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Dissertations from 2013
A Program Evaluation of a Policy Intervention to Increase Racial Diversity in the Sciences and Engineering, Ricardo Leon Gomez Yepes, Education (also CAGS)
Discriminatory Bio-Adhesion Over Nano-Patterned Polymer Brushes, Saugata Gon, Chemical Engineering
Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Polymeric Nanostructures for Protein Sensing and Delivery, Daniella Cristina Gonzalez-Toro, Chemistry
The Fusion of Migration and Science Fiction in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United States, Matthew David Goodwin, Comparative Literature
Enhanced Detection Strategies Accomplished Through Metal Binding and Miniature Mass Spectrometry, Adam Graichen, Chemistry
From Feathers to Fur: Theatrical Representations of Skin in the Medieval English Cycle Plays, Valerie Anne Gramling, English
The Parsing and Interpretation of Comparatives: More than Meets the Eye, Margaret Ann Grant, Linguistics
Determining Structure and Function In Nanomaterial Biocomposites, David M Griffin, Chemical Engineering
An Exploratory Study of Students and Teachers Attitudes Toward Three Types of Bullying: Physical, Verbal and Social Exclusion, Laurice Ann Guillory, Education (also CAGS)
Intellectual Constellations in the Postsocialist Era: Four Essays, Li Gu, Communication
Manipulating Block Copolymer Self-Assemblies in Bulk and Thin Films by Thermal and Solvent Annealing, Weiyin Gu, Polymer Science and Engineering
An Investigation of the Efficacy of Direct and Indirect AAC Service Provision via Telepractice, Nerissa Hall, Communication Disorders
Synthesis and Solution- Driven Assembly of Functional Polythiophene Derivatives, Brenton A. G Hammer, Polymer Science and Engineering
Dynamic Modeling of Synthetic Microbial Consortia to Optimize the Co-fermentation of Glucose and Xylose, Timothy Joseph Hanly, Chemical Engineering
In Transition: The Politics of Place-based, Prefigurative Social Movements, Emily Hardt, Political Science
Mind The Gap: Materiality of Gendered Landscapes in Deerfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1870 - ca. 1920, Elizabeth Ann Harlow, Anthropology
Clustering, Reorientation Dynamics, and Proton Transfer In Glassy Oligomeric Solids, Jacob Allen Harvey, Chemistry
Exploring Educational Needs Arising From the Influence of Cultural Difference in US Public Schools: The Case of African Refugee High School Students in Western Massachusetts, Ahmed Abdi Hassan, Education; Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies
Performance and Signaling in the Green Anole Lizard, Justin P. Henningsen, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Parent Training for Families of Hyperactive Preschool-Aged Children, Sharonne D. Herbert, Psychology
Open Books on Contact Three Orbifolds, Daniel Herr, Mathematics
Puppets and Proselytizing: Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Revolutionary Mexico's Didactic Theater, Robert S Herr, Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics
Treatment of Foundational Reading Skills through Telepractice and Face-to-Face Environments: Single Subject Design, Mary Beth Hetherton, Communication Disorders
Importance Of Trust For Developmental Mathematics Instructors In Massachusetts Community Colleges: A Study Of Its Connections To Math Anxiety And Motivation, Gail Young Hilyard, Mathematics, Science and Learning Technologies
Plant Mechanisma Associated with Variations in Freezing Tolerance of Cool- Season Grasses, Lindsey Hoffman, Plant and Soil Sciences
WC1 Functions as a Co-Receptor and A Pattern Recognition Receptor In Bovine Gamma delta T Cells, Hao-Ting Hsu, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Applications of Elastic Network Model and Finite Element Analysis to Dynamics of Macromolecules, Ming-Wen Hu, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
The Effect of Vesicle Shape, Line Tension, and Lateral Tension on Membrane-Binding Proteins, Jaime Bosart Hutchison, Physics
Critical Rhetoric in the Age of Neuroscience, Brett Ingram, Communication
Characterizing Distant Galaxies: Spectral Energy Distribution Analysis of X-ray Selected Star Forming Galaxies, Seth Pohatan Johnson, Astronomy
Measurement of the Hydraulic Conductivity of Gravels Using a Laboratory Permeameter and Silty Sands Using Field Testing with Observation Wells, Aaron Judge, Civil Engineering
Muslim Tatar Women's Piety Stories: A Quest for Personal and Social Transformation In Tatarstan (Russia), Liliya V. Karimova, Communication
Continuity in the Face of Change: Mashantucket Pequot Plant Use From 1675-1800 A.D., Kimberly Carol Kasper, Anthropology
Degenerations Of Godeaux Surfaces And Exceptional Vector Bundles, Anna Kazanova, Mathematics and Statistics
Fabrication, Characterization and Analysis of Patterned Nano-Sized Material With Large Magnetic Permeability At High Frequency, Huajie Ke, Physics
Sustaining Rural Livelihoods in Upper Svaneti, Republic of Georgia, Robin J Kemkes, Economics
Pattern Formation in Floating Sheets, Hunter King, Physics
Feronia: A Malectin-Like Domain-Containing Receptor Kinase in Arabidopsis Thalina, Daniel W Kita, Molecular and Cellular Biology
The Plausibility of Moral Error Theories, Casey Alton Knight, Philosophy
"Finding the Proper Sequence": Form and Narrative in the Collage Music of John Zorn, Adam John Kolek, Music
Properties of Singular Schubert Varieties, Jennifer Koonz, Mathematics
"Miss, Miss, I've Got a Story!": Exploring Identity Through a Micro-Ethnographic Analysis of Lunchtime Interactions with Four Somali Third Grade Students, Jean Marie Kosha, Education (also CAGS)
Differences Between Bacterial Chemotaxis Receptor Signaling States Revealed By a Novel Hydrogen Exchange Mass Spectrometry Approach, Seena Smitha Koshy, Chemistry
Exploiting Domain Structure in Multiagent Decision-Theoretic Planning and Reasoning, Akshat Kumar, Computer Science
Mission Driven Educational Leadership--Does It Matter? Examining The Correlations Between District Mission and Student Achievement, Brett Michael Kustigian, Education (also CAGS)
Determining Detailed Reaction Kinetics for Nitrogen-and Oxygen-Containing Fuels, Nicole Jeanne Labbe, Chemical Engineering
Systems of Accountability as a Technology of Governmentality: Policy, Preparation, and Inclusive Practice, Denise LaVoie LaFrance, Education (also CAGS)
What Kind of Alumni Do Low-Income Students Become? An Investigation of the Relationship Between Income-Status and Future Alumni Involvement, Jerold S Laguilles, Educational Policy and Leadership
Theory of Mind and the Ability to Make Emotional Inferences Among Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders, Abigail Leibovitch, Psychology
Droplet-Interface Bilayer Technologies for Membrane Protein Analysis and Molecular Trafficking Measurements, Max J Lein, Chemistry
The Reflexive Scaffold: Metatheatricality, Genre, and Cultural Performance in English Renaissance Drama, Nathaniel C. Leonard, English
Multiscale Modeling of Human Addiction: a Computational Hypothesis for Allostasis and Healing, Yariv Z. Levy, Computer Science
An Archaeology Of Improvement In Rural New England: Capitalism, Landscape Change, and Rural Life In The Early 19th Century, Quentin Lewis, Anthropology
Optimizing Linear Queries Under Differential Privacy, Chao Li, Computer Science
Determination of Arsenic in Water by Potentially Portable Methodology, Chengbei Li, Chemistry
Beholders of the Truth, Pre-Destined to be Saved: The Communication of Chinese Indonesian Reformed Evangelical Christian (CIREC) Identity, Sunny Lie, Communication
Geochemistry and Inorganic Carbon Transport of a Glacial Till Drumlin at a Road Salt Facility, Houbao Li, Civil Engineering
Conditional Gaussian Fluctuations and Refined Asymptotics of the Spin In the Phase-Coexistence Region, Jingran Li, Mathematics
The Rise of Finance and Growing Inequality, Ken-Hou Lin, Sociology
Stability Of Thin Liquid Films Flowing Over Heterogeneous Surfaces And Gas-Solid Flow Of Decomposing Particles With Applications To Biomass Pyrolysis, Yenhan Lin, Chemical Engineering
Contract as Contested Terrain: An Economic History of Law and the Rise of American Capitalism, Daniel P MacDonald, Economics
The Effects of Tools of the Mind on Math and Reading Scores In Kindergarten, Patricia Estrela Mackay, Education (also CAGS)
Characterization of Self-Assembled Functional Polymeric Nanostructures: I. Magnetic Nanostructures from Metallopolymers II. Zwitterionic Polymer Vesicles in Ionic Liquid, Raghavendra Raj Maddikeri, Polymer Science and Engineering
Computer simulation of viral-assembly and translocation, Jyoti Prakash Mahalik, Polymer Science and Engineering
A Novel Approach For Stable, Cell-Type Restricted Knockdown of Gene Expression in C.ELEGANS, Kathryn N Maher, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Designing Novel Emulsion Performance by Controlled Hetero-Aggregation of Mixed Biopolymer Systems, Yingyi Mao, Food Science
Contested Subjects: Biopolitics & the Moral Stakes of Social Cohesion in Post-Welfare Italy, Milena Marchesi, Anthropology
Sweating Femininity: Women Athletes, Masculine Culture, and American Inequality from 1930 to the Present, Michella Mary Marino, History
Measuring Proton Spin Polarizabilities with Polarized Compton Scattering, Philippe Paul Martel, Physics
Supply Chain Management of Perishable Products with Applications to Healthcare, Amirhossein Masoumi, Isenberg School of Management
Reca Dynamics & the SOS Response in Escherichia Coli: Cellular Limitation of Inducing Filaments, Shawn Christopher Massoni, Microbiology
Knuckle-Walking Signal in the Manual Phalanges and Metacarpals of the Great Apes (Pan and Gorilla), Stacey Ann Matarazzo, Anthropology
Conservation and Ecology of Four Sympatric Felid Species In Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia, Jennifer Lynn McCarthy, Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation
Particle Behavior on Anisotropically Curved Interfaces, Kathleen McEnnis, Polymer Science and Engineering
Promising Prevention: Greening the Breast Cancer Movement in the United States, Kristen Abatsis McHenry, Political Science
Visiting or Here to Stay? How framing multiculturalism in different ways changes attitudes and inclusion of ethnic minorities in the United States, Melissa Ann McManus Scircle, Psychology
A Measurement of the W/Z Cross Section Ratio as a Function of Hadronic Activity with the ATLAS Detector, Andrew Robert Meade, Physics
Novice Drivers: Development And Evaluation Of Training Program For Hazard Anticipation, Hazard Mitigation And Attention Maintenance Skills In Complex Driving Scenarios, Hasmik Mehranian, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Attention Functioning in Chronic Pain as Compared to Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Correlates of Impaired Attention in Chronic Pain, Dmitry M Meyerson, Psychology; Clinical Psychology
Toward a Psychological Understanding of the Effects of Changes in Group Status on Intergroup Relations, Katya Alex Migacheva, Psychology
Macromolecular Assemblies: Human Gamma-Crystallin Protein, Glutamic Acid Bottle Brushes, And Hyaluronic Acid Gels, Benjamin Georg Robert Mohr, Polymer Science and Engineering
Martingale Central Limit Theorem and Nonuniformly Hyperbolic Systems, Luke Mohr, Mathematics
Privacy-Aware Collaboration Among Untrusted Resource Constrained Devices, Andres David Molina-Markham, Computer Science
Forward and Reverse Genetic Approaches to Studying Locomotor Behavior: atp2a1 and Gaba a Receptors in the Zebrafish Embryo, Bryan D Monesson-Olson, Neuroscience and Behavior
A hazard-based risk analysis approach to understanding climate change impacts to water resource systems: application to the Upper Great Lakes, Paul Markert Moody, Civil Engineering
Techno-Economic Feasibility Study of Ammonia Plants Powered by Offshore Wind, Eric R. Morgan, Mechanical Engineering
Indentification of Metabolic Constraints in Clostridium Phytofermentans Using Experimental Evolution and Metabolic Flux Analysis, Supratim Mukherjee, Microbiology
Arctic Lake Sediments As Records Of Climate Change Using Rock Magnetic Properties and Paleomagnetic Data, Kathryn J Murdock, Geosciences
Identifying Hazard Mitigation Behaviors That Lead To Differences in the Crash Risk Between Experienced and Novice Drivers, Jeffrey W Muttart, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Nasics: A `Fabric-Centric' Approach Towards Integrated Nanosystems, Pritish Narayanan, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: Interplay of Geometry, Communications, and Traffic, Mohammad Nekoui, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rebranding Gay: New Configurations of Digital Media and Commercial Culture, Eve C Ng, Communication
Development and Characterization of Caspase Activatable GFP and a Family of Fluorescent Reporters, Samantha Elizabeth Bernard Nicholls, Chemistry
Semantically Grounded Learning from Unstructured Demonstrations, Scott D. Niekum, Computer Science
Multiphase Flows with Digital and Traditional Microfluidics, Michael Andrew Nilsson, Mechanical Engineering
Essays on the Rising Demand for Convenience in Meal Provisioning in the United States, Tamara Ohler, Economics
Social Emulation, the Evolution of Gender Norms, and Intergenerational Transfers: Three Essays on the Economics of Social Interactions, Seung-Yun Oh, Economics
Techniques to Increase Computational Efficiency in Some Deterministic and Random Electromagnetic Propagation Problems, Selman Ozbayat, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Bringing the Ballot Box to the People: Election Administration and the Origins of Inclusive Voting Practices, Kevin Pallister, Political Science
The World Inscribed: Literary Form, Travel, and the Book in England, 1580-1660, Philip S Palmer, English