Theses and Dissertations
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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
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
Variation in Parenting Style in a Captive Group of Western Lowlands Gorillas, Ana E. Fernandez
Phosphormorphosis, Elizabeth Fernandez Figueroa
Chemical Education Experiences from The English Language Learner Perspective, Annette Flores
Distributed Semantic Web data management in HBase and MySQL cluster, Craig M. Franke
At-risk Hispanic students' perception of afterschool programs: a new model targeting the needs of English language learners, Cynthia Wise Galvan
The Evaluation and Analysis of The Impact of Variability on The Twelve Workstation Factory, Hernando Garrido
In-group implicit prejudice against Mexican Americans in the Rio Grande Valley, Christelle Fabiola Garza
Mathematics of Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging, Guillermo Garza
History of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Mexican Origin Undergraduate Students and Its Relationship to Impulsivity, Jessica Lee Graham
Third grade taks reading performance differences, textbook adoptions and Texas reading first initiative participating and non-participating campuses, Erica Briana Guerra
Are Progressive Ratio and Fixed Interval Schedules of Reinforcement Related Measures of Impulsivity?, Christine Guiterrez
“Breakfast Shots” and Other Stories: Collected Fiction of Joseph D. Haske, Joseph D. Haske
The New Woman persona in “Dracula” and the “Twilight” series: An elliptical struggle of social order, Silvia E. Herrera
The Ripening of Mangos, Katherine Hoerth
Hijos como mediadores lingüísticos entre padres y diferentes entidades sociales, Mercedes Huerta
The First-Integral Method for Duffing-Van Der Pol-Type Oscillator System, Xiaochuan Hu
“Combustible Sinners” and other stories, Myra Ivette Infante
Benchmarking Bottom-Up and Top-Down Strategies to Sparql-To-Sql Query Translation, Andrii Kashliev
Binge Drinking in Undergraduate Mexican-Origin Students and Its' Relation to Impulsivity, Rosalva M. Longoria
Characterizing and Optimizing the Molten Salt Cleaning, Yangyang Long
Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Theory and Application, Jaime Xavier Lopez
An Investigation into Temperature Trending in Railroad Tapered Roller Bearings Through Vibration Monitoring Techniques, Rafael Kristian Maldonado
Life Stories of Four Conjunto Musicians: Adding to the Culturally Relevant Curriculum of the Rio Grande Valley Schools, Andres Martinez
Enriched vs Impoverished Housing: Food Choice and Consumption, Berenice Martinez
Tierra Sagrada: Stories, Jose Rene Martinez
k-Hyponormality of powers of multivariable weighted shifts, Mayra O. Martinez
Parenting Strategies as Predictors of Cognitive Development Among Children, Nydia E. Martinez
My Made for TV Life or How We Survived My Psycho-Killer Dad, Sarah Beth McDonald
Creation of Post AP Chemistry Class, Julian Medrano
Access to healthcare for “undocumented citizens” in the Rio Grande Valley, Milena A. Melo
The Mexican Identity and Music: Audioscapes and The Transnational Death Metal Band Brujeria, Michael D. Mena
The New Chicana Heroine: Representations of Anzaldua's Mestiza Consciousness in Chicana Feminist Cultural Productions, Monica E. Montelongo
Using Discrete Event Computer Simulation to Analyze the Effects of Proposed Changes to Personnel in A Hospital Medical Laboratory, Gerardo Morales
La Llorona and horror: A Chicana feminist reading of the films “The Wailer” and “The Wailer II”, Orquidea Morales
Examining the Knowledge Sharing and Uncivil Behavior of Envious Employees: An Affective Events Theory Perspective, Ankur P. Nandedkar
The Use of Debit Cards in Promoting On-Time Payment Behavior in A Daycare Center in The Rio Grande Valley Region of Texas, Ruben James Nieto
First Mover: Otto Struve and The Use of Scientific Capital in Astrophysics, 1921–1950, Erik Paul Norquest
Style investing: International evidence, Daniel Rafael Perez
Inglés con barreras, Monica D. Pestana
Development and Implementation of Challenge-Based Instruction in Engineering Graphics, Gregory A. Potter
The Effects of Teacher Nonverbal Immediacy and Teacher Confirmation on the Affective Learning of Students with Special Needs, Jacquelyn R. Rex
Attitudes of parents and teachers toward bilingual education, Gilda Rios
Twelve: Race and gender representations in Hidalgo County petit jury selections, 1950–1960, Rene Rios
Dropout prevention: factors contributing to the resiliency of at-risk Hispanic students and their pursuit of a high school diploma, William Roach
Positive Emotions and Suicide Intervention Response, Crystal Rodriguez
