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Theses from 2013
Does Directors' Experience Affect Firm's Acquisition Performance?, Diem Thu Thi Le
"Put That In Your Pipe and Smoke It": An Exploratory Study of Native American Ceramic Tobacco Pipes at the James Fort Site in Virginia Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence, Michael S. Ligman
Is the Pead Anomaly Due To Market Underreaction or Risk Factors: A Global Perspective, Zhilu Lin
The Effects of Racism Related Stress on Asian Americans; Anxiety and Depression among Different Generational Statuses, Charles M. Liu
The Cost of Nationalism: The Foundations of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and its Perilous Path Toward Middle Eastern Hegemony, Jeremy C. Lowe
The Huguenot Home: Consumption Practices and Identity in Early 18th-Century New York City, Theodor M. Maghrak
Predictors of Psychotropic Medication Use in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Melissa P. Maye
"Our Brothers In This Country": Captivity and Kinship in the Colonial Northeast, Steven C. Moore
Predicting Hospital Patients' Admission to Reduce Emergency Department Boarding, Mohammadmahdi Moqri
The Salt Harvester's Son, Fawzi S. Nicolas
Anti-Apoptotic Role of β-Arrestin Kurtz in Drosophila Development, Niusha Nikkholgh
The Elusiveness of the Technology in the Classroom: How Teachers Might More Effectively Address Digital Literacy and Adhere to the Frameworks, Daisy Elizabeth Penney
Photodynamic Therapy and Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy Combinations: Imaging-Based Evaluation of Dose, Sequence and Schedule in 3D Pancreatic Tumor Models, Ljubica Petrovic
Germs, Pigs and Silver: King Philip's War and the Deconstruction of the Middle Ground In New England, Benjamin M. Roine
The Effects of Nesting Environment on Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury, Laura Grace Rollins
The Role of the Histidine Kinase, CbrA, in Sinorhizobium Meliloti Cell Cycle Regulation and Symbiotic Development, Craig Shaw Sadowski
How Ending Gender Violence in India Improves the Nation's International Reputation and Tourism Industry: A Case for Nationalism, Sharon Nambudripad Schiffer
Identifying In Situ Conservation Priorities for Teosinte, Crystal A. Sorgini
Men of Uncommon Substance: Sailor Literature and American Identity in Antebellum America, 1805 - 1840, Pete Sprayregen
Residence, not Confinement: Daily Life at the Westport Town Farm, Westport, Massachusetts, Joshua Loyal Stewart
The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment and Official Development Assistance on the Human Development Index in Africa, Christina R. Tamer
Whitehall: Newport's History in a House, Katherine Malone Tarascio
A Gross Anatomy Miscellany: Select Representative and Originary Material from the Novel In-Progress, Guy Torrey
Why now? The Making of Modern Burma: Drivers of Democratization, Aung Tun
Exploring the Role of SPS1 in the Yeast Saccharomyces Cereviseae, Jorge Villoria
Pathways to Well-Being in the Lives of Recently Returning Veterans, Sarah Krill Williston
In Vivo Analysis of Drosophila Beta-Arrestin Kurtz and Notch Signaling Complexes, Wenjian Xu
Technology Transfer and Diffusion in the Context of Globalization: A Study of a Critical Decade in the Ottoman Empire through the Experiences of Henry Eckford, 1830-1840, Gulumhan Huma Yildirim
An Investigation of 8-Oxyquinolate Non-Innocence in d6 Transition Metal Complexes, Helen Cuiyun Zhao
Design and Synthesis of Bioactive Compounds and their Application in Protein Self-Assembly and Enzyme Inhibition Studies, Weihong Zhou
Indigenous Cuisine: An Archaeological and Linguistic Study of Colonial Zapotec Foodways On The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Michelle R. Zulauf
Theses from 2012
Fluid Homogenization in Mixed Phase Spaces, Chris Amey
Implications of Self-Other Overlap in Unsuccessful Romantic Relationships, Josephine A. Bell
Meanings and Typologies of Duboisian Double Consciousness within 20th Century United States Racial Dynamics, Marc E. Black
The Forgotten Children: The Educational Demographics of an Austrian Diocese 1848-1852, Mathew Richard Boyeson
Comparing Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) Techniques in 18th-Century Yard Spaces, Christiane Marie Carducci
Protest on the Page: The Art of Political Fiction, Alexandra Corey
Gaetano Salvemini: A Lesson in Thought and Action, Michael Christopher DiClemente
Who We Become, Lisa C. Duffy
Measuring and Modeling Investment Behavior in a Social Network, Alex Dusenbery
Subsistence in the Shrinking Forest: Native and Euro-American Practice in 19th-Century Connecticut, William A. Farley
Future Earnings and Investors' Overpricing of Intangible Information, Xingyuan Fei
A Non-Sequitur for Darwin, Danielle Fontaine
Rituals, Ezra Mordechai Fox
Fragments from a Childhood: A Collection of Short Stories, Blair Reynolds Fross
The Cultural Assault on the Female Gender during the Weimar Years, Jaime Alexandra Gaudet
On The In: A Memoir of Teaching English to Incarcerated Youth, Evan Gentler
How Would You Feel? Stigma and Self-Esteem in Student Responses to Intimate Partner Violence Vignettes, Taylor Lynn Hall
Immigrants as Americanizers: The Americanization Movement of the Early Twentieth Century, Alexis Claire Hanley
Bound in Stone: A Landscape and Architectural Analysis of the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation Reservation, Connecticut, Sarah LeAnn Hasho
Household Spaces: 18th- and 19th-Century Spatial Practices on the Eastern Pequot Reservation, Anna Katharine Hayden
Magicious: A Novel in Progress, Calvin Hennick
Coeval, Spatially Associated, Andra C. Hibbert
The Coquette and the Changing Role of Women in Revolutionary America, Serap Hidir
Exposure to Potentially Traumatic Events, Emotional Adjustment, and Social Competence in Preschoolers Facing Economic Risk, Hillary Hurst
Descartes' Daughter, Danielle Lyn Jones-Pruett
Adolescent Males in Formal Youth Mentoring Programs: The Influence of Same Versus Cross-Gender Matching, Stella S. Kanchewa
Dismantlable Lovers: A Drama in Five Acts, Crystal Koe
Growing Up a Washington: Childhood in 18th-Century Virginia, Heidi Elizabeth Krofft
Sheep and Wool in Nineteenth-Century Falmouth, MA: Examining the Collapse of a Cape Cod Industry, Leo Patrick Ledwell
Inverse Scattering Problems, Reflectionless Potentials, and Solitons, Louis Lesly Leonard
Investigating the Role of an Understudied North Atlantic Right Whale Habitat: Right Whale Movement, Ecology, and Distribution in Jeffreys Ledge, Kathryn Longley
Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Responsiveness to Infant Distress: Contingency Analyses of Home Mother-Infant Interactions at 3 Months, Fernanda Lucchese
Parental Well-Being within the Marital Subsytem: A Study of Mother-Father Dyads Raising Young Children with Autism, Frances de Lourdes Martinez-Pedraza
Flummydiddles, Molly Anne McGuire
Maternal Responsibility: An Examination of the Relationship between Mothers and Daughters in Maria: The Wrongs of Women, Zofloya, and Jane Eyre, Keriann McLaughlin
Centrality Measures in Social Networks, Michele Moreau
Free To Move, Jessica Moreland
Averaging Projected Stochastic Gradient Descent for Large Scale Square Problem, Yang Mu
Error Transparent Hamiltonians: An Ally on the Inside, Seth Noir
Young Children's Perspectives on Parent-Child Relationship Quality as Measured by the Berkeley Puppet Interview: Associations with Behavioral Adjustment, Marisa Murphy O'Boyle
Physical and Biological Assessment of the Eel River Headwaters Restoration Site in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Kevin Michael O'Brion
Dissolved Organic Carbon Dynamics During the Snowmelt Period in a Small Urban Watershed, Jaclyn L. O'Riley
Characterizing the Modulation Transfer Functions (MTFs) of Proton and Carbon Radiography Using GEANT4 Monte Carlo Simulations, Michael Alexander Oumano
Union Army Doctrine: The Role of the Artillery During the Campaign for Vicksburg, Stephanie A. Peacock
Species Richness, Distribution and Relative Abundance of Freshwater Mussels (Unionidae) of the Strawberry River, Arkansas, Sujata Poudel
Tear Things Down, Kathleen Raddatz
Analyzing Revenue Sharing and Buyback Contracts: An Experimental Study, Chinthana Ramaswamy
Early Childhood Adversity and Risk for Psychotic Disorder in Adulthood, Anne G. Remington
Firearms Curation in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth Century Maritime Contexts: A Comparative Study, Edward John Rodley
Bones in the Landfill: A Zooarchaeological Study from Faneuil Hall, Linda M. Santoro
Using SaltWBM to Quantify Long-Term Environmental Impacts of Current Agricultural, Karen Simpson
The Neuropsychological Functioning of Older Adults Pre- and Post-Cognitive Training with a Brain Plasticity-Based Computerized Training Program, Shannon M. Sorenson
Examining the Relation between Sensory Sensitivity and Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorders as Moderated by Language Acquisition, Timothy W. Soto
Fathers and Sons, Christopher Sullivan
"She of Gentle Manners": An Examination of the Widow Pomeroy's Table and Tea Wares and the Emerging Domestic Sphere in Kinderhook, New York, Megan E. Sullivan
Not So Fast, Rad Evan Thie
Development of Multifunctional Anti-Alzheimer's Compounds, Rekha Tulsan
Botticelli's La Primavera: Painting the Cosmos of Human Ideals, Leatha Eleni Tzioumis
U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era, Kyle R. Vale
Mining For High Complexity Regions Using Entropy and Box-Counting Dimension Quadtrees, Roseanne Vetro
Women Under National Socialism: The Case Study of Melita Maschmann, Lynda Maureen Willett
Peers: How a Global Economy and Information Technology Have Equalized Power in World Politics, Rachel D. Wolters
Theses from 2011
Design for Participatory Development Planning and Economic Self-Determination in Ileho, Kenya, Cynthia C. Abatt