Dissertations from 2016
PASSIVE MICROWAVE SATELLITE SNOW OBSERVATIONS FOR HYDROLOGIC APPLICATIONS, Carrie Micheline Vuyovich
IPM2.0: PRECISION AGRICULTURE FOR SMALL-SCALE CROP PRODUCTION, Matt Wallhead
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
INVESTIGATION OF SUBGENOME COMPOSITION IN OCTOPLOID STRAWBERRIES, Yilong Yang
Small Solar Wind Transients 1995 - 2014: Properties, Modeling, and Effects on the Magnetosphere, Wenyuan Yu
LINEARLY EXTENDED PYRYLIUM SALTS (LEPS) AND LINEARLY EXTENDED THIOPYRYLIUM SALTS (LETS) AS ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS, Jianyu Zhao
Dissertations from 2015
Diamagnetic Stabilization of Double-tearing Modes in MHD Simulations, Stephen Richard Abbott
GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS OF PLANT REPLICATION PROTEIN A 1 (RPA1), Behailu Birhanu Aklilu
A MODEL STUDY OF ADLAYER PATTERN FORMATION OF RIGID DI- TRI- AND TETRATOPIC MOLECULES ON SQUARE AND TRIANGULAR LATTICES, Moh'd Ibrahim Alomari
Nonlinear Waves on a String with Inhomogeneous Properties, Robert Arredondo
Formal Synthesis of CJ-12,954 and CJ-13,014 using Zinc-Mediated Tandem Chain Extension-Aldol Reaction and Synthesis and Investigation of Diastereoselectivity of Hydroxy-Cyclopropyl Peptide Isosteres, Yashoda Naga Deepthi Bhogadhi
SAMPLING OF SOILS WITH METALLIC RESIDUES COLLECTED FROM MILITARY SMALL-ARMS RANGES, Jay L. Clausen
The Study of Ionospheric Response to Precipitation Using Sounding Rocket Observations, Ian James Cohen
Comparing Police Eyewitnesses and Lay Eyewitnesses: The Effect of Eyewitness Reputation and Procedural Justice on Juror Verdict Decisions, Lindsey Marie Cole
Doing the Tough Work: Care and the Dynamics of Community-University Engagement, John B. Cook
A PHYSIOCRATIC SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK FOR OPEN SOURCE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, Dorn Cox
Seeing and Believing: The Emergent Nature of Extreme Weather Perceptions, Matthew John Cutler
Across the Color Line: Race, Reception, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace, 1877-1920, Lucas Dietrich
Pose Detection and Control of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) Utilizing an Optical Detector Array, Firat Eren
Knowledge-Based Medication Administration: Program Evaluation and Optimization, Elizabeth Evans
A Serious and Jealous Eye: Federal Union in New England, 1775 - 1821, Jordan Fansler
Catch Share Management in the Northeast Multispecies Fishery: Implications for the Commercial Groundfish Fishery in New Hampshire, Rachel G. Feeney
NET EFFECTS OF DISTURBANCE: SPATIAL, TEMPORAL, AND SOCIETAL DIMENSIONS OF FOREST DISTURBANCE AND RECOVERY ON TERRESTRIAL CARBON BALANCE, Justin Peter Fisk
Life Interrupted: The Experience of Informal Caregivers of Aging Family Members, Susan Wirka Fox
Mitigating the risk of unplanned transfers to intensive care, Cheryl A. Gagne
Beyond Boston: Catholicism in the Northern New Borderlands in the Nineteenth Century, Molly Gallaher Boddy
Three Essays in the Economics of Child Health and Development, Jia Gao
DEVELOPMENT OF AN ISOTOPIC APPROACH FOR DETAILING HEPARIN SEQUENCES, Qing Guo
Metamorphism, Deformation, Geochemistry, and Tectonics of Exhumed Ultramafic and Mafic Rocks in the Central and North-Central Vermont Appalachians, Ian Wiley Honsberger
COMMUNITY DECISIONS ABOUT INNOVATIONS IN WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION, James Jay Houle
Development of a FAst Compton TELescope (FACTEL), Manuel Grégory Julien
Microbial Influences on Decomposition and Soil Organic Matter Formation in Agricultural Soils, Cynthia Marie Kallenbach
ENDURING IMPACT OF CHILDHOOD STRESSORS ON ADULT HEALTH: TESTING PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL PATHWAYS, Tracy Keirns
Education Production: Teacher Evaluation Models and Weekend Feeding Programs, Michael Kurtz
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
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, Jess 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
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