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Dissertations from 2013
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
Evaluating Translation As An Explicit Instruction Tool To Improve L2 Written Skills: An Empirical Study, Beatriz Pariente-Beltran, Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics
The Moralization Of Social Groups: Consequences for Intergroup Relations and Social Identity, Michael T Parker, Psychology
Characterization and Network Consequences Of Low Spreading Loss in Underwater Acoustic Networks, James W Partan, Computer Science
Evidence of an Infectious Asthma Phenotype: Chlamydia Driven Allergy and Airway Hyperresponsiveness in Pediatric Asthma, Katir Kirit Patel, Microbiology
Molecular and Population Level Approaches to Understand Taxus Metabolism in Cell Suspension Cultures, Rohan Anil Patil, Chemical Engineering
Molecular Characterization of the Pathophysiology of the Digital Laminae in Acute Carbohydrate-Induced Equine Laminitis, Erica Ann Pawlak, Animal Biotechnology & Biomedical Sciences
O2 Activation and Allosteric Zn(Ii) Binding on Hif-Prolyl Hydroxylase-2 (Phd2), Serap Pektas, Chemistry
Decollectivization and Rural Poverty in Post-Mao China: A Critique of the Conventional Wisdom, Zhaochang Peng, Economics
Modeling the Influence of Childhood Trauma on Rate of Symptom Change Among Psychiatric Inpatients, Alessandro T. Piselli, Psychology
The Development of Spanish Aspect in the Second Language Classroom: Concept-Based Pedagogy and Dynamic Assessment, Marie-Christine Polizzi, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics
Transition Network: Exploring Intersections Between Culture, the Climate Crisis, and a Digital Network in a Community - Driven Global Social Movement, Emily Polk, Communication
Enigmatic Realism: Doing Justice through Photography and Figuration in Sebald, Marias, and Hemon, Daniel Pope, Comparative Literature
Bodipy-Based Panchromatic (pi) Conjugated Polymers For Organic Photovoltaics, Bhooshan Chandrakant Popere, Chemistry
Reactive Heterocycles for Examining Polyketide Biosynthesis, Gitanjeli Prasad, Chemistry
Teaching Strategies for Using Projected Images to Develop Conceptual Understanding: Exploring Discussion Practices in Computer Simulation and Static Image-Based Lessons, Norman Tinkham Price, Education (also CAGS)
Food-Grade Nanodispersions For Encapsulation, Protection and Delivery Of Bioactive Food Component, Cheng Qian, Food Science
Structural Changes That Drive Timed Promoter Release In Transcription Reciprocally Lead To Abortive Instability, Luis Enrique Ramirez-Tapia, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Effective Biosensor Arrays Using Gold Nanoparticle-Protein Conjugates, Subinoy Rana, Chemistry
Transiently Powered Computers, Benjamin Ransford, Computer Science
Rationalizing Lipid Nanoemulsion Formation for Utilization In the Food and Beverage Industry, Jiajia Rao, Food Science
Toughening Semicrystalline Poly(Lactic Acid) By Morphology Alteration, Sahas R Rathi, Polymer Science and Engineering
Process Development for Scalable Templated Synthesis of Compund Semiconductor Nanocrystals, Ryan D Reeves, Chemical Engineering
Capitalist Crisis and Capitalist Reaction: The Profit Squeeze, the Business Roundtable, and the Capitalist Class Mobilization of the 1970s, Alejandro Reuss, Economics
Structural And Biochemical Studies Of The Human Lysosomal Enzymes: N-Acetylgalactosamine-6-Sulfatase, N-Sulfoglucosamine Sulfohydrolase And Beta-Galactosidase, Yadilette Rivera Colon, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Navigating Indigenous Identity, Dwanna Lynn Robertson, Sociology
Shakespearean Signifiers, Marie H Roche, English
New Insights into Corruption: Paradoxical Effects of Approach-Orientation for Powerholders, Mindi Sara Rock, Psychology
Online Management of Resilient and Power Efficient Multicore Processors, Rance Rodrigues, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Effects of Phytochemicals from Rhodiola crenulata on Highly Invasive Breast Cancer Cell Lines and Embryonic Models of Migration, Adaris Rodriguez-Cortes, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Why Do Consumers Consume Prosocially? The Equity Exchange Theory Of Marketing, Spencer Mitchel Ross, Isenberg School of Management
Coaching the Self: Identity Work(Ing) and the Self-Employed Professional, Sinéad Grace Ruane, Management
Investigation of the Structure/Function Relationship in Nickel Containing Superoxide Dismutase, Kelly C Ryan, Chemistry
Software Techniques to Reduce the Energy Consumption of Low-Power Devices at the Limits of Digital Abstractions, Mastooreh Salajegheh, Computer Science
Hybrid Push: A Mechanistic Model For Initial Transcription Common to All RNA Polymerases, Satamita Samanta, Chemistry
Technology and Modernity at the Boundaries of Global Delhi, Sreela Sarkar, Communication
The Economics of Same-Sex Couple Households: Essays on Work, Wages, and Poverty, Alyssa Schneebaum, Economics
Supporting the Persuasive Writing Practices of English Language Learners Through Culturally Responsive Systemic Functional Pedagogy, Joshua Mark Schulze, Education (also CAGS)
Circles and Lines: Complexities of Learning in Community, Sara Lynne Schupack, Education (also CAGS)
The Political Economy of Cultural Production: Essays on Music and Class, Ian J. Seda Irizarry, Economics
Bridging The Gap Between Autonomous Skill Learning And Task-Specific Planning, Shiraj Sen, Computer Science
Elastic Resource Management in Cloud Computing Platforms, Upendra Sharma, Computer Science
Using a Mixture IRT Model to Understand English Learner Performance on Large-Scale Assessments, Christine A Shea, Psychometric Methods, Education Statistics and Research Methods
Effects of Chronic Administration of THC on MDMA-Induced Physiological, Behavioral, and Neurochemical Alterations, Erica Yibei Shen, Neuroscience and Behavior
Conservation Governance and Management of Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park, Buffer Zone, and Buffer Zone Community Forest User Groups in Pharak, Nepal, Mingma Norbu Sherpa, Geosciences
Neuroadaptations and Behavioral Profiles Associated with Cocaine Self-Administration in Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta), Nina M Shinday, Neuroscience and Behavior
New Media and ICT for Social Change and Development in China, Song Shi, Communication
Resource Management for Enterprise Data Center Applications, Rahul Singh, Computer Science
The Role of Capabilities in Innovation Adoption Decisions, Kevin Snyder, Management
Toward A Secure and Scalable Internet and Economic Incentives for Evolvable Internet Architecture, Yang Song, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Interactions between floral mutualists and antagonists, and consequences for plant reproduction, Nicole Leland Soper Gorden, Plant Biology
Measurement-Driven Characterization of the Mobile Environment, Hamed Soroush, Computer Science
Measuring Teacher Effectiveness Using Students' Test Scores, Amanda Corby Soto, Education
A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Second Graders with Dyslexia Using the Motor Markers in the Cerebellar Deficit Hypothesis, Sandra Kathleen Stark, Communication Disorders
Remember Where We Came From: Globalization And Environmental Discourse In The Araucania Region Of Chile, Niall Stephens, Communication
Resilient Environmental Governance: Protecting Changing Ecosystems Through Multilevel Governance, Casey Stevens, Political Science
The Politics Of Identity in Contemporary Denmark, Nicole Stokes-DuPass, Sociology
Engineering Functional Nanostructures for Materials and Biological Applications, Chandramouleeswaran Subramani, Chemistry
The Role Of Notch In Th17 Differentiation, Reem Suleiman, Animal Biotechnology & Biomedical Sciences
Translating Trickster, Performing Identity: Representations Of The Monkey King (Sun Wukong) In Chinese And Asian American Rewritings, Hongmei Sun, Comparative Literature
Conjugated Molecules and Materials for Single Molecule Chiroptical Studies, Sensing of Toxic Nerve Agent Mimics and Solar Thermal Fuels, Sravan K Surampudi, Chemistry
Building a Third Space: How Academic Language Knowledge Helps Pre-Service Teachers Develop Content Literacy Practices, Erik J. Sussbauer, Education (also CAGS)
Approaches to Black Power: African American Grassroots Political Struggle in Cleveland, Ohio, 1960-1966, David M. Swiderski, Afro-American Studies
Interactions between a Gall Making Fly, Dasineura Oxycoccana (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), And Its Host Plant, Cultivated Cranberry (Vaccinium Macrocarpon), Sunil Tewari, Entomology
Protein Transduction Domain Mimics by ROMP and Their Bioactive Cargo Delivery, Arife Ozgul Tezgel, Polymer Science and Engineering
Synthetic Mimics Of Antimicrobial Peptides From Aryl Scaffolds, Hitesh Thaker, Polymer Science and Engineering
Sharevision Collaboration Between High School Counselors and Athletic Educators to Stop LGBTQ Bullying, Lisa Dawn Thompson, Education (also CAGS)
Essays Of Human Capital Formation, Owen Thompson, Economics
Controlling Lipid Oxidation of Food By Non-Migratory Metal-Chelating Active Packaging Films, Fang Tian, Food Science
Travelers' Route Choice Behavior in Risky Networks, Hengliang Tian, Civil Engineering
The Ecology and Conservation of the Eastern Spadefoot (Scaphiopus holbrookii) in the Province Lands of Cape Cod National Seashore, U.S.A., Brad Timm, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
Regulation of Eg5 and TPX2 During Mammalian Mitosis, Janel Titus, Molecular and Cellular Biology
The Race-Time Continuum: Race Projrction in DEFA Genre Cinema, Evan Torner, German and Scandinavian Studies
Data Quality Assessment and rainfall Estimation Using Dense Radar Networks, Jorge M Trabal-Del Valle, Electrical and Computer Engineering
High-Performance Processing of Continuous Uncertain Data, Thanh Thi Lac Tran, Computer Science
Adventures in Fictionality: Sites along the Border between Fiction and Reality, Rhona Trauvitch, Comparative Literature
Uncertainty in Climatic Change Impacts on Multiscale Watershed Systems, Olga V. Tsvetkova, Environmental Conservation
Evolution of Hybrid Incompatibilities in Gene Regulatory Networks, Alexander Y. Tulchinsky, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Fan Communities and Subgroups: Exploring Individuals' Supporter Group Experiences, Bruce David Tyler, Sport Management
From Diagnosis to Intervention: Charting the Path with Families of Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Scott M Tyner, Education
Microbial Community Composition and the Effects of Trace Elements on Methanogenesis Associated with Deep Subsurface Coal, Burcu Unal, Microbiology
Reconfigurable Technologies for Next Generation Internet and Cluster Computing, Deepak C. Unnikrishnan, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Transformation In Action: Approaches to Incorporating Race and Racism into Clinical Social Work Practice & Curriculum, Rani Varghese, Education (also CAGS)
Spaced-Antenna Wind Estimation Using an X-Band Phased-Array Weather Radar, Vijay Venkatesh, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Race, Gender, Class, And Land Property Rights In Colombia A Historical Ethnography Of The Afrocolombians’ Struggles Over Land, 1851-2011, Aurora Vergara Figueroa, Sociology
Charge Transport Studies of Proton and Ion Conducting Materials, Craig William Versek, Physics
Population and Spatial Ecology of Tigers and Leopards Relative to Prey Availability and Human Activity in Thung Yai Naresuan (East) Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand, Supagit Vinitpornsawan, Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation
The Process of Organizational Capacity Development in Action in Post-Conflict Setting of the Literacy Department of Afghanistan, Habibullah Wajdi, Educational Planning, Research, and Administration
Generating Simulators From Multi-Level Coordinated Specifications, Edward K. Walters II, Computer Science
Tools for Probing Protein Higher-Order Structure: Monitoring Aggregation with Native ESI-MS and Conformational Dynamics with Top-Down H/D Exchange MS, Guanbo Wang, Chemistry
Investigation of microalgae cultivation and anaerobic codigestion of algae and sewage sludge for wastewater treatment facilities, Meng Wang, Civil Engineering
Development of Mass Spectrometry-Based Methods for Quantitation and Characterization of Protein Drugs: Transferrin as a Model Drug Delivery Vehicle, Shunhai Wang, Chemistry
Computer Simulations of Polyelectrolyte Stretching and Translocation, Yanbo Wang, Physics
Molecular Designs for Charge and Ion Transporting Materials, Sompit Wanwong, Chemistry
Seeds of a New Economy? A Qualitative Investigation of Diverse Economic Practices Within Community Supported Agriculture and Community Supported Enterprise, Ted White, Geosciences
Racialized Spaces In Teacher Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Place-Based Identities In Roche Bois, Mauritius, Elsa Marie Wiehe, Education (also CAGS)
A Multidirectional Memory Approach to Representations of Colonization, Racism, and Genocide in Literature, Pamela Lagergren Williams, English
Dynamic Secrets in Communication Security, Sheng Xiao, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Preparing Visually-Impaired People in the Philippines for Mainstrem Employment: Perceptions of the Impact of ICT Accessibility, Angela Kathryn Yang-Handy, Educational Policy and Leadership; International Education
Experimental and Computational Studies of Aqueous-Phase Hydrogenation of Biorenewable Aromatic Chemicals, Jin Yang, Chemical Engineering
Parent's Socioeconomic Class Position and Children's Time Use Patterns, Ayse Yetis Bayraktar, Sociology
Bayesian Anatomy of Galaxy Structure, Ilsang Yoon, Astronomy
Replica Exchange Monte Carlo Simulations of the Ising Spin Glass: Static and Dynamic Properties, Burcu Yucesoy, Physics
Assembly Of Surface Engineered Nanoparticles For Functional Materials, Xi Yu, Chemistry
Hybrid Radio Frequency and Video Framework for Identity-Aware Augmented Perception in Disaster Management and Assistive Technologies, Xunyi Yu, Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Everyday Feast: Recreational Consumption and Social Status in Early Modern English Drama, Timothy W Zajac, English
R&D Portfolio Analysis of Low Carbon Technologies to Reduce Climate Change Mitigation Costs, Rose M Zdybel, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering; Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
The Local Production Of Welfare Humanitarianism In Neoliberal Turkey, F. Gizem Zencirci, Political Science
Helical Ordering in Chiral Block Copolymers, Wei Zhao, Polymer Science and Engineering
Inhabiting Spaces, Making Places: Creating a Spatial and Material Biography of David Ruggles, Linda M Ziegenbein, Anthropology
Dynamic Factor Analysis For Panel Data: A Generalized Model, Nikolaos Zirogiannis, Resource Economics
Sensory Processing and the Self Care Task of Eating in Children with Autism, Jeanne Zobel-Lachiusa, Education (also CAGS)
Dissertations from 2012
Modeling Material Transformations in Biorefinement, Vishal Agarwal, Chemical Engineering
Accuracy of Biomass and Structure Estimates from Radar and Lidar, Razi Uddin Ahmed, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Teachers' Development Of Global Awareness and Its Influence On Their Teaching Practice in The 21st Century Classroom, Therese M Ajtum-Roberts, Education; Teacher Education & School Improvement
Sleep Disturbances in Alzheimer's Disease and Caregiver Mood: A Diary Study, Anna Maria Katarina Akerstedt, Psychology
A Study on Small Scale Intermittency Using Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence, Saba Almalkie, Mechanical Engineering
Understanding Maternal Health–Care Seeking Behavior In Low-Income Communities In Accra, Ghana, Patricia Anafi, Public Health
Organizing Markets: The Structuring of Neoliberalism in the U.S. Airline Industry, Dustin Robert Avent-Holt, Sociology
Topics in High Energy Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Ufuk Aydemir, Physics
Goals, Principles, and Practices for Community-Based Adult Education Through the Lens of A Hatcher-Assagioli Synthesis, Andrea Shepard Ayvazian, Education (also CAGS)
The Guerilla Tongue": The Politics of Resistance in Puerto Rican Poetry, Natasha Azank, English
The Role Of The Upper Body In Human Locomotion, Jennifer L Baird, Kinesiology
Proton Transfer in Organic Scaffolds, Dipankar Basak, Chemistry
Knowledge, Gender, and Production Relations in India's Informal Economy, Amit Basole, Economics
The Rise Up and Leadership in Community Service Classes and Their Impact on the Relationships, School Retention and Persistence of Marginalized Students at One Level Four School, Heather A. Batchelor, Education (also CAGS)
Woodrow Wilson's Conversion Experience: The President and the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment, Beth Behn, History
Journey From Islamism To Conservative Democracy: The Politics Of Religious Party Moderation In Turkey, Guliz Dinc Belcher, Political Science
Information Retrieval with Query Hypergraphs, Michael Bendersky, Computer Science
Determination and Speciation of Arsenic in Environmental and Biological Samples, Tiffany Berg, Chemistry
Quantum Corrections to the Gravitational Interaction of Massless Particles, Thomas J. Blackburn Jr., Physics
On the Effect of Elasticity on Drag Reduction Due to Polymer Additives Using a Hybrid D.N.S. and Langevin Dynamics Approach, Arnout Boelens, Chemical Engineering
An Investigation of the Efficacy of Speech and Language Interventions with Students with ASD Using Telepractice, Michelle Kathleen Boisvert, Communication Disorders
Rebranding Diversity: Colorblind Racism Inside The U.S. Advertising Industry, Christopher Boulton, Communication
The Importance of Relationship Quality in Informal HIV Caregiving: A Dyadic Process, Allison Casta Mercado Branch, Psychology
Controlling Morphology in Swelling-Induced Wrinkled Surfaces, Derek Breid, Polymer Science and Engineering
Calcareous Nannofossil Records Of Miocene Sea Level At The Marion Plateau (Northeastern Australia); And Pliocenepleistocene Formation Of Cold Water Carbonate Mounds (North Eastern Atlantic Continental Margin), Emily Browning, Geosciences
Gradients and Ranges of Visually Selective Attention Based on Location, Objects, Color, and Size: Gradients are Universal, but Range is Uniquely Spatial, William S. Bush, Neuroscience and Behavior
Diatoms as Recorders of Sea Ice in the Bering and Chukchi Seas: Proxy Development and Application, Beth A. Caisse, Geosciences
A Comprehensive Model of Human Neuromuscular Function During Repeated Isometric Contractions: Predicting the Effect of Age on Fatigue, Damien Mark Callahan, Kinesiology
Decision-Theoretic Meta-reasoning in Partially Observable and Decentralized Settings, Alan Scott Carlin, Computer Science
Security Issues in Networked Embedded Devices, Danai Chasaki Sr, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Minor Components and Their Roles on Lipid Oxidation in Bulk Oil That Contains Association Colloids, Bingcan Chen, Food Science
Characterization of Bovine ɣδ T Cell WC1 Coreceptors: Sequence, Expression, and Function, Chuang Chen, Animal Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences
Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis of Furan Over Zsm-5 Catalysts: A Model Biomass Conversion Reaction, Yu-Ting Cheng, Chemical Engineering
Functional Polymers for Anhydrous Proton Transport, Nagamani Chikkannagari, Chemistry
Investigation Of Excess Sludge Reduction By An Anaerobic Side-Stream Reactor (ASSR): The Role Of EPS And Enzymes In Sludge Floc, Dong-Hyun Chon, Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Poems of Lady Hester Pulter (1605?-1678): An Annotated Edition, Stefan Graham Christian, English
Synthesis and Photophysical Characterization of Conjugated Molecules for Potential Solar Cell Uses, John Matthew Chudomel, Chemistry
Risk Quantification of Maple Trees Subjected to Wind Loading, Cihan Ciftci, Civil Engineering
Structure, Function, and Pharmacological Chaperones for Human α-N-Acetylgalactosaminidase, Nathaniel E Clark, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Determinants of Informal Employment: The Case of Clothing Traders in Johannesburg, South Africa, Jennifer E Cohen, Economics
Norbornene Based Polybetaines: Synthesis And Biological Applications, Semra Colak, Polymer Science and Engineering
In the Heart of the Beast: Masculinity and Fatherhood on the Inside, Anna M Curtis, Sociology
Self-Knowledge in a Natural World, Jeremy Cushing, Philosophy
A comprehensive fifty-one jurisdiction review of statutes mandating and encouraging the teaching of history in K-12 schools., A. Edward Cutting, Education
Malleable Racial Identity In Multiracial Individuals: A New Paradigm For Integrating Race And Identity In The United States, Mamta Banu Dadlani, Clinical Psychology
Understanding Hard Interaction in QCD and the Search for the Gluon Spin Contribution to the Spin of the Proton, Amaresh Datta, Physics
Surface Instabilities for Adhesion Control, Chelsea Simone Davis, Polymer Science and Engineering
Hacia un Reencantamiento Posthumanista: Poesía, Ciencia y Nuevas Tecnologías, Marta del Pozo Ortea, Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics
Towards a posthumanist reenchantment: Poetry, science and new technologies, Marta del Pozo Ortea, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
In Pursuit of a Balanced System of Educational Assessment: An Evaluation of the Pre-Kindergarten Through 8th Grade Math Assessment System in One Massachusetts Regional School District, Rita Joyce Detweiler, Education (also CAGS)
The Relationship Between Mass Incarceration and Crime in the Neoliberal Period in the United States, Geert Leo Dhondt, Economics
Swelling and Folding as Mechanisms of 3D Shape Formation in Thin Elastic Sheets, Marcelo A. Dias, Physics
Technologies of Racial Formation: Asian-American Online Identities, Linh Dich, English
Molecular Interactions of the Tick Salivary Protein Salp15, Cassidy Dobson, Molecular and Cellular Biology
The Intersectionality of Race, Adoption and Parenting: How White Adoptive Parents of Asian Born Children Talk About Race Within the Family, Jen H. Dolan, Education (also CAGS)
Biocultural Perspectives on Gender, Transitions, Stress, and Immune Function, Leo Zachary DuBois, Anthropology
Essays on Variance Risk, Jump Risk and Options Information, Jian Du, Isenberg School of Management
Modeling the Relaxation Dynamics of Fluids in Nanoporous Materials, John R. Edison, Chemical Engineering
Syntax-Prosody Interactions in Irish, Emily Elfner, Linguistics
Theory of Interacting Polyelectrolytes Under Confinement, Alexander Eliseev, Physics
Fair Trade, Agrarian Cooperatives, and Rural Livelihoods in Peru, Noah Enelow, Economics
Identification and Functional Characterization of the Zebrafish Gene Quetschkommode (que), Timo Friedrich, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Making Something Of It: The Untold Stories Of Promising Black Males At A Predominately White Institution Of Higher Education, Michael Sean Funk, Social Justice Education
The Theory of Compromised Eating Behavior, Ellen Frances Furman, Nursing
Local Torsion on Abelian Surfaces, Adam Gamzon, Mathematics
Verbalizing in the Second Language Classroom: The Development of the Grammatical Concept of Aspect, Prospero N. Garcia, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
How Should I Act?: Shakespeare and the Theatrical Code of Conduct, Ann E. Garner, English
Breaking the Barriers of All-Polymer Solar Cells: Solving Electron Transporter And Morphology Problems, Nagarjuna Gavvalapalli, Chemistry
Maternal and Fetal Factors Associated with Labor and Delivery Complications, Prasad L. Gawade, Public Health
In Search Of The Fraternal: Salvific Manhood And Male Intimacy In The Novels Of James Baldwin, Ernest L. Gibson III, Afro-American Studies
Individual Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Congeners Interact to Disrupt Thyroid Hormone Action During Development, Stefanie Giera, Molecular and Cellular Biology
The Viroporin Activity of VP2, VP3 and VP4 Contribute to the SV40 Viral Life Cycle, Kristina M Giorda, Molecular and Cellular Biology
A Social History of Power and Struggle in Turkey: State, Memory, Movements, and Identity of Outsiderness in Dersim, Ozlem Goner, Sociology
Management of Switchgrass for the Production Of Biofuel, Leryn Elise Gorlitsky, Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences
Irony & Ideology: Oppositional Politics And Cultural Engagement In Post-September 11th America, Viveca S Greene, Communication
Leveraging Marketing Resources to Strengthen Stakeholder Company Identification, Mark David Groza, Management
Mechanics and Energetics of Footfall Patterns in Running, Allison H. Gruber, Kinesiology
The Assembly of Galaxies Over Cosmic Time, Yicheng Guo, Astronomy
Production of Third Spaces for Immigrant English Language Learners: (Re)Negotiating Identity and Discourse in the Secondary Classroom, Andrew W. Habana Hafner, Education (also CAGS)
Studies in Consumer Procrastination, Shabnam Haj Azim Zanjani, Isenberg School of Management
Supporting Public High School Teachers in a Context of Multiple Mandates: A Social Justice Approach to Professional Learning Communities, Philip J. Harak, Education (also CAGS)
Processing Perspectives, Jesse Aron Harris, Linguistics
Studies in the Atomic Spectrometric Determination of Selenium, Mercury, and Rare Earth Elements, Lindsay Rhae Harris, Chemistry
Enabling Easy Consumer Access to Services and Products, Baris Hasdemir, Isenberg School of Management
Fundamental Studies on Elastin-Like Oligo- and Polypeptides, Adam P Hathorne, Polymer Science and Engineering
Molecular mechanisms regulating Complement Receptor 3-mediated phagocytosis of Borrelia burgdorferi, Kelly Lynn Hawley, Animal Biotechnology & Biomedical Sciences
Exhaustivity In Questions & Clefts; And The Quantifier Connection: A Study In German And English, Tanja Heizmann, Linguistics
Tuning the Properties of Metal-Ligand Complexes to Modify the Properties of Supramolecular Materials, Ian Henderson, Polymer Science and Engineering
Porous Metal Oxide Materials Through Novel Fabrication Procedures, Nicholas Hendricks, Polymer Science and Engineering
Virtual Black Spaces: An Anthropological Exploration of African American Online Communities' Racial and Political Agency Amidst Virtual Universalism, Kamela S Heyward, Anthropology
Metal Selectivity In The E. coli Ni(II)- And Co(II)-Responsive Transcriptional Regulator, RcnR, Khadine Athena Higgins, Chemistry
Target Recognition and Competitive Synaptogenesis in the Drosophila Giant Fiber System, Jason Joseph Hill, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Phase Transitions in Polyelectrolyte Systems, Jing Hua, Physics
Weakly Supervised Learning for Unconstrained Face Processing, Gary B. Huang, Computer Science
Real-Time Information and Correlations for Optimal Routing in Stochastic Networks, He Huang, Civil Engineering
Regulation of Caspase-9 by Natural and Synthetic Inhibitors, Kristen L. Huber, Chemistry
Getting Beyond What Educators See As Wrong: How Understanding the Strengths of Low-Income Puerto Rican Families Can Help Urban Schools Improve, Paul Hyry-Dermith, Education (also CAGS)
Os Grão-Capitães Como Sequência De Contos: Paratextualidade, Imagética E Os Contornos De Um Género Literário, António M.A. Igrejas, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
Expository and Narrative Discourse in Adolescents with Reading and Language Impairments: Assessment and Intervention, Beverly Iuliano, Communication Disorders
Runx1 Regulates c-Myc Expression And The Expansion Of Hematopoietic Precursors In A C-terminally Dependent Manner, Paejonette Jacobs, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Production of Green Aromatics and Olefins from Lignocellulosic Biomass by Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis: Chemistry, Catalysis, and Process Development, Jungho Jae, Chemical Engineering
Towards Large-Scale Validation of Protein Flexibility Using Rigidity Analysis, Filip Jagodzinski, Computer Science
Distributions of Large Mammal Assemblages in Thailand with a Focus on Dhole (Cuon alpinus) Conservation, Kate Elizabeth Jenks, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
Modeling the Self-Assembly of Ordered Nanoporous Materials, Lin Jin, Chemical Engineering
Determination of Metallic Constituents in Environmental and Biological Materials, Monique Erica Johnson, Chemistry
Performance Monitoring and Analysis of Integral Abutment Bridges, Emre Kalayci, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Resource-Bounded Information Acquisition and Learning, Pallika H. Kanani, Computer Science
Studies on Marketing Channel Performance, Channel Appropriability, and Intangible Firm Value, Jun Kang, Isenberg School of Management
An Isotopic Perspective On Climatic Change In Tropical South America From The Modern Through The Last Glacial Period, Lisa C Kanner, Geosciences
The Role of Human NKG2D Receptor-Ligand Function in Tumor Immunity and Immune Escape, Mobin A Karimi, Animal Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences
The influence of free-living activity and inactivity on health outcomes and responsiveness to exercise training, Sarah Kozey Keadle, Kinesiology
Design And Construction Of Novel DNA Nanostructures For Therapeutic Applications, Jung Won Keum, Chemical Engineering
Phonological And Phonetic Biases In Speech Perception, Michael Parrish Key, Linguistics
Acceleration of CFD and Data Analysis Using Graphics Processors, Ali Khajeh Saeed, Mechanical Engineering
The Role of Education in an Historically Challenging and Politically Complex Environment: The Response of Public Universities to the September 11 Attacks, Nigar J. Khan, Education (also CAGS)
Engineering Surface Functionality of Gold Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Applications, Chaekyu Kim, Chemistry
Multes : Multi-Level Temporal-Parallel Event-Driven Simulation, Dusung Kim, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Macroscopic Patterning via Dynamic Self-assembly and Wrinkling Instability, Hyun Suk Kim, Polymer Science and Engineering
Retrieval and Evaluation Techniquesfor Personal Information, Jinyoung Kim, Computer Science
Why Sacrifice Sovereignty? A Non-Instrumental Explanation of State Support for Supranational Cooperation in EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, Osman Sabri Kiratli, Political Science
Increasing Instructional Time Through Performance Feedback In Consultation, Suzanne A Klein, School Psychology
The Silent Majority: An Examination Of Nonresponse In College Student Surveys, Ethan A. Kolek, Education (also CAGS)
Mammalian Species Origin and Geographical Dispersal Patterns Correlate With Changes in Chromosome Structure, Exemplified in Lemurs (Madagascar) and Bats (Worldwide), Robin Lee Kolnicki, Geosciences
Organic Farming and Rural Transformations in the European Union: A Political Economy approach, Charalampos Konstantinidis, Economics
Counterpossibles, Barak Krakauer, Philosophy
Phosphorylcholine Substituted Polyolefins: New Syntheses, Solution Assemblies, and Polymer Vesicles, Katrina A Kratz, Polymer Science and Engineering
Effect of Building Morphology on Energy and Structural Performance of High-Rise Office Buildings, Mohamed Krem, Civil Engineering
Chemistry at Silicone - Inorganic Oxide Interfaces, Joseph W. Krumpfer, Polymer Science and Engineering
Variable Risk Policy Search for Dynamic Robot Control, Scott Robert Kuindersma, Computer Science
Universidade De Sao Paulo Centro De Energia Nuclear Na Agricultura: Soil Microbiota Related To Carbon, Nitrogen And Greenhouse Gas Cycles Across Different Land Uses In Southwestern Amazonia, Daniel Renato Lammel, Microbiology
An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Item Parameters on IRT Information Functions in Mixed Format Tests, Wai Yan Wendy Lam, Education (also CAGS)
Linear And Crosslinked Polymers For Applications In Molecular Delivery And Separation, Michael Lartey, Chemistry
A New Approach to Using Photographs and Classroom Response Systems in Middle School Astronomy Classes, Hyun Ju Lee, Education (also CAGS)
Place and the Politics of Knowledge in Rural Bolivia: A Postcoloniality of Development, Ecology, and Well-Being, Karen Marie Lennon, Education (also CAGS)
Governing Piety: Islam, Empire and Moderation in Late Modernity, Dunya D Lepori, Political Science
The Sources of Financial Profit: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of the Transformation of Banking in the US, Iren G. Levina, Economics
Kinetically Trapping Co-continuous Morphologies in Polymer Blends and Composites, Le Li, Polymer Science and Engineering
Cryptographic Circuit Design In Nanometer CMOS Technologies, Lang Lin, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Latent Variable Modeling For Biomarker Analysis, Yan Liu, Public Health
Refinement, Validation and Application of a Machine Learning Method For Estimating Physical Activity And Sedentary Behavior in Free-Living People, Kate Lyden, Kinesiology
Mitigating Negative Externalities Affecting Access and Equity of Education in Low-Resource Countries: A Study Exploring Social Marketing as a Potential Strategy for Planning School Food Programs in Malawi, Martha Magreta-Nyongani, Education (also CAGS)
Lateralization of Central Circadian Pacemaker Output, Carrie E Mahoney, Neuroscience & Behavior
Citizenship in Times of Exception: The Turn to Security and the Politics of Human Rights in Valle del Cauca, Colombia, Erika Marquez Montano, Sociology
The Oriented-Eddy Collision Model, Michael Bernard Martell Jr., Mechanical Engineering
Fabrication, Characterization and Utilization of Filled Hydrogel Particles as Food Grade Delivery Systems, Alison M. Matalanis, Food Science
Fisher Population Ecology on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, Northwestern California, Sean Michael Matthews, Environmental Conservation
The Obscure Features Hypothesis For Innovation: One Key To Improving Performance In Insight Problems, Anthony J McCaffrey, Psychology
The Role of Contextual Restriction in Reference-Tracking, Andrew Robert McKenzie, Linguistics
Pen Stroking the Soul of a People: Spiritual Foundations of Black Diasporan Literature, McKinley Eric Melton, Afro-American Studies
Comparison Of Kernel Equating And Item Response Theory Equating Methods, Yu Meng, Education; Research and Evaluation Methods
Probing Novel Properties of Nucleons and Nuclei via Parity Violating Electron Scattering, Luis Rafael Mercado, Physics
The Relation Between Academic and Cognitive Skills and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Children, Lindsay A Metcalfe, Clinical Psychology
More than Just the Smartest Guys in the Room: Intellectual Capital Assets in Knowledge-Intensive Firms, Christopher Meyer, Management
Topic Regression, David Mimno, Computer Science
Interactions and Morphology of Triblock Copolymer - Ionic Liquid Mixtures and Applications for Gel Polymer Electrolytes, Daniel F. Miranda, Polymer Science and Engineering
Dynamics and Kinetics of Model Biological Systems, Stephen William Mirigian, Polymer Science and Engineering
Exploring Differences Between Student And Teacher Reports Of Relational Aggression, Hadley Moore, Education
A 'Living Art': Working-Class, Transcultural, and Feminist Aesthetics in the United States, Mexico, and Algeria, 1930s, Tabitha Adams Morgan, English
Functional Characterization Of Members Of Plasma Membrane Interinsic Proteins Subfamily And Their Involvement In Metalloids Transport In Plants, Kareem A Mosa, Plant and Soil Sciences
Morphology and Development of Droplet Deformation Under Flow Within Microfluidic Devices, Molly Katlin Mulligan, Mechanical Engineering
Security Issues in Network Virtualization for the Future Internet, Sriram Natarajan, Electrical and Computer Engineering
"How can you be a witch? You are not old": Women, society and spectacle in the Spanish Golden Age theater, Glenda Yael Nieto Cuebas, Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics
Can Free Primary Education Achieve Universal Primary Education? A Study Of The Intersections Of Social Exclusion, Gender And Education In Kenya, Judith A Obiero, Education; Educational Policy and Leadership
Beyond the Stereotype of Black Homophobia: Exploring the Potential of Black Allies for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Students, Kyle Oldham, Education (also CAGS)
Evaluating the Role of Principals in Teacher Teams: A Longitudinal Analysis of Principal Involvement and Impact in a District-Wide Initiative to Increase Teacher Collaboration, Craig Michael Outhouse, Education (also CAGS)
The Partially Digital: Internet, Citizenship, Social Inequalities, And Digital Citizenship In South Africa, Tokunbo (Toks) D. Oyedemi, Communication
Regulation of the Hypothalamic Precursor Cells by HH/GLI Signaling in Post-Embryonic Zebrafish, Ayse Tuba Ozacar, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Postures for Precision: An Ecological Approach to Marksmanship and the Issue of Warfighter Load., Christopher Jay Palmer, Kinesiology
Modeling Of Growth And Prediction Of Properties Of Electronic Nanomaterials: Silicon Thin Films And Compound Semiconductor Quantum Dots, Sumeet C Pandey, Chemical Engineering
Adsorption column studies to predict the flow of nutrients through heterogenous porous media under equilibrium and isothermal conditions, Vijai B. Pandey, Food Science
“The Labor We Delight In”: Amateur Dramatists In The London Professional Theaters, 1590-1642, Matteo A Pangallo, English
Strategies to Improve the Performance of Antioxidants in Oil-in-Water Emulsions, Atikorn Panya, Food Science
Robust and Scalable Domain Decomposition Methods for Electromagnetic Computations, Georgios Paraschos, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chemically Directed Assembly Of Nanoparticles For Material And Biological Applications, Myoung-Hwan Park, Chemistry
A Professional Development Program for the Mother Tongue-Based Teacher: Addressing Teacher Perceptions and Attitudes Towards MTBMLE, Rebecca J. Paulson Stone, Education (also CAGS)
SAC Attack: Assessing the Role of Recollection in the Mirror Effect, Angela M. Pazzaglia, Psychology
Unpacking Voice and Silence: A Phenomenological Study of Black Women and Latinas in College Classroom, Shelly A. Perdomo, Education (also CAGS)
A Minskian Approach to Financial Crises with a Behavioural Twist: A Reappraisal of the 2000-2001 Financial Crisis in Turkey, Mathieu Perron-Dufour, Economics
Elizabeth’s Fruitless Crown: Ovidian Poetry, The End Of Tudor Genealogy, And The Incomplete Past, Kevin Petersen, English
Design of Hybrid Conjugated Polymer Materials: 1) Novel Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Semiconductors and 2) Surface Modification Via Grafting Approaches, Joseph J. Peterson, Polymer Science and Engineering
Evaluating Alternative Transportation Financing Approaches: A Conceptual Framework and Analytical Methods, Michael Plotnikov, Civil Engineering
Stress in Harmonic Serialism, Kathryn Ringler Pruitt, Linguistics
Essays on Urban Sprawl, Race, and Ethnicity, Jared M. Ragusett, Economics
Agriculture and Class: Contradictions of Midwestern Family Farms Across the Twentieth Century, Elizabeth Ann Ramey, Economics
Women In Conflict, Peacebuilding And Reconstruction: Insights From The Aftermath Of Nepal's Maoist Insurgency, Smita Ramnarain, Economics
Power Efficient Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulator Architectures for Wideband Analog to Digital Conversion, Mohammad Ranjbar, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engaging Identities: Globality And Communicative Practices In Education For Democratic Citizenship, Sangeeta V Rao, Communication
Leveraging Relational Representations for Causal Discovery, Matthew John Hale Rattigan, Computer Science
Searches For Gravitational Waves From Binary Black Hole Coalescences With Ground-based Laser Interferometers Across a Wide Parameter Space, Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Physics
Money, Reality, and Value: Non-Commodity Money in Marxian Political Economy, Joseph Thomas Rebello, Economics
Adaptations to Stride Patterns and Head Movements During Walking in Persons With and Without Multiple Sclerosis, Jebb Grigory Remelius, Kinesiology
Three essays on oil scarcity, global warming and energy prices, Matthew Riddle, Economics
Research as Praxis in ESL Teacher Education, Elizabeth Anne Robinson, Education (also CAGS)
No Círculo do Uroboro: Articulações Identitárias na Narrativa de Milton Hatoum, Cecilia Paiva Rodrigues, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
Enhanced Mechanical Performance of Low Dielectric Constant Thin Films Synthesized in Supercritical Co2, and Sans Studies of Microemulsions Induced or Destabilized by Compressed Co2, Alvin Horatio Romang, Chemical Engineering
Structural Studies of Membrane-Assembled PopD and PopB, the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Type 3 Secretion Translocators, Fabian B Romano Chernac, Molecular and Cellular Biology
On the Analysis and Management of Cache Networks, Elisha Rosensweig, Computer Science
1. Microbial Characterization At A Site Exposed To Highway Runoff And Deicing Agents 2. Chloride Dispersion Across Silt Deposits In A Glaciated Bedrock Valley, Camelia Rotaru, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Roots of Modality, Aynat Rubinstein, Linguistics
Movements of Diverse Inquiries as Critical Teaching Practices Among Charros, Tlacuaches and Mapaches, Stephen T. Sadlier, Education (also CAGS)
Dietary Patterns and their Relationship to Sociodemographics, Health Behaviors, and the Risk of Hypentension Among Adults in Pakistan, Nilofer Fatimi Safdar, Public Health
The Feasibility of Low-Cost, Dual-Polarized, Phase-Tilt Antenna Arrays for Dense Radar Networks, Jorge L Salazar Cerreno, Electrical and Computer Engineering
A Study On Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions Of Teaching As Full-Time Residential Interns In Urban Public Secondary School Classrooms, Tammie Demetri Jenkins Samuels, Teacher Education
From Tank Trails to Technology Parks: the Impact of Base Redevelopment for New England, Bernd F. Schliemann, Regional Planning
Moments Of Determination: Detecting Learning Within Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Jason A Schweid, Education, Educational Policy Research, and Administration Research
Systematic Synthesis of Organic Semiconductors with Variable Band Gaps, Christopher Thomas Scilla, Polymer Science and Engineering
The Aerodynamics and Near Wake of an Offshore Floating Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine, Thomas Sebastian, Mechanical Engineering
Organic Radicals For Electronic Materials, Gonca Seber, Chemistry
On Data-Path Customization In Next-Generation Networks, Shashank Shanbhag, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sitting-There: Embodied Perception, Kinesthetic Empathy, and Reading Pain in Dance Spectatorship, Brandon W Shaw, Comparative Literature
On Models of Short Pulse Type in Continuous Media, Yannan Shen, Mathematics and Statistics
Modeling the Lifespan of Red Blood Cells, Rajiv Prakash Shrestha, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Effects Of Strong Start Curriculum On Internalizing, Externalizing Behaviors, And Emotion Knowledge Among Kindergarten And First Grade Students, Jasmine L Sicotte, School Psychology
Personal History and Present Practice: A Cross Cultural Study of the Influences on Arts Integration in the United States and Japan, Jana L. Silver, Education (also CAGS)
The Valuation Impact of Sec Enforcement Actions on Non-Target Foreign Firms, Roger Nelson Silvers, Management
Demand- Side Financing In Education: A Critical Examination of a Girls' Scholarship Program in Malawi- (Case Study), Abraham Sineta, Education (also CAGS)
Aspects of Alternative Network Structure Evolution, Naveen Kumar Singh, Polymer Science and Engineering
They Chose to Major in Engineering: A Study of Why Women Enter and Persist in Undergraduate Engineering Programs, Adrienne Yvette Smith, Education (also CAGS)
Beaver Dams Maintain Native Fish Biodiversity Via Altered Habitat Heterogeneity in a Coastal Stream Network: Evaluating Gear, Quantifying Fish Assemblages, and Testing Ecological Hypotheses, Joseph Michael Smith, Marine Sciences and Technology
Influence of Phosphate on the Adsorption/Desorption of Bovine Serum Albumin on Nano and Bulk Oxide Particles, Lei Song, Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences
Biological Control of the Ambermarked Birch Leafminer (Profenusa thomsoni) in Alaska, Anna L. Soper, Entomology
Student Recognition of Visual Affordances: Supporting Use of Physics Simulations in Whole Class and Small Group Settings, A. Lynn Stephens, Education (also CAGS)
Engineering a Bacterial Toxin Delivery System for the Targeted Treatment of Solid Tumors, Adam Thomas St. Jean, Chemical Engineering
Issues in Option-Based Risk Management, Edward Szado, Isenberg School of Management
A Formative Program Evaluation of Treatment Integrity Practices, Assessments and Attitudes Within a Specialized School Setting, Lin Tang, Psychology
New Bilinear Estimates for Quadratic-Derivative Nonlinear Wave Equations in 2+1 Dimensions, Allison J. Tanguay, Mathematics
The Evolutionary Genetics of Seed Shattering and Flowering Time, Two Weed Adaptive Traits in US Weedy Rice, Carrie S. Thurber, Plant Biology
Design and Fabrication of Functional Lipid Nanoparticles Based on Control of Interfacial Properties Using Biopolymers, Tanushree Tokle, Food Science
Microtechnologies for Mimicking Tumor-Imposed Transport Limitations and Developing Targeted Cancer Therapies, Bhushan Jayant Toley, Chemical Engineering
Farm-to-Fork: Understanding Locally-Oriented Farm-to-Vendor Food Systems: Access, Boundaries, and Power-Relations, Shawn Alan Trivette, Sociology
Examining Perceptions of Practices and the Roles of Special Education Leaders through the Distributed Leadership Lens, Patrick Ryan Tudryn, Education (also CAGS)
Enrique Anderson Imbert – Escritor De Cuentos Fantasticos, Maria Twardy, Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics
Afro-Peruvian Perspectives and Critiques of Intercultural Education Policy, Luis Martin Valdiviezo, Education (also CAGS)
Parity Violation in Neutron Deuteron Scattering in Pionless Effective Field Theory, Jared James Vanasse, Physics
“Beyond Words”: Exploring The Cultural Limits Of The Communicable, Brion van Over, Communication
Allosteric Regulation of Caspase-6 Proteolytic Activity, Elih M. Velazquez-Delgado, Chemistry
Modeling the Free Energy Functional at the Fluid-Solid Transition in Classical Many-Particle Systems, Anurag Verma, Chemical Engineering
Goals, Big and Small, Martin Walkow, Linguistics
Characterization of The Roles of YY1 during Early Embryonic Development In The Mouse, Mary Catherine Wallingford, Animal Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences
Mechanisms Of Pathology In Equine Laminitis: Versican Depletion From Basal Epithelial Cells And Suppressed Canonical Wnt Signaling, Le Wang, Animal Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences
Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Dopamine Signaling in C. elegans, Khursheed Ahmad Wani, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Ethel Payne: The First Lady of the Black Press: Black Journalism and its Advocacy Role from 1954 - 1991, Jamal E Watson, Afro-American Studies
Using Click Chemistry To Modify Block Copolymers And Their Morphologies, Xinyu Wei, Polymer Science and Engineering
Compound-Specific Hydrogen Isotopes of Lipid Biomarkers in Lake El’gygytgyn, Ne Russia, Kenna M. K. Wilkie, Geosciences
Understanding Internalized Oppression: A Theoretical Conceptualization of Internalized Subordination, Teeomm K. Williams, Education (also CAGS)
Modeling And Planning Distributed Energy Systems Online, Kai Wu, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Modeling Reformulation as Query Distributions, Xiaobing Xue, Computer Science
Selective Interactions of Proteins With Polyelectrolytes and Nanoparticles: Binding, Adsorption, Coacervation, and Inhibition of Aggregation, Yisheng Xu, Chemistry
The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in the People's Republic of China, Zhun Xu, Economics
Designing Novel Mobile Systems By Exploiting Sensing, User Context, and Crowdsourcing, Tingxin Yan, Computer Science
Design And Synthesis Of Stimuli-Sensitive Dendritic Supramolecular Assemblies, Volkan Yesilyurt, Chemistry
The Devil's in the Details: Abstract vs. Concrete Construals of Multiculturalism Have Differential Effects on Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions Toward Ethnic Minority Groups, Kumar Yogeeswaran, Psychology
Establishing Brachypodium distachyon As A New Model System For Understanding Iron Homeostasis In Grasses, Burcu (Kokturk) Yordem, Plant Biology
Fabrication Of Nanostructured Metal Oxide Films With Supercritical CO2: Processing And Applications, Eunyoung You, Chemical Engineering
Analysis, Design, and Management of Supply Chain Networks with Applications to Time-Sensitive Products, Min Yu, Management
Controlling Salmonella Accumulation Inside Solid Tumors via Bacterial Chemotaxis Engineering and Combined Treatment with Lipid A, Miaomin Zhang, Chemical Engineering
Characterization of the Function and Regulation of Type-1 Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptor in Mouse Oocytes and Eggs, Nan Zhang, Animal Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences
On-Chip Monitoring Infrastructures And Strategies For Multi-Core And Many-Core Systems, Jia Zhao, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Improved Computational Methods for Bayesian Tree Models, Yue Zhao, Mathematics and Statistics
Metal-Containing Functional Polmers: (I) Room Temperature magnetic Materials and (II) Anion Exchange Membranes, Yongping Zha, Polymer Science and Engineering
Preparation, Characterization, Surface Modification and Applications of Siloxane Polymers, Peiwen Zheng, Polymer Science and Engineering
Analysis Of Morgue, A Novel Ubiquitination Protein That Functions In Programmed Cell Death, Ying Zhou, Neuroscience and Behavior
Inversion And Analysis Of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter In Estuarine And Coastal Regions Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, Weining Zhu, Geosciences
Mass Spectrometric Analysis Of Monolayer Protected Nanoparticles, Zhengjiang Zhu, Chemistry
Organic Materials as Templates for the Formation of Mesoporous Inorganic Materials and Ordered Inorganic Nanocomposites, Christopher Ryan Ziegler, Polymer Science and Engineering
Newlywed Couples' Marital Satisfaction and Patterns of Cortisol Reactivity and Recovery as a Response to Differential Marital Power, Mattitiyahu Scott Zimbler, Psychology
Locating the Source of Approach/Avoidance Effects on Natural Language Category Decisions, Matthew Zivot, Psychology
Remaking the Political in Fortress Europe: Political Practice and Cultural Citizenship in Italian Social Centers, Angelina Ione Zontine, Anthropology
Dissertations from 2011
The Teaching And Learning Of Arabic Post 9/11: Late Modernity And Possibilities For Change In Language Classrooms, Sawsan Omar Abbadi, Education
Exploring Teachers’ Beliefs Regarding The Concepts Of Culture And Intercultural Communicative Competence In EFL Palestinian University Context: A Case Study, Abdrabu Abu Alyan, Education
Tailoring Nanoparticle Surface Monolayers For Biomolecular Recognition And Delivery Applications, Sarit S Agasti, Chemistry
Mothering In Jail: Pleasure, Pain, And Punishment, Brittnie Leigh Aiello, Sociology
State Hegemony and Sustainable Development: A Political Economy Analysis of Two Local Experiences in Turkey, Bengi Akbulut, Economics
Nationalism & The Politics Of Historical Memory: Charlemagne Peratle’s Rebellion Against U.S. Occupation Of Haiti, 1915-1986, Yveline Alexis, History
Automated Negotiation for Complex Multi-Agent Resource Allocation, Bo An, Computer Science
Quantification, misc., Jan Anderssen, Linguistics
The Role Of Actin Depolymerizing Factor And Its Regulatory Mechanisms In Moss Tip Growth, Robert Charles Augustine, Plant Biology
Design, Syntheses And Protein Responsive Assembly/Disassembly Of Amphiphilic Dendrimers, Malar Azhagan Azagarasamy, Chemistry
Beyond Promise: Politics, Institutions And Neoliberal Economic Reforms In Four African Countries, Yakubu M Azindow, Political Science
The Role of Bacteriocins in Mediating Interactions of Bacterial Isolates from Cystic Fibrosis Patients, Emine Suphan Bakkal, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Lacustrine Records of Holocene Climate and Environmental Change from the Lofoten Islands, Norway, Nicholas L. Balascio, Geosciences
Architecting Protocols to Enable Mobile Applications in Diverse Wireless Networks, Aruna Balasubramanian, Computer Science
Query-Dependent Selection of Retrieval Alternatives, Niranjan Balasubramanian, Computer Science
Nurse Clinician Self-Disclosure: A Qualitative Study, Kathryn Rising Baldor, Nursing
An Ethnographic Case Study Of A College ESL Chinese Student’s Identities And Power Relations Through Online And Offline Social Practices, Huihong Bao, Education
"The Lover’s Instructor": Courtship Advice In Anglo-America, 1640-1830, Carolyn May Barske, History
Intellect, Liberty, Life: Women’S Activism And The Politics Of Black Education In Antebellum America, Kabria Baumgartner, Afro-American Studies
Social Meanings of Mortality: The Language of Death and Disease in 19th Century Massachusetts, Jeffrey Keith Beemer, Sociology
Expanding The Third Person Effect: Parents’ Perceptions Of Positive And Negative Media Effects On Their Own Children Compared To Other Children, Andrea M Bergstrom, Communication
Attentional Cues During Speech Perception, Lori Astheimer Best, Neuroscience and Behavior
Pyrrhonian and Naturalistic Themes in the Final Writings of Wittgenstein, Indrani Bhattacharjee, Philosophy
Effect of Side Chains on Organic Donor (D) and Acceptor (A) Complexes and Photophysical Properties of D-A Dyads, Amarnath Bheemaraju, Chemistry
Anchoring Pragmatics In Syntax And Semantics, Maria Biezma, Linguistics
Reading Landscape: Mid-Century Modernism and the Landscape Idea, Jeffrey David Blankenship, Geosciences
Fifth-Grade Students' Tactical Understanding, Decision-Making and Transfer of Knowledge in a Tactical Games Model Net/Wall Sampling Unit, Heidi Renee Bohler, Education (also CAGS)
The Role of Prompts as Focus on Form on Uptake, Brian Bates Boisvert, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
A Question of Comfort: Race, Whiteness, and the Creation of Diverse, Inclusive, and Engaged Learning Environments, H. Elizabeth Braun, Anthropology
Armillaria in Massachusetts Forests: Ecology, Species Distribution, and Population Structure, with an Emphasis on Mixed Oak Forests, Nicholas Justin Brazee, Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences
A Critical Analysis Of Jamaica’s Emerging Educational Policy Discourses In The Age Of Globalization, Nigel Olivia Michael Brissett, Educational Policy, Research, and Administration
Reclaiming America for Christian Reconstruction: The Rhetorical Constitution of a "People", Joanna L. Brook, Communication
Mitochondrial DNA Polymerase IB: Functional Characterization of a Putative Drug Target for African Sleeping Sickness, David F. Bruhn, Molecular and Cellular Biology
The Effect Of A Skills-Based Fluency Intervention On The Writing Of Third-Grade Students Identified As Less Fluent Writers, Eric A Bruinooge, Education; Student Development
Adaptive Balancing of Exploitation with Exploration to Improve Protein Structure Prediction, TJ Brunette, Computer Science
It's Nothing Personal: Competing Discourses for Girls and Women in Mathematics, Shannon Dawn Bryant, Education (also CAGS)
Community Colleges and the Pursuit of Larger Grants: Strategies for Success, Steven George Budd, Education (also CAGS)
The Persistence Of Military Honor In A Culture Without Victory, Daniel Alton Burland, Sociology
Three Essays Exploring Hedge Fund Dynamics, Li Cai, Isenberg School of Management
What Is Instructional Leadership And What Does It Look Like In Practice? A Multi-Case Case Study Of Elementary School Principals Who Have Led Schools From Being Identified As Under Performing To Performing., Linda L Carrier, Education
Revision Of The Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe), Janessa O Carvalho, Clinical Psychology
Phase Behavior of Block Copolymers in Compressed CO2 and as Single Domain-Layer, Nanolithographic Etch Resists For Sub-10 nm Pattern Transfer, Curran Matthew Chandler, Polymer Science and Engineering