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Theses from 2014
The Banjoist of Stumpville: Now Streaming, Drew Arnold
High Temperature Mid-Wave Infrared Imagery, Justin J. Baker
N-β-Alanyldopamine Metabolism in Sarcophaga Bullata, Hanine Barek
The Transvaal Constitution and Responsible Government: How Churchill influenced Apartheid, Christopher H. Beckvold
Effect of π-Extension and Peripheral Redox Active Groups on the Non-Innocent Character of Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl 8-Oxyquinolate Complexes, Stephanie Erin Bellinger
A Common Standard for Film Production Incentives Impact Analysis, Deepak P. Bidwai
"Tenacious of Their Lands": Fortifying the District of Mashpee, 1834-1842, Nicole Alexis Breault
A Model of Social Functioning in Schizophrenia: Symptomatology, Personality, and Brain Region Volumes, Victoria Choate
Characterization of Enterococcus Bacteriophages and Their Potential Role in Horizontal Gene Transfer, Fatme A. Chouaib
Efficacy of Citizen Science in Water Quality Studies: A Macroinvertebrate Biomonitoring Project in the Charles River Watershed, Massachusetts, Christina E. Ciarfella
Using Ehrenfest Dynamics to Model Particle in a Box with Moving Walls, Jeffrey Cohn
Orchard House and the Making of Little Women, Allison Conner
Assent and You Are Sane: "John Brown Was Right", Jermain S. Corbin
Disturbed But Not Destroyed: New Perspectives on Urban Archaeology and Class in 19th century Lowell, Massachusetts, Katelyn M. Coughlan
Microbial Interactions With Cnidarians In Massachusetts Coastal Waters, Meaghan C. Daley
Determining the Gruneisen Coefficient for Liquids Using the PAZ-Scan Technique, Olivier A. Dantiste
Saving the "Original Paradise": Health Tourism, Tropical Disease, and the Problem of Cuba in the American Imperial Imagination, 1848-98, Liana DeMarco
Expeditions, Mariya Deykute
Panthersprung: The Vital Inheritance of the Agadir Crisis, Patrick E. Doerr
Effects of Extracellular Matrix Rheology and Adhesion in Three Dimensional Pancreatic Tumor Models, Hamid El Hamidi
Reductions in Experiential Avoidance as a Mediator of Change in Symptom Outcome and Quality of Life in Acceptance-Based Behavior Therapy and Applied Relaxation for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Elizabeth Hemenway Eustis
Students' Attitudes towards Science and Science Learning In an Introductory Undergraduate Biology Course, Nicole Floro
Investigation of Amyloidogenic Systems by the Application of Small Molecular Probes, Sanjukta Ghosh
Lusitania: An Examination of Captaincy and Seamanship in the Face of Disaster, Robert J. Goulding
“So Succeeded by a Kind Providence”: Communities of Color in Eighteenth Century Boston, Eric M. Hanson Plass
Transcriptional Regulation of Sinorhizobium Meliloti Cell Cycle-Related Genes in the Δcbra Mutant and Root Nodules of Medicago Sativa, Corey S. Hazekamp
Nonlinear Photoacoustic Measurements of Oxygen Saturation Levels in Blood, Albert Kamanzi
Promoting Maternal Well-Being and Child Behavioral Health: The Role of Positive Beliefs, Sara Kaplan-Levy
Exploring Determinants and Effects of Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa, Joan O. W. Kiiru
Design of Surface Depleted Quantum Dots, Yeshaya A. Koblick
Flow Tube Calibration and Infrared Product Studies Using Hydrogen and Hydroperoxyl Gas-Phase Radical Reactions with Nitrogen Oxides, Christopher C. Koutros
Wrapped Around a Rock, Karen Locascio
Coastal Change Analysis of Lovells Island Using High Resolution Ground Based LiDAR Imagery, Jennifer K. Ly
Own Unknowing, Edmund M. Manning
Constructing A Vernacular Narrative: Communal Memory of Boston's West End, Eleanor Martinez Proctor
Altered Lives, Altered Environments: Creating Home at Manzanar Relocation Center, 1942-1945, Laura W. Ng
Rupture, Peter Francis Picetti
Identification of NF-kB-like Transcription Factor In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Neermala Poudel Neupane
Reciprocal Influences amongst Early Childhood Externalizing Behavior, Maternal Distress, and Parenting Style: A Longitudinal Analysis, Shirley Marie Immacula Poyau
The Impact of the SEC Interpretative Guidance on Firms' Environmental Disclosures, Guangwei Qin
Developing an Algorithm for Predicting Hospital Readmissions, Naeimeh Radnia
Final Rest at the Hilltop Sanctuary: The Community of Mount Gilead AME Church, Meagan M. Ratini
What's in a Game? Identity Negotiations and Pedagogical Implications of Gameplay Discourse, Caleb Reed
Their Decision to Wear Al Hijab: The Stories of U.S. Northeastern Muslim Women, Hadeel Salman
Seeing Red: Characterizing Historic Bricks at Sylvester Manor, Long Island, NY 1652-1735, Martin John Schmidheiny
Psychopathy and Disadvantageous, Risky Decision-Making in a Sample of Ex-Offenders, Ashley-Ann C. Shirai
From Horse to Electric Power at the Metropolitan Railroad Company Site: Archaeology and the Narrative of Technological Change, Miles Shugar
Wanting To Be Haunted, Theadora Siranian
The Relation between Cultural Values and Unprotected Sex among Latino Gay Men, Francisco I. Surace
Skeletal and Tissue Response to Automated, Continuous, Curvilinear Distraction Osteogenesis: A Clinical and Histological Study, Brad John Scott Tricomi
Bone Meal, Ryan Spellman Vautour
The Alternate Lives of Claire MacKenna, Lauren von Hagel
Cognitive Processes and Moderators of Willingness in Individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder and Non-Anxious Controls in Response to a Social Performance Task, Lauren P. Wadsworth
Predictors of Change in Body Mass Index in Young Mothers after Hurricane Katrina, Elyssa Briann Weber
Modeling Bacterial Water Quality with Networked Real-Time Sensors, Benjamen R. Wetherill
Changing Environments and Economies: A Comprehensive Zooarchaeological Study of the Eastern Pequot, Courtney Williams
Mentor Motivation as a Predictor of Relationship Approach, Max B. Wu
Adults Who "Get": Adolescents' Perceptions of Relational Engagement with Key Adults, Laura A. Yoviene
Four Traits of Strong Science-Policy Interfaces for Global Environmental Governance, Daniel F. Zaleznik
Theses from 2013
Effect of Mean Exicitation Energy of Water on Proton Range Uncertainties, Yassine Ait-El-Aoud
Latino Youth Experiences of Immigrant Policy, Enforcement, and Exclusion: Exploring Risk and Resilience, Darcy Alcantara
Nanoplasmonics: Enhancement of Optical Radiation, Safa Alzaim
The Application of Geographic Information Technology and Ground-Penetrating Radar in the Study of the Evolution of the Charles River Basin, Lars E. Anderas
Can Women Have It All?: Hesitant Feminism in American Women's Popular Writing, Anne Aramand
Trauma History and Social Connection in a Sample of Chronically Homeless Adults: A Test of the Stress-Buffering Hypothesis, Amanda L. Aykanian
Cultural Continuity in a Nipmuc Landscape, Joseph Bagley
The Occurrence and Distribution of Enterococcus in an Urban Coastal Watershed, Steven Bryant-Allen
Thermalization of One-Dimensional Tonks-Girardeau Gas Mixtures, at and around the Kaleidoscopic Mass Ratios, Frank Thanh Cao
Generations Apart: Cultural Revolution Memory and China's Post-80's Generation on the Chinese Internet, Vincent R. Capone
Once Lords and Emperors: Chivalry and the Making of Clerical Masculinity in High Medieval Normandy, Charles S. Carroll
Like Spring, But More Ruined, Sam Cha
Forty Two, Noreen Cleffi
Crater Detection via Genetic Search Methods to Reduce Image Features, Joseph Paul Cohen
Comparative Genomics of the Spergen 1 Gene and Expression of Recombinant Mouse Y-Box Protein 3, Jennifer D. Curtis
What is the Best Competition Parameter? An Experimental Research, SuryaKamal Varma Dantuluri
Dakota Falls, Aaron Devine
National Passenger Rail Policies and the Effect on Investment, Ridership, and Congestion, Kyle J. Emge
This Rebel City, Nathaniel Forsythe
Gentrification is Political: How Local Government Fosters Community Change, Whitney A. Gecker
Determination of Absolute Rate Constants for the Reaction of OH with Cyclopentane and Cycloheptane from 233 K to 351 K, Michael A. Gennaco
Spatial Democratization, Urban Citizenship and Alternative Mobility: A Comparative Analysis of Bicycle Praxis in Boston, Massachusetts and Bogota, Colombia, Diego Gomez-Aristizabal
Beautiful People Heaven, Betsabe Gomez
A Person-Oriented Approach to Identifying Parenting Styles in Mothers of Early School Age Children, Amy E. Heberle
Understanding Slave Subsistence in the Context of Changing Agricultural Practices: Paleoethnobotany at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, Samantha J. Henderson
The Disadvantage of a Sex-Segregated Labor Market: Sex Composition and the Availability of Work-Family Benefits, Orlaith D. Heymann
Blood Call, Krysten S. Hill
Architectural Debris and Construction Sequencing at an 18th-Century Rural Native American Household in Connecticut, Timothy D. Hollis
Fort Devens: Civil Rights Unrest and African-American Identity in a Northern Military Camp during World War I and World War II, Janine Hubai
Gender Games: A Goddess Inspired Rereading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Trina Marie Johnson
Integrating GIS and Cultural Knowledge in Vulnerability Assessments of Coastal Environmental Justice Communities, Vijaylaxsmi Kesavan
Grotesques, Kurt Klopmeier
The Hidden Experience: Untold Stories of Immigrant Agency During the Settlement House Movement in Boston, Deirdre L. Kutt
"On Long Run Under the Blue Hills": An Archaeology of Tenancy on the Pennsylvania Frontier, Thomas J. Kutys
Spatial Analysis and Subsurface Survey at a 19th-Century Eastern Pequot Site in Connecticut, Starla C. Lane
General Von Seeckt and Sino-German Cooperation, Yue Lan
Does Directors' Experience Affect Firm's Acquisition Performance?, Diem Thu Thi Le