Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
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
The Reliability and Validity of the SCAN and SCAN-C for Use with Children with Auditory Processing Disorders: A Systematic Review, Chana S. Stern
El narrador en la ciudad dentro de la temática de los cuentos de emigración y transición puertorriqueña (1948-1968), Sandra Margarita Stern
Transnational Indigenous Migration: Racialized Geographies and Power in Southern Highland Ecuador, Victoria Stone-Cadena
Interest Groups and Exchange Rate Policy Choice in Brazil and Venezuela: Incorporating the Workers, James Suggett
Wet Data: The Ocean and its Negative Archive, Kendra M. Sullivan
The Effect of Health Information Technology on Hospital Quality of Care, Ruirui Sun
Investigating the Social and Cognitive Factors Influencing Risky Sexual Behaviors in Emerging Adults, Anthony W. Surace
Your Cooperation is Inevitable, Kevin A. Swenson
A Fearsome Beauty: Material and Cultural Exchange between Venice and the Islamic Near East, Tahera H. Tajbhai
Epistemic Considerations on Extensive-Form Games, Cagil Tasdemir
Exploration of DNA Transfer in the NYC Subway, Sannia K. Tauqeer
Household Shocks and Transition into Marriage: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia, Boyd K. Tembo
Shattered Mosaic: David Dinkins, Rudolph Giuliani, and Social and Electoral Polarization in Late-20th Century New York City, Gabriel S. Tennen
Screening Male Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of the Alternative Coming-of-Age Motion Picture, Matthew J. Tesoro
Schooling the Market: Venture Philanthropy, Field Building and the NewSchools Venture Fund, Gregory E. Tewksbury
Symmetry and Interval Cycles in the Quartettos of Mario Davidovsky, Ines Thiebaut Lovelace
Object Relations in Children's Projective Testing: Applying the Mutuality of Autonomy Scale to the Thematic Apperception Test, Lily A. Thom
The Promise of Cooperatives Falls Short for Immigrant Women, Lisa Thomson
VIDIGAL NIGHTS: Big Dreams in a Small Favela, Christina Thornell
Metabolic Limits and Adaptation in Humans: Daily Energy Expenditure in Race Across the USA Athletes, Caitlin Thurber
Autobiographical Poetry to Plays: Taking Memoir to a Theatrical Level, Ryan P. Tofil
Between Life and Literature: The Influence of Don Quixote and Madame Bovary on Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction, Victoria Tomasulo
Haiti's Political Notes, Tadia Toussaint
Animate Impossibilities: On Asian Americanist Critique, Racialization, and the Humanities, Frances H. Tran
Empty Metal Jacket: The Biopolitical Economy of War and Medicine, Sandra Lee Trappen
Cause for Question: Risk and Postmodern Panic in the Vaccine Safety Debate, MaryGrace Trifilio
Efficient Location Privacy In Mobile Applications, Erald Troja
JULIA-KOCIENSKI APPROACH TO 4-SUBSTITUTED 1- ALKENYL-1H-1,2,3-TRIAZOLES, Kunga Tsetan
Adult Neurogenesis in Avian Auditory Cortex, Caudomedial Nidopallium (NCM): Lateralization and Effects of Statins, Shuk C. Tsoi
Departing from Photography. Place, Space, Non-place, and the Quotidian: Painting from Pictures of the Everyday, Mathew A. Tucker
Why John Stuart Mill Cannot Dismiss the Poet of Culture, Nelson Tuero
The Effects of Descriptions and Images of Antecedent Stimuli and Outcomes to Correct Responses in Task Analysis Instruction, Bryan C. Tyner
The Rise and Fall of Airbnb in New York, Nomin J. Ujiyediin
Essays in Health Economics, Aigbokhai Unuigbe
“Über die Liebe”: Love and Sex According to Eduard Von Keyserling, Caroline Urvater
Negative Capability, Gabriela Vainsencher
Stress and Suicidal Behavior: A Cognitive, Behavioral, and Biological Integrative Approach, Jorge Valderrama
Exploring the Effects of Calorie Labeling Laws, Carmen Vargas
Broadcasting the Crisis: Spanish Television as Critique, Eva Velasco Pena
The Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Integrated Photoconductive Antennas for On-Chip Terahertz Wave Radiation and Detection, Ruben Dario Velasquez Rios
Shakespeare for the Volk: Shakespeare and the Development of the Idea of German Nationhood, 1817–1867, Daniel Rockhill Siegel Venning
Allergic to Sunflowers, Dana Rae Vessio
Neurophysiological correlates of English vowels /I/ and /E/ in monolingual and bilingual 4 and 5-year-old children, Nancy Vidal