Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2017
Reflections on the Implementation of Improved Outcomes for Children and Its Impact on the Capacity of Child Welfare Workers to Deliver Services, Rita Sanchez-Torres
Culturas emocionales: Narrativa escrita por mujeres cubanas durante el periodo especial (1992–2005), Laura Sandez
Brief Study of Classification Algorithms in Machine Learning, Ramesh Sankara Subbu
Disability Poetry: An Exploration in Three Parts, Daniel Sarmiento
Assessing Preference for Contrafreeloading and Other Feeding Strategies in Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), Jacinthe Sasson-Yenor
The Shunned Speak Out: Former Members On Life in the Jehovah's Witnesses and After, Nour Saudi and Joy Notoma
A Playful Context Enhances Bilingual and Monolingual Preschoolers’ Mastery Motivation and Private Speech, Jeremy Sawyer
A Combined Computational Strategy of Sequence and Structural Analysis Predicts the Existence of a Functional Eicosanoid Pathway in Drosophila melanogaster, Michael Scarpati
Sexual Dimorphism in the Femur and Pelvis of Cebus apella with a Randomization Experiment Examining Sample Size in the Fossil Record, Ryan P. Schaars
The Conceptualization of a Crime Event as a Process to Analyze Crime Commission and Behavioral Consistency in Serial Sexual Assaults, Kimberley R. Schanz
Closer Ties: The Dutch Caribbean and the Aftermath of Empire, 1942-2012, Chelsea Schields
The Incident, Nathan Schiller
Between Rock and Breeze, Lena Schmid
Patriarchy and Varieties of Violence Against Women: A Contextual Analysis, Margaret Schmuhl
Reduced Immune Investment with Energy Stress: Evidence from a Mouse Model and Human Studies, Alaina L. Schneider
Ludic Conceptualism: Art and Play in the Netherlands, 1959 to 1975, Janna Therese Schoenberger
Native and Exotic Street Trees: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis in New York City, Mariana Schroter
Do Tax Directors Face Consequences from Tax Avoidance?, Liora Y. Schulman
Communicationists and Un-Artists: Pedagogical Experiments in California, 1966-1974, Hallie Rose Scott
Diophantine Approximation and The Atypical Numbers of Nathanson and O'Bryant, David Seff
Scholasticism and Formal Structure in Camille Saint-Saëns's Fugues for Keyboard, Pedro Segarra-Sisamone
Evaluative Mind: Extraneous Influences on Morality, Aesthetics, and Perception, Angelika Luiza Seidel
"Resisting from Within": (Re)imagining a Critical Translingual English Classroom, Kate Anna Seltzer
No-Self, Impermanence and the Search for Freedom, Ahna Serendren
¿Se habla español?, Carlos A. Serrano, Gerardo Del Valle, Estefanía Hernández, Alma Sacasa, and Lidia Hernández
Culture and Mental Health: Considering the Role of the Complex Cultural-History in Irish-American Population, Tiffinie Patricia Sesko
Ethics and Bias in Machine Learning: A Technical Study of What Makes Us “Good”, Ashley Nicole Shadowen
Machine Learning Approach to Retrieving Physical Variables from Remotely Sensed Data, Fazlul Shahriar
Theory for A Starving Obese, Ishai Shapira Kalter
Dinosaurs for the Digital Age: Democratic Party Organization in the Twenty-First Century, Aaron B. Shapiro
Procedural Justice and Citizen Compliance: Police Officer Demeanor and Crime Severity, Shiny Sharma
Second Harmonic Generation – A Novel Approach in Retinal Imaging, Denis Y. Sharoukhov
Writing for Strangers: Structural Transformations of the Public Letter, 1640-1790, Shang-yu Sheng
The Forgotten Caste of the Quadroon in Nineteenth Century Literature, Johanna Sherrier
Effects of Fluoxetine on Social and Startle Behavior in the African Cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni, Stephanie Shih
Displaced Once More: Armenians flee Syria to Montreal, Sean A. Shoemaker
The Dangers of Dairies: How immigrant laborers fight for the right to organize in New York's agricultural industry., Matthew Shortall
No More False Heavens: In the Wake of Campus Sexual Violence, Destry Sibley
Risk and Prevalence of Personality Disorders in Sexual Offenders, Allison Sigler
Examining the Concurrent and Predictive Relations of Working Memory in Childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Ashley N. Simone
Féminisme Oblige: Katharine Susan Anthony and the Birth of Modern Feminist Biography, 1877-1929, Anna C. Simonson
Noodling Changes: The Development of Xylophone Improvisation in New York City (1916-1942), Jonathan D. Singer
Characterizing the Impacts of Contaminants on Fish Embryogenesis and Revealing an Alternate Molecular Mechanism of AHR Mediated Cardiac Defects, Corinna Singleman
Food Plight, Pauliina Siniauer, Rahimon Nasa, Lizeth Beltran, and Jeremy Ibarra
Aesthetic Geographies: Art, Crises, Urban Imaginaries, Erin Siodmak
Aspects of Biological Explanation, Derek J. Skillings
Community, Identity, and Tradition within a Progressive Christian Congregation, James W. Skinner
From Gorbachev to the Present: Russian Migration to the United States, Kate Slavashevich
ES-ESA: An Information Retrieval Prototype Using Explicit Semantic Analysis and Elasticsearch, Brian D. Sloan
"The Engine of Free Expression": The Political Economy of Copyright in the Colonial British Atlantic and Early National United States, Nora Slonimsky
Writing the Projected Image: American Fiction and Early Screen Culture, Yair Solan
Mask On: How Fashion Erased the Politics of Streetwear in 2017, Frances Sola-Santiago
The Effect of Risk and Time Preferences on Agricultural Decisions Among Farmers in Malawi, Sheena Som
Invisible Invisibility, Eugina Song
Essays on the Law of One Price in Financial Markets and the Recent Financial Crisis, Igor Sorkin
IN LIBERIA: A SILENT HEALTH CARE CATASTROPHE REPLACES A VIRAL ONE, Clarissa Sosin
Everything Nothing Somegthing, Chris Spangler
Parallels of Love and Hate Defined by Attachments, Nicole Spann
Customer Management in the Internet Age, Joshua Sperber
The Financial Crisis and White-Collar Crime: An Examination of Brokerage-Failure and Its Link to Ponzi Schemes, Marie Springer
Local Immigration Enforcement Entrepreneurship in the Punishment Marketplace, Daniel L. Stageman
Essays on Capital Structure and Public Debt Markets, Viktoriya Staneva
Food and Negotiation of Identity among the Russian Immigrant Community of Brighton Beach, Elena Starkova
Spotlight on Superfund: How Are New York’s Most Toxic Waste Sites Doing Under Trump’s E.P.A?, Sarah Stein Kerr
For Narrativity: How Creating Narratives Structures Experience and Self, Natallia Stelmak Schabner
Range of Detection for Proteins and DNA from Fingerprints on Fired and Unfired Cartridge Casings, Stacey-Ann R. Sterling
Early American Cookbooks: Creating and Analyzing a Digital Collection Using the HathiTrust Research Center Portal, Gioia Stevens
Sick Systems: How Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Became Practically Incurable in Romania, Jonathan Stillo
Mutagenesis of Human Alpha-Galactosidase A for the Treatment of Fabry Disease, Erin Stokes
Nomadic Dispossessions: Representations of Land, Labor, and Mobility, 1780–1815, Maria Ah Hyun Stracke
Literary Theories of Circumcision, A. W. Strouse
The End of AIDS: Gender, Race and Class Politics in New York's Campaign to End the Epidemic, Lauren Suchman
Control of Light-Matter Interaction in 2D Semiconductors, Zheng Sun
Moving Forward: Railways in Puerto Rico, Gricel M. Surillo Luna
Travel Mode Identification with Smartphone Sensors, Xing Su
Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit Requirements: An Exploration of National Health Policy Models, Justin P. Swearingen
Lexical Access in Children with Specific Language Impairment and Auditory Processing Deficits, Laura E. Sylvia
Underrepresentation of Women in Politics: Focus on New York City, Yuliya Szczepanski
The Space of Alterity: Language and National Identity in Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald, Agata Szczodrak
Continuum Electrostatics Analysis of the Kok Cycle of Photosystem II, Witold Szejgis
Lyrical Mysticism: The Writing and Reception of Catherine of Siena, Lisa Tagliaferri
Culture and Class in Marginalized Minority Educational Attainment, Alan R. Takeall
The Role of T-box Proteins in Vertebrate Germ Layer Formation and Patterning, Sushma Teegala
An Expression of Spirituality: Clothing, Skin, and Bodies in Xul Solar’s Early Figure Paintings (1915-1926), Erin Teeple
What is the Language of Islam?: Reform, Translation, and Secularism in Turkey, Yunus Dogan Telliel
An Experimental Investigation of Emotional Labor Display Rules and Performance in a Human Resources Sexual Harassment Interview Simulation, Jolie M.B. Terrazas
The Protagonist's Experience: Temporality, Narrative, and Harmonic Process in Brahms's Solo Lieder, Loretta Terrigno
Fighting for Justice, Anuz Thapa
POLICE SAY LEADERSHIP IS IGNORING PTSD., Tiffany Thomas
Affordable and Accessible Hearing Healthcare Interventions in the United States: A Literature Review and Prospective Analysis, Garrett Thompson
Physiological Correlates of Affective Decision-Making in Anxiety and Depression, Louisa I. Thompson
Foreign-Born Artists Making “American” Pictures: The Immigrant Experience and the Art of the United States, 1819–1893, Whitney Thompson
The Dream Deferred: The School-to-Prison Pipeline and the Destruction and Potential Resurrection of the Black Male, Alexandria L. Timoll
Schoenberg's "Phantasy" Form, Lisa A. Tipton
Land Change History of Oil Palm Plantations in Northern Bengkulu Province, Sumatra Island, Reconstructed from Landsat Satellite Archives, Atsushi Tomita
Labeling Histories: Mental Disability in American Schooling, Kylah Torre
Methamphetamine-Induced Conditioned Place Preference In Adolescent Male and Female Mice of Two Strains, Andre Bevil Toussaint
Ordinary Disorder, Jonathan S. Tracy