Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Clear and Complex, Tian Tan
A New Breed of Cop: Keeping Kids on the Straight and Narrow, Michael Tashji
The Impact of Cannabis Use on Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Dylan James Tellez
Isaac Hayes’s Soul Concept: Reexamining Hot Buttered Soul as a Pioneering Concept Album, Bryan Terry
Hyaluronan at the Brain-Environment Interface, Donald M. Thevalingam
Being Together: Imaginaries of Coexistence and Resistance in Contemporary South Asian Writings, Mahendran Thiruvarangan
Dramaturgies of Democracy: Performance, Cultural Policy, and Citizenship in Chile, 1979–Present, Jennifer J. Thompson
“Save One for Yourself”: A Reconsideration of the Houston Rebellion of 1917, Malcolm K. Thompson
A Differential Algebra Approach to Commuting Polynomial Vector Fields and to Parameter Identifiability in ODE Models, Peter Thompson
Clemency gives a renewed sense of hope to a man incarcerated for 39 years, Annie Todd and Stephanie Chukwuma
Defending the "Bad Immigrant": Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance at the Crimmigration Nexus, Sarah Rose Tosh
The Rockaway Project - Townes, Diara Jepris D. Townes
Translational Modeling of Non-Invasive Electrical Stimulation, Dennis Quangvinh Truong
Outcomes in Children with Additional Disabilities Following Cochlear Implantation: A Systematic Review, Rebecca M. Tuchman
What happened to this child? Identifying factors that influence the identification and categorization of child maltreatment in the United States, Erika Tullberg
The Mediterranean Crisis, Zuzana Turakova
The Effect of Dopamine Blockade on Sensorimotor Gating in Social Phenotypes of the African Cichlid Fish Astatotilapia burtoni, Raymond A. Turco
The Impact of Local Broadband Coverage on U.S. Firms’ Information Environment, Zhiyuan Tu
The Case of New Institutionalism: Maria Lind at the Kunstverein München, 2002–2004., Olga Tykhonova
Hypertension and HIV in an Urban Slum Setting, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Olga Tymejczyk
Isolation and Support Dynamics Among Concurrent Victims of Sex Trafficking, Leslie Unger and Chitra Raghavan
Rural Adolescent Education Reframed: Can Social Justice, Lewin’s Topology, and Aesthetics Aid Reform Efforts?, Judith F. Upjohn
A MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION STUDY OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND THREE AMINO ACIDS: ALANINE, GLYCINE, AND GLUTAMINE, Allan Uribe
An Overview and Evaluation of SynthETC: A Statistical Model for Extra-Tropical Cyclones, Rafael Uryayev
Words Are a Pipe, Kyle Michael Utter
Essays on Bank Acquisitions and Systemic Risk, Farindokht Vaghefi
Perspectives of Student Dis/engagement in Youth Attending an Alternative School as Viewed Through a Lens of Respect and Relationships, Daniel Vallee
Not just yet: Despite grinding it out in Silicon Valley, Asians are least likely to lead big tech companies, Karishma Vanjani
The Women Against Violence Experiment (W.A.V.E.): social journalism solutions to help immigrant women protect themselves against abuse, Isadora Varejao
Estudio Variacionista sobre las Formas de Tratamiento en Buga, Colombia, Diego Vargas Barona
Whatever Happened to the Movie Theme Song?, Luka Vasic
One Salvadoran Mother Was Determined to Bring Her Son to the U.S. Legally— It Took 24 Years, Maggie Veatch
Little Egypt: A Critical Biography, Katherine Vecchio
“The Healing Balm of Sympathy Denied”: Moral Sense Philosophy, Patriarchy, and Monstrosity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Estefania Velez
What Rome Really Adopted from Ancient Greece, Christian J. Vella
: Examining How Factors Associated with Patients, Physicians, Hospitals, and Surrounding Communities Affect Primary and Repeat Cesarean Delivery Through a Social-Ecological Lens, Christina Ventura-DiPersia
Innate Antibodies, Murine Models, and Evolution: A Study of Trypanosome Lytic Factor Functions and Their Translational Applications, Joseph P. Verdi
Screening for Hearing Loss: Physician Attitudes and Practice, Theresa N. Vitale
American Sign-Language (ASL) for Audiologists, Colette Vossler-Welch
The Jihadist Marketplace: Understanding Competition between al Qaeda and ISIS, Hristo Voynov
The Feminization of Prehistory: Evidence for the Emergence of Complex Modern Behaviors before c.70,000 Years Ago, Jeffrey Vreeland
Hermitian Maass Lift for General Level, An Hoa Vu
Auditory Spaces and Sonic Narratives of Gender: The Queer Phenomenology of Sound in Girls Lost and Tangerine, Mira Vuorinen
Adults Formerly in Foster Care Narrate Schooling Experiences, Danielle Walker
The Narrative of Revolution: Socialism and The Masses 1911-1917, Stephen K. Walkiewicz
War and Peace in American Seduction: Seduction Communities, Heterosexual Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy in New York City, Anders Wallace
A Pretargeted Spect Imaging Strategy Employing Technetium-99M Based on Bioorthogonal Diels-Alder Click Chemistry, Justin H. Walsh
Between the Cracks: From Squatting to Tactical Media Art in the Netherlands, 1979–1993, Amanda S. Wasielewski
Is There Synergy Between Song Learning and Vocal Stimuli Discrimination Training?, Kenta Watanabe
ACCEPTABILITY OF A VAGINAL RING TO PREVENT HIV AND PREGNANCY: INTEGRATING MULTIPLE QUALITATIVE METHODS, Dana Watnick
School Optimism: Fast Life and Slow Debt in the Financialized University, Mark Alan Porter Webb
Investigation of the Synthesis and Optoelectronic Properties of Ultrasmall CdSe Quantum Dots, Megan Webster
Leonora Duarte (1610–1678): Converso Composer in Antwerp, Elizabeth A. Weinfield
Behavioral Hypervigilance in a Normative Population, Karly Weinreb
Implications of Vestibular Dysfunction Among the Aging Population: A Pocket Guide for Health Care Professionals, Maia L. Weisenfeld
Frontiers of Conditional Logic, Yale Weiss
Twelve Rounds with Bob Dylan: Pugilist/Poet, Richard Westlein
Analyzing Harmonic Polarities: A Tonal Narrative Approach, Stephen J. Whale
Google has a labor problem, and it’s not just coming from its employees, Daniel Whateley
The Diffusion of a Movement Moment: Labor Organizing in the Shadow of Occupy Wall Street, Pamela Whitefield
Peptide Mediated Co-assembly of Porphyrin: Towards Sustainable Biomaterials for Light Harvesting and Catalysis, WSM Nadeesha K. Wijerathne
The Crusader and the Dictator: An Exploration of Ideology and Neurodivergence in Contemporary Technology Practice, David J. Williams
The Miss America Pageant Should Restore Prioritizing the Evening Gown Segment, KEISHEL WILLIAMS
Dress Up, Ye'ela B. Wilschanski
The Challenge of Teaching in Urban Schools: A Dialogue with New York City Mathematics Teachers, Martin S. Wilson
“How to Lose the Hounds”: Tracing the Relevance of Marronage for Contemporary Anti-Police Struggles, Celeste Winston
An Evolutionary Perspective on Foraging Strategies and Group Dynamics in Bio-Social Inspired Cognitive Radio Networks, Anna Wisniewska
Six Vignettes for Solo Violin, Deshawn A. Withers
Basic-Acceptance Teleosemantics, Esteban Withrington
From Mourning to Monuments: How American Society Memorialized the Dead After 1945, Eugenia M. Wolovich
Renal Specific RNAi Delivery by Fibrillar Nanoparticle Excipients, Sam Wong
"A Complicated Story, An Unsolved Mystery": An Experiment in Poetry and the Ethics of Representation, Darren Wood
A Novel Kinesin Adapter Directly Mediates Dendritic mRNA Localization During Synapse Development, Hao Wu
Heterocycle Synthesis from Quinols, Jing Wu
Emperor of Work: Chinese Restaurants, Worker Subjectivities, and the New Regime of Flexible Labor, Tommy Wu
Accelerators: Their Fit in the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem and Their Cohort Selection Challenges, Shu Yang
The Impact of Working Memory Load and Anxiety on Attention Bias Modification Training, David Lloyd Yap
Emergent Critical Properties in Liquid-Gas Transition and Single Dislocations in Solid He4, Max Yarmolinsky
Cue-based reflexive reference resolution: Evidence from Korean reflexive caki, Namseok Yong
Interplay of Magnetism, Superconductivity, and Topological Phases of Matter, Cody Youmans
Postpartum Pains, Lakea Youngblood
Intrusive Thoughts - Guitar, Voice, & String Quintet, Joseph M. Young
Literature Survey of Wet-Waste and Hydrothermal Carbonization System: A Comparative Evaluation, Ramat Olaide Yusuf
The Position of a Woman: A Poetics of Grace Paley’s Political Storytelling, Jamie Zabinsky
Freedom in Existence: A Comparative Study of the Poetics of Emily Dickinson and Sohrab Sepehri, Neda Zahraie
The Ends of Plot: Rupture and Entanglement in L’amica geniale, Victor X. Zarour Zarzar
Getting it right: New York can make its ‘inevitable’ marijuana industry accessible before it’s too late, Kelly Zegers
9/11 Exposure and Parental Monitoring, Heather Zemeck
Bisthioether Stapled Peptides Targeting Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Gene Repression, Gan Zhang
Tonicizations, Periods, and Period-Like Structures in the Music of Dvořák, Xieyi Zhang
Cost Stickiness and Supply Chain Bargaining Power, Binghao (Jimmy) Zhao
The Perception of Mandarin Tones in "Bubble" Noise by Native and L2 Listeners, Mengxuan Zhao
Big Sister Enterprise: Just Be There, Wai Ying Zhao