Masters Theses
Welcome to the Masters Theses section of Scholarworks!
The Graduate School and the University Libraries of the University of Massachusetts Amherst offer electronic copies of Masters Theses written by students who have opted to submit them electronically. To view previously approved Masters Theses, click on the "Browse Contents" or "Search" links below. To submit an electronic thesis, click the "Submit a Paper" link below.
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Currently, our electronic theses submission project is in a pilot phase. We welcome comments regarding the process. Please email comments to the Graduate School Office of Degree Requirements.
THESES FROM 2008
- Are Age-Related Changes in Sleep Magnified in Individuals with Depressive Symptoms?, Anna M. Akerstedt
- Energy Efficient Adaptive Reed-Solomon Decoding System, Jonathan D. Allen
- A KA BAND SWITCH-LNA MMIC FOR RADIOMETRY APPLICATIONS, Miguel Alvarado
- A Novel Approach to PCI Simulation Using ScriptSim, Kevin R. Andryc
- Global Interconnects in the Presence of Uncertainty, Ibis D. Benito
- Stores as Schools: An Adaptive Reuse Alternative For Communities Dealing With Underutilized Commercial Space and Overcrowded Schools, Jayne M. Bernhard and Jayne M. Bernhard
- I Knew I'd Find You Here, Danielle Blackman
- Female Protagonists in Shōjo Manga - From the Rescuers to the Rescued, Jennifer L. Brown
- Probing the Peptidyl Transferase Center of Ribosomes Containing Mutant 23S rRNA with Photoreactive tRNA, Nicole C. Caci
- Emotion and Executive Functioning: The Effect of Normal Mood States on Fluency Tasks, Janessa O. Carvalho
- Senses of Place, Catalin I. Cighi
- Ficino's Musica Humana: Musico-Astrological Improvisation, Greg A. Clauss
- Head Heart Hand, Lyndsey Kara Cohen
- Infant Attention to Foreground Television and Relationship to Joint Visual Attention, Lindsay B. Demers
- The Confessions, Christopher N DeWeese
- The Impact of the Organic Mainstream Movement: A Case Study of New England Organic Produce Prices, Megan M. Dolan
- A Longitudinal Study of the Relation Between Depression and Parenting, Paula A. Errazuriz Arellano
- Euripides' Bakkhai and the Colonization of Sophrosune: A Translation with Commentary, Shannon K. Farley
- Self-Incompatibility in African Lycium (Solanaceae), Natalie M. Feliciano
- Coded Pulse Transmission and Correlation for Robust Ultrasound Ranging from a Long-Cane Platform, Raymond S. Frenkel
- METALLIC CARBON NANOTUBES, MICROWAVE CHARACTERIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A TERAHERTZ DETECTOR, Kan Fu
- The Things a Body Does When It Thinks It's Going to Die, Aaron M. Hellem
- Miniaturization of Microstrip Patch Antennas for GPS Applications, Steven S. Holland
- C.D. Grabbe's Hannibal: A New Translation for the American Stage, Margaret L. Inners
- MIMO Communication for Ad Hoc Networks: A Cross Layer Approach, Suraj Kumar Jaiswal
- PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF EXISTING STEEL AND CONCRETE GIRDER BRIDGES THROUGH NON-DESTRUCTIVE LIVE-LOAD TESTING, Andrew E. Jeffrey
- Novel Genres or Generic Novels: Considering Korean Movies Adapted from Amateur Internet Novels, kyoung-lae kang
- The Dramaturgy of Dialect: An Examination Of The Sociolinguistic Problems Faced When Producing Contemporary British Plays In The United States., Talya A. Kingston
- Sign You Were Mistaken, Seth Houard Landman
- THE REPRESENTATION OF MARGINAL YOUTH IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE POPULAR FICTION: MARGINAL YOUTH AND ISHIDA IRA’S IKEBUKURO WEST GATE PARK, Jonathan W. Lawless
- The Effect of Price Postponement on the Coordination of a Two Stage Supply Chain Facing Consumer Returns, Thomas Lenk
- Cysteine Dioxygenase: The Importance of Key Residues and Insight into the Mechanism of the Metal Center, Jonathan H. Leung
- An Orthogonally-Fed, Active Linear Phased Array of Tapered Slot Antennas, Andrew R. Mandeville
- Design of a Two-Receiver Interferometer on Motorized Tracks, Eric Marklein
- Negotiating Discourses on Homoeroticism: The Coming Out and Other Tales by Colombian Immigrant Men in New York City, Erika Marquez
- The Conflict of Desire, joetta l. maue
- A Synergistic Approach to Modeling Crack Propagation in Nanoreinforced Polymer Composites, Andy McCarron
- A Comparative Evaluation of Crash Data Quality Identification Methods, Arianna M. Mickee
- Panic Attacks: Violent Female Displacement in The Tale of Genji, Otilia C. Milutin
- Terrazzo Cracking: Causes and Remedies, Michael J. Mitchell III
- A Comparison of Environmental Substrate Gradients and Calcium Selectivity in Plant Species of Calcareous Fens in Massachusetts, Jamie M. Morgan
- Anchorage of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers to Reinforced Concrete in Shear Applications, Carl W. Niemitz
- Invertebrate Phenology and Prey Selection of Three Sympatric Species of Salmonids; Implications for Individual Fish Growth, Jeffrey V. Ojala
- Foregivenness, Seth Parker
- Developing a Municipal Fair Housing and Land Use Curriculum, Ethan Parsons
- Development of a Solid-State Doppler Marine Radar, Gita P. Pathak
- Concepts of the Unseen, Ian T. Pawluk
- An Exploratory Study Into the Construction of 'Self' in College-Aged Female Athletes, Lindsey Pilver
- Authentic Input in Early Second Language Learning, Bridget C. Pinsonneault
- Among These Things, Megan J. Randlett
- The Wild Sky Wilderness Proposal: Politics, Process, and Participation in Wilderness Designation, Kassia C. Randzio
- The Bird Sisters, Rebecca A. Rasmussen
- A Neural Network based Background Supression Technique applied to VHE Gamma Ray Data coming from the Crab Pulsar, Christian A. Reuschle
- Looks, Patrick F. Robbins
- Appearances: Towards A Synthesis of Experience and Expression in Painting, Jonathan E. Ruegg
- IMPACTS OF ASYMMETRIC DECISION POLICIES AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR ON SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION UNDER CONSUMER RETURNS, Harald Schmid
- A Mathematical Model of Acute Response of Parathyroid Hormone to Changes in Plasma Ionized Calcium in Normal Humans, Rajiv P. Shrestha
- Legendary Patriot or Corrupt Egotist? An Analysis of Tōyama Mitsuru Through an Interpretation of Dai Saigō Ikun, Peter T. Siuda
- The Problem of Excess Female Mortality: Tuberculosis in Western Massachusetts, 1850-1910, Nicole L. Smith
- Beauty of the Midnight Crush, Richard B. Sonnenmoser
- In With the Old, Ryan M. Wilson
- Stability of the frog motor nerve terminal: roles of perisynaptic Schwann cells and muscle fibers, Ling Xin
THESES FROM 2007
- Antioxidant Response Mechanism in Apples during Post-Harvest Storage and Implications for Human Health Benefits, Ishan Adyanthaya
- PROGRESS TOWARDS A MODEL FLAVOENZYME SYSTEM, Kevin M. Bardon
- Laboratory Evaluation of Modified Traveling Screens for Protecting Fish at Cooling Water Intakes, Jonathan L. Black
- There are Waters Off the Satan Head. I, Joshua V. Bolton
- Trophy Children Don’t Smile: Fashion Advertisements For Designer Children’s Clothing In Cookie Magazine, Chris Boulton
- Everett and the Cosmos, Thomas S. Burke
- The Impacts of Tourism and Development in Nicaragua: A Grassroots Approach to Sustainable Development, Jennifer Atwood Burney
- Biosynthesis of Arsenic by E. coli, marissa k. callahan
- Art in Heaven, Joseph R. Cardinale
- Colloidal Particles as Antimicrobial Carrier Systems, Dustin W. Carnahan
- American Fiction, Sean Casey
- The Water is Thin, Jeremy Church
- A Century of Enthusiasm, Carson H. Cistulli
- ON-CHIP THERMAL SENSING IN DEEP SUB-MICRON CMOS, Basab Datta
- Small Fretful Passengers, Amy C. Dickinson
- The effect of Rhodiola crenulata on a highly metastatic murine mammary carcinoma, Jessica L. Doerner
- The Role of Organicism in the Original and Revised Versions of Brahms's Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8, Mvt. I: A Comparison by Means of Grundgestalt Analysis, Jessica L. Embry
- DIVERSITY AND MOVEMENT PATTERNS OF PASSERINE BIRDS NEAR AN URBAN CENTER ON SANTA CRUZ, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, Ana M. Gabela
- ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-ADAPTING (RANS/LES) TURBULENCE MODELS FOR FLUID SIMULATION AT ANY MESH RESOLUTION, jason a. gadebusch
- AN ANALYSIS OF THE SAFTEY EFFECTS OF CROSSWALKS WITH IN-PAVEMENT WARNING LIGHTS, George Gadiel, Michael A. Knodler, John Collura, and Donald L. Fisher
- Whip-poor-will Prey Availability and Foraging Habitat: Implications for Management in Pitch Pine / Scrub Oak Barrens Habitats, Ross M. Garlapow
- PALEOBIOLOGY OF THE CLIMACTICHNITES TRACKMAKER: AN ENIGMATIC LATE CAMBRIAN ANIMAL KNOWN ONLY FROM TRACE FOSSILS, Patrick R. Getty
- Adaptive Algorithms for Fault Tolerant Re-Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks, Michael S. Gregoire
- Invisibilities and Other Prayers, Ryan M. Habermeyer
- The Development of a Dynamic-Interactive-Vehicle Model for Modeling Traffic Beyond the Microscopic Level, Dwayne A. Henclewood
- Randomness in Integrated Circuits with Applications in Device Identification and Random Number Generation, daniel holcomb
- THE EFFECT OF POST-EXERCISE MEAL COMPOSITION ON INSULIN ACTION, Kaila A. Holtz
- Glutamic Acid Decarboxylases (GAD): Transcriptional Regulation by Estradiol and 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, Edward Hudgens
- The Future of Memory: A Collection, Amanda L. Huhmann
- Ontologies and Methods for Interoperability of Engineering Analysis Models (EAMS) in an E-Design Environment, Neelima Kanuri
- Negative Remembering, aycan kapucu
- THE TURTLE WOMAN’S VOICES: MULTILINGUAL STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE AND ASSIMILATION IN TAIWAN UNDER JAPANESE COLONIAL RULE, Huang-Wen Lai
- Agent Based Modeling of Electronic Markets To Analyze the Sustainability of Mutual Cooperation , Ravindra R. Lote
- All Night Vigil, Natalie D. Lyalin
- Seeing and Knowing Ability of Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta), Christine A. Major
- Queering Translation Studies, Cristiano A. Mazzei
- Analysis of Markets in the United States for Brazilian Fresh Produce Grown in Massachusetts, Raquel U. Mendonca
- Impacts of Mowing on Bird Abundance, Distribution, and Hazards to Aircraft at Westover Air Reserve Base, Massachusetts, Andrew G. Milroy
- A Molecular Phylogenetic Assessment of Pseudendoclonium, Richard F. Mullins Jr.
- Measuring Handedness in Infancy: Hand Preference and Hand Performance in 11-Month-Olds, Eliza L. Nelson
- Si Based MIS Devices with Ferroelectric Polymer Films for Non-Volatile Memory Applications , Sai S. Nerella
- Influence of Preparation and Processing on Cranberry Gel Properties, Maureen A. Pease
- Logic Simulation Using Graphics Processors, Atchuthan S. Perinkulam
- Towards Tower 37: A Director's Journey, Chris Perry
- Comprehensive Analysis of Leakage Current in Ultra Deep Sub-micron (UDSM) CMOS Circuits, Ashesh Rastogi
- A Survey of Tree Wardens to Assess Urban and Community Forestry Performance in Massachusetts (U.S.A.), David M. Rines
- I Can't Shut My Eyes, Mark A. Rosenberg
- Stealing Time and Being There: Fathers, Class and Time, Carla N. Russell
- In the Absence Of, Jennifer Gray Sawyer
- Building Online Communities in Forestry: the Cases of Timberia.org and the Urban Ecology Collaborative, ANDREY V. SEMENOV
- Design and Implementation of Parallel Anomaly Detection, Shashank Shanbhag
- Design and Development of TIMMI - An Interferometric Radar, Karthik Srinivasan Venkatasubramanian
- Physio-Chemical Evaluation and Functional Assessment of Native Wetland Soils and Organic Amendments for Freshwater Mitigation Wetlands, Emily K.D. Stockman
- SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF LAND USE IMPACTS ON WATER QUALITY IN WATERSHED SYSTEMS, Olga Tsvetkova
- USE OF FUNCTIONALIZED GOLD NANOPARTICLES TO EFFICIENTLY EXTRACT AND CONCENTRATE PEPTIDES FOR MALDI-TOF-MS DETECTION, Benjamin P. K. N. Y Vanderpuije
- APPLICATIONS OF LDPC CODES FOR HYBRID WIRELESS OPTICAL AND MAGNETIC RECORDING SYSTEMS, Sarma V. Vangala
- Are we the same person in our L1 as we are in our L2?, Eric Alton A. Wirth
- Maximizing Masculinity: A Textual Analysis of Maxim Magazine, Kirsten Wisneski
- TRANSLATION, CULTURE, AND CENSORSHIP IN SAUDI ARABIA (1988-2006) AND IRAQ (1979-2005), Huda A. Yehia
- Christmas Future, Steven Zultanski