Theses and Dissertations
Theses from 2017
Identification and Quantification of Cyanide and its Metabolites in Lemur Urine, Jeremy Peralta
Mortality and Artifact, Alexander Perrelli
Critical Play: Agency, Interdependency, and Intersectionality in an Early Childhood Classroom, Maria Persons
Thresholds of Atrocity: Liberal Violence and the Politics of Moral Vision, Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton
Individual Levels of Bias and Immigration Policies in the United States: A Test and Extension of the Dual Processing Model of Bias, Lorraine Phillips
Redefining Virtue in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Melissa Rose Piccinonno
The Force of Seduction: the Use of Rape Narratives in the Plays of Aphra Behn, Caitlyn Piccirillo
Evaluation of a direct PCR method and the Qiagen Investigator 24plex GO! Kit for typing blood, saliva and touch DNA on multiple substrates, Angelita Pierre-Noel
Cortical Thickness Abnormalities Within the Salience and Reward Networks in Older Depressed Adults with Apathy, Monique A. Pimontel
Becoming Ghosts: The Public Veiling of Puerto Ricans in New York City, Samantha Pina Saghera
Poisoned By My Government: How the Military Let Families Drink Contaminated Water for Decades and Didn’t Learn From It, Alana Pipe and Lori Freshwater
Encountering Place, Pedagogy, and Culture: Study Abroad and Experiential Learning in Morocco and Indonesia, Jennifer M. Pipitone
Feature Selection From Large Acoustic Feature Sets in Computational Paralinguistics, Dara Pir
Using Conditioned Place Preference to Investigate changes in the Rewarding Effects of Running and Eating Following Activity-Based Anorexia, Daniella Plaksiy
Property Analysis of Silylamine Type Reversible Ionic Liquids for Use as a Thermal Safety Switch in Batteries, Showmik Podder
The Role of Dietary Highly Unsaturated n-3 Fatty Acids in Northern Quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria, Through Decreasing Temperature, Sixto E. Portilla
Open Source Micro Diplomas: New Credentials for New Learning, Jack F. Powers
Social Media Use and Media Literacy in Relation to Adolescents' Understanding of the Internet, Kasey L. Powers
Genre, Representation, and Memory in Spanish Civil War Texts by Women from Spain and the United States, Jennifer Prince
Alcohol Use, Drinking Motivations, and Depression Among College Students: The Roles of Sociotropy and Autonomy, Cameron P. Pugach
Defining the relationship between maternal care behavior and hearing development in Wistar rats, Jingyun Qiu
Syntax and Semantics of Perceptual Representation, James K. Quilty-Dunn
Approximation Algorithms for Effective Team Formation, George Rabanca
The Shrine System: Votive Culture and Cult Sculpture, Enshrining Space in 11th to 13th Century France, Kristen N. Racaniello
Merchandise, Promotion, and Accessibility: Keith Haring’s Pop Shop, Amy L. Raffel
Shoppers Aren't Buying What Ivanka Trump Has to Offer, Elizabeth Ramanand
Smita Patil: Fiercely Feminine, Lakshmi Ramanathan
Victim-Offender Relationships in Sexual Assault and Subsequent Disclosure and Reporting Styles, Amy R. Ramapuram
Stress as a Cultural Tool in Higher Education, Nadia Ramjit
Washington Square Park: Struggles and Debates over Urban Public Space, Anna Rascovar
Making Sense of Missing Sessions: Attendance Patterns in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Substance Use Disorder Treatments, Margaret Rauen
Details in Testimony: How Hedge Words Influence People’s Perceptions of Victim Testimony Credibility, Justine B. Rayborn
A Conceptualization of the Body in Psychodynamic and Body-Based Psychotherapies: Areas of Overlap and Possibilities for Integration, Aleksandra Rayska
Region, Nation and Gastronomy: Regionalism in Gastronomic Texts of the Early 20th Century (1900-1939), Lauren Reches
The Nature of Introspection, Adriana Renero
Re-visualizing Care: Teachers' Invisible Labor in Neoliberal Times, Victoria G. Restler
Sacralizar lo efímero: Configuración del amante y el amado en Luis Cernuda y César Moro, Lena R. Retamoso Urbano
Brief and Extended Experimental Analysis of Spelling Deficits, Kimberly Reyes-Giordano
Jazz and Recording in the Digital Age: Technology, New Media, and Performance in New York and Online, Dean S. Reynolds
Dancing Silhouettes: Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed: A Critical Study, Maria N. Rhodes
Cochlear Implantation in Adults with Neurofibromatosis Type II: Outcomes, Benefits, and Limitations, Lydia Riehl
"Nothing is wrong with you", Carlos Rigau
“Just Get it Done”: How the New York City High School Admissions Process is Re-defining the Work & Identities of Professionals in Screened High School-Programs, Heather Rippeteau
Left Out In The Cold, Kayla Rivera
Marital Rape Perception and Impact of Force, Janelle N. Robinson
The Other Side of the Gate, Tabia Robinson
Women in the Workplace: The Impact of Earning Potential Empowerment and the Work-Life Balance, Alysha-Beth Rodriguez
Essays on the Economic Well-Being of Women, Timothy A. Roeper
Welcome to My Dream – Quasi Queer Fiction, Christian A. Rogers
The Conflict of Progressive and Conservative Tendencies in the Film Work of Steranko, James H. Romberger
The Impact of State-Promoted Participation in Democracy and Development: A Comparison of Venezuela and Mexico, Domenico Romero
Asymptotic Counting Formulas for Markoff-Hurwitz Tuples, Ryan Ronan
Deconstructing Rape Culture Through An Exploration of Consent, Desire, and Pleasure, Yael Rosenstock
Imperial Butterfly, Dagmar Rothschild
Palm Papers, Nicole Rothwell
Letter to the President: Longitudinal Critical Discourse Analysis of Academic and Hip Hop Genres in a Rap Narrative Program, Debangshu Roygardner
Embodying Rhythm Nation: Multimodal Hip Hop Dance as a Site for Adolescent Social-Emotional and Political Development, Lauren M. Roygardner
Medical Student Knowledge Regarding Age Related Hearing Loss and Amplification, Max L. Rubin
University Education for the Creation of the Black Middle Class: Kigali, Rwanda, Chrystina L. Russell
Tuff Breeches, Arkadiy Ryabin
The Road Out: When the Service Industry Means Sex Work and Leaving Feels Impossible, Kate Ryan
Jared French's State Park: A Contextual Study, Emily Sachar
WEBERN’S LABYRINTH: CONTOUR AND CANONIC INTERACTION– An Analysis of Webern’s Op. 16, No. 2, Scott Saewitz
What is the Role of the Community? Examining Minority Stress Processes among Gay and Bisexual Men, Brian Salfas
Choteo Cubano: Humor as a Critical Tool in Twentieth-Century Cuban Theater, Rebecca L. Salois
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