Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Investigation of Amphoteric Materials for Treatment of Heavy Metals in Storm Water., Dingfang Liu
Synthesis of Water-Soluble Quaternary Ammonium Chitosan Derivatives and Their Potential Applications as Biocides., Dewayne Logan
Show Me the Money: an Analysis of the Impact of Voter Recognition on the Campaign Spending Effects of House and Senate Candidates., Nicholas Chad Long
Analysis of Hydrocarbon Materials by Use of Nonpolar Matrices in Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-MS)., Stephen Francis Macha
Photoemission and Photo-Absorption Studies of Ultrathin Iron Films on Copper(100) Oxidized at Elevated Temperature., Reginaldt Hamilton Madjoe
The Valuation Effects of Initiations and Terminations of Joint Ventures., Tomas Mantecon prieto
A Hierarchical Shape Representation by Convexities and Concavities and Its Application to Shape Matching., Gustavo Martinez
Predicting Short -Term Violence Among Forensic Inpatients., Mac Marcantel Martin
The Relationship Between Water Vapor and Hurricane Track Using the GOES-8 Satellite., Melvin Francis Martin Jr
Molecular Systematics of Eastern Cottonwood Using AFLP and RAPD Markers., Xiaohong Ma
Say What? Topics, Signs, and Signification in African-American Music., Horace Joseph Maxile Jr
From the Shadow of Reagan: George Bush and the End of the Cold War., Christopher Alan Maynard
The Emergence of Lay Ecclesial Youth Ministry as a Profession Within the Roman Catholic Church., Charlotte Faye Mccorquodale
Evaluating the Taxonomic Status of the Great White Heron (Ardea Herodias Occidentalis) Using Morphological, Behavioral and Genetic Evidence., Heather Louise Mcguire
Analytical Method Development and the Study of Inhibitors for the GDP -Mannose 4,6 -Dehydratase Enzyme Involved in GDP -Fucose Synthesis Pathway., Marianne Lynette Mckee
An Exploratory Study of the Influence of National and State Standards on Middle School Science Teachers' Classroom Assessment Practices., Kathy Jean Mcwaters
Diets of Wild Versus Released, and Pen-Raised White-Tailed Deer in Southeastern Louisiana, Richard James Meyers
Epidemiology of Salmonella in the Green Iguana (Iguana Iguana)., Mark Anthony Mitchell
Effective Lobbying Strategies for Higher Education in State Legislatures as Perceived by Government Relations Officers., Ellen Prothro Murphy
Systematics of Neotropical Satyrine Butterflies (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Euptychiina) Based on Larval Morphology and DNA Sequence Data and the Evolution of Life History Traits., Debra Lynne Murray
Wavelet Analysis and Classification of Urban Environment Using High -Resolution Multispectral Image Data., Soe Win Myint
Modified Mesoporous Silicates for Metal Adsorption., Allison Majorie Naquin
Sources and Types of Formal and Informal Assistance: Patterns Among Louisiana's Welfare Population., Alison Kay Neustrom
Worldly Rites: The Social and Political Significance of Religious Services in Louisiana, 1803--1865., Julia Huston Nguyen
Ways of Incorporating Photographic Images in Learning and Assessing High School Biology: a Study of Visual Perception and Visual Cognition., Brenda Chaumont Nixon
Pyrrole -Terminated Dendrimers for Use in Polymerizable Monolayers and Guest Encapsulation Systems., Charles Oakley Noble IV
A Dynamic Econometric Model for the United States Rice Market., Sung Chul No
Teacher Personal and School Culture Characteristics in Effective Schools: Toward a Model of a Professional Learning Community., Dianne Fuselier Olivier
The Anxious *Double: Twins in Plays of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s., Shellie Kaye O'neal
A World of Deference: Paradoxes of Victorian Paternalism in John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, and John Stuart Mill., Peter Mitchell O'neill
Sexual Profanity and Interpersonal Judgement., Robert Paul O'neil
Densities of 4-Ranks of K(2) of Rings of Integers., Robert Burke Osburn
I Won't Be Blue Always: Music as *Past in August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", "The Piano Lesson" and "Fences"., Yolanda Williams Page
Investigation of Heat Transfer Enhancement in Conceptual Two-pass Channels for Gas Turbine Internal Cooling, Gautam Pamula
Appalachia on Stage: the *Southern Mountaineer in American Drama., Laura Grace Pattillo
Caught in the Middle: the Construction, Expression, and Transformation of Identity Among Haitian Youth in Montreal., Earl Floyd scooter Pegram
The Role of Immunity in Resistance of Gulf Coast Native Sheep to Haemonchus Contortus Infection., Maria Teresa Pena
Translating Exile in Panait Istrati's "Mes Departs", Samuel Beckett's "Fin De Partie" and Selected Poems by Paul Celan., Ina Alice Pfitzner
Characteristics and Use of Thin Metals on Modified Glass Substrates., Sonya Latrice caston Pierre
Perceptions of Work Ethic Among College Seniors., Patricia Nolen Pierson
Neuropsychological Effects of Acute Mustard Gas Exposure., James Bryon Pinkston
Effects of Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitors on Equine and Bovine Follicular Dynamics and Steroidogenesis., Carlos Roberto fontes Pinto
Benthic Foraminifera in Two Stressed Environments of the Northern Gulf of Mexico., Emil Platon
Shell Model Description of Normal Parity Bands in Heavy Deformed Nuclei., Gabriela Popa
Breaking the Silence: Toward an Understanding of Speaking Up in the Workplace., Sonya Fontenot Premeaux
Girls Who Would Be Gods: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath., Anna Lynn Priddy
The Valuation Effects of Initiations and Terminations of Joint Ventures, Tomas Mantecon Prieto
Cultural Preservation in the Romansh Landscape: a Geography of the Swiss -Romansh Movement., Erik George Prout
Middle School Students' Understanding of the Natural History of the Earth and Life on Earth as a Function of Deep Time., Azalie Cecile Pulling
Compression of Three-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Brain Images., Xiaojun Qi
Soil Management in Two Highland Guatemalan Municipios: Local Perspectives on the Management and Degradation of Soil Resources., Steven James Rainey
Lipopolysaccharide Receptor, Toll -Like Receptor 4, Mediated Signaling Pathways Leading to Cyclooxygenase-2 Expression in Murine Macrophages., Sang Hoon Rhee
Campus Responsibility for Alcohol -Related Injuries: a Law and Policy Analysis., Nathan Mccain Roberts
The Effect of Calcium Silicate on Rice Yield and Sheath Blight Disease., Chris Raymond Robichaux
Toward a Reconceptualization of the Integration of Culture and Language in the Korean EFL Classroom., Seung Bin Roh
Physicochemical, Functional and Spectroscopic Analysis of Crawfish Chitin and Chitosan as Affected by Process Modification., Sandeep Kumar Rout
Synthesis of Phosphonopeptides and Alpha, Alpha-Dialkylated Amino Acid-Rich Peptides., Sheila Denise Rushing
Measurement of Bottom Quark Production in Two -Photon Collisions., Sepehr Saremi
Production, Process Design and Quality Characterization of Catfish Visceral Oil., Subramaniam Sathivel
A Drifter Study of Advection, Deformations, and Patch Variances With Application to Larval Transport and Dispersal in Barataria Bay, Louisiana., Terry L. Schaefer
Space Geodetic Constraints on Plate Rigidity and Global Plate Motions., Giovanni Federico Sella
Learning to Teach in a Virtual Environment: a Case Study of the Louisiana Virtual Classroom Teachers., Rachel Geralyn Sellers
Understanding the Connections Between High-Stakes Test Consequences and School Literacy Experiences., Deborah Karen Setliff
Material Properties and Characteristics for Development of an Expert System for Coal -Tar Sealers., James Edwin Shoenberger
Oral Poetry in a Literate Culture: a Performance Ethnography of Poetry Slams., Ramon Lavelle Sibley Jr
Cytopathology, Detection, and Identification of Viruses Infecting Sweetpotato., Jeonggu Sim
Improved Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Linear Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry of Oligonucleotides and Nucleic Acids via Matrix Additives and Sample Preparatory Technique., Tracey Arlene Simmons
"A New Town Will Appear on Charleston Neck": North Charleston and the Creation of the New South Garden City., Dean Thrift Sinclair
Mapping by Cooperative Mobile Robots., Thomas Oliver Smailus
Teacher Efficacy, Administrator Efficacy, School Culture, and Leadership Density., Roy Wade Smith
Faculty Perceptions of Communication Effectiveness in the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service., Sally Maureen Soileau
The Perceived Influence of Selected Factors on the Decision of Louisiana 4-H Teens and Non-4-H Teens to Volunteer., Kenneth Spoto
Self -Efficacy and Human Caring Correlates of Child Welfare Caseworker Performance in the Juvenile Courts., Sue Duvall Steib
Differential Modes of External Change Agent Support in Diffusion of Innovation., Janet Gibson Stevens
Embracing the Void: Nietzsche's "Zarathustra" and the Political., James Daniel Stewart
Theatre at Caffe Cino: the Aesthetics and Politics of Revolt, 1958--1968., Wendell Corbin Stone
Isolation and Characterization of a Rhodobacter Capsulatus hemC Mutant., Karen Coleman Sullivan
Women and the Law of Property Under Louisiana Civil Law, 1782--1835., Sara Jane brooks Sundberg
Neither Natchez Nor Tara: an Environmental Historial Geography of the Upper Pearl River Basin of Mississippi, Protohistoric Period to 1940., Frederick William Sunderman
Medical Image Set Compression Using Wavelet and Lifting Combined With New Scanning Techniques., Rahman Tashakkori
Systemic and Colonic Hemodynamic and Vasomotor Responses to Adenosine Triphosphate in Horses., Joanne Tetens
Writing the Beloved Community: Integrated Narratives in Six Contemporary American Novels About the Civil Rights Movement., Paul Tewkesbury III
Social Support and the Prevalence of Depressive and Anxiety Disorders in Low -Income Adults With Type 2 Diabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses., Janet Leigh Thomas
Post -Displacement Employment in a Rural Community: Why Can't Women and Oil Mix?, Linda Anderson Tobin
Patterns of Reef Fish Larval Supply to Petroleum Platforms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico., James Marvin Tolan
Estimation of Oceanic Surface Velocity Vector Fields Using Multiresolution., Guillermo Tonsmann
The Russian Orthodox Church as a Symbol of Right Order: a Voegelinian Analysis., Lee David Trepanier
Catharine Maria Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie": Clues to a Woman's Journey., Sally Mcmillan Tyler
William Albright's Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano: Analytical Insights and Performance Considerations., Brian Russell Utley
Comparison of Four Screening Procedures for Identifying Students for Special Education: Validation of Problem Validation Screening., Amanda Mathany Vanderheyden
Red Morningglory (Ipomoea Coccinea L.) and Sugarcane Response to Soil-Applied Herbicides., Blaine Joseph Viator
Numerical Simulations of Incompressible Flows in Complex Geometries., Konstantinos Vogiatzis
Two Splice Variants of Nopp140 in Drosophila Melanogaster., John Mark Waggener
Economic Consequences of Caregiving to the Elderly on Women's Lives., Chizuko Wakabayashi
On K-Conjugacy Classes of Maximal Tori in Semi-Simple Algebraic Groups., Uroyoan Ramon-emeterio Walker
The Call From the Stranger on a Journey Home: Curriculum as Creative Transformation of Selfhood., Hongyu Wang
Control of Supply Chain Systems by Kanban Mechanism., Shaojun Wang