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 2007
Fatigue Microcracking of Composite Material IM7/977-2, Michael Dana Holt
Magnetic and Transport Properties of Oxide Thin Films, Yuanjia Hong
African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House, William T. Hoston
African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House, William T. Hoston
Sugar Hill: Architectural, Cultural and Historic Significance of an Early Twentieth Century African American Neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, Niala Lynn Howard
The Southern Debate over the Passage of the Marshall Plan in Congress, 1947-1948, Traci Donellan Howerton
Historical Land Fragmentation and its Effects on Genetic Diversity and Parasitism of Island Populations of Podarcis erhardii (Lacertidae, Reptilia), Heather Hurston
Capital Regulation, Risk-Taking, Bank Lending and Depositor Discipline, Mohammed Ershad Hussain
Gendered Representations of Jazz Vocal Artists: A Critical Discourse Analysis of CD and Performance Reviews, and Interviews, Miroslava Jichova
An Unlikely Champion: Congressman Mario Biaggi and the Beginnings of a Negotiated Settlement in Northern Ireland, Ronnie Johnson
The Actor's Self Serving Bias: An Exploration of Various Acting Techniques in the Creation of the Role of Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa, Kathleen Johnston
The Hunt for Outer Space, Henderson Jones
Blood into Milk: Poems, Ginny Kaczmarek
Synthesis And Evaluation Of Novel Tropane Compounds As Potential Therapeutics For Drug Abuse, Harneet Kaur
Relationships Of Self-Efficacy, Exercise, Social Support To Strain And Burnout In University Faculty, Mark P. Kelly
Feasibility of the Use of Two Spent blast Materials as Aggregate in Hot Mix Asphalt in Louisiana Post-Katrina, Amer Kholoqui Khanfar
The Determinants of Off-Balance-Sheet Banking Risk: The U.S. and International Evidence, Ahmad Y. Khasawneh
The Young Lady's Consent, Christopher O. Kidder
An Investigation of Factors Identified By Novice Teachers That Influence Performance on Standardized Assessments and Teacher Performance, Donna Odom LaCaze
The Perspectives of Male Inmates Regarding Their K-12 Educational Experiences, Shannon Paul LaFargue
Counselors' Perceptions of Identity and Attitudinal Differences Between Counselors and Other Mental Health Professionals, Latifey B. LaFleur
Stormwater Runoff from Elevated Highways: Prediction of COD from Field Measurements and TSS, Claudio L'Altrella
Analysis of Nanopore Detector Measurements using Machine Learning Methods, with Application to Single-Molecule Kinetics, Matthew Landry
Potential Transportation Improvements and Land Use Impacts in the Elysian Fields Corridor, Caroline Lanford
Hesitation, Sandy Kolman Laycox
Smart Growth Initiatives and Their Ability to Enhance the National Security of the U.S., Donald Letterle
Chemical, Toxicological, and Microbial Characterization of New Orleans Sediments Following Hurricane Katrina, Andrea Liebl
Effects of habitat degradation on the evolutionary dynamics of populations in a rainforest cycad (Gymnospermae), Cristina Lopez-Gallego
Numerical Analysis and Applications of the Process of Nonlinear Supratransmission in Mechanical Systems of Coupled Oscillators with Damping, Diaz Jorge Macias
Frequency Estimation Using Time-Frequency Based Methods, Cuong Mai
Egyptian-British-American Triangular Relations in the 1920s: Egypt's Efforts to Break Free of Colonial Tutelage, Scott Manguno
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: Rhetoric and Gender in Marriage, Andrea Marcotte
Scenic Design for Dancing at Lughnasa, Terry Marek
Slapstick Carnage: The Absurd Universe of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, James Marler
Thermal and transport properties of layered silicate nanomaterials subjected to extreme thermal cycling, Vilarino Sofia Martinez
Louisiana INTECH Professional Development: Middle School Administrators' Perceptions of Change as Related to Student Achievement, Diane R. Mason
Assessment of Growth Response and Patterns of Biomass Allocation by Panicum hemitomon Schultes: Implications for Thick-mat Floating Marsh Creation and Restoration, C. Ellery Mayence
A Periodic Technique for Measuring Thermal Properties of Thin Samples, Garrett May
Cheat River, Kelly McQuain
Assessing the Effectiveness of Louisiana's Freshwater Diversion Projects Using Remote Sensing, Michael G. Metzger
Long and Short-Term Morphologic Evolution and Stratigraphic Architecture of a Transgressive Tidal Inlet, Little Pass Timbalier, Louisiana, Michael David Miner
Keyword Indexing and Searching for Large Forensics Targets using Distributed Computing, Sanjeeb Mishra
Evaluation of Expressions with Uncertainty in Databases, Moginraj Mohandas
Contextual and Dispositional Influences on Low-Income Children's School Adjustment, Sonya Shaniece Myers
Analysis of Oocyte Quality in the Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta), Stephanie Nichols
Female Participation in the Informal Sector in Brazil in 1996 and in 2005, Carla Nimrichter
Kate and Kilimanjaro, John Nirenberg
Development of conduct problems in girls: Testing theoretical models and examining the role of puberty, Cedar W. O'Donnell
Executive Dysfunction following Traumatic Brain Injury and Factors Related to Impairment, Jonathan Ord
For the Music, Grace Owen
1779, George Palmer
Steganalysis Techniques: A Comparative Study, Swaroop Kumar Pedda Reddy
Motivational Factors Underlying College Students' Decisions to Resume Their Educational Pursuits in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Theresa M. Phillips
Fighting the Lethargy: Creating the Role of Masha in Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters, Lisa Picone
MirrorMirror, Alfred Podesta
Bi-Directional Information Exchange with Computing Handheld Devices, Fady Qaddoura
Interactions of the Striatal Gene Rhes with the Dopaminergic System in Rodents, Gabriel Quintero
Embedded Multilayer Thin Film Stacks as Polarizing Beam Splitters and Wave Retarders Operating under Condition of Frustrated Total Internal Reflection, Perla Siva Reddy
First Flush Characterization of Storm Water Runoff, Simon Ringler
Eris Loses Her Footing, Kristin Campbell Robertson
Automating Regression Test Selection for Web Services, Michael Edward Ruth
The Influence of Urban Form, Socio-Demographics, And Transit-Oriented Development on Journey-to-Work Characteristics, Jason Daniel Sappington
A Wing to Fly, Michelle Scanlan
Les Bon Temps, Todd Schrenk
Race & Crime on the Evening News: New Orleans in the Days after Hurricane Katrina, Kristin Ashby Schwartz
Magneto-Optical Study of Cobalt Ferrite Nanoparticles, Byron L. Scott
Solidification and Stabilization of Contaminated Soil, Amitdyuti Sengupta
National Board Certification and School Leadership in Louisiana, Kathleen A. Severns
Luminescent Quantum dots for Cellular Analysis, Lifang Shi
Automated Discovery, Binding, and Integration Of GIS Web Services, Lev Shulman
Hysteria, Greed, and the Public Purse: The Litigation Impacting a Local Governmental Agency, Claire D. Simno
Merging Identities: A Glimpse into the World of Albert Wicker, An African American Leader in New Orleans, 1893-1928, Melissa Lee Smith
Long-Term Ambient Noise Statistics in the Gulf of Mexico, Mark Alan Snyder
Engineering Saccharomyces ceresisiae for the Secretion of an Extracellular Lipase, Gaynelle Stewart
Natural history of the pichi (Zaedyus pichiy) in Mendoza Province, Argentina, Mariella Superina
The LSUNO Workshop Theatre: The Little Theatre That Could, Pamela Graham Tanner
A Unified Measure of Audio System Fidelity, Lawrence A. Tedesco Jr.
The Village of River Ranch: A Post Occupancy Evaluation of a Traditional Neighborhood Development in Lafayette, Louisiana, Elizabeth A. Tomlinson
Feminist Perspectives on Liberation and Exploitation: A Phenomenological Study of Performance, Nicole D. Troxell
To Whom Much Is Given, Rachel Trujillo
The New Orleans Police Department: Melding Police and Policy to Dramatically Reduce Crime in the City of New Orleans, Kevin A. Unter
Urban Growth with Limited Prosperity: A History of Public Housing in Laredo, Texas -- 1938 to 2006, Carlos Valle Jr.
Short and Long-term Changes in the Fish Assemblages of Bayou Lacombe, Louisiana, Jeffrey M. Van Vrancken
Reducing the Rate of Recidivism for First-Time Juvenile Offenders with the Parent Monitoring Program, PMP: A Family Counseling Intervention Program, Rhonda C. Vappie-Aydin
Sensitivity Analysis of the UNO Activated Sludge Model, Ysabel Viloria
Putting Makeup on Dead People, Jennifer Violi
A New Method to Predict Vessel Capsizing in a Realistic Seaway, Srinivas Vishnubhotla
Here You Are-You Are Here, Matthew Vis
Set Design for Three Sisters: An Extraordinary Encounter with Chekhov, Tricia Duffy Vitrano
The decline of Fowler's Toad (Bufo fowleri) in southern Louisiana: molecular genetics, field experiments and landscape studies, Laura Sanders Vogel
Applying Grid-Partitioning To The Architecture of the Disaster Response Mitigation (DISarm) System, Aline Vogt
Individuation and the Demeter-Persephone Myth in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, Kristin Voss
Essays on Real Estate Investment Trusts, Yunqing Wang
The Relationship Between Alexithymia, Wellness, and Substance Dependence, Benjamin J. Warner