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Dissertations from 2010
Elemental Challenges: Environmental Troubles beyond the Limits of Democracy, Brad Mapes-Martins, Political Science
Insights into the Complexities of Identity in Persisting Latina College Students, Irene Rodriguez Martin, Education (also CAGS)
Evaluation of Disturbance Factors and Their Effect on Breeding Common Loons at Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge, New Hampshire and Maine, Kyle P. McCarthy, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
Beyond cell Adhesion: Exploring the Role of Cadherin-11 Extracellular Processing by ADAM Metalloproteases in Cranial Neural Crest Migration, Catherine D. McCusker, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Geometric and Combinatorial Aspects of 1-Skeleta, Chris Ray McDaniel, Mathematics
Significance of Water-Related Features on Mars, Eileen Marie Mcgowan, Geosciences
Functional Consequences of Acute Temperature Stress in the Western Fence Lizard, Sceloporus Occidentalis, David Michael McMillan, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Essays on Behavioral Labor Economics, Philip Pablo Mellizo, Economics
Structural Characterization of the Pre-Amyloid Oligomers of β-2-Microglobulin Using Covalent Labeling and Mass Spectrometry, Vanessa Leah Castillo Mendoza, Chemistry
Gossip Talk and Online Community: Celebrity Gossip Blogs and Their Audiences, Erin Ann Meyers, Communication
Familiar Physical Activity to Familiar Music: The Effects on Apathy, Agitation, Eating Ability, and Dietary Intake in Institutionalized Older Adults with Dementia, Janet Ruth Moore, Nursing
An Evaluation of the Process and Outcomes of Teacher Collaboration in Vocabulary Instruction, Joanne Morgan, School Psychology
What's in Your Table? The Ecological Influence of Sensory Table Materials on Preschoolers' Play Behavior, James Donald Morgante, Psychology
Examining the Development of Handedness in Rhesus Monkey and Human Infants Using Behavioral and Kinematic Measures, Eliza Lynn Nelson, Neuroscience and Behavior
A Stitch In Time: The Needlework of Aging Women in Antebellum America, Aimee E. Newell, History
Bench-Scale Assessment of Low Pressure Membrane Fouling: Characterization and Examination the Role of Organic Nitrogen Compounds, Anh Hai Nguyen, Civil Engineering
Providing Parents with Young Children's Performance Feedback Information: Effects on Vocabulary and Pre-Literacy Development, Amanda Alexandria Nnachetam, School Psychology
Identifying Critical Fish Habitat and Long-term Trends in Fish Abundances in the Hudson River Estuary, Megan Patricia O'Connor, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
Time Resolved Single Molecule Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Quantum Dot/conjugated Organic Hybrid Nanostructures, Michael Yemoh Odoi, Chemistry
Joy and Happiness in Education and Spirituality: Teachings of Imam, Sheikh Iskender Ali Mihr, Ibrahim Taner Okatan, Education (also CAGS)
Maintenance of Vertical Scales Under Conditions of Item Parameter Drift and Rasch Model-data Misfit, Timothy Paul O'Neil, Education (also CAGS)
A Tale of a Town: Artists Crafting "The Creative Class", Arturo Osorio Fernandez, Management
A Behavioral Approach to Human-Robot Communication, Shichao Ou, Computer Science
Water-in-Oil Microemulsions: Counterion Effects in AOT Systems and New Fluorocarbon-based Microemulsion Gels, Xiaoming Pan, Chemical Engineering
A Phenomenological Study of the Experiences of Helping Professionals With Learning Disabilities, Madeline Lorraine Peters, Education (also CAGS)
Optimization-based Approximate Dynamic Programming, Marek Petrik, Computer Science
Prediction And Manipulation Of Drop Size Distribution Of Emulsions Using Population Balance Equation Models For High-Pressure Homogenization, Neha B. Raikar, Chemical Engineering
Conservation While Under Invasion: Insights from a rare Hemiparasitic Plant, Swamp Lousewort (Pedicularis lanceolata Michx.), Sydne Record, Plant Biology
On the Design of Methods to Estimate Network Characteristics, Bruno F. Ribeiro, Computer Science
Generalized Instruction Selector Generation: The Automatic Construction of Instruction Selectors from Descriptions of Compiler Internal Forms and Target Machines, Timothy David Richards, Computer Science
On the Frequency of Finitely Anomalous Elliptic Curves, Penny Catherine Ridgdill, Mathematics
The Exclusion of Non-Native Voters from a Final Plebiscite in Puerto Rico: Law and Policy, Ramon Antonio Rodriguez, Political Science
Vasopressin Anatomy of the Mouse Brain, Benjamin D. Rood, Neuroscience and Behavior
What is the Cost of an Adequate Vermont High School Education?, Frank D. Rucker, Education (also CAGS)
Notch 1 Mediated Inhibition of Nur77-induced apoptosis: Implications for T-cell Leukemia, Jonathan George Rud, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Breastfeeding and the Individual: The Impact of Everyday Stressful Experience and Hormonal Change on Breastfeeding Duration Among Women in São Paulo, Brazil, Alanna Emilia Frances Rudzik, Anthropology
Rare Decays in BaBar: Search for Decays of the Neutral B Meson into Two Leptons and Measurement of CP Asymmetry in Inclusive Radiative Decays of the B Meson into a Strange-quark System, Emmanuele Salvati, Physics
On Detection, Analysis and Characterization of Transient and Parametric Failures in Nano-scale CMOS VLSI, Alodeep Sanyal, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering of Artificial Cellular Circuits Based on the LuxI-LuxR Quorum-Sensing System, Daniel Jon Sayut, Chemical Engineering
The Voice of Elementary School Principals on School Climate, Suzanne Elayne Scallion, Education (also CAGS)
A History and Test of Planetary Weather Forecasting, Bruce Scofield, Geosciences
Paradoxical Consequences of Prohibitions, Sana Sheikh, Psychology
Latinas in the Pipeline to Baccalaureate -Prepared Nursing: Challenges and Supports in Persistence to Degree and Professional Licensure, Cheryl Ann Sheils, Education (also CAGS)
Growth of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) in Freshwater, Douglas Bradlee Sigourney, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
The Influence of a Therapist Workshop in Alliance Strategies on Client Engagement: Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy, Lotte Smith-Hansen, Psychology
System Support for Perpetual Mobile Tracking, Jacob Sorber, Computer Science
New Insights in the TSSK Family: Studies in the Activity and Function of the Testis Specific Serine Kinases, Julian Sosnik, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Vulnerability of Logfin Inshore Squid (Loligo Pealeii) to Predation: The Influence of Relative Prey Size and Behavior, Michelle Dana Staudinger, Marine Sciences and Technology
Why is it Difficult to Search for Two Colors at Once? How Eye Movements Can Reveal the Nature of Representations During Multi-target Visual Search, Michael John Stroud, Psychology
Item Parameter Drift as an Indication of Differential Opportunity to Learn: An Exploration of item Flagging Methods & Accurate Classification of Examinees, Tia M. Sukin, Education (also CAGS)
Three Essays on the Political Economy of Live Stock Sector in Turkey, Hasan Tekguc, Economics
Trajectories of Mental Health and Acculturation Among First Year International Graduate Students From India, Dhara Aniruddha Thakar, Psychology
Problems in Generic Combinatorial Rigidity: Sparsity, Sliders, and Emergence of Components, Louis Simon Theran, Computer Science
'Oh! La Que Su Rostro Tapa/No Debe Valer Gran Cosa': Identidad Y Critica Social En La Cultura Transatlantica Hispanica (1520 - 1860) / 'Oh! The one who covers her face / surely is not worth much': Identity and Social Criticism in Transatlantic Hispanic Culture (1520-1860), Isabelle Therriault, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
An Investigation into PCAOB Reporting Deficiencies, James Samuel Wainberg, Management
A Geometric Framework for Transfer Learning Using Manifold Alignment, Chang Wang, Computer Science
Stochastic Modeling of the Equilibrium Speed-Density Relationship, Haizhong Wang, Civil Engineering
The Impact of Disciplinarity on the Organizational Leadership Styles of Academic Deans, Lauren J. Way, Education (also CAGS)
Paying Attention to What Matters: Observation Abstraction in Partially Observable Environments, Alicia Peregrin Wolfe, Computer Science
Sustainable Supply Chains: Multicriteria Decision-Making and Policy Analysis for the Environment, Trisha D. Woolley, Management
Hierarchical Multiple Bit Clusters and Patterned Media Enabled by Novel Nanofabrication Techniques - High Resolution Electron Beam Lithography and Block Polymer Self Assembly, Qijun Xiao, Physics
Three Essays in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: Post Bankruptcy Performance, Bankrupt Stock Performance, and Relationship with Hedge Funds and Other Vulture Investors, Min Xu, Management
Characterization and Interactions of Ultrafast Surface Plasmon Pulses, Sibel Ebru Yalcin, Physics
From Mouse Mammary Tumor Model to New Therapeutic Method ---Mammary Tumor Development in Balb/c-Trp53+/- Mice and Magnetic Nanoparticle Induced Heating for Cancer Treatment, Haoheng Yan, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Polymer Composites and Porous Materials Prepared by Thermally Induced Phase Separation and Polymer-Metal Hybrid Methods, Joonsung Yoon, Polymer Science and Engineering
International Study Tours and the Development of Sociocultural Consciousness in K-12 Teachers, Raymond Yu-kuang Young, Education (also CAGS)
Hole Mobility in Strained Ge and III-V P-channel Inversion Layers with Self-consistent Valence Subband Structure and High-k Insulators, Yan Zhang, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dissertations from 2009
Reaching the Poorest Through Microfinance: Learning from Saving for Change Program in Mali, Mukul Acharya, Education (also CAGS)
Tyrosine Phosphorylation Events in Mouse Sperm Capacitation, Enid Arcelay, Animal Biotechnology & Biomedical Sciences
The AzTEC Millimeter-wave Camera: Design, Integration, Performance, and the Characterization of the (sub-)millimeter Galaxy Population, Jason Edward Austermann, Astronomy
Improved Network Consistency and Connectivity in Mobile and Sensor Systems, Nilanjan Banerjee, Computer Science
“Obscene Fantasies”: Elfriede Jelinek’s Generic Perversions, Brenda L. Bethman, Germanic Languages & Literatures
Investigations into the Potential for 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine to Induce Neurotoxic Terminal Damage to Serotonergic Neurons, Dominik Biezonski, Neuroscience and Behavior
An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Uncertainty, Realoptions Decision Patterns and Firm Performance, Alfred M. Boccia Jr., Management
Composition as Identity: a Study in Ontology and Philosophical Logic, Einar Bohn, Philosophy
The Effects of a School-based Motivational Intervention on Adolescent Substance Abuse, Elizabeth Gates Bradley, School Psychology
Synthesis and Interfacial Behavior of Functional Amphiphilic Graft Copolymers Prepared by Ring-opening Metathesis Polymerization, Kurt E. Breitenkamp, Polymer Science and Engineering
Oligopeptide-functionalized Graft Copolymers: Synthesis and Applications in Nucleic Acid Delivery, Rebecca Boudreaux Breitenkamp, Polymer Science and Engineering
Adult Perceptions of Children's Relational and Physical Aggression as a Function of Adult Ethnicity and Child Gender, Sharice Angel Brown, Psychology
Leadership Continuity: Enhancing the Cycle of Leadership in Academic Departments, Nancy Buffone, Education (also CAGS)
Intermolecular Electron Transfer Reactivity and Dynamics of Cytochrome c – Nanoparticle Adducts, Adrienne M. Carver, Chemistry
Notch1 Modulation of Lymphoid Target Genes, Ok Hyun Cho, Animal Biotechnology & Biomedical Sciences
Development of Structured Delivery Systems Using Nanolaminated Biopolymer Layers, Young-Hee Cho, Food Science
Climate and Environmental Change in Arctic Canada: Observations from Upper and Lower Murray Lakes, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Timothy Cook, Geosciences
Engineering the Nanoparticle Surface for Protein Recognition and Applications, Mrinmoy De, Chemistry
Early Rearing Experience, Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Activity, and Serotonin Transporter Genotype: Influences on the Development of Anxiety in Infant Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta), Amanda Dettmer, Neuroscience and Behavior
Distribution and Diversity of Planktonic Ciliates: Patterns and Processes, Mary Doherty, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Ciliate Biodiversity and Phylogenetic Reconstruction Assessed by Multiple Molecular Markers, Micah Dunthorn, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Delayed Anesthetic Preconditioning and Metallothioneins I+II: Novel Mediators of Anesthetic-Induced Protection, Scott David Edmands, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Before the Second Wave: College Women, Cultural Literacy, Sexuality and Identity, 1940--1965, Babette Faehmel, History
The Activity of eg5 and Dynein During Mammalian Mitosis, Nicholas P. Ferenz, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Developing Novel Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (esi ms) Techniques to Study Higher Order Structure and Interaction of Biopolymers, Agya K. Frimpong, Chemistry
Writing Across the Curriculum Program Development as Ideological and Rhetorical Practice, Carolyn J. Fulford, English
Synthesis and Study of Hybrid Organic – Inorganic Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes (poss) Based Polymers, Gunjan A, Gadodia, Polymer Science and Engineering
Tailoring the Surface-Coating of Gold Nanoparticles for Bio-applications, Partha S. Ghosh, Chemistry
A Study of Pre-Service Teachers: Is it Really Mathematics Anxiety?, Marsha Marie Guillory Bryant, Education (also CAGS)
Management of Target-Tracking Sensor Networks, Khaled Hadi, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Implementing Change in Instructional Delivery of Classroom Curriculum: A Phenomenological Case Study of Classroom Teachers Implementing A Problem-based Learning Approach in the Classroom, Maura Anne Hart, Education (also CAGS)
The Development of Hierarchical Knowledge in Robot Systems, Stephen W. Hart, Computer Science
Muscular Properties and Balance Control in Older Adults, Christopher James Hasson, Kinesiology