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Doctoral Dissertations

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Shifting alliances and fairweather friends: Luso-American relations, 1941--1951, Paula Celeste Gomes Noversa. Rioux

Towards Colombian small-scale marine fisheries management: Hacia un manejo de la pesca marina artesanal en Colombia, Lina Maria Saavedra-Diaz

Liquefaction and ring shear device, Julian A. Sandoval

Essays on motor fuel taxation and price dynamics in the European Union, Aliya Sassi

Heuristic search under time and cost bounds, Jordan Tyler Thayer

Writing for numbers: The Cultural Production of Good Writers in the Time of High Stakes Writing Assessments, Barbara W. Tindall

An investigation of non-spatial cognitive abilities in an asocial corvid, the Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), Jan K. Tornick

Nonideality in high concentration solutions, Ronald Toth

Testing the procedural justice model of legal socialization: Expanding beyond the legal world, Rick Trinkner

Transferring big data across the globe, Adam H. Villa

Ecological effects of ditching and ditch-plugging in New England salt marshes, Robert E. Vincent

Flatfish stock enhancement: Examining conditioning strategies to promote success, Michelle Lynn Walsh

Towards public professionalism: A pentadic intervention in debate between the Common Core Standards Initiative (CCSI) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Jim Webber

Processes influencing visual awareness during motion-induced blindness, Erika T. Wells

Essays on the economics of municipal and household solid waste disposal and recycling, Christopher Wright

Perpendicular Ion Heating by Low-frequency Alfven-wave Turbulence, Qian Xia

On wavelet-based testing for serial correlation of unknown form using Fan's adaptive Neyman method, Shan Yao

Ratiometric copper(II) indicators based on poly(n-isoproprylacrylamide) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer, Shaojun Yao

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

The origins of American history in the early modern English Atlantic world, Ian J. Aebel

In-situ early detection of metal corrosion via "turn-on" fluorescence in "smart" epoxy coatings, Anita Augustyniak

"I remember when you taught me that!" Developmental and gender differences in children's episodic memories of learning events during the early school years, Rhyannon H. Bemis

The Effects of Weak Collisions on Nonlinear Plasma Kinetics, Carrie E. Black

Decoding minority student retention: An investigation of student experiences and institutional characteristics, Stephanie S. Bramlett

Homotopy mapping spaces, Jeremy Brazas

Efficiency of the built environment: Interdependencies in transportation, development form and public health, Cynthia H. Carlson

Independently innovative: Teachers and change in successful schools, Mary Halpin Carter

Design of a low power switched-capacitor pipeline analog-to-digital converter, Gang Chen

Seasonal, biogeochemical, and microbial response of soils to simultaneous warming and nitrogen additions, Alexandra R. Contosta

A computational fluid dynamics study of two-phase flows in the presence of surfactants, Yuanyuan Cui

The deconstruction of ambition: Campus climate, stereotype threat, and the motivational goals of African American students at a selective small liberal arts college, Roland S. Davis

Marine atmospheric influences on trace gas observations and transport during the ICARTT 2004 campaign, Shannon R. Davis

Development of engineering tools to analyze and design flexible structures in open ocean environments, Judson Decew

Ocular dominance and temporal dynamics in the venetian blind effect, Joshua Jay Dobias

Character displacement in Burkholderia biofilm communities and the effect of adaptive history on the evolution of niche breadth, Crystal Nicole Ellis

Detection of Mortality in Tropical Forests Using Remote Sensing: From Treefall Gaps to Large Disturbances, Fernando Del Bon Espirito-Santo

Proof and reasoning in an inquiry-oriented class: The impact of classroom discourse, Susan D. Generazzo

Global Structure of the Nightside Proton Precipitation during Substorms using Simulations and Observations, Matthew L. Gilson

Satellite-derived fluorescence quantum yields as indicators of phytoplankton photophysiology, Deborah Goodwin

Analytical and numerical prediction of localized necking in sheet metal forming processes, Raed Zuhair Hasan

The role of reuniens and rhomboid thalamic nuclei in spatial memory, Jacqueline R. Hembrook

Assessing social-ecological resilience and adaptive capacity in the face of climate change: An examination of three communities in the Crown of the Continent ecosystem, Bradley B. Johnson

Hydrogenation of nanostructured carbon, synthesis of organic semiconductors and progress towards synthesis of fullerenes and nanoribbons from polyaromatic hydrocarbons, Jeremy T. Kintigh

Linking goals to outcomes: Exploring students' achievement goals, strategy use, and standards of success for learning, Kirsten Nerissa Koritz

Evaluating mode of loading effect and laboratory fatigue performance of asphalt concrete using viscoelastic continuum damage mechanics, Aravind Krishna Swamy

Occurrence of major ozone episodes and their time-series trends over the past decade in New England, Tzu-Ling Lai

Statistical study of oxygen+ transport from the cusp to the plasmasheet, Jing Liao

High Lundquist Number Simulations of Parker's Model of Coronal Heating: Scaling and Current Sheet Statistics Using Heterogeneous Computing Architectures, LiWei Lin

An exploratory approach to social impact assessment of public policy decisions: Multiple stakeholders perspectives on the social impact of overfishing in New England groundfisheries in the 1990s, Fabienne Lord

Existing regulatory circuitries govern backbone and acquired host association factors in the human pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Jennifer C. Mahoney

Polyamine metabolism in Arabidopsis: Transgenic manipulation and gene expression, Rajtilak Majumdar

"If we want an education, we want an education It's our choice": How four youth at risk of dropping out of high school experienced social capital, Joanne McFarland Malloy

The puzzle of long swings in equity markets: Which way forward?, Nicholas J. Mangee

Raping the raced body: Trauma in Asian North American women's literature, Amy Lillian Manning

I The synthesis of papyracillic acids: Application of the tandem chain extension-acylation reaction II Diastereoselective synthesis of beta-methyl-gamma-keto esters through the utility of an L-serine auxiliary, Jennifer R. Mazzone

Unraveling the mystery of leaf reddening in seagrasses, Alyssa B. Novak

Three elements of self-regulated learning: Metacognitive functioning, self-efficacy, and study behavior, Catherine E. Overson

From sweetwater to seawater: An environmental history of Narragansett Bay, 1636--1849, Christopher L. Pastore

Chemistry of acenes, [60]fullerenes, cyclacenes and carbon nanotubes, Chandrani Pramanik

Aspects of String Compactification, Guoqin Ren

Stories worth telling: How one school navigates tensions between innovation and standards, Alison Ann Rheingold

Examining the Relationship Between Social Capital and the Built Environment: A Case Study in Measuring Community Sustainability, Shannon H. Rogers

Preschool teachers' beliefs and practices: Emergent literacy in inclusive preschools, Leigh Rohde

The effect of culture and self-construal on memory development: Mother-child conversations in Eastern Turkey, Western Turkey and the United States, Basak Sahin

Artifact-based reflective interviews for identifying pragmatic epistemological resources, Christopher Walden Shubert

"The alien within": Residual Catholicism and the emerging national identity of post-Reformation England, Melissa K. Siik (Femino)

The implications of socioeconomic status and a usual source of care for the health and health care experiences of elders with chronic illnesses, Michelle L. Stransky

Study of the rate and spectrum of spontaneous mutations, Way Sung

Wireless Sensor Integrated Tool for Characterization of Machining Dynamics in Milling, Christopher Adam Suprock

I Progress towards the synthesis of plakortether B through a zinc-mediated homologation II Synthesis of novel hydroxy-cyclopropyl peptides isosteres, Ian Scott Taschner

Wage employment, traditional subsistence, and aspirations among Inupiat and Yup'ik in the mixed economy of Northwest Alaska, Catherine Turcotte-Seabury

Competing visions: Women writers and male illustrators in the Golden Age of Illustration, Jason Richard Williams

On decompositions and Connes's embedding problem of finite von Neumann algebras, Jinsong Wu

An Analysis of Appreciative Inquiry as Organizational Development for an Alternative School, Michael Young

Models and methods for computationally efficient analysis of large spatial and spatio-temporal data, Chengwei Yuan

Identifying novel proteins in translation complex by using analytical ultracentrifugation with fluorescent detection system, Chongxu Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

The impact of a mathematics research experience on teachers' conceptions of student learning, Todd Abel

Trematode parasites of the mudsnail Ilyanassa obsoleta: An analysis of parasite communities at different scales, Irit Altman

Volatile organic compounds in the New England troposphere: Atmospheric chemistry and measurement techniques, Jesse L. Ambrose

The effects of Didemnum vexillum overgrowth on Mytilus edulis biology and ecology, Linda Ann Auker

Conjecturing in dynamic geometry: A model for conjecture-generation through maintaining dragging, Anna Baccaglini-Frank

Topics in access, storage, and sensor networks, Swapnil Bhatia

An ethnographic investigation of the process of change in students' environmental identity and pro-environmental behavior in an Environmental Science course, Erica N. Blatt

Updated life history and population structure assessment of spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias, in the Gulf of Maine, Walter Bubley

Modeling the self-assembly of functionalized fullerenes on solid surfaces using Monte Carlo simulations, Gregory J. Bubnis

Violent video game exposure and physical aggression in adolescence: Tests of the General Aggression Model, Donald Bucolo

Studies in Indian informal sector, Arpita Banerjee Chakraborty

A rotating ring-disk study of interactions among SPS, cuprous ions, and oxygen, Yi-Hsin Chen

Community change in the Northern forest, Chris R. Colocousis

Spatial management of groundfish resources in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank, Jamie Marie Cournane

Moving beyond entry-level competencies: The role of the recreation management internship in the moral development of college students, Patricia J. Craig

Competencies and problems of poor and non-poor American emerging adults, Jean Dawson

Archiving the sacred: Austin Phelps and the adaptation of nineteenth-century rhetorical education at Andover Theological Seminary, Michael-John DePalma

The reminiscence bump in autobiographical memory: An investigation of the life script hypothesis, Ryan Alexander Dickson

Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Functional Lung Microstructure, Isabel Dregely

Ratiometric fluorescent metal ion indicators based on functionalized poly(N -isopropylacrylamide), Jie Du

Microstructural evolution of sputtered phase segregated metal composite thin films, Dana I. Filoti

"This wilderness world": The evolution of a New England farm town, 1820--1840, Mary Babson Fuhrer

Politics and ethics of student self-assessment in the composition classroom, Mike Garcia

Somatic condition, growth and distribution of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the Gulf of Maine, Walter J. Golet

Bimodule categories and monoidal 2-structure, Justin Greenough