Theses and Dissertations
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Wandering philosopher, Augustus Chigozie Onwubiko
The Power of Place: A Comparative Analysis of Prison and Street Gangs, Jennifer M. Ortiz
The importance of time during Peace Negotiations: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Dayton Peace Accords, Mirnes Osmanovic
Physiological and Subjective Aspects of Positive Mood in Relation to Executive Functioning: The Potential Moderating Role of Personality, Luz Helena Ospina
Playing Dead: Staging Corpses, Ghosts, and Statues in Early Modern Drama, Sarah Outterson-Murphy
Climate, Resource Phenology, and Demographic Population Structure Impacts on Songbird Habitat Quality, Ashley Ozelski
Real-Time Supervision for Human Robot Teams in Complex Task Domains, Arif Tuna Ozgelen
What the Tortoise Said to Kripke: the Adoption Problem and the Epistemology of Logic, Romina Padro
Knowing Children/Children Knowing: Nineteenth-Century British Child Law and Literature, Donna Paparella
"The planet is the way it is because of the scheme of words": Sun Ra and the Performance of Reckoning, Maryam Ivette Parhizkar
Intergroup contact and evaluations of interracial exclusion in offline and online settings among adolescents and young adults, Henry C. Park
The Smell Of Hopelessness, Juline Cariba Rachel Party
Health Exposure, Socio-Economic Vulnerability, and Infrastructure at Risk to Current and Projected Coastal Flooding in New York City, Lesley Patrick
Some Enhancement Methods For Backtracking-Search In Solving Multiple Permutation Problems, Tayfun Pay
IT-Enabled Coordination In Electronic Markets: An Experimental Investigation Of The Effects Of Social Communication On Group Buyers, Alexander Pelaez
Sisters in Sublime Sanctity: Schiller's Jungfrau, Euripides's Iphigenia Plays, and Joan of Arc on the Stage, John Martin Pendergast
Theory and Applications of Outsider Anonymity in Broadcast Encryption, Irippuge Deshan Milinda Perera
The Role of Posterior Parietal Cortex in Episodic Memory Retrieval: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Studies (tDCS), Denise Pergolizzi
Inmate-, Incident-, And Facility-Level Factors Associated With Escapes From Custody And Violent Outcomes, Bryce E. Peterson
Search for Host Factors Involved in Attachment of Agrobacterium Tumefaciens to Plants, Anna Petrovicheva
Evolution of Bat-Trypanosome Associations and the Origins of Chagas Disease, Christian Miguel Pinto
Contemporary Albanian-Italian Literature: Mapping New Italian Voices, Anita Pinzi
The Value of Culture in Peacebuilding -- Examples from Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen and Nepal, Dorota Piotrowska
Singing Motherhood: First time mothers' experiences singing to their infants, Margaret Mia Pixley
Three Essays on The Cost of Debt Capital, Katarzyna Nelicka Platt
Social Epistemology and the Project of Mapping Science, Kamili Posey
The Pulitzer Prize and Women: An Investigation into Three Decades of Winning Plays by Female Dramatists (1981-2009), Kathleen Potts
Is cue-based memory retrieval 'good-enough'?: Agreement, comprehension, and implicit prosody in native and bilingual speakers of English, Elizabeth Pratt
Ordering and topological defects in solids with quenched randomness, Thomas Chapman Proctor
Relationship of Students' Spelling Gains to Teacher Knowledge and Teacher Practice, Alison Puliatte
Cationic amphiphilic synthetic macromolecules with superior antibacterial activity, Ashish Punia
An Experimental Study of Subcooled Flow Boiling at Elevated Pressure in an Annular Flow Channel, Pervej Rahman
Effects of acetyl salicyclic acid on Drosophila models of cancer-inflammation, Roma Rajwani
Development of Functional Interactions Among Cortical and Trabecular Traits During Growth of the Lumbar Vertebral Body, Melissa Ramcharan
Traumatic Brain Injuries among adolescent inmates in Rikers Island, NYC Jail: A mixed methods study, Cassandra Ramdath
Refinement of feedforward projections, neuronal density, and characterization of synapsesin layer 4 of ferret primary visual cortex, Violeta Contreras Ramirez
Income Inequality And Vulnerabiility To Flood Hazard In Brazil, Rebecca Rasch
Rural Energy Development: Are Mini-grids the solution to East Africa's Energy Crisis, John Remson
Interleukin-1 (IL-1) as a potential contributor to the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's Disease, Sara Nicole Resch
On Polynomial Roots Approximation Via Dominant Eigenspaces And Isolation Of Real Roots, Omar Ivan Retamoso Urbano
Juror Target Monitoring Errors in Multiple Defendant Trials, Lindsey M. Rhead
Attitudes of Normal Hearing Listeners Towards Personal Sound Amplification Products: Etymotic Bean, Jennifer Rhoades
The American Aspasia: The Woman Lecturer in American Women's Rights Fiction, 1839-1915, Angela Ridinger-Dotterman
The Hunger for Justice, Donald Rielly
UNSETTLING: THE REAL INFLUX OF SYRIAN REFUGEES, Isabel M. Riofrio, KanyaKrit Vongkiatkajorn, and Marguerite Ward
The widespread skink Mabuya dorsivittata reveals complex patterns of genetic diversity in South America, Danielle Rivera
On String Topology Operations and Algebraic Structures on Hochschild Complexes, Manuel Rivera
Confronting Moral and Literary Perspectives in 'La fuerza de la sangre', José Nayar Rivera Méndez
Sound Affects, Catherine Roberts, Cole Rosengren, Jessica Bal, Samuel Lieberman, Dave Gershgorn, and Gabriela Sierra Alonso
Manifestation of Humanity and Humanism in Czechoslovak Cinema 1949-1953, Selma Rockova
Invisible Voices, Ana M. Rodriguez
Creando barrios. Vecindarios, cine y poesia. La concepcion del espacio urbano en Espana. 1970-1985., Magdalena Romero Cordoba
Obstruent Voicing and Tone in Siklis Gurung, Danielle Ronkos
The Journal Of Mother Studies: A Peer Reviewed, International, Interdisciplinary, Open-Acess, Digital Humanities Hybrid Project, Martha Joy Rose
The Fight For Zadroga, Naeisha Rose
Startup Elsewhere, Michaela Ross
Exploring Chromatin-bound MDM2 Functions in Compromised Transcriptional Regulation of p53 Target Genes, Melissa Rosso
Training a New Trick Using No-Reward Markers: Effects on Dogs’ Performance and Stress Behaviors, Naomi Rotenberg
Reframing Romantic Nature: Towards a Social Ecocriticism, Matthew Rowney
FACTORS AFFECTING PERSISTENCE RATES AMONG COLLEGE FRESHMEN, Darlene Rozon
Common-Tone Preserving Contextual Inversions in the Music of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Jessica Rudman
Twisted Blue, Jessica Rudman
Pimps of Harlem: Talk of Labor and the Sociology of Risk, Amber Horning Ruf
Eastern Tropical Pacific Climate And El Niño Variability During The Past Millennium, Gerald Thomas Rustic
Undocumented Youth Living Between the Lines: Urban Governance, Social Policy, and the Boundaries of Legality in New York City and Paris, Stephen P. Ruszczyk
The Literary Legacy of The Federal Writers' Project, Sara Rendene Rutkowski
Locke's "God" Problem: Predicating God and Liberty Amid the Secularizing Effect of "Uneasiness", Kathleen M. Ryan
Changing Identities in a Changing Land: The Romanization of the British Landscape, Thomas Ryan
Development of Super Hydrophobic Surfaces using Silica Nanoparticles, Muhammad Salman Saleem
Systematics and Biogeography of Orthaea Kloztsch (Ericaceae: Vaccinieae), Nelson Salinas
The Print Portfolio and the Bourgeoisie in Fin-de-Siècle Paris, Britany Lane Salsbury
Mothers' Mental Health Evaluations in Foster Care Practice: A Social Constructionist, Qualitative Data-Mining Study, Michelle Salvaggio
Right to Land and the Rule of Law: Infrastructure, Urbanization and Resistance in India, Preeti Sampat
Voiceless, Maria Sanchez Diez
Daily Fantasy sites engage in a legal war for survival, Danni R. Santana
The Finales of Robert Shumann's Piano Sonatas and Fantasie, Emiko Sato
Before Addiction: The Medical History of Alcoholism in Nineteenth-Century France, Lauren Saxton
Special Muscles, Annamaria C. Scaccia
Outrage Is the New Black, Derek R. Scancarelli
Successful Implementation Of Solution-Based Casework; A Child Welfare Casework Practice Model?, Naomi Weisel Schear
Risk factors and costs influencing hospitalizations due to heat-related illnesses: patterns of hospitalization, Michael T. Schmeltz
Elaborations on Thought Process and Practice, George A. Schwab
Self-Esteem as a Predictor of Posttraumatic Growth and Adaptation among Maltreated Early Adolescents, Hadar Schwartz
The Forgotten Freedom Fighters, Natasha Scully and Kim Conner
Greenpoint's Superfund Problem, Helina Selemon
Foreign Direct Investment and the Chinese Economy: Theory and Impact, Gerasimos Seriatos
Liver Transplantation Today: a look at geographic disparities, Karen Shakerdge
A New Charter Challenges Popular Paradigms, Levi Sharpe
Quantum State Discrimination and Quantum Cloning: Optimization and Implementation, Andi Shehu
The Archdiocese Of New York: Transition From Urban Powerhouse To Suburban Institution, 1950-2000 A Case Study, Henry A. Sheinkopf
Essays on the Economic Analysis of Transportation Systems, Hyoungsuk Shim
Ecological Aspects of the Music of John Luther Adams, David Arie Shimoni