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Theses from 2012
Fluid Homogenization in Mixed Phase Spaces, Chris Amey
Implications of Self-Other Overlap in Unsuccessful Romantic Relationships, Josephine A. Bell
Meanings and Typologies of Duboisian Double Consciousness within 20th Century United States Racial Dynamics, Marc E. Black
The Forgotten Children: The Educational Demographics of an Austrian Diocese 1848-1852, Mathew Richard Boyeson
Comparing Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) Techniques in 18th-Century Yard Spaces, Christiane Marie Carducci
Protest on the Page: The Art of Political Fiction, Alexandra Corey
Gaetano Salvemini: A Lesson in Thought and Action, Michael Christopher DiClemente
Who We Become, Lisa C. Duffy
Measuring and Modeling Investment Behavior in a Social Network, Alex Dusenbery
Subsistence in the Shrinking Forest: Native and Euro-American Practice in 19th-Century Connecticut, William A. Farley
Future Earnings and Investors' Overpricing of Intangible Information, Xingyuan Fei
A Non-Sequitur for Darwin, Danielle Fontaine
Rituals, Ezra Mordechai Fox
Fragments from a Childhood: A Collection of Short Stories, Blair Reynolds Fross
The Cultural Assault on the Female Gender during the Weimar Years, Jaime Alexandra Gaudet
On The In: A Memoir of Teaching English to Incarcerated Youth, Evan Gentler
How Would You Feel? Stigma and Self-Esteem in Student Responses to Intimate Partner Violence Vignettes, Taylor Lynn Hall
Immigrants as Americanizers: The Americanization Movement of the Early Twentieth Century, Alexis Claire Hanley
Bound in Stone: A Landscape and Architectural Analysis of the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation Reservation, Connecticut, Sarah LeAnn Hasho
Household Spaces: 18th- and 19th-Century Spatial Practices on the Eastern Pequot Reservation, Anna Katharine Hayden
Magicious: A Novel in Progress, Calvin Hennick
Coeval, Spatially Associated, Andra C. Hibbert
The Coquette and the Changing Role of Women in Revolutionary America, Serap Hidir
Exposure to Potentially Traumatic Events, Emotional Adjustment, and Social Competence in Preschoolers Facing Economic Risk, Hillary Hurst
Descartes' Daughter, Danielle Lyn Jones-Pruett
Adolescent Males in Formal Youth Mentoring Programs: The Influence of Same Versus Cross-Gender Matching, Stella S. Kanchewa
Dismantlable Lovers: A Drama in Five Acts, Crystal Koe
Growing Up a Washington: Childhood in 18th-Century Virginia, Heidi Elizabeth Krofft
Sheep and Wool in Nineteenth-Century Falmouth, MA: Examining the Collapse of a Cape Cod Industry, Leo Patrick Ledwell
Inverse Scattering Problems, Reflectionless Potentials, and Solitons, Louis Lesly Leonard
Investigating the Role of an Understudied North Atlantic Right Whale Habitat: Right Whale Movement, Ecology, and Distribution in Jeffreys Ledge, Kathryn Longley
Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Responsiveness to Infant Distress: Contingency Analyses of Home Mother-Infant Interactions at 3 Months, Fernanda Lucchese
Parental Well-Being within the Marital Subsytem: A Study of Mother-Father Dyads Raising Young Children with Autism, Frances de Lourdes Martinez-Pedraza
Flummydiddles, Molly Anne McGuire
Maternal Responsibility: An examination of the Relationship between Mothers and Daughters in Maria, Zofloya, and Jane Eyre, Keriann McLaughlin
Centrality Measures in Social Networks, Michele Moreau
Free To Move, Jessica Moreland
Averaging Projected Stochastic Gradient Descent for Large Scale Square Problem, Yang Mu
Error Transparent Hamiltonians: An Ally on the Inside, Seth Noir
Young Children's Perspectives on Parent-Child Relationship Quality as Measured by the Berkeley Puppet Interview: Associations with Behavioral Adjustment, Marisa Murphy O'Boyle
Physical and Biological Assessment of the Eel River Headwaters Restoration Site in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Kevin Michael O'Brion
Dissolved Organic Carbon Dynamics During the Snowmelt Period in a Small Urban Watershed, Jaclyn L. O'Riley
Characterizing the Modulation Transfer Functions (MTFs) of Proton and Carbon Radiography Using GEANT4 Monte Carlo Simulations, Michael Alexander Oumano
Union Army Doctrine: The Role of the Artillery During the Campaign for Vicksburg, Stephanie A. Peacock
Species Richness, Distribution and Relative Abundance of Freshwater Mussels (Unionidae) of the Strawberry River, Arkansas, Sujata Poudel
Tear Things Down, Kathleen Raddatz
Analyzing Revenue Sharing and Buyback Contracts: An Experimental Study, Chinthana Ramaswamy
Early Childhood Adversity and Risk for Psychotic Disorder in Adulthood, Anne G. Remington
Firearms Curation in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth Century Maritime Contexts: A Comparative Study, Edward John Rodley
Bones in the Landfill: A Zooarchaeological Study from Faneuil Hall, Linda M. Santoro
Using SaltWBM to Quantify Long-Term Environmental Impacts of Current Agricultural, Karen Simpson
The Neuropsychological Functioning of Older Adults Pre- and Post-Cognitive Training with a Brain Plasticity-Based Computerized Training Program, Shannon M. Sorenson
Examining the Relation between Sensory Sensitivity and Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorders as Moderated by Language Acquisition, Timothy W. Soto
Fathers and Sons, Christopher Sullivan
"She of Gentle Manners": An Examination of the Widow Pomeroy's Table and Tea Wares and the Emerging Domestic Sphere in Kinderhook, New York, Megan E. Sullivan
Not So Fast, Rad Evan Thie
Development of Multifunctional Anti-Alzheimer's Compounds, Rekha Tulsan
Botticelli's La Primavera: Painting the Cosmos of Human Ideals, Leatha Eleni Tzioumis
U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era, Kyle R. Vale
Mining For High Complexity Regions Using Entropy and Box-Counting Dimension Quadtrees, Roseanne Vetro
Women Under National Socialism: The Case Study of Melita Maschmann, Lynda Maureen Willett
Peers: How a Global Economy and Information Technology Have Equalized Power in World Politics, Rachel D. Wolters
Theses from 2011
Design for Participatory Development Planning and Economic Self-Determination in Ileho, Kenya, Cynthia C. Abatt
Investigating Notch and Kurtz Interaction Networks, Sukanya Basu
Alternative Gel Extraction Methods for High Throughput Illumina Sequencing Process, Imane Bourzgui
Children and Spirituality: Understanding the Meaning of Spirituality of Former Street Children in Bolivia, Katia Margarita Canenguez
A Viking Age Political Economy from Soil Core Tephrochronology, Kathryn Anne Catlin
Bladder Cancer Genomics: Mutations, Deletions, and Amplifications, Yvonne Chekaluk
An Emptying Village: Transformations in Architecture and Spatial Organization at Streamstown Village, Co. Galway, Meagan K. Conway
Creating A Community: A Study of Boston's 19th Century African American Population, Kate Ryan Descoteaux
Release of Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) by Aurelia Aurita and Mucus Blob Flux, Rachel A. Dicker
Microwave-Assisted and Fluorous Benzaldehyde-Based Synthesis of Heterocycles, Shan Ding
Approach to Typicality in Quantum Systems, Shawn Dubey
The Lasts, Kimberly Duncan-Mooney
Ecological Stoichiometry and Consumer-Driven Nutrient Recycling of Elliptio complanata (Lightfoot 1786) in a Northeastern Coastal Zone Pond, Nicole Marie Fallon
Diplomatic and Military Objectives and Their Impact on Operation Olympic: The Invasion of Kyushu, Japan, November 1st, 1945, John Joseph Favara
A Lonely Road: Loneliness, Death Anxiety, Childhood Punishment, and Attributions of Hostility in a University Population, Melody Joy Blass Fisher
"Ashes Denote that Fire Was": The Poetics of Space in Melville and Dickinson, Kacie M. Fodness
The Effects of Trauma Exposure on Cognitive Functioning in Toddlers, Danielle Forbes
Biodiversity in an Isolated Suburban Reservation: Amphibians in the Middlesex Fells, Matthew William Gage
This Hurt Me More than It Hurts You, Alex Gang
The Debate over Indian Removal in the 1830's, George William Goss
Blackdamp, Michele Lynn Harris
Merely Celestial: A Poetry Collection, William Andrew Hughes
Flint at the Fort: Investigating Raw Material Scarcity and Locations of Lithic Activity at Monhantic Fort, John M. Kelly
Supersymmetric Origins of the Properties of sech-Pulses and sine-Gordon Solitons, Andrew Phillip Koller
The Pure Products of America, Gene Kwak
Captain Pierce's Fight: An Investigation Into a King Philip's War Battle and its Remembrance and Memorialization, Lawrence K. LaCroix
Correcting Decision Outcomes in a Revenue Sharing Contract, Narasimha Durga Venkat Ajay Lamba and Minal Sharma
Do I Contradict Myself?: Self-Reliance and Interdependence in Walden and the Tao Te Ching, Dustin Lee
You Cannot Read This: Bruny Island Stories, Abigail Machson-Carter
Farmstead and Household Archaeology at the Barrett Farm, Concord, Massachusetts, Thomas P. Mailhot
Collision, Kathleen McKenna
"Keep the inmost me behind its veil:" Nathaniel Hawthorne's Manipulation of Boundaries as Lessons in Craft, Molly Mary McLaughlin
The Marketplace of Boston: Macrobotanical Remains from Faneuil Hall, Ciana Faye Meyers