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Dissertations from 2013
Microfinance: A Tool for Financial Access, Poverty Alleviation or Gender Empowerment ? - Empirical Findings from Pakistan, Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar
Dissertations from 2012
The Economic Relationships Between Institutions of Higher Education and Municipalities, Dale H. Allen
College Consortia: Engaging in and Sustaining Community Collaboration Efforts, Wildolfo Arvelo
Latino Immigrants' Responses to Immigration Policy and Enforcement: Strengths and Resources Promoting Empowerment and Wellness in an Urban Setting, Celeste Atallah-Gutiérrez
The Relation Among Essential Habitat, Ocean Acidification, and Calcification on the Nantucket Bay Scallop (Argopecten irradians), Bryanna Joy Broadaway
Nontraditional Approaches with Nontraditional Students: Experiences of Learning, Service and Identity Development, Suzanne Marie Buglione
Faculty Sensemaking and Transformative Learning: Working to Advance Community College Student Learning Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Kimberly A. Burns
Measuring Exposure in Natural Disaster: A Meta-Analysis, an Integrative Data Analysis, and a Multi-Wave Longitudinal Study of Hurricane Katrina Survivors, Christian S. Chan
Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Asteraceae: The Evolution of Intron Gain, Loss and Size Change and Correlations with Genome Size and Ploidy Level, Jian-Cheng Chang
Nurse Manager Leadership in Unionized Acute Care Hospitals in Massachusetts, Staff Nurse Empowerment and Retention, Joe-Ann Maria Fergus
Influences of Health Insurance and Primary Care on Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Black Women in Boston, Gail Barlow Gall
Spirituality as a Viable Resource in Responding to Racial Microaggressions: An Exploratory Study of Black Males Who Attended a Community College, Lloyd Sheldon Johnson
The Role of Difficulties in Emotion Regulation in the Relationship between Experiences of Trauma, Kathleen Sullivan Kalill
Sediment Metal Concentrations as a Function of Land Use in the Charles River, Eastern Massachusetts, Darryl L. Luce
Objectification Theory and Sexual Health among Women, Kara Lustig
Diffusion of the EGFR Assay: The Underutilization and the Urban/Rural Divide, Julie Ann Lynch
Socially-Aware Data Replication, Khanh h. Nguyen
Bereavement among Urban University Students: The Role of Meaning Making in Adjustment to Loss, Rebecca L. Norris-Bell
The Associations of the Level of School Wellness Policy Implementation and School Nurse Activities to Weight Status of School Children in Massachusetts, Mary Jane F. O'Brien
Noncredit and Credit Divisions in Community Colleges: The Dilemma of Multiple Organizational Identities, Dianne Palter Gill
A Critical Study of the National Institute for School Leadership in the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts, John Michael Perella
Enabling Techniques for Surveillance Sensor Networks, Cuong H. Pham
Nurses' Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators Affecting the Shaken Baby Syndrome Education Initiative: An Exploratory Study of a Massachusetts Public Policy, Leslie Carol Rideout
Exploring How White and Asian American Students Experience Cross-Racial Interactions: A Phenomenological Study, Thomas E. Robinson
The Role of Self-Efficacy and the Effects of Situated Online Professional Development on the Competence of School-based Occupational Therapists, Yonnette Evelyn Semple-Dormer
A Model to Relate Environmental Variation to NPDES Permit Violations at Thermoelectric Facilities on the Taunton River, Seth Delevan Sheldon
The Community College Department Chair and Curriculum Leadership: Managing Learning and Learning to Manage, Kathleen Jennings Sweeney
The Role of Research Centers in Fulfilling the Community Engagement Mission of Public Research Universities, Robin A. Toof
The Impact of Mindfulness on Exposure and Extinction Processes in Social Anxiety, Michael Treanor
Health Reform Challenges: Understanding Low-Income Massachusetts Residents Who Remain Uninsured, Michael Tutty
Computational Modeling of Eye Movements - From Reading to Scene Viewing, Hsueh-Cheng Wang
The Development of Fluorescence Probes for Cancer Cell Lines and Research on Catalytic Reactions, Zijuan Zhang
The Role of Men's Friendships in Psychological Distress, Fear of Emotions, and Adherence to Masculine Role Norms, Liza Zwiebach
Dissertations from 2011
Plant Invasion: An Experimental and Mathematical Look at Plant-Soil Feedbacks, Anna Gray Aguilera
Interpersonal Conflicts in Hospitals: Their Fingerprints, Consequences and Resolution, Talia Berman-Kishony
Synthesis and Biological Applications of Heterocyclic and Organofluorine Compounds, Dmitry A. Borkin
Evolutionary Patterns in Deep-Sea Mollusks, Elizabeth Ellen Boyle
Leveraging Biologically-inspired Self-Adaptive Architecture in Network Systems, Paskorn Champrasert
Transboundary Conservation in Kangchenjunga Landscape in the Eastern Himalayas, Pashupati Chaudhary
Knots of Knowledge: How Community-Based Organizations Advance Social Change, Jennifer Cohen
Archaeal Diversity and Potential Function in Soil Ecosystems, Emelia Anne DeForce
Beyond Resiliency: Using Youth Participatory Action Research to Examine Alternative Education and Identity in a High Poverty Town, Susan M. Espinosa
Massachusetts NCATE and NAEYC Accredited Bachelor Degree Programs: Responding to Teacher Preparation Needs in the Filed of Early Education and Care, Winifred M. Hagan
The Role of Data in Decision Making about Online Distance Education: A Case Study of Three Community Colleges, William Allan Heineman
The Relationship between Distance to Care and Readmission for Reintervention Following Lower Extremity Arterial Bypass: An Exploratory Study, Kathleen P. Hickson
The Social Negotiation of Ambiguous In-Between Stigmatized Identities: Investigating Identity Processes in Multiracial and Bisexual People, Vali Dagmar Kahn
Youth Employment and Unemployment in Developing Countries: Macro Challenges with Micro Perspectives, Berna Kahraman
In Students' Words: The Development of Student Attitudes toward Mathematics - A Social Perspective, Dianne Kathryn Kelly
An Exploratory Survey of the Enrollment Decisions of Parents and Guardians in Four Catholic Urban Elementary Schools, Sheila Lombard Kukstis
Heterogeneous Catalytic Processes for the Synthesis and Functionalization of N-Heterocycles and Fine Chemicals, Aditya M. Kulkarni
The Conservation and Habitat Ecology of Antillean Manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus) in the Drowned Cayes Area of Belize, Central America, Katherine Spencer LaCommare
Trajectories of Psychological Distress among Low-Income, Female Survivors of Hurricane Katrina, Sarah Ryan Lowe
First-Generation College Students and the Four-Year College Environment: An Exploration of Supplementary and Complementary Fit, Nancy M. Ludwig
An Exploration of the Stories and Perspectives of Three Latino Mothers as They Make Meaning of Their Engagement with the Dedham Public Elementary Schools, Jo-Anne Coffey McCormick
It's not so Simple: Understanding Participant Involvement in the Design, Implementation, and Improvement of Cash & Counseling Programs, Erin E. McGaffigan
The Individual and Shared Meanings Students Make of their Diverse Interactions with African American Faculty: A Phenomenological Study, Kathleen Marie Neville
The Ecology of Cognitive Training and Aging, Anya Potter
Legal Experiences of Women Survivors of Domestic Violence: A Need for Policies that Address the Justice Gap, Kimberly Ann Puhala
Precisely Serializable Snapshot Isolation, Stephen Anthony Revilak
Expanding a Model of Female Heterosexual Coercion: Are Sexually Coercive Women Hyperfeminine?, Elizabeth Anne Schatzel-Murphy
Inverse Operations: A Grade 8 Urban Mathematics Teacher's Response to the Achievement Gap, Kelly Ann Silva
The Role of Home Environments in Residential Adjustment Decision Making in Later Life, Kimberly Joy Stoeckel
Developing an Anti-Racist Stance: How White Youth Understand Structural Racism, Catharine R. Thomann
The Value of Getting Out: The Impact of School Leaders' International Experiences, Shelley Tinkham
Signaling Functions of Beta-Arrestin Kurtz in Drosophila Development, Marla Tipping
Analysis of Retirement Risk within Massachusetts State Agencies and Use of Post-Retirement Contracting as a Workforce Planning Tool, Andrea T. Tull
Molecular Responses of Arabidopsis thaliana to Phenanthrene, David Weisman
Functioning in the Face of Racism and its Uncertainties: The Potential Buffering Role of Values Clarification and Values Consistency in a Black American Sample, Lindsey Michelle West
Non-Covalent Manipulations of Cyclic Pi Systems for Green Chemistry Transformations, Justin Robert Whitfield
Dissertations from 2010
The Rhode Island Medical Marijuana Program: An Exploratory Study, Charles R. Alexandre
Employee Perspectives of Library and Information Technology Mergers: The Recursiveness of Structure, Culture, and Agency, Sara Bronner Baron
Understanding Revictimization: The Impact of Emotion Suppression, Acceptance, and PTSD Symptomatology on Risk Detection Abilities in Sexual Assault Survivors, Heidi M. Barrett-Model
Space and Power in the Ivory Tower: Decision Making in Public Higher Education, Sandra McCoskrie Blanchette
The Effects of Childbearing Patterns on the Timing of Retirement, Hsiao-Yin Chung
Adopted Korean Women: Influences of Becoming a Biological Mother on Racial & Ethnic Identities and Cultural Orientations, Stephanie Carole Day
Psychosis-Proneness, Mindfulness, and Positive Emotional Experience: Examining Correlational and Causal Relationships, Shannon Marie Erisman
Unattainable Beauty: An Analysis of the Role of Body Shame and Self-Objectification in Hopelessness Depression among College-Age Women, Meredith A. Evans
Transport and Transformation of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) From Land to Ocean, Wei Huang
Physical and Electrochemical Investigation of Hydrogen Storage in Aluminum Hydride Nanofibers and High Surface Area Carbon Materials, Janak P. Kafle
Neuropsychological and Personality Predictors of Competence to Stand Trial: A Social Cognitive Perspective, Kristy L. Klein
The Distribution and Comparative Biogeochemistry of Silver with Other Selected Trace Metals in Coastal Waters near Massachusetts, USA, Christian F. Krahforst
Coping with Acquired Brain Injury through an Asian American Lens: Interrelationships between Collectivistic Coping and Psychosocial Outcomes, Patricia Happy Lee
A Critical Consideration of Co-Teachers' Interpretation of 21st Century Skills/Global Education, Maura Marlaine Morse