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Theses from 2020

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The Thing of It Is, Andria J. Warren

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The Occurrence of Compound Events in Rhode Island and their Associated Damage Costs, Erika D. Welch

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Domestic Public Opinion on EU Integration and Investment by China in the Western Balkans, Brandon Wilcox

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Brother Like That, Jessamyn M.L. Wolff

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Small Scale Ironmaking in Viking Age Skagafjörður, North Iceland, Nicholas Zeitlin

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Development of Environmentally Benign Reductive Methods through Metal-Al-Water Facilitated Hydrogenolysis, Naranchimeg Zorigt

Theses from 2019

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Appraisals of Trust Development within the Therapist-Client Relationship: Impacts on Client Retention in a Hypothetical First Session of Therapy, Lorraine U. Alire

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Revelation and Concealment; The Words and World of Omar ibn Said, David Gabriel Babaian

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Anabasis Aquilonos: The Interplay of Exemplarity and Scientific Historiography in B.H. Liddell Hart’s A Greater than Napoleon: Scipio Africanus, Daniel T. Barbre

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Physical, Chemical, and Biological Assessment of Dam Removal and Land Use Land Cover Affects in the Mill River System, Massachusetts, Delilah M. Bethel

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Performance Pedagogy and Skeletal Scripts: Shakespeare in the College English Classroom, Mary Booth

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Sparse Statistical Learning Techniques for Analysis of High-Dimentional Gene Expression Data, Mehdi Borji

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Comales and Colonialism: An Analysis of Cuisine and Ceramics on a 17th-Century New Mexican Estancia, Adam C. Brinkman

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Parent Negative and Positive Impacts: Reciprocal Associations Between Child Behaviors and Parenting Experiences in Families of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Alison E. Chavez

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The Language of the Herodians: An Analysis of Herodian Material Culture, Alexander J. D'Amore

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Cultures and Comfort: A Study of Personal Adornment at Avery's Rest, Julianne Danna

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Ernesto Bodhi, Your Best Isn’t Good Enough, Jose F. Diaz

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The Neoliberal State as an Apparatus of Harm: Towards a Decolonial Materialist Feminism in Bolivia, Taylor M. Doherty

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Examining Associations Between the Built Environment and Bike Share Use: A Dynamic Spatial Approach, Benjamin G. Ethier

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Adult Educators at the Crossroads of Language Learning and Workforce Development: A Qualitative Study of Teacher Agency, Liz Ging

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A Heavy Burden: Associations Between Sexual Minority Status, Mental Health, and BMI in Women, Alison E. A. Goldblatt

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Daltonien is a Novel Gene that Regulates the Hippo Tumor Suppressor Pathway in the Drosophila Eye, Jessica A. Gosselin

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Set in Stone: Recontextualizing the Lithic Assemblage of a Seventeenth-Century Storage Cellar in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Anna M. Greco

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Working Memory and Mindfulness in an RCT of ABBT and AR, Anna M. Hall

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Exploring the Social and Environmental Conditions of 17th-Century Estancias in New Mexico, Stephanie Hallinan

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Racial Microaggression Distress and Depression among Black Americans: Examining the Roles of Racial Identity Importance, Social Support, and Gender, Shannon M. Hughley

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The Role of the International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGO) in Humanitarian Intervention – A Case Study of the IFRC Cash Transfer Program in Malawi, Olabode George Igandan

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The Tailor RNA-Seq Comparative Analysis Pipeline: A De Novo Disease Biomarker Discovery Workflow that Facilitates High Performance Computing Cluster Use, Andrew S. Judell

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Somatic, Shannon L. Kafka

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Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy on Google Cloud Platform Using the Inception Framework, Sonica Kalmangi

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Human Rights and Justice Rights Approaches to Gender-Based Violence (GBV): The Case of Kenya’s Sexual Offenses Act (KSOA), Maryanne W. Kamunya

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Blood Feud, Krisela Karaja

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Women's Security and Empowerment in the Context of Forced Displacement: A Case Study of Humanitarian Policies for Syrian Refugee Women in Turkey, Kinga Henryka Karlowska

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Exploring Constructive Resilience: A Qualitative Investigation of the Bahá’i Response to Oppression, Mark Kazemzadeh

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The Relationship Between Enjoyment and Physical Activity During a Community Based Youth Physical Activity Program, Shelby A. Keye

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Land of Plenty: A Short Novel, Alison K. Lanier

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Multiperspectivity through Alternative History in the Classroom, Anggita Parameswari Latif

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Permission to Speak, Lena M. Marecki

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UAS-Based Quantification of Post-Storm Geomorphic Change to a Natural Beach-Dune System, Samantha J. McFarland

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Practicing My Vampire Slayer Moves, But I Literally Just Woke Up, Jessica Melendy

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Many-Particle Quantum Thermal Machines, Doha Mesnaoui

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Body Mechanics, Emily Moeck

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Bridges, Kieran Moriarty

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Not Much Choice: How Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Joined Armed Groups and Were Indoctrinated, Prince De Makele Makele Mounguembou

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Detecting Schizophrenia Through Eye Movement Analysis Using Artificial Neural Networks, Manish R. Mourya

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Eat This in Remembrance: The Zooarchaeology of Secular and Religious Sites in 17th-Century New Mexico, Ana C. Opishinski

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Social Movements and Charitable Dress: An Examination of 19th Century Adornment at the Industrial School for Girls in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Madelaine A. Penney

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“It’s More Complicated Than That!”: The Influence of Multiple Presenting Problems on Youth Outcomes in Formal Mentoring Programs, Yui Sum Poon

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Potters' Norms: Examining the Social Organization of Ceramic Production of Panamanian Majolica and Criolla Wares in Panama la Vieja (1519-1673), Jean-Sebastien Pourcelot

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"The diet has been altered as agreed upon & is now very satisfactory": Socioeconomic Factors and Dietary Reform at the Dorchester Industrial School for Girls, Liz M. Quinlan

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Climate Change Impacts on Phosphorus Loads in the Upper and Middle Charles River Watershed with HSPF Modeling, Meagan Riley

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Regional Variation in Grass, Sedge, and Cereal Cultivation During the Viking Age in Skagafjörður, North Iceland, Melissa M. Ritchey

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Off The Farm: An Evaluation Of Non-Farm Earnings And Employment On Poverty Alleviation In Rural Nicaragua, Magaly Vanessa Saenz Somarriba

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Evaluating Differential Gene Expression Using RNA-Sequencing: A Case Study in Diet-Induced Mouse Model Associated with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and CXCL12-Vs- TGFβ Induced Fibroblast to Myofibroblast Phenoconversion, Arpa Samadder

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Anatomy of an American House, Brooke Schifano

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Structural and Kinetic Characterization of Two Reduced-Flavin Dependent Monooxygenases Involved in Bacterial Sulfur Assimilation and Their Link to Climate Regulation, Jess Soule

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Parent-Reported Lifestyle Correlates of Health-Related Quality of Life in Children Aged 8-12 Years with Intellectual Disabilities, Gabrielle C. Trudeau

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One Shot Learning for Indoor Navigation, Vikram Venkatesh Gopalan

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Characterization of Nonlinear Properties of New Porphyrins Using Optical and Photoacoustic Z-Scan Techniques, Shengwei Wang

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Language Learning and ADA: An Observation of d/Deaf Adults and Their Interpreters in ESL Classrooms, Katharine M. Ward

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Spectroscopic Investigation and Identification of the 1-Vinylpropargyl Radical and the 1-Ethynylcyclopenten-1-yl Radical, Meredith Lair Ward

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Environments Explored: An In-Depth Analysis of Soil Movement in Northern Iceland, Lauren Welch O'Connor

Theses from 2018

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From Symbionts to Pathogens: Interactions within the Amphibian Skin Mucosome, Kelly L. Barnhart

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Stochastic Modeling of Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression in the Limit of Strong Interactions, Robert Barr

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Prisoner's Cinema, Zachary C. Bond

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The Charge of Deserting Their Sphere: The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and Women’s Place in the Abolitionist Movement, Megan Irene Brady

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“There are Among the Coloured People of this Place Remains of the Nantucket Indians:” Identity through Ceramics at the Boston-Higginbotham House, Victoria Anne Cacchione

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Investigating the Impact of Extracellular Matrix Rigidity on Growth and Invasive Behavior in 3D Pancreatic Tumor Modules, Andrew Caide

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Competing Goals: The Boston Teachers Union and the Boston Busing Crisis, Matthew R. Clark

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Healing from Heterosexism Through Expressive Writing, Kathleen M. Collins

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An Analysis of Form and Function of Ceramic Rim Sherds from LA 20,000, A 17th Century Estancia Outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, Caitlin M. Connick

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InspiroBot Says: The Singularity Is Invisible in a Mirror, Mary Coons

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Community Through Consumption: The Role of Food in African American Cultural Formation in the 18th Century Chesapeake, Alexandra Crowder

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Evaluation of Sub-Lethal PDT Dose-Response in Pancreatic Cancer Cells, Isha Desai

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Development of Environmentally Benign Protocols for the Performance of Hydrogenation, Oxidative Cleavage and N-Hydroxyalkylation, Clifford James Ellstrom

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War, Public Outrage, and Partisanship: Congressional Responses to Presidential Military Overreach, William G. Foster-Nolan

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"The Right to Play" The Establishment of Playgrounds in the American City, Kyle James Fritch

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Good Girls Gone Bad: Interpreting the White Slavery Scare As A Response To Changing Women's Roles in the Progressive Era, Rachael Gorski

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Clients’ Critical Experiences in Psychotherapy: Initial Measure Development, Lauren M. Grabowski

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Palynological Investigations of Agropastoralism and Ecological Change at LA 20,000, New Mexico, Anya Gruber

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Comparisons of Mitochondrial Quality Control in Primary Myotubes from Lean, Severely Obese Non-Diabetic, and Severely Obese Type 2 Diabetic Humans, Anders E. Gundersen

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Innocent Victors: Atomic Identity at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Kathryn Leann Harris

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Hydropower in the Decarbonized Mauritian Grid: A Prospective Study, Benjamin M. Havumaki

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A Neural Network Model for Classifying Bubble-Based Instructor Evaluations, and an Accompanying Web Portal, Jason Held

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The United States of Sol: Privatization as a Tool of American Hegemony in the Solar System, Edward C. Henry

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STORIES THAT MIGHT BE LIES, Warren J. Hinckle IV

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Comparative Analysis of Noble Metals and Doped Semiconductors for Optical Field Enhancement in Infrared, Wen Ting Hsieh

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William Monroe Trotter and His Contributions to the Early Civil Rights Movement, Katherine N. Jahl

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“The True Spirit of Service": Ceramics and Toys as Tools of Ideology at the Dorchester Industrial School for Girls, Sarah N. Johnson

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Trauma and Remedies for Traumatic Experiences in Four of Austen’s Novels, Sheelan S. Kamal

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Corporeal Expressions of Identity at Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, New York, 1652-1735, Elise Nadia Kline

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Understanding Epidemic and Encampment: Yellow Fever and the Soldiers of Smallpox Bay, Bermuda, Leigh Koszarsky

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Renewable Biomass Energy Utilization in Mauritius: A Cost-Minimization Approach, Ariana K. Lema-Driscoll

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Asymmetric Organocatalysis and Pot Economic Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds, Miao Liu

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Evaluation of Fermentation at 40°C and 30°C for Cost Effective Lignocellulose to Lipid Conversion, Kyle M. MacEwen

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A Closed Mouth Gonna Get You Nothin’: How Conflict is Handled after Diversity and Inclusion Training, Enrico E. Manalo

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Lapidary Medicine in Early Modern Spain, Dana L. Marquis

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A View from Within: Notes and Insight from an Institutional Ethnography of The National Commission for Natural Protected Areas in Tulum, Mexico, Maxwell J. Martin

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The Effects of Sex and Histamine Receptor Blockade on Carotid Wave Intensity Analysis at Rest and After Exercise, Keyshla M. Melendez-Rosado

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Israeli Apartheid: Separating Fact, Fiction, and (Public) Opinion, Shaheen B. Merhej