Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2017
Environmental Changes Turn on the Sinorhizobium Melitloti ExoR-ExoS/ChvI (RSI) Host Invasion Switch, Shari N. Walcott
Understanding Resilience Strategies Among Minor-Attracted Individuals, Allyson Walker
History and Politics in the Thought of Karl Jaspers, Nathan Wallace
Of Rats and Men, Thomas S. Walsh
My Name is Jing, Jing Wang
Mermaid Song: The Notebooks of the Writing Woman, Gianna T. Ward-Vetrano
In Brownsville, a Struggle for Revitalization Without Displacement, Katherine Warren
Sol LeWitt: The Synagogue Project, Fred Wasserman
Decoding DarkMatter, Crystal J. Waterton
Dogs, Cats, and a Lambkin: Speechlessness and the Animal in Ulysses, Pierce R. Watson
Understanding the Role of the Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Emotional Memory using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, R. Rachel Weintraub-Brevda
From Design to Completion: The Transformation of U.S. War Memorials on the National Mall, Sara Jane Weintraub
Incorporating Place and Space: a Hierarchical Spatial Approach to Exploring Preventable Congestive Heart Failure Hospitalizations in New York City, Rachael Weiss Riley
The Column of Constantine at Constantinople: A Cultural History (330-1453 C.E.), Carey Thompson Wells
The Devil's Advocate: Empire, Cynicism, and the Politics of Decadent Literature (From Baudelaire to Burroughs), Henry A. Wermer-Colan
Development of 90th Percentile Norms for Ipsilateral Acoustic Reflex Thresholds: A Feasibility Study, Iris Wertheimer
Transitional Healthcare Coordination in New York City Jails among People with Chronic Health Conditions: Contributions to Reduced Reincarceration and Improved Health, Janet J. Wiersema
Should We Talk?: Examining Individual and Aggregate Level Predictors of Mediation Selection at the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board, Cynthia-Lee Williams
The Behavioral Effects Divorce Can Have on Children, Wanda M. Williams-Owens
The Needed Man: The Evolution, Abandonment, and Resurrection of the Roman Dictatorship, Mark B. Wilson
Retrieval-Induced Forgetting via Social Media: The Mnemonic Consequences of Posting Pictures on Instagram, Chi Lap Wong
Conceptualizing the Emergence of Social Capital in Young Children, Courtney Wong
Performing Human Rights in Neoliberal Asia: Artistic and Activist Engagements in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, Melissa Wansin Wong
A Comparison of Sexual and Size Dimorphism Across Cold-Weather and Temperate Human Populations, Emma Woodoff-Leith
"Why Wouldn't You Like It?": Exploring Masculine Identities in Discussions of Male Rape, Bridget Woods
The Effect of Phenotypic Bias on Lineup Construction Fairness, Sydney Y. Wood
A Girlhood Among Ghosts, An Experimental Project, Maple Wu
Exploring the Internal Statistics: Single Image Super-Resolution, Completion and Captioning, Yang Xian
Comparative Phylogeographic, Population Genomic, and Selection Inference with Development of Hierarchical Co-Demographic Models, Alexander Xue
In Search of Homo Sociologicus, Yunqi Xue
Contextual Differences in the Effect of Interference During Language Switching in Korean-English Bilingual Speakers, Jungmee Yoon
Las Letras de Fernando de Pulgar, nueva edición, estudio preliminar y notas, Ana-Maria Zaharescu
Comparative Study of Uniformed/Undercover Loss Prevention Agents in Reducing Shrinkage in Retail Businesses, Rustam Zakirov
Rewriting Methods in Groups with Applications to Cryptography, Gabriel Zapata
Franz Roh and Visual Juxtaposition in Foto-Auge, Irini Zervas
Multi-scale Assessment of Bone Mechanics and the Mineral Phase of Intramuscular Bone of Atlantic Herring Fish, Svetlana Zeveleva
Gift, Lang Zhang
A Discussion of Delimitative in Mandarin Chinese, Qi Zhang
Essays on the Impact of Exchange Rate Movements on Stock Return and Country Output, Junnan Zhao
Fast Algorithms on Random Matrices and Structured Matrices, Liang Zhao
Music from the Harpsichord House, Julie Zhu
Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad: How Slaughterhouse Safety Hasn’t Kept Up With the Times, Emily Ziemski
Capstones from 2016
Migrant Surveillance: How the Federal Government Monitors Asylum Seekers, Roshan Abraham
Saving Animals: Everyday Practices of Care and Rescue in the US Animal Sanctuary Movement, Elan L. Abrell
The Effect of Chinese Industrial Investment Projects in Central Africa on the Perception of China’s Commercial Diplomacy in Foreign Policy, Jason Ackerman
Con cuydadosos descuydos descubiertos: Una aproximación a la obra de José Camerino en el marco de la novela del siglo XVII, Beatriz G. Acrich Cohen
Speaking of Consequences: Contemporary Music for Political Discourse, Elizabeth Adams
Neighborhood and Community Change in Brooklyn's Sunset Park, Anthony G. Aggimenti
Models and Methods in Cultural and Social Evolution, Elliot G. Aguilar
Calling Campus Police: A Test of Procedural Justice and Unresponsive Bystander Models, Michael Francis Aiello
The Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Touch Perception and Visuo-tactile Integration, Lei Ai
New York City’s Affordable Housing Lottery: Inconsistent Screening Methods and Lack of Government Oversight, Donna M. Airoldi
Effects of Ultra-violet B on the behavior of red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans), Edgar Alarcon
Teacher Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Character Building Initiatives at an Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound High School, Adeola A. Alexander
Perspectives on Iraq's Past, Present, and Future in the Works of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Amnah Almukhtar
Better Work and Global Governance, Paul Alois
Ultrahigh Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging – Technical Development and Translational Applications, Judy Alper
Three Essays on the Effects of Childbearing on Economic Well-being and Health, Ramazan Onur Altindag
Reliability of Clinical Evaluators of Spasticity in Patients with Stroke, Tiffany Alvino, Shiney David, and Chelsea Gendvil
Role of BEC-1/Beclin 1 and Autophagy Genes in C.elegans Germline Cell Proliferation, Kristina Ames
Origén e influencia de la figura de Simón Bolívar en los escritores modernistas hispanoamericanos, Wilson Anaya
How Drugs and Incarceration Tore One Family Apart, Deonna Anderson
The Queen's Feud: Women and Kinship in Malory's Morte Darthur, Elsa K. Anderson
Transatlantic Surrealisms, Imagined Homelands, and the Poetry of Paul Laraque, Maxine C. Anderson
(Dis)entangling Gender Expression and Race in Antigay Discrimination: An Intersectional Approach, Steph M. Anderson
"SOCIOCULTURAL PREDICTORS OF RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIORS: 1 THE ROLE OF NATIVITY STATUS, RACE, ETHNIC IDENTITY AND SELF-CONSTRUAL", Elvine B. Andjembe
Bodies in Repose, Christopher Aque
The Effect of the Long Anchor Duration on Performance in the Temporal Bisection Procedure, Sho Araiba
Slowed Temporal Disengagement from Ambiguous Information in Trait Anxiety, Tiffany Arango
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER SYMPTOMS, Ayse Arikan
Bilingual French Initiatives in Public Schools: A New York Story: New Opportunities, Diversity and Shared History and Values, Claire JM Arnod Horikawa
LIBERTARIAN PARTY GROWS...AND SO DO ITS CRITICS, Nicole Andrea Ashley
The Last Gay Man on Earth -- Can the mainstreaming of a culture be responsible for its demise?, Muri Assunção
A Long and Pricey Road to Freedom for New York's Aging Prisoners, Khorri Atkinson
Study of Alternative Functions of the Mitochondrial Protein Bak, Ma Su Su Aung
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Instruction in an RtI Framework: Supporting Emergent Bilinguals in the Secondary Classroom, Lisa Auslander
Catering Hall Harbors Immigrant Families Through Underground Employment, Kimberly J. Avalos
Quality of Death People With Terminal Illnesses are Turning to an Age-Old Method to End it All: Self-Starvation, Kazi E. Awal and Alyssa Pagano
A Dark Record: Criminal Discourse and the African American Literary Project, 1721-1864, Brian Baaki
Time's Sketchy Rules, Nadirah Baarh
Effect of CNTF Derived Peptide, P021 on Cognition and Pathology in 3xTG-AD Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease, Narjes Baazaoui
The Psychology of Single-Sex Classrooms, Jenna E. Bagcal
Essays on Foreign Firms Following Deregistration from U.S. Exchanges, Kathleen Michelle Bakarich
Transactive Knowledge Systems, Shared Leadership Style, and Team Effectiveness, Christine L. Baker
Characterization of 1, 4, 7-Trithiacyclononane, [9]aneS3 as a Potential Toxic Heavy Metal Chelator, Nahid Bakhtari
Not Black or White, Lori Balaban
DIRTY ICE CREAM, Cynthia Balagtas
Voices of Kaka‘ako: A Narrative Atlas of Participatory Placemaking in Urban Honolulu, Adele Balderston
Rogues in the Postcolony: The New Picaresque and the Making of Modern India, Stacey Balkan
Influence of Social Status on Spatial Attention in African Cichlids (Astatotilapia burtoni), Rebecca Bang