Dissertations from 2010
Teaching, activism, and the purposes of education: Toward an integrated vision of teachers' work, Carina E. Self
Human-human multi-threaded spoken dialogs in the presence of driving, Oleksandr Shyrokov
Learning systems: An ecological perspective on advanced academic literacy practices of multilingual writers, Steve Simpson
Factors regulating the production of STX-2 in Escherichia coli O157:H7, Kate P. Stefani
Comprehension of protagonists' goals and intentions: The dynamic relation between reading skill, text characteristics, and reading strategies, Jennifer J. Stiegler
Land development in Massachusetts: Its effect on the environment within Essex and Middlesex counties from 1990 to 2007, Peter Sean Tardie
Effects of physical and chemical disturbance on stream ecosystem structure and function, Elena M. Traister
From biosphere to noosphere: Vladimir Vernadsky's theoretical system as a conceptual framework for universal sustainability education, Irina L. Trubetskova
Development and Characterization of a Fast Neutron Imaging Telescope (FNIT) for 1--20 MeV Neutrons From the Sun and Nuclear Material, Richard S. Woolf
Search for the onset of color transparency through neutral rho meson electroproduction on nuclei, Lorenzo Zana
Parent and teacher perceptions of school partnerships in New Hampshire schools, Brenda J. Zarnowski
Dissertations from 2009
Prodigal sons: Indigenous missionaries in the British Atlantic world, 1640--1780, Edward E. Andrews
Bridging cultures: American Indian students at the Northfield Mount Hermon School, Kathryn A. Askins
Sustainable management of industrial capital: LCA and spatial analysis in decision making for beneficial use of industrial by -products, Alberta C. Carpenter
"Chasing a ghost": Addressing the opalescence/aggregation relationship of an IgG 1 antibody, John C. Champagne
"It's just part of what we do": Adolescent interactions with multimodal texts across social spaces, Anita S. Charles
A system model for the effect of Polarization Mode Dispersion on digital modulated optical signals in single mode fibers, Abhijit Shriram Chitambar
The mental demands of marine Ecosystem -based Management: A constructive developmental lens, Verna Gerard DeLauer
Invariant Frechet algebras on bounded symmetric domains, Oleg Eroshkin
Understanding personality through preferences in popular mass media: An archetypal approach, Michael A. Faber
The effects of documentation on young children's memory, Bethany Karen Benson Fleck
Keeping visual-auditory associations in mind: The impact of detail and meaningfulness on crossmodal working memory load, Anne T. Gilman
The Maritime Revival: Antimodernity, class, and culture, 1870--1940, Glenn Michael Grasso
Fabrication and tribology of composite coatings incorporating solid lubricant micro-reservoirs, Canan Gamze Guleryuz
Knowing more than they can tell: An assessment of genre awareness among students in writing intensive zoology and civil engineering courses, Joleen Kidwell Hanson
Excavating the landscapes of American literature: Archaeology, antiquarianism, and the landscape in American women's writing, 1820--1890, Christina Healey
Synoptic controls on ozone over the northeastern US and continental export, Jennifer D. Hegarty
A wild web: The tangled history of attitudes toward wildlife in a dynamic New England culture, 1945--1985, Mary H. Hopkins
Predicting inclusive teaching using the Transtheoretical Model of behavior change and the Theory of Planned Behavior, Heather D. Hussey
Gonadotropin releasing hormone in agnathans, Scott Ira Kavanaugh
Wavelet regression with long memory infinite moving average errors, Juan Liu
Absent meaning: Fascination, narrative, and trauma in the Holocaust imaginary, Christopher Scott Massey
Determination of geotechnical properties of seafloor sediment using a free fall penetrometer, Gopala Krishna Mulukutla
Executive control in the anterior cingulate cortex, Lori A. Newman
A modified synthesis, C-functionalization, resolution and racemization kinetics of cross -bridged tetraazamacrocycles, Antoinette Yolanda Odendaal
Chemical sensors based on swellable polymer microparticles and molecular imprinted polymers, John Ong'any Osambo
The process of making meaning: The interplay between teachers' knowledge of mathematical proofs and their classroom practices, Megan Paddack
Emotional responses to environmental messages: Implications for future environmentally responsible behavioral intentions, Jeffrey L. Perrin
Treatment of contaminated sediments using reactive cap technology: Characterization and modeling of geotechnical, hydraulic and contaminant transport behavior of cap-sediment systems, Rafael Antonio Prieto Piedrahita
Synthesis and characterization of functional polymers with controlled architecture and their application as anticorrosion primers, Anne S. Quincy
Kadison -Singer algebras with applications to von Neumann algebras, Mohan Ravichandran
Landslide susceptibility mapping through enhanced dynamic slope stability analysis using earth observing satellite measurements, Ram Lakhan Ray
"Racism is a misunderstanding": Rhetorically listening to white students' performances of race, Meagan Rodgers
Mathematics of double-walled carbon nanotube model: Asymptotic spectral and stability analysis, Miriam Rojas-Arenaza
Temporal variation, regional sources, and removal processes of volatile organic compounds in New England, Rachel S. Russo
Instability among middle class families and the impact of health insurance, Sarah A. Savage
Solar wind stream interfaces: The importance of time, longitude, and latitude separation between points of observation, Kristin Diane Commer Simunac
Modeling congenital disorders of glycosylation in Caenorhabditis elegans: Genetic influences and structural consequences of N-linked glycosylation, Weston Booth Struwe
Hadron -hadron scattering in lattice quantum chromodynamics, Aaron M. Torok
Engaged scholarship at land-grant institutions: Factors affecting faculty participation, Lisa Townson
Genetic variation within the Daphnia pulex genome, Abraham Eaton Tucker
The taxpayer as reformer: 'Pocketbook politics' and the law, 1860--1940, Linda Upham-Bornstein
Biologically inspired feature extraction for rotation and scale tolerant pattern analysis, Dragan Vidacic
Arresting beauty, framing evidence: An inquiry into photography and the teaching of writing, Kuhio Walters
To pave or not to pave: A social landscape analysis of land use decision-making in the Lamprey River watershed, Erika Lea Washburn
Photosynthetic and oxidative stress in the green alga Dunaliella tertiolecta: The effects of UV-B and UV-A radiation, Priya Sampath Wiley
Understanding SLA through peer interactions in a Chinese classroom: A sociocultural perspective, Lei Wu
Milling cutter software architecture for force and surface finish modeling, Cuneyt Yalcin
Development of nitrogen protecting groups and synthesis and complexation of bridged bis-tetraazamacrocycles, Matthew J. Young
Kadison -Singer algebras, Wei Yuan
The puzzling behavior of equity returns: The need to move beyond the consumption capital asset pricing model, Liping Zheng
Ambient measurements of chemical and physical properties of organic aerosols: Insights into formation, growth, and heterogeneous chemistry, Luke D. Ziemba
Dissertations from 2008
Differentially expressed genes in aortic cells from atherosclerosis-resistant and atherosclerosis-susceptible pigeons, Janet Lynn Anderson
A Bayesian stormwater quality model and its application to water quality monitoring, Pedro M. Avellaneda
Comparative embryology and muscle development of polyclad flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Rhabditophora), Diana Marcela Bolanos
Evaluation of in vitro methods to estimate digestibility of amino acids in the rumen undegraded protein fraction of feedstuffs, Sarah Boucher
Patterns of skinhead violence, Derek Bowen
A fundamental analysis of means of producing and storing energy, Michael S. Briggs
Secondary organic aerosol formation of relevance to the marine boundary layer, Xuyi Cai
Sustainable development of maritime cultural heritage in the Gulf of Maine, Stefan Claesson
Planar algebra of families of subfactors, Paramita Das
The development of a modular integrated recirculating aquaculture system using Porphyra (nori) for the bioremediation of marine finfish effluent, Jennifer Pauline Day
Biomonitoring polybrominated diphenyl ethers in lactating women, Rebecca L. Dunn
The effect of peer and parental smoking on adolescent smoking initiation: Exploring potential moderators, Jeffrey Allen Eaton
Unitarily invariant norms and tensor products of maximal injective von Neumann subalgebras, Junsheng Fang
The social production of community garden space: Case studies of Boston, Massachusetts and Havana, Cuba, Charles A. French
Illusory judgments under conditions of uncertainty: Reasoning errors related to paranormal and religious beliefs, Erin C. Goforth
Polychlorinated biphenyl dechlorination with palladized magnesium - Development of a sediment remediation technology, Emese Hadnagy
Law enforcement's reconceptualization of juvenile prostitutes from delinquency offenders to child sexual abuse victims in six US cities, Stephanie Halter
Investigating the effects of integrated systematic decoding, spelling and communication instruction for students with complex communication needs, Gretchen Hanser
The Venetian blind effect, binocular luster, and binocular rivalry, Richard S. Hetley
Teaching toward understanding: Feminist rhetorical theories and pedagogies in the college composition classroom, Alison A. Knoblauch
A system for automating the interpretation of Analytical Ultracentrifuge data, Bradley W. Langhorst
The activation of stereotypical knowledge, Karla A. Lassonde
Free entropy dimensions and approximate liftings, Weihua Li
Stratified-drift aquifers in New Hampshire with potential to serve as future, large public water-supplies: Status, circa 2000; projected losses, circa 2025; and data accuracy, John Alexander Lough
Where the inchoate seeks form: Autobiographical curriculum inquiry in women's rowing, Jennie Anne Marshall
Biologically inspired composite image sensor for deep field target tracking, Pavlo Melnyk
The local land use process in New Hampshire: Does it contribute to sprawl?, Clayton Robert Mitchell
Understanding polyamine metabolism through transgenic manipulation in poplar suspension cultures, Sridev Mohapatra
Dynamics of phytoplankton community composition in the western Gulf of Maine, Timothy S. Moore
Nanotemplate creation and self-assembly on the (111) surface of gold, Georgi Nenchev Nenchev
Survival strategies of eelgrass in reduced light, Caroline A. Ochieng