Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Portrait of the Artist as Sisyphus, Jared N. Crane
Ceasing to Run Underground: 20th-Century Women Writers and Hydro-Logical Thought, Annie M. Cranstoun
Curing Violence: Prescriptions for Justice and Peace in Colombia, Marissa Crawford
Head to Head with Concussions in Youth Football, Setrige Crawford and Michelle Simon
Transitors, Sarah B. Crofts
Saving: Stem Cell Science, Christian Adoption, and Frozen Embryo Potential in the United States, Risa Cromer
Interstate Alliances of the Fourth-Century BCE Greek World: A Socio-Cultural Perspective, Nicholas D. Cross
Guidance Index for Shallow Landslide Hazard Analysis, Cheila Cullen
Increasing Accessibility for Map Readers with Acquired and Inherited Color Vision Deficiencies: A Re-Coloring Algorithm for Maps, Gretchen M. Culp
The Impact of Foster Care on Depression: An Examination of Placement Type and Mental Health Service Utilization Among Children and Adolescents, Kisha Cummings
Playing with Matches: Matchmaking as Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Plot, Colleen Cusick
Selective Attention to Threat in People with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Meta-Analysis, Amberle Cusmano
The Effects of Health-Related Fitness on School Attendance in New York City 6th-8th Grade Youth, Emily M. D'Agostino
Die Meistersinger, New York City, and the Metropolitan Opera: The Intersection of Art and Politics During Two World Wars, Gwen L. D'Amico
In The Wake of Broken Windows Policing How Aggressive Policing Contributed to East Harlem Residents Distrust of Police, Stephanie Daniel, Nicole Lewis, and Kalalea Kalalea
Motivaciones comunicativas para la expresión de sujeto en secuencias clausales correferenciales en español, Berenice Darwich
The Price Of Being A Trans-Atlantic Hero: Struggles of a Migrant Mother, Erica C. Davies
Nondescript: A Web Tool to Aid Subversion of Authorship Attribution, Robin Davis
“Vital Glowing Things”: The Art of Women’s Writing, 1910-1935, Elizabeth C. Decker
ZnCdMgSe as a Materials Platform for Advanced Photonic Devices: Broadband Quantum Cascade Detectors and Green Semiconductor Disk Lasers, Joel De Jesus
The Antipolitics of Food in Middle-Class America, Neri de Kramer
Crossing Boundaries: The Transnational Third Space of Contemporary Chinese-Francophone Writers, Paula S. DelBonis-Platt
The Moving Image in Public Art: U.S. and U.K., 1980–Present, Annie Dell'Aria
“Why Italian? Why not Italian?” Jhumpa Lahiri, Amara Lakhous, Ali Mumin Ahad, Maristella Lorch and their unique journeys through Italian language, Mariagrazia De Luca
Straddling Feminisms: Post-Wave Pop Politics and Experimental Performance, Jessica Del Vecchio
Dialogic Faiths: Multi-Genre Expression in Religious Narrative, Rosemary L. Demos
Or to Begin Again, Chajana denHarder
Theoretical Analysis of Single Molecule Spectroscopy Lineshapes of Conjugated Polymers, Murali Devi
Providing Care for Many in the Context of Few Resources: Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout and Moral Distress Experienced by Healthcare Providers in Rural Uganda, Lauren Michelle Dewey
Engagement and Resistance: African Americans, Saudi Arabia and Islamic Transnationalisms, 1975 to 2000, Jeffrey Diamant
Community Schools: A Public Health Opportunity, Catherine Diamond
"THE DIARIES OF THE BACKPACKING PUPPIES: AN ADVENTURE SERIES", ESTEFANIA DI BUA
A Case Study: Observations of Behaviors & Vocalizations in a Captive Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) During Quarantine, Alexandra L. Dilley
Photonic Crystals with Alternate Arrays of Rods and Holes in a Low Dielectric-Index Material, Dimitar L. Dimitrov
Healthy Beginnings: Exploring the Impact of Parental Stress and Relationship Quality on Birth Outcomes, Anna A. Divney
Paired Associative Transspinal and Transcortical Stimulation Produces Bidirectional Plasticity of Human Cortical and Spinal Motor Pathways, Luke Dixon, Mohamed Ibrahim, and Danielle Santora
Expecting Success: Factors Influencing Ninth Graders' Science Self-Efficacy, Elizabeth Donahue
The Ptolemaic System and the Ramifications of Hierarchical Thinking; The Impact of Medieval Literature, Mark-Allan Donaldson
Re-Examining the Bilingual Advantage on Interference-Control and Task-Switching Tasks: A Meta-Analysis, Seamus Donnelly
Dinámicas políticas y proyectos culturales en la Posrevolución Cubana (1989-2015): Paideia, Diáspora(s), and Generación cero, Walfrido Dorta
Modernism with a Human Face: Synthesis of Art and Architecture in Eastern Europe, 1954-1958, Nikolaos Drosos
Beaches, People, and Change: A Political Ecology of Rockaway Beach after Hurricane Sandy, Bryce B. DuBois
Dag Hammarskjöld and Modern Art: An Inquiry into the Aesthetic Values of the Second Secretary-General of the United Nations, Shantala M. DuGay
The Future of Music: Exploring Noise and Pop with Cienfuegos, Reed Dunlea
The Impact of Climate Variability and Conflict on Childhood Diarrhea and Malnutrition in West Africa, Gillian Dunn
Transparent Interiors: Detective and Mystery Fiction in the Age of Photography, Melissa D. Dunn
"Molecular Analysis of Virulence Factors Unique to Leptopilina heterotoma-a Parasitic Wasp of Drosophila spp.", Noelle Dziedzic
The Virtue Mentality, Rachel Eckhardt
Life coaching -- rising in popularity should it be regulated? A look into the life and work of emerging life coaching star Gina DeVee, Victoria R. Edwards
Total Energy Expenditure in Captive Sapajus apella, Wren Edwards
African American Young People's Views of Youth Participation and its Implications for Addressing Community Problems, Isabelle M. Elisha
The Cumulative Impact of Trauma Exposure and Recidivism After Incarceration Among Black Men, Johanna E. Elumn Madera
Performing el Rap el ʿArabi 2005-2015: Feeling Politics amid Neoliberal Incursions in Ramallah, Amman, and Beirut, Rayya S. El Zein
Dislocating Camps: On State Power, Queer Aesthetics & Asian/Americanist Critique, Christopher Alan Eng
A Cost of Doing Business: Defense Contracting Fraud, Shane M. English
Evolving the Genre of Empire: Gender and Place in Women's Natural Histories of the Americas, 1688-1808, Diana Epelbaum
Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Survey to Assess Inclusion in DPT Curricula in the United States, Michael Erickson, Paul Nasri, and David Perrotto
LGBT in Colombia: a War Within, Monica Espitia
The Implications of Chromatin Remodelers' Acetylation in INO1 Activation, Michelle M. Esposito
Reshaping National Imaginations in the Midst of Civil Genocide: Denationalization in the Dominican Republic and Transnational Activism, Javiela Evangelista
How to Be a French Jew: Proust, Lazare, Glissant, Paul J. Fadoul
The Rise of the Rams, Anthony P. Falco
Science, Symptoms, and Support Groups:ADHD in the American Cultural Context, Kealy D. Fallon
Scale Up Bayesian Network Learning, Xiannian Fan
Probing the Structure and Photophysics of Porphyrinoid Systems for Functional Materials, Christopher D. Farley
Darwinian Debunking Reconsidered, Amanda J. Favia
Possible Underlying Mechanisms of Hyperactivity in Children with ADHD, Nicole Feirsen
Mandated Anger Management from the Perspective of Violent Offenders, Cory M. Feldman
ADSORPTION OF ANTIBIOTICS BY VERMICULITE, MOSA J. FERDOUS
La quebrada y la costa peruanas en voces narrativas a mediados del siglo XX: María Rosa Macedo y Sara María Larrabure, Ricardo N. Fernández
Gender Roles, Social Control and Digital Piracy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Gender Differences in Software Piracy Among Korean Adolescents, Riccardo Ferraresso
Sawft.servindat... [v1.7], Ray Ferreira
The Importance of the Prioritization of Human Development through Governmental Policies, Barbara Marie Fertitta
Status Signaling and the Characterization of a Chirp-Like Signal in the Weakly Electric Fish Steatogenys elegans, Caitlin E. Field
NOTHING BEHIND THE SUN, Sebastian Fierro Castro
Fundamental Parameters of the Lowest Mass Stars to the Highest Mass Planets, Joseph C. Filippazzo
The Evolution of the Viral RNA Sensor OAS1 in Old World Monkeys and Cetartiodactyls, Ian Fish
Explicit Reciprocity Laws for Higher Local Fields, Jorge Florez
Centralized, Decentralized, Distributed: Disruptive Technology in Distance Education from "Sunrise Semester" to Present-Day MOOCs, Rosanna Flouty
Perceptions of Fidelity and Adaptation in Evidence-Informed Interventions by Women of Color Sexuality Health Educators, Sara C. Flowers
Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center: A Residence For Children With Severe Disabilities, Tatiana D. Flowers
The Effect of Play Group on the Behavior of Shelter Dogs, Stephanie Flower
An Aesthetic Theory of Gamesmanship, Derek A. Fordjour
Dying to Learn, Learning to Die, The Craft of Dying in Early Modern English Drama and the Cultivation of Dying-Voice Literacy, Simon Gaston Fortin
Riding the Mind Lightning, William A. Fortuna
Effects of Two Prereading Activities on Comprehending Science Text: Reading Abridged Text and Learning Vocabulary Words, Audrey J. Fowler
The Impact of Affect on Neural Mechanisms Underlying Orientation Perception, Michelle L. Fowler
Studies in the Creation and Implementation of School Cultures: Two New York City Stand-Alone Charter Schools, Olivia-Beate A. Franzini
The Effects of Job Characteristics on Home Care Workers’ Well-being and Job Performance: Understanding the Psychosocial Effects of Relational Care, Emily C. Franzosa
Theatres of Reality, Fiction, and Temporality: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s Ibsen-Saga (2006 - 2015), Andrew L. Friedman
Outcomes of Auditory Brainstem Implantation in Adults with Postlingual Deafness: A Systematic Review, Jillian Friedman
The South African Elderly: Neglect, Social Contribution and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Alessia Frisoli
Tradition and Transition: American Orthodox Jewish Women Preparing and Becoming Sexually Active within Marriage, Shoshannah D. Frydman
An Evaluation of the Effect of Abortion Laws on the Timing of Abortion, Elizabeth Fuentes
Puccini’s Love Duets and the Unfolding of Time, Kae Fujisawa
Shadows and Light. Ernie Gehr Exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Sean M. Fuller
The Role of Individual Cognitive and Behavioral Ontogeny in Organization and Evolution of Social Systems, Andrew G. Fulmer
Protein Kinase M Zeta-Mediated LTP Maintenance in the Non-Human Primate Hippocampus: A role for Stress and Serotonergic Signaling in Affective Processing, Sasha L. Fulton