Bazaldua
Disciples of Vu, Leif Carl Behmer
Academic and social aspects of recent immigrant children's school experiences in a public elementary school in a U.S.- Mexico border town in South Texas, Alicia Judith Bolt
Bismuth nitrate-induced novel nitration of eugenol and estradiol: An exploratory study, Luis Canales
Assessing the interrater reliability of the Assessment of Pediatric Resuscitation Communication (APRC), Alyssa Cerroni
“To reveal or not to reveal”?: A comparison of Hispanic daughters' openness toward mothers & risky behavior as a function of father-involvement, Cynthia A. Chavez
Use of Preventative Health Care Services in Hispanic Workers in Manufacturing Sector in South Texas, Pooja Chopra
Duffing-van der Pol-type nonlinear oscillator system, Jing Cui
Modeling Instabilities of Electrically Driven Jets Under Constant or Variable Applied Field and Non-Zero Basic State Velocity, Sayantan Das
A Study of Mexican American Education in The Mercedes Independent School District, 1908-2008: Opportunities and Obstacles?, Beatrice De Leon Edwards
Collapsing of Non Homogeneous Markov Chains, Agnish Dey
Zero Inflated Exponential Distribution and It's Variants, Sougata Dhar
Evidence on banking efficiency: An analysis of financial intermediation in Mexico, Violeta Diaz Avilez
A case study of Spanish language use in a Texas border colonia, Maria E. Diaz
Intractability of Integration and Derivative for Multivariate Polynomial and Trigonometric Function, Liang Ding
“To Kill a Mockingbird”: A production analysis, Richard D. Edmonson