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Theses from 2011
Automated Detection and Counting of Pedestrians on an Urban Roadside, Gayatri D. Prabhu, Electrical & Computer Engineering
The Form of the Preludes to Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites, Daniel E. Prindle, Music
Numerical Forcing of Horizontally-Homogeneous Stratified Turbulence, Kaustubh J. Rao, Mechanical Engineering
An Ecosystem Approach to the Sustainability of Urbanizing Watersheds, Sarah L. Raposa, Regional Planning
On Process Variation Tolerant Low Cost Thermal Sensor Design, Spandana Remarsu, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Evaluating the Influence of Disturbance and Climate on Red Spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) Community Dynamics at its Southern Range Margin, Relena R. Ribbons, Environmental Conservation
Yes, Probably, Hannah E B Richards, Art
The Behavioral Effects of Increased Physical Activity on Preschoolers at Risk for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Jasmin L. Roberts, Psychology
Modeling Space Heating Demand in Massachusetts’ Housing Stock and the Implications for Climate Change Mitigation Policy, Nathan H. Robinson, Regional Planning
Pharmacological Chaperoning in Fabry Disease, Jerome Rogich, Biochemistry
Novel Adaptor-Dependent Domains Promote Processive Degradation by ClpXP, Keith L. Rood, Biochemistry
At the Checkpoint to Sleep, Henk Rossouw, English
A New Species of Moropus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriodea) in the Batesland Formation, Great Plains Area of North America, Carolyn Rounds, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Modeling the Mechanical Morphospace of Neotropical Leaf-nosed Bat Skull: A 3d Parametric Cad and Fe Study, Krishna C. Samavedam, Mechanical Engineering
Numerical Investigation of Gas-Particle Supersonic Flow, Mihir A. Samel, Mechanical Engineering
Growth of chromidia-forming vahlkampfiid amoebae from Laguna Figueroa, Baja California del Norte, Mexico and Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, U.S.A. under limited oxygen gas conditions, Melishia I. Santiago, Geography
The Orchard Green And Every Color, Zachary Savich, English
Perceptions and Attitudes of Dietetic Program Educators Regarding Use of Distance Education and Computer-Based Simulations in Dietetics Education, Kirsten M. Schlein Ms., Nutrition
Pendulum Performing Arts Center: Adaptive Reuse Design of the Historic Court Square Building in Springfield, Massachusetts, Lindsay M. Schnarr, Architecture
Reverse Logistics Network Design for Electric Vehicle Batteries, Tilman Schnellenpfeil, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Language Movement Museum and Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Mohammad J. Shahadat, Architecture
An Electronically Reconfigurable Three Band Low-Noise Amplifier in 0.5 μm GaAs pHEMT Technology, Jeffrey A. Shatzman, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Policy Relevant Measures of Urban Form: Leed-nd as a Potential Metric for Assessing Regional Sprawl, Kyle Shiel, Regional Planning
Beyond My Abode, Jieun Shin, Art
Landscapes of Compassion: A Guatemalan Experience, Travis W. Shultz, Landscape Architecture
An End to the “Vichy/Algeria Syndrome”?: Negotiating Traumatic Pasts in the French Republic, Justin W. Silvestri, History
Beverage Consumption and Body Composition Among College-aged Women, Matthew Sloan, Public Health
The Politics of Labor Militancy in Minneapolis, 1934-1938, Kristoffer Smemo, History
M.F.A. Thesis Quest, or, I Went into the Wilderness and I Found Alec Baldwin, Steven Snell, Art
Connecting Motors and Membranes: A Quantitative Investigation of Dynein Pathway Components and in vitro Characterization of the Num1 Coiled Coil Domain, Bryan J. St. Germain, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Gpu Based Lithography Simulation and Opc, Lokesh Subramany, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Revitalizing Mumbai Textile Mill Lands for the City, Vinay Surve, Architecture
Trumpet, Matthew Suss, English
Effect of the Flavonoid Quercetin on Adipocytes, Jennifer C. Swick, Nutrition
Development, Deployment, and Characterization of a Ku-band Interferometer, Anthony Swochak, Electrical & Computer Engineering
An Analysis of Defensible Space and Crime Prevention Through Design in Crime Hotspots of Select Boston Neighborhoods, Mario Teran, Regional Planning
On the Retrieval of the Beam Transverse Wind Velocity Using Angles of Arrival from Spatially Separated Light Sources, Shiril Tichkule, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Parenting and Parent Predictors of Changes in Child Behavior Problems, Marianne H. Tichovolsky, Psychology
Determinants of Tax Pass-Through Rates: A Study of the U.S. Beer Industry, Ruchita Tiwary, Resource Economics
Schoolyard Renovations in the Context of Urban Greening: Insight from the Boston Schoolyard Initiative, Boston, Massachusetts, Katherine A. Tooke, Landscape Architecture
The Kitchen Culture Project: A Center for Food and Culture, Andrew S. Toomajian, Architecture
50%, Jonathan Tosch, English
Eugenothenics: The Literary Connection Between Domesticity and Eugenics, Caleb J. true, History
Synthesis of Delay Lines, Shiva Keerti Padmini Tunuguntla, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Safety and Operational Assessment of Gap Acceptance Through Large-Scale Field Evaluation, Steven Maxwell Tupper, Civil Engineering
The Jante Law and Racism: A Study on the Effects of Immigration on Swedish National Identity, Kevin J. Turausky, Anthropology
Determinants of Health Care Use Among Rural, Low-Income Mothers and Children: A Simultaneous Systems Approach to Negative Binomial Regression Modeling, Swetha Valluri, Resource Economics
Ripped from the Land, Shipped Away and Reborn: Unthinking the Conceptual and Socio-Geo-Historical Dimensions of the Massacre of Bellavista, Aurora Vergara Figueroa, Sociology
Design and Testing of a Prototype High Speed Data Acquisition System for Nasa, Vishwas Tumkur Vijayendra, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Molecular Pathways Involved in Stallion Sperm Capacitation, Leticia Vivani, Animal Science
Enhanced Search And Efficient Storage Using Data Compression In Nand Flash Memories, Shruti S. Vyas, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Determining the Roles of Smyd3 and Wdr74 In Vivo, Melanie A. Walentuk, Animal Science
Virtual Network Mapping with Traffic Matrices, Cong Wang, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Addressing/Exploiting Transceiver Imperfections in Wireless Communication Systems, Lihao Wang, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Status, Movements, and Habitat Use of Moose in Massachusetts, David W. Wattles, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
A Data-Driven Study of the Water Table Fluctuations in New England over the Last 60 Years, Kaitlyn M. Weider, Geosciences
“What Country Friends Is This?”: Creating Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night Onstage, A Director's Journey, Dawn Monique Williams, Theater
A Study of The Video Game Industry In U.S Metropolitan Areas Using Occupational Analysis, Hinlan Wong, Regional Planning
Building Integrated Aquaculture, Erik A. Woodin, Environmental Conservation
Assessing the Biomechanical Effect of Alveoli, Periodontal Ligaments, and Squamosal Sutures in Mammalian Crania, Sarah Wood, Mechanical Engineering
Writing With the Grain: A Multitextual Analysis of Kaidan Botandoro, William D. Wood, Japanese
Retrofitting Suburbs: Prioritizing Bmp Implementation to Reduce Phosphorus Runoff, Emily S. Wright, Landscape Architecture
Media and Immigration in Post-9/11 America, Thanushka N. Yakupitiyage, Communication
The Effects of Recasts and Explicit Feedback on Chinese Language Acquisition in the Task-based Classroom, Lei Yang, Chinese
The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway: Making the Vision a Reality, Alec E. Zebrowski, Architecture
Transfer of Listeria Monocytogenes from Stainless Steel and High Density Polethylyene to Cold Smoked Salmon and Listeria Monocytogenes Biofilm Cohesive Energy Investigation, Fujia Zhang, Food Science
Theses from 2010
Encapsulation of Curcumin in O/w Nanoemulsions and Its Bioaccessibility After In Vitro Digestion, Kashif Ahmed, Food Science
The Effects of Environmental Temperature on Locomotor Performance and Growth Patterns in Spotted Salamander, Ambystoma Maculatum, Suellen Almeida, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of the Higgs Mechanism in the Standard Model and Beyond, Alessandra Edda Baas, Physics
The Gorinsho: Miyamoto Musashi's Five Elements of War, Paul D. Benson, Japanese
Mama's Boy, Jamie t. Berger, English
Spatial Variation and Tradeoffs in Species Interactions, Holly L. Bernardo, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
Ultrafast Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Using Two-Photon Absorption, Robert Boge, Physics
The Relationship between Occupational Prestige and Psychosocial Development: a Longitudinal Study, Allison C.M. Branch, Psychology
Mit Entgrenzung Gegen Büchners Determinismus: Büchners Dantons Tod und Przybyszewskas Die Sache Danton im Vergleich, Marzanna Buechel, Germanic Languages & Literatures
Efficiency of Parallel Tempering for Ising Systems, Stephan Burkhardt, Physics
Terahertz and Microwave Detection Using Metallic Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Enrique A. Carrion, Electrical & Computer Engineering
The Protective Effects A Full-term Pregnancy Plays Against Mammary Carcinoma, Matthew p. Carter, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Historic Bridge Evaluation Using Finite Element Techniques, Helena M. Charron, Civil Engineering
Efficient Modeling Techniques for Time-Dependent Quantum System with Applications to Carbon Nanotubes, Zuojing Chen, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Revenue Management And Perceptions Of Fairness, Choongbeom Choi, Hotel & Tourism Management
Analysis Of An Actin Binding Guanine Exchange Factor, Gef8, And Actin Depolymerizing Factor In Arabidopsis Thaliana., Aleksey Chudnovskiy, Molecular & Cellular Biology
The Legend of Hugo el Maximo, Alejandro E. Cuellar, English
Regulation of Trio Splice Variants by 17Β-Estradiol and 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, Michael J. Cunningham, Neuroscience & Behavior
Countertransference Behavior and Alliance Quality as a Function of Therapist Self-Insight, Mamta B. Dadlani, Psychology
Inclusive Housing: An Intergenerational Approach, Karelt De La Cruz, Architecture
Web-Dinar: Web Based Diagnosis of Network and Application Resources in Disaster Response Systems, Kartik Deshpande, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Massachusetts Landowner Participation in Forest Management Programs for Carbon Sequestration: an Ordered Logit Analysis of Ratings Data, Brenton J. Dickinson, Resource Economics
Simulations of Flow Over Wind Turbines, Dnyanesh A. Digraskar, Mechanical Engineering
Prototype Orange: A New Town Node, Richard Anthony Dobrowski, Architecture
Vilification in Fox's "24", Shara M. Drew, Communication
Every Mostly Great Man in the State, Gabe Durham, English
The Role of Ykl-40, a Secreted Heparin-Binding Glycoprotein, in Tumor Angiogenesis, Metastasis, and Progression: a Potential Therapeutic Target, Michael Faibish, Molecular & Cellular Biology
The Distribution, Composition, and Formation of Sahara Desert Microbialites From the Base of the Meski Plateau, outside Erfoud, Morocco, Sean Faulkner, Geosciences
Different Ways To Record Light, Ryan P. Feeney, Art
Teaching Character Formation Rationales with a Computer-Assisted Courseware, Bo Feng, Chinese
In Vivo Visualization of Hedgehog Signaling in Zebrafish, Christopher J. Ferreira, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Valparaiso, Round the Horn, Madeline S. Ffitch, English
The Influence of Sex, Puberty, and Hormones on Adolescent Cognitive Development, Darlene F. Ficco, Psychology
A Sustainable Design for the American Commercial Strip Mall, L. Carl Fiocchi, Jr., Architecture