Theses and Dissertations
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Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Similar Districts with Different Results: Using The Baldrige Scale To Understand Outcome Differences in Rural School Districts in The Lower Rio Grande Valley, Miguel Angel Gonzalez
Slavery and The Constitution: A Study As To How Constitutional Principles Were Used As The Primary Instrument In The Legal Protection and Propagation of Slavery, Jose Juan Guajardo
Phenotypic and genetic differences in soil bacterial communities among successional stages, Rowena A. G. Hamlet
Edge of Existence, Mack Liao
Thermodynamic, Heat Transfer Analysis and Simulation of A Domestic Size, Double Stage, Lithium Bromide Absorption System, Carlos R. Lima
Integrable equations with non-smooth solitons, Xianqi Li
Three Essays on The Effects of Reverting Capital Flows on U.S. Financial Markets, Rahames A. Lizardo
A Realization and Application of Appropriate French Baroque Ornamentation for The First Four Preludes of “L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin” by Francois Couperin, Andres Javier Lopez
Health care accessibility among a Hispanic community in South Texas, Juan F. Lopez
Set and Light Design for “Con Mis Manos/With My Hands”: A Play in Two Acts By Misael Martinez, Lawrence Andrew Lopez
Synthesis and characterization of two metal-organic frameworks, Roxanna Schaffino Moore
The Return to Aztlan, Eliseo Moreno
Adult sexual adjustment after experiencing sexual abuse in childhood, Liliana G. Moyers-Ruiz
Analytical and Computational Studies of Magneto-Convection in Solidifying Mushy Layer, Mallikarjunaiah Siddapura Muddamallappa
Asynchronous designs on FPGA with soft error tolerance for security algorithms, Deepya Reddy Nalubolu
A Study on Gas Penetration and Fingering Behavior in Injection Molding of Polymer and Powder Metal Feedstock, Edna I. Orozco
A comparative study of risk factors involved in diabetes between Texas and other states, Andres Padilla Oviedo
The Impact of Focused Tutoring and Science Lab Instruction Strategies for An Elementary School in South Texas, Annabelle Paloma
Curanderismo and Healing Rituals: An Ethnographic and Historical Study of The Casma Valley in Northern Peru, Maria Esmeralda Perez
S2ST: A Relational RDF Database Management System, Anthony T. Piazza
Ethnobotanical Study in Casma, Peru: The Important Knowledge of Ethnobotanicals from Local People, Rebecca L. Reyes
The Attic and The Wheelchair V.C. Andrews's Accident and The Dollanganger Series, Angela H. Rice
Racial Discrimination, Skin Tone, Locus of Control, and Acculturation Among Mennonite Latino/as of The Rio Grande Valley, Nancy Rivera
Conflict Between The National Park Service and The Bureau of Indian Affairs in The Glacier Region of Montana, 1896–1934, Renee A. Rodriguez
Genetic and phenotypic characterization of plant pathogen inhibitory Streptomyces isolates, Uylissa A. Rodriguez
Electrospinning polystyrene reinforced with multi-walled carbon nanotubes: Parameters for obtaining nanofibers with enhanced thermal properties, Ana Veronica Rodriguez Ybarra
A DNA approach to the Road-Coloring Problem, Arindam Roy
An Exploratory Investigation of The Implementation of Quality Staff Development and Campus Success, Cindy Hays Sadler
A Quest for Understanding Finding My Way Back, Juan Saenz
Teacher Leadership Practices in Large Texas High Schools with Different Accountability Ratings: A Mixed Methods Study, Cynthia Molina Saldivar
The influence of environmental factors on the activity and movement of Bufo nebulifer (coastal plain toad) in a disturbed area, Crystal Salinas
Impact of flash animation in learning concepts of matter among elementary students, Rhodora S. Santos
Myspace, Write Space: An Analysis of Student Achievement in Texts for Digital Audiences, Stephanie Marie Sauceda
Sex At The Park: Stories From My Days With Ninfa, Dalel Serda
Two-dimensional Wigner-Ville transforms and their basic properties, Bheemaiah Veena Shankara Narayana Rao
Effects of adding an enhanced material instructional model to a collaborative grouping instructional strategy in a college preparatory chemistry course, Chinyere Fidelia Shaw-Nnajiofor
Finding Hart: The Lost Text and Biography of Hart Stilwell, Brandon D. Shuler
Verdad y sus tintes modálicos en la conversación, Beatriz C. Solis
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, Maria L. 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