Theses and Dissertations
Capstones from 2015
The War At Home, Joseph A. Altobelli Mr.
The Mystification of Christian Salvation: On the Anxiety of Redemption in Renaissance Poetry and Drama, Kimberly Paige Ambroziak
Characterization of Tropical Clouds Using Multi-Satellite Observations, Ricardo Anderson
Exploring the Effects of Strain on Cross-national Lethal Violence: An Integrated Model, Catrin Andersson
Electrophysiological Markers of Short-term Visual Adaptation: An Examination Across the Schizophrenia Spectrum, Gizely N. Andrade
Please Read, Joseph W. Anthony-Brown
Morphology of Brain Sulci Trabeculae and its effect on Brain during Impacts, Sharlin Anwar
Guilty Stereotypes: The Social Psychology Of Race And Suspicion In Police Interviews And Interrogations, Sara C. Appleby
Adonis' Poetics of Vision and Modernity, Rasha Arabi
STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LANDS: A STORY OF JAPANESE BRAZILIANS, Ken Aragaki
The Geometry and Combinatorics of Closed Geodesics on Hyperbolic Surfaces, Chris Arettines
Characterization of the interaction between FtsZ-ring stabilizer ZapC and the conserved protease ClpXP in E. coli cytokinesis, Andrea Cardenas Arevalo
Gender, Money, and the Charity Organization Society: 1900-1919, Sarah H. Arnold
Food Imports as a Hindrance to Food Security and Sustainable development: The Cases of Nigeria and Senegal, Dioume Astou
The Role of Dependence in Alcohol Reinforcement: Neurobehavioral Mechanisms, Michal Atzram
Narratives of Interiority: Black Lives in the U.S. Capital, 1919 - 1942, Paula C. Austin
Assessing Theory of Mind in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Children with Typical Development, Sarita Austin
Basic Cable: A Reluctant American Perspective on the Arab Spring Through Revolutionary Art, Philip Ayoub
Toward an Argumentation-based Dialogue framework for Human-Robot Collaboration, Mohammad Quamrul Azhar
Identifying Risk And Protective Factors Associated With The Relationship Between Developmental Delays And Behavior Problems In An Urban Sample Of Preschool Children, Jaclyn Weber Babcock
A Long-Term Follow-Up of Crossover Youth: Young Adult Outcomes for Maltreated Youth in the Juvenile Justice System, Carly Lyn Baetz
Imagining What Could Be: The Role of Youth Leadership in Realizing College for All, Tara Bahl
Implications of Muscle Activation Patterns on Balance in the Elderly, Arielle Bailey, Goldie Baum, Hadassa Radzik, and Aruna Woods
Molecular-Genetic and Behavioral Analysis of the Functionality of Patterning in the Trigeminal Neuraxis, Dana Bakalar
The Problem of Tonal Disunity in Sergeĭ Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, op. 37, Olga Ellen Bakulina
The Sensitive Psychopath: Assessing Construct Overlap Between Secondary Psychopathy and Borderline Personality Disorder, Trevor H. Barese
Cuckolds And Codpieces: Early Modern Anxieties In Male Potency, Doris Barkin
On the Biology, Behavior, and Conservation of the Chambered Nautilus, Nautilus sp., Gregory Jeff Barord
“Angles of Approaching Gender Equality: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up”, Manali Basu
Trauma, Mental Health, and Substance Use Among Homeless Families: The Importance of Shelter Environment, Nisha Nicole Beharie
Naturally Intense: America's Body Builders, Pilar M. Belendez-Desha
Effects of Reproductive Experiences on Age-related Neural and Behavioral Changes in Female Rats, Saranna Belgrave
Luti Masculinity in Iranian Modernity, 1785-1941: Marginalization and the Anxieties of Proper Masculine Comportment, Robert Joseph Bell
Functional Characterization Of The Plant 15-Cis-Zeta-Carotene Isomerase Z-Iso, Jesus Alonso Beltran Zambrano
Propagation of Non-Stationary Noise in Waveguides, Jonathan Samuel Ben-Benjamin
Claudio Perna, ca. 1970: The Impossibility of Wholeness, Silvia Benedetti
Mechanisms of Vocal Coordination in Zebra Finches, Jonathan I. Benichov
Retrospective Chart Review of Patients Following Unilateral Total Knee Replacement to Assess Achievement of Functional Milestones Based on Type of Anesthetic Used Intra-Operatively, William S. Benish, Lolline Chong, Elana Kram, and Danielle Krieger
Developmental Coordination Disorder: The Relationship Between Gait And Attention With Possible Implications For Early Identification And Intervention, Yocheved Bensinger-Brody
Parentification and Separation-Individuation in Siblings of Individuals with a Chronic Illness or Disability, Danielle Benveniste Stevens
Economies of Touring in American Theatre Culture, 1835-1861, Nicole Berkin
Eyewitness Identification Jury Instructions: Do They Enhance Evidence Evaluation?, Marlee Kind Berman
THE SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DUAL-MODIFIED CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE FOR BIOADHESIVE APPLICATIONS, Fabrice Bernard
Reconsidering Organicism in Milton Babbitt's Music and Thought, Zachary Bernstein
Women Workin’ It in GIS: A Mixed Methods Study of Underrepresentation and the Gendered Experience among Female GIS Practitioners, Livia M. Betancourt Mazur
"Lithuanian Suite Op. 1", John Paul Bimbiras
Por Uma Vida Sem Catracas: The 'June Uprising' and Recent Movements in Brazil, Matthew Binetti
The Relationship between a Norm Referenced Measure of Theory of Mind and Preschoolers' Social Skills in the Classroom, Sarah Ellen Birch
Inventions of Truth, Deidre Bird
Impact of Ethnic Conflict on Development: A Case Study of Guyana, Visnoonand Bisram
Systematic studies of Elaphoglossum section Polytrichia (Dryopteridaceae), Fernando Bittencourt de Matos
Counting Restricted Integer Partitions, David Dakota Blair
Investigating the Effects of Combining Treadmill Training with Trans-spinal Direct Current Stimulation on Motor Skill Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury, Jennifer Blake, Rebecca Bullen, Jeremy Pahl, and Samantha Scicchigno
English Negative Concord, Negative Polarity, and Double Negation, Frances Kathleen Blanchette
Techniques for Automatic Normalization of Orthographically Variant Yiddish Texts, Yakov Peretz Blum
American Dreamer: First-Time Homeownership and the Affective Geographies of Dwelling, Stephen Boatright
The Philosophical Side of Contemporary Art Forms, Kristina Bodetti
Institutionalizing Colonial Identity: A Case Study On The Indian Partition, Jamie Bodine
Population genomic inference of ecology, conservation, evolution, and demographic history of Atlantic seahorses and pipefishes (Syngnathidae), Joel Thomas Boehm
The Myth of the Unteachable: Youth, Race and the Capacity of Alternative Pedagogy, Cathy R. Borck
Modernity, Parallel Editing, and the Flâneuse: Examining the White Slave Narrative in Early and Contemporary American Cinema, Alex W. Bordino
Everything Nobody Knew, Annarose Bottos
DEGRADATION OF CARBON TETRACHLORIDE USING HYDROPHOBIC GREEN RUST, Sheena Bowman
José White Laffita (1835–1918): A Biography and a Study of His Six Études, Op. 13, Yavet Boyadjiev
Blessed Disruption: Culture and Urban Space in a European Church Planting Network, John D. Boy
Political Choice And Economic Crisis In Brazil: A Case Of Mismanagement Of Public Money, Evellyn Brasil Monteiro
La Vie Dans Les Plis, Andre Rene Bregegere
L'Harmonie révée: An Analysis of Henri Pousseur's 'Votre Faust' And 'Les litanies d'Icare', Andre Rene Bregegere
Social-Ecological Resilience in the Viking-Age to Early-Medieval Faroe Islands, Seth Brewington
Some applications of noncommutative groups and semigroups to information security, Lisa Bromberg
First Year Sober and a Lifelong Journey, Lisa Brown
Factors that Affect Treatment Compliance among Individuals with Mental Illness, Marsha Brown
A Christian Nation: How Christianity united the people of the Cherokee Nation, Mary Brown
Intra- and Inter-Seasonal Variability of Supra-Glacial 1 Streams and Lakes over the West Greenland Ice Sheet 2 from High-Resolution Satellite Optical Data, Michael Gregory Brown
On the Fringe of Italian Fascism: An Examination of the Relationship between Vinicio Paladini and the Soviet Avant-Garde, Christina Brungardt
Leveraging Capacity: Technical Solutions to Hunger in the Era of Neoliberalism, Elizabeth Perry Bullock
The Sadistic Reader: Gender and the Pleasures of Violence in the Novel, Pamela Burger
Let The Record Show: Mapping Queer Art and Activism in New York City, 1986-1995, Tara Jean-Kelly Burk
Maude I. Kerns: Overlapping Interpretations of Art and Pedagogy in the Northwest and Along the Pacific Coast, 1890–1932, Mary Helen Burnham
The 1935 Labor Rebellions and the Politics of African-Indian Solidarity in British Guiana, Nicole Burrowes
The Medicalization of Stress: Hans Selye and the Transformation of the Postwar Medical Marketplace, Vanessa L. Burrows
Theory Development and Pilot Testing of a New Survey Instrument on Usability by Older Adults, Meriam Caboral-Stevens
Data Monitoring and Analysis in Wireless Networks, Yongjie Cai
An Electromyographic Comparison of the Functional Performance of the Gluteus Maximus Muscle in Prolonged Sitting Versus Standing Populations, Kerry Campagnola, Giusi Gerbino, Erica Johnson, and Adrienne O’Keefe
Quadratic Discriminant Analysis Revisited, Wenbo Cao
The emergence of L1 innovations in Spanish-English bilinguals: Evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming, Agustina Carando
Super Bronx Boys, Andrew Caringi
Force to change large cardinal strength, Erin Kathryn Carmody
Choosing To Learn In Two Languages: Why Non-Latino, English-Speaking Families Select Spanish/english Dual Language Bilingual Programs, Kathryn Louise Carpenter
The Influence of Forward Head Posture on Suprahyoid Activity During Oropharyngeal Swallowing: A Surface Electromyographic Analysis, Brianne Carroll, Sierra Hunt, Katherine Sheeleigh, and Mark Wnukowski
Algorithmic properties of poly-Z groups and secret sharing using non-commutative groups, Bren Cavallo
The Development Of The Eu's Counter Terrorism Policies In The Post 9/11 Era, Sinem Cevik
Restaurant Owners Owing Millions of Dollars to Workers Close Down, Only to Open Again Under Related Owners, Rajashree Chakravarty
Ecomusicology: back to the roots of sound/music and environmental sustainability, Tiffany Challe