Theses/Dissertations from 2010

William Averitt's "Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to St. Matthew": An Analysis with Conducting Considerations, Jennifer J. Adam

Experimental Study of Tire Inner Liner, Jon-Michael Adkins

Modes of Feeding and Eczema in Infancy, Saroochi Agarwal

Analysis of Electrode Geometric Parameters on AC Impedance Response, Md. Riaz Uddin Ahmed

The Internet as a Participatory Medium: An Analysis of the Eksi Sozluk Website as a Public Sphere, Hatice Akca

The Spectator, Adam Smith, and the Evolution of Fictionality in Eighteenth-century England, Kyle C. Alexander

Extending Space-Time Putative Hazard Models to Detect Latent Risk Features, Ahmed Yahya Al-Hadhrami

Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Copper Nanowires on Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop for a Single Phase Microchannel Heat Sink, Muhammad Yakut Ali

Efficient Identification and Control Methods for Nonlinear Systems Under Uncertainty, Timur Aliyev

A Causal-Comparative Model for the Examination of the Relationship of Middle School Level Instructional Scheduling and Social Studies Achievement, Audrey C. Allan

Engaging Men in Violence Prevention: Empirically Examining Theoretical Barriers and Catalysts, Christopher T. Allen

Seeing History in a Wilderness Landscape: Valuing Cultural Resources During the Establishment of Congaree National Park, South Carolina, Elizabeth J. Almlie

The Business of Education: Organizational Capacity in School Districts, Cynthia Leanne Alsip

Field Observations and Numerical Simulations of Groundwater Dynamics Within Cabretta Island, a Georgia Barrier Island, Joseph Landon Anderson

Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer Composite Materials for Lithium Battery Cathodes and Capacitors, Yogesh Kumar Anguchamy

A Dual-Factor Model of Mental Health: Understanding Student Engagement and School Performance Using a Person-Centered Approach, Susan Antaramian

Una Mirada a Través de los Ojos del Exilio de Francisco Ayala y Max Aub, Carolina Arias

African Self-Consciousness and Academic Outcomes Among African-American Students at a Predominantly White University: An Examination of the Mediating Role of Social Support, David Dei Asiamah

Commitment-Based Multiagent Decision Making, Viji Raghu Avali

Sediment Supply Effects on the Plio-Pleistocene Stratigraphic Evolution of the Douala Basin, West Africa, Jose M. Bacale

Testing the Utility of S Receiver Function Analysis for Mapping Seismic Discontinuities in the Sierran Lithosphere, Nickles Bernard Badger

On a Conjecture of Pal Turan and Investigations into Galois Groups of Generalized Laguerre Polynomials, Pradipto Banerjee

Clustering Analysis of Zernike Coefficients from High Order Aberration Patients, Weichao Bao

Synthesis and Characterization of Mixed-Metal Phosphonates for Polymer Dielectric Composite Materials, Arthur Peter Barber III

Acoustic Emission Techniques and Cyclic Load Testing for Integrity Evaluation of Self-Compacting Normal and Self-Compacting Lightweight Prestressed Concrete Girders, Francisco Alejandro Barrios

Mechanisms in the Water Vapor Hydrolysis of Sodium Borohydride, Amy Mathis Beaird

An Analysis of Nuclear Power's Potential Viability as a Transition Energy Technology in South Carolina, Joshua Berry

Molecular Evolution of Viruses, Priyasma Bhoumik

Re-Defining Public Service in an Era of Networked Governance: An Examination of the Influence of Public Service Motivation on Contractors in Homeland Security, Alexa Haddock Bigwarfe

Robustness of Novelty Preference for a Motion-Based One-Trial Object Recognition Task in Male and Female Adolescent Rats, William Lewis Blackmon

On the Finite Axiomatizability of Equational Theories of Automatic Algebras, John Boozer

The Role of FTO-Gene in Adiposity and Insulin Resistance: Interaction with Diet and Physical Activity, Andrey Bortsov

The Family as the New Collectivity of Belonging in the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sarbani Bose

The Ripple Effect: The Implications of Shootings at Institutions of Higher Education, Lauren Rose Bosselait

"Casualty of Progress": The Ward One Community and Urban Renewal, Columbia, South Carolina, 1964-1974, Ashley Nichole Bouknight

Characterizing Factors that Influence Intracellular Thiol-Disulfide Equilibrium, Samantha Diane Bouldin

Hampton Plantation: Interpreting Slavery in South Carolina, Amanda Bowman

Public School Arts Classes and Academic Achievement: A Study of the Relationship Between Middle School Outcome Measures and the Extent to Which Students Engage in Art Courses, James Joseph Braunreuther

"A More Perfect Indian Wisdom": Transcultural Exchange in the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, Jessie Nichole Bray

Beyond the Objectivity of Sexual Consent: Toward Rhetorical Expressions of Negotiation, Larissa Amber Brian

Bridging the Modeling-Sampling Gap for Mid-infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy of Small Particles, Films, and Fibers, Heather Brooke

Pathways to Power: Physicians in Charleston, South Carolina, 1790-1860, David Scott Brown

Intergenerational Patterns of Sexual Risk Among Adolescents and Their Mothers, Porschia Valenza Brown

Elegant Complexity: The Presence of Cold War Game Theory in Postmodern American Fiction, Jeremey Edward Cagle

Todor Popov: A Historiography and a Conductor's Analysis of His Choral Cycles, Matthew Thomas Caine

How Far Is Home: A Novella and Short Stories, Robin Caine

The Art of Self-Making: American Modernist Fiction and the Performances of Identity and Authorship, Kenneth Michael Camacho

New Approaches in Hydrogeophysical Model Predictions: Case Studies from the P Reactor Area, Savannah River Site, South Carolina, Antonio Cameron

An Investigation of Achievement Goals and Time Perspective in Community College Students Engaged in a First-Year Experience Course, Darrin Grey Campen

Investigations of the Non-Covalent Interactions of Arenes Using Phencyclone Based Molecular Torsion Balances, William R. Carroll

Retrospective Practice Histories of Expert and Novice Baseball Pitchers, Robert M. Cathey

Assessment and Identification of Deliberate Self-Harm in the Adolescent and Young Adult Patient in the Primary Care Population, Courtney Brooks Catledge

Examining Social Studies Teachers' Cultural Competence in a South Carolina Suburban Public High School, Stephanie Lewis Catoe

Kate Brew Vaughn: Marketing Domestic Expertise, Ruth Lai Yee Chan

The Endowment Effect: A Self-Enhancement Perspective, Promothesh Chatterjee

The Power and Authority of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Aleksandra Chauhan

Structural and Morphological Analyses of AlN and AlGaN Layers, Hung Chi Chen

Physical Modeling of Silicon Carbide Power Junction Field Effect Transistor and Model Levels for Semiconductor Devices, Zhiyang Chen

An Assessment of the Perceptions, Level of Involvement, and Needs of User-Groups for Marine Protected Areas in the Carolinas, Shilpi Chhotray

Examining Community Integration Among Persons with Serious Mental Illnesses Residing in Supported Housing via the Capabilities Approach, Victoria Ho Chien

Does Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Affect Conflict? The Intertwined Relationship Between Multinational Corporations (MNCS) and Nation-States, Yi-Hung Chiou

Theft, Phil Christman

Alumni Association Membership Levels at Public Universities: A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Alumni Association and Institutional Characteristics, Andrew P. Christopherson

A Best Practice Guideline for Screening and Treating Vitamin D Deficiency in a Primary Care Setting: Moving Beyond the Bones, Amy Jeanette Clark

Providing for Our Communities, Protecting Our Race, Proving Ourselves: African American Activism and Protest in Depression Era New Orleans, Michele Grigsby Coffey

The Neural Correlates of Spatial Language, Julie A. Conder

Best Faculty Practice Plan Model for a Small College of Nursing, Sharyn Neiman Conrad

Lexical and Sublexical Characteristics of Words Produced Disfluently by Adults Who Stutter, Chelsea Contini

Microwave Beam Diagnostic of Laser-Induced Plasmas, Ardis Copenhaver

The Assimilation of Glucose by Phytoplankton: A Potentially Common Adaptation Under Multiple Irradiance and Field Conditions, Bridget Elise Cotti-Rausch

John Donne's Misogyny, Richard Crandall

Factors Affecting Pregnancy Weight Gain in African American Women, Mary Cregger

Structural Health Monitoring of Adhesively Bonded Joints with Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors, Adrian Cuc

The Relationship Between Sports Participation and Adolescent Obesity, Wright Culpepper

Investigation of Resonant Enhanced Multiphoton Ionization of Solid State High Explosives With Laser Ablation, Maria Augustina Damian

Transition of Health Care for Adolescent Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type I: Parent Perspectives, Leigh Davidson

Diazotroph Assemblages of Salt Marsh Plants Growing Along an Environmental Gradient: Assemblage Composition and Responses to Environmental Conditions, Debra Aline Davis

Exploring Third Grader Students' Perceptions of School Success, Kimberly Lane Deering

Do Baseline Language Impairment Measures Predict Anomia Treatment Outcome?, Rebekah Dianne Degarmo

Marital Attitudes of Never Married Black Women, Kendra Pili DeLoach

Counterinsurgency Colonels: The Role of the Practitioner in the Evolution of Modern Counterinsurgency, Garrett Scott DeWitt

Legislating Effective Equality: Implicit Biases and Antidiscrimination Policies, Lisa Michelle Dilks

A Qualitative Analysis of the Etiology, Manifestation, and Institutional Responses to Self-Injurious Behaviors in Prison, Steven Doty

Carbon Dioxide Capture with K-Promoted HTLC at High Temperature, Hai Du

Gender Differences in Cardiomyocyte Remodeling and Adhesion in Response to Chronic Elevations in Myocardial Stress, Yan Du

Presidential Executive Orders and Energy Conservation in the United States Federal Government: An Analysis of Conservation Methodologies in a Department of Defense Naval Hospital, Onanwa Nneka Egbue

Affirmation and "Make It New": Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Great Dictum of Modernism, Jonathan Daniel Elmore

The Road to the New South: South Carolina and the Debate over I-95, Mark Thomas Evans

A White Slave in America: Hiram Powers's Greek Slave and the Cultural Construction of Race, Beth Fadeley

Faculty Senators and Their Knowledge and Perceptions of the Governance of Intercollegiate Athletics: The Case of the Southeastern Conference, Amber Christine Fallucca

Impact of a Primary Care-Based Organ Donation Practice Initiative on Individual Willingness to Donate, Cyndi B. Faudree

Implementing Response to Intervention: Use of Innovation Configuration Maps Within a Multiple-Case Study Analysis, Sheara Dinushi Fernando

Los Hijos del Rey Benkos: Afro-Colombian Appropriation of a Historic Palenquero Identity and its Legacy for Community Mobilization, Genesis Dieveche Francis

The Futility of Conformity: The Danger of Gender Constructs in the Sound and the Fury, Ula Gabrielle Gaha

Decision Making Process of Campus Administrators in Building LEED Residence Halls, Tyler Stephen Gailey

Bayesian Measurement Error Modeling, Jianjun Gan

Substance Abuse Treatment Avoidance, Length of Stay, and Criminal Justice Referral for Women of Reproductive Age in South Carolina Prior to and After the Whitner Decision (1993 to 2007), Sarah J. Gareau

Bridging the Gap Between the Reality and the Myth of the American South: Three Authors' Efforts to Recover the Religious South, William Watts Garland

The Overt Pronoun Penalty: A Processing Delay in Spanish Anaphora Comprehension, Carlos Gelormini Lezama

Incorporating the White Shadow: The Destructive Masculinities of Richard Wright, Steven Michael Gleeson