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Dissertations from 2010
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
Performance And Potential: How State And District Education Leaders Perceive The Current Performance And Potential Role Of Educational Collaboratives In Massachusetts, Anne Stewart McKenzie, Education
Identification And Functional Characterization Of Zebrafish Gene Technotrousers (tnt), Kelly Anne McKeown, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Functional Consequences of Acute Temperature Stress in the Western Fence Lizard, Sceloporus Occidentalis, David Michael McMillan, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Multibit Incremental Data Converters, Arash Mehrabi, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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
The Preservation Of Iroquois Thought: J. N. B. Hewitt’s Legacy Of Scholarship For His People, Kathryn Lavely Merriam, History
Gossip Talk and Online Community: Celebrity Gossip Blogs and Their Audiences, Erin Ann Meyers, Communication
Earning And Learning: The Impact Of Paid Work On First-Generation Student Persistence, Marilyn Micka-Pickunka, Education
Making Peace On The Island Of Love: An Ethnographic Exploration Of Peacebuilding In Cyprus., Lisa Modenos, Anthropology
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
The Role Of Histone Acetylation In Sexual Differentiation Of The Mouse Brain, Elaine K Murray, Neuroscience and Behavior
Modeling Solid-Fluid Equilibrium Of Chiral Molecules, Monica D Navarro, Chemical Engineering
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
Do Employers Have A Race? Employers‘ Racial Ideology And The Marginalization Of Black Male Workers In The Pullman Company 1858-1969, Francisca E Oyogoa, Sociology
Commercial Surrogacy In India: Nine Months Of Labor?, Amrita Pande, Sociology
Water-in-Oil Microemulsions: Counterion Effects in AOT Systems and New Fluorocarbon-based Microemulsion Gels, Xiaoming Pan, Chemical Engineering
Synthesis Of Doped Semiconductor Nanostructures Using Microemulsions And Liquid Crystals As Templates, Tracy Heckler Panzarella, Chemical Engineering
Practices Of Value: A Materialist View Of Going Public With Student Writing, Denise Paster, English
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
The Rise Of Cartesian Occasionalism, Andrew Russell Platt, Philosophy
Synthesis, Design And Operating Strategies For Batch Reactive Distillation, Wei Qi, Chemical Engineering
Prediction And Manipulation Of Drop Size Distribution Of Emulsions Using Population Balance Equation Models For High-Pressure Homogenization, Neha B. Raikar, Chemical Engineering
Analysis Of Chain Configuration In Semi-Crystalline Random Copolymers, Suriyakala Ramalingam, Chemistry
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
Exploring Elementary Teachers’ Implementation Of Formative Assessment Practices For Reading, Irving Richardson, Teacher Education and School Improvement
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
Delivering Knowledge Services: The Relationship Of Contract/Governance Structures To Organizational Justice Assessments And Resulting Interorganizational Relationships, Terence E Rodgers, Isenberg School of Management
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
Physical, Chemical, And Biological Monitoring And Analysis Of Four Small New England Watersheds During Baseflow And Stormflow Conditions, Rebecca Baker Sadosky, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andrea And Me: A Digital Autoethnographic Journey Into The Past, Carlos Salsedo, Communication
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
Surface Engineered Nanoparticles For Self-Assembly And Their Applications, Bappaditya Samanta, Chemistry
The Evolution Of Cranial Morphology, Feeding Performance And Behavior In Neotropical Leaf-Nosed Bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), Sharlene E Santana Mata, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
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
Evaluation And Use Of Parsimonious Reactive Solute Transport Models For Prediction Of Contaminant Behavior At An Acid Mine Drainage Site, Ashmita Sengupta, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Becoming Union Square: Struggles For Legitimacy In Nineteenth-Century New York, Michael D Shapiro, History
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
Foundations And Applications Of Generalized Planning, Siddharth Srivastava, Computer Science
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)
Equalizer Design For Wireless Communications, Jie Sun, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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
Cooperative Immunological And Pharmacological Control Of SEB-Induced T Cell Activation And Subsequent Pathology, Mulualem Enyew Tilahun, Animal Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences
The Fight For Freedom Must Be Fought On All Fronts: Liberator Magazine And Black Radicalism, 1960-1971, Christopher Matthew Tinson, Afro-American Studies
Spectroscopic And Biochemical Studies On Novel Heme Transport Proteins From Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Yong Tong, Chemistry
Development Of Clinically Relevant Models For Tumor Growth, Raja Venkatasubramanian, Chemical Engineering
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
Managing Resources For High Performance And Low Energy In General-Purpose Processors, Huaping Wang, Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Impact of Disciplinarity on the Organizational Leadership Styles of Academic Deans, Lauren J. Way, Education (also CAGS)
Involvement Of Ion Fluxes And cAMP Pathways In Sperm Capacitation, Eva Wertheimer, Animal Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences
It Does Not Have To Be Liking: An Exploration Of Respect And Its Role In (Transforming) Conflict, Amelie Werther, Psychology
Spatial Ecology Of Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene C. Carolina) In Central Massachusetts, Lisabeth L Willey, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation
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
Separase: Linking Cell Division And Root Morphology In Arabidopsis, Shuang Wu, Plant Biology
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
Word Recognition In The Parafovea: An Eye Movement Investigation Of Chinese Reading, Jinmian Yang, Psychology
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
The Significance Of Relationship Equity And Its Impact On Affective Commitment And Behavior Loyalty In The Professional Spectator Sport Setting, Chunsuk Yoon, Sport Management
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)
Synthesis And Self-Assembly Of Diblock Copolymers For Photovoltaic Applications, Serkan Yurt, Chemistry