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Dissertations from 2009
Leviathan’S Rage: State Sovereignty And Crimes Against Humanity In The Late Twentieth Century, Cecil Bryant Lawson, Political Science
The Role Of Toc Receptor Interactions In Controlling Protein Import Into Chloroplasts, Jeonghwa Lee, Plant Biology
Normal and Extreme Sedimentation and Physical Processes in Lake Tuborg, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Edward Lewis, Geosciences
Understanding Adsorption In Mesoporous Materials Through Lattice-Based Density Functional Theory And Monte Carlo Simulation, Bradd E Libby, Chemical Engineering
Characterization Of P-Type Wide Band Gap Transparent Oxide For Heterojunction Devices, Sang-Hyun Lim, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Parents, Patriarchy, And Decision-Making Power: A Study Of Gender Relations As Reflected By Co-Residence Patterns Of Older Parents In The Immigrant Household, Lang Lin, Sociology
Determinants Of Stability In Initiating And Elongating T7 Rna Polymerase Complexes, Xiaoqing Liu, Chemistry
Approaches To Estimation Of Haplotype Frequencies And Haplotype-Trait Associations, Xiaohong Li, Public Health
The Role Of Stellar Feedback In Galaxy Evolution, Zhiyuan Li, Astronomy
A Frequency Selective Bolometer Camera for Measuring Millimeter Spectral Energy Distributions, Daniel William Logan, Astronomy
The SOS Response In Escherichia Coli: Single Cell Analysis Using Fluorescence Microscopy, Jarukit E Long, Microbiology
Characterization Of Magmatic And Diffusional Processes In Fractionally Differentiated Ultramafic Systems: Examples From The Grand Canyon, Usa, Paul Christopher Low, Geosciences
Managing Audits to Manage Earnings: The Impact of Baiting Tactics on an Auditor’s Ability to Uncover Earnings Management Errors, Benjamin Labrie Luippold, Management
Women in Engineering: Tell Me What You Need to Succeed, Susan Catherine Lyon, Education (also CAGS)
The Conformational Gymnastics of the Escherichia Coli SecA Molecular Machine and its Interactions with Signal Sequences, Jenny Lynn Maki, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Effect of Loading and Process Conditions on the Mechanical Behavior in SEBS Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPEs), Mohit Mamodia, Polymer Science and Engineering
Sensor Control and Scheduling Strategies for Sensor Networks, Victoria U. Manfredi, Computer Science
HSPF Modeling Of The Blackstone River Watershed: A Tool For The Evaluation Of Nutrient Based Watershed Management Strategies, James T. Mangarillo Jr., Civil Engineering
Saying “I Am” Experimentalism And Subjectivity In Contemporary Poetry By Claudia Rankine, M. Nourbese Philip, And Myung Mi Kim, Dawn Lundy Martin, English
The Role of Program Evaluations in Improving and Sustaining State-Supported School Counseling Programs: A Cross Case Analysis of Best Practices, Ian Monteg Martin, Education (also CAGS)
High Temperature Proton Conducting Materials and Fluorescent-Labeled Polymers for Sensor Applications, Surangkhana Martwiset, Polymer Science and Engineering
Knowledge, questions and answers., Meghan B. Masto, Philosophy
A woman of action: Elma Lewis, the arts, and the politics of culture in Boston, 1950-1986/, Daniel N. McClure, Afro-American Studies
The Artistry and Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois: A Twentieth Century African American Torchbearer, Alesia Elaine McFadden, Afro-American Studies
Adult Student Persistence In Online Education: Developing A Model To Understand The Factors That Affect Adult Student Persistence In A Course, Raymond J McGivney, Education; Educational Policy and Leadership
Determinants Of Environmentally Conscious Consumer Behaviors: Measuring The Value Consumer Environmentalism And Predicting Behavioral Intention To Purchase Environmentally Friendly Products, Megan Joy McIntosh, Isenberg School of Management
Seeing Lesbian Queerly: Visibility, Community, and Audience in 1980s Northampton, Massachusetts, Susan E. McKenna, Communication
Policy Options to Finance Public Higher Education in Afghanistan, Frank McNernery, Education (also CAGS)
Functionalized Nanoparticles For Biological Imaging And Detection Applications, Bing C Mei, Chemical Engineering
Do Actions Speak Louder Than Knowledge? Action Manipulation, Parent-Child Discourse And Children’S Mental State Understanding In Pretense, Dawn K Melzer, Psychology
On memory and testimony, Kirk Michaelian, Philosophy
First-Year Students’ Perception And Interpretation Of Teacher Response To Their Writing: Ten Students Speak, Missy-Marie Montgomery, English
The Role of Human and Social Capital in the Perpetuation of Leader Development, Jeffrey W. Mott, Sport Management
Natural Selection and the Syntax of Clausal Complementation, Keir Moulton, Linguistics
The Role Of University Community Service-Learning Partnerships In Supporting Socio-Economically Marginalized Communities: The Case Of Nuestras Raices, Mary Catherine Mukimba, Education, Policy and Leadership
Structure Of MFDn And Its Influence On The Stability And Activity Of The MFD Protein, Michael N Murphy, Chemistry
Economic Reforms in East African Countries: The Impact on Government Revenue and Public Investment, Adam Beni Swebe Mwakalobo, Economics
Molecular Designs Toward Improving Organic Photovoltaics, Arpornrat Nantalaksakul, Chemistry
History And Memory In The Fiction Of Chinua Achebe, John Edgar Wideman, And Zakes Mda, Okey Ndibe, English
Cold Spring, Hot Foundry: An Archaeological Exploration of the West Point Foundry’s Paternal Influence Upon the Village of Cold Spring and its Residents, Elizabeth M. Norris, Anthropology
Essays on Environmental Policy and Markets, Linus M. Nyiwul, Resource Economics
The People and Me: Michael Moore and the Politics of Political Documentary, Jon Scott Oberacker, Communication
Modulation of Macrophage Responses to Borrelia Burgdorferi in Acute Murine Lyme Carditis, Chris Martin Olson, Animal Biotechnology & Biomedical Sciences
Teacher Inquiry Group: The Space for (Un)packing Representations of Discourses of Achievement Gap and the Possibility of an Institutional Transforming Practice, Floris Wilma Ortiz-Marrero, Education (also CAGS)
Action-Based Representation Discovery in Markov Decision Processes, Sarah Osentoski, Computer Science
Globalization And Identity Formation: A Postcolonial Analysis Of The International Entrepreneur, Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Isenberg School of Management
Post-Marxism After Althusser: A Critique Of The Alternatives, Ceren Ozselcuk, Economics
Single Molecule Chiroptical Spectroscopy: Fluorescence Excitation Circular Dichroism and Circular Polarized Luminescence of Bridged Triarylamine Helicenes, Ruthanne Hassey Paradise, Chemistry
Literacy and Religious Agency: An Ethnographic Study of an Online LDS Women’s Group, Catherine Matthews Pavia, English
The Role Of The ER Glucosyltransferase In The Quality Control Of Glycoprotein Maturation, Bradley R Pearse, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Electronic Spectroscopy And Dissociation Dynamics Of Gasphase Transition Metal Containing Cations And Dications, Kanchana Manori Perera, Chemistry
The Role Of ERα, ERβ And Phytoestrogens From Soy In P53- Mediated Response To Dna Damage In Mammary Epithelium, Erick Roman Perez, Molecular and Cellular Biology
More Than One River: Local, Place-Based Knowledge and the Political Ecology of Restoration and Remediation Along the Lower Neponset River, Massachusetts, Simona Lee Perry, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
The Use of Item Response Theory in Developing a Phonics Diagnostic Inventory, Cynthia A. Pirani-McGurl, Education (also CAGS)
Risk Awareness And Perception And The Novice Driver: Development And Evaluation Of Training Interventions And Their Influence On Tactical And Strategic Visual Search Behavior, Anuj Kumar Pradhan, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Visuospatial Reasoning in Toddlers: A Correlational Study of Door Task Performance, Iris Louella Price, Neuroscience and Behavior
Network Efficiency/Performance Measurement With Vulnerability And Robustness Analysis With Application To Critical Infrastructure, Qiang Qiang, Isenberg School of Management
Investigation of Fe(III) Reduction in Geobacter Sulfurreducens Characterization of Outer Surface Associated Electron Transfer Components, Xenlei Qian, Microbiology
Liberation at the End of a Pen: Writing Pan-African Politics of Cultural Struggle, Anthony James Ratcliff, Afro-American Studies
Resource Management in Complex and Dynamic Environments, Mohammad Salimullah Raunak, Computer Science
American Jacobins: Revolutionary Radicalism In The Civil War Era, Jordan Lewis Reed, History
Molecular Changes Following Skeletal Muscle Disuse in Humans, Kimberly A. Reich, Kinesiology
Politics And Policy Processes In Federal Urban Forest Policy Formation And Change, Robert Marshall Ricard, Forest Resources and Public Policy
Reimbursement Comes From The Heart: The Organizational Structure Of Emotions And Care-Work In Nursing Homes, Jason Rodriguez, Sociology
Feasibility of Family Participation in a Delirium Prevention Program for the Older Hospitalized Adult, Deborah Rosenbloom-Brunton, Nursing
Formulating Older Driver Licensing Policy: An Evaluation of Older Driver Crash History and Performance, Heather A. Rothenberg, Civil Engineering
Polymeric Designs For Gene Delivery, Drug Delivery And Enzyme Activity Modulation, Raghunath Roy, Chemistry
Synthetic Ethical Naturalism, Michael Rubin, Philosophy
Essays on Financial Behavior and its Macroeconomic Causes and Implications, Soon Ryoo, Economics
On the Objectivity of Welfare, Alexander F. Sarch, Philosophy
Proline-Associated Antioxidant Enzyme Response In Cool-Season Turfgrasses Under Abiotic Stress, Dipayan Sarkar, Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
Self-Assembled Polymer Nanostructures: Design, Syntheses And Applications, Elamprakash N Savariar, Chemistry
Two Types of Definites in Natural Language, Florian Schwarz, Linguistics
Galaxy Evolution At High-Redshift: Millimeter-Wavelength Surveys With The AzTEC Camera, Kimberly S Scott, Astronomy
Piping Plover (Charadrius Melodius) Conservation on the Barrier Islands of New York: Habitat Quality and Implications in a Changing Climate, Jennifer Ruth Seavey, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
Effects of Sex and Social Status on Neuromuscular Differentiation in the Eusocial Naked Mole-Rat (Heterocephalus Glaber), Marianne Louise Seney, Neuroscience and Behavior
Numerical Modeling of Fracturing in Non-Cylindrical Folds: Case Studies in Fracture Prediction Using Structural Restoration, John Ryan Shackleton, Geosciences
A Program Evaluation Of Response To Intervention Implementation In The Clark County School District, Michael J. Shaf, School Psychology
On the Discrete Differential Geometry of Surfaces in S4, George Shapiro, Mathematics
Correction Methods, Approximate Biases, and Inference for Misclassified Data, Meng-Shiou Shieh, Mathematics
A Blog-Mediated Curriculum for Teaching Academic Genres in an Urban Classroom: Second Grade ELL Students’ Emergent Pathways to Literacy Development, Dong-shin Shin, Education (also CAGS)
The Role Of Lexical Contrast In The Perception Of Intonational Prominence In Japanese, Takahito Shinya, Linguistics
Investments In Energy Technological Change Under Uncertainty, Ekundayo Shittu, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
How Does Beauty Matter? An Exploration Of Employee Perceptions Of Office Aesthetics, Elizabeth A Siler, Management
Retinoic Acid Transfer And Protein-Protein Interaction Between The Cellular Retinoic Acid Binding Protein And The Retinoic Acid Receptor Probed By Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry, Virginie Sjoelund, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Skill Mismatch and Wage Inequality in the U.S., Fabian Slonimczyk, Economics
Developing Reactive Molecular Dynamics for Understanding Polymer Chemical Kinetics, Kenneth D. Smith, Chemical Engineering
Novel Superfluid States In Bosonic Systems, Sebnem Gunes Soyler, Physics
The role of motivation to change in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder, Christopher M. Spofford, Psychology
Teacher Change Facilitated By Sustained School Situated Professional Development: Exemplar Learning Of Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment (TEFA), Karen St. Cyr, Education
The Influence Of Parent And Community Involvement On Local School Councils In Massachusetts, Leslie B Stein, Education
An Integrated Methodology For Optimal Egress Route Assignment During Population Evacuation Under An Evolving Emergency Event, A. V Stepanov, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Detrimental Effects of Inactivity on Insulin Action, Brooke Rene Stephens, Kinesiology
The Emergence of DP in the Partitive Structure, Helen Stickney, Linguistics
City Marketing and Gated Communities: A Case Study of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, Carlos A. Suarez-Carrasquillo, Political Science
Functional And Comparative Morphology Of The Pectoral Fins Among Scorpaeniform Fishes, Natalia K Taft, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Assembly, Cross-Linking And Encapsulation Using Functionalized Nanoparticles At Liquid Interfaces, Ravisubhash Tangirala, Polymer Science and Engineering
Galactic Bulge Feedback and its Impact on Galaxy Evolution, Shikui Tang, Astronomy
The Adoption of Shamanic Healing into the Biomedical Health Care System in the United States, Lori L. Thayer, Anthropology
Investigation of Chemotaxis Genes and Their Functions in Geobacter Species, Hoa T. Tran, Chemistry