Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Asymmetry in the Magnocellular and Parvocellular Pathways, Jenny Louise Lang
SYNTHESES AND CHARACTERIZATIONS OF NOVEL ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS, Yushu Li
DEVELOPMENT OF GENOMIC RESOURCES AND IDENTIFICATION OF MARKER-TRAIT ASSOCIATIONS IN STRAWBERRY, Lise L. Mahoney
The foliose Bangiales (Rhodophyta) in the northern part of the North Atlantic and the relationship with the North Pacific foliose Bangiales - diversity, distribution, phylogeny and phylogeography, Agnes Mols-Mortensen
QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF URBANIZATION ON N AND P INPUTS, TRANSFORMATIONS, REMOVAL AND FLUXES IN WATERSHEDS DRAINING TO THE PLUM ISLAND ESTUARY, Nathaniel Burr Morse
PERFORMANCE AND CAVITATION CHARACTERISTICS OF BI-DIRECTIONAL HYDROFOILS, Ivaylo Petrov Nedyalkov
FULL-WAVEFORM AND DISCRETE-RETURN LIDAR IN SALT MARSH ENVIRONMENTS: AN ASSESSMENT OF BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS, VERTICAL UNCERTATINTY, AND NONPARAMETRIC DEM CORRECTION, Jeffrey Nickerson Rogers
COMPETENCIES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: TEACHING AN UNDERSTANDING OF OTHERS, CRITICAL THINKING, LEADERSHIP AND A SENSE OF OBLIGATION. PERCEPTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERS., Michael F. Schwartz
The ability of adventure education to influence the social skill development of urban middle school students, Paul J. Shirilla
TOWARDS THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE EFFECT OF FUNCTIONAL MONOMERS ON LATEX PARTICLE MORPHOLOGY FORMED BY EMULSION POLYMERIZATION, Amit Kumar Tripathi
Conserving wetlands for humans and amphibians: a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the social and ecological effectiveness of New England's wetland policies, Jessica Veysey Powell
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Plant water use and canopy-fog interactions across a land use change trajectory of pasture to pine reforestation in a seasonally dry tropical montane cloud belt, Maria Susana Alvarado Barrientos
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
Enhancing memory access for less-skilled readers, Emily R. Smith
I The tandem chain extension-acylation reaction II Synthesis of papyracillic acid A: Application of the tandem homologation-acylation reaction III Synthesis of tetrahydrofuran-based peptidomimetics, Carley Meredith Spencer
Developing competence: A qualitative inquiry of college student leadership in university outdoor orientation programs, J David Starbuck
Currency risk and imperfect knowledge: Cointegrated VAR analyses with survey data, Josh R. Stillwagon
Essays on Current Use Property Taxation, Darshana Udayanganie
Mechanisms of nutrient limitation and nutrient acquisition in managed and unmanaged forest ecosystems, Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur
Mechanisms of nutrient limitation and nutrient acquisition in managed and unmanaged forest ecosystems, Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur
A longitudinal analysis of the effect of disability type and emotional/behavior problems on different forms of maltreatment across childhood, Jennifer A. Vanderminden
Identification and stoichiometric analysis of the monosomal translational complex, Xin Wang
Intermittent swim stress effects on anxiety behavior, Timothy A. Warner
Writing assessment's "debilitating inheritance": Behaviorism's dismissal of experience, Maja Joiwind Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Test model of a healthy lifestyle intervention program, Jorie C. Allen
Calcium homeostasis in Escherichia coli, Muhammad Arif
Student science achievement and the integration of indigenous knowledge in the classroom and on standardized tests, Juliann Benson
Development of bio-optical algorithms to estimate chlorophyll in the Great Salt Lake and New England lakes using in situ hyperspectral measurements, Shane Richard Bradt
Cusp Ion Structures and Their Relation to Magnetopause Processes, Hyun Ju Connor
Examining celestial polarization with the Gamma Ray Polarimeter Experiment (GRAPE), Taylor Pyne Connor
Can we get there from here? Ecosystem based governance in the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine region, John R. Coon
Culture, place and identity in a mobile community, Genevieve Ramsey Cox
Violent socialization processes and criminal behavior: An international perspective on variations in social control during late adolescence and emerging adulthood, Aimee Delaney Lutz
The impact of multilayer periodicity on texture, morphology, chemical stability and machining performance of titanium aluminum nitride/chromium nitride thin films, Dale Andrew Delisle
Anxious lives: Tracing the life course of a medical diagnosis through illness narratives, Jennifer J. Esala
Watching children: A history of America's race to educate kids and the creation of the 'slow-learner' subject, Jeffrey C. Frenkiewich
The impact of seasonal movements by ovigerous American lobsters (Homarus americanus) on egg development and larval release, Jason Seth Goldstein
Observation of high iron charge states in solar energetic particle events, Zhangbo Guo
The use of multibeam and split-beam echo sounders for assessing biomass and distribution of spring-spawning Atlantic cod in the Gulf of Maine, Christopher William Damon Gurshin
Fairness in a data center, MIkkel Hagen
The role of red-backed salamanders in ecosystems, Daniel J. Hocking
1960s travel fiction and Englishness during the postimperial turn, Matthew J. Hurwitz
Effects of nitrogen-fixing symbiotic cyanobacteria on the microbial ecology of the coral, Montastraea cavernosa, Jessica K. Jarett
Morphological study of composite latex particles and water interaction with polymer chains, Bo Jiang
On the reproductive biology of the western Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, Jessica M. Knapp
Learning from feedback: How students read, interpret and use teacher written feedback in the composition classroom, Elisabeth A. Kramer-Simpson
Mechanism of SPS acceleration in a PEG containing copper plating bath, Ashleigh Kreider
The ecological role of feeding disturbances of the Atlantic horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, Wan-Jean Lee
Trace metal applications in atmospheric and watershed dynamics: Case studies of mercury deposition in New England and bedrock groundwater-surface water mixing, Melissa A. Lombard
A multi-temporal image analysis of habitat modification in the Coastal Watershed, NH, Meghan Graham MacLean
Provider-Controlled Bandwidth Management for HTTP-based Video Delivery, Kevin J. Ma
Producing science that gets used by coastal communities: What funders should do to link more science with decisions, Kalle Matso
Cross-correlation based performance measures for characterizing the influence of in-vehicle interfaces on driving and cognitive workload, Zeljko Medenica
Mean Force Structure and Scaling of Rough-Wall Turbulent Boundary Layers, Faraz Mehdi
An empirical investigation: How small to mid-sized enterprises use innovation on the path toward ecological sustainability, Shelley F. Mitchell
Tracking environmental trends in the Great Bay Estuarine System: An examination of water quality and nuisance macroalgal blooms, Jeremy C. Nettleton
Educative encounters: An analysis of Dewey, Buber and Noddings to understand the role of encountering self, others and the world in teaching and learning in higher education, Carrie Maureen Nolan
Eating quality and variability in carotenoid content and profiles in winter squash and sweet potato, Jennifer Bonina Noseworthy
The historical fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea: A reconstruction of trawl gear, effort and trends in demersal fish stocks, Giacomo Chato Osio
Stuck in the middle: A case study of conflict experiences by a first-time community college president, Martha Parker-Magagna
Inventing George Whitefield: Celebrity and the making of a religious icon, Jessica M. Parr
Created in the image of: Mormonism and the rhetorical production of identity in privately-published family histories, Michael K. Peterson
Observational studies of scatterometer ocean vector winds in the presence of dynamic air-sea interactions, Amanda Michael Plagge
Wave-particle interactions in the solar wind and solar flares, Peera Pongkitiwanichakul
Interaction between the coastal ocean and the estuarine systems, Shivanesh Arvinda Rao