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Theses from 2010
Open Season, Jessica L. Fjeld, English
MorphoGenesis A Museum Proposal for the Carnival of Blacks and Whites, Oscar D. Florez Realpe, Architecture
Evaluating Federal Urban Forestry Performance Measures in Massachusetts (u.S.A.), Mollie E. Freilicher, Forest resources
An In Vivo Study of the Mammalian Mitotic Kinesin Eg5, Alyssa D. Gable, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Breaking News, Matthew M. Gagnon, English
"Flying is Changing Women!": Women Popularizers of Commercial Aviation and the Renegotiation of Traditional Gender and Technological Boundaries in the 1920s-30s, Emily K. Gibson, History
Pee On Water and Other Stories, Rachel B. Glaser, English
The Adventures of Eagle Feather: A Collection of Stories, Luke B. Goebel, English
A Quantitative Analysis of the Impacts from Selected Variables Upon Safety Belt Usage in Massachusetts, Samuel W. Gregorio, Civil Engineering
Red Letters: Translation as Detection in a Sino-Japanese Murder Mystery, Tyran C. Grillo, Japanese
Behavior and Habitat Use of Roseate Terns (Sterna dougallii) Before and After Construction of an Erosion Control Revetment, Corey Grinnell, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
The Influence of Television Exposure on Infants' Toy Play, Katherine G. Hanson, Psychology
Nitrogen Dioxide in the Urban Forest: Exposure and Uptake, Tanner B. Harris, Plant & Soil Sciences
Fair Trade Practices In Contemporary Bangladeshi Society: The Case Of Aarong, Fadia Hasan, Communication
Reworking: Transforming a Textile Mill, Jennifer M. Hayes, Architecture
Examining Connecticut's Inter-Municipal Economic Development Collaboration as Affected by the EDA's Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (ceds) Framework, Meredith E. Hill, Regional Planning
The Out of Way, Katie F. Hoffman, English
Exploring Isotopic Signatures of Lake El'gygytgyn Sediments for Evidence of Anoxia and Methane Cycling over the Past 50,000 Years, Addie R. Holland, Geosciences
Hearing Voices: Female Transmission of Memories in Okinawan Literature in the 1970s and 1980s, Erumi Honda, Japanese
Probing the Activation Mechanism of Transcription-Coupled Repair Factor Mfd, Chih-heng Hsieh, Biochemistry
Disaster Rehabilitative Housing In India, Shehla Hussain, Architecture
The affective properties of keys in instrumental music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Maho A. Ishiguro, Music
Un pie aquí y otro allá: Translation, Globalization, and Hybridization in the New World (B)Order, Jorge Jimenez-bellver, Comparative Literature
Receiver Optimization For Frequency Shifted Reference Ultrawideband Radio Systems, Harshit Joshi, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Energy Aware Signal Processing and Transmission for System Condition Monitoring, Abhijit Kadrolkar, Mechanical Engineering
The Magmatic Origin and Evolution of the Oxnadalur Volcanic Complex in Northern Iceland, Jason F. Kaiser, Geosciences
Analysis of Curved Integral Abutment Bridges, Emre Kalayci, Civil Engineering
Determination Of Chemoreceptor Organization In-vitro With Site Directed Cross-linking, Aruni PKK Karunanayake Mudiyanselage, Chemistry
Material Characterization and Structural Response of Historic Truss Bridges, Sean L. Kelton, Civil Engineering
The Effects of Testosterone on Emotional Processing in Male Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta), Hanna M. King, Neuroscience & Behavior
Decision Support System for Resource Allocation in Disaster Management, Russell Kondaveti, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Good Time Park, Mark M. Koyama, English
Recreational Physical Activity and Premenstrual Syndrome in College-Aged Women, Aimee R. Kroll, Public Health
Investigation of 3-d Heat Transfer Effects in Fenestration Products, Sneh Kumar, Mechanical Engineering
The Silhouettes, Lily Ladewig, English
Excess Return Estimate and Risk Factors in Hospitality Firms, Genti Lagji, Hotel & Tourism Management
Cold Hardiness, 13c Discrimination and Water Use Efficiency of Perennial Ryegrass Genotypes in Response to Wilt-Based Irrigation, Jason D. Lanier, Plant & Soil Sciences
Planning for Passenger Rail in Small Cities and Towns, Alyssa R. Larose, Regional Planning
The Burts, Jason Larson, English
From New Netherland to New York: European Geopolitics and the transformation of social and political space in colonial New York City, John Allen Legrid, Geography
Data Fusion for the Problem of Protein Sidechain Assignment, Yang Lei, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Earthquake Engineering Simulation with Flexible Cladding System, Jun Jie Li, Civil Engineering
for you, of course, Chun-tso Lin, Art
Expressions of Self in a Homeless World: Zhang Dai (1597-1680?) and His Writings in the Ming-Qing Transition Period, Wenjie Liu, Chinese
Connections in Care: The Relationship Between Complementary, Alternative and Conventional Medicine, Amy Loomis, Sociology
Advanced Blade Testing Methods for Wind Turbines, Puneet Malhotra, Mechanical Engineering
Strengthening Urban Green: Using Green Infrastructure for Biodiversity Improvement in Boston's Highly Fragmented Urban Environments, Christopher L. Mantle, Landscape Architecture
Transposed Letter Effects in Prefixed Words: Implications for Morphological Decomposition, Kathleen M. Masserang, Psychology
Calibration of the UMass Advanced Multi-Frequency Radar, Matthew Mclinden, Electrical & Computer Engineering
America's Changing Face: Differential Effects of Colorblindness and Multiculturalism on Racial Categorization and Stereotyping, Melissa A. Mcmanus, Psychology
Identification of Dynein Binding Sites in Budding Yeast Pac1/LIS1, Christopher W. Meaden, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Electronic Falls Reporting System Implementation: Evaluating Data Collection Methods and Studying User Acceptance, Yi You Mei, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Rurban Integration, Tristram W. Metcalfe, Architecture
Utility of a Processing Speed Measure in Screening for Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dmitry M. Meyerson, Psychology
Show of Wonders, Brian Mihok, English
Electric Power Market Modeling with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, Nathanael K. Miksis, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Taira No Masakado In Premodern Literature Of Japan, Genesie T. Miller, Japanese
Scalable, Memory-Intensive Scientific Computing on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Salma Mirza, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Simulation of Packet Pacing in Small-Buffer Networks, Anindya Misra, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Exhibiting Human Evolution: How Identity and Ideology Get Factored into Displays at a Natural History Museum, Chanika Mitchell, Anthropology
Frog City, Ata Moharreri, English
Zero Syllable, Camila Molestina, Art
(Evol)ution Is Love Spelled Backwards, Erica Monteiro, English
Family Predictors of Negative Instability in Adopted Emerging Adults, Danila S. Musante, Psychology
Post Silicon Clock Tuning System To Mitigate The Impact Of Process Variation On Performance, Kelageri Nagaraj, Electrical & Computer Engineering
The Go-Tsuchimikado Shinkan-bon ~ Izumi Shikibu Shū: A Translation of the Poems and an Analysis of Their Sequence, Lisa Nelson, Japanese
Functional Characterization of Arabidopsis Formin Homologues Afh1, Afh5, Afh6, Afh7 and Afh8, Shahriar Niroomand, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Pollinator Populations in Massachusetts Cranberry, 1990 to 2009: Changes in Diversity and Abundance, Effects of Agricultural Intensification, and a Contribution to the North American Pollinator Survey., Molly M. Notestine, Plant & Soil Sciences
Use of Short-Term Floods as an Additional Management Strategy for Controlling Dodder (Cuscuta gronovii Willd.) in Commercial Cranberry Production, James M. O'connell, Plant & Soil Sciences
The Unfixedness of It, Kerry O'grady, Art
Poems of the Gods of the Heaven and the Earth, Christina E. Olinyk, Japanese
Spatial Ecology of Eastern Coyotes (Canis latrans) in the Anthropogenic Landscape of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Maili Page, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Road Passage Structures for Freshwater Turtles in Massachusetts, David J. Paulson, Wildlife & Fisheries Conservation
Modeling Source Memory Decision Bounds, Angela M. Pazzaglia, Psychology
Regulation of Crbp1 In Mammary Epithelial Cells, Stacy L. Pease, Molecular & Cellular Biology
A Stochastic R&d Portfolio Model under Climate Uncertainty, Yiming Peng, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
In Vivo Labeling Of A Model β-Clam Protein With A Fluorescent Amino Acid, Mangayarkarasi Periasamy, Molecular & Cellular Biology
What Went Wrong? Therapists' Reflections on Their Role in Premature Termination, Alessandro T. Piselli, Psychology
Statistical Bootstrapping of Speech Segmentation Cues, Nicolas O. Planet, Psychology
In Vivo Characterization of Interactions Among Dynein Complex Components at Microtubule Plus Ends, Karen M. Plevock, Molecular & Cellular Biology
It's My Passion, That's My Mission to Decide, I'm Going Worldwide: the Cosmopolitanism of Global Fans of Japanese Popular Culture, Jinni Pradhan, Communication
Crafting Form: A Tradition Reinvented, Abigail R. Pratt, Design
Into Another, Sarah N. Purnell, Art
Garbage and Marble, Emily Rae, English
Students’ Perceptions of Effectiveness of Hospitality Curricula and Their Preparedness, Imran Rahman, Hotel & Tourism Management
Socio-spatial Constructs of the Local Retail Food Environment: A Case Study of Holyoke, Massachusetts, Walter F. Ramsey, Regional Planning
Route Choice Behavior in Risky Networks with Real-Time Information, Michael D. Razo, Civil Engineering
Rethinking Reiche, Tracie J. Reed, Architecture
Bolivia's Coca Headache: The Agroyungas Program, Inflation, Campesinos, Coca and Capitalism In Bolivia, John D. Roberts, History
An Embodying Architecture: A Response to Toni Morrison's Beloved, Candace V. Robinson, Architecture
Optical Lithography Simulation using Wavelet Transform, Rance Rodrigues, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Anti-Diabetic Potentials of Phenolic Enriched Chilean Potato and Select Herbs of Apiaceae and Lamiaceae Families, Fahad Saleem, Molecular & Cellular Biology
Optimal Energy R&d Portfolio Decision Making under Climate Change Uncertainty, Georg Schorpp, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
The kiss in the dream, Monika Schrauder, Germanic Languages & Literatures
Low Cost Fpga Based Digital Beamforming Architecture for Casa Weather Radar Applications, Emmanuel J. Seguin, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dynamic Model Pooling Methodology for Improving Aberration Detection Algorithms, Brenton J. Sellati, Resource Economics
Regenerative Agriculture Infrastructure Design: The Built Environment of Food, Culture, & Soil, Jesse JW Selman, Architecture
Ip25: A Molecular Proxy of Sea-ice Duration in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, Cecily J. Sharko, Geosciences
Civic Center for Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Akanksha Sharma, Architecture
Evaluation of an Eye Tracking Device to Increase Error Recovery by Nursing Students Using Human Patient Simulation, Yan Shen, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research