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2013

The Effect of Public Policy on Health Service Providers, Marier Allison

Gender Regimes in Finance: The Social Organization of Money Work, Megan Bahns

Power, Likeability, and Perception: Evaluating Men and Women in High and Low Power Positions, Daria A. Bakina

Cell Mechanics: From Cytoskeletal Dynamics to Tissue-Scale Mechanical Phenomena, Shiladitya Banerjee

Influences to Post-graduation Career Aspirations and Attainment in STEM Doctoral Candidates and Recipients, Deborah Barry

Race, Class, Risk and Trust: Risk Communication in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Bruno F. Battistoli

A Theory of ICT User Types: Exploring Domestication and Meaning of ICTS through Comparative Case Studies, Johanna L. H. Birkland

Deposition and Fate of Atmospheric Mercury in Forested Landscapes of the Adirondack Park, NY, Bradley Blackwell

Particle Physics in the LHC Era, Don Bunk

Knowing How: An Empirical, Functionalist Approach, David Joseph Bzdak

Essays on the Impact of State Policies on Mortgage Finance, Qianqian Cao

Adolescent Personality, Confucian Values, Parenting Typologies and Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes: A Study in South Korea, Yo Ok Chang

Differential Effectiveness of Sitting Meditation Program and Movement Meditation Program in Reducing College Students' Cognitive and Somatic Trait Anxiety, Sanghyeon Cheon

"Being Grown": How Adolescent Girls with Disabilities Narrate Self-Determination and Transitions, Danielle Cowley

Essays on Agglomeration, Homeownership, and Labor Market Outcomes, Jie Dai

Thermodynamic and Structural Characterization of the Interaction between Wd40 Repeat Containing Protein 5 (Wdr5) and Human Set1 Family Methyltransferases, Venkat Dharmarajan

Holomorphic Fundamental Semigroup of Riemann Domains, Dayal Buddhika Dharmasena

The Impact of Cultural Assumptions about Technology on Choctaw Heritage Preservation and Sharing, Jake A. Dolezal

Parents' Perspectives on the Literacy Instruction Received by their Children with Intellectual Disabilities, Michelle A. Duffy

The Public Library as Health Information Resource?, Mary Grace Flaherty

Adaptation to Membrane Stress in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae: Identification of Novel Proteins and Mechanisms, Gary Fred Franke

(re)Constructing a Landmark: A Rhetorical Analysis of Brown v Board of Education at Fifty, Christine A. Geyet

The Impact of Schadenfreude as an Emotional Frame in Crisis Communications on Perception of Corporate Reputation, Kristi Gilmore

Argon and Neon Diffusion in Lunar Impact Glass & The Development of the Electron Microprobe Zircon Fission-Track Dating Technique, David Gombosi

Essays on New Venture Diversification, David Michael Gras

"My pedagogy is where so much of my feminism happens": The Social Organization of Feminist Educators' Work in the Corporatizing Academy, Glenda Gross

Characterization of Genetic Elements of Arabidopsis Thaliana Involved In Defense Responses against Bacterial Pathogen Pseudomonas Syringae, Pallavi Gupta

Coming Home: Mobile Women, Non-Linear Temporalities, South Asian Diasporic Texts, Soumitree Gupta

Structure and Accretion at Mid-Ocean Ridges With High Magma Supply: Perspectives From Seafloor Escarpments and Iceland, Andrew Jay Horst

Rank Based Anomaly Detection Algorithms, Huaming Huang

An Investigation of Digital Reference Interviews: A Dialogue Act Approach, Keisuke Inoue

The Development of Introductory Statistics Students' Informal Inferential Reasoning and Its Relationship to Formal Inferential Reasoning, Bridgette Lynn Jacob

Improving Bioactivity and the Anti-Bacterial Properties of Two-Solution Bone Cement Containing Cross-Linked Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) Nanospheres (η-TSBC), Shailly Jariwala

First Leptonic Probe of Neutron Radii in Lead at Low-Q2, Chun-Min Jen

Desegregation in a "Color-Blind" Era: Parents Navigating School Assignment and Choice in Louisville, KY, Rebecca Page Johnson

Entrepreneurship as a Process of Self-Fulfillment: Well-Being, Affect, and Behavioral Strategies, Shoko Kato

Influences of Product Concept Demonstrations in Trade Shows: Two Essays, Taewan Kim

The Struggle for Power and Pay: Implications of Board of Directors' Power on Monitoring Effectiveness and Pay for Performance Sensitivity, Mariana Judith Lebron

A Relationship between Course-level Implementation of First Principles of Instruction and Cognitive Engagement: A Multilevel Analysis, Sunghye Lee

Essays on Agglomeration, Access To Medical Services, And the Real Estate Market, Jing Li

Whose Streets? Our Streets!: Identity, Institutions, and Privilege in Student Activism, Christina Limpert

Achieving Justice Through Public Participation: Measuring the Effectiveness of New York's Enhanced Public Participation Plan for Environmental Justice Communities, Alma L. Lowry

The British Occupation of Southern New York during the American Revolution and the Failure to Restore Civilian Government, Frank Paul Mann

Social Technologies and Informal Knowledge Sharing within and across Organizations, Jarrahi Mohammad Hosein

Essays on Academic Achievement and Student Behavior in Public Schools, Wael Soheil Moussa

Molecular Sensing with Protein and Solid-State Nanopores, David John Niedzwiecki

Design Science in Human-Computer Interaction: A Model and Three Examples, Nathan Prestopnik

Associative Processes in Statistical Learning: Paradoxical Predictions of the Past, Jennifer Patricia Provyn

Does Regulatory Scrutiny Change Investment Behavior? Evidence of Suboptimal Portfolio Rebalancing After the Financial Crisis, Willie Dion Reddic

Technological Adaptation on the Frontier: An Examination of Blacksmithing at Fort Michilimackinac, 1715-1781, Amy S. Roache-Fedchenko

A Study of Differential Effects of Two Brief Counseling Interventions Used in a Hospital Trauma Center with Persons Exhibiting High-Risk Drinking Patterns, Jennifer Lindsey Rogers

Sr-Nd-Hf Isotope Geochemistry of 3.5 Ga Gneisses of the Minnesota River Valley and U-Pb Geochronology of Detrital Zircon from Cambrian Sedimentary Rocks of the Laurentian Rifted Margin, Aaron Mathew Satkoski

Option Market Activity around Corporate Events, Michael Shafer

Parent Aggression and Youth Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors: Stability and Mutual Influence, Ann L. Sheedy

Coping with College Stress: Does Sense of Coherence Influence the Use of Alcohol and OTC Medication?, Rebecca Silver

Applications of Search Theory in Finance, Hongyu Song

Towards a Service-Oriented Enterprise: The Design of a Cloud Business Integration Platform in a Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprise, Paul John Stamas

Jailbreakers, Villains, and Vampires: Representations of Criminality in Early-Victorian Popular Texts, Elizabeth Fay Stearns

Collaborative Estimation in Distributed Sensor Networks, Kar Swarnendu

Factors Affecting Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Learning Teams (VLTs) in Distance Education, Ruzanna Topchyan

Three Essays on Law Enforcement and Emergency Response Information Sharing and Collaboration: An Insider Perspective, Joseph Treglia

The Territorialization of the 'Republican Law': Judicial Presence in Seine-Saint-Denis, France, Joaquin Villanueva

Socio-Cultural Influences on Adolescent Smoking in Mainland China: The Mediating Role of Smoking-Related Cognitions, Yan Wang

Faux Bro: Gay Hookup Websites and Modern Gay America's Masculinity Crisis, Cory John Weaver

The Deconstruction of Hell: A History of the Resignatio ad Infernum Tradition, Clark R. West

Experiencing Citizenship in a Globalizing World: The Impact of Off-Campus Programs, Ryan Owen Williams

Making a Living at Making a Difference: A Study of Employees in Nonprofit Social Service Organizations in Memphis, Tennessee, Rachel Wright

Studies in Income, Investment, and Stock Returns: The Permanent Income Hypothesis and the Overinvestment Puzzle, Insun Yang

I. Stereochemical Control of Chiral Assembly and Liquid Crystal Phase Formation of Nonamphiphilic Molecules in Water II. Control Bacterial Quorum Sensing and Quorum Sensing-mediated Activities Using Small Unnatural Molecules, Sijie Yang

Multicellular Phenotypic Studies of Single Gene Variants in Myxococcus xanthus, Jinyuan Yan

Transparent and Precise Malware Analysis Using Virtualization: From Theory to Practice, Lok Kwong Yan

Essays on Health and Medical Care, Yin-Fang Yen

2012

Experimental and Numerical Investigations of the Thermal Environment in Air-cooled Data Centers, Waleed Abdelmaksoud

Hands in the Pockets of Mercurial Donors: How Three Theories Explain Ngo Responses to Shifting Funding Priorities, Khaldoun Abouassi

Alignment, Clustering and Extraction of Structured Motifs in DNA Promoter Sequences, Faisal Abdulmalek Alobaid

Price of Islam, Hessah Hamad ALOjayan

Learning through Games: Essential Features of an Educational Game, Kannan Amr

Social Comparison Theory in the Context of Chronic Illness: Predictors and Consequences of Target Selection among Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes, Danielle Arigo

A Tale of Three Cities: An Evaluation of Urban World Heritage Management in Mexico, Claudia Ruth Asch

The Impact of Standards-Based Reform on Special Education: An Exploration of Westvale Elementary School, Jessica Kim Bacon

Synthesis and Structural Studies of Calcium and Magnesium Phosphinate and Phosphonate Compounds, Victoria Naa Kwale Bampoh

Nucleophilic Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions of 2-Methylenetetrahydropyrans, Laura Jean Bateman

Functional and Behavioral Product Information Representation and Consistency Validation for Collaboration in Product Lifecycle Activities, Mehmet Murat Baysal

Moral Luck, Patrick A. Beach

Exploring the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN's) National Program Development in Biodiversity Conservation: A Comparative Study of India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh, Medani Prasad Bhandari

Impact of Physical Activity on Postprandial Lipidemia and Glycemic Control after Chronic Fructose Ingestion, Amy J. Bidwell

Competing Sovereignties: Corporate Social Responsibility, Oil Extraction, and Indigenous Subjectivity in Ecuador, Emily Billo

Three Essays on the Property Value Impact of Neighborhood Disamenities, Alexander Nicholas Bogin

Using Emerging Methods to Investigate Stream and Groundwater Interaction at Multiple Spatial Scales, Martin Ashley Briggs

Kant, Derivative Influence, and the Metaphysics of Causality, Joel Nathan Brown

Racing Discourses: Constructions and Negotiations Students Make About Race, Paul M. Buckley

Models of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior, Jodi Canfield

Classical and Quantum Correlated Percolation, Liang Cao

Identification and Characterization of Pathogen Defense Genes of Arabidopsis thaliana, Julie Caruana

Becoming Artifacts: Medieval Seals, Passports and the Future of Digital Identity, Mawaki Chango

Can You Hear Us Now? Investigating the Effects of a Wireless Grid Social Radio Station on Collaboration and Communication in Fragile Populations, Sarah Anna Chauncey

How Much Does This Tick You Off? Online Rejection and Criticism Lead to Negative Affect and Retaliatory Aggression, Gina Masullo Chen

An Investigation of Racial and/or Ethnic Minority Teacher Candidates' Strengths Awareness and Utilization, Hui Chen

VLSI Timing and Power Analysis at Transistor-Level, Xi Chen

Diversity, Networks and Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Metropolitan Planning Organizations in the United States, Yujin Choi