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Dissertations from 2017
Machine Learning Applications in Genomics, Protein Folding and Protein-Protein Interactions, Roshanak Farhoodi
Exploring Toddlers' Use of Language to Update Mental Representations: Evidence from Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder, Allison Fitch
Assessing Anthropogenic Influences on the Environment: From Atmospheric to Lacustrine Systems, Katherine L. Flanders
School Nurses' Awareness and Attitudes Towards Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: A Mixed Methods Study, Hannah E. Fraley
Understanding How State Legislators Define Problems: The Case of High and Rising Healthcare Costs in Massachusetts, Monica C. Garlick
The Role of Glucocorticoid Receptors on the Expression of Transposable Elements in the Rat Hippocampus, Brian B. Griffiths
Attentional Influences on Visual Working Memory in Development, Sylvia B. Guillory
Trajectories of Retirement in Later Life: A Group-Based Modeling Approach, Bruce R. Haimowitz
Risk, Resilience, Recovery: In Search of the Protective Factors of Mental Health, Victoria Choate Hasler
Cognitive Aspects of Children's Experience of Economic Disadvantage, Amy E. Heberle
Microbial Communities inside Permeable Reactive Barriers Designed to Stop Eutrophication and their Effects on Nitrous Oxide and Methylmercury Production, Kenly A. Hiller
Human-Centric National Security in Strong States: South Korea’s Security Relations with North Korea, Jay Jinseop Jang
An Evolution of Models and Best Practices of Service-Learning at Miami Dade College: A Historical Case Study from 1992-2012, Cathy A. Kaluzny
Mothering Values of Black Student Mothers: A Grounded Theory Analysis, Sara A. Kaplan-Levy
I Want To Know More about the HPV Vaccine': Stories by Korean American College Women, MinJin Kim
Using Brief Experimental Analysis to Evaluate the Impact of Combining Skill and Performance Components in a Mathematics Treatment Package, Whitney L. Kleinert
MODIS and VIIRS Continuity Products in Synergy with Landsat Data to Monitor Vegetation Phenology, Yan Liu
The Educational Life Histories of Three 8th Grade African American Males at an Urban Alternative School, Stephanie Marson Lee
Civilized Inequality: Honors Programming and Educational Inequality at Public Universities, Steven D. Neville
An Investigation of Chemical Identity Thinking, Courtney L. Ngai
Young Children's Emotion Vocabulary and the Potential Influence on Emotion Regulation Ability, Marisa Murphy O'Boyle
Ocean Invader Tactics Revealed: The Role of Copper Pollution in the Persistence and Invasiveness of Colonial Ascidians, Kristin Lee Osborne
New to America: Immigrant Girls and Bullying, Vittoria Pacifco
Academic Capitalism and the Public Good in Public and Private U.S. Higher Education: A Grounded Theory Study of Internationalization, Asabe W. Poloma
Multiple Roles in Later Life: Role Enhancement and Conflict and Their Effects on Psychological Well-Being, Emma D. Quach
The Temporal and Functional Factors Underlying Short-Term Monocular Deprivation Effects in the Adult Human Visual System, Mahalakshmi Ramamurthy
Evolutionary Game Theoretic Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms and Their Applications, Yi Ren Cheng
Assessing Structure and Condition of Temperate and Tropical Forests: Fusion of Terrestrial Lidar and Airborne Multi-Angle and Lidar Remote Sensing, Edward J. Saenz
Civil Society Organization Practices to End Violence against Women and Girls with Disabilities in Mexico, Ana María Sánchez Rodríguez
Understanding University Graduates’ (Un) Employability in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Cameroon, Alvine Murielle Tchuathi Sangang
Exploring the Effect of Intervention Choice on Academic Performance and Student Acceptability, Meghan R. Silva
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Common Core State Standards: Investigating a Possibly Neoliberal Ideological Field, Erik Lars Smith
Determined Wellness: The Influence of Mental Illness Models Upon Treatment Outcome Expectancies and Treatment Engagement, Francisco I. Surace
Walking the Tightrope: The Tension in Math Teachers' Walk through Identity and Agency amidst Race to the Top in Cumberland County Schools, Cindy Smith Taylor
Building Efficient Large-Scale Big Data Processing Platforms, Jiayin Wang
Semantic Representation and Interpretation of Short Texts with Deep Learning, Tong Wang
Performance Management and Decision-Making in State Agencies: The Case of Massachusetts, Ryan M. Whalen
I Said, They Said: The Role of Diagnosis in the Help-Seeking Pathways of College Students, Emily E. Wheeler
Intergenerational Financial Exchange and Cognitive Well-Being among Older Adults in China, Ping Xu
The Impacts of Life Events on Depression in Later Life among Older Among Immigrants, Mai See Yang
Query-Centric Storage Partitioning for Distributed Systems, Ting Zhang
Dissertations from 2016
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Biases in Visual Attention, Farahnaz Ahmed Wick
Enhancing Cognitive Load Measurement and User Performance in Human-Computer Interaction, Nada Attar
Curriculum Reform as a Means for Creating Transformational Change at an Historically Black University, Robert J. Awkward
Retold Narratives: Black Male Artists and the Meanings of School, Beth Balliro
The Impact of Social Network and Neighborhood Characteristics on the Driving Status of Older Adults: The Moderating Role of Gender, Kelli N. Barton
'Whose Goals Am I Meeting?' Policy and Practice Dilemmas in Adult Basic Education (ABE) in the Era of Accountability, Alma Hallulli Biba
The Influence of the TRIO Student Support Services Program on First-Generation Students: An Exploratory Study, Nate Bryant
Self-Reported Sexuality among Women with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Hillary Hurst Bush
The Role of the Media in Framing the American Indian Victim, Lena M. Campagna
Impact of Dog Visitation on a Hospitalized Child's Mood, Aimee Carew-Lyons
The Effects of Career Construction Training on Career Adaptability, Vocational Identity Achievement, and Subjective Well-Being among First Year College Students, Selda Celen-Demirtas
Letting Go: The Influence of Clinicians and Proxy Decision-Makers on Preferences for Life-Sustaining Treatments, Elizabeth C. Chen
Automated Crater Detection using Machine Learning, Joseph Paul Cohen
Negotiating Home Care Work: Experiences of Agency and Independent Aides Caring for Older Adults, Judith M. Conahan
Examining the Relationship between Microorganisms and Seafood: A Focus on the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea Virginica) and American Lobster (Homarus Americanus), Sarah G. Feinman
The Power in the Pattern: Relationships between Out-of-School Time Activity Participation Profiles and Civic Engagement in Youth, Melody Joy Blass Fisher
Indicator Selection for Urban Estuarine Management, Kim M. Frashure
Understanding How State Policy Influences Driving Status in Older Adults, Emily A. Gadbois
A World both Big and Small: Understanding Urban Middle School Teachers’ Sense of Self-Efficacy in an Era of Accountability, Richard Gallucci
Cytochrome P450 Member CYP702A6 from Arabidopsis Thaliana Enhances Tolerance to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Phenanthrene, Tsering W. Gesar
Evolution in the Deep Sea: Scales and Mechanisms of Population Divergence, Amanda E. Glazier
A Case Study of Partnerships in International Service Learning: Exploring Reciprocity and Bi-directional Benefits, Judith Healey-Walsh
Service Utilization among People with Cognitive Impairment: Does Living Alone Make a Difference?, Tamara Harden Herrick
The Preparation and Self-Efficacy of Teachers of Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities, Claire F. Higgins
The Effects of Acculturation on Mammography Use of Haitian Immigrant Women, Dany Michaella Hilaire
Life-Course Informal Care and Retirement Preparation: Is there a Measurable Care Penalty?, Elizabeth Johns
Isotopic, Hydrogeochemical and Sustainability Assessment of Groundwater in Punjab and Haryana, India, Vijaya Jyoti
The Influence of Mentor-Youth Activity Profiles on School-Based Youth Mentoring Relationship Processes and Outcomes, Stella S. Kanchewa
Positioning the Beneficiary: The Role of Entwinement in Social Enterprise Impact and Performance Management, Elena Dowin Kennedy
Boundary Spanning, Networking, and Sensemaking/Sensegiving: How Career Services Directors Enact Mid-Level Leadership, Linda Kent Davis
The Role of Gender-Based Violence in the Development of Gynecological Symptoms in Women in Kyrgyzstan, Elena V. Kosterina
Identification and Use of Indicator Data to Develop Models for Marine-Sourced Risks in Massachusetts Bay, Marin M. Kress
Unique and Diverse Voices of African American Women in Engineering at Predominately White Institutions: Unpacking Individual Experiences and Factors Shaping Degree Completion, Ellise M. Davis LaMotte
Social Relationships and All-Cause Mortality in Late Life, Hyo Jung Lee
Experiences of Trust in Longer-Lasting Formal Youth Mentoring Relationships, Michelle Levine
Deep Networks: Applications, Interpretability, and Optimization, Henry Z. Lo
Kashmir as a Protracted Social Conflict: Examining the Role of Non-State Actors in the Policymaking Process, Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
Urban School-Based Behavioral Health Providers' Attitudes Towards Evidence Based Practices, Erik D. Maki
Achieving Efficient Communication for Mobile Devices in the New Era, Ying Mao
The Roles of Early Intervention Providers’ Cultural Competence and the Parent-Provider Working Alliance in Early Intervention Service Receipt Outcomes of Diverse Children At-Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders, Frances D. Martinez-Pedraza
Parents as Interventionists: Improving Math Computation Fluency in the Home Setting, Ryan J. Martin
Effective Online and Offline Privacy-Preserving Processing of Location Data, Mihai Maruseac
An Examination of Women and Educational Leadership: A Postmodern Feminist Analysis of the Leadership Styles of Women Superintendents, Danielle Mokaba-Bernardo
The Genetic Networks that Control Prospore Membrane Closure in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Scott M. Paulissen
Using Remote Sensing to Characterize Spatial and Temporal Variation of Saltmarsh Structure, Ian L. Paynter
A Case Study on the Influence of Organizational Structures and Policies on Faculty Implementation of Learner-Centered Teaching, Kevin Scott Piskadlo
How Do Parentally Bereaved Emerging Adults Define Resilience? It’s a Process, Aleksandra Plocha
Social Determinants of Falls: The Role of Social Support and Depression Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Lien T. Quach
Intersectionality at Work: Black Women Administrators' Perceptions of their Work Performance at Predominantly White Institutions, Joanna N. Ravello
Dissolved Organic Carbon Fluxes from a New England Salt Marsh, Hayley Nicole Schiebel
Living Alone and Subsequent Living Arrangement Transitions among Older Americans, Yao-Chi Shih