Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

 

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Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Effects of adding an enhanced material instructional model to a collaborative grouping instructional strategy in a college preparatory chemistry course, Chinyere Fidelia Shaw-Nnajiofor

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Finding Hart: The Lost Text and Biography of Hart Stilwell, Brandon D. Shuler

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Verdad y sus tintes modálicos en la conversación, Beatriz C. Solis

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A concise chronology of the Rio Grande Delta from the Paleo-Indian period to early Spanish exploration and colonization, Kristina Solis

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“Cosecha Voices”: Toward A Transcultural Pedagogy, Silvia Patricia Solis

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Rio Grande Hispanic consumers' perceptions of Spanglish dialogue use in print and television advertising, Nick Taylor

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The relationship between darkness of skin tone and mediators of elevated blood pressure, Brandy Trevino

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Hispanic youth physical activity participation: A study of psychological and social influence, Maria L. Trinidad

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Evaluation of Windows Servers Security Under ICMP and TCP Denial of Service Attacks, Hari Krishnea Vallalacheruvu

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The Relationship Between Quality of Maternal Care and The Development of Infant Sociability in A Captive Group of Western Lowland Gorillas, Liza Veliz

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Students with learning disabilities in postsecondary education: Differences among students with varying levels of self-advocacy skills and academic achievement, Diana Villanueva

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The implementation and analysis of through wall radar systems, Xiaohui Wang

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Reaction-diffusion systems with a nonlinear rate of growth, Yubing Wan

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The Reevaluation of Dwight Eisenhower and Bernard Law Montgomery, David Allen Warden

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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

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Population Ecology and Reproductive Biology of The Diamondback Watersnake, Nerodia Rhombifer (Serpentes: Colubridae), in Southernmost Texas, Ruben D. Zamora

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Teacher perspectives on the current state of computer technology integration into the public school classroom, Ramiro Zungia

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Utilizing concept mapping as a teaching and learning tool to prepare for the science taks test, Rosa Linda Zuniga

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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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

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Increasing social interaction skills in children with autism spectrum disorder through parent implementation of the Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-Based (DIR) program, Yvette Cantu

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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Image up-sampling using the discrete wavelet transform, Laleh Asgharian

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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

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On SMURF-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in computer networks, Montasir Azad

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Micro_COSMOS, Rachael E. Freyman Brown

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“Charley's Aunt” revisited, Willie Camina

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Border theory and multiplicity of borders in Horacio Quiroga's short stories, Wendy F. Cedillo

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From Death Valley to the Río Grande Valley: World War II and Korean War prisoners of war, Juan David Coronado

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Mothers' perspectives of and participation in Individual Family Service Plan development, Katherine A. de la Pena

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A capability measuring system for the evaluation of the mass customization of a product, Luis L. de la Torre

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Federico González Garza: A vanished hero of the Mexican Revolution, Mario A. Ferron

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Collegiate coaches' knowledge of the female athlete triad, Jillian E. Frideres

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Run, Chicano, Run: Efraín Gutiérrez, in search of the individual within Chicano cinema, Fred Garcia

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Cultivation in female college students, Veronica Garcia

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Consumer acceptance of e-businesses: A theoretical model based on the technology acceptance model and innovation diffusion theory, Fernando Angel Garza Jr.

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LVN: A Fiction, Jacqueline S. Gill

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Parent implementation of the developmental, individual difference, relationship-based (DIR) program: Changes in the repetitive behaviors of children with autism, Jessica S. Gonzalez

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Verbal behavior: An empirical review of establishing operations, Gary R. Hoerth

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Non-adaptive methods for color image up-sampling—a quantitative performance evaluation survey, Liming Hu

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A Marionette's Dream, Veronica R. Jaeger

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Design and manufacturing of functionally graded materials with polymer chain and nano-reinforcement orientation for compressive applications, Sanjay Varma Kalidindi

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Ultra-wide band radar for near-surface and buried target detection, Obadiah Kegege

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The optimization of amplifiers for UWB applications, Kyoung D. Kim

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Art, the social enzyme: The emergence of an art community in the Rio Grande Valley, Heaven Lashley

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Espinas, Semillas, y Flores: Weeds, Seeds, and Flowers, Pamela A. Linn

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Electrorheology of fullerene suspensions, Maricela Lizcano

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Culture effects in the ethical decision-making process of Latin American accountants, Silvia Lopez Palau

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Busted Flat Tire Mobility, Oscar F. Martinez

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Perspectives of youth on science in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Karen E. McNallen

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Credit card debt: A new class or a new culture?, Rebecca Olympia Millan

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“Woman's natural field”: The effects of mentoring on women central office administrators, Ava J. Munoz

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A stochastic production cost model for remanufacturing systems, Gaurang S. Patel

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Mercury concentrations in south Texas game fishes, E. Anthony Reisinger

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Eduardo Antonio Parra: La frontera, sinónimo de violencia, Everica C. Rivera

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Comparison of sliding mode and state-feedback control applied to a partially treated actively constrained layer damped (ACLD) beam, Jose J. Rodriguez

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A study of exemplary followership on selected South Texas elementary campuses, Patti Ruth Ross

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Searching response of a wandering spider to potential cues associated with lepidopteran eggs, Rosa Isela Ruiz

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Comparative pollen foraging of Africanized and European honeybees in a non-agricultural environment, Ruben Ruiz

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My art as an expression of my culture, Anna Marie Salinas

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Market orientation and order of entry strategies: An empirical analysis, Anshu Saran

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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

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The importance of continuity in first language education for learning a second language, Stephen M. Shepherd

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“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

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The importance of context in learning martial arts, Mario A. Tovar

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Morphological and anatomical changes induced by citrus tatter leaf virus in selected rootstock varieties, Liza Belinda Vela

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Category 5 hurricane evacuation analysis of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Maximum flow problem, Bart Webb

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Stakeholder perceptions of hearing examiner legislation in Texas teacher dismissal cases, Sofia Annette Adams-Valdez

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Apocalyptic Surrealism, John Michael Bazan

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An improvement and a generalization of Zippel's sparse multivariate polynomial interpolation algorithm, Michael D. Brazier

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Producing “The Diary of Anne Frank” in the 21st century, Nancy Camina

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“Las Nuevas Tamaleras” revisited, Laura S. Castillo

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NABOH system: Gathering intelligence from traffic patterns, Angelica M. Delgado

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Moving and stationary target acquisition radar image enhancement through polynomial windows, Rajarajeswari Devarajulu

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Collection, isolation and evaluation of nitrogen fixing bacteria in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, Thomas M. Eubanks

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John Millington Synge and the Irish women's suffrage movement, Nicholas A. Ewen

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Medication mismanagement among elderly in Starr County, Romeo Garcia Jr.

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The Matamoros “drug cult” murders: Borderland perceptions and the shaping of belief, Victor Gomez

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Searching for wisdom through art, Maria A. Gonzalez

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Bilingual consumer memory in the advergaming context: A cross-script comparison, Monica D. Hernandez

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Field force dynamics, policy adoption, and educational change: Formulating a heuristic model, Timothy E. Jordan

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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

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Compensation for automatic white balance correction with histogram equalization, David D. Kirtley

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The use of confidence intervals for the control limits of and S control charts, Daniel A. Lopez

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Do principals make a difference? An analysis of leadership behaviors of elementary principals in effective schools, Rosemarie Gomez Maciel

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A study of self-imposed silence and perceived listening effectiveness, Cynthia Marroquin-Baldwin

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The perceived competency of Hispanic teachers in teaching classes of diversity is a function of demographic and personality traits, Melissa C. Martinez

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The death of the subject-impossible: An analysis of the subject in deconstruction and psychoanalysis, Melinda Mejia

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The southeastern ceremonial complex: The evolution of a concept, Brett J. Millan

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Design and performance evaluation of switching architectures for high-speed Internet, Alvaro Munoz

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Improving the performance of nested loop algorithm using separators, Nachiappan N. Nachiappan

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Three Violin Sonatas by Twentieth Century Mexican Composers: an Alternative to the Standard Violin Literature with Pedagogical Application, Martha Placeres

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Empirical performance analysis of two algorithms for mining intentional knowledge of distance-based outliers, Enbamoorthy Prasanthi

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Extension of stereolithography mold life using gas-assisted injection molding, Dilip Bose Ramalingam Nagarajan

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Re-envisioning George Washington Gómez: A historical and biographical verification of a South Texas novel, Diana Noreen Rivera

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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

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Ethnic conflict in South Texas: 1860–1930, Alberto Rodriguez

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Lizards and Bugambilias, Jose A. Rodriguez

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The effects of ethnicity, gender, and urgency of a message on prosocial behavior, Orlando Rodriguez

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Spiritual dimension in educational leadership, Rosalina Ruiz

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Américo Paredes: Uncovering the multifaceted life of the scholar and the man, Sonia Salinas

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Corporate governance and expropriation of minority shareholders' rights: Evidence from Latin America, Marisela Santiago-Castro