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2017

SCHOOLED: Hiphop Composition at the Predominantly White University, Tessa Rose Brown

Elementary Reading Specialists' Perspectives Towards Their Work, Wendy Woods Bunker

TOWARDS A METHOD OF BELONGING: CONTEXTUALIZING GENDER VIOLENCE IN MĀORI WORLDS, Hayley Marama Cavino

Gas Phase Oxidation of Levulinic Acid for the Production of Maleic Anhydride over Supported Vanadium Oxide Catalysts, Anargyros Chatzidimitriou

A LIFE-CYCLE BENEFIT/COST ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR ITS DEPLOYMENTS, Xifan Chen

What Counts as Desiring the Actual Good?, Sean Clancy

Who participates and why? What do they expect and what do they accomplish? An Evaluation of the Superfund Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) Program, Lance R. Cooper

Mappings Between Annuli of Smallest p-Harmonic Energy, Daniel Cuneo

The Institutional Influences on EHR Implementation: The Case of Mission Hospital, Dane A. Dell

The Prism of Violence: Private Gun Ownership in Modern China, 1860-1949, Lei Duan

Knowing Better, Reasoning Together, Nicole Dular

DIRECTED EVOLUTION FOR THE DESIGN OF NEW CATALYSTS, Tiffany Dunston

Using Affirmation Theory to Further Understand the Distinction between the Individual Self and the Collective Self, Gaven Allen Ehrlich

Software Performance Estimation Using Feedback-Directed Analysis, Elie ElAaraj

African American Parent-Teen Communication regarding dating, sex, and risk of STIs, Deborah T. Ellerbe

Design and Behavior of Steel Delta Girders, Omar El Masri

Improving distribution and absorption of light in microalgal photobioreactors through plasmon enhancement, entrapped cultivation and controlled motion, Bendy Estime

Oxygen Transport Membrane Reactors for Oxy-Fuel Combustion and Carbon Capture Purposes, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith

Essays on marketing information disclosure, Cong Feng

THE SCALABLE AND ACCOUNTABLE BINARY CODE SEARCH AND ITS APPLICATIONS, Qian Feng

Achilles and The Batman on the Plane of Immanence: Deconstructing Heroic Models, Herman Frederick Filice

Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysical Nature of the Soul and its Union with the Body, Kendall Ann Fisher

Transitioning to Sustainable Civil Infrastructure Systems: Green Stormwater Management and Engineering Design Thinking, Carli Denyse Flynn

ON THE CUSP OF INVISIBILITY: THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY, MARGINALIZED STUDENTS, AND INSTITUTIONAL SPACES, Romeo Garcia

Understanding integrated STEM science instruction through the experiences of teachers and students, Margery Gardner

Accelerated Construction of Roadways: Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Impacts, Sudipta Ghorai

Synthesis and Characterization of First Row Transition Metal Polyphosphates, Tiffany Jo Greenfield

Limits of Liberation: Youth and Politics in Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement, Melinda Gurr

QUBIT COUPLED MECHANICAL RESONATOR IN AN ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM, Yu Hao

IMPROVING THE LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF ADHD IN PEDIATRICALLY AND PSYCHIATRICALLY REFERRED SAMPLES, Jun He

Trading Dynamics in a Fragmented Market, Krzysztof Herman

UNDERSTANDING INFORMATION USE IN ONLINE CONSUMER-HEALTH SUPPORT GROUPS: A LOOK INTO INTERACTIVE HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS, Naybell Hernandez

TEACHING IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT: THE LEGITIMATE KNOWLEDGES OF BLACK WOMEN TEACHERS ENACTING ACTIVIST LITERACIES, Reba Y. Hodge

Stable Sparse Orthogonal Factorization of Ill-Conditioned Banded Matrices for Parallel Computing, Qian Huang

Vortex detection and tracking in massively separated and turbulent flows, Yangzi Huang

Three Essays on Public Procurement, Zachary Steven Huitink

DETECTION, DIAGNOSIS AND MITIGATION OF MALICIOUS JAVASCRIPT WITH ENRICHED JAVASCRIPT EXECUTIONS, Xunchao Hu

Contentious Coexistence: The Function Of Material Exchanges In Venetian-egyptian Relations On The Eve Of The Ottoman Conquest (1480-1517), Jesse Jacob Hysell

The Presence of Groove in Online Songwriting Projects, David Lamar James

FITTING A PARAMETRIC MODEL TO A CLOUD OF POINTS VIA OPTIMIZATION METHODS, Pengcheng Jia

Spreading Structures, Li Kang

EXTRACTION AND LOCALIZATION OF NOISE-RELATED FLOW STRUCTURES IN HIGH SPEED JETS, Pinqing Kan

THREE ESSAYS ON RETURNS TO EDUCATION, HEALTH AND THE SPATIAL WAGE CURVE IN TURKEY, Haci Mevlut Karatas

TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLUIDIZATION OF NANOMATERIALS VIA BIOMIMETIC MEMBRANES TOWARDS ASSISTED SELF-ASSEMBLY, Kathleen Kelly

Secularism: Conventional or Contextual? Theory and Practice of Religious Politics in Iran and Turkey, Ebrahim Khalifeh Soltani

Cytotoxicity of Galvanically Coupled Magnesium and Titanium Particles for Therapeutic Effect, Jua Kim

Interaction Effects between the Cumulative Genetic Score and Psychosocial Stressor on Drinking Urge and Attentional Bias for Alcohol: A Human Laboratory Study, Jueun Kim

Presidential Instability in a Developing Country: Reassessing South Korean Politics from a State-Society Relations Perspective, Kyung-hwa Kim

RETHINKING ENTREPRENEURS’ CHARACTERISTICS IN THE CONTEXTS OF FAMILY, INVESTORS, AND THEIR EARLY ACTIONS, Eun-Jeong Ko

Semi-Open Space and Micro-Environmental Control for Improving Thermal Comfort, Indoor Air Quality, and Building Energy Efficiency, Meng Kong

Enacting “Technology” and Everything Else: Gendered Practices and the System of Crop Intensification, Natasha Susan Koshy

Building the Airplane While it Flies: A Case Study Approach of Police Development in Kosovo, Liberia, and Timor-Leste, Kevin Krupski

Design, Synthesis and Study of Thermomechanically Active Polymer Networks Based on Latent Crosslinking of Semicrystalline Polymers, Wenbin Kuang

The Post-Neoliberal Citizen: Immigrant Identity as the New Service Learning Center, Michael Lasley

HOW DO NOVICE AND EXPERT LEARNERS REPRESENT, UNDERSTAND, AND DISCUSS GEOLOGIC TIME?, Erica Amanda Layow

BUSINESS FAILURE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THREE ESSAYS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE COST OF FAILURE, Chong Kyoon Lee

A Metaphysician's User Guide: The Epistemology of Metaphysics, James Soo Lee

The Spock Paradox: Permissiveness, Control, and Dr. Spock’s Advice for a New Psychology of Parenting for Democracy in the Mid-20th Century U.S., Namhee Lee

Bacterial polymertropism, the response to strain-induced alignment of polymers, David James Lemon

Climatic Controls on the Porewater Chemistry of Mid-continental Wetlands, Zeno Francis Levy

Social Security under Decentralized Authoritarianism: Politics of The Public Pension Program in China, Jing Lin

Catalytic synthesis of biodiesel fuel under sub/supercritical conditions: kinetics and phase behavior, Jiuxu Liu

The effects of simulated inflammatory conditions on the corrosion and fretting corrosion of CoCrMo alloy, Yangping Liu

Delay QoS Provisioning and Optimal Resource Allocation for Wireless Networks, Yi Li

Exploring "gezi Ruhu" Activism: Seriality And The Rhetorical Study Of 21st Century Protest, Avi Luce

DIY Delivery Systems: The Extracurriculum in the Age of Neoliberalism, Jason Wesley Luther

Investigating the Structures of Turbulence in a Multi-stream, Rectangular, Supersonic Jet, Andrew S. Magstadt

Generalization Programming and Performance Feedback: A Writing Intervention with Third-Grade Students, Rigby Dawn Malandrino

Investigating The Effects Of Environmental Solutes On The Reaction Environment In Ice And At Ice Surfaces, Philip Malley

Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) Reproductive Advertisement Behavior And The Effects Of Vessel Noise, Leanna Matthews

Enzymology and inhibition of ghrelin acylation by ghrelin O-acyltransferase, Kayleigh McGovern-Gooch

The Roberts Court Constitution of Freedom of Speech: Preferences, Principles, and the Study of Supreme Court Decision-making, Brandon Metroka

Pattern Formation in Active Nematics, Prashant Mishra

"I am Not a Hijra": Transgender Women Claiming Citizenship in South India, Liz Mount

Encounters with Authority: Tactics and negotiations at the periphery of participatory platforms, Gabriel Mugar

Readers’ Perceptions of Newsworthiness and Bias as Factors in Participation with Digital News Content, Gregory James Munno

Three Essays in Urban Policy, Judson E. Murchie

A Biopsychosocial Model of Transition of Adolescents with Intellectual Disability, Robert Earl Myers III

Adsorption of Iodine and Water on Silver-Exchanged Mordenite, Yue Nan

The Origins of American Counterterrorism, Michael E. Newell

Forging Titans: The Rise of Industrial Capitalism in the Northern Forest, 1850-1950, Jason Lee Newton

Examining Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: An Exploratory Study of Prospective Teachers’ Transition of Knowledge to Practice in Clinical Simulations, John Mungai Njoroge

ESSAYS ON MISSPECIFICATION IN HIGH DIMENSIONAL ECONOMETRICS AND ASSET PRICING, JAEWOO OH

The Ageing of the Archives: Community, Conflict, and Queer Potential at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Rebekah Orr

Design of Tribologically Enhanced Polymeric Materials for Biomedical Applications, Allen Osaheni

Computer Vision Algorithms for Mobile Camera Applications, KORAY OZCAN

Wireless Throughput and Energy Efficiency under QoS Constraints, Mustafa Ozmen

Early universe cosmology as a probe of fundamental physics, Ogan Ozsoy

Literacy and Labor: Archives, Networks, and Histories in Working-Class Communities, Jessica Michelle Pauszek

Mestizaje Ideology as Color-Blind Racism: Students' discourses of colorism and racism in Mexico, Yvonne Perez Lopez

Investigation of the multi-physics of laser-induced ignition of transportation fuels, Nathan Peters

Design, Material and Surgical Assembly Effects on Fretting Corrosion Behavior of Modular Tapers in Orthopedic Implants, David Pierre

TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP’S ROLE IN OUR COMMON FUTURE: ESSAYS FROM THE SUSTAINABILITY-ENTREPRENEURSHIP NEXUS, Kiven Pierre

Examining the Dispositions of Music Educators: A Perceptual Psychology Theory, Kathleen JoAnn Popow

Embedded Indicators of Simulated Learning Disability in a Pychoeducational Battery, Kyle D. Potter

DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS BETWEEN LOW BIRTH WEIGHT STATUS AND CHILDREN’S ACADEMIC AND SOCIOEMOTIONAL COMPETENCE: THE ROLE OF PARENTING PROCESSES AS A MODERATOR, Sangita Pudasainee-Kapri

ONLINE LEARNING WITH BANDITS FOR COVERAGE, Mahmuda Rahman

Contentious Politics in the Arab Middle East: Jordanian Salafism and the Social Appropriation of Tradition, Massimo Ramaioli

Curcumin Supplementation and Aging Skeletal Muscle, Candace Receno

AN EMERGING THEORY OF PERCEIVED DISABILITY COUNSELING COMPETENCE: A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS, Michele Rivas