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Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

BLACK PHOSPHORUS QUANTUM DOTS: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, AND UTILIZATION TOWARDS THE PHOTOGENERATION OF HYDROGEN GAS, Charles Alfred Ayotte

Public Support for Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Southern Cone, Patrick James Baga

ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF HABITAT RESTORATION ON SHRUBLAND SPECIALISTS: CASE STUDY ON THE NEW ENGLAND COTTONTAIL AND SHRUBLAND BIRDS, Melissa Lyn Bauer

A DYNAMIC LIFE CYCLE ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURES, Taler Bixler

REGULATION OF GABA RELEASE BY PRESYNAPTIC CAV2.2 IN THE BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA AND INFRALIMBIC CORTEX, Maxwell Robert Blazon

Quantifying vertical uncertainty and the temporal variability of the seafloor to inform hydrographic survey priorities, Cassandra Bongiovanni

Response of the PUI Distribution To Variable Solar Wind Conditions, Jonathan Slade Bower

Invisible trees and meeting management needs: A comparison of distance sampling and traditional forest inventory methods., Connor Breton

DOES PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE PROMOTE CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS?, Victoria M. Bryan

ANALYSIS OF LONG-TERM PRODUCTIVITY MONITORING AND FORAGING AREA IDENTIFICATION OF BREEDING COMMON TERNS IN COASTAL NEW HAMPSHIRE, Jessica Marie Carloni

FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DISTIBUTION OF EGG-BEARING AMERICAN LOBSTERS (HOMARUS AMERICANUS), Joshua Carloni

Learning Temporal Dynamics of Human-Robot Interactions from Demonstrations, Estuardo Rene Carpio Mazariegos

Disparities between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Educational Attainment: Exploring Factors Related to Low Average School NAPLAN Scores in the Northern Territory, Rachel Coleman

Design and Performance of a 1 Meter Scale Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Model, Samuel Babineau Cole

IMPROVED SOUND SPEED CONTROL THROUGH REMOTELY DETECTING STRONG CHANGES IN THE THERMOCLINE, Jose Maria Cordero Ros

Comparative Evaluation of Laboratory Moisture Susceptibility Tests for Asphalt Mixtures in New England, Christopher John DeCarlo

FOUR YEARS OF UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM IMAGERY REVEALS VEGETATION CHANGE IN A SUB-ARCTIC MIRE DUE TO PERMAFROST THAW, Jessica DelGreco

HYDROTREATING TUNGSTEN CATALYST FOR PRODUCTION OF GREEN DIESEL FROM BIODIESEL, Gagandeep Dhillon

Investigation of Surface Models and the Use of a Smart Rock for Rockfall Modeling, Corinne R. Disenhof

The Tallgrass Prairie Soundscape; Employing an Ecoacoustic Approach to Understand Grassland Response to Prescribed Burns and the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Nechrophilous Invertebrate Communities, Sarah Dodgin

ASSESSMENT OF CAMPUS RECREATIONAL SPORT PROGRAMS, Eric Dorata

Biology and prey of the predatory wasp Cerceris fumipennis (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) and its use for bio-surveillance of the emerald ash borer, Morgan Carol Dube

INVESTIGATION INTO THE APPLICATION OF OZONATION FOR REUSE OF SECONDARY WASTEWATER EFFLUENT, Daniel James Farley

Occupancy Detection using Wireless Sensor Network in Indoor Environment, Farah Ferdaus

Synthetic strategies to combat antibiotic resistance, Jonathan Fifer

Conflict Resolution in Popular Film, Linda M. Fogg

Understanding the Marketing and Management of trails using PESTEL Analysis, Holly Fosher

A Hydrokinetic Energy Conversion System for Use at Bridges with the Memorial Bridge as a Case Study, Ian Gagnon

OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF LABORATORY GENERATED AEROSOL: COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX RETRIEVAL FOR POLYSTYRENE LATEX SPHERES, AND EXTINCTION ENHANCEMENT OF MONTMORILLONITE BY WATER SWELLING, Tyler Galpin

THE BIOECONOMICS OF SHADE-GROWN COFFEE PRODUCTION UNDER CLIMATE AND PRICE RISKS IN PUERTO RICO, Yixuan Gao

MEASUREMENT OF DYNAMIC PRESSURE GRADIENTS ON THE SURFACE OF SHORT CYLINDERS, Stephanie Gilooly

Analyzing Causes and Consequences of German Military Interventions: Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Matthew Goduto

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF FATIGUE PERFORMANCE OF INCONEL 718 AND FIBERGLASS REINFORCED VINYLESTER, Sean Gribbin

Somewhere Anyhow, Daniel Haislet

Growing Kiwiberries in New England: A Guide for Regional Producers, William Hastings

MOOSE HABITAT USE DURING CRITICAL PERIODS IN THE WINTER TICK LIFECYCLE AND AGENT-BASED MODELING OF MOOSE-WINTER TICK RELATIONSHIPS IN NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE, Christine Healy

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF SUBMERGED VEGETATION ON METHANE DYNAMICS IN A DISCONTINUOUS PERMAFROST LAKE SYSTEM, ABISKO, SWEDEN, Christopher Daniel Horruitiner

Taking Credit: Case Study of a UV System to Expand Methods of Virus Inactivation and to Quantify the Enhanced Public Health and Sustainability, Tyler Kane

EXPERIMENTS AND ANALYSIS OF ALUMINUM TUBE HYDROFORMING, Adam Ryan Kaplan

A Protocol for Using Long-Term Structural Health Monitoring Data to Detect and Localize Damage in Bridges, Kathryn Elaine Kaspar

Drinking Behaviors and Health in Old Age, Kaleigh Knapp

THE STRUCTURE, LIMITS, AND DRIVERS OF DAPHNID DIVERSITY, Richard Joseph Knecht

A Human Visual System Inspired Feature Recognition Method Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Evan Koester

Observations of Transitional Tidal Boundary Layers in the Great Bay Estuary, NH, Kara M. Koetje

ANALYSIS OF UNCERTAINTY IN UNDERWATER MULTIVIEW RECONSTRUCTION, IGOR V. KOZLOV

AN IMPROVED INFILTRATION MODEL AND DESIGN SIZING APPROACH FOR STORMWATER BIORETENTION FILTERS INCLUDING ANISOTROPY AND INFILTRATION INTO NATIVE SOILS, Daniel Macadam

The photosynthesis-foliar nitrogen relationship in deciduous and evergreen forests in New Hampshire, Conor Madison

IMPLEMENTING PROPOSED IEEE 1588 INTEGRATED SECURITY MECHANISM, Dragos Maftei

WILD BEE DECLINES AND CHANGES IN PLANT-POLLINATOR NETWORKS OVER 125 YEARS REVEALED THROUGH MUSEUM COLLECTIONS, Minna Mathiasson

Advancing Coastal Resilience: An Institutional Analysis of Living Shorelines in New Hampshire, Trevor Mattera

Drivers of introgression and fitness in the Saltmarsh-Nelson's Sparrow hybrid zone, Logan Maxwell

Adjusting to Life as a Three-Legged Dog, John Joseph McDonough

SCALABLE WEB SERVICE DEVELOPMENT WITH AMAZON WEB SERVICES, Patrick Russell McElhiney

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF FATIGUE TEST SETUP FOR A GUSSET-LESS TRUSS CONNECTION, Duncan William McGeehan

FACTORS AFFECTING RESTAURANT PURCHASE OF LOCALLY GROWN FOOD: A BINARY LOGIT ANALYSIS, Amanda McLeod

STRENGTH OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLOODS AND EXTREME RAINFALL EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, Benjamin John Miller

Improvements in speech of children with apraxia: The efficacy of a Treatment for Establishing Motor Program Organization (TEMPO), Hilary Miller

THE EFFECTS OF CORTISOL, STRESS AND REARING TEMPERATURE ON BLACK SEA BASS (CENTROPRISTIS STRIATA) SEX DIFFERENTIATION, Kelsie A. Miller

Real-time Planning as Decision-making Under Uncertainty, Andrew James Mitchell

Classification of Arbitrary Motion into a Canonical Basis, Michael Moger

EFFECT OF BOUNDARY CONDITIONS ON THE MODAL RESPONSE OF INTACT SURROGATE NUCLEAR FUEL RODS, Blaise Nganyi Imbembe

A SIMPLIFIED STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS METHOD FOR A 20-FOOT CARGO SHIPPING CONTAINER, Dzijeme Ntumi

FOLLOWING THE CROWD: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CAMPAIGN PERSONAL APPEARANCES DURING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY SEASON, Brian O'Connor

Abundance data change geographic estimates of terrestrial invasive plant risk in the contiguous United States, Mitchell W. O'Neill

POPULATION GENETICS AND MALE SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN THE AUSTRALIAN SMALL CARPENTER BEE, CERATINA AUSTRALENSIS, Robert L. Oppenheimer

USING DAY NEUTRAL CULTIVARS AND LOW TUNNELS TO EXTEND THE STRAWBERRY HARVEST SEASON IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, Kaitlyn Marie Orde

Impacts of Sea-Level Rise and Thin-Layer Deposition on Salt Marsh Elevation Dynamics in New Hampshire, Andrew Payne

Food Democracy: Public Participation in New England Food Policy Councils, Cathryn Porter

Culturally Relevant Leisure Experiences as Predictors of Intercultural Sensitivity Among Study Abroad Students, Samantha Powers

Phylogenetic Focusing Reveals the Evolution of Eumetazoan Opsins, Curtis Provencher

Providing Nautical Chart Awareness to Autonomous Surface Vehicles, Samuel John Reed

BROADBAND ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS OF A CONTROLLED SEEP WITH MULTIPLE GASES FOR VERIFICATION OF FLUX ESTIMATES THROUGH BUBBLE DISSOLUTION AND TARGET STRENGTH MODELS, Kevin Michael Rychert

"A DAINGEROUS LIBERTY": MOHAWK-DUTCH RELATIONS AND THE COLONIAL GUNPOWDER TRADE, 1534-1665, Shaun Sayres

Communicative participation improves following motor speech program treatment in apraxia of speech, Emily A. Schultz

SITE-SPECIFIC AND LANDSCAPE FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH SHRUBLAND BIRD OCCURENCE IN ANTHROPOGENIC SHRUBLANDS IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, Randy Shoe

THE IMPACT OF DAMS ON FLOODS AND NITROGEN FLUX IN THE LAMPREY RIVER WATERSHED, NH, David Simon

ENHANCING E. COLI REMOVAL FROM SLOW-RATE BIOFILTERS TREATING LOW-CARBON SOURCE WATERS, Darline Simoni Balen

PHOTOCATALYSIS USING TiO2 NANOPARTICLES CONTAINING SURFACE METAL SITES, Benjamin D. Stewart

College Students' Perceptions of Policing Careers, Patrick Robert Sullivan

Development of Electronic Testing Devices That Detect Peripheral Neuropathies, Peter Svendsen

Experimental investigation of turbulent wakes generated by wind turbine models in a large boundary layer wind tunnel, Gregory Gilbert Taylor-Power

HOME RANGE AND MICROHABITAT ASSOCIATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN RED-BACKED VOLE (MYODES GAPPERI) IN NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS, Honora Tisell

UNINTENTIONAL RF RADIATION AND RECEPTION IN COAXIAL CABLE TRANSMISSION LINES DUE TO SHEATH CONDUCTOR FAULTS, Ronald Totten

TRACKING SULFUR DIAGENESIS IN METHANE RICH MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE CASCADIA MARGIN: COMPARING SULFUR ISOTOPES OF BULK SEDIMENT AND CHROMIUM REDUCIBLE SULFUR, Sarah Chaviva Turner

Engineered Equestrian Riding Surfaces, Ryan van der Heijden

THE EFFECTS OF INVASIVE TUNICATES ON THE GROWTH AND REPRODUCTION OF THE BLOOD STAR, HENRICIA SANGUINOLENTA, Kaitlin Samantha Van Volkom

Developing Spectral Metrics as Early Indicators of Water Stress Detection at the Canopy Level, Korik Vargas

ORTHOPHOSPHATE REMOVAL FROM SIMULATED AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF USING ZEROVALENT IRON ENHANCED SOIL MEDIA, Zachary Wallin

A wideband acoustic method for direct assessment of bubble-mediated methane flux, Elizabeth Frances Weidner

The Neurobiology of Human Vocalization: A Quantitative Meta-Analytic Approach, Zoe Marie Weston

SECURING FPGA SYSTEMS WITH MOVING TARGET DEFENSE MECHANISMS, Zhiming Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2A INFLUENCES CORTICAL MICROTUBULE ORGANIZATION IN RESPONSE TO SALT STRESS, Gabriella Angelini

Marine Debris Visual Identification Assessment, Zachary Paul Angelini

MOOSE DENSITY, HABITAT, AND WINTER TICK EPIZOOTICS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE, Kyle Ball

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDIES OF BIOMIMETIC MEMBRANES, Daniel Ryan Barden

COLLABORATING FOR COASTAL RESILIENCE: STAKEHOLDER ASSESSMENT AND PERCEPTION OF INTERDEPENDENCE IN SEABROOK, NH, Emily Bialowas

Virtual Catholicism, Andrew Bills

AIRBORNE LIDAR BATHYMETRY BEAM DIAGNOSTICS USING AN UNDERWATER OPTICAL DETECTOR ARRAY, Matthew Birkebak

Role Stress, Coping Style, and Mental Health in Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood: An Empirical Analysis of the Age-Linked Effects of Coping Style on Depressed Mood and Anxiety, Jordan C. Burke

Effects of small-scale turbulence on phytoplankton growth and metabolism, Wilton Gray Burns