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Theses from 2015
Militaria, Adam M. Graaf
Being and Becoming an Ally: The Lived Experience of Social Justice Action from Privileged Spaces, Alissa L. Gross
The Tale of Sigh, the Tales of Iran, Nazila Hafezi
The Role of the Ecowas, the United Nations and The United Kingdom in Terminating Sierra Leone Civil War, Muhammed Mahdi Hasan
Automatic Detection and Quantification of Bluff Erosion Events in Single Image Series, Martin D. Hellwig
A Private Game, Lynn E. Holmgren
Bury My Feet, Nathaniel Hunt
Hydrodynamic Analogues of Hamiltonian Systems, Francisco J. Jauffred
Deep Coring, Viking Age Accumulation Rates and Household Wealth in Skagafjörður, Northern Iceland, Eric D. Johnson
Exploring Alternative Cobalt Redox Mediators and β-diketonate Non-Innocent Ligands for Applications in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Nicholas Anthony Lee
Respiratory Behavior in Manduca Sexta Pupae, Yue See Lee
Living the History: The Role of Archaeology in the Interpretation of the Wampanoag Homesite at Plimoth Plantation, Meredith P. Luze
Coping With Racism: Emotional Acceptance and Systemic Attribution of Racism as Buffers against Social Anxiety among People of Color, Jennifer H. Martinez
States of Insecurity, Jennifer Lucy Martin
To Fix Stray Things, Alyssa L. Mazzarella
Charles Francis Adams: A Study on the Crucial Role of Adams in Maintaining British Neutrality During the American Civil War, Jonathan S. McIsaac
The Massachusetts Bay Circuit, Corey W. Medeiros
Connecting Networks of History and Heritage at America's Oldest Seaport, Kimberly Montoni
Mall, Matthew A. Morrison
: : poof : :, Caleb Nelson
Age-Related Associations between Physical Activity and Telomere Length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002, Elisa F. Ogawa
É Para Sair de Portugal a Todos os Custos! The Policia Repressiva de Emigração Clandestina (1896-1911) and the Politics of Azorean Emigration to the United States, Sonia Patricia da Silva Pacheco
The Integration of African Americans in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Massachusetts, Caitlin E. Pinkham
Regulation of Epithelial Morphogenesis by β-Arrestin Kurtz, Katarzyna Maria Piotrowska
Design of a Plasmonic Bragg Reflector Cavity, Shiva Prasad Pokhrel
Interaction and Spatial Dynamics of the MAP Kinase Smk1 during Sporulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Joseph M. Roesner
Quantum Mechanics With a Quartic Dispersion Law, Joanna Ruhl
Quantitative Analysis of Amyloid Fibrils using Atomic Force Microscopy, Christine L. Schifone
Activity of Mannanase in Relation to Mixed Micelle Formation of Linear Alkyl Benzene Sulfonate with Linear Ethoxylated Alcohol, Jeannine D. Seyfert
Anti-Catholicism and Gender Norms: Reassessing the Charlestown Convent Riot, 1834, Daniel S. Sousa
Correlates of Awareness and Use of the Hubway Bike Share Program and the Association with Weight Status, Lawrence H. Stahley
Corporate Responses to Rana Plaza - A Comparative Case Study, Bjoern P. Stengel
Ubiquitous and Unfamiliar: Earthenware Pottery Production Techniques and the Bradford Family Pottery of Kingston, MA, Martha L. Sulya
Third World Instincts, Shilpi Suneja
Taxonomy of the Bitentaculate Cirratulidae (Polychaeta), Stacy A. Tewari
The Effect of Labor Unionization on Corporate Investment Efficiency, Yu Zhang
Theses from 2014
Crowning a Florentine Princeps in a New Rome: The Civic Humanism of Leonardo Bruni and the Rise of Cosimo de' Medici, "Pater Patriae", Jason F. Amato
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