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Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Development of a DNA Barcoding Reference Library for Identification of Medicinal Plant Materials Used in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: a Representative Case Study Using Arnica (Asteraceae), Hector G. Aguilar de Alba

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The Struggle Itself Toward the Heights Is Enough to Fill a Man's Heart: Calling, Moral Duty, Meaningfulness and Existential Self of Zookeepers, Luisa G. Allen

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Correlation of Amyloid Beta and Spatial Learning and Memory Deficits on a Thy1-APP Mouse Model for Alzheimer's Disease, Amber Lynn Betz

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The Acute Effects of Shred Matrix on Hemodynamic Responses, Substrate Utilization, Endurance, Arterial Compliance, and Body Water Distribution, Samuel R. Buchanan

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Redemption Denied: Variations of the Underworld Descent in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and The Road, Nathan W. Calley

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Characterization of Continuously Oscillating Neurons (CONs) of the Medial Septum of Rats, Nadia Noel Carreon

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Latina Mothers' Expectations and Perceptions about a Dual Language Education in the Rio Grande Valley, Rosalinda A. Cobarrubias

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Restoring Semi-Arid Thornscrub Forests: Seeding Growth and Survival in Response to Shelter Tubes, Grass-Specific Herbicide, and Herbivore Exclosures, Krysten Noelle Dick

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Gratitude and Kindness: Just What the Doctor Ordered, Kathleen E. Glynn

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Species Identification and Habitat Assessment of the South Texas Siren, Taylor C. LaFortune

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Exploring English Language Learners' Identity Negotiation in a Sixth Grade English Language Arts Classroom, Carolina G. Lopez

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Don't Bring Me Down: A Study of the Perceived Emotional Impact of Positive, Negative, and Neutral Content on Facebook, Isis Lopez

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Professional Learning Communities and School Culture: A Case of Study in District-Wide Implementation of a PLC, Jaime Lopez

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The Acute Effects of Aerobic Exercise Durations on Arterial Compliance in Recreationally Active Males, Joe Angel Lopez

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The Acute Effects of Different Warm-up Techniques of Power Output, Agility, and Flexibility in Athletes, Kristopher Manuel Nava

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Analysis of Variables Related to Corridor Use by Ocelots and Bobcats in South Texas, Sarah E. Nordlof

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The Relationship Between Social Presence, Student Satisfaction and Academic Achievement in Fully Online Asynchronous Courses, Martin Rodriguez

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Assessing Coral Assemblages Inhabiting Relic Coral Banks Off the South Texas Coast, Rebekah E. Rodriguez

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Alternative Restoration Treatments to Maximize Growth and Survival of Tamaulipan Thornscrub Species During Seeding Establishment, Jennifer Lynn Vela

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Restoration Strategies to Migrate Shrub Encroachment into Coastal Prairies, Erick Mark Verderber

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Animal Habitat Utilization and the Impacts of Small-scale Disturbances on Vegetation Within Larch Forests in Northeastern Siberia, Aaron Phillip White

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Acute effects of whole body vibration exercises with various frequencies and amplitudes on arterial stiffness in males, Omar Apodaca

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Recruitment patterns of juvenile fish at an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico, Rachel Noel Arney

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La Intencion Pictorica en Tres Novelas de Corte Realista de Ana Maria Matute, Viviana Carvajal

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A digital backend for the low frequency all sky monitor, Louis Percy Dartez

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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

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A comparison of fish communities over different reef configurations in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Catheline Y. M. Froehlich

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On toroidal knots, chirality, and molecules, Ramiro Garza

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Role-identity prominence of the 'migrant' role-identity in migrant college students, Raul Garza

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Sedimentation and barnacle recruitment and growth in a shallow coastal lagoon of south Texas, John Jack Gray

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Globular cluster simulations by MOCCA code, Dongming Jin

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Stakeholders' perceptions of parental involvement and home-school connections in a South Texas border town, Cynthia A. Lopez

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The role of app development and mobile computing in motivating the secondary mathematics classroom, Jennifer Lee Marquez

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Pulsar J0453+1559, the 10th double neutron star system in the universe, Jose Guadalupe Martinez

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Resaca ecosystem development: colonization and succession of the macroinvertebrate community, Leah M. McIntosh

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The relationship between course design, sense of community, and student achievement of students in online courses, Maria Eugenia Perez-Butron

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The acute effects of different blood flow restriction settings on blood lactate, electromyography and leg strength during bilateral knee extensions, Guillermo Eduardo Perez

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Examining the perceptions of trust between principals and teachers in elementary schools with high student academic achievement, Gabriela Rodriguez

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Temperature and relative humidity effects on water loss and hemolymph osmolality of Littoraria angulifera (Lamarck, 1822), Phillip J. Rose

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The effects of enhanced discharge education on knowledge retention in first time stroke/TIA patients, Edward M. Stiner Jr.

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Deconstructing the rhetoric of fear in post 9/11 young adult literature, Ronald Dean Straight

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Gauging wetland restoration status using benthic-based structural and functional metrics, Claudia Alejandra Tamez

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"Maese Pedro" y Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore: procedimientos teatrales de la narrativa cervantina en la obra de Luigi Pirandello, Mara Theodoritsi

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Evaluation of an educational breastfeeding program for a non-profit agency in South Texas, Marcela Urbina Zavala

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Detection of gravitational wave signals from NS-NS inspirals in presence of non-stationary noise, Wenhui Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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A comparison of site fidelity and habitat use of red snapper (lutjanus campechanus) to evaluate the performance of two artificial reefs in South Texas utilizing acoustic telemetry, Andres Garcia

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Design and configuration of laser tweezers microscopy for force measurements on single DNA molecules, Carlos Jeziel Gonzalez Banuelos

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Hemodynamic and neuromuscular responses to exercises performed on stable and unstable surface with and without blood flow restriction, Agnelia Tiffany Hernandez

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The effects of a red tide, Karenia brevis episode on the benthic macroinvertebrate communities of South Padre Island, Texas, Liana Lerma

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Decomposition patterns and nitrogen dynamics of black mangrove (Avicennia germinans)leaf litter in disturbed estuaries linked to the Lower Laguna Madre, Texas, Mario Alberto Marquez

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The status of women and the Arab Spring, Karen Pimentel

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Cross case analysis of three middle school mathematics teachers, Sandra Quiroz

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Simulation of electronic processes of nanoenergetic gas generator using Cabrera Mott oxidation model, Zamart Ramazanova

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The effects of labeling Hispanic English language learners as learning disabled, Sandra Irma Rodriguez

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Voice-over documentaries: synchronization techniques in English-Spanish and English-Polish translation, Katarzyna Sepielak

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On closed subsets of non-commutative association schemes of rank 6, Jose Vera

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The queries to Google Search as predictors of migration flows from Latin America to Spain, Dawid Wladyka

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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First language use by adequate formal schooling adult English language learners in a university English language institute, Joel S. Garza

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Knowledge, skills, and dispositions influencing middle school teachers' decision making in planning social studies instruction in a Hispanic serving school, Angela Gonzalez

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A third grade bilingual teacher's knowledge and practices for developing reading comprehension, Miriam Guerra

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Investigating elementary teachers' instructional planning and teaching experiences with long-term English learners: a qualitative study, Melinda V. Lopez

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Se la robaron (elopement) in central Mexico: An ethnographic case study from Santiago Tlacotepec, Susana Pelaez

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Second grade ELL's emic perspective of an afterschool reading program: an interactional ethnographic study of reading opportunities and social construction of second grade ELL's read alouds, Susana S. Saldivar

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Improving academic writing skills among undergraduates at a Hispanic serving university in South Texas with cooperative learning, scaffolded instruction, and formative feedback, Lori Wells

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Relationship among superior-subordinate communication, job satisfaction, and internal customer satisfaction in higher education, Tanzeer Ahmed

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Spanish/English language definitions for Applied Behavior Analysis terminology, Claudia Arteaga

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Mameluk Una novela corta, Ruben Baldazo

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Essays on the dynamics of stock returns in emerging markets: Roles of volatility and sentiment in Turkey, Sidika Gülfem Bayram

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Triangular desire in Sandra Cisneros's “Never Marry a Mexican”, Laura V. Bazaldua

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Disciples of Vu, Leif Carl Behmer

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Biocompatibility of electrospun polymer nanofibers (EPNs) with NIH 3T3 cell line and interaction of quercetin with different flavonoids: Induction of phase II enzymes in vitro cancer cell lines, Brenda S. Benavides

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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

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Bismuth nitrate-induced novel nitration of eugenol and estradiol: An exploratory study, Luis Canales

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Assessing the interrater reliability of the Assessment of Pediatric Resuscitation Communication (APRC), Alyssa Cerroni

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“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

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Monitoring atrazine-degrading and atrazine-tolerant bacterial populations in Lower Rio Grande Valley agricultural canals using quantitative-PCR and internal atzA primers, Ibdanelo Cortez

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Duffing-van der Pol-type nonlinear oscillator system, Jing Cui

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Evidence on banking efficiency: An analysis of financial intermediation in Mexico, Violeta Diaz Avilez

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A case study of Spanish language use in a Texas border colonia, Maria E. Diaz

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“To Kill a Mockingbird”: A production analysis, Richard D. Edmonson

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Phosphormorphosis, Elizabeth Fernandez Figueroa

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Educational effects of implementing a K-12 dual language instruction program in a community with a high percentage of Hispanics and Hispanic English language learners, Mario A. Ferron

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Distributed Semantic Web data management in HBase and MySQL cluster, Craig M. Franke

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At-risk Hispanic students' perception of afterschool programs: a new model targeting the needs of English language learners, Cynthia Wise Galvan

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In-group implicit prejudice against Mexican Americans in the Rio Grande Valley, Christelle Fabiola Garza

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Third grade taks reading performance differences, textbook adoptions and Texas reading first initiative participating and non-participating campuses, Erica Briana Guerra

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The New Woman persona in “Dracula” and the “Twilight” series: An elliptical struggle of social order, Silvia E. Herrera

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The Ripening of Mangos, Katherine Hoerth

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Hijos como mediadores lingüísticos entre padres y diferentes entidades sociales, Mercedes Huerta

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“Combustible Sinners” and other stories, Myra Ivette Infante

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Tierra Sagrada: Stories, Jose Rene Martinez

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k-Hyponormality of powers of multivariable weighted shifts, Mayra O. Martinez

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My Made for TV Life or How We Survived My Psycho-Killer Dad, Sarah Beth McDonald

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Access to healthcare for “undocumented citizens” in the Rio Grande Valley, Milena A. Melo

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La Llorona and horror: A Chicana feminist reading of the films “The Wailer” and “The Wailer II”, Orquidea Morales

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Style investing: International evidence, Daniel Rafael Perez

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Inglés con barreras, Monica D. Pestana

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Attitudes of parents and teachers toward bilingual education, Gilda Rios

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Twelve: Race and gender representations in Hidalgo County petit jury selections, 1950–1960, Rene Rios

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Turnover intent, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction: An assessment of municipal police departments within Hidalgo County, Texas, Joel Rivera