Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2018
The Therapeutic Potential of Natural Products from Vaccinium Berries for Viral and Lung Diseases Through an Improved LC-MS-Based Chemometric Approach, Vanya I. Petrova
Crafting Oppression of Women in Novels by Writers of Color, Jacqueline Annette Phillips
Manifest Density: Decentering the Global Western Film, Michael D. Phillips
Dolls Who Speak: Sex Robots, Cyborgs and the Image of Woman, Victoria E. Pihl Sorensen
Investigation of Novel Electrolytes for Use in Lithium-Ion Batteries and Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, Kartik Pilar
Throwing off the "Draggling Dresses": Women and Dress Reform, 1820-1900, Laura J. Ping
The Syndrome of Romantic Love, Arina Pismenny
Validity Testing of the Genetics and Genomics in Nursing Practice Survey (GGNPS), Alexandra Plavskin
Shakespeare and Chaucer: Dream Visions and Dramatic Designs, Michael Plunkett
Casualties of Racism: Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Emerging Adults, Lillian Anais Polanco
N-Representability in the Quantum Kernel Energy Method, Walter Polkosnik
Wnt Secretion Proteins Modulate RANKL-Induced Expression of Aire in Thymic Epithelial Cells, Daniel Pollack
Tracing Dominican Attitudes Towards Race: A Historical Analysis, Marcos Polonia
Elaboration within Compliance: Linguistic Patterns within Coercive Control in Sex Trafficking, Jessica Pomerantz
Military Citizenship in the Post-9/11 Homefront, Estefania Ponti
Physical Applications of the Geometric Minimum Action Method, George L. Poppe Jr.
The Theatrical King: Joseph Addison's Invention of Modern Sovereignty, Dan Poston
Relating Justification Logic Modality and Type Theory in Curry–Howard Fashion, Konstantinos Pouliasis
Using Authentic Inquiry to Unpack Emotions and Thorny Issues Within Teaching and Learning, Leah Denise Pride
The Spring Street Church in the Age of Abolition, David S. Pultz
Synthesis and Characterization of Cytocompatible Sponge-Mimetic Scaffolds and Biomedical Polymers, Kamia Punia
Perceived Health: A Grounded Theory Study on How Young Black Men Process Their Health, Layla L. Qaabidh
Iron Oxide Nanomagnets in Polymer Matrices – Synthesis and Characterization, Shenjie Qiu
Allomaternal Care by Conspecifics Impacts Activity Budgets of Colobus guereza Mothers, Dominique L. Raboin
Towards A Queer Aesthetic: Biographical Readings Of Oscar Wilde, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman, Vanessa J. Ragusa
A Quantification Analysis on Potential Use of Recuperated Regenerative Braking Energy from NYCT Subways into Charging Electric Buses, AHMED S. RAHMAN
Energy Management System of Hybrid Wayside Storage in Urban Railway Traction, Anil Rajpatei
Addicted to the answer, Charumathi Raman
Espacios alternativos y nomadismo en tres poetas salvadoreñas de la guerra: Leyla Quintana, Kenny Rodríguez y Eva Ortiz, Juana M. Ramos
Due Process and the Right to Legal Counsel for Unaccompanied Minors, Marielos G. Ramos
Unarticulated Constituents and Theories of Meaning, Jesse Rappaport
A Narrative of Resilience: Margaret Morton's Photographs of Homelessness in New York City, Sara Rappa
The Politics of United States Army Doctrine, David C. Rasmussen
Characterization and Quantification of Covalent Modification of Proteins Using Mass Spectrometry, Pratikkumar N. Rathod
The New Entrepreneur: Worker Experiences in the Sharing Economy, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle
Unveiling Chaim Shatan: An Analyst Unveiling War Wounds, Andrea Recarte
The Other at War: Performing the Spanish-Cuban-American War on U.S. and Cuban Stages, Juan R. Recondo
The Effects of the ACA’s Medicaid Expansion and Woodwork Effect on Hospital Finances, Azemina Redzematovic
Event-Related Potential Studies of Error Monitoring to Affective and Non-Affective Stimuli in Adolescents and Emerging Adults, Rebecca K. Reed
With Monsters, Leonard J. Reibstein
Offset: How the government improperly takes money from the disabled, Carmen Reinicke
“I’m the greatest”: Pride, Impression Management, and Denial of Coercive Control And Physical Abuse by Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence, Benjamin Reissman, Kendra Doychak M.A., Angela Crossman Ph.D., and Chitra Raghavan Ph.D.
A Performer’s Guide to Astor Piazzolla's Tango-Études pour flûte seule: An Analytical Approach, Asis Reyes
On the Feasibility of Utilizing Commercial 4G LTE Systems for Misson-Critical IoT Applications, Alfred Rezk
Analysis of Risk Signaling Through Bank Dividends, Justin Rhoda
Unusual Accidental Signs, Microtonal Inflections, and Marchetto of Padua, Alan D. Richtmyer
A Case Study on Grid Impacts of Electric Vehicles on New York City Power Grid, Amir Abbas Rizvi
New Dyes for Cancer Theranostics, Waqar Rizvi
Alternative Futures: The Creative Reconsideration of Fashion Objects, Kathryn Roberts
The American Whig Party and Slavery, Mitchell Rocklin
Gender and Terrorism: A Homeland Security Perspective, Diana Rosa Rodriguez-Spahia
An Examination of the Relationships Between Stressors, Correctional Burnout, and Job Outcomes, Erin Rogers
The State of Hate in America: A Study of Hate Group Permeation in the United States by State, Michelle Rogers
Certainty about the Absence of Positive Future Events as a Unique Predictor of Suicidal Ideation over an 18-Month Period, Christina A. Rombola
Migration, Colonialism, and Belonging: Tunisians Around the First World War, 1911-1925, Chris J. Rominger
(Dis)unity in the UN Security Council: Voting Patterns in the UN's Peace and Security Organ, Paul M. Romita
The study of the degradation of hexabromocyclododecane in a heterogeneous system containing Fe(II) adsorbed to the iron oxide Hematite., Kristian K. Roopnarine
Polaroid Access, Becky Jane Rosen
The Invisible Brain Injury Crisis, Michael E. Rosenthal
The Politics of Service: Affectivity, Social Relations, and the Power of Tipping in the Restaurant Industry, Jacqueline A. Ross
The Archivettes, Megan D. Rossman
Still Life: Growing Up with Death - A Visual Memoir, Lindsey Roth-Rosen
Flap of a Butterfly's Wings, Gary E. Rotter II
The Lines Between the Lines: Stage Directions as Fluid, Affective Collaborations Between Theatre Texts and Theatre Makers, Sarah Bess Rowen
Prior Mental Health Treatment and Mental Health Court Program Outcomes, Lauren Rubenstein
Canada’s tariffs on American consumer goods linger, despite appearance of trade truce, Willa Rubin
Beneath Brooklyn’s Darkened Skies, Court Continues Long Into the Night, Emilie Ruscoe
Heal Thyself, Teranderose Russell
An Investigation of the Phylogenetic Affinities of Sivaladapidae within Adapoidea, Kathleen Rust
Vectorial Realities: Foucault and the Politics of the Literary Address, Jiyoung Ryu
Stereotype Threat as an Explanation for Sexual Risk Taking Behavior in Gay Men: A Multi-Study Exploration of Mechanisms, Inna Saboshchuk
Langston Hughes in Turkestan: Poems, Photos, and Notebooks 1932–1933, Zahera Z. Saed
Time-Series and Cross-Section Variation of Bond Risk Premia, Niloofar Sahebalzamany
Citizens Excepted: Limits of Belonging and Statelessness in The United States, Sara Salman
The Unsuspected Francis Lieber, Richard Salomon
Fossil fuel impact of buildings electrification in New York City, Mattia Sartori
Insurgent Knowledge: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Open Admissions, Danica B. Savonick
Electric Light: Automating the Carceral State During the Quantification of Everything, R. Joshua Scannell
Public Pharaohs: The Influence of Pharaonic Nationalism in Egypt During the 1920s and 1930s, Sean P. Scarisbrick
Consumption and Ceramics at the Rural Homestead of the Raddin-Badgley Family, New Providence, Union County, New Jersey, Carissa A. Scarpa
Climate grief hits the self-care generation, Avichai Scher
Supercharged Models of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins and Their Utility in Sensing, Peter J. Schnatz
Global Pretrial Detention Use: A Cross-National Analysis, Martin Schönteich
Building Test Anonymity Networks in a Cybersecurity Lab Environment, John Schriner
Dimension Reduction on Measures of Impulsivity, Christina T. Schulz
Persistence of Cultural Heritage in a Multicultural Context: Examining Factors that Shaped Voting Preferences in the 2016 Election, Anna M. Schwartz
El Angelito de los Migrantes Veracruzanos toma la Forma de una Paquetería Neoyorquina, Julia L. Sclafani
Essays on the Economics of Unhealthy Behaviors, Raul Segura-Escano
The Juridical Communities of Apulia: Communal Identity and Municipal Belonging in the Aragonese Kingdom of Naples, Vincenzo Selleri
ADAPTING TO $15: As the Minimum Wage Approaches $15 in NYC, Business Owners Are Finding Ways to Make it Work, Alexandra Semenova and Sharif Paget
Intergroup Variability in Personality Recognition, Arundhati Sengupta
I Know You Are, But What Am I?: The Language of Trauma and Identity Formation in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Claire A. Setton
The Two Inexical Uses Theory of Proper Names and Frege's Puzzle, Daniel S. Shabasson
The Effect of Parental Death on Children’s Wellbeing, Monil S. Shah
Postcolonial Indian Nonfiction Cinema: The Documentaries of Satyajit Ray, Muzahid Sharif
Corporate Urbanization: Between the Future and Survival in Lebanon, Deen S. Sharp
Electronics and the Music of Miles Davis, Darren E. Shekailo
“Better Unmentioned:” An Assessment of Reagan Administration Aid to Pakistan, Panama, and Zaire., Charles G. Sherrard