Theses and Dissertations
Theses from 2018
General Acceptance among Experts of Eyewitness Research Findings: Sources of Influence, Sneha Suresh
From the Humanitarian Impact Initiative to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: A Novel Approach to Nuclear Disarmament, Elisabeth Szeli
Nationalism, Soft Annexation and Hybrid Warfare: Putin's Recipe for Russian Resurgence, Brian E. Szlenk Straub
Beyond "The One"/ More Than "The One", Andrea Nicole Tagle and Shelby Boamah
Transformations: Suburban Cordoba During the Umayyad Caliphate, 929-1009, Carmen M. Tagle
The role of MDM2 in DNA damage signaling, Stanley Tam
Genetic Basis of Larval Crystal Cell Quantity Variation in the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel (DGRP), Brian Tang
Melting Crayons, Ho Lam Tang
What’s Your Story? Assessing Childhood Maltreatment Using the Thematic Apperception Test in An Adult Inpatient Population., Thachell C. Tanis
Capital Growth: Precision Agriculture and Vertical Farming in the Corporate Food Regime, Justin Taylor
Marginalidad y subversión en tres novelas de Juan Filloy de la década de 1930, Sonia M. Tejada
Linking Hostile/Helpless Maternal Representations in Pregnancy and Later Child Protection Involvement: A Pilot Study, Madeleine Terry
Creating Herstory: Female Rebellion in Arundhati Roy’s "The God of Small Things" and "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness", Priyanka Tewari
Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Shaping of U.S. Citizenship, 1843-1945, Johnathan Thayer
Two Suites for Solo Instruments, Matthew O. Thomas
On Memory and the Radical Black Imagination, Todd Thomas
El negro y el haitiano en la literatura dominicana de la diáspora, Juan Nicolás Tineo
Dostoevsky as a Translator of "Eugénie Grandet", Julia Titus
Investigating Attitude Change Through Psychoeducational Interventions, Elizabeth Claire Toal
The College Application Essay Mediating Inequality Along the Path to Higher Education, Ralitsa S. Todorova
Is American Retail at a Historic Tipping Point?, Violetta Torres-Baron
Wood trait preferences of Neotropical xylophagous beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Christina Torres
Insecure Hegemony: The Cultural Construction of 'Righteous Retaliation' in the Hunt for Osama bin Laden, Marisa Tramontano
Making “Made in New York” Matter, Adeline Trento
Paper Memories: A Visual Memoir, Stephanie Trinidad
Education Through Social and Cultural Transmission, George F. Trivino
When You See It: Intersections of Formal and Informal Science Learning, Cristina A. Trowbridge
Revisiting Lockhart: A Case for a Conditional Operator, Eric J. Tsai
The Cult of Names, Shaydanay A. Urbani
Huérfanos de Orfeo: poesía y música en la cultura de los Siglos de Oro, Lorena Uribe Bracho
Mechanisms for Survival and Drug Resistance in Cancer Cells, Matthew B. Utter
La melancolía de Juan Ramón Jiménez: un estudio emotivo, Carmen Valenzuela Cervantes
An Analysis of Innovate Training with Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), Raymond John Van Steyn
Revival, Anya van Wagtendonk
Bitter Sex: The Politics of Contraception in Post-Fascist Italy, 1943–1978, Francesca Vassalle
The Prediction of Personal Narrative on Features of Recovery Among People with Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders, Beth Vayshenker
I AM A MAN: How legacy and inheritance bear a heavy burden on black masculinity in A Raisin in the Sun, Barbershop, and Creed, Aliyah D. Veal
Mechanism and Development of Peptide-Based Inhibitors to Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (hIAPP) Self-Assembly, Jayson Vedad
A New Estimate for Neanderthal Energy Expenditure, Stephen J. Venner
El narcotráfico como realidad y representación en la narrativa de Germán Castro Caycedo, Edgar Augusto Verastegui
Aurality as Methexis and the Rise of Castilian Literature: The Case of the Siete Partidas, Maristela Verastegui
Convergent Evolution of Biochemical Innovations in Polychaetes: Characterizing the Molecular Basis of Bioluminescence and Venom Production, Aida E. Verdes Gorín
Cross-Race Effect of African-Americans and Caucasians, Bianca Vidal
Detecting Cognitive, Functional and Behavioral Response to Donepezil in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Role of Attention Tasks, Clara Vila-Castelar
Kinder Carnage, Talib Visram
Lost and Found in Translation: A Study of the Bilingual Work of Samuel Beckett, Julien Green, and Nancy Huston, Genevieve Waite
Hearing Loss and Third Party Disability: A Systematic Review, Kathleen H. Wallace
A Critical Assessment of the Internship at the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York, Ching-Kang Wang
Essays on Institutional Ownership and Corporate Finance, Qijian Wang
Politics as Loot: Reflections on Theories of Decline in Political Thought, Milo Ward
Women and Work: African American Women in Depression Era America, Sarah Ward
Essays on the Transmission of Risk and Volatility Across International Financial Markets, Evan Warshaw
The Upright Battle: Morphological Trends of the Bipedal Pelvis, Nicole M. Webb
A New Keynesian Approach to Estimating Welfare Losses Under Strict and Flexible-Targeting Regimes, Shawn Weber
Perceived Corruption in Ukraine: A National Analysis Using Individual Level Data from 2012-2014, Cody X. Weglinski
The Art of Fortune-Taking, Allison Weintraub
The Redemption of Goethe’s Eternal Feminine: Discovering the Reality and Significance of an Archetypal Phenomenon, Mariana Weisler
Infodynamics: A Naturalistic Psychosemantics, Daniel E. Weissglass
Scanlon's Contractualism and Its Critics, Kenneth R. Weisshaar
Impacts of Climate Extremes on Terrestrial Productivity, Suhua Wei
Investigating the Effects of Trans-Spinal Direct Current Stimulation on The Expression of NKCC1 In Mice, Pasindu Weliwaththage
How Immigrants are Redefining Hudson Valley Dining, Kevin Wheeler
Cultural Relativism in the Age of Modernity: Are Human Rights Still up for Debate?, Devani N. Whitehead
An Exploration and Analysis of the Unaccompanied Viola Sonatas of Günter Raphael, Gregory K. Williams
The Structure of Models of Second-order Set Theories, Kameryn J. Williams
The Affective Domain and the Intersection of Learning in Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic Education, Meghan Williams
Race and Gun Violence in the United States: A Case Study of Policy Reform in Missouri, Morgan C. Williams Jr
The Son Jarocho Revival: Reinvention and Community Building in a Mexican Music Scene in New York City, Emily J. Williamson
Towards an Atomic Level Model of the Structure and Calmodulin Mediated Activation of eEF-2K, Nathan E. Will
Pipeline to Failure: Social Inequality and the False Promises of American Public Schooling, Adia Wilson
Amount Superlatives and Measure Phrases, E. Cameron Wilson
Examining the Impact of Study Abroad for Community College Students: Five Case Studies, Kathryn B. Wilson
The Impact of Defendant Gender and Attractiveness on Juror Decision-Making in a Sexual Offense Case, Georgia M. Winters
The Trajectory from School to Work: A Study of Life Chances of School Leavers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden, Dirk Witteveen
Speaking Sober: Program Language as a Mechanism for Community Creation in Alcoholics Anonymous, Talya Wolf
“A Christian World Order:” Protestants, Democracy and Christian Aid to Germany, 1945-1961, Ky N. Woltering
Private-Key Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Private Classification of Medical Data, Alexander N. Wood
Using Cogenerative Dialogue To Catalyse Change, Carol A. Woodburn-McDonald
Attitudes Towards Racism in KKK Forums: Denouncement, Avoidance, and Neutralization, Natasha R. Wood
Jack Goldstein in Los Angeles, Kirby Michelle Woo
“The Childish, the Transformative, and the Queer”: Queer Interventions as Praxis in Children’s Cartoons, Heather Wright
Teachers Have Emotions Too: An Intra | Interpersonal Approach to Exploring Emotions in Teacher Preparation Courses, Shequana Wright
Well-Being And Academic Performance In Immigrant Students: The Role Of Inequality Of Country Of Origin And Resilience, Yumiko Yamaguchi
Staying Afloat in a Dying Industry, Naomi Yane
Essays on Banking and Corporate Finance, Alev Isil Yildirim
Neural Hypervigilance in Trauma-exposed Women, Seungyeon A. Yoon
Parent Childhood Abuse and Neglect and Offspring Mental Health: An Examination of Potential Mediators, Joanna Young
“Are They Supposed to Be Heugin?": Negotiating Race, Nation, and Representation in Korean Musical Theatre, Ji Hyon Yuh
The tragic notion of painting, Yang Yu
The Early History of Photography of Georgia: Tbilisi, 1860–1900, Lia E. Zaaloff
The Mental Health Toll of Amazon Warehouse Work, Max Zahn
Media Framing of Wrongful Convictions, Eza B. Zakirova
The Market, Claudia Zamora Valencia
Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900, Nicole Zeftel
Object Localization, Segmentation, and Classification in 3D Images, Allan Zelener
Direct Experimental Evidence of Toroidal Symmetry in a Lanthanide-Based Molecular Magnet, Qing Zhang