Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2015
The Ties that Bind: Gender, Race, and Empire in Caribbean Indenture Narratives, Alison Joan Klein
The Effects of Maximal Strength Training on Gait and Balance in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis: A Pretest Posttest Pilot Study, Janet Klein, David Park, Charles Wright, and Michael Zervas
In the Race to Reach New Wine Drinkers Old World Taste is Losing Out, Lillian Knoepp
Regulation of the Vacuolar ATPase activity, Paulina Konarzewska
Psychosocial Sequelae Of Homicide Among Murder Victims' Family Members: An Appraisal Of Depression, Grief, And Posttraumatic Stress, Sarah Kopelovich
Development of Instructional Competencies for Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk for Baccalaureate Nursing Education, Abigail Kotowski
Interactions Between Descending and Somatosensory Inputs in Humans, Lisa Krivis, Ann Mackey, Maureen McDonough, and Denise Uttaro
TCR Alpha LCR and non-LCR cis-elements contributing to tissue specific expression of the TCR Alpha gene in thymic and peripheral T cells, Martina Kucerova-Levisohn
Attenuation Of Methamphetamine And Nmda-Induced Toxicity By Leptin In Murine Striatum, Nawshin Hoque Kutub
Integrated Hydrologic Land Surface State Climate Indicators, Brian Lamb
Effecting Moral Change: Lessons from the First Emancipation, Howard Landis
Supporting Collaborative Learning in Computer-Enhanced Environments, Shalva S. Landy
"Young Men of the Stones": Gendering the First Palestinian Intifada, Karen Lauria
Gender Based Violence as a Continuum of Human Rights Violations in Russia and the Czech Republic, Alena Lebron
Turning to Culture in Times of Crisis: Global Toolkits and Urban Reinvestment in Buenos Aires, Jacob H. Lederman
Statistical processing : mean size perception of partially occluded sets, Jae-Eun Jenny Lee
#SociallyConnected: The Now and Then Era of the Fangirl, Tionah Y. Lee
How N.Y.’s Biggest For-Profit Nursing Home Group Flourishes Despite a Record of Patient Harm, Jennifer Lehman
The Role of Financial Reporting Quality in the Selection of New Audit Committee Member, Dongliang Lei
Rebellion under the Palm Trees: Memory, Agrarian Reform and Labor in the Aguán, Honduras, Andres Leon
The Long Road: Upstate Republicans and Political Reform in New York State, 1906-1927, Todd Leskanic
Bank Monitoring: Impact on Equity REIT Risk and Return, Mariya Letdin
She's Having A Baby and Cancer, Ashley Lewis
Changes in Economic Well-Being of the Elderly, Mei Liao
THE IMPACT OF FOREST SUCCESSIONAL STATUS ON COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OF NEOTROPICAL CERAMBYCID BEETLES, Lin Li
Juan Bautista Aguirre (1725-1786) y los orígenes de la nación ecuatoriana, Alex Paul Lima
Strongly-correlated 2D Electron Systems in Si-MOSFETs, Shiqi Li
Low-rank Based Algorithms for Rectification, Repetition Detection and De-noising in Urban Images, Juan Liu
Order and Asymmetry in Jammed Systems, Zhusong Li
The Lived Experience of Family Nurse Practitioners Performing Sexual Health Assessments, Madeleine Mary Lloyd
Oil: A Cautionary Story, Kat Long
Pragmatics and Semantics in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Karece Lopez
Silk Wings: The Making of Noma, SANDRA C. LOPEZ-MONSALVE
Spatial Analysis of the Financial Crisis: Modeling Financial Clusters Across the New York Metropolitan Area, Silvia Maria Lorenzo
Proton Pumping in Cytochrome c Oxidase, Jianxun Lu
Deception as forgery: The role of reference information in honesty and deceit, Timothy John Luke
The New York Philharmonic Strike of 1973, Kuan Cheng Lu
Exploring Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Time Dependent Density Functional Theory, Kai Luo
A Schizophrenic Wedding, Calista MacHarrie
Some Common Sense For The Common Core, Katherine M. Maciaszek
Hybridized Criticality and Elementary Excitations in LiHoF4, Haifu Ma
Effectiveness of Psychological Techniques in Increasing Deviant Sexual Fantasy Self-Disclosures, Christian Maile
The effects of mood and perceived cost on self-disclosure of deviant sexual fantasies and behavior, Jordan S. Maile
Essays on Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Michael Malenbaum
Syntactic Constraints and Social Uses of Greek-English Intrasentential Codeswitching, Despina Stefanou Malliaroudakis
Large-pore mesoporous organosilicas and related polymer nanocomposites, Amanpreet Singh Manchanda
Metasurfaces for photon sorting and selective absorption, Isroel Moshe Mandel
The Influence Of A Child's Learning Disability On A Parent's Psychological Experience: A Comparison Of Parents With And Without Learning Disabilities, Alice Varley Mangan
Rethinking Internal Working Models from a Developmental Perspective: Clarifying the Concept and Making a Case for a Sensitive Period of Attachment, Leah Bothe Manning
Polymer Pen Printing: A Tool for Studying 2D Enzymatic Lithography and Printing 3D Carbon Features, Zhantong Mao
Optimal Targeting Regimes and Instrument Rules in the Basic New Keynesian Model, Luc Marest
World Bank, Agriculture and Policy: A Case Study in Ghana and Ethiopia, Steven Margel
Essays in the Economics of Education and Health, Jesse Margolis
Hearing Conservation Attitudes and Behaviors at Orthodox Jewish Weddings, Audrey Margulies
Outcomes of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Arab World, Rosann Mariappuram
Privilege in Haiti: Travails in Color of the First Bourgeois Nation-State in the Americas, Philippe-Richard Marius
What Grows in Heavy Rain, Lisa Martens
Retreat and Other Stories, Marlene Angela Martins
`We Are All Stories in the End, I Want Mine to be a Good One': College Students' Work-Family Expectations and the Role of Educational Experiences, Chandra D. Mason
Webcam Child Sex Abuse, Lena Masri
Female fighters fight toward equal footing, Desiree A. Mathurin and Ryan Wallerson
The Impact of Police Misconduct in Kings County on New York City's Civil Liability 2006-2010, Brian A. Maule
No Shortcuts: The Case for Organizing, Jane Frances McAlevey
Middle School Girls in Postfeminist Times, Susan McCullough
Virtue: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft, Jessica McGivney
Disrupting the Narrative: Labor and Survivance for the Montauketts of Eastern Long Island, Allison Manfra McGovern
Three Faces of Human Exceptionalism: Genius, Saint, Monster, Mary Clare Feldmann McKinley
Communication, Labor, and Communicative Labor, Rachel McKinney
Assessing the Impact of Restrictions to Medicaid Coverage of Methadone and Buprenorphine on Opioid Users' Access to and Utilization of Substance Use Treatment, Courtney McKnight
RAGTIME THEN AND NOW: Composers and Audiences from the Ragtime Era to the Ragtime Revival, William Martin McNally
Studies Toward a General Synthesis of Poly-Substituted Alpha-Hydroxytropolones, Christine Marie Meck
Age, Cognition, and Listening Effort, Sapna Mehta
Masked Superheroes: Lucha Libre in New York, Lucina Melesio Friedman
Sublimity and Identity: Portrayals of the Female Body By Latin American Women Poets in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Kathryn Mendez
Lives on Hold and Dreams Delayed, Andrew Menezes
Proust's Medusa: Ovid, Evolution, and Modernist Metamorphosis, Gregory John Mercurio
The Effect of Orthographic Mapping, Context, and Word Class on Sight Word Learning for Native and Nonnative English-Speakers, Katharine Pace Miles
The Trickster In Nella Larsen's Passing (1929): Performing And Masquerading An American Identity, Rachael Miller Benavidez
The Making of Knowledge-Makers in Composition: A Distant Reading of Dissertations, Benjamin M. Miller
Super Fun Superfund: Polluted Protection Along the Gowanus Canal, Jessica Ty Miller
Civil Unrest in the Untied State of America: Facing the Threat, Menemsha P.S. Milnor
Renaissance Humanism and the Ottoman 'Other' - Discourse Construction, Position and Power, Aramis Miranda-Reyes
Theater Matters: Female Theatricality in Hawthorne, Alcott, Brontë, and James, Keiko Miyajima
Police Misconduct Towards the Transgender Community, Carlotta Mohamed
Development and Validation of a Bangladeshi Pediatric Silhouette Scale (BPSS), Ana Mola
Factors Which Prolong Civil Conflict in Africa: The Case of Angola, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Ntesang Lorraine Molemele
Panorama Generation for Stereoscopic Visualization of Large-Scale Scenes, Edgardo Molina
Surviving the Gauntlet: Adult Undergraduates in American Higher Education, David Bernard Monaghan
Creative Economy as a Path to Economic Development for Africa: Cases of Nollywood in Nigeria and women's Gold in Bukina Faso, Rebecca Moudio
Technical Analysis under Knightian Uncertainty, Andre Mouton
Maternal Dissociation, Emotional Acceptance and Child Emotion Regulation: A Study of Residents in a Family Homeless Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence, Brian S. Mueller
Exploiting Cancer Cell Signaling and Metabolism: Implications for Therapeutic Approach, Suman Mukhopadhyay
Game, Set, Match: Sports and the Future of Diplomacy, Valeria Munt
The neurophysiology of intersensory selective attention and task switching, Jeremy W. Murphy