Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2015
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
Chinese Hereditary Mathematician Families of the Astronomical Bureau, 1620-1850, Ping-Ying Chang
Wasted New York, Aliza D. Chasan
Contemporary Art and Internationalism at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1952–1988, Rachel Chatalbash
Control of Cell Cycle Progression by mTOR, Amrita Chatterjee
Exploring Antecedents, Performance Outcomes And Psychological Processes Of Multi-Device Use, Chi-Wen Chen
Essays On Real Estate Investment Trusts, Jiajin Chen
"MICROFINANCE AS A DETERMINANT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN BANGLADESH: WHO IS AT RISK?", Alvin Christian
Use of the Modified Emotional Stroop Task to Detect Suicide Risk in College Students, Yeunjoo Chung
The Role of Perineuronal Nets in Regulating Barrel Cortex Physiology, Philip Chu
The Relationship Between Maternal Depression And Negative Outcomes In Children: Parenting Deficits' Impact On Children's Emotional Regulation And Behavioral Expression, Gabrielle Francesca Cione
How Can We Build A Moral Robot?, Kristen E. Clark
Assessment of Injection Behavior of Commercially-available Bone BSMS for Subchondroplasty Procedures, Dinely A. Colon
South Africa's Forgotten Freedom Fighters, Kimberly H. Conner and Natasha Scully
Three Essays on Income and Wealth Inequality, Damir Cosic
Teaching Community College Students Strategies For Learning Unknown Words As They Read Expository Text, Leslie Craigo
Memory And Moderation: The Imperial Image Of Augustus And Its Perception Among Later Authors, Frank Joseph Cretella
Sexual Victimization, Disclosure, and Accountability: Organizational Responses of the Boy Scouts of America to Child Sexual Abuse, Michelle Anne Cubellis
The Spark That Lit the Flame: The Creation, Deployment, and Deconstruction of the Story of Mohammed Bouazizi and the Arab Spring, Elizabeth Ann Cummings
Saving Moral Realism: Against Blackburn's Projectivism, Paul James Cummins
The Symbiosis Between Villa-Lobos's Carnaval Das Crianças And Momoprecoce: A Comparative Study, Vanessa Rodrigues Cunha
Tonic And Phasic Inhibitory Mechanisms Mediating Sensorimotor Decision-Making In The Goldfish Auditory Startle Circuit, Paul C.P. Curtin
Policy Advocacy and the Performance of Muslim American Identity, Emily Cury
Transportation and Sanitation Drivers of Land Use/Land Cover Change: Loss of the Jamaica Bay Wetlands, Margaret Joy Cytryn
EXTREME LEVELS OF POVERTY AND INEQUALITY MAY LEAD TO EQUALLY HIGH LEVELS OF SOCIAL CONFLICT AND CRIME, Rukelt Dalberis,
Assessment of Physical Performance in Adolescents of Varying Body Weight, Nicholas Dalonzo, Nicole Liquori, and Nicole Savarese
Byrd, Maya Dangerfield
Aina: A modern-day history chant of a Hawaiian place, Helen Dano
Determining a role for Taimain in the Drosophila melanogaster Methoprene response, Shivani Daryani
Empirical Investigation of SAMHSA’s (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) Model of Wellness, Dipanjana Das
The Ones Left Behind: MAKING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN POVERTY AND THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, Audrey Davis
"Managers" in the Classroom: The Impact of Classroom Management Coursework in Teacher Education Programs, Jonathan Ryan Davis
The Heterotopia of Flight: Resisting the Domestic, Sarah Elizabeth Davis
Calibration and Validation of an in Vitro Ultrasound Device to Deliver Targeted Thermal Enhancement of hMSC Osteogenesis, Dionne Dawkins
Improving Investigative Interviews: Facilitating Disclosure of Information through Implicit Means, Evan Crawford Dawson
Los Grupos and the Art of Intervention in 1960s and 1970s Mexico, Arden Decker
Dancer Performance on the Lower Quarter Y Balance Test: A Longitudinal Study, Megan DeHey, Kelly Kaems, Molly Saunders, and Gabrielle Schneider
Archival Enactment, Retelling 'The Big Book': Alison Knowles, Something Else Press and Fluxus, Meghan A. DellaCrosse
Wh-Question Processing in Children with Cochlear Implants, Zarabeth Waldman DeLuca
The Contributions of Earl "Bud" Powell to the Modern Jazz Style, David Joseph DeMotta
Zirconium-89: Radiochemistry and Ligand Development toward Improved PET Applications, Melissa Ann Deri
Child Abductors Who Have Killed Their Victims: A Theoretical Approach to Spatial Analysis, Tonya M. DeSa
Growth and Characterization of Type-II Submonolayer ZnCdTe/ZnCdSe Quantum Dot Superlattices for Efficient Intermediate Band Solar Cells, Siddharth Dhomkar
Brooklyn Trash Problems, Christina Diaz
The Innovation Makerspace: Geographies of Digital Fabrication Innovation in Greater New York City, Kathryn Dickerson
Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity, Maggie Dickinson
Traumatic Familiarity: Fictions and Theories of Community in the Eighteenth Century, Andrew Scott Dicus
A Static and Dynamic Investigation of Quantum Nonlinear Transport in Highly Dense and Mobile 2D Electron Systems, Scott A. Dietrich
Bike-geist NYC, Jack D'Isidoro
Essays On Spatial Econometrics: Estimation Methods And Applications, Osman Dogan
Art as Communication: Employing Gricean Principles of Communication as a Model for Art Appreciation, Melissa June Dolese
Towards the Total Synthesis of (+/-)-Gephyrotoxin 287C, Maciej E. Domaradzki
Stepsisters, Patrick Donachie
