Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2021
Demobilizing and Reintegrating Ex-Combatants: Explaining Success and Failure on the National and Subnational Levels, Sally Sharif
To Let the Shape Announce the Filling, Sydney Shavers
From Here and Now: Monuments of Today and Everyday, Adam Shaw
The Politics of "Dignity" and the Tunisian Truth Commission: Keywords, Violence, Human Rights, Douaa Sheet
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Mexican Return Migration across the Life Course, Mara G. Sheftel
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Psychological Outcomes of Mobile Guided Resonant Frequency Breathing in Young Adults with Elevated Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Al Amira Safa Shehab
Vulnerability: Sensation and Subjectivity in the Late Victorian Novel, Michael Shelichach
3D Object Detection, Instance Segmentation and Classification from 3D Range and 2D Color Images, Xiaoke Shen
Differentiating Risk Pathways to Violence: A Comparison of The Incremental Contributions of Masculine Gender Discrepancy Stress and Trait Agreeableness, John M. Shepherd
The Grid as Organizing Principle of Space, Information, Time, and Display, Sam Sherman
Varieties of Transnational Life: Brazilian Nikkeis’ Changing Cross-border Ties with Two Homelands, Hiroyuki Shibata
Plainchant Accompaniment and Modal Harmony in Nineteenth-Century France, Ruka Shironishi
Addressing gender stereotypes in Egypt and the impact of gender-based violence in film and media, Mayar Shoaeib
Acoustic Changes Following Clear Speech Intervention, Polina Shuminsky
Making Space for Unquantifiable Data: Hand-drawn Data Visualization, Eva Sibinga
Contributions of Reward Identity and Time Prediction Errors to Pavlovian Learning, Daniel B. Siegel
The World’s Leading Regulator: Why Countries Must Abide by the European Union’s Strict Chemical Laws and What that Means For its Closest Trading Partners, Matthew Silberger
Enlightenment Ideologies and the Non-European Other in Eighteenth-Century Opera, Daniel Silva
A Discursive Geography of Repair: Exploring Regional and National Claims for Reparative Justice in the Caribbean, Zaira S. Simone
Essays on Communication, Shawn M. Simpson
A Snowball Effect: a Pandemic’s Impacts on Household Food Insecurity in the United States, Sidie Sahid Sisay
GigLife.NYC: Blood, Sweat, Tears and Glitter., Erik B. Slavin
The Painter and His Poets: Paul Gauguin and Interartistic Exchange, Aaron Slodounik
Reproducibility of Individual DNA Deposits detected through Cellular Fluorescence, Natalee Small-Davidson
OnlyFans is Booming. But For Whom?, Allison Smith
Mapping the “Ungeographic” in Jesmyn Ward’s Where the Line Bleeds, Beth B. Smith
The Federalist Papers' Account of Human Nature, Jeffrey P. Smith
Hungry Hungry Humpbacks: A Preliminary Study of Lunge Feeding in the New York Bight, Samantha E. Smith
Painting the City in Flux, Simon S. Smith
They Should Know Better: Recognizing Sexual Grooming and Culpability Placement in Adolescents versus Children, Taylor C. Smith
Informed Consent: Foundations and Applications, Joanna Smolenski
Negotiated Access: Haccessibility, Autonomy, and Infrastructure in the Age of the Abstraction, Patrick Smyth
Microstructural Characteristics of Deformed Quartz Under Non-Steady-State Conditions, Hamidreza Soleymani
How Did Covid-19 Impact the Aviation Industry, Theresa Sonntag
Poems of Debate and Praise: Women as Published Authors in Sixteenth-Century France, Anna Soo-Hoo
Alcohol And Its Long-Term Effects On Hearing Loss: A Systematic Review, Talia Sowalsky
Detection and Morphological Analysis of Novel Russian Loanwords, Yulia Spektor
Pedagogy and Love: Preservice Teacher Perspectives, Eleni Stellatos
Factors Associated with Health-Promoting Behaviors of Adult Protective Service Workers and Professionals Who Support Vulnerable Adults, Cynthia Sterling-Fox
School Social Workers in Texas, Kayce Stevens
Performing Empowerment: Children's Rights and Musical Participation in Dakar, Senegal, Lynne Stillings
Fighting Words: Slurs, Semantics, and the Law, Richard Stillman
The Victims’ Voices: A Routine Activity Approach to Jail and Prison Victimization, Victor St. John
Article 6.21, Tatiana Stolpovskaya
Geometric Times, Linguistic Spaces, Johanna Strobel
Examining Probation and Judicial Adherence to the NYC Disposition Matrix, Susruta Sudula
Hiring Candidates with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Effects of Diagnostic Disclosure and Presence of ASD Behaviors on Employability Ratings, Geetanjali Sugrim
Polarization Sensitive Imaging Techniques Using Quantum Entangled Qubits, Vitaly Sukharenko
Comparison of Calculated Normal Mode Molecular Vibrations with Experimental Gas-Phase Infrared Spectroscopy, Anila Renis Sutar
Power Dressing: Feather Fans and the Visual Language of Female Portraiture, Charlotte Svetkey
To what extent do start-ups see themselves as strategic actors when approaching communications and financing within their companies?, Shanice Swaby
Information Justice: The Histories and Futures of Technology and Social Categories, Patrick Sweeney
The Impact of the International Monetary Fund’s 2016 – 2019 Loan to Egypt on the Country’s Development, Anasimon Takla
Working with West African Hair Braiders in NYC, Houreidja Tall
Intent to Stay, Moral Distress, and Nurse Practice Environment Among Long-Term Care Nurses, Amil Tan
Young People’s Perception of Opportunities to Participate in Democratic Governance, Jennifer Nga Yu Tang
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Self-Assemblies in Nature and Nanotechnology, Phu Khanh Tang
Towards Automated Software Evolution of Data-Intensive Applications, Yiming Tang
Design of Fibril Forming Collagen Mimetic Peptides: Heterotrimers and Nucleation Domains, Sally Tan
Optimization of Materials for Magnetic Refrigeration and Thermomagnetic Power Generation, Anthony N. Tantillo
Waiting to Tell: Factors Associated with Delays in Reporting Sexual Violence, Lahiz P. Tavarez
Understanding the Influence of Zinc on Grain Cadmium Accumulation and Bioaccessibility in Rice, Michael A. Tavarez
Developing Supramolecular Tripeptides with Sequence Tunable Visible Absorbance and Emission, Mona Tayarani Najjaran
It's Messy, Polina Tereshina
Body States of Asian Elephants Within and Around Protected Areas in the Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary, Kanchanaburi, Thailand, Caitlyn Thai
Baccio del Bianco at the Court of Spain: Early Modern Scenic Design in Context, Pamela Thielman
Poetic Self Expression, Impact, and Activism, Mariah Thomas
Racial Microaggressions Against Black Women in the Workforce, Marie Della Thomas
Cross-sectional Variation of Stock Options Behavior, Meng Tian
Essays in Applied Microeconomics, Laxman Timilsina
The Making of an Avant-gardist: A Study of Rafael Aponte-Ledée’s Early Life and Works (1957–1966), Noel Torres-Rivera
Cloning and Characterization of the Vasopressin-Oxytocin Neuropeptide Signaling System in the Vocal Control System of the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata), Emily R. Tortora
Determination of Human Shedding Propensity Based on STR Results, Genevieve Trapani
Can Racial Disparities in Poor Birth Outcomes Be Partially Attributed to Stress: A Mendellian Randomization Study, Madeline Travers
Dolphins in NY? Researchers Turn to Boat Tours For Sightings, Aaron K. Tremper
Direct and Indirect Effects of Alcohol Craving and Demand on Obsessive and Compulsive Drinking Characteristics: The Role of Impulsivity, James V. Turner IV
Computational Representation of Russian Aspectual Morphology with a Focus on Perfective Prefixation, Natalia Tyulina
Cell Cycle Progression Effects of Albumin, Sharmeen Uddin
The Influence of Text on Coherence of Story Retells, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Acquisition, and Eye Gaze: A Computer-Based Story Telling Task with Eye Tracking, Nicholas J. Ullrich III
Mother’s Understanding of the Newborn Infant Hearing Screening (NIHS) and the Audiologist’s Role in Healthy Hearing, Chaya T. Ungar
Leadership Conversion: From Command-and-Control to People-Centered Approach, Elli Unt
Countersexuality in Times of Neomachismo: Representations of Gender in Contemporary Spanish Performance (1988–2019), Mara I. Valderrama
Tools and Strategies for the Patterning of Bioactive Molecules and Macromolecules, Daniel J. Valles
Diffraction-Based Studies of Magneto- and Baro-Caloric Materials, Steven P. Vallone
Digital Earth: The Impact of Geographic Technology Through the Ages, Mishka Vance Huq
Own Your Politics: The Entanglement of Resistance and the Luxury Fashion Industry, Brent A. Van Horne
The Role of Estrogen Receptor Alpha in Regulating Messenger RNA 3’ End Processing and Controlling Gene Expression in Breast Cancer Cells, Sophia Varriano
The Female Body in the Works of Débora Arango and Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo: Colombian Modernism, Religion, and Politics, 1930s-1950s, Gina M. Vásquez
The pandemic Changed the Face of Retail. Here’s how Center City, Philadelphia — the state’s leading job market — is Faring on the Road to Recovery, Francisco O. Velasquez-Turcios
To the Studio, in the Studio, Home, Miquel R. Veldkamp
The “Muddle” of Landscape and Machinery in E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End and A Passage to India: An Ecocritical Reading, Ryan Ignatius Vera
Development of an LCMS Analytical Method with Applicability to Determination of Trace Level Explosives in Environmental Waters, Cristina I. Veresmortean
The Role of Authoritarianism in the 2020 Election, Brandon Vigil
Interrogating the Light Bugs, Ana C. Villagomez
The LinkNYC Kiosk: Phone Booths, Urban Culture, and the Neoliberal Dream for New York City, Michael A. Villanova
Predictors of Lexical Accessibility of Common and Proper Nouns in Older Age: Evidence from the Tip-of-the-Tongue State, Amy Victoria Vogel-Eyny