Dissertations from 2021
Learning from Limited Labeled Data for Visual Recognition, Jong-Chyi Su, Computer Science
DIRTY MINDS & FAILED ENDINGS: USES OF THE BAWDY IN JEWISH COMEDY, AMERICAN AND ISRAELI PERSPECTIVES, Eyal Tamir, Comparative Literature
FUNCTIONALIZATION AND APPLICATION OF NANOPARTICLE SYSTEMS IN COATINGS AND TARGETED CANCER THERAPY, Shane Taylor, Chemical Engineering
MAGNITUDE AND RATES OF AGRICULTURALLY-INDUCED SOIL EROSION IN THE MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES, Evan Thaler, Geosciences
Examining a Fatigue Management Model That Identifies Risk Factors and Consequences of Fatigue in Older Individuals, Maral Torossian, Nursing
Understanding how CaMKII holoenzyme dynamics facilities activation-triggered subunit exchange, Ana P. Torres-Ocampo, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Windows in Algebraic Geometry and Applications to Moduli, Sebastian Torres, Mathematics
Bitten by the Demon of Cinema: An Examination of Women-Made Horror, Erica Tortolani, Communication
THE EFFECT OF DISTURBANCE AND INVASION ON FUNGAL AND PLANT COMMUNITIES OVER AN ELEVATIONAL GRADIENT, Adam N. Trautwig, Plant Biology
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN THERAPEUTICS BY HYDROGEN DEUTERIUM EXCHANGE AND COVALENT LABELING MASS SPECTROMETRY, Catherine Yvonne Tremblay, Chemistry
Human Mobility Monitoring using WiFi: Analysis, Modeling, and Applications, Amee Trivedi, Computer Science
Vegan Food For Thought: Moral Constructions of Animals, Ryan F. Turner, Sociology
A Comprehensive Protocol for Inspection and Assessment of Aging Steel Bridges: Experiments, Computations and 3D Laser Scanning of Field Corroded Girders, Georgios Tzortzinis, Civil and Environmental Engineering
FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY, BIOMECHANICS, AND EVOLUTION OF RUMINANT MAMMALS, Abby Vander Linden, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
The Boundaries of Safety: The Sanctuary Movement in the Inland Empire, Cecilia I. Vasquez, Anthropology
'Y mi rebelión se convirtió en arte’ Raúl Salinas y su poesía política: una historia literaria chicana, Santiago Vidales, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
Black Organizations as a Way to Increase Black Students’ College Attendance Rates by Improving Their Academic Performance at Primary and Secondary Schools, Leydi Mercedes Vidal Perlaza, Afro-American Studies
“Stick to Sports”: Fan Moral Reasoning Strategies and Subsequent Psychological Well-Being in Response to an Athlete’s Controversial Political Associations, Stephen Warren, Communication
The Syntactic and Semantic Atoms of the Spray/load Alternation, Michael A. Wilson, Linguistics
THREE ESSAYS ON LABOR AND MARRIAGE MARKETS: FARM CRISIS AND RURAL-TO-URBAN MIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1920-1940, Jennifer Withrow, Economics
Understanding of Visual Domains via the Lens of Natural Language, Chenyun Wu, Computer Science
Targeted Learning for Effect Modification in Randomized Clinical Trials and Cluster Randomized Trials, Guandong Yang, Public Health
IMPORTANCE OF IRON HOMEOSTASIS IN BEIGE AND BROWN ADIPOCYTES, Jinseon Yook, Public Health
GENETICALLY ENCODED RNA DEVICES FOR ADVANCED LIVE CELL IMAGING, Qikun Yu, Chemistry
Evaluation of Benefits and Environmental Risks of Organic Soil Amendments on the Productivity and Nutrient Concentration of Vegetables in New England, Omid Zandvakili, Environmental Conservation
UPRISING AND DISPLACEMENT: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF VIOLENCE AND IDENTITY-(RE)FORMATION AMONG SYRIANS, Basileus Zeno, Political Science
FACTORS AFFECTING DRIVERS’ OFF-ROAD GLANCE BEHAVIOR WHILE INTERACTING WITH IN-VEHICLE VOICE INTERFACES – INSIGHTS FROM A SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS, Fangda Zhang, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
ORGANIC BIOMARKER BASED CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION IN SOUTHERN GREENLAND AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE DEMISE OF NORSE SETTLEMENTS, Boyang Zhao, Geosciences
APPLYING GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION IN THE FUNGAL PATHOGEN ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS TO IDENTIFY THE GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS OF ANTIFUNGAL SENSITIVITY AND THERMOTOLERANCE, Shu Zhao, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Audio-driven Character Animation, Yang Zhou, Computer Science
Wild Women do Have the Blues: The Imagery of Vaudeville Blueswomen and Their Influences on August Wilson and Sherley Anne Williams, Fangfang Zhu, Afro-American Studies
THE BENEFITS OF SPATIAL SEPARATION ON THE CORTICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SPEECH SOUNDS, Benjamin H. Zobel, Psychology
Dissertations from 2020
Effects of Tempeh Fermentation on Soy Free and Bound Phenolics: Release, Transformation, and Stimulated Production, Amadeus Driando Ahnan, Food Science
COMMUNITY OF PATHOS: RESISTANCE THROUGH REPRESENTATION IN MIGRANT ART, Shastri Akella, Comparative Literature
Don't Delay: The effects of tide gates and road-stream crossing culverts on river herring (Alosa spp.) spawning migrations, Derrick J. Alcott, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
DEVELOPING A HANDHELD APPLICATION: A TABLET-BASED CLINICAL EVALUATION TOOL (TABCET) FOR NURSING STUDENT EVALUATION BY CLINICAL INSTRUACTORS, Mohammed Alghenaimi, Nursing
A New Economic History of Deindustrialization: Class Conflict and Race in the Motor City, Jackson Allison, Economics
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS IN SAUDI ARABIA, Raja Almutairi, Education
Investigating the role of iron in the photogranulation phenomenon, Abeera Ayaz Ansari, Civil Engineering
Moralizing the Rape of Philomela in Late Medieval Commentary, Daniel M. Armenti, Comparative Literature
EXPORTING THE 1978-79 REVOLUTION: PAN-ISLAMIC OR SECTARIAN, Mohammad Ataie, History
FILAMENTS, FIBERS, AND FOLIATIONS IN FRUSTRATED SOFT MATERIALS, Daria Atkinson, Physics
THE ASSOCIATION OF THE INFLAMMATORY POTENTIAL OF DIET WITH INFLAMMATION AND DEPRESSION AMONG U.S. ADULTS: NHANES 2005-2010, Deniz Azarmanesh, Public Health
POSTKOLONIALE SOLIDARITÄT: ALLTAGSLEBEN VON DDR-BÜRGERN IN MOSAMBIK, 1979-1990, Katrin Bahr, Germanic Languages & Literatures
Theory And Improved Methods For Probing The Cavitation To Fracture Transition, Christopher Barney, Polymer Science and Engineering
Materially Queer: Identity and Agency in Academic Writing, Joshua Barsczewski, English
Study of the Role of Biologically-Relevant, Labile Nickel Pools in the Maturation of Nickel-Dependent Enzymes, Priyanka Basak, Chemistry
Surrogate Histories: (De)Mythifying the Franco-female in transitionary Spain, Christina Beaubien, Hispanic Literatures & Linguistics
Military-Themed Video Games and the Cultivation of Related Beliefs and Attitudes in Young Adult Males, Greg Blackburn, Communication
Encapsulation and Stabilization of Biomacromolecules, Whitney Blocher Blocher McTigue, Chemical Engineering
Time Bound. Gauchesca and its Print Culture, 1872-2011, Manuela Borzone, Comparative Literature
Stigmatization and Community Connections: Associations with Mental Health, Sexual Identity Development, and Peer Relationships in Emerging Adults with LGBQ+ Parents, Krystal K. Cashen, Psychology
Engineered proteins as tools to understand ubiquitin signaling, Lin Hui Chang, Chemistry
STRUCTURE-PROPERTIES RELATIONS IN GRAPHENE NANOMESHES AND INTERLAYER-BONDED TWISTED BILAYER GRAPHENE NANOCOMPOSITE SUPERSTRUCTURES OBTAINED BY ATOMIC-SCALE MODELING, Mengxi Chen, Chemical Engineering
NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES IN A KOREAN AMERICAN-OWNED BEAUTY SUPPLY STORE, Sarah Cho, Communication
An eye tracking investigation of the pragmatic language comprehension abilities of children with autism, Kristina Curro, Communication Disorders
Place Vibrancy and its Measurement: Construct Development, Scale Development, and Field Study of its Relationship to Planning Interventions for Three Villages in the Town of Montague, Massachusetts, John D. Delconte, Regional Planning
Experimental Study of Viscoelastic Fluid-Structure Interactions, Anita Anup Dey, Mechanical Engineering
Essays on Food Security, Gender and Agriculture, Berna Dogan, Economics
Welcome Home? Understanding Differences in the Contexts of Reception Between Voluntary and Deported Return Migrants in Mexico, Rodrigo Dominguez Villegas, Sociology
MARKET-CONSCIOUS STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE AND STABILITY OF PLANAR, p-i-n HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC METAL HALIDE PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS, Brandon Dunham, Chemical Engineering
DISTORTION-CONTROLLED ISOTROPIC SWELLING AND SELF-ASSEMBLY OF TRIPLY-PERIODIC MINIMAL SURFACES, Carlos M. Duque, Physics
Engineering Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Nanoassemblies: Rational Designs for Intracellular Delivery of Biologics, Kingshuk Dutta, Chemistry
Searching for new physics at colliders and from precision measurements, Yong Du, Physics
Improving Drivers’ Behaviour When Partial Driving Automation Fails, Yalda Ebadi, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Teacher Interactions, Teacher Bias and Child Behavioral Health, Ellen E. Edge, Education
COMPOSITE NETWORK OF ACTIN AND MICROTUBULE FILAMENTS, SELF-ORGANIZATION AND STEADY-STATE DYNAMICS, Leila Farhadi, Physics
Coffee Bioactives Regulate Lipid Metabolism in Caenorhabditis elegans, Renalison Farias Pereira, Food Science
PRECARIOUS PIPES: GOVERNANCE, INFORMALITY, AND THE POLITICS OF ACCESS IN KARACHI, Usmaan M. Farooqui, Political Science
Mobilities Through and Against Governance: Narratives from Lesvos, Greece and the Humanitarian Borderscapes of the EU, Jennifer Flemming, Education
Considerations for the Design Optimization of Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Blades, Evan M. Gaertner, Mechanical Engineering
Representing Context: Presupposition Triggers and Focus-sensitivity, Alexander Goebel, Linguistics
IT’S ALL THE RAGE: AN ANIMATED APPROACH TO SCREENING FOR POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION, Amanda Gorham, Education
Fear, Parental Behavior, and Community Structure in Residential Lands, Aaron M. Grade, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
How Are Online Homework Help Aids Affecting Student Learning in Undergraduate Applied Calculus, Erica Hagedorn, Education
Person-based Prominence in Ojibwe, Christopher Hammerly, Linguistics
A CO-PARENT INTERVENTION TO REDUCE PRENATAL DEPRESSION IN LOW-INCOME COUPLES: A PILOT STUDY, Rachel J. Herman, Psychology
Sailing Illicit Voyages: Colonial Smuggling Operations between North America and the West Indies, 1714-1776, Carl A. Herzog, History
THREE ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Kuochih Huang, Economics
Emergent Typological Effects of Agent-Based Learning Models in Maximum Entropy Grammar, Coral Hughto, Linguistics
Multivesicular Release in Hair Cell Ribbon Synapses in the Bullfrog Amphibian Papilla, Fuu-Jiun Hwang, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Older Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence: A Phenomenological Study, Lourdes Irene, Nursing
TALKING ABOUT HER(SELF): AMBIGUITY AVOIDANCE AND PRINCIPLE B. A Theoretical and Psycholinguistic Investigation of Romanian Pronouns, Rudmila-Rodica Ivan, Linguistics
Understanding the Dynamic Visual World: From Motion to Semantics, Huaizu Jiang, Computer Science
How Does Burnout and Self-Efficacy Effect Teacher's Perspectives and Implementation Status of Evidence Based Behavior Management Practices?, Autumn Jillson, School Psychology
VALUE AND ACTION ENCODING FOR NATURAL OUTCOMES AND ETHANOL IN THE MEDIAL PREFRONTAL AND ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX, Beata Kaminska, Neuroscience and Behavior
AN INVESTIGATION OF FIT CRITERIA WITHIN MG-CFA FOR EXAMINING NON-NEGLIGIBLE MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE, Abdolvahab Khademi, Education
THREE ESSAYS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY OF UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT: SPACE, CLASS AND STATE IN PAKISTAN, Danish Khan, Economics
A PARROT PERCHED ON A RIFLE: MILITARY INTERPRETERS IN THE KOREAN CONFLICT 1945-1953, Hyongrae Kim, Comparative Literature
THE IMPACT OF CLIENT CAPITAL ACQUISITION ON FIRM-CLIENT RELATIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS, Yeongsu Kim, Management
A DORMANCY PROGRAM REGULATES CARPEL SUPPRESSION IN Zea mays (maize), Harry Ryan Klein, Plant Biology
ROLES OF RECN DNA REPAIR PROTEIN AND PRIA DNA HELICASE IN MAINTAINING GENOMIC INTEGRITY OF ESCHERICHIA COLI K-12, Anastasiia N. Klimova, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Reasoning About User Feedback Under Identity Uncertainty in Knowledge Base Construction, Ariel Kobren, Computer Science
Passing Literacies: Soviet Immigrant Elders and Intergenerational Language Practice, Jenny Krichevsky, English
PHOTOTHERMAL AND PHOTOCHEMICAL STRATEGIES FOR LIGHTINDUCED SHAPE-MORPHING OF SOFT MATERIALS, Alexa Simone Kuenstler, Polymer Science and Engineering
Circadian Regulation of the Timing of Pre-Ovulatory Luteinizing Hormone Surge in Mice and Hamsters, Ajay Kumar, Neuroscience and Behavior
THE EMPTINESS OF THE PRESENT: FRONTING CONSTRUCTIONS AS A WINDOW TO THE SEMANTICS OF TENSE, Petr Kusliy, Linguistics
PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF ADOPTING A TECHNOLOGY BASED INTERVENTION FOR ALCOHOL SCREENING AND REFERRAL TO TREATMENT IN PRIMARY CARE, Sonya L. Lachance, Nursing
EVALUATION AND SMALL MOLECULE MODULATION OF CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS IN CELLULAR MODELS OF CANCER, Hui-Hsien Lin, Chemistry
Lisa Ben and Queer Rhetorical Reeducation in Post-war Los Angeles, Katelyn S. Litterer, English