Theses and Dissertations
Capstones from 2016
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Dual-Aspect Meter: A Theory of Metrical Consonance, Dissonance, Weight, and Variety, Andrew Wilson
Overmedicated: Foster Kids in Crisis, Mary E. Wilson
Flight of the Freshwater Fish, Michael H. Wilson
Comprehensive Mass Balance Isotope Schematics for Determining the Provenance of the Moon Forming Impactor., John C. Wolbeck
Sexual Behavior and Substance Use among Women across the Spectrum of Sexual Orientation, Margaret M. Wolff
Snapshots, Cynthia L. Wong
The Fourth Movement of György Ligeti's Piano Concerto: Investigating the Musical-Mathematical Connection, Cynthia L. Wong
Explicit Formulae and Trace Formulae, Tian An Wong
Heavy Expectations: Reading Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel, Livia Arndal Woods
3D Structural and Stratigraphic Architecture of the Northwest Santa Barbara Basin and Implications for Submarine Landslide Generation, Alexis Wright
Essays in Chinese Financial Markets, Chang Xia
The Price of Cosmopolitanism: Globalization, Class Structure, and Language Endangerment in Shanghai, Fang Xu
Stochastic Processes And Their Applications To Change Point Detection Problems, Heng Yang
Earnings Management and Bargain Purchase Gains, Yan Yan
Do Millennial College Students at an Urban, Non-residential University Believe That There Is a Link Between Material Wealth and Happiness?, Yustyna Yaremchuk
Semantic Holism Revisited, Chun-Ping Yen
Love in the Time of Syphilis: Medicine and Sex in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1922, Secil Yilmaz
Educational Histories of Newcomer Immigrant Youth: From Countries of Origin to the United States, Joanna Yip
Viewer-, Author-, and Ownership in the Work of Andrea Zittel, Amanda M. York
Animal Performance in Big-Time Vaudeville, Catherine M. Young
Large-Scale Spatial Data Management on Modern Parallel and Distributed Platforms, Simin You
Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theories, Jihwan Yu
Electrochemical Nanoprobes for Electron Transfer Kinetics and Electrocatalysis Study, Yun Yu
What are the Barriers and Conduits to College Success for Academically Vulnerable Students?, Marisol Zacarias
Anton Arensky’s String Quartet in A minor, Op. 35, for Violin, Viola, and Two Celli, Miho Zaitsu
Sacred Freedom: Sustaining Afrocentric Spiritual Jazz in 21St Century Chicago, Adam Zanolini
New Classical Solutions in Supergravity, Zhibai Zhang
Relational Pluralism in Boards of Directors: A Multidimensional View, Zhu Zhu
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Supervision on Trauma Training Outcomes for Assertive Community Treatment Teams, Sacha Zilkha
Essays on the Well-Being of an Aging Population, Alice Zulkarnain
DH Box: A Virtual Computer Lab in the Cloud, Stephen Zweibel
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Lessons from the Arab Spring: Pathways to Democracy after the Revolution in Tunisia, Egpypt and Libya, Manal Abd-El-Hafez
Persons as Self-consciously Concerned Beings, Benjamin Abelson
Target Zero: Why States Choose To Eradicate Infectious Diseases And How They Succeed, Gifty Abraham
The Sixty-Six Percent, Natalie Abruzzo
Is China the Answer? The Effect of Chinese Engagement on Economic and Human Development in Africa, Ralph Achacoso
Wigner High-Electron-Correlation Regime Of Non-Uniform Density Systems: A Quantal-Density-Functional-Theory Study, Douglas Mortimer Achan
Interactions and Complexity in Multi-Agent Justification Logic, Antonios Achilleos
ECUMENICAL AFFAIRS, Gabriela Acosta
Traditional Governance Influence on Democracy in Africa, Kofi Afful
"I Shall not Fear:" Secure Attachment to G-d as a Buffer against Anxiety, Peryl Agishtein
Living With Coyotes, Owen H. Agnew
SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF THE Ronnbergia ALLIANCE (BROMELIACEAE): HISTORY OF DISJUNCT DIVERSIFICATION IN THREE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS OF THE NEOTROPICS, Julian Andres Aguirre Santoro
The Insanity Defense, Public Anger, and the Potential Impact on Attributions of Responsibility and Punishment, Chioma Ajoku
A Study on the Heavy Crude Oil Viscosity Reduction with the Dissolution of Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide, Abdurahman Ajumobi
Corruptions, Imitations, and Innovations: Tropes of Ibn Taymiyya's Polemics, Faris Al Ahmad
The People Behind the Presidential Bully Pulpit, Kara Susan Alaimo
/n/:/r/ Correspondences in Albanian Dialects: Understanding the n>r Sound Change, Katie Albany
Gendered Political Economy: The Economic and Social Factors that Affect Women’s Political Participation, Ginger Albertson
White Faces in a Black Movement: Why Their Voices Matter, CHAUNCEY L. ALCORN
Effect of Absent Tactile Sensation on Multi-digit Coordination Underlying Hand Control, Michael P. Alcorn, Bruce Faulkner, Matthew Macina, and Brian Sherman
Assessing Greenland Ice Sheet Albedo and Mass Balance Variability Using In-Situ Data, Spaceborne Observations and Regional Model Outputs, Patrick Michael Alexander
Homeland Security and Community policing: Shift in Federal Funding Post Sep. 11: From Community Policing to Homeland Security, Mohsen S. Alizadeh
Development Of A Naturalistic Observational Parenting Practice Assessment Tool For Externalizing Behavior Research, Thailyn L. Alonso
Intimate Relationships: Reality and Normativity, Jason V. Altilio
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