This collection contains open access and campus access dissertations, made possible through Graduate Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The full content of open access material is available to all, although some files may have embargoes placed on them and will be made available as soon as possible. The full content of campus access material is only available to students, faculty and staff with a valid UMass Boston login credential. If you are physically located away from campus, but have a valid UMB login credential, you may select the “Off-Campus UMass Boston Users” link on the item’s record page to login, view and download Campus Access publications. UMB faculty, staff, and students may also request an item through InterLibrary Loan. Those not physically on campus, nor in possession of a valid UMass Boston login credential cannot access Campus Access resources.
Dissertations from 2017
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
When Carbon Becomes a Commodity: Ecological, Economic and Social Impacts of Community Forestry in the Age of Climate Change, Sujata Shrestha
To Go Where Neither Parent Has Gone Before: Investigating the Identity Formation of First-Generation College Students in Multiple Doctoral Programs, Diann F. Simmons
The Relationship to Internal Experiences Scale (RIES): The Development and Validation of a Self-Report Measure of Cognitive Fusion and Decentering, Shannon M. Sorenson
The Formation of Scholars: Critical Narratives of Asian American and Pacific Islander Doctoral Students in Higher Education, Liza A. Talusan
Transmigration Experiences of Newcomers in the Context of an English-Only Education: Sense-Making by Former Newcomer ELLs, Elizabeth Paulsen Tonogbanua
Data Mining Methods for Analyzing and Modeling Spatiotemporal Data, Dawei Wang
Black Male Success in Mathematics: The Development of a Positive Mathematics Identity in Urban Schools, Naia L. Wilson-Akubude
Evaluating the ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ Test: Cultural Variations in Emotional Perception, Ashley-Ann Woodhull
Spatio-Temporal Ensemble Modeling for Big Data, Chung-Hsien Yu
Dissertations from 2015
Examining the Toxicity, Exposure, and Regulatory Approach to Potential Human Health Risks of the Algal Toxin Domoic Acid, Thomas H. Angus
Environmentally Benign Syntheses and Biomedical Applications of Novel Heterocyclic Compounds, Hyejin Cho
Fluxes of Dissolved Organic Carbon During Storm Events in the Neponset River Watershed, Keith Thomas Cialino
Research for the Advancement of Green Chemistry Practice: Studies in Atmospheric and Educational Chemistry, Steven Gene Cullipher
The College Young Christian Students in the United States, a Historical Case Study of a Faith-based Social Movement and its National Office, John F. Denning
Impact Of Parental Stress On Asthma Management Behaviors And Health Outcomes: A Longitudinal Analysis Of Inner City School-Aged Children, Amanda Constance Green
The Development of the Global Ready Leadership Scale, Shelby J. Harris
Frontline Youth Workers: Meaning-Making and Street-Level Policy, Sarah Hogue
Patterns of Interaction within Parent-Child Dyads Affected by OCD and Anxiety, Catherine Kraper
Problematizing Mainstream Graduate Management Education: Intersectional Critical Discourse Analysis of Harvard Business Publishing / Harvard Business School Cases, Michelle A. Kweder
Art and Design Students' Social Norms Regarding Mental Illness, Creativity, and Help-Seeking Behaviors, Danielle Licitra
First Career Decisions of African American and Hispanic Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, Deborah L. Liverman
Cultural Adaptation of In-Home, Community-Based Mental Health Services for Ethnic Minority Children and Families: Exploring Clinician and Family Perspectives on Effective Care, Esroruleh Tamim Mohammad
Mind the Gap: The Integration of Physical and Mental Healthcare in Federally Qualified Health Centers, Karen R. Monaghan