This collection is comprised of theses and dissertations completed at the University of New Orleans from 2002 to the present.
Some documents from this time period that have not been digitized as well as older dissertations and theses can be located in the UNO Library online catalog: http://library.uno.edu/
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Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Chaos To Clarity: The Technique Used In Performing The Role of George In Whitney Buss' The Dark End of Day, James Yeargain
Efficiency of Internal Capital Allocation and the Success of Acquisitions, Meng Ye
On Corporate Hedging and Firm Focus and on Bank Board Structure, Bei Zeng
Distributed Support Vector Machine With Graphics Processing Units, Hang Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Comparative Hydrodynamic Testing of Small Scale Models, Jared Acosta
B-Spline Boundary Element Method for Ships, Aditya Mohan Aggarwal
Computational Intelligence and Complexity Measures for Chaotic Information Processing, Davoud Arasteh
Distributed Support Vector Machine Learning, Kenneth C. Armond Jr.
Irma, Karen Atherton
Leyla and Mejnun for String Quartet, Roula Baaklini
Invitation of Echoes: Part One, William Bain
Ghost Dance in 31 Movements, Anny Ballardini
Bumbling Biddies and Drunken Pats: Anti-Irish Humor in Antebellum New Orleans, Ashley Barckett
The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Public School Counselors and their Delivery of Responsive Services, Charles Arlene Collins "Sundy" Barjon
A Revolutionary Perspective on Social Movements: Fundamentalism in the Islamic World, D. Dustin Berna
An Optimal Interset Rest Period For Strength Recovery During A Common Isokinetic Test, Ivan Blazquez
Twenty-Four-Hour Woman, Mawiyah Bomani
Post-translational Regulation of Plant Fatty Acid Desaturases as Expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Linda Bourassa
Development of the Distributed Points Method with Application to Cavitating Flow, David M. Bourg
Relationship between Land Use and Surface Water Quality in a Rapidly Developing Watershed in Southeast Louisiana, Andrea Bourgeois-Calvin
The Toaster That Toasted The Golden Toast, Danny Bourque
Development of a Borehole Log Signature for Oceanic Anoxic Events and Its Application to the Gulf of Mexico, Asani Brewton
The Alluring and Manipulative "Spider Women" of the Silver Screen: Femmes Fatales of the Hard-Boiled Fiction, Classic Noir and Contemporary Noir Periods, Gretchen Brinker
The Sanctity, Jason D. Buch
Rencontres Nocturnes For Trio, Mary Jane Schiro Butera
Draumkvedet and the Medieval English Dream Vision: A Study of Genre, Christian Carlsen
Application of the Method of Least Squares to a Solution of the Matched Field Localization Problem with a Single Hydrophone, Sean R. Chapin
Handmaid, Jennifer Chase
Glucose and Glucosamine Derivatives as Novel Low Molecular Weight Gelators, Sherwin Cheuk
Quality in Education: Perspectives Regarding Baldrige-based Practices and Instructional Leadership in Middle Schools, Felicia Maria Vaughn Coleman
Knuckle Sandwich & Other Stories, Sean Conway
Symphony for Chamber Orchestra, James T. E. Cook
Critical Events, Commitment, and the Probability of Civil War, Ursula E. Daxecker
Synthesis of Well-Defined N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Complexes of Late Transition Metals, Pierre De Fremont
Commonality of Liquidity around the World: Evaluation of Possible Reasons, Mehmet F. Dicle
Two Songs from "War is Kind" for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra, Kara Drane
The Boxer's Sister, Sandra Sharp Dummit
Response of barrier island fish assemblages to impacts from multiple hurricanes: assessing resilience of Chandeleur Island fish assemblages to hurricanes Ivan (2004) and Katrina (2005), Mark Chad Ellinwood
Of Storm and Scythe, Gina Ferrara
Spatiotemporal Indexing With the M-Tree, John Finigan
Light Suite, Jessica Fiorini
Holy Wars, Robert Florence
Preparation, Characterization, And Application of Liposomes in the Study of Lipid Oxidation Targeting Hydroxyl Radicals, Chanel Fortier
A Holistic Assessment of the Perceived Supportive Care Needs of Cancer Patients during Treatment, Robert B. Gardner
Bradford and Winthrop: Different Approaches to Colonial New England, Jeremy George
Lived In, Laura Gipson
Beyond Katrina, Designing A Unique Charter School In New Orleans: Community, Pedagogy, Governance, Finance, and Bureaucracy, Patricia Glaser
Late Neogene Uplift of the Fairweather Ground on the Basis of Bathymetric and Seismic Data from the Gulf of Alaska, Peter David Guarisco IV
Facing the Storm: An Oral History of Elderly Survivors of Katrina, Eileen Guillory
Communicating Emotion Through Images and Music in Narrative Film, Peter Edward Hagan
Wholly Innocent, James Wesley Harris
Doorways to Development: Foreign Direct Investment Policies in Developing Countries, Michael Hess
The Use, Beliefs, Perceived Barriers, and Methods of Delivery of Play Therapy by Elementary School Counselors, Christine Holbrook Ebrahim
The Impact of Growth Management Policies on Urban Form: Evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas with Growth Management Policies, Muhammed Islam
Emerald City, Barbara Johnson
Evolution: The Progress of a Painter, Rachel Jones
Light: Journey of a Lifetime, Kiren G. Kaimal
Essays in Corporate Governance: Issues and Evidence from Equity Carve-Outs, Andrew Mulindwa Kayanga
Experiencing Higher Education in Louisiana through a Native American Lens, Linda Kelly
The Solipsism of Daily Experience and the Unequal Body: The Social Construction of Ableness, Richard Kessinger III
Multiple Solutions on a Ball for a Generalized Lane Emden Equation, Abeer Khanfar
Otherness and Assimilation: The Poetry of Double-consciousness in the Works of Charles Simic, Marilyn Chin, and Susan Atefat-Peckham, Katherine Kidder
An Examination: Using Participatory Action Research in a Marginalized Coastal Community at Risk to Natural Hazards, Joselin Simoneaux Landry
44-Across, Joshua Alan Lane
Casa Samba: Twenty-One Years of Amerizilian Identity in New Orleans1, Lauren E. Lastrapes
Businesses as Cultural Icons: Their Application towards Understanding Urban Morphology, Stephanie Lawrence
Essays on Determinants of IPO Liquidity and Price Adjustments to Persistent Information in Option Markets, Yen-Sheng Lee
Evolution of a Smart Girl, Casey Lefante
Claiming Iris, Dawn Lenz
The effects of the invasive exotic Chinese tallow tree (Triadica sebifera) on amphibians and aquatic invertebrates, Norman Leonard
Musicians Who Busk: Identity, Career, and Community in New Orleans Street Performance, Aram Parrish Lief
Effects of interspecific competition, salinity, and hurricanes on the success of an invasive fish, the Rio Grande cichlid (Herichthys cyanoguttatus), O. Thomas Lorenz
Abundance and Distribution of Early Life Stage Blue Crabs (Callinectes sapidus) in Lake Pontchartrain, Lissa Lyncker
Military Base Closure and Community Transformation: The Case of England Air Force Base in Central Louisiana, Phyllis E. Mayo
From Plumpy's to the Grave, Lish McBride
Diabetes Camp, Sarah McKnight
Responses of a Louisiana oligohaline marsh plant community to nutrient loading and disturbance, Danielle Meert
Clustering Via Supervised Support Vector Machines, Sepehr Merat
Crucial Bread, Laura Miller
The Usefulness of Ground Penetrating Radar in locating burials in Charity Hospital Cemetery, New Orleans, Monique Tashell Mitchell
Storm Water Management Using a High Density Rainfall Network Along With Long Term Records, Siamak N. Mokhtarnejad
Digital Receipt System Using Mobile Device Technologies, Doc Lap Nguyen
A Semi-Supervised Information Extraction Framework for Large Redundant Corpora, Eric Normand
Cause Lawyers and Social Movements: Perspectives from Post-Katrina New Orleans, Peter O'Connell
Testing the Waters: The Social Contexts of Homeowner Flood Mitigation, Maggie L. Olivier
Implementation of Secure Key Management Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks, Noor Ottallah
The Projectionist, David Parker Jr.
Counselors' Perceptions of Training, Theoretical Orientation, Cultural and Gender Bias, and Use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV-Text Revision, Micah Patureau-Hatchett
Shaping an Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance for Post-Katrina New Orleans, Kristen Phillips
Assessment of Ambient Air Particulate Matter in the New Orleans Historic District , Federico Portillo
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Nanoparticles for Use as Photocatalytic Probes and Radiotracers, Anindya Pradhan