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Dissertations from 2009
Labor Turnover in the Child-Care Industry: Voice and Exit, Lynn A. Hatch, Economics
Coping in Court-Involved Adolescents and the Relationship with Stressors, Delinquency, and Psychopathology, Yariv Hofstein, Psychology
Wrinkling, Folding, and Snapping Instabilities in Polymer Films, Douglas Peter Holmes, Polymer Science and Engineering
Application of Driver Behavior and Comprehension to Dilemma Zone Definition and Evaluation, David S. Hurwitz, Civil Engineering
Three Essays on Conflict and Cooperation, Sungha Hwang, Economics
Spatial Ecology, Population Structure, and Conservation of the Wood Turtle, Glyptemys Insculpta, in Central New England, Michael T. Jones, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Fabrication of Protein-Polysaccharide Particulates through Thermal Treatment of Associative Complexes, Owen Griffith Jones, Food Science
An Assessment of Natural Resources Management Conflicts in the Working Landscapes of Mediterranean Turkey (Turkiye): Koprulu Kanyon National Park, Nedim Kemer, Regional Planning
Seasonal Home Range Sizes, Transboundary Movements and Conservation of Elephants in Northern Tanzania, Alfred P. Kikoti, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
On the Measurability of Pleasure and Pain, Justin Allen Klocksiem, Philosophy
Atomic-Scale Analysis of Plastic Deformation in Thin-Film Forms of Electronic Materials, Kedarnath Kolluri, Chemical Engineering
Class Numbers of Ray Class Fields of Imaginary Quadratic Fields, Omer Kucuksakalli, Mathematics
Normal and Extreme Sedimentation and Physical Processes in Lake Tuborg, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Edward Lewis, Geosciences
A Frequency Selective Bolometer Camera for Measuring Millimeter Spectral Energy Distributions, Daniel William Logan, Astronomy
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
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
The Artistry and Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois: A Twentieth Century African American Torchbearer, Alesia Elaine McFadden, Afro-American Studies
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)
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
Economic Reforms in East African Countries: The Impact on Government Revenue and Public Investment, Adam Beni Swebe Mwakalobo, Economics
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
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
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)
Visuospatial Reasoning in Toddlers: A Correlational Study of Door Task Performance, Iris Louella Price, Neuroscience and Behavior
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
Molecular Changes Following Skeletal Muscle Disuse in Humans, Kimberly A. Reich, Kinesiology
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
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
Two Types of Definites in Natural Language, Florian Schwarz, Linguistics
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
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)
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
The role of motivation to change in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder, Christopher M. Spofford, Psychology
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
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
Phenomenal Acquaintance, Kelly Trogdon, Philosophy
Modifiable Risk Factors for Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Among Latina Women, Shannon Renee Turzanski Fortner, Public Health
Cross-Age Peer Tutoring in Dialogic Reading: Effects on the Language Development of Young Children, Itsuko Jamie Udaka, School Psychology
Optionality and Variability: Syntactic Licensing Meets Morphological Spell-Out, Cherlon Ussery, Linguistics
Determinants for Stop-Transfer and Post-Import Pathways for Protein Targeting to the Chloroplast Inner Envelope Membrane, Antonio Americo Barbosa Viana, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Structured Topic Models: Jointly Modeling Words and Their Accompanying Modalities, Xuerui Wang, Computer Science
A program evaluation of school-wide positive behavior support in an alternative education setting, Elana Rachel Weinberger, Education (also CAGS)
Metacognition: Developing Self-Knowledge Through Guided Reflection, Kathryn Wiezbicki-Stevens, Education (also CAGS)
Semantic Methods for Intelligent Distributed Design Environments, Paul W. Witherell, Mechanical Engineering
Polymer Confinement and Translocation, Chiu Tai Andrew Wong, Polymer Science and Engineering
Operating System Support for Modern Applications, Ting Yang, Computer Science
Nanofabrication Techniques for Nanophotonics, Ozgur Yavuzcetin, Physics
An Investigation of Temporal Resolution Abilities in School-Aged Children With and Without Dyslexia, Elena Zaidan, Communication Disorders
The Role of Stellar Feedback in Galaxy Evolution, Li Zhiyuan, Astronomy
Mechanics of Hydrogels and Biological Tissues, Jessica A. Zimberlin, Polymer Science and Engineering
Dissertations from 1996
Degenerating variations of mixed Hodge structures, Eric C. Gaze, Mathematics
Dissertations from 1994
Representing the Biblical Judith in Literature and Art: An Intertextual Cultural Critique, Peggy L. Curry, English
Dissertations from 1993
Bayesian Estimation of Surface Information from Radar Images, Keith David Hartt, Mathematics
Dissertations from 1986
The Analytical Modeling of the Thermometric Performance of Total Temperature Thermocouple Probes, LeRoy Bertram Butler, Mechanical Engineering
Dissertations from 1969
Classical Conditioning as a Function of the Motivational History of the CS, Suzanne Elizabeth Kwaterski, Psychology