Fall 2009: College of Arts and Sciences

Doctoral Dissertations

Sept 2             James Valdes
                        Estrogen and Lithium: Facilitating Factors Involved in Brain Cell Signaling Pathways

Oct 2               Terri D. Patterson
                        The Effect of Cognitive Load on Deception

Oct 2               Robert Ceresa
                        Tocqueville in Miami: Political Culture and Political Organizing in Miami’s
                        Cuban Community

Oct 26             Ananth Kanaparthi
                        Relations between Acculturation and Alcohol Use among International Students

Oct 30              Vielka Salazar
                         The Effect of Male-Male Competition and its Underlying Regulatory Mechanisms on
                         the Electric Signal of the Gymnotiform Fish Brachyhypopomus gauderio

Nov 06              Robin Currey
                         Diversity of Hymenoptera, Cultivated Plants, and Management Practices in Home
                         Garden Agroecosystems, Kyrgyz Republic

Nov 06              Marcia Lowenstein
                         Interaction between Endothelin receptor b and Transcription Factors Sox10 and
                         Pax3 in the Melanocyte Lineage

Nov 09              Longin Kaczmarsky
                         Characterizations of the Major Coral Diseases of the Philippines:
                         Ulcerative White Spot Disease and Novel Growth anomalies of Porites

Nov 09              Yuxiang Mao
                         Occurrence, Transport, and Transformation of Organomercury in the Florida
                         Everglades

Nov 10              Li Liu
                         Absolute Configuration and Biosynthesis of Pahayokolides from Lyngbya sp.
                         Strain 15-2 of the Florida Everglades

Nov 10              Ronald Mossman
                         Seed Ecology in Northern Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park, USA

Nov 10              Bertin Kouadio
                         From Stability to Insurgency: The Root and Proximate Causes of the September 2002
                         Civil War in Côte d’Ivoire

Nov 10              Zuzana Hlavacova
                         The Electoral Geography of the Slovak Republic: A Comparison of the 1994, 1998,
                         and 2002 Parliamentary Elections

Nov 13              Pamela Bachman
                         Physiological Performance Measures and Tolerance Limits of Estuarine Indicator
                         Species in South Florida
                         

Master's Theses

Sept 10           James Dunn
                        How and Why Multinational Enterprises Influence the Trade Negotiation Process in                         Latin America

Oct 29             Guony Rossen
                        The Seals of the Prophets: The Influence of Manichaeism on the Development of
                        Prophethood within Islam

Oct 30             Priscilla Pamela
                       Assessing an Undergraduate Physics Community: Student’s Perspectives and Impact
                       of Modeling Instruction at a Minority Serving Institution

Nov 03            Vanessa Haley
                       The Use of Acoustic Telemetry to Study Population Movements of Bonefish (Albula
                       spp.) Around Andros Island, Bahamas and the Implication for Species Management.

Nov 03            Marlin Kann
                       Sewage Systems of Dade County 1890-1985

Nov 04            Michael Matthews
                       Assessing Effectiveness of Pedagogical Techniques Used in Environmental Education:
                       Content Acquisition and Attitude Shifts in an Experiment with Pine Rocklands in the
                       Ecology of South Florida Lab

Nov 04            Xavier Zapata-Rios
                       Groundwater / surface water interactions in Taylor Slough – Everglades National Park

Nov 05            Anusha Ramani
                       Microbial Degradation of Freshwater Algal Toxin, Microcystin in Florida’s Freshwaters

Nov 06            Christine Labriola
                       Environment, Culture, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in an Indigenous Amazonian
                       Community

Nov 06            Maria Perez
                       Classification and Discrimination of Container and Vehicle Glass by Laser Induced
                       Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)

Nov 09            Christian Lindo
                       Man Bites Dog: Animals, Ethics and the Power of Literature in the Work of J.M. Coetzee

Nov 09            Luci Motoca
                       Predictors of Treatment Outcome in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Anxious Youth

Nov 09            Natasha Olivera
                       Re-Interpreting Assimilation; The Cuban Hyphen American Experience, and the
                       Implications of Loss in Menendez’s In Cuba I was a German Shepherd

Nov 09            Alphard Orot
                       Aza Kainoids Synthesis via Intramolecular Cycloaddition of Hydrazone                      

Nov 10            Konstantinos Menelaou
                       Impact of the Planetary Boundary Layer on Eyewall Mesovortices of Tropical Cyclones

Nov 12            Jeffrey Thomas
                       Exploring the Nature of Proactivity in Organizations

Nov 12            Bret Stodolka
                       The Kinematic and Structural Development of Microboudinage in Blueschists of
                       Eastern Jamaica

Nov 13            Valerie Silidker
                       A New Ecological Paradigm: An Analysis of Systems Thinking and Experiential
                       Methods as a Framework for Ecological Learnings

Nov 13            Fei Tang
                       Statistical Methods in Assessing Relational Agreement: Inverse Regression Approach
                       

Nov 13            Raul Urgelles
                       Dragonfly Assemblage Structure in Relation to Hydroperiod and Vegetation
                       Gradients in Freshwater Wetlands of the Florida Everglades

Nov 13            Jikang Zha
                       Time Series Analysis and Modeling of Investment Returns from Momentum Strategies
                       

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