This collection is comprised of theses and dissertations completed at the University of New Orleans from 2002 to the present.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Don’t Bow Down, Andrew B. Gibbs
Phylogenetics and Mating System Evolution in the Southern South American Valeriana (Valerianaceae), Lauren A. Gonzalez
Two Essays in Financial Economics, Line Valerie Goss
The Veil, Gwendolyn S. Granger
A Geochemical Investigation of the Usakos Gem Tourmaline Pegmatite, Namibia, Leah R. Grassi
One-Dimensional Dynamic Modeling of the Lower Mississippi River, Tshering T. Gurung
Moving Motherly: Raising Children in the Low-Wage Hospitality Industry, Anna E. Hackman
An empirical study of semantic similarity in WordNet and Word2Vec, Abram Handler
A Calculated Risk: The Effects of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Denunciation of the 1968 Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia on US-Romanian Relations, Paul R. Hebert
Measure of a Man: A Grounded Theory Approach to Understanding Gay/Queer College Men’s Self Identified Masculinity, Ryan Jasen Henne
Romantic Rhetoric and Appropriation in William Apess’s A Son of the Forest, Courtney Hilden
Tango in Solitude, Maria Hinterkoerner
Market Frictions and the Efficiency of Capital Allocation, William J. Hippler III
Willful Misinterpretation, Peter Hoffman
Data Visualization to Evaluate and Facilitate Targeted Data Acquisitions in Support of a Real-time Ocean Forecasting System, Edward A. Holmberg IV
From a “Lazy Boy” to the Open Sea. The journey of making “Call Me Cappy”, Maja M. Holzinger
Gendered Bodies and the U.S. Military: Exploring the Institutionalized Regulation of Bodies, Heather K. Horton
Turtle Beach, Weizhong Huang and Weizhong Huang
Smartphones and Face-to-Face Interactions: Extending Goffman to 21st Century Conversation, Omar Bradley Ictech II
Math, Class, and Katrina Aftermath: The Impact of Experiences Teaching Mathematics to Low-income Middle School Students on Middle-income Teachers’ Pedagogical Strategies, Susan J. Ikenberry
A Framework for Air Dispersion Modeling – A Hypothetical Case of Port Operations, Amrita Iyer
CHOOSE YOUR OWN OZ, Tommy R. Jamerson II
Reducing Vortex-Induced Vibration of Drilling Risers with Marine Fairing, Aswin Janardhanan
Analysis and Detection of Heap-based Malwares Using Introspection in a Virtualized Environment, Salman Javaid
In Between the Dots and Dashes: Telegrams and the Mediation of Intimacy in The Golden Bowl, Sean Jemison
Efficient FPGA Architectures for Separable Filters and Logarithmic Multipliers and Automation of Fish Feature Extraction Using Gabor Filters, Arjun Kumar Joginipelly
La Gioconda, Nikkole R. Jones
The Adversity Pop Culture Has Posed, Darel Joseph
Affective and Cognitive Empathy Deficits Distinguish Primary and Secondary Variants of Callous-Unemotional Youth, Rachel E. Kahn
In Service, Spencer R. Kancher
Forlorn Days, Anthony Kane
New Metal-NHC Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Uses, Roy A. Kelly III
Private Diplomats, Mediation Professionals, and Peace Activists: Can Non-governmental Actors Bring Peace to Civil Wars?, Christina Kiel
Cu (II) Catalyzed Gateways In The Synthesis of Acridine Derivatives and Their Biological Evaluation as Anti-Cancer Drugs, Rajesh Komati
Determining Kinetics for Simulated Sunlight-Exposed Oil Compounds, Dustin D. Kountz
Development of Generalized Trimaran Hullform Design Methodology for a Naval Warship, Samuel F. Kulceski
Does Parenting Style Moderate the Association Between Parental Monitoring and Adolescent Problem Behavior?, Laura LaFleur
Labor in a Hopeless Land: The Daughters of Charity and Hansen's disease Patients at the Louisiana Leper Home, 1896-1926, Reagan Laiche
Steady State Voltage Stability Enhancement Using Shunt and Series FACTS Devices, Jahnavi Lakkireddy
Rachel's Madcap Theater, Joseph Laura
Testosterone Reactivity and Neural Activation in the MID task, Yoojin Lee
Security Analysis on Network Systems Based on Some Stochastic Models, Xiaohu Li
Finding Margaret Haughery: The Forgotten and Remembered Lives of New Orleans’s “Bread Woman” In the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Katherine Adrienne Luck
Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Evolution of Mica and Feldspar from within the Mount Mica Pegmatite, Maine, USA, Karen L. Marchal
Characterization of Dredged Sediment Used in Coastal Restoration and Marsh Creation Projects, Gregory A. Mattson II
Professional School Counselors and Relational Aggression: Training, Perceptions, Barriers, and Interventions, Catherine G. McDermott
Friends Is Never Dreary, Megan A. McHugh
You are a Weird Bird., Natalie H. McLaurin
Here There Is No Place That Does Not See You, Carolyn B. Mikulencak
We Wear the Mask: Exploring the Talented Tenth and African American Political Philosophy in 21st Century Politics, Lauryn T. Minter
The Role Balance Experience of Black Female Counselor Education Doctoral Students Maintaining Full-Time Employment and Significant Relationships, Ariel Encalade Mitchell
Alien on a Savage Planet, Shena Mullins
New Orleans Producers: Directing the Regional Food System One Informal Contract at a Time, Emily Nichols
Arthropod Abundance and Diversity in Restored Longleaf Pine Savannas at Abita Creek Flatwoods Preserve, Cara B. Nighohossian
Maximizing the Impact of Local Police Agencies through Optimum Staffing Levels, April Overman
Lisbeth Salander Lost In Translation - An Exploration of the English Version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Kajsa Paludan
A 3-D Hydrodynamic Modeling at Head of Passes of the Mississippi River, Tatiana Pavlyukova
Synthesis and Applications of Mutimodal Hybrid Albumin Nanoparticles for Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery and Phototherml Therapy Platforms, Donna V. Peralta
Triangle, Joyana Peters
Louisiana's Water Innovation Cluster: Is it ready for global competition?, Stephen C. Picou
“Put the Church Right There”: A Study of the Inclusion of Congregational Structures within New Urbanist Developments, Matthew L. Pierce
Design and Software Validation of Coded Communication Schemes using Multidimensional Signal Sets without Constellation Expansion Penalty in Band-Limited Gaussian and Fading Channels, Milton I. Quinteros
The Exercise of Power : Counter Planning in Palestine, Husni S. Qurt
Going In circles, Mark C. Raymond
Mechanisms and transients involved in the solar conversion of petroleum films in aquatic systems, Phoebe Z. Ray
The Narratives of Young Women with BRCA 1/2 Gene Mutation: A Qualitative Analysis, Drew D. Reilly
At the End of the World, Allison Reu
The Chorus of Disapproval: The Battle of St. Paul's and Women's Protest in Occupied New Orleans, Denice J. Richard
Parcel-Level Green Stormwater Management Policy: What New Orleans Can Learn from Philadelphia’s Parcel-Based Utility Fee, Spence Riggs
Found Cairn, Megan E. Riley
Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of an Ideal Anguilliform Swimming Motion, Charles Rogers
The Music of Turbulence, Traci J. Rosenbaum
Modal Characterization and Structural Dynamic Response of a Crane Fly Forewing, Jose E. Rubio
The Structure of Child and Adolescent Aggression: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of a Brief Peer Conflict Scale, Justin Russell
Investigation of the Quenching Characteristics of Steel Components by Static and Dynamic Analyses, Pratik Sarker
Preliminary Hydrogen Sulfide Emission Factors and Emission Models for Wastewater Treatment Plant Headworks, Amitdyuti Sengupta
Coastal Land Loss and Collaborative Resource Governance: The Case of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, Nandini Seth
Invincible: Legacy and Propaganda in Superhero Comics, Natalie R. Sheppard
Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel Compounds with CNS-Activity Targeting Cannabinoid and Biogenic Amine Receptors, Alexander M. Sherwood
The Wolves of Gehenna, John H. Shinholser
A Computational Study of Procyanidin Binding to Histatin 5 and Thermodynamic Properties of Hofmeister-Anion Binding to a Hydrophobic Cavitand, Joshua Shraberg
Identification Of The Transcriptional Co-Repressor Complex And Its Functions In Arabidopsis thaliana, Barsha Shrestha
Corporate Performance and Cost of Capital Differentials of Firms with Different Organizational Forms, Ibrahim Siraj
Incorporation of Charge Transfer into Classical Molecular Dynamics Force Fields with Applications in Physical Chemistry., Marielle Soniat
Through the Eyes of the Homeless, Aisha M. Soto
Leap of Faith: Clergy in State Legislative Elections, Victonio B. Spencer
In Another Life, Ariel J. Spengler
Major League Baseball and World War II: Protecting The Monopoly by Selling Major League Baseball as Patriotic, Patrick A. Stephen
Gas Detection Applications of Vertically Aligned Metal Oxide Nanowire Arrays, Haiqiao Su
3-D Hydrodynamic and Non-Cohesive Sediment Transport Modeling in the Lower Mississippi River, Grecia A. Teran Gonzalez
Just Off Elysian Fields, Woodlief A. Thomas
The Association between Trauma Exposure, Maladjustment, and Aggression in Detained Boys, Kelli R. Thompson
Studies Directed Toward the Synthesis of Amphibian Alkaloids via Iridium Catalyzed N-Heterocyclization Reactions, Kiran Kumar Thota
Template-Assisted Fabrication of Ferromagnetic Nanomaterials, Jagnyaseni Tripathy
The Garden, Todd S. Trulock
The Resilience of New Orleans: Assessing a History of Disasters 1718-1803, Celine B. Ugolini
Please Inside-Out This, Tara S. Waudby