Theses and Dissertations
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2015
Earnings Forecast and Stock Recommendation by Security Analysts, Cunyu Xing
In the Center of the Periphery: Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Art, Life, and the Japanese Artists' Community During the Interwar Period, Takayuki Yamada
Preconditioning For Matrix Computation, Xiaodong Yan
Optimal Measurements Tasks and Their Physical Realizations, Vadim Yerokhin
Why Do Victims Not Report?: The Influence of Police and Criminal Justice Cynicism on the Dark Figure of Crime, Seokhee Yoon
Accurate Deterministic Solutions for the Classic Boltzmann Shock Profile, Yubei Yue
Tales Of Language Loss And Language Maintenance: Elicited Ancestral Language Use In Lazuri-Turkish And Turkish-German Caregiver-Child Dyads During Structured Play, Peri Ozlem Yuksel-Sokmen
Suitability of Great South Bay, New York to Blooms of Pfiesteria piscicida and P. shumwayae Prior to Superstorm Sandy, October 29, 2012, Pawel Tomasz Zablocki
I SEE YOU DO THAT, BUT DO I THINK I CAN DO THAT?: FIELDWORK AND SELF-EFFICACY, Julia Zak
The Incidence and Evolution of Palatalized Consonants in Latvian, Linda Zalite
St. Nicholas Magazine: A Portable Art Museum, Mary Frances Zawadzki
Disorder Effects in Charge Transport and Spin Response of Topological Insulators, Lukas Zhonghua Zhao
Synthesis and Characterization of a Novel Polyacetal & Design and Preparation of Superhydrophobic Photocatalytic Surfaces, Yuanyuan Zhao
Essays on The Economics of Aging, Zhendong Zhao
Some Bernstein Type Results of Graphical Self-Shrinkers with High Codimension in Euclidean Space, Hengyu Zhou
Auditor Size And Audit Quality: A Partner-Level Perspective, Yu Zhou
Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership a ‘Natural’ Trade Bloc?, Matthew Ziegler
The Limits of Liberalism: France, The Veil, and Public Schools, Eleanor Doris Zupancic
Essays on the Economics and Methodology of Social Mobility, Benjamin Zweig
Dissertations/Theses/Capstones from 2014
Cologne Carnival's "Alternative" Stunksitzung: Carnivalization? Meta-Carnival? Or Bakhtinian Restoration?, Erik Abbott
Infrastructure, Production, and Archive: American and Japanese Video Art Production of 1960s and 1970s, Ann Atsuko Adachi
Soft Still Voices: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems, Tejumade Adeyeye
The Amphibious Public: A historical geography of municipal swimming and bathing New York City, 1870 - 2013, Naomi Miriam Adiv
Counterfeit Ed, Meral Agish, Sarah Barrett, Mark Fahey, Audrey McGlinchy, Jacob Naughton, and Oresti Tsonopoulos
Chemistry of 6-Monobrominated Indigo, MBI, Hiroko Ajiki
Nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions involving secondary and tertiary alkyl nucleophiles, Amruta Ajit Joshi
Dead Women and White Men: Why Are Today’s Hit Noir Shows Still Stuck in the Gender/ Race Politics of the ‘40s and ‘50s?, Zainab Akande
The Music and Multiple Identities of Kurdish Alevis from Turkey in Germany, Ozan Aksoy
A NEW KIND OF POLITICS; GAURAKSHA AND HINDU-MUSLIM COMMUNALISM IN BENGAL, 1890-1899, Ishtiaq Alam
Studies in Volatility, Nazli Sila Alan
Scheduling And Resource Allocation In Wireless Sensor Networks, Yosef Alayev
Ridiculous Geographies: Mapping the Theatre of the Ridiculous as Radical Aesthetic, Kelly Aliano
Marvel Comics and New York Stories: Anti-Heroes and Street Level Vigilantes Daredevil and The Punisher, Jesse Allen
Formative Assessment Through Written Feedback: Examining Elementary School Teachers' Written Feedback Beliefs and Practices, and the Effect of Models on Written Feedback, Caterina Almendral
Effects of Phonological Neighborhood Density on Lexical Access in Adults and Children with and without Specific Language Impairment, Diana Almodovar
Latinas Converting to Islam in New York: Habitus’ influence in modern identity formation, Amalia Alonzo
Synthesis of Biologically Important C-glycosides from Simple C-glycosyl Alkenes, Ahmad Sabri Altiti
The Developmental Trajectory of Contour Integration in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Ted S. Altschuler
Questioning Our Moral, Ethical, Aesthetic Convictions and Social Conventions, Dieuveuille Amilus
Computational Insights Into The Oxygen Evolving Complex Of Photosystem ΙΙ, Muhamed Amin
THE ORDINARY MAGIC OF DAUGHTERS, Dfaye Anderson
For Love and for Justice: Narratives of Lesbian Activism, Kelly Anderson
SKIN, Colin Archdeacon
Supraspinal And Spinal Mechanisms Of Morphine-Induced Hyperalgesia, Caroline A. Arout
An algorithmic approach to the differential Galois theory of second-order linear differential equations with differential parameters, Carlos Eduardo Arreche Aguayo
The Interpolated Narrative and Identity Formation in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Berna Artan
Corticospinal Integration in Healthy Humans, Amanda Asmar, Leandra Manfredini, Kerri McLean, and Christina Scannapieco
Diaspora As Development Actors: A Source Of Human And Social Capital For Local Development In Turkey, Meryem Senay Ataselim
An Equine-Facilitated Prison-Based Program: Human-Horse Relations And Effects On Inmate Emotions And Behaviors, Keren Bachi
Conformational features of the human U2-U6 snRNA complex, Ravichandra Bachu
The Indian Aesthetic in Ninth-Century Japan; A Study of Foreignness in Early Japanese Esoteric Buddhist Art, Alison Badassano
Women in Foreclosure: Social Reproduction & Mortgage Strain in the Subprime Era, Amy Baker
Versions of Now, Robert Balun
Attention shapes our expectations and perceptions: The neural mechanisms of top-down attention during adulthood and development, Snigdha Banerjee
Reclaiming Space: Buildings in Modernist Literature and Film, Sreenjaya Ria Banerjee
Well-born: Black Women and the Infertility Crisis No One is Talking About, Kaara Baptiste
Turning Waste into Resources in Haiti, Alexis Barnes
Minorities' Perceptions of Minority-White Biracials: The Role of Identification for Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Responses, Sabrica Barnett
Benefit and Quality of Life Improvement in Older Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients: A Review of the Literature, Theresa Bartoldus
Don't Push Me Over the (Knowl)Edge: The Social Correlates of Latino High School Dropouts, Robert Charles Baskerville
Assessing the Impact of International Human Rights Pressures: the Dominican Republic and China, Limer Batista
Assessing the Impact of International Human Rights Pressures: the Dominican Republic and China, Limer Batista
A Behavioral and Biopsychological Investigation of the Role of the Illusion of Control and Perseverative Chasing Between Problem and Non-problem Gamblers, Brett Evan Bauchner
Sovereign Debt and Tax Collection Dynamics in Argentina, Kyle Royal Bauser
Examining the association of medication complexity with health-related quality of life in older adults receiving community-based long term services and supports, Claudia Ann Beck
Hockey's Cutting-Edge Canvas – The Art of the Goalie Mask, Jacob Becker
Cortical Modulation of Spinal Reflexes in Healthy Humans, Caitlin Bedell, Joseph Capogrosso, Kristin Thomas, and Charlotte Westmoreland
Where is the International Community? The Implementation of Responsibility to Protect in Libya, Syria, Kenya and Mali, Gonul Begum
Consonantal voicing effects on vowel duration in Italian-English bilinguals, Ylana Beller-Marino
Raped and Escaped: A Colombian Mother’s Fight to Protect her Sons, Melanie Bencosme
Evolution And Ethics, Franklin Roy Bennett
Policy Partners in the Neoliberal Age: Corresponding School and Prison Reforms Since 1970, Jeremy Paul Benson
Dominican Gaga Music and Dance: The Remaking of a Spiritual Performance in the City of New York, Marimer Berberena
Clinical Implications of Binaural Interference: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Michael Bergen
A Comparison of Vocabulary Learning From Joint Reading of Narrative and Informational Books With Dual Language Learner Children, Deborah Bergman Deitcher
Applying Psychopharmacology To Two Characters in Shakespeare, Chanan Berkovits
Bureaupathology and Organizational Fraud Prevention: Case Studies of Fraud Hotlines, Chelsea Ann Binns
Ain't No Love in New York City, Jason Bisnoff
Conflicts of Soviet Ideology in Sergei Prokofiev's Film Score for Ivan the Terrible, Elizabeth R. Blaufox
Straight Record and The Paper Trail: From Depression Reporters to Foreign Correspondents, Magdalena Bogacka-Rode
Candida Albicans Als5p Amyloid In Host-Microbe Interactions: A Ceanorhabditis Elegans Study, Michael Bois
Message Passing Techniques For Statistical Physics And Optimization In Complex Systems, Lin Bo
The Interchange of Plain Velar and Aspirate in Kronos/Chronos: A Case for Etymological Equivalence, Roberto Peter Bongiovanni
Manuel de la Cruz Gonzalez: Transnationalism and the Development of Modern Art in Costa Rica, Lauran Bonilla-Merchav
Methodological advancements for improving performance and generating ensemble ecological niche models, Robert Boria
A Chant of Dilation: Walt Whitman, Phrenology, and the Language of the Mind, Anton Borst
The Effects of Fiscal Policy on Savings and Investment, Andrew A. Bossie
The Relationship of Nursing Career Perception Congruence and Perceived Social Support on Hispanic Middle School Female Nursing Career Choice, Karen Vicino Bourgeois
Ecology of Terrorism: Cross-National Comparison of Terrorist Attacks, Katharine A. Boyd
Coda, James Boyle
The Long-Term Effects of Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) Combined with Complex Decongestive Therapy (CDT) in the Treatment of Breast Cancer Lymphedema: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study, Olivia Bramlett, Igor Daysudov, Toshi Odaira, and Bethany Rodriguez
The Influence of Pseudo-relatives on Attachment Preferences in Spanish, David Branco-Moreno
The Neurodevelopment Of Basic Sensory Processing And Integration In Autism Spectrum Disorder, Alice Brown Brandwein
