Theses/Dissertations from 2012
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM IN SUZAN-LORI PARKS’S TOPDOG/UNDERDOG, Sabrina A. Abid
Longitudinal Analysis of Risk Factors Affecting Reading Trajectories in Children Diagnosed with Pediatric Brain Tumors, Alyssa S. Ailion
Problem-Based Learning as a Teaching Method Versus Lecture-Based Teaching in Respiratory Therapy Education, Bandar M. Almasoudi
Working Beyond 9 to 5: The Impact of a University-wide Alternative Work Arrangements Policy on Student Affairs Employees, Pamela D. Anthony
Fiscal Stress in the U.S. States: An Analysis of Measures and Responses, Sarah B. Arnett
What is the Lived Experience of Laywomen Who Serve as Catholic Elementary School Principals in their Roles as Faith Leaders?, Jamie Faser Arthur
CULTURE, CONTEXT, CURRICULUM: AN EXPLORATION OF THE ATTITUDES OF BLACK MIDDLE SCHOOL MALES TOWARDS ART EDUCATION, Rita D. Baker
Commodified Anatomies: Disposable Women in Postcolonial Narratives of Sexual Trafficking/Abduction, Maria Laura Barberan Reinares
Effects of Teacher-mediated Repeated Viewings of Stories in American Sign Language on Classifier Production of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Jennifer BEAL-ALVAREZ
THINKING GLOBALLY, ACTING LOCALLY, DISCUSSING ONLINE: THE SLOW FOOD MOVEMENT QUICKENS WITH NEW MEDIA, Carolyn Bender
White Privilege: A History of the Concept, Jacob Bennett
Predicting Purchase Timing, Brand Choice and Purchase Amount of Firm Adoption of Radically Innovative Information Technology: A Business to Business Empirical Analysis, Timothy R. Bohling
Towards a Common Center: Locating Common Characteristics of African Centeredness in an Independent African Centered Learning Environment, Garfield R. Bright Jr
A LANDSCAPE OF CONFLICT: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE NEW HOPE CHURCH BATTLEFIELD, Jason N. Brooks
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE: THE CITY OF ATLANTA AND NEIGHBORING COBB COUNTY, GEORGIA, Carol J. Brown
Glory Be Revival of Neighborly Love, Calvin Burgamy
HOME LITERACY PRACTICES OF ARABIC-ENGLISH BILINGUAL FAMILIES: CASE STUDY OF ONE LIBYAN AMERICAN PRESCHOOLER AND ONE SYRIAN AMERICAN PRESCHOOLER, Azusa Callaway
New Urbanism and Brownfields Redevelopment: Complications and Public Health Benefits of Brownfield Reuse as a Community Garden, Julia N. M. Campbell
DISTRIBUTION OF FABP7 IN NEURAL TISSUE OF SOCIALLY DEFEATED ADULT ANOLIS CAROLINENSIS, Carmenada L. Cañete
The Impact of Mindfulness Training on Hyperactive Behaviors Demonstrated by Elementary Age Children with a Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Jessica A. Carboni
Articulations of Liberation and Agency in Yanagi Miwa's "Elevator Girls", Rachel P. Chamberlain
My Trip to Notan, James M. Chapman
Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Patriarch: Black Masculine Identity Formation Within the Context of Romantic Relationships, Kayla N. Charleston
DISSECTING KEY DETERMINANTS FOR CALCIUM AND CALMODULIN REGULATION OF GAP JUNCTION AND VIRAL PROTEIN, Yanyi Chen
PROTEIN TERTIARY MODEL ASSESSMENT USING GRANULAR MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES, Anjum A. Chida
Gentrification and school choice: Where goes the neighborhood?, Amy Childers Roberts
INVITATION, In Kyoung Chun
WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES OF THE TENURE PROCESS: A CASE STUDY AT A SMALL PUBLIC SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Debra J. Cody
Descriptive Analysis of Ebstein Anomaly in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997-2007, Tiffany Colarusso
(UNRELATED), Bethany Collins
THE ROLE OF THE HOME IN EUDORA WELTY’S DELTA WEDDING AND THE OPTIMIST’S DAUGHTER, Claire Elizabeth Crews
SCHOOL-MUSEUM PARTNERSHIPS: EXAMINING AN ART MUSEUM’S PARTNERING RELATIONSHIP WITH AN URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICT, Kymberly M. Cruz
Investigation of In-Service Teachers' Use of Video during a Critical Friends Group, Karen A. Czaplicki
THE PERFORMANCE OF FEMININITY IN THE WORKS OF YINKA SHONIBARE MBE, Rhonda L. Dano
Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP): A Historical Analysis of Louisiana's High Stakes Testing Policy, Erica L. Decuir
Foreign Language for Content: Aiming to Develop Lifelong Learning Dispositions, Svetoslava Dimova
SLOWLY, SURELY, ONE PLAT, ONE BINDER AT A TIME: CHOKING OUT JIM CROW AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AZUREST SYNDICATE INCORPORATED, GraceLynis Dubinson
Land Use and Urbanization Patterns in an Established Enzootic Raccoon Rabies Area, John E. Duke
EPIC SIGNIFICANCE: PLACING ALPHONSE MUCHA’S CZECH ART IN THE CONTEXT OF PAN-SLAVISM AND CZECH NATIONALISM, Erin M. Dusza
How Music Makes Us Feel, Alexander Economides
Strategic Planning in Local Government: Is the Promise of Performance a Reality?, Lauren M. Edwards
Affective Responses to Inequity in Capuchin Monkeys, Danny Fernandez
Art, Gaut and Games: the Case for Why Some Video Games Are Art, Christopher J. Fidalgo
Oil and U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Africa, Daniel Fikreyesus
ANALYSIS OF SECULAR CHANGE AND A NOVEL METHOD OF STATURE ESTIMATION UTILIZING MODERN SKELETAL COLLECTIONS, Tony A. Fitzpatrick
"WHERE THERE IS NO LOVE, PUT LOVE": HOMELESS ADDICTION RECOVERY PERSPECTIVES AND WAYS TO ENHANCE HEALING, Mark W. Flanagan
BEADS OF EMPOWERMENT: THE ROLE OF BODY ART IN CHALLENGING POKOT GENDER IDENTITIES, Jennifer R. Fleischman
The Exchange: A Novel, Peter A. Fontaine
Indicators of Mathematics Skill Acquisition in Children with Mild Intellectual Disability: Phonological Awareness, Naming Speed, and Vocabulary Knowledge, Matthew E. Foster
GEORGIA ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY GROUPS HEALTH EDUCATION NEEDS ASSESSMENT, Laura N. Frame
Market Feedback and Valuation Judgment: Revisited, Julia Freybote
Speaking Voices in Postcolonial Indian Novels from Orientalism to Outsourcing, Barbara J. Gardner
The Promise of Gayness: Queers and Kin in South Korea, Timothy Gitzen
The Role of Media Specialists with Respect to Instructional Technology in an Urban School District in Georgia, Warren R. Goetzel
Real Estate Decision-Making: An Actor Network Theory Analysis of Four, Small Charitable Organizations, Louis J. Grabowski
91 Days, Candice M. Greathouse
The Moderating Influence of Strength on Depression and Suicide in African American Women, Brandeis H. Green
Gendering the Republic and the Nation: Political Poster Art of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, Helen M. Greeson
Does the Gender Inequality Index Explain the Variation in State Prevalence Rates of Physical Teen Dating Violence Victimization?, Lindsay A. Gressard
RHETORIC AND CAMPAIGN LANGUAGE: EXPLAINING NEW ELECTORAL SUCCESS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICIANS IN NON-MINORITY DISTRICTS, Precious D. Hall
Practicing Gender: A Feminist Ethnography of an All Girls' After-School Club, Alison A. Happel
EFFICIENT GTS ALLOCATION SCHEMES FOR IEEE 802.15.4, Syed E. Haque
Comparison of Screening Methods for Pre-diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Race/Ethnicity and Gender, Ashleigh E. Heath
Dressing Their Best: Independent Fashion Bloggers and the Complexities of Ethos, Melody C. Heffner
Strategies of Narrative Disclosure in the Rhetoric of Anti-Corporate Campaigns, Richard A. Herder
The Relationship of Lifestyle and Psychological Birth Order with Career Decision Self-Efficacy, Ronald M. Herndon
Open Source In The Clouds - How Organizational Ambidexterity Shapes and is Shaped by Disruptive Innovation in an Open Source Software Provider, Alexander M. Heublein
BEAUTIFUL DAY. PLEASANT WALK: WALKING AND LANDSCAPE IN THE WORKS OF ESWICK EVANS, JOHN D. GODMAN, ELIZABETH FRIES ELLET, AND BRADFORD TORREY, Scott R. Honeycutt
ANALYSIS OF THE STREPTOCOCCAL HEMOPROTEIN RECEPTOR: A ROLE IN VIRULENCE AND HOST DEFENSE, Ya-Shu Huang
A Survey of Point of Use Household Water Treatment Options for Rural South India, Kendralyn G. Jeffreys
The Impacts of Threat and Emotions on Indigenous Mobilization: an investigation of assumptions in social movement theory, Marshall Jeffries
THE IMPACTS OF THREAT AND EMOTIONS ON INDIGENOUS MOBILIZATION: AN INVESTIGATION OF ASSUMPTIONS IN SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY, Marshall Jeffries
TEMPERAMENT AS A PREDICTOR OF INFANT IMMUNIZATION DISTRESS AND RESPONSE TO TREATMENT, Naomi E. Joffe
Exploring the use of Geographic Information Systems as an Environmental and Social Justice Advocacy Tool for Community-Based Organizations: A Case Study of Galena Park, Texas, Demetrice R. Jordan
The Effect Of Organizational Knowledge Creation On Firm Performance: An Operational Capabilities-Mediated Model, Michael S. Jordan
Vaccination in a Private Pediatric Practice, Karen T. Joseph
Impact of Schistosomiaisis in Kasansa Health Zone in Democratic Republic of Congo, Mbuyi M. Kabongo
Race and Health Online: A Public Health Exploration of the Digital Landscape, Tanisha Kelley
MORTUARY VARIABILITY IN THE FINAL PALATIAL PERIOD ON CRETE: INVESTIGATING REGIONALITY, STATUS, AND “MYCENAEAN” IDENTITY, Heather K. Kerr
INNOVATIVE ALGORITHMS AND EVALUATION METHODS FOR BIOLOGICAL MOTIF FINDING, Wooyoung Kim
The Tower is Everywhere: Symbolic Exchange and Discovery of Meaning in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Jonathan Kincade
PASSING THROUGH DINK – A CLOSER LOOK AT HOW COUPLES IN THE UNITED STATES MAKE THE DECISION TO HAVE CHILDREN, Allyson H. Korb
Sources of Support and Family Quality of Life of Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren With and Without Disabilities, Karen E. Kresak
Headsprout Early Reading for Students At Risk for Reading Failure, Donna D. Kreskey
WHAT'S TO KNOW?: NAVIGATING KNOWLEDGE GAPS OF HANSEN'S DISEASE IN THE U.S., Kristen E. Kuhns
In Their Words: Women's Holocaust Memoirs, Shana Latimer
COULD LOW VITAMIN D STATUS EXPLAIN THE INCREASED RATES OF HYPERTENSIVE DISORDERS IN PREGNANCY IN THE US POPULATION AND IN NON-HISPANIC BLACK WOMEN? AN EXAMINATION OF NHANES 2001-2006, Michelle V. Leander-Griffith
Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Black Middle And Upper Class Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions Of Teaching And Learning In High Poverty Urban Schools, Andrea D. Lewis
SPATIAL ONTOLOGY FOR THE PRODUCTION DOMAIN OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY, DICKSON M. LIADEY
Maternal Medication Use and Risk of Hypospadias- An Exposure Spectrum Approach, Jennifer N. Lind
REFINING DIETARY ESTIMATES AT MACHU PICCHU USING COMBINED DENTAL MACRO/MICROWEAR AND ISOTOPIC ANALYSES, Sarah V. Livengood and Sarah Victoria Livengood
College Faculty Experiences with Technological Innovation: An Exploratory Case Study, Peggy A. Lumpkin
Bureaucratic Regulation and Emotional Labor: Implications for Social Services Case Management, Kelley M. Macon
Empowerment Through Community Based Monitoring, Nurez N. Madhany