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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Consumers’ Level of Trust in Using an Automated Train, Aircraft, or Vehicle as a Transportation Means, Vivalda Alexandra Patin
The Effects of Laser Eye Protection on Color Recognition and Discrimination, Sherisse Melanie Pierre
An Integrated Model of Attitude Theory and Applicant Faking Behavior, Matthew Doyle Pita
Open Census for Addressing False Identity Attacks in Decentralized Social Networks, Song Qin
Timing and Consequences of Pleistocene Megafaunal Population Collapse in South America, Marco Felipe Raczka
Effects of Rich and Lean Treatment Contexts on Renewal, Sandhya Rajagopal
A Real-Time Solution Strategy for Estimation of Aerothermal Heating for Reentry Vehicles, Bhuvaneswari Rajendra
Effects of Virtualization in Database Benchmarking, Jigarkumar Jayantibhai Rathod
Hybrid Phonon Polaritons Mimic TE Surface Wave Enhanced Supercoupling, Delroy Dominic Rebello
Exploring Usability in Web-Based Aviation Weather: An Assessment of the Aviation Weather Center Website, Benjamin Remy
Age And Growth Of Bonefish, Albula Species Among Cuban Habitats, Jacob Joseph Rennert
Efficiency Analysis and Optimization of Light Trapping in Amorphous Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell with Lumerical FDTD/DEVICE, Muhammad Riaz
Male Student Veterans: A Survey of Current Transition Challenges and Issues from Active Duty to Collegiate Life, Mara Alyce Rowcliffe
Language Relations on Twitter: A Network Science Approach, Priya Saha
The Effects of Thunderstorm Static and Quasi-Static Electric Fields on the Lower Ionosphere, Mohammad Ahmad Salem
Late Holocene Climate and Vegetation Change in Central Michigan, Rachel Kathleen Sales
Improving Crash Safety of Jet Dragsters Through Modeling and Analysis, Paige Leigh Sanchez
Towards Green Building: Energy Efficient Roof System for Buildings, Dhruv Sangal
Measurement Comparison of RF Receivers in UMTS 1900MHz, Mohammed Najat Mohammed Sayan
Factors Contributing to Millennial Turnover Rates in Department of Defense (DOD) Organizations, Christine Danielle Schaefer
Consumers’ Willingness to Fly in Augmented Cognition Equipped Aircraft, Eric Schanafelt
Impact of Electrospun Conduit Composition and Peritoneal Pre-conditioning on Patency and Remodeling of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts, Mozhgan Shojaee
Biological, Cognitive and Psychosocial Variables Associated with Female Students’ Pursuit of STEM or non-STEM Major in College, Anna Brenner Shuman
Using Auditory Extinction Cues to Mitigate Resurgence, Samuel Shvarts
Feedback and Effort: A Translational Study, Andressa Arana Sleiman
Synthesis and Characterization of 3-D Tissue Engineered Tumor Models for Melanoma Study and Extracellular Matrix Investigation, Joseph L. Spano
Population Genetics of the Florida Scrub-Jay at Kennedy Space Center, Cory James Spern
Predatory Capacity of King Crabs in Antarctica, Brittan V. Steffel
A Physical and Computational Comparison of Floating Breakwater Design Efficiencies for Habitat Restoration in the Indian River Lagoon, Abigail Lynn Stehno
Two-Week Test-Retest Reliability of the Scale of Accurate Personality Prediction, Lisa Dawn Stewart
Substance Abuse and Other Factors That Influence Recidivism for Mental Health Court Graduates, Justine Maria Swanson
Surface Modification of Core-Shell Silver-Titania Nanocomposites with Copper Bipyridine–Phosphonates and Studies on Ag@TiO₂ Mediated Degradation of Organophosphates, Somayeh Talebzadeh Farooji
Mapping Tools for Measuring Gross Motor Function in Conductive Education, Jara’ Nicole Templet
Design of a Compact Helical Counterflow Heat Exchanger, Aravindakshan Thirumalai Ananthanpillai
Effective Parental Cooperation and Communication as Protective Factors for Adult Offspring of Divorce, Damla Til Ogut
Mining Location and User Information from Users’ Trajectories, Marcello Tomasini
Corporate Social Responsibility Motivations: How Audiences Respond to a Company’s Motivations Post-Crisis, Sara Torabi
Give and Take: Validity, Personality Profiling, and Individual Success, Sara Katarina Trané
Examining the Safety Climate of U.S. Based Aviation Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) Organizations, Kole Osaretin Uhuegho
Effect of CPAP Compliance on a Cognitive Screening Test in a Memory Clinic Population with Sleep Apnea, Tatiana Marie Vallejo-Luces
Evaluation of a Tool to Identify the Variables responsible for Poor Parent Treatment Implementation: The Performance Diagnostic Checklist-Parent, Jamie Villacorta
Investigating the Influence of Functional and NonFunctional Requirements on Change and Change Propagation, Nathaniel Conde Voris
PEGDA Pouches to Prevent Adhesions with in vivo Bioreactor- based Vascular Graft Strategies, Kranthi Vuppuluri
Sensitivity of Facial Organs of Pythons as Deduced by Radiation Heat Transfer Analysis Under Varying Environmental Conditions, Rama Wairagkar
Monitoring Heart Rate Variability in Relation to Sleep Quality, Yi-Tzu Wang
Metastable-State Photoacids and the Related Photo-Responsive Polymers, Zhuozhi Wang
The Gritty Black Single Mother: Protective Factors and the Influence of Black Single Mother’s Grit on Young Adult Outcomes, Keara Cherrell Washington
A Comparison of Simultaneous and Delayed Conditioning of Visual Stimuli in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Stephanie Wathen
Holistic Methodology for Stochastic Space Mission Utility Analysis, Ja'Mar Alexander Watson
Reef-Building Threatened by Ecosystem Decline: A Case Study from Buck Island, U.S. Virgin Islands, Elizabeth M. Whitcher
Optical Nanoantenna Impedance Matching and Duality and hybrid Surface Phononic Waveguide, Yuancheng Xu
Temporal Transformation of Barrier Islands A round Nakdong Estuary, Sukzun Youn
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Systems Engineering Approach for Plant Layout Management & Optimization, Abdulelah Saeed Algarni
Numerical Study of Erosion of the Internal Wall of Sales Gas Piping by Black Powder Particles, Ahmed Saud Al-Haidari
Proactive Approach for the Prevention of DDoS Attacks in Cloud Computing Environments, Brad Alshehry
The Controlled Human Gyroscope, Randy Claude Arjunsingh
Analysis Tools and Defense Mechanisms for DoS Hash Attacks, Pratick Henry Bakhtiani
Categorizing “Muck” in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, Based on Chemical, Physical and Biological Characteristics, Katherine Mae Beckett
Flight Test Investigation on the Effects of Aircraft Flap Configuration Change on Longitudinal Trim, Tiziano Bernard
Phytotoxicity of Silver Species to Egeria Densa and Applications to Phytoremediation, Leonard James Bernas
Soteria: A Persuasive eSecurity Assistant, Punica Bhardwaj
Robust Structured Tracking, Ivan Bogun
An Analysis of the Moisture and Moist Static Energy Budgets in AMIP Simulations, Kristine Adelaide Boykin
Supervision of Primary Care Behavioral Health Trainees: A Survey of Current Practices, Karly Anna Branch
Phycotoxin Loads in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus) from the Indian River Lagoon Estuary System and Coastal Altlantic Waters, Florida: 2002-2011, Jeremy Alan Browning
A Robust Speaker Identification Algorithm Based On Atomic Decomposition and Sparse Redundant Dictionary Learning, Thomas James Bryan Jr.
Rapid Generation of 3D Microchannels Using a Multiphoton Laser System in Blended Hydrogels to Serve as Templates for Microvascular Generation, Stephanie Renée Burtch
Modeling Reef-Coral Response to Climate Change, Christopher William Cacciapaglia
Studies with Dynamic Nuclear Imaging Image Reconstruction Algorithm, Haoran Chang
Behavioral Economic Analyses of Reinforcement in the Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior, James Allen Chastain
The Kinematics and X-ray Emission Mechanism of the Large-Scale Jet of 3C 111, Devon Clautice
A Self-Organized Approach for Detecting Communities in Networks, Ben Collingsworth
Trust in Automation: A Study of Helicopter Pilot Perception on Enhanced Flight Vision Systems (EFVS), Nicholas Colby Currie
Google Speech Recognition using Embedded System, Anita Devi
The Design of an Articulating Five-Headed In-Water Grooming Tool to Maintain Ships Free of Fouling, Caglar Erdogan
Modeling and Analysis of a Novel Imbedded Organic Thermal Cycle, Joel Maker Faure
Dynamics and Control of Three-Dimensional Perching Maneuver under Dynamic Stall Influence, Mir Alikhan Bin Mohammad Feroskhan
Instructional Approach and Mathematics Achievement: An Investigation of Traditional, Online, and Flipped Classrooms in College Algebra, Dustin Daniel Files
Robotic Arm Tracing Curves Recognized by Camera, Timothy Karl Findling
Digital Quorum Sensing for Self-Organizing Malware, Mark E. Fioravanti II
Leader Emotion Management Behavior and Perceived Leader Effectiveness: The Moderating Roles of Gender and Culture, Julianna Fischer
Global Mindset: Examining the critical components for successful global leadership decision-making, Agnes Flett
Generalization across Modalities of Expressive and Receptive Language Acquisition through the Use of Multiple Exemplar Training and Errorless, Melinda Galbato
Reverberation Mapping of the Dusty Torus in Active Galactic Nuclei, Erich Franz Geisert
Surface Cooling Due to Precipitation in the Tropics, Camila Gomes Martins Ramos
The Effects of Elevated pCO₂ and Temperature on the Embryonic Development, Larval Survivorship, Condition, Calcification, Morphology, and Behavior of the Florida Stone Crab, Menippe Mercenaria, Philip Michael Gravinese
Psychological Well-Being and Heart Disease: The Utility of Mental Health and Management Plans, Jennifer Anne Heath
The Tolerance of Benthic Infauna to Fine-Grained Organic Rich Sediments in a Shallow Subtropical Estuary, Daniel Christopher Hope
Quantification of Frictional Drag due to Biofouling on In-Service Ships, John Travis Hunsucker
Discrete and Continuous Operational Calculus in Stochastic Games, Kenneth Ibe Iwezulu
How Shared Leadership Improves Team Performance: Exploring the Role of Team Knowledge and Team Learning, Hairong Jiang
Angle of Attack Visualization: A Proposal for a Tangible Interactive In-flight Loss of Control Recovery System, Nicholas Kasdaglis
Proactive Coping Style and Employee Well-being: Workplace Stressors and Recovery Experiences as Mediators, Erica Christine Keeton
Geological Conditions Required for the Fluvial Erosion of Titan’s Impact Craters, Rebeca M. Kinser
The Role of Biotic and Environmental Factors in Spatial and Temporal Variability of Indian River Lagoon Copepod Communities, Hannah G. Kolb
Multi-Axial Fiber Optic Reference Strain Sensor for Flexible Dynamics of Structures, Gabriel Lapilli