Theses and Dissertations
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Theses/Dissertations from 2009
A concise chronology of the Rio Grande Delta from the Paleo-Indian period to early Spanish exploration and colonization, Kristina Solis
“Cosecha Voices”: Toward A Transcultural Pedagogy, Silvia Patricia Solis
Rio Grande Hispanic consumers' perceptions of Spanglish dialogue use in print and television advertising, Nick Taylor
The relationship between darkness of skin tone and mediators of elevated blood pressure, Brandy Trevino
Hispanic youth physical activity participation: A study of psychological and social influence, Mary Lou Trinidad
Evaluation of Windows Servers Security Under ICMP and TCP Denial of Service Attacks, Hari Krishnea Vallalacheruvu
Students with learning disabilities in postsecondary education: Differences among students with varying levels of self-advocacy skills and academic achievement, Diana Villanueva
The implementation and analysis of through wall radar systems, Xiaohui Wang
Reaction-diffusion systems with a nonlinear rate of growth, Yubing Wan
The Reevaluation of Dwight Eisenhower and Bernard Law Montgomery, David Allen Warden
We know not the worth of water until the well runs dry: Assessing municipal water use for fifteen incorporated cities in Hidalgo County, Texas for the years 1984-2005, Rosario Adriana Wilson
Population Ecology and Reproductive Biology of The Diamondback Watersnake, Nerodia Rhombifer (Serpentes: Colubridae), in Southernmost Texas, Ruben D. Zamora
Teacher perspectives on the current state of computer technology integration into the public school classroom, Ramiro Zungia
Utilizing concept mapping as a teaching and learning tool to prepare for the science taks test, Rosa Linda Zuniga
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Reproduction of Cultural Knowledge and Practices Interviews with Spanish-Speaking Parents of Deaf Children in South Texas, Christina J. Quilantan-Cavazos
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Image up-sampling using the discrete wavelet transform, Laleh Asgharian
Another shade of brown: A historical study of “Brown v. Board of Education” and its impact on the education of Mexican Americans in Edinburg, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, Beverly F. Ashley-Fridie
On SMURF-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in computer networks, Montasir Azad
Micro_COSMOS, Rachael E. Freyman Brown
“Charley's Aunt” revisited, Willie Camina
Border theory and multiplicity of borders in Horacio Quiroga's short stories, Wendy F. Cedillo
From Death Valley to the Río Grande Valley: World War II and Korean War prisoners of war, Juan David Coronado
Mothers' perspectives of and participation in Individual Family Service Plan development, Katherine A. de la Pena
A capability measuring system for the evaluation of the mass customization of a product, Luis L. de la Torre
Federico González Garza: A vanished hero of the Mexican Revolution, Mario A. Ferron
Collegiate coaches' knowledge of the female athlete triad, Jillian E. Frideres
Run, Chicano, Run: Efraín Gutiérrez, in search of the individual within Chicano cinema, Fred Garcia
Cultivation in female college students, Veronica Garcia
Consumer acceptance of e-businesses: A theoretical model based on the technology acceptance model and innovation diffusion theory, Fernando Angel Garza Jr.
LVN: A Fiction, Jacqueline S. Gill
Parent implementation of the developmental, individual difference, relationship-based (DIR) program: Changes in the repetitive behaviors of children with autism, Jessica S. Gonzalez
Verbal behavior: An empirical review of establishing operations, Gary R. Hoerth
Non-adaptive methods for color image up-sampling—a quantitative performance evaluation survey, Liming Hu
A Marionette's Dream, Veronica R. Jaeger
Design and manufacturing of functionally graded materials with polymer chain and nano-reinforcement orientation for compressive applications, Sanjay Varma Kalidindi
Ultra-wide band radar for near-surface and buried target detection, Obadiah Kegege
The optimization of amplifiers for UWB applications, Kyoung D. Kim
Art, the social enzyme: The emergence of an art community in the Rio Grande Valley, Heaven Lashley
Espinas, Semillas, y Flores: Weeds, Seeds, and Flowers, Pamela A. Linn
Electrorheology of fullerene suspensions, Maricela Lizcano
Culture effects in the ethical decision-making process of Latin American accountants, Silvia Lopez Palau
Busted Flat Tire Mobility, Oscar F. Martinez
Perspectives of youth on science in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Karen E. McNallen
Credit card debt: A new class or a new culture?, Rebecca Olympia Millan
“Woman's natural field”: The effects of mentoring on women central office administrators, Ava J. Munoz
A stochastic production cost model for remanufacturing systems, Gaurang S. Patel
Mercury concentrations in south Texas game fishes, E. Anthony Reisinger
Eduardo Antonio Parra: La frontera, sinónimo de violencia, Everica C. Rivera
Comparison of sliding mode and state-feedback control applied to a partially treated actively constrained layer damped (ACLD) beam, Jose J. Rodriguez
A study of exemplary followership on selected South Texas elementary campuses, Patti Ruth Ross
Searching response of a wandering spider to potential cues associated with lepidopteran eggs, Rosa Isela Ruiz
Comparative pollen foraging of Africanized and European honeybees in a non-agricultural environment, Ruben Ruiz
My art as an expression of my culture, Anna Marie Salinas
Market orientation and order of entry strategies: An empirical analysis, Anshu Saran
Maintaining an immigrant heritage language other than Spanish or English in the bilingual culture of the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, Sonia A. Shepherd
The importance of continuity in first language education for learning a second language, Stephen M. Shepherd
“Let every one of us take his gun and put himself in the ranks”: The Louisiana Native Guard's defiance of antebellum ideas of gender and race, 1861–1863, Jeremy B. Taylor
The importance of context in learning martial arts, Mario A. Tovar
Morphological and anatomical changes induced by citrus tatter leaf virus in selected rootstock varieties, Liza Belinda Vela
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Stakeholder perceptions of hearing examiner legislation in Texas teacher dismissal cases, Sofia Annette Adams-Valdez
Apocalyptic Surrealism, John Michael Bazan
An improvement and a generalization of Zippel's sparse multivariate polynomial interpolation algorithm, Michael D. Brazier
Producing “The Diary of Anne Frank” in the 21st century, Nancy Camina
“Las Nuevas Tamaleras” revisited, Laura S. Castillo
NABOH system: Gathering intelligence from traffic patterns, Angelica M. Delgado
Moving and stationary target acquisition radar image enhancement through polynomial windows, Rajarajeswari Devarajulu
Collection, isolation and evaluation of nitrogen fixing bacteria in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, Thomas M. Eubanks
John Millington Synge and the Irish women's suffrage movement, Nicholas A. Ewen
Medication mismanagement among elderly in Starr County, Romeo Garcia Jr.
The Matamoros “drug cult” murders: Borderland perceptions and the shaping of belief, Victor Gomez
Searching for wisdom through art, Maria A. Gonzalez
Bilingual consumer memory in the advergaming context: A cross-script comparison, Monica D. Hernandez
Field force dynamics, policy adoption, and educational change: Formulating a heuristic model, Timothy E. Jordan
The impact of cultural and religious values on television and newspaper advertising content and appeal: A cross-cultural study of the United States and the Arab world, Morris A. Kalliny
Compensation for automatic white balance correction with histogram equalization, David D. Kirtley
The use of confidence intervals for the control limits of X¯ and S control charts, Daniel A. Lopez
Do principals make a difference? An analysis of leadership behaviors of elementary principals in effective schools, Rosemarie Gomez Maciel
A study of self-imposed silence and perceived listening effectiveness, Cynthia Marroquin-Baldwin
The perceived competency of Hispanic teachers in teaching classes of diversity is a function of demographic and personality traits, Melissa C. Martinez
The death of the subject-impossible: An analysis of the subject in deconstruction and psychoanalysis, Melinda Mejia
The southeastern ceremonial complex: The evolution of a concept, Brett J. Millan
Design and performance evaluation of switching architectures for high-speed Internet, Alvaro Munoz
Improving the performance of nested loop algorithm using separators, Nachiappan N. Nachiappan
Three Violin Sonatas by Twentieth Century Mexican Composers: an Alternative to the Standard Violin Literature with Pedagogical Application, Martha Placeres
Empirical performance analysis of two algorithms for mining intentional knowledge of distance-based outliers, Enbamoorthy Prasanthi
Extension of stereolithography mold life using gas-assisted injection molding, Dilip Bose Ramalingam Nagarajan
Re-envisioning George Washington Gómez: A historical and biographical verification of a South Texas novel, Diana Noreen Rivera
The effects physical activity has on the menstrual cycle characteristics between two groups of high school athletes and one group of high school non-athletes, Yolanda D. Robinson
Ethnic conflict in South Texas: 1860–1930, Alberto Rodriguez
Lizards and Bugambilias, Jose A. Rodriguez
The effects of ethnicity, gender, and urgency of a message on prosocial behavior, Orlando Rodriguez
Spiritual dimension in educational leadership, Rosalina Ruiz
Américo Paredes: Uncovering the multifaceted life of the scholar and the man, Sonia Salinas
Corporate governance and expropriation of minority shareholders' rights: Evidence from Latin America, Marisela Santiago-Castro
The effects of a redirecting strategy on self injurious behavior manifested by a subject with multiple disabilities, Maria Estevanes Strickland
Composite mechanical property enhancement through the use of Y-end shaped short fibers, Jin Tan
How optional usage of the Web affects reading comprehension, Jocelyn K. Tenorio
Journey from home, Benjamin P. Varela