Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2016
The Dream Defaulted: Foreclosure, Crisis, and Hope in Baltimore, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, Heidi M. Rafferty-Reijm
Can Noncompliant Behavior Explain Racial/Ethnic Disparities in The Use of Force by The NYPD? An Econometric Analysis of New York's Stop-and-Frisk, Omari-Khalid Rahman
Intraindividual Variability as a Predictor of Cognitive Decline in Elderly, Wendy S. Ramratan
Mechanisms of Immune Activation and Suppression by Parasitic Wasps of Drosophila, Johnny R. Ramroop
From Cow Pasture to Cul-de-sac: The Intersection of Rural Values, Memory, and Nostalgia amidst Suburban Development in the American South, Emily F. Ramsey
"They have sold the clouds": Queering Indigenous Politics in Colombia, Taylor O. Ramsey
Brainstorming Solutions for the Unintended Consequences of Antibiotics and the Development of Resistant Bacteria, Rajini D. Ramsukh
No Hindu Left Behind is a Tall Order, Even in America, Rheaa Rao
Innovative System for Seismic Control Strategies, Seyed Ali Razavi
Specific Binding Affinity of the Non-Catalytic Domain of Eukaryotic Like Type IB Topoisomerase of vaccinia Virus, Benjamin R. Reed
In the Eyes of the Beholder: Pet Owners’ Attitude Toward Animals and Perception of Their Pet’s Behavior, Suzanne K. Remito
Deaccessioning the Studio, Ayla Rexroth
Effect of an Internet-Based Education Program on Self-Care Agency in People Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Darcel M. Reyes
Determining the Predictive Ability of Rural-Urban Migration for Health Indicators in China, Christopher Rick
An Escape from Language into Language: The Internal Exile of Louis Wolfson, Antoine N. Rideau
The Bauhaus Wall Painting Workshop: Mural Painting to Wallpapering, Art to Product, Morgan Ridler
The Geography of Financial Technology (FinTech) Companies in the New York Metropolitan Area, Frank C. Riggio
A Comparative Perspective between FARC Guerrilleras and Chechen Black Widows, Denise Rivera
Magazine Politics: Edgardo Antonio Vigo’s Diagonal Cero and Hexágono ‘71, Francisco Javier Rivero Ramos
Analyzing Evapotranspiration in the Tropical Montane Cloud Forest at Sierra de Bahoruco, Dominican Republic, Emmanuel Rodriguez-Gonzalez
The Strains of Confessional Poetry: The Burdens, Blunders, and Blights of Self-Disclosure, Lara Rossana Rodriguez
The Three Year Clock, Sam Roeck
Tobacco Cessation and the Household Budget: A Longitudinal Analysis of Consumption and Heterogeneity in the United States, Erin R. Rogers
An Evaluation of the Standard Setting Performance of the FASB, Devon Rolleri
Food and Slave Communities in the Antebellum South, Jessica Rose
Assessing the Utility of Imaging Radar for Identifying White Sand Vegetation Structure, Jessica Rosenqvist
The Relation of Analysis to Performance of Post-tonal Violin Music: Three Case Studies, Karen E. Rostron
Epistemic Communities and Proliferation: The Implications of Nuclear Knowledge, David Ayar Roze
Causes and Consequences of Risk Aversion in Middle Adulthood, Nataliya Rubinchik
The Impact of Modality Expectancy on Memory Accuracy for Brand Names, Daniel Rubin
A Meaning Hypothesis to Explain Speaker's Choice of the Sign Look, Nadav Ayal Sabar
Provisional Capital: National and Urban Identity in the Architecture and Planning of Bonn, 1949-1979, Samuel L. Sadow
EVALUATING DISTRIBUTED WORD REPRESENTATIONS FOR PREDICTING MISSING WORDS IN SENTENCES, Saniya Saifee
The Effect of Perceived Parental Autonomy Granting on Vocational Identity and Communication in Emerging Adults, Emily Salmany
Genocide in Rwanda: Understanding Why They Died, Joseph Sambou
An Analysis of Technological Features Enabled Management of Information Facets, Jim Samuel
Masculinidades en Crisis y Prácticas de Resistencia Feminista en la Literatura y el Cine Españoles de Autoría Femenina, Carmen Sanchis-Sinisterra
Mental Health Practitioners’ Understanding of Informed Consent with Adolescents, Blanca I. Santana
Globalization, Tourism and Sustainable Development: The multifaceted impact of tourism on development and poverty alleviation in Brazil, Gaëlle Lopes Saraiva
Creating with Anger: Contemplating Vendetta. An Analysis of Anger in Italian and Spanish Women Writers of the Early Modern Era, Luisanna Sardu Castangia
Developing Italy: Photography and National Identity during the Risorgimento, 1839-1859, Beth Saunders
PREYING ON THE DESPERATE, Karen M. Savage
Mobilizing for Capitalism: How Islamic Civil Society Makes a Market Economy Possible in Turkey, Dean G. Schafer
David Alfaro Siqueiros’s Pivotal Endeavor: Realizing the “Manifiesto de New York” in the Siqueiros Experimental Workshop of 1936, Emily Schlemowitz
Ménage à Trois in the Atlantic Brief Squid (Lolliguncula brevis): Prior Presence Affects Mate Choice, Rachel A. Schlessinger
What is the Impact of Interest Rate Levels on Banks’ Openness to Risk?, Nathalie Schmidt
Risk Factors of Eating Disorders and the Modern Orthodox Jewish Family, Susan D. Schmool
Moving From the Gray Area : What is (my) art [{at Hunter} right now]?, Rachel Schragis
The Effects of Conspecifics on Dog (Canis lupus familiaris) Behavior during Behavioral Rehabilitation Treatments, Breanna Schultz
An Examination of Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution Techniques, Maxwell B. Schwartz
The Photographic Universe: Vilém Flusser’s Theories of Photography, Media, and Digital Culture, Martha Schwendener
Locked In: Melancholia in the Modern American Prison Literature of R. Dwayne Betts and Jarvis Jay Masters, Johnna Scrabis
Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Energy Transfer in an Organic/Inorganic Composite of Zinc Oxide and Graphite Oxide, Jeff A. Secor
The Motivic Economy in Nikolai Medtner's Sonata Romantica, Nellie S. Seng-Quinn
Deciphering the Role of Gfi1b Gene Target Rgs18 in Erythro-megakaryocytic Lineage Divergence, Ananya Sengupta
Development of New Radiolabeling Methods and Insights on Ionizing Radiation Interactions with Nanoparticles, Travis Shaffer
Natural Burial: Being Green in Life, Now in Death Too, Brandon C. Shaik
The Anatomy of a Social Movement: The Least Publicized Aspects of the Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott, Timothy Shands
Gendered Expression Online: Exploring Gendered Communication on Facebook and in a Collaborative Editing Task, Christina M. Shane-Simpson
Richard A. Posner: A Study in Judicial Entrepreneurship, Sean J. Shannon
Slavery, Migration, and Local Development in the Western US, Colin Q. Sharpe
Do In-state Tuition Benefits Affect the Academic Performance of Non-citizens? Data from Texas Public Universities, Terry K. Shaw
The Critical Social Ecology of Student Success in Higher Education: A Transformative Mixed Methods Study of Undergraduates' Experiences and Outcomes at the City University of New York (CUNY), Leigh Shebanie McCallen
Nature and Notation: Steps Towards a New Dance Ontology, Madelyn Sher
The Regulation of the Phosphatidate Phosphatase Gene PAH1 and Its Regulatory Role on Cell Homeostasis, Goldie Libby Sherr
Consciousness, Perception, and Short-Term Memory, Henry F. Shevlin
Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions, Participation, and Belonging, The Netherlands and Denmark, 1960s-80s, Andrew D.J. Shield
Yellow Dust Abode: The Hawley-Suski Letters, 1942-1945, Roxanne Shirazi
No Place Like Home: Tenant Harassment and the Frailty of Housing Court, Adam M. Shrier
On Negotiating Between the Virtual and Material in Art Historical Reproduction, Zorawar S. Sidhu
Neurodevelopmental Defects Associated with Gestational Exposure to Low Levels of DBP in Mice, Françoise Sidime
Social Ties and State Formation in Post-Soviet Central Asia, David Siegel
Quantifying Transit Access In New York City: Formulating an Accessibility Index for Analyzing Spatial and Social Patterns of Public Transportation, Maxwell S. Siegel
“Dropouts” Drop In: Re-Visualizing the “Dropout” Stereotype, Rondi Silva
Sustainable Molecular Gelators: Beta-D-Glucoside Derived Structuring Agents and Their Material Application, Julian R. Silverman
Autophagy and Lipid Homeostasis in C. elegans, Melissa J. Silvestrini
Classics and Rockefeller Center: John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the Use of Classicism in Public Space, Jared A. Simard
Queering by Example: Sex Education in the Age of Vlogging, Zoe M. Simpson
Synthesis and Characterization of Segmented Fluorescent Conjugated Polymers via Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET), Gagandeep Singh
A Passage from Brooklyn to Ithaca: The Sea, the City and the Body in the Poetics of Walt Whitman and C. P. Cavafy, Michael P. Skafidas
Cruelty: Aesthetics, Narrative, and Invented Worlds, Sarah Slappey
On East Jerusalem streets, Palestinians say settlements trump social media as source of violence, Jad Sleiman
The Assault On Medicaid Could Endanger Millions Of Americans, Jeremy S. Smith
Perceptions of Money: Relationships between Remembered Parental Rejection, Extrinsic Life Aspirations and Maladaptive Attitudes toward Money, Rebecca J. Smith
Voicing the Other: Mock AAVE on Social Media, Hanna L. Smokoski
Music Composition, Spencer Snyder
Problem and Adaptive Behavior Levels in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders as Predictors of Sibling Adjustment, Hallie Solarsh
Can People Successfully Return to Nature?, Nicholas A. Sollogub
Cayley Graphs of Semigroups and Applications to Hashing, Bianca Sosnovski
The Sciences of the Soul: The Emergence of Psy-sciences and the Modern State in Turkey, Kutlughan Soyubol
Hunting for Financial Literacy, Georgia Sozou
Characteristics of Newly-hired Members of the New York City Police Department as Predictors of Subsequent Job Performance, Francis E. Spangenberg
An Averaging Method for Advection-Diffusion Equations, Nicholas Spizzirri
Sex Differences in Stress, Burnout and Coping in Emergency Medical Service Providers, Celia R. Sporer
Discourses of "Cruelty-Free" Consumerism: PETA, The Vegan Society and Examples of Contemporary Activism, Andrea Springirth
Community Violence, School Climate, and Social-Emotional Well-Being in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Leighann Starkey
Effect of Temporal Onset of Mechanical Loading on Tendon to Bone Healing, Determined with a Novel In-Vivo Device, Mark E. Stasiak
Finish Fetish: Art, Artists, and Alter Egos in Los Angeles of the 1960s, Monica Steinberg