Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
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
Cohomology of Certain Polyhedral Product Spaces, Elizabeth A. Vidaurre
Construing Character: Virtue as a Cognitive-Affective Processing System, Denise Vigani
Sanitation Celebrations: Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s Performative Monument with/for/by Sanmen, Diya Vij
When Human-Leopard Conflict Turns Deadly: A Cross-Country Situational Analysis, Julie S. Viollaz
Discrete model for cancer tumor growth and effect of chemotherapy, Karim Virani
Nature and Nostalgia in the Art of Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899), Shannon Vittoria
Evaluating the Causal Effect of Insurance Access on Labor Market Outcomes Among Young Adults, Eden Volkov
Documenting Internationalism: The Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos as a Cultural Extension of Cuban Foreign Policy, Vella V. Voynova
An Alliance of Ladies: Power, Public Affairs, and Class Construction in Early National New York City, Alisa J. Wade
Living Infrastructure: Being, Time, and Government in New York City, Stephanie Diane Wakefield
Real Gender: Identity, Loss, and the Capacity to Feel Real, Hannah Wallerstein
Design Rules for the Nucleation, Growth, and Encapsulation of Gold Nanoparticles with Applications to Cancer Imaging, Matthew A. Wall
An Examination of Black Male Success in High School Mathematics, David Walters Jr.
Another Pornographic Film That Takes Place Inside of a Bread Bowl, Lillian P. Walton
Repetitive Motor Movement, Social Responsiveness, and Global Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jenny Waltzer
Patterns of Growth and the Economic Development of China, Adam C. Watson
Kongo to Kings County, Marcus Alan Watson
"Voices at the Crossroads: East Indian Women, Grass-Root Culture, and the Power of Becoming", Rufena Watson
The Role of Ambivalent Sexism on Attributions about the Homeless, Amanda Watsula
Occupy Citizenry: Participatory Performance in New York City: 2009-2015, Kenn Dixon Watt
The Effects of Grameen-Model Microfinance Institutions and Self-Help Group Microfinance on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural India, Forrest Weaver
Photographing the "Uncelebrated" Truth: The Newspaper PM, New York 1940-1942, Nancy Wechter
An Exploration of Early Romanization: A Comparative and Semiotic Approach, Mikel Wein
Le Pianiste: Parisian Music Journalism and the Politics of the Piano, 1833–35, Shaena B. Weitz
Computerized Cognitive Intervention in Cognitively Normal Very Elderly Individuals, Rebecca K. West
Lewis Baltz: Discovering Park City, Susan H. West
Analysis of synthetic cannabinoids and drugs of abuse amongst HIV-infected individuals, Jillian M. Wetzel
The C3 Conditional: A Variably Strict Ordinary-Language Conditional, Monique L. Whitaker
Descent: American Individualism, American Blackness and the Trouble with Invention, Simone White
Searching for Sounds: Instrumental Agency and Modularity in Electroacoustic Improvisation, Stephen (Red) Wierenga
Leonard Freed's Black in White America, Jennifer Cherry Wilkinson
From Coercion to Consent?: Governing the Formerly Incarcerated in the 21st Century United States, Karen G. Williams
Early Relational Experiences and Poor Psychological and Social Outcomes as Mediated by Internalized Heterosexism in Sexual Minority Women: Illustration of a Theoretical Model, Katharine Williams
Coalescence of Research: Urban Advantage as a Learning Organization Structured to Support a Culture of Inquiry, Marianne Williams
Effects Of Serveware Materiality On Food Perceptions, Consumption, and Waste, Sara Williamson