Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Object Permanence in Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus), Dalia Miller
Receptor-Mediated Maturation of Olfactory Sensory Neurons: A Time Course Evaluation of Neuronal Maturation in Neomorphic Mutants, Elizabeth Miller
Finding Justice, Hannah Miller
Extreme Obesity Among Adults in the United States: Spatial Variation and the Association with Mortality, Carrie Mills
Weaving Modern Forms: Fiber Design in the United States, 1939–1959, Sarah Mills
Controlled Migration of Retinal Progenitor Cells Within Electro-Chemotactic Fields, Shawn Mishra
Making a Million, Mallika Mitra
Articulation of the Japanese Moraic Nasal: Place of Articulation, Assimilation, and L2 Transfer, Ai Mizoguchi
Dermatoglyphic Measures in Relation to Depressive Symptoms Among Non-Clinical Adolescents and Young Adults, Yosefa A. Modiano
Foreign Intervention and the Process of State Failure Case Study on Libya, Islam Mohamed Goher Mohamed
Feminism: Arrested Development in the #MeToo era, Síle Anne E. Moloney
Impacts of the Erosion of State Funding for Public Higher Education: Longitudinal Case Studies of Four State Systems – California, Georgia, New York and Wisconsin, Meghan M. Moore-wilk
El caso de Mateo Alemán: La interaccion entre el derecho y la literatura en el informe de la mina de mercurio de Almaden y El Guzman de Alfarache, Cristina Morales Segura
This Is What a Feminist Tweets Like: "Women's Language" and Styling Activist Identities in a #YesAllWomen Twitter Corpus, Eleanor A. Morikawa
Demographic Factors as Domains for Adaptation in Linguistic Preprocessing, Sara Morini
Across Curriculums: A Need for Audiology Instruction for Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Jenna M. Morishita
HEARING/s: Will in the Carceral Archive, Kayla Morse
Role of MOA-1, an Anti-phosphatase, and APL-1, an APP-related Protein, in Morphogenesis and Mating Behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans, Valerie C. Moscoso
The Interaction of Attention and Memory on the Reorienting Negativity, John C. Moses
Caring Choices? Supporting and Dreaming with Students in New York City’s Stratifying High School Admissions System, Megan R. Moskop
Clinical Characteristics and Neuroanatomical Predictors of Acute Antidepressant Outcome for Patients with Comorbid Depression and Mild Cognitive Impairment, Jeffrey N. Motter
"Excellent Propaganda" Zbigniew Brzezinski's Narrative for the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Matt Mulhern
Dance of Exile: The Sakharoffs’ Visual Performances in Montevideo (1935–1948), Pablo Munoz Ponzo
Improving Measurement and Expanding Meta-Analytic Knowledge: Social and Emotional Learning in Elementary and Early Childhood, Dana M. Murano
I Love Fashion Influencing and I Hate it at the Same Time, Nicolette Muro
The Role and Regulation of Alternative Polyadenylation in the DNA Damage Response, Michael R. Murphy
An Investigation of Alkylboron Transmetallation in Palladium-Catalyzed Suzuki Reactions, Benjamin Murray
The Family, Political Theory, and Ideology: A Comparative Study of John Stuart Mill and Friedrich Engels, David M. Murray Jr.
The "I" of the Artist-Curator, Natalie Musteata
Trump’s Trade Policies Deflate the American Beer Industry, Megan E. Myscofski
The Origin of Power in the Need to Cooperate: Parallels Between Political and Economic Power, David Nagy
Designing an On-Demand Dynamic Crowdshipping Model and Evaluating its Ability to Serve Local Retail Delivery in New York City, shirin najaf abadi
Global Food Security Under Climate-Water-Energy Nexus, Ehsan Najafi
Hydroclimate Drivers and Atmospheric Dynamics of Floods, Nasser Najibi
Dynamics of the Family lambda tan z^2, Santanu Nandi
Students with mental health disabilities suffer from discrimination across college campuses, Abigail Nequa Napp
Transforming Through Power: Teachers and the Negotiation of Authority in Schools, Madhu Narayanan
Critical Visuality: Workshops for the Examination of Media, Aily R. Nash
In the Midst of the Apocalypse, Artificial Intelligence can Save Brick and Mortar Retailers, Vrushank Nayak
Chemotaxonomy of Theobroma and Herrania (Malvaceae) and Ilex (Aquifoliaceae) species, Adam Negrin
What is the Relationship among Team Psychological Safety, Nursing Agency, and Rapid Response System Activation?, Grace Mingsum Ng
Quantum Uncertainty Reduction (QUR) Theory of Attended Access and Phenomenal Consciousness, Anatoly V. Nichvoloda
Efficient Private Information Retrieval, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos
Topological Insulating States in Photonics and Acoustics, Xiang Ni
Understanding Human Cognitive Control via fMRI Analysis, Xiuyan Ni
Little Siberia, Star of the North: Prisons, Crisis, and Development in Rural New York, 1968–1994, Jack Norton
Effects of Innovations in Health Care Provision and Financing, Hoda Nouri Khajavi
Essays on the Economic Consequences of Capital Controls, Richard J. Nugent III
The Price of Regulating the Self-storage Industry in New York City, Modou Nyang
The Right to Run: Decoding Sexism Against Women Politicians and Fighting for a New Paradigm for Intersectional Left Feminists, Charlene A. Obernauer
Examining Relations between Executive Functions and Decoding: A Meta-analytic Investigation, Teresa Ober
A Bite of the Big Apple: The Anthropology of Pesticide Use in New York City, Faye O'Brien
Existentialmd.com: Building Towards an Embodied Internet Aesthetic, Natasha Ochshorn
Exploring Innovation and Behavioral Flexibility in African lions (Panthera leo) and snow leopards (Panthera uncia), Victoria L. O'Connor
Sedimenting Territory: A Political Geology of Oil, Earth, and Spatial Politics in Turkey, Zeynep Oguz
Agricultural Cooperatives in the United States and Nepal: A Comparative Study, Abin Ojha
Void fraction measurements in a large (0.3 m) diameter bubble column using Wire Mesh Sensors and Pressure Transducers: Effect of Spargers, Afolabi G. Ojo
Void fraction measurements in large (0.3 m) diameter bubble column using Wire Mesh Sensor and Pressure transducers- Effect of sparger, Afolabi Gabriel Ojo
Semi-supervised Regression with Generative Adversarial Networks Using Minimal Labeled Data, Greg Olmschenk
Cyborgean Horizons: Gender, Disability and Technology in Olympic and Paralympic Sport, An Intersectional Approach, Stephanie O'Neill
Group Distinctiveness and Ethnic Identity Among 1.5 and Second-generation Russian-speaking Jewish Immigrants in Germany and the U.S., Jay (Koby) Oppenheim
A Politics of Boundlessness, Fernando Orellana
Imagining Africa: An Analysis of Tropes and Motifs in Turn of the Century Black Music, Shane Ortale
Burdern of Chronic Health Conditions and Healthcare Utilization among Mobile Populations in Sub-Saharan Africa, Elizabeth M. Ortiz
A Deep-er Practice for Educators: Reflecting, Unpacking and Confronting Racism through Critical Performative Pedagogy, Natalia Ortiz
Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein’s Repurposing of Feminine Domestic Language through the Lens of Bakhtinian Heteroglossia and Dialogic Theory, Samantha Ortiz
Municipal Police Under Federal Control: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Title 42 U.S.C. Section 14141 Negotiated Settlements, Jason W. Ostrowe
Exploring Narratives of Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse, Sofia Oviedo
Tomb of the Unknown Marxist, Anna Ozbek
Population Movement and State Building: A Case Study of Migratory Policies in Italy, Julia Pagnamenta
Identity Shifts Among Cis- and Trans- Females Who Sell Sex on the Streets of New York City, Amalia S. Paladino
Judging Facial Expressions of Emotion: Effects of Gender, Raine Palladino
Electrochemical properties of crystalline polymorphs of MnO2 in aluminum and zinc metal batteries, Subhadip Pal
Lead and Arsenic Contamination in Urban Soils in New York City, Anna Paltseva
Green Tea Extract, Epigallocatechin Gallate, Protect Against Methamphetamine-Induced Striatal Neurotoxicity in Mice, Allen L. Pan
The Effect of Perceived Corruption on Voter Turnout in Post-Communist Countries in the European Union: Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey III, Ivana Pancurakova
Getting at the Surface: A Promoter and Coding Sequence Characterization of an Odorant Receptor, Irena G. Parvanova
The MTA Tried To Improve Outer Borough Bus Service, But They've Only Made It Worse, Adwait Patil
Towards Improving Accuracy and Interpretability of Deep Learning based on Satellite Image Classification, Yamile Patino Vargas
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take X-4, Barbara T. Paulus
Changing the Narrative: Building a Conceptual Framework for Advocating Representation in History Textbooks, Valerie Paul
Illicit Psychoactive Medication Use: Experiences of Medicalization and Normalization, Mark Pawson
Synthesis and Characterization of Dielectric and Multiferroic Nanocrystalline Transition Metal Oxide Materials and Nanocomposites, Frederick A. Pearsall
Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities in Declarative and Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data, Tyler J. Peckenpaugh
Transfigurations of the News: True Fictions, Strange Thresholds, Jeffrey Peer
Police Reform in Ukraine Since the Euromaidan: Police Reform in Transition and Institutional Crisis, Nicholas Pehlman
The Contested Terrain of the Louisiana Carceral State: Dialectics of Southern Penal Expansion, 1971–2016, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
Collective Behavior of Drosophila Melanogaster Neural Progenitor and Imaginal Disc Cells within Controlled Microenvironments, Caroline D. Pena
Development of Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Suzuki Cross-Coupling Polymerizations, Wei Peng
Structure and Function of Dopamine in the Inner Ear and Auditory Efferent System of a Vocal Fish, Jonathan T. Perelmuter
Neurogenesis is Altered Between and Across Brain Regions After Neurodegeneration and Injury, Alice Perez