Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Calibration, optimization, and deployment of PTR-MS instruments during the AIRMAP project, Karl B. Haase
Educator perceptions of policies that may impact Black male high school persistence, L Antonio Henley
Corpses revealed: The staging of the theatrical corpse in early modern drama, N M. Imbracsio
I Ceric ammonium nitrate-mediated oxidative cleavages of hemiacetals II Synthesis of beta-proline derivatives through the tandem chain extension-imine capture reaction, Alexander M. Jacobine
Admissible orders on quotients of the free associative algebra, Jeremiah William Johnson
Navigating the cultural gaps: Whiteness and diversity in two elementary school classrooms, Rachel Parse Johnson
Space- and ground-based observations of pulsating aurora, Sarah Jones
Computational and experimental studies of acenes, starphenes and [60]fullerene derivatives, Ryan Paul Kopreski
MF algebras and a Bishop -Stone -Weierstrass theorem result, Qihui Li
Von Neumann algebras, affiliated operators and representations of the Heisenberg relation, Zhe Liu
A high speed serializer/deserializer design, Yifei Luo
Making a "black Beverly Hills": The struggle for housing equality in modern Los Angeles, Jennifer Mandel
Slavery exacts an impossible price: John Quincy Adams and the Dorcas Allen case, Washington, DC, Alison T. Mann
Adolescent sexual orientation and parent-child relationship quality, Rose Anne Medeiros
Local structure of Earth's quasi-perpendicular bow shock, Bin Miao
Measurements of the 2001 April 15 and 2005 January 20 ground -level enhancements by the Milagro water Cerenkov detector, Trevor Morgan
The long journey to become 'the river of national unity': The Sao Francisco river basin from 1940s to 2008 and the interactions of environment, government and local citizens, Lucigleide Nery Nascimento
Creek diplomacy in an imperial Atlantic world, Deena L. Parmelee
The self-help of composition: Peter Elbow's "Writing without Teachers", composition studies, and the extracurriculum, Alexandria Peary
Moving beyond time and choice: Challenge, motivation and achievement during independent reading in high school, Kevin Perks
The application of computational modeling to data visualization, Daniel S. Pineo
Experimental evolution of Burkholderia cenocepacia biofilm populations, Steffen R. Poltak
Movement and behavior of ocean sunfish, Mola mola, in the northwest Atlantic, Inga F. Potter
An initial evaluation of market-based land reform in Brazil: Can it create sustainable communities?, Arthur Powers
Computational studies of nonlinear dispersive plasma systems, Xin Qian
Sophisticated credulity: Are old beliefs disguised by new terminology and selective learning?, Matthew A. Ramsey
Who do I say I am? Evangelical identity and academic writing, Jeffrey M. Ringer
Social science and social capital in the Lamprey River Watershed: A resident survey for community and environmental planning and predicting support for innovative land use, Mary Adamo Robertson
The role of personal and contextual variables in college students' academic achievement, Rachel A. Rogers
Essays on environmental regulations and performance of firms, Shrawantee Saha
Campaigning for authenticity, Erica J. Seifert
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
Theses/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
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Differentially expressed genes in aortic cells from atherosclerosis-resistant and atherosclerosis-susceptible pigeons, Janet Lynn Anderson