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Theses from 2018
The Effects of Sex and Histamine Receptor Blockade on Carotid Wave Intensity Analysis at Rest and After Exercise, Keyshla M. Melendez-Rosado
Israeli Apartheid: Separating Fact, Fiction, and (Public) Opinion, Shaheen B. Merhej
A Geographical Vulnerability Analysis of Urban Open Spaces in Boston to Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding and their Potential Role in Resiliency Planning, Emily A. Moothart
An Acoustic Monitoring Method for Assessing River Dolphin Presence and Changes in the Context of Anthropogenic Development, Charles A. Muirhead
Extracellular Compressive Stress as a Determinant of Tumor Growth and Chemotherapy Response in Multicellular Spheroid of Pancreatic Cancer, Farnaz Naeemikia
Neuropsychology and Neurogenetics of Mental Health: Risk, Resilience & Wellbeing, Keira E. O'Donovan
A Seemingly Insurmountable Problem: Carl Stokes and the Failure of Cleveland Now!, David M. Rainey
Measuring Oxygen Saturation in Lyophilized Powder (Human Hemoglobin Protein), Rajasekar Ramachandran
The Creation of the OSS And Anglo American Intelligence Co-Operation In Yugoslavia: A Case Study In Diverging Agendas, Christopher J. Royack
I Don't Belong Here But I Am Learning So Much, Julia Rubin
A Century of Ceramics: A Study of Economic Engagement on the Eastern Pequot Reservation in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Kelton M. Sheridan
Optimization of Virtual Indoor Environments According to Mood, Michael Solah
Stories, Justin Spaller
Military and Economic Power in the Structuring of the Barbados Landscape, Ashby M. Sturgis
Effects of Racism-Related Stress on Resistance against Racism in Black Americans, Noor N. Tahirkheli
“Wicked and Illegal Traffic”: Newspaper Portrayal of Nigerian Women in the Cannabis Trade (circa 1970 – 1980), Edet A. Thomas
Quantifying the Reliability of Ground Penetrating Radar at Archaeological Sites, Joseph Trebilcock
Tools of Teaching: Metal at Magunkaquog, Nadia E. Waski
Theses from 2017
Evaluation of Radiation Response and Gold Nanoparticle Enhancement in Drug-Resistant Pancreatic Cancer Cells, Assya Abourabia
Mendez V. Westminister (1945): A Case that Brought Race to Center Stage, Samantha R. Albert
Attentional and Emotional Consequences of Emotional Acceptance and Suppression in an Elevated Anxiety Sample, Natalie Arbid
Gaze-Contingent Displays for Interactive Text Enhancement, Divya Bajaj
The Interpersonal Effects of Mindfulness and Social Anxiety in Romantic Relationships, Bryan Balvaneda
Signaling Mechanisms Underlying Cxcl5-Mediated Fibroblast to Myofibroblast Phenoconversion, Timothy K. Belford
Effect of Foreign Ownership on Firm Performance and Shareholder Value: Evidence from India, Pruthvi Bhat
Photophysical & Photoacoustic Properties of Dimethylamino Terminated Curcuminoid Dyes Containing the Phenyl, Napthyl and Thienly π-Spacers, Raymond Edward Borg
It’s Not You, it’s My Schedule: An Exploratory Study of Early Termination in School-Based Mentoring Programs, Samantha Burton
Hating Rituals: Stories, Danya Bush
The Role of Athletic Coach Mentors in Promoting Youth Academic Success: Evidence from a National Longitudinal Study, Kirsten M. Christensen
Using Hidden Markov Models to Capture Unique Binding Characteristics of Gcn4 and p53, Cory Colaneri
Developing a Conceptual Framework for Health Care Operations: Challenges and Remedies, Stacie O. Costa
Hopping Conductivity of Electron Glass, Mingzhu Cui
Observing the Experience of Racism Through Social Background, Leïla J. Dieye
Toward a Unified Reading-Writing Curriculum: Mindful Reading in WAC/WID Courses, Melanie A. Doyle
Targeting the Digestive Gland in the Analysis of 4-Nonylphenol and 17α-Ethinyl Estradiol from the Tissues of Mytilus Edulis L., Brian J. Duphily
Ethnic Differences in Race-Related Stress Among Blacks in the US: Racial Colorblindness as a Potential Moderator, Samantha Duterville
Effect of Observational Cadence on Orbit Determination for Synthetic Near-Earth Objects, Thomas G. Endicott
Social Skills as a Predictor of Peer Relationship Quality for School-Age Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Melanie S. Feldman
A Diachronic Archaeology of Piscataway Displacement, 1680-1743, Alex J. Flick
Establishment of Baseline Physical, Chemical, and Biological Stream Conditions at a Passive Cranberry Bog Restoration, Edgar Franck
Household Activities and Areas: A Reanalysis of the John and Priscilla Alden First Home Site, Caroline Gardiner
ram, Kate Glavin
Simulation of a Generation of a Gross-Pitaevskii Breather in a Quench, Jacob Golde
Drinking Motives, Drinking Problems, and Mental Health Symptoms in Sexual Minority Men, Hamish A. Gunn
Psychosocial Profiles of Youth who Acquire a Natural Mentor During a School Year, Matthew A. Hagler
Big Sound, Lisa Hanson
Whether or not 'It Gets Better'…Coping with Parental Heterosexist Rejection, Cara Herbitter
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Tracing Fuel Use and Landscape Change on the Eastern Pequot Reservation 1740-1850, Kalila Herring
Negotiating Space and Maintaining Place: Time, Materiality, and Lived Experience at Stewart Indian School, Jessica R. Hughston
Hands Pull You Apart, Emily Jaeger
Efficient Music Genre Classification for Real-Time Recommender Systems, Vyom S. Jhaveri
A Light in the Darkness: Constructing a View of Victorian Gynecological Surgery through Examination of Medical Treatises, Mandy M. Jimenez
Surface Plasmon Polariton: Dispersion and Excitation, Rabindra Khadka
Language Subdomains among Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Associations with Social Skills, Sarah A. Levinson
Plasmonic Enhancement of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) with Periodic and Random Nanostructures, Pavel Markeev
Riot and Resurgence: The Antebellum African American Community of Providence, Rhode Island, Christopher J. Martin
Student Behavior in a Flipped Introductory Undergraduate Biology Course: Online Interaction Patterns and Self-Regulated Learning Strategies, Casey J. McCabe
Rural Goths, David McNamara
Reverend James D. Eaton and Congregationalist Missionary Education in Revolutionary Mexico, Lucas A. Mihalich
Indian, Black, Mustee, and Music: Race, Identity, and Culture in Native Communities During the Age of Whaling, Tara M. Munro
Effects of Tai Chi on Simple and Choice Reaction Time in Older Adults with Chronic Pain, Satoshi Nagae
Digital Learning: Expectation of Contemporary Workforce, Vignesh Natarajan
Discovery of Human Monoclonal Antibodies to Malaria Circumsporozite Protein from Single-Cell Sorted B Cells, Stuart C. Nelson
Relations between Family Demographic Characteristics and Early Intervention Service Receipt after Children's Initial ASD Diagnosis, Thanh Phuong Thi Nguyen
Assessing Risk of Aboveground Storage Tanks to Sea Level Rise and Coastal Inundation along Chelsea Creek– An Application of a Transdisciplinary Framework, Avery P. Palardy
The Visible Planets, Alyson E. Pierce
Expendable: Eight Soldiers From Massachusetts Regiments Executed For Desertion During the United States Civil War, Stephen F. Ragon
Identity Behind Glass: The Second Gore Place Greenhouse, Sean P. Romo
What Factors Affect Magnitude of Stock Repurchase Programs?, Vitaliy Ryabinin
Smoking as a Form of Persistence in a Christian Nipmuc Community, Jessica Ann Rymer
Developing a Closed-Form Expression for the Mutual Admittance of Equivalent Radiating Slots, Steven A. Santos
Languaging at Work: The Language Socialization of Support Staff in the Healthcare Workforce, Kristen E. Schlapp
Extending Bethe Ansatz Solutions to the Non-Crystallographic Reflection Groups H3 and H4, Joseph J. Seaward
Characterization of the Gill and Digestive System Eukaryotic Microbiome (Eukaryome) in the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea Virginica, Matthew A. Sederberg
Development of an Advanced Zinc Air Flow Battery System, Jingyu Si
Everything, August Smith
Utopians in Love, Robert Sykora
Understanding the Causes of Unaccompanied Minors Migrating to the US during 2014, Edgar Torres
The Functions of the Type IV P-Type ATPases DRS2 and Phosphatidylserine in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Membrane Development, Dang V. Truong
Systems of Sheep Husbandry at Stóra-Seyla in Northern Iceland, Katherine R. Wagner
Better Homes and Graveyards, Lori Zimmermann
Theses from 2016
Filling in the Details: Perceiving from Low Fidelity Images, Farahnaz Ahmed Wick
How Third Party Online Reviews Influence Automobile Sales, Poorvi Bahety
Exploring Reconstruction in the Territory of New Mexico, Krystle Eugley Beaubrun
'For the Sake of the Salvation of our Souls': An Analysis of Hildegard of Bingen's Authority and Reformist Theology in Relation to the Founding of Mount St. Rupert, Alexandra G. Borkowski
Rebuilding the City on a Hill: The Currents of New England Sectionalism and Liberal Christianity in Garrisonian Abolitionism, Zachary Boutin
Fashioning Identity: An Analysis of Consumption and Production Activity at a Nipmuc Farmstead, Allison K. Carlton
'For the Benefit of Mankind': Franklin Roosevelt's Development of Trusteeship for the Postwar World, Tasnin R. Chowdhury
The Relationship between SMK1, a Non-Canonical Map Kinase, and GIP1, a Meosis Specific Regulatory Subunit of a PP1-Phosphatase in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Stephanie E.J. Cronin
Analysis of Gompertzian Growth in Aggregating Multicellular Tumor Nodules, Gwendolyn A. Deger
Something Worse, Matt Denis
The Validity and Reliability of Borg’s 6-20 RPE Scale among Chinese Mandarin Speaking Young Healthy Adults, Weiyang Ding
Investor Learning and the Abnormal Returns to a Fundamental Signal Strategy, John C. Dorey