Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Directed Molecular Self-Assembly of a Novel Pentacene Derivative on Gold Surfaces: An Experimental and Computational Study, Amanda Margaret Larson
INTERMITTENTLY CONNECTED DELAY-TOLERANT WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS, Ying Li
Single chain technology: Toward the controlled synthesis of polymer nanostructures, Christopher Kenneth Lyon
A Supercell, Bloch Wave Method for Calculating Low-Energy Electron Reflectivity with Applications to Free-Standing Graphene and Molybdenum Disulfide, John Francis McClain
Developing Index Parameters for Cracking in Asphalt Pavements Through Black Space and Viscoelastic Continuum Damage Principles, David Jonathan Mensching
Examining Situations Involving Intimate Partner Aggression: A Dyadic Study of Agreement on Behaviors, Attributions, and Emotional Effects, Angela Marie Neal
NUMERICAL UPDATING ON COLLAPSE SIMULATION OF MULTI-STORY BUILDINGS THROUGH HYBRID TESTING, Miguel Negrete-Padilla
A study of interplanetary shock geoeffectiveness controlled by impact angles using simulations and observations, Denny Oliveira
Silvopasture in the Northeastern United States, Joseph Nathan Orefice
"Nobody Wants To Feel Different...But It's Just The Way It Is": Experiences Of Stigma And Other Stressors Among People Living With Psoriasis, Alex Parkhouse
"'Strange shall be the wonders': Preternature in the Early Modern English Atlantic World", Tricia Rhiannon Peone
Unraveling depositional and diagenetic signals in magnetic susceptibility in methane-bearing sediments along the Indian, Cascadia, and Japanese margins, Stephen C. Phillips
The Relationship Between Oceanic Transform Fault Segmentation, Seismicity, and Thermal Structure, Monica Wolfson Schwehr
A Woman's Work is Never Done? Earlier Life Child, Marital, and Work History and Older Women's Relationship to the Paid Labor Force, Anne Shattuck
A Distributed Vortex in Stratified Flow, Surupa Shaw
GENOMIC RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND CANDIDATE GENE EVALUATION IN FRAGARIA VESCA (L.), Melanie Eileen Shields
Hybrid Zone Dynamics Between Saltmarsh (Ammodramus caudacutus) and Nelson's (Ammodramus nelsoni) Sparrows, Jennifer Walsh
"Upward Bound is College Bound": Pre-College Outreach Programs' Sponsorship of Academic Writing, Shauna Wight
BY HER AVAILABLE MEANS: THE SENSATIONAL RHETORIC OF WOMEN’S CIVIL WAR MEMOIRS, Patricia Ann Wilde
THE INFLUENCE OF CENTRAL THALAMUS ON CODING PROPERTIES OF PREFRONTAL CORTEX, Benjamin Aaron Wormwood
Social Capital in a Diversifying City: A Multi-Neighborhood Ethnographic Case Study, Justin Robert Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Estimating Proximity to the Asymmetric Reconnection X-line, Matthew Argall
COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF DROPLET AND CAPSULE FLOW IN CHANNELS WITH INERTIAL EFFECTS, Robert Carroll
The Complexities of Family Health: Effects on Women's Employment, Jessica Aimee Carson
Causes and Consequences of Diversity within Experimental Biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Kenneth Mark Flynn
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