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Theses from 2011
Investigating Notch and Kurtz Interaction Networks, Sukanya Basu
Alternative Gel Extraction Methods for High Throughput Illumina Sequencing Process, Imane Bourzgui
Children and Spirituality: Understanding the Meaning of Spirituality of Former Street Children in Bolivia, Katia Margarita Canenguez
A Viking Age Political Economy from Soil Core Tephrochronology, Kathryn Anne Catlin
Bladder Cancer Genomics: Mutations, Deletions, and Amplifications, Yvonne Chekaluk
An Emptying Village: Transformations in Architecture and Spatial Organization at Streamstown Village, Co. Galway, Meagan K. Conway
Creating A Community: A Study of Boston's 19th Century African American Population, Kate Ryan Descoteaux
Release of Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) by Aurelia Aurita and Mucus Blob Flux, Rachel A. Dicker
Microwave-Assisted and Fluorous Benzaldehyde-Based Synthesis of Heterocycles, Shan Ding
Approach to Typicality in Quantum Systems, Shawn Dubey
The Lasts, Kimberly Duncan-Mooney
Ecological Stoichiometry and Consumer-Driven Nutrient Recycling of Elliptio complanata (Lightfoot 1786) in a Northeastern Coastal Zone Pond, Nicole Marie Fallon
Diplomatic and Military Objectives and Their Impact on Operation Olympic: The Invasion of Kyushu, Japan, November 1st, 1945, John Joseph Favara
A Lonely Road: Loneliness, Death Anxiety, Childhood Punishment, and Attributions of Hostility in a University Population, Melody Joy Blass Fisher
"Ashes Denote that Fire Was": The Poetics of Space in Melville and Dickinson, Kacie M. Fodness
The Effects of Trauma Exposure on Cognitive Functioning in Toddlers, Danielle Forbes
Biodiversity in an Isolated Suburban Reservation: Amphibians in the Middlesex Fells, Matthew William Gage
This Hurt Me More than It Hurts You, Alex Gang
The Debate over Indian Removal in the 1830s, George William Goss
Blackdamp, Michele Lynn Harris
Merely Celestial: A Poetry Collection, William Andrew Hughes
Flint at the Fort: Investigating Raw Material Scarcity and Locations of Lithic Activity at Monhantic Fort, John M. Kelly
Supersymmetric Origins of the Properties of sech-Pulses and sine-Gordon Solitons, Andrew Phillip Koller
The Pure Products of America, Gene Kwak
Captain Pierce's Fight: An Investigation Into a King Philip's War Battle and its Remembrance and Memorialization, Lawrence K. LaCroix
Correcting Decision Outcomes in a Revenue Sharing Contract, Narasimha Durga Venkat Ajay Lamba and Minal Sharma
Do I Contradict Myself?: Self-Reliance and Interdependence in Walden and the Tao Te Ching, Dustin Lee
You Cannot Read This: Bruny Island Stories, Abigail Machson-Carter
Farmstead and Household Archaeology at the Barrett Farm, Concord, Massachusetts, Thomas P. Mailhot
Collision, Kathleen McKenna
"Keep the inmost me behind its veil:" Nathaniel Hawthorne's Manipulation of Boundaries as Lessons in Craft, Molly Mary McLaughlin
The Marketplace of Boston: Macrobotanical Remains from Faneuil Hall, Ciana Faye Meyers
The Impact of Exposure to Family and Community Violence on Children's Adaptive Coping and Mental Health Symptoms among Ethnic Minority Families Living in Poverty, Esroruleh Tamim Mohammad
The Practice Effect: The Relationships among the Frequency of Early Formal Mindfulness Practice, Mindfulness Skills, Worry, and Quality of Life in an Acceptance-Based Behavior Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Lucas Paul Kawika Morgan
The Sharpest Tooth, Shea M.D. Mullaney
Comparative Sequence Analysis of Fatty Acid Desaturase 2 (FAD2) cDNA Sequences from the Compositae [Asteraceae], Paul Ames Muller Jr.
If More Books of This Kind Had Been Read: Engaging Intellectual Culture in Antebellum New Hampshire, Adrienne Marie Naylor
The Implications of Water Insecurity for Fragile and Failing States: The Case of Pakistan, Jennifer Norins
Hekaton, Jonathan William Papas
Image, Power and Landscape: An Examination of the Hampton Court Palace Gardens of Henry VIII, Laurie Ellen Pazzano
Cell Death Trigger Defines Differential Immune Responses from Self-tolerance to Inflammation, Beatriz H. Perez
Urban Consumption in Late 19th-Century Dorchester, Jennifer Poulsen
Prototype Automated Flow-Through Sensor for Measuring Waterborne Microbial Concentrations Using Bulk Fluorescence, Susan M. Savill
One Nation, Two Founding Stories: A Study of Public History at Jamestown and Plymouth, Clara Silverstein Schnee
European Energy Policy: Politics and Problems in the 20th Century, Graham Shove
Dyadic Flexibility during the Face-To-Face Still-Face Paradigm: Analysis of Infant-Caregiver Interactions within a Dynamic Systems Framework Using the State Space Grid Analytic Technique, Akhila Venkatachalam Sravish
Perception of Mental Illness on the University of Massachusetts - Boston Campus, Arthur Robert Stead
Investigation of Oxygen Reduction on the Carbon Gas-Diffusion Electrode in Non-Aqueous Electrolyte, Chris Duc Tran
Identification of TIR-Domain Containing Genes and Proteins in the Moon (Aurelia Aurita) and Comb Jellyfish (Mnemiopsis Leidyi), Christine M. Turcotte
Proteolytic Fragments of Glycoprotein Hormones Show Homologies to Signal and Metabolic Proteins: Are the Peptide Fragments Biologically Active?, Umaben S. Vadher
Here Begins the Account of Worms, Angela C. Voras-Hills
Black Women's Mental Health in Response to Unwanted Sexual Experiences and Spirituality as a Protective Factor, Speshal T. Walker
The Impact of Modern Weathering on the Geochemistry of a Marine Permo-Triassic Boundary Section, Jeremy Christopher Williams
Exploring Alternative Methods to Improve the Detection of Apoptosis in a Solution-Based Assay, Kim Har Wong
Vancomycin-Resistant Bacteria in Recreational Beach Sands, Yang Yang
A Noise-Aware Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm for Probabilistic Traveling Salesperson Problem with Profits (pTSPP), Bingchun Zhu
Theses from 2010
Foodways, Commensality and Nipmuc Identity: An Analysis of Faunal Remains From Sarah Boston's Farmstead, Grafton, MA, 1790-1840, Amélie Allard
Beckoning the Red Man's Spirit: Exploring the Boundaries of Gender, Race, Sacred and Commercial Spaces at the Wigwam Spiritualist Temple, Onset, Massachusetts, 1880--1913, Bernadine Rose Angelo
Environmentally Benign Oxidative Coupling of Benzylamines with Anilines: A Synthetic and Mechanistic Study, Valentina T. Atanassova
SPO71 is Required for Proper Prospore Membrane Size in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Crystal Baker
Relative Socioeconomic Status and the Probability of Migration: A Study of the Effects of Relative Socioeconomic Status on the Decision to Migrate to the United States, Alexandra Souza Vieira Barker
The Role of Sulfur in Biomineralization: Argopecten Irradians and the Impact of Ocean Acidification, Bryanna Joy Broadaway
Denison House: Women's Use of Space in the Boston Settlement, Heather Marie Capitanio
Halfway-in-Between: A Collection of Interrelated Short Stories, Kevin Collins
Latino Immigrant Mothers' Experiences and Adapations to Promote Personal and Family Wellness in Response to Increased Anti-Immigrant Climate, Hercilia B. Corona-Ordoñez
"A Good Sized Pot": Early 19th Century Planting Pots from Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts, Rita A. DeForest
What We Want to Remember, Jennifer De Leon
Environmental and Natural Disasters in Haiti: The Impacts of Failed Policies From 2004 to 2010, James Douby Ralph Eliscar
Electrochemical Investigation of Nafion-clay Nanocomposite Membranes for Use in Fuel Cells, Christine E. Felice
A Macrobotanical Analysis of Native American Maize Agriculture at the Smith's Point Site, Kelly A. Ferguson
Reproductive Status and Body Condition of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus thynnus, in the Gulf of Maine, Jennifer Lane Goldstein
The Relationship between Racist Experiences and Anxiety in a Black Sample: Moderating Effects of Church-Based Social Support, Jessica Rose Graham
Caregiver, Family System, and Environmental Predictors of Child Maltreatment: An Ecological Transactional Approach, Kelly Brooke Graling
Trajectories of Early Externalizing Behaviors: Their Relation to Second Grade Reading, Sarah Gray
Gentility and Gender Roles Within the 18th-Century Merchant Class of Newport, Rhode Island, Nicki Hise
"The Most Horrific Tale": Violent Modernity and the Changing South in Faulkner's Sanctuary, Chad Martin Jewett
'King Prime of Fredonia Lane': An Archaeology of Leadership in Hyde Park, New York's Early Nineteenth-Century African American Community, Trevor Arthur Johnson
Italian Prisoners of War and Italian Service Units: From Enemies to Co-belligerents, Paul J. Jordan
Entertaining, Dining, and Novel Drinking: Rural Gentility and the Reverend John Hancock's Household, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1700-1750, Katie Lynn Kosack
What Do You See in this Picture?: Bias and Reflexivity in Physician Narratives of Disparities, Michelle Levine
Save The Old South! The Preservation Movement that Saved the Old South Meeting House in Boston, Massachusetts, Jeffrey Paul Robinson
Class, Class Mobility, and the Consumption of Household Technology in Salem, Massachusetts, 1890-1914, Candace Stephens
Modest Ministers or Posh Preachers?: A Study of the Personal Adornment Collection of the Hancock-Clarke House, Lexington, Massachusetts, Sarah Ann Stephens
Analysis of Putative ĸB Sites in Arabidopsis Thaliana, Daniel John Trask
Beef, Mutton, Pork, and a Taste of Turtle: Zooarchaeology and Nineteenth-Century African American Foodways at the Boston-Higginbotham House, Nantucket, Massachusetts, Michael Andrew Way
Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States, Christopher Wright
Theses from 2009
Democracy in Russia: An Analysis of the Process of Democratization in Post-Soviet Russia, Douglas F. Gray
"That Charm of Remoteness": A Study of Landscape Stability in Little Compton, Rhode Island, Katharine M. Johnson
Rainsford Island Shoreline Evolution Study (RISES), Christopher V. Maio
Theses from 2008
"Respecting Our Oppresst Community": People of Color in a Massachusetts Town, Before and After Freedom, Rita Hutchinson
Theses from 2006
US-Mexico Relations and NAFTA: Lessons Learned for South America and the FTAA, Marion E. Gordon
Theses from 2005
Negotiating Boundaries of Colonialism: Nineteenth-Century Lifeways on the Eastern Pequot Reservation, North Stonington, Connecticut, Craig N. Cipolla
Albania: A Case Study of Socio-Economic and Political Effects of Transition to Democracy, Ira Lazic