Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2016
The European Union at stake? A comparative analysis on the dimensions of EU decisionmaking in crisis settings, Franziska Kipp
Therapeutic Targets for Alzheimer's Disease: Insights from In Vitro and In Vivo Models of Inflammation, Magdalena J. Kiprowska
The New York With Instance, or Abject in the Personal Environment, liam kirby
Breakdown: Treatment Gaps in New York City's Mental Health System, Christine Brink Kjeldgaard, Noah Caldwell, Mary Hanbury, Mike O'Brien, Joanna Purpich, and Anthony Izaguirre
Long Odds: Inside The Process of Applying for Affordable Housing Through NYC’s Lottery System, Scott Klocksin
The Pop Behind Pop-Ups, Lauren Klose
“God Is Near": American Theocracy and the Political Theology of Joseph Smith, Alan P. Koenig
Predictability of Bond Risk Premia with an Affine Term Structure Model, Sibel Korkmaz
Hearing Aid Use and Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review, Hershel Korngut
Life Experience: Freddy Got Fingered As Neo-Surrealist Masterpiece, Frank Koshel
Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn, Amy Kraizman
p-adic L-functions and the Geometry of Hida Families, Joseph Kramer-Miller
ThisCollegeStory.com: How Interactive Writing Media Influenced the Way First-Year Students Made Sense of their College Transition, Philip Kreniske
Direct current stimulation modulates LTP and LTD: activity-dependence and dendritic effects, Gregory Kronberg
Essays on Institutional Investor Trading, Karolina Krystyniak
Hedonia and Eudaimonia: Associations with Academic Success, Wellbeing, and Neuropsychological Functioning, Maria Kryza-Lacombe
Hohoemigaeshi (Smiling Back), Takayuki Kubota
Lessons from the Past: Unfolding the Dynamics among Climate, Balkan Landscapes, and Humans over the Past Millennium, Charuta J. Kulkarni
Gertrudes Altschul and the Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante: Modern Photography and Femininity in 1950s São Paulo, Paula V. Kupfer
Statement, Elektra Kuznetsova Blanco
Struggling to Learn, Learning to Struggle: Strategy and Structure in the 2010-11 University of Puerto Rico Student Strike, José A. Laguarta Ramírez
Professional Wrestling and/as Theatre: Bodies, Labor, and the Commercial Stage, Eero Laine
Where Is the "Korean" in the Korean War Memorial: Kissena Park's Korean War Memorial, Alice Lam
Behavioral Avoidance and the Evaluation, Expression, and Intensity of Emotions in Generalized Anxiety and Major Depressive Disorders, Laura Lamantia
Vocal Rhythm Coordination and Preterm Infants: Rhythms of Dialogue in a High-Risk NICU Sample, Adrianne E. Lange
Modern Foraminiferal Assemblages of the Denmark Strait, Laura Larocca
The New Reflexivity: Puzzle Films, Found Footage, and Cinematic Narration in the Digital Age, Jordan Lavender-Smith
Interfictional Identities: Transformation and Dissimulation in the Early Modern Period, Yael Nezer Lavender-Smith
Art beyond the object? Art beyond grad school? (a Kickstarter fundraiser): Help me complete my MFA and kickstart my life as an artist., Hsini D. Leary
Masculine Identities Among Asian American Men: Negotiating Varying Masculine Ideals for the Self and Others, Elisa J. Lee
Toxic Toys, Bad Vibrations, Samantha Lee
Technetium: Productivity Tracking for Version Control Systems, David Leonard
An Exploration of the Paradox of Bisexuality in Women: The Dawn Research Study, Anna Levy-Warren
Interface: Fringe Landscapes and Identity, Elizabeth T. Lewin
Drink Me and Abort Your Baby: The Herbal Abortion Tea, Maya Lewis
Excavating ePortfolios: What Student-Driven Data Reveals about Multimodal Composition and Instruction, Amanda M. Licastro
Becoming Serpent: Mapping Coils of Paranoia in a Neocolonial Security State, Rachel J. Liebert
The Bodies, Minds, Desires and Scorn of Britain's "Stepdaughters of War", Alexandra J. Lightle
The Effect of Gambling Expansion on Health, marina li
How I Made an $880 Jacket for $37, Hayley Lind
Vehicle Engine Classification Using of Laser Vibrometry Feature Extraction, Chi Him Liu
Essays on Investor Attention, Hongqi Liu
Do Executives Have Fixed Effects on Firm-Level Stock Price Crash Risk?, Jiaxin Liu
Social Support, Social Companionship, and Social Distress in Young Adults with Cochlear Implants, Arta Ljubanovic
Health, Education and Children’s Rights: A comparability analysis of Kenya and Brazil, Charlette Lopez
Predictors of Substance Use, Relationship Arrangements and Intimacy Expectancies among Gay Couples and Associations to Erikson Intimacy Development, Jonathan Lopez Matos
McCarthyism and the Id: "Forbidden Planet" (1956) as a Veiled Criticism of McCarthyism in 1950s America, William Lorenzo
Filología reflexiva: Hacia una pedagogía “evaluadora”. Reflexión y evaluación del campo filológico español (1936-1968), Jose Antonio Losada Montero
Event Parsing In Narrative: Trials And Tribulations Of Archaic English Fairy Tales, Rebecca Lovering
Accessing Academe, Disabling the Curriculum: Institutional Locations of Dis/ability in Public Higher Education, Andrew J. Lucchesi
LALO'S, OFF LEX: A Play in Ten Scenes, Medina Dean Lucio
Bullying and human capital accumulation: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997, Jessica Lum
Unidentified Verbal Objects: Contemporary French Poetry, Intermedia, and Narrative, Eric Lynch
Crossing Borders, Jarrett Lyons
Navel Gazing, Andrew J. Macasil
Synthetic Functionalized Scaffolds for Culture and Maintenance of Primary Human Hepatocytes, Douglas MacPherson
A New Era of Islamophobia: Muslim Women Fight to Find Place After Trump Fueled Hate, Doha Madani
Targeting Efficiency: The Effects of Video Modeling and Feedback on Instructors’ Acquisition and Generalization of Behavior Analytic Skills, Maya S. Madzharova
Fashioning Desire at B. Altman & Co.: Ethics and Consumer Culture in Early Department Stores, Tessa Maffucci
The Efficacy of Motor Imagery Training on Range of Motion, Pain and Function of Patients After Total Knee Replacement, Noorelhoda Mahmoud, Marc A. Razzano Jr., and Karen Tischler
A Systematic Review of Dual-Sensory Impairment in Older Adults, Abby F. Malawer
In Search of Argentinidad: Identity Affirming Bodies in Movement in Latino-America, Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo
Mindfulness in Learning, Anna Malyukova
What the Tides May Bring: Political "Tigueraje" Disposession and Popular Dissent in Samaná, Dominican Republic, Ryan A. Mann-Hamilton
A Collection of Stories, Matthew Marcus
Exploring Data Mining Techniques for Tree Species Classification Using Co-Registered LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data, Julia K. Marrs
Toward a Kripkean Concept of Number, Oliver R. Marshall
Running for Ayotzinapa: A father's marathon to find his son, Gustavo Martínez
My Mother Needs Me! Is It Possible to Stay Connected While Being My Own Person? The Object Relations of the Latina “Dutiful Daughter”, Juliana Martinez
Testimonios (re)creados: La nueva novela testimonial latinoamericana, Reynaldo Martinez
Understanding School and Interethnic Relations of Mexican Immigrant Youth in a Post-Industrial Community, Roberto Martinez
Wildlife Finds its Way Back to Polluted Newtown Creek, Suzanna Masih
Paratextuality and Contemporary Narrative: The Physical Object as a Storytelling Device, James Mason
The Remembrance of Things Past: Does Self-Report Moderate the Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Long-Term Psychiatric Consequences?, Christina N. Massey
Understanding the High School Dropout Process Through Student Engagement and School Processes: Evidence from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, Tara Marie Mastrorilli
Role of Humor in Emotion Regulation: Differential Effects of Adaptive and Maladaptive Forms of Humor, Lindsay Mathews
Intra-rater and Inter-rater Reliability of the ASPCA’s Behavior Evaluation of Fearful Dogs, Sara Matters
Fear and Nostalgia in Immigration, Daniel A. Matthews
The Force of Imagination and the Limits of the Rational in Polidori, Stoker, and Weird Fiction, Eric Mattina
Losing Values: Illiquidity, Personhood, and the Return of Authoritarianism in Skopje, Macedonia, Fabio Mattioli
NYC Waterfronts, Pollution and Access, guglielmo mattioli
Where Have All The Feminists Gone?: A Mixed-Methods Study of College Students' Attitudes Toward Gender Equality, Erin Maurer
Sounds in the Marketplace: Consumer Reactions to Ambient and Product Sounds, Lauren Mayor
Issues of Rhythm, Symmetry, and Style in Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for PIano and Strings, Ilya Mayzus
The Poet and The Polemist: Demystifying the Natural Law Theory of John Milton, John J. Mazola
On the Appearance of the Comedy LP, 1957–1973, David Michael McCarthy
The Revolt, Donald McCarthy
The Artist and the "Information" Machine: Conceptualism, Technology, and Design in 1970, Jeremiah William McCarthy
Cops in Court: Assessing the Criminal Prosecutions of Police in Six Major Scandals in the New York City Police Department from 1894 to 1994, Kevin E. McCarthy
THE ANTIWAR MOTIVATION OF THE WILMOT PROVISO, Michael McCarthy
Politics Between and Within Us: Authenticity and Theatricality in Modern Political Thought, Daniel J. McCool
Principles of multimodal integration in the startle escape system of goldfish, Camille McIntyre
Uncloseting the Harlem Renaissance: A Look at the Movement Through a Queer Lens, Mionnay McKee
Exploring Older Adults’ Perceptions of the Utility and Ease of Use of Personal Emergency Response Systems, Patricia A. McLean