Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2019
Generative Adversarial Networks and Word Embeddings for Natural Language Generation, Robert D. Schultz Jr
Loop, Lap, Leap, Hannah Schutzengel
Enacting Race and Class Online: Gatekeeping and Meaning Making on Reddit’s r/Brooklyn, Peter J. Sclafani
Swedish Migration Politics: Have the Sweden Democrats Taken Over the Political Agenda?, Sofia Sedergren
Resisting Industrial Food Systems on the Web: How Non-Profit Organizations Use Digital Technology for Sustainability Education, Aleksandr Segal
An Exploratory Study of How Millennials Approach and Communicate Mental Health in the Workplace, Johanna I. Seitenbach
Contradictions of Freedom in The Tempest and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Menaka Serres
Living as a Dying Child: A Gadamerian Analysis of the Poetry of Mattie J. T. Stepanek, Corinne Ann Settecase-Wu
The Unsung History of Prince Hall Freemasonry, Ann Seymour
Democratization of Nepal: Towards Consolidation? Perspectives on Rule of Law & Civil Liberties, Anil J. Shahi
Words Are Found Responsible: Poetry's Jurisdiction and the Transformation of Equal Rights, Talia Shalev
Captives of a New Alcatraz: The New York City Department of Correction from 1954 to 1990, Jarrod Shanahan
Morris High School: A Biography, Naomi Sharlin
Minor Forms, Dismantled Norms: Mediums of Modernism in Pakistan, Gemma Sharpe
The Hydra of Modern Literature, Genevieve Sharp
The Morphology and Evolution of the Primate Brachial Plexus, Brian M. Shearer
“We are all the decline”: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Presbyterian Clergywomen’s Talk About Denominational Decline, Miriam Shelton
Rich in Needs: The Forgotten Radical Politics of the Welfare Rights Movement, Wilson Sherwin
Developing and Validating a Fast and Accurate Method to Quantify 18 Antidepressants in Oral Fluid Samples Using SPE and LC-MSMS, Sanghee S. Shin
Constructing Social Identity Through the Past: The Itza Maya Community Identity Through the Late Postclassic Period (1250–1525CE), Yuko Shiratori
The Implementation Fidelity of the Family Finding Intervention through the Lens of Permanency Specialists, Liat L. Shklarski
Essays on the Equity Premium Puzzle, Oren Shmuel
Themes in Global Terrorism from 2010 to 2016, Rafael Sholomov
Analysis of a Group of Automorphisms of a Free Group as a Platform for Conjugacy-Based Group Cryptography, Pavel Shostak
Umberto Boccioni's States of Mind, Sonya Shrier
Effects of Physician-Hospital Integration on Malpractice Claims, Elizabet Shvets
Market Making: Crises and the Global Production of Shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Elizabeth A. Sibilia
A Media Distortion Analysis of Mass Shootings, Jason R. Silva
Mechanisms of Microglia Mediated Apolipoprotien E Neurotoxicity, Pardeep Singh
The Role of Eyewitness Confidence and Prosecution/Defense Presentation in How Facial Composites Shape Juror Decision-Making, Rebecca E. Singh
Neuron-Glial (NG) Interactions: A Microfluidic Examination of NG Emergent Responses for Repair, Tanya Singh
Multiple Bodies as One, Valerie Skakun
The Untapped Potential of Ethnic Community Networks: Urban Resiliency and the Chinese Commuter Van System in New York City, Alexandra Diane Smith
Elucidation of the Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane Utilizing the One-of-a-Kind Catalytic Shock Tube Technique, Robyn E. Smith
Naloxone and Ethanol Addiction Reinforcement, Roland T. Smith III
Gendered Subjectivity and Resistance: Brazilian Women’s Performance-for-Camera, 1973–1982, Gillian Sneed
Localizing Orientalism: Mariano Fortuny between Morocco and Spain, Susie Sofranko
Chimeras, Centaurs, and Satyrs: Creating Mixed Genre Texts in Antiquity and the Renaissance, Claire Sommers
Design and Application of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9-Responsive Peptide Nanostructures, Jiye Son
An Incurable Malady? Representations of Female Madness in Nineteenth Century-Twenty-first Century Literature, Kimberly Sooklall
Examining Mental Health Stigma Among Police Officers and Intended Behavior Towards People with Mental Illness, Sara Soomro
Using Fundamental Properties of Light to Investigate Photonic Effects in Condensed Matter and Biological Tissues, Laura A. Sordillo
Mold, Allergic Diseases and Asthma: Assessing the Validity and Usefulness of Indoor Air Sampling as a Tool in Providing Health Protective Advice to Occupants, William M. Sothern
Feeding the Future Meat Doesn’t Come Cheap, Lukas C. Southard
Revolutionary Joy: Affect, Expression, and Community in Milton's England, Stephen Spencer
Childhood Neglect and Risk of Revictimization by an Intimate Partner: A Prospective Investigation of Mediational Pathways, Rebecca M. Spizzirri
Sadness in Brooklyn: The American Housing Act of 1949 and the Brooklyn Dodgers Move to Los Angeles, Patrick Spranger
Beyond the Elevators: How the New York City subway system can better serve blind, deaf and cognitively disabled people, Ethan B. Stark-Miller
Dependability of Referees’ Decision Making on Discretionary Penalties in the NFL, Anthony Stefanidis
FLOAT, Frida Sterenberg
Investigating the Feasibility of Advanced Law Enforcement Resilience Training (A.L.E.R.T.): An Innovated and Practical Intervention to Enhance Police Mindfulness and Resilience, Stephanie B. Stern
Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects, LeeAnn S. Stevens
Framing the City: Photography and the Construction of São Paulo, 1930–1955, Danielle J. Stewart
Collective Subjectivity and Utopian Desire, Stewart A. Stout
How New York City Is Failing Students With Special Needs—and Why Minority Kids Have It the Worst, Pamela Subizar
Illuminations, Emerson Sudbury
Weak Social Support as an Indicator for Worse Trauma Related Symptoms, Michael B. Sugarman
The Counseling Advantages of Rechargeable Hearing Aid Batteries, Belinda M. Sun
On the Complexity of Computing Galois Groups of Differential Equations, Mengxiao Sun
Black Economic Empowerment: Educating in the Hood?, Jeffrey C. Suttles
Internet of Things: Architecture and Services for Healthcare, Ankita Suvagia Ms.
Finding the Public: Models of Interaction Between Curatorial and Education Departments in Three American Encyclopedic Museums, Liam Sweeney
Privileges for Being Slaves: Christian Missionaries in the Early Qing Court, Litian Swen
An Evaluation of the Impact of Leading Pedestrian Interval Signals in NYC, Jeremy J. Sze
Performing Rhythmic Dissonance in Ligeti’s Études, Book 1: A Perception-Driven Approach and Re-notation, Imri Talgam
Deep Learning Based Medical Image Analysis with Limited Data, Jiaxing Tan
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