Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Personal Intelligence and Learning about Personality in Everyday Life, Jayne L. Allen
UNDERSTANDING TRANSITION PLANNING AND POSTSECONDARY OUTCOMES FOR YOUNG ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES ACROSS NATIONAL, STATE, AND SCHOOL LEVELS, Caroline Arakelian
Magma genesis beneath active continental rifts, Kimberly Aviado
Music of the triangles: How students come to understand trigonometric identities and transformations, Neil Moshe Bornstein
Spatially-Localized Solutions of Plane Couette Flow, Evan Wells Brand
The Growth Effects and Unintended Consequences of State and Federal Policies, Ben Brewer
Modeling and Observation of He+ Pickup Ions in the Inner Heliosphere, Junhong Chen
DESIGNING A CURRICULUM FOR DIFFICULT HISTORY: TEACHERS, MUSEUM WORKERS, AND WAR PHOTOJOURNALISM, Sara Clarke-Vivier
The Last Chapter of the Vietnam War: Normalization, Nongovernmental Actors and the Politics of Human Rights, 1975-1995, Amanda C. Demmer
EDWARD CHANNING’S WRITING REVOLUTION: COMPOSITION PREHISTORY AT HARVARD, 1819-1851, Bradfield Edward Dittrich
STUDENT'S MISCONCEPTIONS OF SEQUENCES AND SERIES IN SECOND SEMESTER CALCULUS, David Earls
Assessing the Mechanical Response of Pavements During and After Flooding, Mohamed Elshaer
The Study of Magnetotail Dynamics and their Ionospheric Signatures using Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation Model: OpenGGCM, Banafsheh Ferdousi Shahandashti
UNDERSTANDING ION SPECTRAL DYNAMICS NEAR THE INNER EDGE OF THE PLASMA SHEET, Cristian Ferradas
INSIGHTS INTO THE RING-OPENING MECHANISM OF BENZENE METABOLISM; AN INVESTIGATION OF THE OXIDATION OF MODEL OXEPINS BY CYTOCHROME P450, Holly Guevara
DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF POLYMERIC NANOSTRUCTURES USING SINGLE-CHAIN TECHNOLOGY AND CONTROLLED ARCHITECHTURES, Ashley Marie Hanlon
Genomic evaluation of male reproductive adaptations and responses to dehydration in Peromyscus eremicus (Cactus mouse), Lauren Kordonowy
John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith, 1960-1963, Patrick Lacroix
DERIVATIZATION OF DIIMINE TRICARBONYL Re(I) COMPLEXES FOR COOPERATIVE CATALYSIS AND SURFACE IMMOBILIZATION, Michael Eric Louis
The Supper Effect: Community Engagement as a Path to School and Community Change in a Small Rural Town, Quixada Lea Moore-Vissing
A Study of Reconnection Poleward of the Cusp: Cluster and Polar, Fathima M. Muzamil
Design, synthesis and characterization of bifunctional ligands and fluorescent sensors for bioavailable Cu(II), Zn(II) and Fe(III), Lea Nyiranshuti
Molecular mechanisms of salt and osmotic stress tolerance in Frankia strains isolated from Casuarina trees, REDIET OSHONE
Modeling Secondary Coordination Sphere Interactions in Heme Proteins: From Small Molecule Ligands to Macromolecular Porphyrin-cored Polymer Nanoparticles, Joel Kyle Rodriguez
A Beurling Theorem for Noncommutative Hardy Spaces Associated with a Semifinite von Neumann Algebra with Various Norms, Lauren Beth Meitzler Sager
FACILITATING PRESERVICE TEACHERS’ EXAMINATION OF BELIEFS ABOUT LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY, Vilmarie Sanchez
Are 21st Century After School Programs an Effective Academic Intervention for Elementary School Students Attending High Poverty Schools?, Jennifer Scarpati
Religious Affiliation and Women's Labor Patterns in U.S. Counties, Andrew Schaefer
Full Steam Ahead: The Effects of a STEAM-Focused Education on High School Students' Academic Performance, Engagement in School, and Perceptions of College and Career Readiness, Lisa Ida Speropolous
A dynamical-systems approach to understanding turbulence in plane Couette flow, Mimi Szeto
Protein Phosphatase 2A Function in Response to Salt Stress in Arabidopsis thaliana: Defining Pathways and Genetic Interaction Networks, Megan M. Thompson
Invisible Suburbs: Privatized Growth in Suburban Metropolitan Denver, 1950-2000, Kevin Weinman
EXPLORING THE SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, Jennifer Wilhelm
MAPPING ACADEMIC LITERACY NETWORKS: MULTILINGUAL INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WRITING IN A BUSINESS SCHOOL, Xiaoqiong You
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Nonlinear Evolution of Mirror Instability in the Earth's Magnetosheath in PIC Simulations, Narges Ahmadihojatabad
Mechanisms for Orientation in Low Energy Ion Beam Assisted TiAlN Thin Film Growth, Paul Vincent Aliotta
Extensions of MF algebras and Volume Entropy in Finite von Neumann Algebras, David Frank Benson
Improving Nutrient Utilization and Growth in Dairy Heifers, Colleen Chapman
I. Synthesis of Hydroxy Cyclopropyl Peptide Isosteres using Chain Extension Cyclopropanation Reaction. II. Synthesis and Stereochemical Studies of the Phenylalanine Derived Bicyclic Lactones, Rekha Kumari Chhetri
ENERGY AND PROTEIN EFFICIENCY OF LACTATING DAIRY COWS FED GROUND PEAS, CANOLA MEAL AND RUMEN-PROTECTED AMINO ACIDS, Andre de Barros Duarte Pereira
DYNAMICS OF A SUBMERSIBLE MUSSEL RAFT, Tobias Dewhurst
The effect of family violence on peer and partner violence patterns: An examination of self-concept as a mediating mechanism, Kristiana J. Dixon
Transport of Heat and Momentum In Non-Equilibrium Wall-Bounded Flows, Alireza Ebadi
Channeled Whelk (Busycotypus canaliculatus) Ecology in Relation to the Fishery in Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds, Massachusetts, Shelley Ann Edmundson
Liberation through Listening: Learning from Student Veterans in the Composition Classroom, Sarah Beth Franco
THE APPLICATION OF ANTHRACENE TOWARDS THE SYNTHESIS AND MANIPULATION OF SINGLE-CHAIN NANOTECHNOLOGY, Peter George Frank
FUNDAMENTALS AND RISK IN CURRENCY MARKETS: THE ROLE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PRINCIPLES AND PARAMETER INSTABILITY, Steven Furnagiev
Global and regional assessments of unsustainable groundwater use in irrigated agriculture, Danielle S. Grogan
Essays in the Economics of Long-Term Care Utilization, Jonathan Robert Hurdelbrink
COUPLING MOLECULAR CATALYSTS WITH NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACES FOR EFFICIENT SOLAR FUEL PRODUCTION, Tong Jin
Patient Portal Use in a Community Medical Group: A Healthcare Improvement Project, Pamela S. Kallmerten
The Effects of Encouraging Student-Faculty Interaction on Academic Success, Identity Development, and Student Retention in the First Year of College, Katerina Karaivanova
Robotics Needs Non-Classical Planning, Scott Kiesel
On tensor autoequivalences of graded fusion categories, Ian Swenson Marshall
The Swift Water Place: Water Quality, Fish Ecology, and Hydropower in the Merrimack River since the Time of Thoreau, Timothy Melia
The Role of Social Agency in Student Learning, Michael C. Melville
CELLULAR CODING PROPERTIES OF GOAL DIRECTED BEHAVIOR IN THE MEDIODORSAL AND INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS OF THE RAT: COMPARISONS TO PREFRONTAL CORTEX, Rikki Lou Ann Miller
ASSESSING AND IMPROVING THE RELIABILITY AND SECURITY OF CIRCUITS AFFECTED BY NATURAL AND INTENTIONAL FAULTS, Hoda Pahlevanzadeh
Navigating Barriers at Work: Exploring the Perceptions of Employees with Disabilities, Kimberly G. Phillips
Evaluating the structure of subjective well-being in causal models: Are three constructs better than one?, Danney Rasco
“A GREAT AND RISING NATION”: AMERICAN NAVAL EXPLORATION AND THE FORGING OF A GLOBAL MARITIME EMPIRE, 1815-1860, Michael Alexander Verney
PASSIVE MICROWAVE SATELLITE SNOW OBSERVATIONS FOR HYDROLOGIC APPLICATIONS, Carrie Micheline Vuyovich
Overcoming Violations of Real-World Knowledge in a Fantasy-World Text, Erinn K. Walsh
USING THE PLASMA FREE AMINO ACID DOSE RESPONSE METHOD TO DETERMINE METABOLIZABLE PROTEIN CONCENTRATIONS OF LYSINE AND METHIONINE IN RUMEN PROTECTED SUPPLEMENTS, Nancy Lee Whitehouse
LINEARLY EXTENDED PYRYLIUM SALTS (LEPS) AND LINEARLY EXTENDED THIOPYRYLIUM SALTS (LETS) AS ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS, Jianyu Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Bacterial biodegradation of soluble crude oil hydrocarbons and the influence of protists in simulated arctic seawater and sea ice, Heather Ballestero
Development of unsaturated flow functions for low impact development stormwater management systems filter media and flow routines for hydrological modeling of permeable pavement systems, Iulia Aurelia Barbu
"An ill-judged piece of business": The failure of slave trade suppression in a slaveholding republic, Sarah A. Batterson
Nonlinear Markov switching analysis of economic and stock market dynamics for emerging market economies, Ismail Onur Baycan
Essays on valuing non-market goods in imperfectly competitive markets, Laura Beaudin
Aspects of holography in Lorentz-violating gravity, Jishnu Bhattacharyya
Planning under time pressure, Ethan Burns
"Of the sky above you must beware": Airspace and airpower in twentieth century literature, Kimberly K. Dougherty
Utilization of Copper Alloys for Marine Applications, Andrew Drach
Multiscale Numerical Modeling and Characterization of Carbon/Carbon Composites, Borys Drach
Impressions of college intructors: Stability and change in student ratings, Kari L. Dudley
Characterization of the prokaryotic community associated with the giant barrel sponge, Xestospongia muta across the Caribbean, Cara L. Fiore
Engineering lipases and solvents for trans/-esterification of used vegetable oils, Michael Dore Gagnon
What do students do in self-formed mathematics study groups?, Gillian E. Galle
The effects of biotic and abiotic factors on byssogenesis, growth and movement patterns of the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, Yvette Louise Garner
A personal and collaborative journey of change: Lessons learned about leadership, mentoring and motivation from an educational community's work with Donald Graves, Barbara Plummer Jasinski
Pulsating aurora: Source region & morphology, Allison Jaynes
Interactions of shiga-like toxin-2 (Stx-2) from Escherichia coli O157:H7 and the Bcl-2 family of proteins during host cell programmed cell death, Lia K. Jeffrey
Light Hadron Properties From Lattice QCD, Parikshit M. Junnarkar
Extreme value theory: Applications to estimation of stochastic traffic capacity and statistical downscaling of precipitation extremes, Eric Matthew Laflamme
Investigating priming, inhibition, and individual differences in visual attention, Jennifer Lechak
Characterization of low-temperature properties of plant-produced rap mixtures in the Northeast, Marcelo S. Medeiros Junior.
Examining social climate and youth social goals on extended wilderness courses: A path toward improving participant experiences, Benjamin J. Mirkin
Peer mediation in Massachusetts public middle & high schools: Perceptions of educators, Eve I. Noss
Patterns of cytosine methylation in the genome of Caenorhabditis elegans, Kazufusa Okamoto
Everyday food practices among three low-income groups: Rural, homeless, and refugee, Amy L. Redman
Approaches to modeling pathogen and natural organic matter removals in slow-rate biofilters, Jeffrey Dale Senders