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Theses from 2014
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
"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