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 2006
An R*-Tree Based Semi-Dynamic Clustering Method for the Efficient Processing of Spatial Join in a Shared-Nothing Parallel Database System, Gayatri Ganpaa
Factors Influencing Intent to Stay of Nursing Faculty in Selected Schools of Nursing in Sixteen States within the Southern Region, Debbie Garbee
Reassessment of a Community Mitigation Plan Post-Disaster: A Case Study of the University of New Orleans Disaster Resistant University Project, Ashley Garrett
Hate Date, Mike Gemme
Judging Judges: The Impeachment of Federal Judiciary Members, Jennifer Goguen
Determining What's Next: A Slow Movement for Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Golombisky
An Analysis of Faith-Based Homeless Social Service Providers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and their Role in Helping Homeless People, Willie Green Jr.
"The Goose that Lays the Golden Egg"?: The "Bio-Med" Industries of New Orleans , Robert Habans
Voices Behind Bars: Correctional Education from the Perspective of the Prisoner Student, Renee Hall
Steel Magnolias: An Actor Directs, Michael Ashley Harkins
The Native, Jeffrey J. Hartwick
Thermal Infrared Imaging for the Charity Hospital Cemetery Archaeological Survey: Implications for Further Geological Applications, Raymond Heitger
Development in New Orleans East: Its Past, Present, and Future Potential, Newton Latronia Hill
These People are Not Your People: Class Conflict and Ideology in Faulkner's Sanctuary, Elizabeth Shaye Hope
Investigation of Microcracking and Damage Propagation in Cross-Ply Composite Laminates, Babruvahan Hottengada
Improving Performance of Spatial Network Queries, Elias Ioup
At the Cherrywood Cafe, Samantha Isasi
Storing and Indexing Expressions in Database Systems, Raj Jampa
Governance Changes in Four Urban School Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Preconditions for Adopting Reforms, Alessandra Jerolleman
Steady State and Transient Dynamical Systems Analysis of Uncoupled Roll Response for a Traditional Versus Advanced Hull Form, Sarah Eileen Juckett
Performance and Total PM Emission Factor Evaluation of Expendable Abrasives, Kalpalatha Kambham
Microcracking Fracture Toughness for Graphite Epoxy Composite Laminates Using Finite Fracture Mechanics, Krishna Kumar Kasturi
The Chicano Mural Movement of the Southwest: Populist Public Art and Chicano Political Activism, John Kenny
At the Confluence of Science and Power: Water Struggles of New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century, Carolyn Kolb
Hurricane Katrina and the Television News Industry, Hilda Koonce
Investigation of Different Video Compression Schemes Using Neural Networks, Prem Kovvuri
Simulating the Affects of Glutamatergic Afferents on the Firing Pattern of Midbrain Dopamine Neurons, Richard Spencer Landry Jr.
Optical Spectroscopy to Determine Intermediate Combustion Product Radicals in a Hydrocarbon Fueled Rocket Engine Exhaust Plume, Lester A. Langford
Synthesis of Molecular Baskets and Introduction of Inward Facing Functionality, Zachary Laughery
Hardware/Software Co-Design Architecture and Implementations of MIMO Decoders on FPGA, Cao Liang
Effects of Cooperative Learning on Motivation, Learning Strategy Utilization, and Grammar Achievement of English Language Learners in Taiwan, Hui-Chuan Liao
Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Nanomaterials Fabrication by a Chemical Vapor Deposition Method, Jingjing Liu
Detecting Routing Misbehavior In Mobile Ad Hoc Network, Kejun Liu
Synthesis of Water Soluble Quantum Dots and their Application for Enzymatic Activity Measurements, Ying Long
Swan-Diving at the Milan Lounge, Jana Mackin
Recursive Loops, Joseph Makkos
Experiment Station Road, Gwen Mansfield
Fair Housing Goes Nuclear: In Suburban Chicago the Cold War Meets a Civil Rights Protest in 1967, Ryan Mattingly
External Support Vector Machine Clustering, Charlie McChesney
Shades of Fine, Nicole McClelland
Maternal and Temperamental Influences on Children's Emotion Regulation, Scott Mirabile
Transformation of Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense by Rhizobium rhizogenes: Hairy root induction and gossypol production, Stephanie Moss
Fire & Flood: How the Lessons of the Past can Apply to the Present to Build the Future, Jared Munster
Multi-Reference Pseudo-Random Phase-Encoded Joint Transfrom Correlation, Edward Mwatibo
Behavior and Flexure Analysis of Balsa Wood Core Sandwich Composites: Experimental, Analytical and Finite Element Approaches, Sandeep Nallagula
An Effective Dynamic Handoff Support for Mobile Media Network, Aravinth Nallusamy
Synthesis, Activation and Catalytic Activity of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Bearing Palladium Catalysts, Oscar Navarro-Fernandez
An Empirical Analysis of Commercial Bank Profitability in Financially Liberalized Markets, James Nguyen
The Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Phosphate Paragenesis of the Palermo #2 Pegmatite, North Groton, New Hampshire, James Nizamoff
The Role of Connexin36 in Dopamine D1/D2 Synergism and its Breakdown in Transgenic Mice, Eileen Nolan
Bathtub Grottos, Leeandra Nolting
Complex Crustal Stratification Within the Chugach Mountains, Southern Alaska, Leland O'Driscoll
A Study of Conditional Volatilities in Financial Markets using Generalized Conditional Heteroscedasticity Jump Models, Babatunde Olatunji Odusami
Thermodynamics of Buried Water in Protein Cavities and Revised Algorithms for Introducing Polarizability to Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Lisa Renee Olano
Fluctuations, Phase Separation and Wetting Films near Liquid-Gas Critical Point, Ana Oprisan
Protecting Mobile Ad Hoc Networks from Spurious CTS Attacks 'Carrier Sensing based Deferral Mechanism', Sreekanth Pagadala
Value Creation Through Joint Venture and Strategic Alliance Formation, Elisabeta Pana
Government Ownership, Firm Value and Choice of SEO Methods--- Evidence from Privatized Chinese SOEs, Ohannes Paskelian
Creating the Role of Dabby Bryant in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, Tiffany Patrick
Enhancing Security in 802.11 and 802.1 X Networks with Intrusion Detection, Shoban Pattam
Stakeholders' Perceptions of the Value of Elementary School Counselor Roles, Gerra Wellman Perkins
La Rue House, Matthew Peters
Power Signal Analysis of Channel Current Signal Using HMM-EM and Time Domain FSA, Anand Prabhakaran
Novel Synthetic Routes to Formation of Magnetic Nanocomposites, Anindya Pradhan
Resilience and Resistance: Public Narratives from Post-Katrina New Orleans, Heather Price
Gold and Magnetite Nanoparticles as Sensors of Conformational Changes in Proteins, Larisa Radu
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Vol Ranger
Turn: Essays on Growing Up, Lauren R. Rice
Relations between Parenting, Family Context, and Emotion Regulation in the Development of Psychopathology in Young Maltreated Children, Lara Rachel Robinson
Mixing And Transport In The Kelvin-Stuart Cat Eyes Driven Flow Using The Topological Approximation Method, Stephen Michael Rodrigue
Guilty Pleasures: Narrative Craft and Mass Appeal in the Newgate Calendar, Aimee Rust
Periodontists' Ability to Self-Assess their Knowledge of Periodontics, A. Margarita Saenz
Evaluation of Productivity, Consumption, and Uncontrolled Total Particulate Matter Emission Factors of Recyclable Abrasives, Sivaramakrishnan Sangameswaran
Hardware Implementation of a Novel Image Compression Algorithm, Vikas Kumar Reddy Sanikomm
Expressions as Data in Relational Data Base Management Systems, Mahesh Saravanan
Competitive Usability Studies of Virtual Environments for Shipbuilding, Kurt Satter
Identification and Characterization of a New Class of Bilin Lyases in Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002, Nicolle Saunée
A Parallel Architecture for Analog-to-Digital Conversion with Improved Dynamic Range, Brandy Sausse
Designing a Method for Measuring Magnetoresistance of Nanostructures, Donald Scherer
Nanopore Detector Feedback Control Using Cheminformatics Methods Integrated with Labview/Labwindows Tools, Srikanth Sendamangalam
Anthony Eden, the Egypt Committee, and the Politics of Prestige during the Suez Crisis, Alexander Shelby
Voice Lessons, Lisa Shillingburg
Uplink Power Control and Soft Handoff Prioritization in Multimedia DS-CDMA, Wei Shi
Who Owns O. Perry Walker High School?: A Case Study of Contested Ownership and Survival in the New Orleans Public Schools after Hurricane Katrina, David Hamilton Simons-Jones
Where to Play?: How Student-Athletes Perceive the College Choice Process, Arrianna Smith
Development of an Image Noise Estimation Method and a Sub-Imaging Based Wiener Method, Eric F. Smith
Mothers' Communication Style and the Development of Child Compliance and Noncompliance During the Third Year of Life, Sara Sohr-Preston
Thirty Years of Change: How Subdivisions on Stilts have Altered A Southeast Louisiana Parish's Coast, Landscape and People, Kimberly Solet
Absolute Midget, Mitchell Sommers
Analysis of a Turbopiston Pump, Kiranmayi Venkata Sristy
Target Detection Using a Wavelet-Based Fractal Scheme, Gregory W. Stein
Out of Chaos, Jennifer Stewart
50%-50% Beam Splitters Using Transparent Substrates Coated by Single- or Double-Layer Quarter-Wave Thin Films, Faisal Sudradjat