University Graduate School: Theses/Dissertations Defence Announcements

Theses/Dissertations Defense Announcements

Summer 2008: College of Arts and Sciences

Doctoral Dissertations

	Biological Sciences
June 27	Clayton Jack Williams Relative Significance of Pelagic, Benthic, and Allochthonous Organic Matter to Microbial Carbon Cycling in a Phosphorus-depleted Subtropical Estuary (Florida Bay)
	Chemistry and Biochemistry
May 27	Dragan Simovic Syntheses of Aza Analogues of Kainic Acid
July 8	Kerry L. Opel The Application of Reduced-Size Short Tandem Repeat Primer Sets in the Analysis of Human DNA from Degraded and Compromised Samples
	Earth Sciences
June 11	Shadab Anwar Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Fluid Flow and Solute Transport in Karst Aquifers
	History
May 27	Magda Gómez Smallpox, Vaccination Boards, and State Formation in Venezuela and Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
June 11	Josué Rey The Civil War of Ideas: Ayn Rand, Liberalism, and Conservatism in Twentieth-Century America
	International Relations
June 12	Marvin Astrada Conceptualizing US Power & Security in a Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 World: Unipolarity, Conflict, Resistance, and Global Security, 2001-Present
	Physics
May 14	Jiepeng Zhang Nonlinear Optcal Effects Manifested by Electromagnetic Induced Transparency in Cold Atoms
June 24	Atilla Gonenc Coherent Rho Meson Electroproduction Off the Deuteron With the Cebaf Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS)
	Political Science
July 10	Gönül Tol The Rise of Islamism among the Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
	Psychology
May 28	Claudio Ortiz Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Reactions in Children Prior to Traumatic Exposure
June 30	Margaret C. Reardon Jury Decision Making and the Story Model: How Do Deliberation Style and Evidence Order Influence the Story that Juries Create?
July 10	Rachel M. York Examining Moderators of the Hindsight Bias in the Context of Civil Legal Decision-Making: Counterfactuals, Causal Proximity, and Self-Referencing

Master's Theses

	Biological Sciences
May 9	Barbara L. Freeman Genetic Diversity And Population Structure of Non-Indigenous Burmese Pythons (Python molurus bivittatus) In Everglades National Park, Florida
June 26	David Mac Iwaniec Regulation and Organization of Periphyton from the Florida Everglades, U.S.A.
July 11	Meagan M. Dunphy-Daly Temporal variation in dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima) habitat use and group size off Great Abaco Island, The Bahamas
	Chemistry and Biochemistry
June 5	Steven H. Wise Chemical Taggant Detection and Analysis Using Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)
June 12	Rayna L. Hebard Detection and Quantitation of Mitochondrial DNA Polymorphisms in Degraded Hair Samples
July 17	Saritha R Paduru Synthesis of Urocanic Acid Derivatives and Their Reactions with Singlet Oxygen and 4- methyl-1, 2, 4-triazoline-3, 5-dione (MTAD)
	Earth Sciences
July 2	Philip M. Nigro A Rock-Magnetic Study of Coral Skeletons: A Record of African Dust Deposition in the Caribbean?
	Environmental Studies
June 27	Elaine G. Fontes Tracking the Effects of Physical Changes Using Chironomids and Chaoborus from Lake Annie, Florida
	Physics
May 19	En Cai Growth of Uniform Cobalt Nano Magnetic Dots on Titanium Dioxide Surface
July 9	Alejndro de la Puente Kaon Photoproduction of the Proton: Contribution of Higher Angular Momentum and Energy Resonances to the Cross-section and Polarization Asymmetriesthrough an Effective Lagrangian Model
July 9	Brian Beckford Investigation of Particle Identification Methods for the Analysis of the Photoproduction of Neutral Kaons on a Liquid Deuterium Target
July 16	Rajendra Joshi The Effect of Hydrogen Bond, Dipole, and van der Waals Interactions in Protein Folding Simulations
	Psychology
June 16	Mariana E. Carlucci Same Sex Sexual Harassment: Perceptions of Female-Female Sexual Harassment
	Statistics
June 30	Gisela Muniz Comparison of some Ridge Regression Estimators
July 9	Cherylyn Almonte Small Sample Confidence Intervals for the Mean of a Positively Skewed Distribution

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