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Dissertations from 2020
Feasibility of a Multi-Domain Online Health Intervention for Latinas with Chronic Pain, Marta E. Pagan-Ortiz
Dissertations from 2019
Identifying Relevant Genes in Arabidopsis Thaliana the Modulate the Rhizosphere Microbiome, Daniel Acuña Hurtado
Therapists' Experiences Discussing Sexuality in College Counseling Centers: Implications for Professional Development, Bonnie K. Andrews
Black Family Engagement Through Communication Technology: A Phenomenological Study from the Perspective Of Urban Public High Schools Parents In The Greater Boston Area, Mariette Bien-Aime Ayala
Welfare Reform and the Health of Low-Income Single Mothers: The Impact of Policies Under the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunities and Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), Allyson L. Baughman
Dreams of College: In Pursuit of Higher Education While Undocumented, Alessandra Maria Bazo Vienrich
To Adopt or Not to Adopt: Factors Impacting States’ Pursuit and Implementation of ACA’s Home and Community-Based Programs, Lisa Kalimon Beauregard
Place, Preferences, and Policy: An Analysis of Funding Education Along the Urban-Rural Divide, Kattalina Berriochoa
The Effects of a Hand Gesture Instruction Game on Social Skills of Students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, Samantha R. Broadhead
The Impact of Stigmatization on College Students Returning from Mental Health Leave, Don A. Camelio
Making Sense of HIV in the Shadow of the AIDS Crisis: Understanding the Lived Experience of Recently Diagnosed Gay and Bisexual Men 50 and Over, Timothy Carreiro
How Faculty Beliefs Shape Teaching Practice: A Critical Race Collaborative Action Research Approach Toward Achieving Equity Outcomes in Community College Remedial English, Lori A. Catallozzi
Developmental Roles of Beta-Arrestin Kurtz Revealed by Structure-Function Analysis, Fei Chai
The Early Development of Visual Working Memory, Chen Cheng
Factors the Motivate Community College Faculty to Teach Online with Implications for Access and Equity, Jenene M. Cook
Teaching for Transformation: Enabling the Exploration of Disorienting Dilemma in the Classroom, Lisa DeAngelis
Parallel Computation of Bivariate Point Data Depths and Display of Intrinsic Depth Segments, Jane Holly DeBlois
Sexually Dimorphic Serotonin System Development Mediates Sex-Specific Neuronal Excitability, Kimbra A. Edwards
Using Currere as a Form of Self-Writing among Urban Teens, Kimberly J. Frazier-Booth
Addressing Diversity with Abnorms: Implications For Detecting Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease, Samuel C. Gable
The Role of the Environmental Context in Advance Care Planning Among Older Adults, Brittany E. Gaines
Associations of Measures of Body Composition and Physical Activity with Markers of Bone Health, Meghan E. Garvey
Responsibility Development in Young Men in Postsecondary Settings: Construct Structure and Contextual Influences, Gabriel M. Garza Sada
Fingerprint-Based Localization with Limited Training Data, Siyuan Gong
Evaluating the Impact of a Combined Word Problem-Solving Intervention on Elementary Students’ Mathematics and Social Emotional Skills, Kaitlin M. Gould
Enhancing User-Oriented Security and Privacy in Emerging Data Sharing and Sensing Services, Mohammad Hadian
Health Consequences of Retirement Among Married Couples, Sae Hwang Han
A Process for Change: A Grounded Theory Investigation of Participatory Action Research as a Means for Countering Mental Illness Stigma Experienced by Transition-Aged Black Youth, Jacqueline G. Hargrove
Dismantling an Intervention Aimed at Increasing White People's Knowledge and Understanding of Racial Justice Issues, Alissa L. Hochman
Ocean Acidification Impacts on Teleostean Otolith Development, Robert J. Holmberg
Influence of Global Change Drivers on a Tropical Lake and Watershed, Étang Saumâtre, Haiti, Helenmary M. Hotz
Do Race and Ethnicity Influence Turnover Intention in Newly Licensed Registered Nurses?, Mary Susan L. Howlett
Clusterability, Model Selection and Evaluation, Kaixun Hua
Real-Time Eye Movement Analysis for Biometrics and Driving Safety, Shaohua Jia
High Performance Computing Techniques to Better Understand Protein Conformational Space, Arpita Joshi
The Governance of Transnational Security Threats in Fragile States: The Case of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) 2007 – 2017, Abigail Kabandula
Towards a Critical Theory of Rehabilitation Counseling: A Labor History of Vocational Rehabilitation in the United States, Andjela H. Kaur
“I Can’t Separate Me Being Gay and Me Being an Athlete”: A Phenomenological Study of LGBQ+ Women Student-Athletes, Erin A. Kelley
The Study of Visual Attention: From Raw Data to an Interdisciplinary Environment, Do Hyong Koh
Pediatric Critical Care Nurses' Use of an Evidence-based Pressure Injury Prevention Clinical Practice Guideline, Lindyce Ann Kulik
Environmental Disruption of the Developmental System During Early Life, Hannah E. Lapp
Finding Personal Meaning and Self-Efficacy as Moderators of Behavioral Action in Social Anxiety, Carol S. Lee
Three Essays on Corporate Information Environment, Corporate Social Performance, and Corporate Financial Outcomes, Rongbing Liu
Five Year Follow-Up of a Cohort of Women with Precancerous Lesions of the Cervix in Cameroon, Simon M. Manga
Investigating the Role of CXCL12 and CXCR4 in Addiction: Age, Sex, and Environment Matters, Briana Marie Mason
Effects of Visual Impairment on the Preparation, Response, and Recovery from the 2017 Hurricane Season in Puerto Rico, Kevin D. McCormack
Global Governance and the Post-Colonial State: Women, Gender, and Public Opinion in Public Policymaking in Trinidad & Tobago 1956-2005, Deborah N. McFee
Exit, Voice, and Entrepreneurship: The Impact of Identity Concerns on Underrepresented Minorities, Georgianna D. Melendez
Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Cervical Cancer Screening Among Women Living with HIV/AIDs in Malawi: A Cross-sectional Study, Jasintha Mtengezo
Multicomponent Reactions and Post Condensation Modifications for the Synthesis of Molecules with Biological Interests, Alex M. Muthengi
A Differentially-Private and Efficient Framework for Collecting and Processing Network Flow Data, Oana-Georgiana Niculaescu
Developing Age-Friendly Communities: Evidence from Multiple Case Studies, Patricia A. Oh
Organizational Culture in Community Colleges: Making Connections to Diverse Student Success, Darcy A. Orellana
The Effects of Maternal Education and Healthcare Utilization on Childhood Undernutrition in Post-Conflict Liberia, Jonathan Padua
The Double-Edged Sword of Diagnosis: Medical Neoliberalism in Rape Crisis Center Counseling, Shannon M. Peters
Digital Vanguards: Tween Girls' Online Performances and the Construction of Modern American Girlhoods, Katherine A. Phelps
The Role of Narrative Coherence and Parental Scaffolding in Buffering the Effects of Domestic Violence Exposure, Shirley Poyau
Defining Worthy Victims: State-Level Legislative Decisions to Prevent the Criminalization of Commercially Sexually Exploited Children in the United States, Kathleen A. Price
Understanding Gender and Access to Healthcare for Resettled Women in Post-War Northern Sri Lanka through Intersectionality, Bharathi Radhakrishnan
Multilevel Examination of Elementary Students’ Conduct and Negative Affect: An Impetus for School-Based Behavioral Health Prevention, A. Victoria Sheppard
From Victim to Volunteer: A Life Course Perspective and the Transition to Adulthood for Individuals Who Have Sold Sex, Julianne M. Siegfriedt
Combinatorial Algorithms in Data Mining, Roman A. Sizov
Server Assignment with Time-Varying Workloads in Mobile Edge Computing, Quynh Vo
Measuring Nurses’ Health Policy Participation: WSPPIR Theory and Instrument Development, Ashley W. G. Waddell
Building Efficient and Secure Big Data Processing Platforms, Teng Wang
Constructing and Contesting Urban Risk Regimes in Climate Adaptation: The Role of Climate Forecasts, Finance, and Equity, Nichole K. Wissman-Weber
Three Essays on Corporate Finance, Bo Xu
Green Synthesis of Heterocyclic Systems by 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition-Initiated Transformations, Xiaofeng Zhang
Dissertations from 2018
Latino Immigrant Youth Development in Anti-Immigrant Contexts: Exploring Adaptive Cultures as Resources Promoting Competencies and Wellness, Darcy Alcantara
Toward Data Privacy Related To The Internet of Things, Thamer Altuwaiyan
Transformations in Conservation Governance and Implications for Human Security: The Case of Kenya’s Northern Rangelands, Jeremiah O. Asaka
Dopaminechrome Tautomerase: A New Enzyme in the Eumelanin Biosynthetic Pathway, Hanine S. Barek
From Motor Control to Scene Perception: Using Machine Learning to Model Human Behavior and Cognition, Akram Bayat
Endocrine Disruption in Marine Mussels: Reproductive Effects and Transcriptomic Applications for Assessing Pollution in Coastal Waters, Bonnie J. Blalock
Identifying Barriers to Inclusive Education for Children Who Are Blind and Visually Impaired in the Federated States Of Micronesia, Callie M. Brusegaard
The Institutional Landscape of International Forest Protection: Understanding Institutional Complexity in International Forest Governance, Gabriela Bueno Gibbs
Surveying Identities in Context: Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation ‘at Work’, Justine A. Bulgar-Medina
Treatment Engagement and Client Competence in CBT for Social Anxiety Disorder, Amber L. Calloway
So I Told My Story Too: HIV Self Disclosures in Online Communities by Young Black Men who have Sex with Men, Kathryn Cantrell
“It’s not that Systematic, but it’s Happening:” A Cybernetic Systems Analysis of Accountability and Assessment in Three Public Universities, Fernando E. Colina de Vivero
Reimagining the Discourse: Media Representation of Women in Boston Public Schools' Superintendency, 1991 - 2016, Lisa M. Cullington
Parental Uncertainty and Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Cancer, Ijeoma Julie Eche
“Surviving and Thriving During Stress”: Bridging the Gap with Technology, a Web-Based Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapy Program for University Students, Elizabeth Hemenway Eustis
Causal Reasoning and Machine Learning Models for Cellular Regulatory Mechanisms, Carl Tony Fakhry
Families Spending Time Together (FASTT) Exercising: A Family-Based Study to Examine the Intensity, Enjoyment, and Acceptability of Physical Activities, Patrick M. Filanowski
On Recommenders, Permutations and Rankings, Paul Fomenky
Harmony, Dissonance, or Harm? The Psychological and Spiritual Promises and Perils of Gay Christian Celibacy, Darren Jay Freeman-Coppadge