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Dissertations from 2012
Sleep Disturbances in Alzheimer's Disease and Caregiver Mood: A Diary Study, Anna Maria Katarina Akerstedt, Psychology
The Guerilla Tongue": The Politics of Resistance in Puerto Rican Poetry, Natasha Azank, English
Knowledge, Gender, and Production Relations in India's Informal Economy, Amit Basole, Economics
Woodrow Wilson's Conversion Experience: The President and the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment, Beth Behn, History
Controlling Morphology in Swelling-Induced Wrinkled Surfaces, Derek Breid, Polymer Science and Engineering
A Comprehensive Model of Human Neuromuscular Function During Repeated Isometric Contractions: Predicting the Effect of Age on Fatigue, Damien Mark Callahan, Kinesiology
Decision-Theoretic Meta-reasoning in Partially Observable and Decentralized Settings, Alan Scott Carlin, Computer Science
Functional Polymers for Anhydrous Proton Transport, Nagamani Chikkannagari, Chemistry
Self-Knowledge in a Natural World, Jeremy Cushing, Philosophy
The Intersectionality of Race, Adoption and Parenting: How White Adoptive pPrents of Asian Born Children Talk About Race Within the Family, Janette Hollowood Dolan, Education (also CAGS)
Syntax-Prosody Interactions in Irish, Emily Elfner, Linguistics
The Theory of Compromised Eating Behavior, Ellen Frances Furman, Nursing
Maternal and Fetal Factors Associated with Labor and Delivery Complications, Prasad L. Gawade, Public Health
Production of Third Spaces for Immigrant English Language Learners: (Re)Negotiating Identity and Discourse in the Secondary Classroom, Andrew W. Habana Hafner, Education (also CAGS)
Real-Time Information and Correlations for Optimal Routing in Stochastic Networks, He Huang, Civil Engineering
Expository and Narrative Discourse in Adolescents with Reading and Language Impairments: Assessment and Intervention, Beverly Iuliano, Communication Disorders
Acceleration of CFD and Data Analysis Using Graphics Processors, Ali Khajeh Saeed, Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Surface Functionality of Gold Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Applications, Chaekyu Kim, Chemistry
Counterpossibles, Barak Krakauer, Philosophy
An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Item Parameters on IRT Information Functions in Mixed Format Tests, Wai Yan Wendy Lam, Education (also CAGS)
Kinetically Trapping Co-continuous Morphologies in Polymer Blends and Composites, Le Li, Polymer Science and Engineering
Citizenship in Times of Exception: The Turn to Security and the Politics of Human Rights in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, Erika Marquez Montano, Sociology
Topic Regression, David Mimno, Computer Science
Morphology and Development of Droplet Deformation Under Flow Within Microfluidic Devices, Molly Katlin Mulligan, Mechanical Engineering
A Minskian Approach to Financial Crises with a Behavioural Twist: A Reappraisal of the 2000-2001 Financial Crisis in Turkey, Mathieu Perron-Dufour, Economics
Design of Hybrid Conjugated Polymer Materials: 1) Novel Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Semiconductors and 2) Surface Modification Via Grafting Approaches, Joseph J. Peterson, Polymer Science and Engineering
Agriculture and Class: Contradictions of Midwestern Family Farms Across the Twentieth Century, Elizabeth Ann Ramey, Economics
Adaptations to Stride Patterns and Head Movements During Walking in Persons With and Without Multiple Sclerosis, Jebb Grigory Remelius, Kinesiology
The Aerodynamics and Near Wake of an Offshore Floating Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine, Thomas Sebastian, Mechanical Engineering
They Chose to Major in Engineering: A Study of Why Women Enter and Persist in Undergraduate Engineering Programs, Adrienne Yvette Smith, Education (also CAGS)
Beaver Dams Maintain Native Fish Biodiversity Via Altered Habitat Heterogeneity in a Coastal Stream Network: Evaluating Gear, Quantifying Fish Assemblages, and Testing Ecological Hypotheses, Joseph Michael Smith, Marine Sciences and Technology
Microtechnologies for Mimicking Tumor-Imposed Transport Limitations and Developing Targeted Cancer Therapies, Bhushan Jayant Toley, Chemical Engineering
Modeling the Free Energy Functional at the Fluid-Solid Transition in Classical Many-Particle Systems, Anurag Verma, Chemical Engineering
Organic Materials as Templates for the Formation of Mesoporous Inorganic Materials and Ordered Inorganic Nanocomposites, Christopher Ryan Ziegler, Polymer Science and Engineering
Remaking the Political in Fortress Europe: Political Practice and Cultural Citizenship in Italian Social Centers, Angelina Ione Zontine, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2011
State Hegemony and Sustainable Development: A Political Economy Analysis of Two Local Experiences in Turkey, Bengi Akbulut, Economics
Automated Negotiation for Complex Multi-Agent Resource Allocation, Bo An, Computer Science
Quantification, misc., Jan Anderssen, Linguistics
The Role of Bacteriocins in Mediating Interactions of Bacterial Isolates from Cystic Fibrosis Patients, Emine Suphan Bakkal, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Lacustrine Records of Holocene Climate and Environmental Change from the Lofoten Islands, Norway, Nicholas L. Balascio, Geosciences
Architecting Protocols to Enable Mobile Applications in Diverse Wireless Networks, Aruna Balasubramanian, Computer Science
Query-Dependent Selection of Retrieval Alternatives, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Computer Science
Social Meanings of Mortality: The Language of Death and Disease in 19th Century Massachusetts, Jeffrey Keith Beemer, Sociology
Attentional Cues During Speech Perception, Lori Astheimer Best, Neuroscience and Behavior
Pyrrhonian and Naturalistic Themes in the Final Writings of Wittgenstein, Indrani Bhattacharjee, Philosophy
Effect of Side Chains on Organic Donor (D) and Acceptor (A) Complexes and Photophysical Properties of D-A Dyads, Amarnath Bheemaraju, Chemistry
Reading Landscape: Mid-Century Modernism and the Landscape Idea, Jeffrey David Blankenship, Geosciences
Fifth-Grade Students' Tactical Understanding, Decision-Making and Transfer of Knowledge in a Tactical Games Model Net/Wall Sampling Unit, Heidi Renee Bohler, Education (also CAGS)
The Role of Prompts as Focus on Form on Uptake, Brian Bates Boisvert, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
A Question of Comfort: Race, Whiteness, and the Creation of Diverse, Inclusive, and Engaged Learning Environments, H. Elizabeth Braun, Anthropology
Armillaria in Massachusetts Forests: Ecology, Species Distribution, and Population Structure, with an Emphasis on Mixed Oak Forests, Nicholas Justin Brazee, Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences
Reclaiming America for Christian Reconstruction: The Rhetorical Constitution of a "People", Joanna L. Brook, Communication
Mitochondrial DNA Polymerase IB: Functional Characterization of a Putative Drug Target for African Sleeping Sickness, David F. Bruhn, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Adaptive Balancing of Exploitation with Exploration to Improve Protein Structure Prediction, TJ Brunette, Computer Science
It's Nothing Personal: Competing Discourses for Girls and Women in Mathematics, Shannon Dawn Bryant, Education (also CAGS)
Community Colleges and the Pursuit of Larger Grants: Strategies for Success, Steven George Budd, Education (also CAGS)
Phase Behavior of Block Copolymers in Compressed CO2 and as Single Domain-Layer, Nanolithographic Etch Resists For Sub-10 nm Pattern Transfer, Curran Matthew Chandler, Polymer Science and Engineering
Avian Ecology and Conservation in Tropical Agricultural Landscapes with Emphasis on Vermivora Chrysoptera, Richard Brooks Chandler, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
Movin' & Groovin' Salamanders: Conservation Implications of Large Scales and Quirky Sex, Noah D. Charney, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Improving Processes Using Static Analysis Techniques, Bin Chen, Computer Science
Organic Photovoltaics Based on P3HT/PCBM: Correlating Efficiency and Morphology, Dian Chen, Polymer Science and Engineering
Micronutrient Intake and Premenstrual Syndrome, Patricia O. Chocano-Bedoya, Public Health
Electrostatic Effects in Aggregation of Crystallin Proteins, Deniz Elizabeth Civay, Polymer Science and Engineering
Investigation of a Sulfur-Utilizing Perchlorate-Reducing Bacterial Consortium, Teresa Anne Conneely, Microbiology
Computational Affect Detection for Education and Health, David G. Cooper, Computer Science
The Phylogeography of Marstonia Lustrica: Understanding the Relationship Between Glaciation and the Evolution and Distribution of a Rare Snail, Thomas W. Coote, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
Subjects of Scale / Spaces of Possibility: Producing Co-operative Space in Theory and Enterprise, Janelle Terese Cornwell, Geosciences
Identity and the Limits of Possibility, Sam Cowling, Philosophy
Role of Strongly Interacting Additives in Tuning the Structure and Properties of Polymer Systems, Vikram Kumard Daga, Chemical Engineering
Constraining Interpretation: Sentence Final Particles in Japanese, Christopher M. Davis, Linguistics
"Whether Writers Themselves Have Been Changed": A Test of the Values Driving Writing Center Work, Michelle Deal, English
Attention to television in preschoolers who exhibit ADHD symptoms: an ERP investigation, Lindsay B. Demers, Psychology
Evaluating IRT- and CTT-based Methods of Estimating Classification Consistency and Accuracy Indices from Single Administrations, Nina Deng, Education (also CAGS)
Aspects of Network Formation and Property Evolution in Glassy Polymer Networks, Andrew Thomas Detwiler, Polymer Science and Engineering
Reading First/Bay State Reading Initiative: Public vs. Private Implementation-Which Produces the Best Results?, Marlene A. Di Leo, Education (also CAGS)
Infrared and X-ray Studies of the Galactic Center, Hui Dong, Astronomy
Financial Literacy and Women: Overcoming the Barriers, Melissa A. Donohue, Education (also CAGS)
Generalized Expectation Criteria for Lightly Supervised Learning, Gregory Druck, Computer Science
Binary ROCs and Their Implications for the Measurement of Memory, Chad Dube, Psychology
Tree-Based Methods and a Mixed Ridge Estimator for Analyzing Longitudinal Data With Correlated Predictors, Melissa Nicole Eliot, Biology
Writing the Local-Global: An Ethnography of Friction and Negotiation in an English-Using Indonesian Ph.D. Program, Amber Engelson, English
Measurements of Gravity Driven Granular Channel Flows, Kevin Facto, Physics
Unintended Consequences of Lowering Disclosure Thresholds: Proposed Changes to SFAS No. 5, Kirsten Fanning, Management
Developing an Efficient Cover Cropping System for Maximum Nitrogen Recovery in Massachusetts, Ali Farsad, Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences
Three Essays on Hedge Fund Fee Structure, Return Smoothing and Gross Performance, Shuang Feng, Management
Selective Inhibition and Mechanistic Studies of the Human O2 Sensor, Prolyl Hydroxylase Domain 2 (PHD2), Shannon Coates Flagg, Chemistry
Utopian Gender: Counter Discourses in a Feminist Community, Jolane Flanigan, Communication
The Impact of Online Influence Strategies on Consumer Response and Privacy Expectations, Jason Aaron Gabisch, Management
Mojarra Aesthetics in Piolin Por La Ma?ana: A Time and Space for the Dislocated, J. Luis Loya Garcia, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
Flow Cytometry of Cultured Plant Cells for Characterization of Culture Heterogeneity and Cell Sorting Applications, Vishal Gaurav, Chemical Engineering
Transnational Networks and the Promotion of Conservationist Norms in Developing Countries, Kemi D. George, Political Science
Puerto Rican Teens' Perceptions of Teen Pregnancy and Births in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Nancy J. Gilbert, Nursing
A Mathematical Growth Model of the Viral Population in Early HIV-1 Infections, Elena Edi Giorgi, Mathematics
Justifying the Margins: Marginal Culture, Hybridity and the Polish Challenge in Fontane's Effi Briest, Zorana Gluscevic, Germanic Languages & Literatures
The Role of the SUPRMAM1 Locus in Responses to Ionizing Radiation and Susceptibility to Mammary Tumors, Nicholas B. Griner, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Education in a Hip-Hop Nation: Our Identity, Politics & Pedagogy, Marcella Runell Hall, Education (also CAGS)
Neil Postman's Missing Critique: A Media Ecology Analysis of Early Radio 1920-1935, Donna Lee Halper, Communication
The Transparent Mask: American Women's Satire 1900-1933, Julia Boissoneau Hans, English
Finding Blame for Environmental Outcomes: A Cognitive Style Approach to Understanding Stakeholder Attributions, Attitudes, and Values, Christopher Thomas Hawkins, Environmental Conservation
Organizational Decision Making and Goal Setting in Out-Of-School-Time Programs, Jenny Rebecca Hemmingson, Education (also CAGS)