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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Improving The Engineering Properties Of Pla For 3d Printing And Beyond, Carmen R. Rocha
The Effect of a Fluent Signing Narrator on Children's Behavior During Technology-Enhanced Shared Reading with Children with Hearing Loss and their Parents, Gabriela Itzel Rodriguez
Hagiografía del fuego, Marco Antonio Rodríguez Murillo
Meet Me at the Liberty Tree: Book I, Aaron J. Romano-Meade
Bang For Our Buck: American Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, And Democratic Diffusion, Ricardo A. Romero
"Only steers and queers come from Texas": The Texas Sodomy Statutes and the Making of an Other, 1860-1973, Jecoa Ross
Intrinsic And Metal-Doped Gallium Oxide Based High-Temperature Oxygen Sensors For Combustion Processes, Ernesto Javier Rubio
An Effective And Optimal Quality Control Approach For Green Energy Manufacturing Using Design Of Experiments Framework And Evolutionary Algorithm, Juan Alejandro Saavedra
Becoming Resilient: A Positive Deviance Inquiry into the Resilience of Mexican Immigrant Women, Maria Del Carmen Sajquim De Torres
A Comparison of the 2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults to Clinical Outcomes of a PLMM Intervention among Hispanics, Silvia Salinas-Lopez
A Critical Analysis of the Rhetoric of Education Reform in the United States, Melanie R. Salome
Development and Testing of Oxygen/Methane Torch Igniter Technologies for Propulsion Systems, Luis Eduardo Sanchez
Effects Of Controlled-Whole Body Vibration Training On Reducing Risk Of Falls In People With Multiple Sclerosis, Maria Cristal Sanchez
Nutrition Knowledge Among A Predominantly Hispanic College Population, Heather Sandford
Essays In Accounting And Finance, Sayan Sarkar
Investigation On Pyroelectric Ceramic Temperature Sensors For Energy System Applications, Md Rashedul Hasan Sarker
Cross-language conceptual activation and development through text passages, Karly Meillyn Schleicher
SynThesis Of Neoglycoproteins/neoglycopeptides And Their Immunological Evaluation In The Context Of Chagas Disease, Nathaniel Scott Schocker
Music And What It Is Like: What A Phenomenology Of Perception Tells Us About The Experience Of Music, Chavah Schwartz
Only The Aperture, Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer
Development Of Efficient Simultaneous Confidence Bounds For Linear Mixed Models With Applications In Alcohol Research, Emmanuel Joseph Sequeira
A Stranger in a Strange Land: A School Principal in Transition, Amy Serafini
Identifying Non-Classical Active Sites As A Tool For Enzyme Inhibition, Marisol Serrano
College and Career Readiness:Texas House Bill 5 Reform Realities in a Far-West Texas School District, Tomas Sigala
"We are not the Same"-An Examination of the Relationships Between Mexican Americans and Mexican National on the US-Mexico Border, Angela Jacqueline Silva
Convergence? The Incursion of Technology in the United States - Mexico Remittance Corridor, Sam Wilner Simon
Birth City: Race And Violence In The History Of Childbirth And Midwifery In The El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Borderlands, 1907-2013, Heather Marie Sinclair
Investigation of Lunar Subsurface Cavities using Thermal Inertia and Temperature Maximum to Minimum Ratios, Rachel Ann Slank
Religious Priming and Moral Reasoning as a Manipulation for Supporting Violence, Brandt A. Smith
'Out Vile Jelly': The Consumption of Violence in King Lear and The Winter's Tale, Evan Marie Stapleton
The Gateway Grade: The Ninth Grade Academy Practice In Terms of Student Performance, Adam Robert Starke
The Weightless Machine, Justin David Stone
The Efficacy Of Brief Individual And Group Interventions Among Light And Intermittent Smokers, Beatriz Suro Maldonado
Using Word Embeddings for Text Classification in Positive and Unlabeled Learning, Emmanuel Carlo Tafoya
3-D Structure of Colombia From 1-D Constrained Joint Inversion Of Receiver Functions and Surface Wave Dispersion, Nick Talavera
Fabrication and Testing of CFRP Composites with Embedded Piezoelectric Particles for Temperature Sensing and Energy Harvesting, Emilio Tarango Valles
Predicting The Water Quality Of Shallow Arctic Ponds Using Remote Sensing, Gabriela Tarin
Design optimization of sandwich core, Mohammad Tauhiduzzaman
Computer Technology Implementation In A Mexican Elementary School, Griselda Terrazas
Systems Engineering Approach To Solve Drug Violence Problem, Jagadish Thimiri Mallikarjan
Removal Of Iron, Zinc, And Copper From Waters Impacted By Acid Mine Drainage Using Natural Zeolite, Mackayla Janae Thyfault
Ontology-Driven Integration of Data for Freight Performance Measures, Eduardo J. Torres
Using Zeolite for Soil Moisture Retention and Salinity Control, Mark Torres
Microstructural Investigation Of Vintage Pipeline Steels Highly Susceptible To Stress Corrosion Cracking, Monica Adriana Torres
Social Cues and the Interpretation of Ambiguous Pronouns by Bilingual Speakers, Fabiola Tortajada
Design Of A 500 Lbf Liquid Oxygen And Liquid Methane Rocket Engine For Suborbital Flight, Jesus Eduardo Trillo
Digital Processes and Characterization for Fabricating 3D RF Devices, Harvey Hing Tsang
Determining The Role Of Poly [adp-Ribose] Polymerase 1 (parp-1) In Retroviral Infection, Luis Valdes Rodriguez
The Run, Jose A. Valdez
CdTe Doped With Zn Grown On Si(111) And Si(211) Using The Closed Space Sublimation Method, Jose Alberto Valdez
A Case For Cooperation: How A Binational Agreement Between the U.S. and Mexico Can Alleviate the Rapid Drawdown of the Mesilla and the Hueco Aquifer, William Lynch Vallee
The Spanish-English Bilingual: A Cross-Classfication Comparison Of Maze Use In Children, Jessica Valles
Complex Gleason Measures and The Nemytsky Operator, Miguel Angel Valles
Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Disposition Toward Challenge and its Impact on Teaching Practice, Yirah Mariana Valverde
Gβγ Dependent Modulation of Cytoskeleton and Neurite Outgrowth Involves the PI3K/AKT/GSK-3β Pathway, Jose L. Varela
A Multi-Objective Sustainable Model For Transportation Asset Management Practices, Marketa Vavrova
Computational Modeling of a 60kW Oxy-Methane Direct Power Extraction Combustor, Omar Daniel Vidana
A Rhetorical Theory of Institutions, Paul Jay Vierra
Entering The World Of University: The Literacies And Indentities Of Latino/a Youth In Their Transitions From High School To College, Luciene Soares Wandermurem
Study of NO2 Photolysis Rate Coefficients for the Paso Del Norte Region, Pema Wangchuk
Pre-tuned Principal Component Regression and Several Variants, Pei Wang
Video Composition: Tracing Multimodal Assemblages, Zachary Aaron Warzecka
The Flipped Approach: The Use of Embedded Questions in Math Videos, Ashley Wilson
"It's (not) your fault": The influence of blame mitigation versus guilt induction on true and false confessions, Skye Woestehoff
Three Essays On Big Data Analytics, Traditional Marketing Analytics, Knowledge Discovery, And New Product Performance, Zhenning Xu
Bioavailability Of Metal/Metal Oxide Nanomaterials And Their Effects On The Physiology Of Plants, Nubia Zuverza Mena
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Piecing Elections Together In The 21st Century: Social Media, Outreach Strategies, & Community Engagement, Joshua Acevedo
The Effects of Sign on Speech Segmentation in Infants, Alma Rosa Acosta
Design Optimization And Optical Characterization Of A High Temperature Solar Receiver, Samia Afrin
Spectral Radiation Analysis Of Premixed Oxy-Syngas And Oxy-Methane Flames, Naznin Jahan Afrose
Lithospheric Structure And Stress Field Orientations In The Northern Libya And East-Central Mediterranean Region, Abdusalam Ali Agail
A Comparative Assessment Of Electrophysiological And Behavioral Performance In Individuals With Aphasia Responding To Spoken And Written Sentence Length Commands, Sha-Renae Alexander
Monolingual and Bilingual Intervention Outcomes in a Bilingual Child with Autism, Victoria Alexander
Dynamic Triggering In The Coso Geothermal Field, 2004-2013, Richard A. Alfaro-Diaz
Reinterpretation Of The Mesozoic Thrust Complex Of The Southern Spring Mountains, Nevada, Warren Harding Allen
Comparison of Blood Lead Levels Between Children in an Urban Setting and Children in a Rural Setting, Juan Manuel Alvarez
Acoustic Emission Characteristics Of Damage Accumulation In Kevlar® 49 Composites, Eduardo Andrade
Monitoring And Understanding Decadal Scale Changes In Hydrology, Productivity And Carbon Balance In Arctic Tundra Ponds, Christian Gerardo Andresen
Faculty and Student Interactions at the Community College: An Examination of the Interaction Order, Amber Archuleta-Lucero
Acculturation, Psychological Distress, and Smoking in Latinos Living With HIV/AIDS, Jessica Armendariz
Three Essays On Global Ict Phenomenon: Productivity Paradox, Organizational Ict Use, And Privacy In Social Networks, Faruk Arslan
Challenges in Assessing College Students' Conception of Duality: The Case of Infinity, Grace Olutayo Babarinsa-Ochiedike
Versatility Of N-Peptidyl And N-Glycopeptidyl Nitroindolines For The Formation Of Peptide/Glycopeptide Acids, Amides, And Thioesters, Luis Alfonso Barrera
Restraint Stress Alters Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Expression And Increases Superoxide Dismutase In The Rat Hypothalamus And Hippocampus, Kristina Isabel Barron
Associativity Forcing Commutativity in Left Nil Rings, Md Al Masum Bhuiyan
Anything You Might Do, Elena Christine Bitner
Examining the Effects of Political Trust, Attribution of Responsibility, and Media Framing on Public Support for Outside Intervention in the Mexican Drug War, Rodrigo Alberto Borunda
The Sweet Taste Of Health: A Positive Deviance Inquiry Into Communicative Acts That Lead To Effective Management Of Diabetes Among Hispanics, Claudia Martinez Boyd
Virtual Rapport with Extraverted Agents, Jacqueline Brixey
Salt and Mineral Recovery from High Salinity Waters, Osvaldo Alejandro Broesicke
Cautery, Aaron Brossiet
Evaluating Methods Of Field-Based 3D Visualization And Their Application To Mapping Metamorphic Terranes: An Example From The Panamint Mountains, California, Jade Ashley Brush
Pathways to the Superintendency: Case Studies of Hispanic Superintendents in Texas, Sandra Calzada
Evaluation Of Point Of Use Drinking Water Treatment Systems For Colonias In The Southwest United States, Isaac Campos Flores
Forecasting Water Demand in Phoenix, Juan Pedro Cardenas
Investigation Of The Natural Degradation Of Selected Endocrine Disrupting Compounds In Wastewater, Toni Carrick
Health And Stress Symptoms In University Professors And Their Relationship With The Process Of Obtaining A Permanent Position, Irene Concepcion Carrillo-Saucedo
Aerosol Physical and Chemical Properties over Tropical Atlantic Ocean, Elsa Castillo
Ethnic Disparities in the Reproductive and Sexual Health Screening Practices of Ecuadorian Women, Ruth Castillo