Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2022
On the Cryptographic Deniability of the Signal Protocol, Nihal Vatandas
UNDERSTANDING DISTRUPTIVE CHANGE IN HEALTH CARE: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF COVID, Wendy Vaughon
The Impact on Gay Men of Support and Enforcement of Workplace DEI Policies: A Meta Analysis, Steven M. Vega
Surveilling the Fat Disidencia: Policing the Bodies of Plus-Size Black Women on Instagram, Daniela V. Verdejo Salazar
Towards an Artificial Intelligence based Decision Support System to Evaluate Various Transit Projects, Patricio F. Vicuna
Scientists and Activists Work to Save the Planet, Myriam G. Vidal Valero
Making the Rural Urban: Inter-Class Dynamics to Protect the Environment in the Colombian Countryside, Sebastián F. Villamizar Santamaría
Peru's Fishmeal Industry: Its Societal and Environmental Impact, Angel Vizurraga
CPTED and the City: The Impact of Privately Owned Public Spaces on Crime in Manhattan, Julia von Ferber
The strategic use of external threat in the shaping of Russian domestic and foreign policies, Roman Voytovych
Norm and the People, Jacqueline N. Wade
In the Eye of the Beholder: A Daily Diary Investigation of Appraisals of Illegitimate Tasks, Danielle Robyn Wald
Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Alzheimer’s Disease: Prostaglandin D2 Signaling and Its Human Polymorphisms as Well as a Polypharmacological Approach, Charles H. Wallace
Navigating the Multiple Streams: The Strategic Use of Sunset Provisions, David F. Wall
Decorated Sheds, Greg Wall
Problem Solving in Chelonia with Comments on Behavior and Methodological Challenges, Mal Walton
Financial Openness and Economic Growth, Doo Kyun Wang
High Water-Responsiveness of Peptidoglycan and its Water-Responsive Mechanism, Haozhen Wang
Exosome- and Microrna-based Therapeutic Approach for Tendinopathy, Angela Wang Ilaltdinov
The Separation of Charm and Bottom Decays Measured in p+Au Collisions at 200 GeV, Zhiyan Wang
PLUTO in Hand: Design and Implementation of a Location-Based Mobile Augmented Reality Application for Viewing Open Data, Matthew O. Ward
Formal Verification Applications for the TreeKEM Continuous Group Key Agreement Protocol, Alexander J. Washburn
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Examining the Power and Privilege of Escapism in Young Adult Literature and its Culture, Stacey Watson
Therapeutic Considerations for the Polycule: A Qualitative Exploration of Consensual Non-Monogamy in Couples Treatment, Tema Watstein
Women and Dada: Reimagining Dada Through the Work of Beatrice Wood and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Violet E. Webster
Globalism and Identity in Taiwanese Contemporary Art, 1978–2009, Chu-Chiun Wei
Eating People Is Might: Power and the Representation of Anthropophagy in Antiquity, Christopher Weimer
Teaching Siblings to Encourage and Praise Play: Supporting Interactions When One Sibling has Autism, Holly R. Weisberg
Towards Explaining Variation in Entrainment, Andreas Weise
Play Among the Shadows, Xiong Wei
Waiting for the Crash, David W. Westenhaver
Gay Boy and Playboy Revues: Constructing U.S. Queer Collectivities in Networks of Peripatetic Burlesque and Nightclub Drag Performers, 1933–1939, Kalle Westerling
Countertransference and the Patient's Experience: Exploring How Engagement with Affect is Related to Short-Term Psychotherapy Outcomes, Ariel R. Westerman
Genetic Impacts of Deforestation on Mouse Lemurs, Darice Westphal
Sound Minds: Women’s Novels, Vibrational Experience, and the Listening Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Elizabeth Weybright
The Impact of Focused Attention and Opening Monitoring Meditation Styles on Attention, Jennifer Wheary
Examining the Effect of Object Relations and Defense Mechanisms on Interpersonal Relations in Adults with ADHD Symptoms, Cherise White
Navigating Their Way In: Non-Hispanic West Indians’ Class of Admission and Neighborhood Settlement, Kenisha J.A. White
Genetic Circadian Mosaics and the Clock Network’s Contributions to Sleep, Lukasz Widziszewski
Expanding the Pronominal Account of Tense: A Reexamination of the Double Access Reading in English, Brynne E. Wilkinson
Artists and the Push for Black People's Access to Healthcare, Kaitlin Williams
Why, New York City? Gauging the Quality of Life Through the Thoughts of Tweeters, Sheryl Williams
The Many Sides of Social Capital: How Social Capital Is Related to Entrepreneurship?, Vivian M. Williams
I Crawled Out from the Palimpsest Crater, Jessica Willittes
The Impact of Fluorescent Light on Shelter Dog Behavior (Canis lupus familiaris), Kristiina J. Wilson
Corporate Reputations Measured and in Practice: How Can Corporations Stay Authentic to Their Positive External Depictions, Internally?, Valeene Wilson
Exploring relationships between dog training approaches and aggression, fear, and dog-owner relationship, Janee Wise
"It Was Handed to Them": The Origins of Targeted Delivery and the Spirit of Nanomedicine, Marzena Woinska
Examining the Relationship Between Criminal Careers and Criminal Expertise in Serial and Single Homicide Offenders, Emily Woisin
UNESCO, Heritage Preservation, and Photography: Balthazar Korab’s “North Yemen: Land and Buildings” and Mario Cresci’s Matera: Immagini e documenti, Sarah M. Wolberg
life, man, Diane Wong
Fairness Doesn't Have to Be Egalitarian: Evidence From Bargaining Games, Kevin Wong
BiTRDF: Extending RDF for BiTemporal Data, Di Wu
The Visionary Mode in Anglophone Modernist Fiction, Wei Wu
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Epistemic Value of Moral Ambiguity, Jordan Wylie
Economic Policy Uncertainty and Non-GAAP Reporting, Ryan H. Wynne
Experimenting with History: Confronting the Archive through Poetry and the Historical Graphic Novel, Gerina Xhiherri
Essays on Spillover Effects Across U.S and China, Zhuo Xi
Linguistic Abstractions in Children’s Very Early Utterances, Qihui Xu
trees and trees and trees in me, Areum Yang
Role of Nuclear Lamins in Oligodendrocyte Lineage Cells, Camila Yattah
Stigma Towards Offenders Diagnosed with Mental Illness, Christina N. Yocca
Essays in Asset Pricing, Muhammed Yonac
Bondholders’ Influence on Corporate Disclosure: Evidence from Capital Expenditure Forecasts as a Firm’s Commitment, Sae Young Yoon
Tracing the Trajectory: Exploring the Origins, Iterations, and Impacts of the Muslim Travel Ban, Dalia Yousef
Analysis of the influence of cryptocurrency regulation on levels of financial literacy, Kieran C. Yuen
Quantification of Phosphatidylethanol in Whole Blood and Dried Blood Spots by LC-MS/MS, Elizabeth Yulianto
Design and Control of Quasi-direct Drive Actuation for Lightweight and Versatile Wearable Robots, Shuangyue Yu
Reclaiming South Asian Beauty, Rizwana Zafer
Prevalence of Non-self DNA on Three Different Sebaceous Skin Locations, Jan Kirstine Zamora
“The Act of the Paper”: Literacy, Racial Capitalism, and Student Protest in the 1990s, Anna Zeemont
Distributed Partitioning and Processing of Large Spatial Datasets, Ayman I. Zeidan
Gender-Typing and Sports: The Perception of Gender for Group and Individual Sports Among College Students and Adults, Nicki Zenker
Essays on Federalism and Local Finance in China, Jiakai Zhang
Development of Optical Nanomaterial for Enhanced Cerenkov Imaging, Qize Zhang
Application of PEO-PPO-PEO Triblock Copolymers in Synthesis of Silica and Organosilica Nanomaterials, Shu Zhang
Ternary Flow Simulation Based on The Conservative Phase Field Lattice Boltzmann Method, Chunheng Zhao
Understanding Species Interactions and Their Impacts in Restored Communities, Jennifer Zhu
Queer and Trans Prison Voices: A Podcast Archive on Prison Abolition, Josefine Ziebell
If you live in New York City, you’re (probably) at risk of flooding. Here’s what to do about it. Digging into the information needed to live in NYC as the climate changes, Christine A. Zirneklis
A Tool-Supported Metamodel for Program BugFix Analysis in Empirical Software Engineering, Manal Zneit
The Behavioral and Gene Expression Effects of Loss or Exhaustion of Sonic Hedgehog from Dopamine Neurons, Dustin R. Zuelke
Hard Places, Garrett Zuercher
Inducing Empathy in Jurors in a Capital Penalty Phase Trial: An Examination of how to Reduce Jurors' Death Sentence Decisions, Klaudia Zuraw
Accuracy, Precision, and Efficiency: Comparing Mapping Techniques in Nixtun-Ch’ich’, Petén, Guatemala, Gabriela Zygadlo
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2021
The Tale of Two Countrysides: The Shaping of Landscapes in Hispania and Spanish Latin America, Andrew R. Abrams
Embracing Conflict and Contradiction as a Path to Awareness, JoAnn Rintel Abreu
The One-Armed Viewer: Voyeurism and Masturbation in Nudist Imagery and Film Spectatorship, Benjamin Eleanor Adam
Investigating Social Preferences in a High Fission-Fusion Society of Black and White Ruffed Lemur (Varecia Variegata), Patricia A. Adamo
Examining the Recovery of the MTA in NYC, Angel Adegbesan
Plastic Recycling Is Inefficient and Expensive, Clark S. Adomaitis
GOES-R Supervised Machine Learning, Ronald Adomako
Developing Dynamical Probes of Quantum Spin Liquids Inspired by Techniques from Spintronics, Joshua Aftergood
Mitigating Resurgence in Functional Communication Training: Teaching Varied and Complex Responses, Charlene N. Agnew
Cross-pollinating music: the past, present and future of genre-blending experimental musicians, Vanessa Ague