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2017

NEW CARBON-CARBON BOND-FORMING REACTIONS OF ENDOCYCLIC AND EXOCYCLIC ENOL ETHERS, Michael Richard Robinson

Lagrangian Visualization and Real-Time Identification of the Vortex Shedding Time in the Wake of a Circular Cylinder, Matthew Rockwood

Long-Term Landscape Evolution Modeling: The Role of Dynamic Topography, Flexural Isostasy, and Sea Level, Gregory Ruetenik

Privacy vs. Security: Fear appeals, terrorism and the willingness to allow increased government surveillance, Angela Marie Rulffes

A French Fort in the Salt City: Revisioning Sainte Marie among the Iroquois, Debora Ryan

"Don't Try and Play Me Out!": The Performances and Possibilities of Digital Black Womanhood, LaToya Lydia Sawyer

Heterogeneity in Institutional Context and Its Impact on Initial Public Offerings and Corporate Social Responsibility, Gokce Serdar

AN EXPLORATION of the FIRST YEAR of NURSING PRACTICE: CONTINUED FORMATION as REGISTERED NURSES in the 21st CENTURY, Carol A. Sheldon

FAMILIES DESIGNED THROUGH ART: EXPLORING EMBODIED EXPERIENCE AND CONCEPTION DISCLOSURE BASED ON SEXUAL IDENTITY, Natalee Mayonne Simpson

Noncognitive Variables to Predict Academic Success Among Junior Year Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Ellen Mary Tuve Smith

Opportunity, but at what cost? African-American parents' experiences in a predominantly white school, Peter Smith Smith

Sleep Duration and Cardiovascular Health in Young Men, Susan Delight Sperry

SCIENCE TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDING AND PRACTICE OF INQUIRY-BASED INSTRUCTION IN UGANDA, Fredrick Ssempala

Representation Theory of Orders over Cohen-Macaulay Rings, Josh John Stangle

Essays in Corporate Finance, Lea H. Stern

The Impact of Environmental Policies and Innovation on the Investment in and Use of Natural Gas-Fired Combined Cycle Generators in the US Electricity Sector, Kelly Ann Stevens

Over the hurdle: A quantitative study examining the obstacles of achieving professional certification and the perceived effective practices for overcoming them, John Patrick Stinnett

Impact: The Supreme Court in American Politics, Logan Ray Strother

Transgressive Tears: Performance and the Melodramatic Unruly Woman, Staci Stutsman

Collaboration and Conflict in Transnationally-Dispersed Zimbabwean Families, William John Suk

Linking descriptive assessment to functional analysis and treatment of transition-related problem behavior, William Edward Sullivan

Rectangular Waveguide Filled with Uniaxial Medium and Negative Resistance Enhanced Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Line, Kepei Sun

Information Theoretic Limits of State-dependent Networks, Yunhao Sun

A NOVEL APPROACH TO NEAR-REAL TIME MONITORING OF VENTILATION RATE AND INDOOR AIR QUALITY IN RESIDENTIAL HOUSES, Achalu Kuma Tirfe

The Effectiveness of a Constructed Vegetated Roof for Pollutant Removal and Stormwater Source Control, Dimitar L. Todorov

The Preemptive Paradox: The Rise of Great Powers & Management of the International System, Jeffrey Treistman

Continuum Models of Collective Migration in Living Tissues, Kazage J. Christophe Utuje

FATHER INVOLVEMENT AMONG ASIAN-INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES: ACTOR-PARTNER INTERDEPENDENCE MODEL, Dimple P. Vadgama

Voluntary Adoption of Internal Audit by NASDAQ Firms and its Impact on Financial Reporting, Omar Watts

Wifely Figures: Gender, Marriage, and Biblical Typology in Early Modern England, Melissa Welshans

The Desire for Utopia in the Critical Study of Religion, Holly A. White

Defects and Rearrangements in Disordered Solids, Sven Wijtmans

THE TRANSNATIONAL NARRATIVES AND STRUGGLES OF AFRO-CARIBBEAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN TEACHERS IN NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS, Kimberly Natalia Williams Brown

THE EFFECTS OF GROSS-MOTOR FLUENCY TRAINING ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS IN YOUNG CHILDREN, Allison Jayne Womack

Vitamin B12 Bioconjugates In Pharmaceutical Design, Jayme Leigh Workinger

THE ROLE OF RESIDENTIAL COMMUNIIES FOR THE ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL SUCCESS OF UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN IN STEM MAJORS: THE CASE OF A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN ETHIOPIA, Frehiwot Wuhib Wuhib

Associative Pattern Recognition for Biological Regulation Data, Yiou Xiao

Risk-aware navigation for UAV digital data collection, Zhi Xing

DYNAMICS OF GLOBAL CAPITAL AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE, Tingting Xiong

Enhancing survivability and reliability in the cloud, Jielong Xu

Increasing Cessation Motivation and Treatment Engagement among Smokers in Pain, Emily L. Zale

Wireless Information and Power Transfer in Communication Networks: Performance Analysis and Optimal Resource Allocation, Tewodros Aklilu Zewde

Algorithms and Theory for Robust PCA and Phase Retrieval, Huishuai Zhang

Water-Lords: Water Carriers in Beijing, 1644-1937, Lei Zhang

DUAL-THIN MARRIAGE AND LABOR MARKETS: LOCATION CHOICES AND EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES FOR PH.D. WORKERS, Xirui Zhang

Ensemble Methods for Anomaly Detection, Zhiruo Zhao

Knowledge Requirements, Gaps and Learning Responses in Smart Grid Adoption: An Exploratory Study in U.S. Electric Utility Industry, You Zheng

EXPERIMENTAL AND MODELING STUDY OF IGNITION-RESISTANT FUELS, Apeng Zhou

The Effect of the HOPE Scholarship Program on Interstate Migration, Can Zhou

Quantized Consensus by the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers: Algorithms and Applications, Shengyu Zhu

OCCUPATIONAL STRESS AND HEALTH AMONG HOME HEALTH CARE WORKERS, Jeanette M. Zoeckler

2016

SYSTEMATIC DISCOVERY OF ANDROID CUSTOMIZATION HAZARDS, Yousra Aafer

Kinetics of ketone hydrogenation over supported Ru catalysts, Omar Abdelrahman Ali Abdelrahman

Optimal Inference for Distributed Detection, Earnest Akofor

The Big Picture School Model: Understanding the Student Experience, Amanda Leigh Alger

“Mustn’t See TV?”: A Case Study of NBC’s 1983-84 Television Season, Dan Amernick

The Competing Risks of Prepayment and Default on the Single-Family Mortgage Market, Ran An

The Lonely Nineties: Visions of Community on Television between the End of the Cold War and 9/11, Paul Andrew Arras

Depressive Symptoms as a Longitudinal Predictor of Sexual Risk Behaviors among African American Adolescents: Findings from Project iMPPACS, Jacklyn Babowitch

Three Empirical Essays on International Trade and Public Economics, Yusuf Kenan Bagir

Developing Mathematical-Task Knowledge through Lesson Study, Krystal Barber

Suffering for Land: Environmental Hazards and Popular Struggles in the Brahmaputra Valley (Assam), India, Mitul Baruah

SOCIAL MEDIA: ENHANCING THE U.S. MILITARY’S COMMUNICATION WITH ITS TARGET AUDIENCE, Lloyd Eldon Bedford

THE DYNAMICS OF CONFLICT: TRANSFORMING NORTHERN IRELAND, Ronit Berger

The Social Construction of Reading-Related "Response to Intervention" In One Primary School, Heidi Anne Beverine-Curry

Automated code extraction from packed android applications., Abhishek Vasisht Bhaskar

Lipschitz Geometry of Banach and Metric Spaces, Patrick Biermann

“Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?” The use of popular music after Hurricane Katrina, Jennifer Billinson

“Texts From Hillary:” Political Meta-meming, Likeability, and Social Presence, Hanna Katharina Birkhead

Building Affective Trust among Client-Organization Relationships on Social Media Accounts, Branden D. Birmingham

The Transmission of Ethnic Identity and Parenting Beliefs Between Two Generations of Ukrainian-American Immigrant Families, Christina Marie Bobesky

Exendin 4 Conjugation and Sequence Modification to Treat Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity, Ronald Bonaccorso Bonaccorso

First amplitude analysis of B+→J/..., Thomas Britton

Disastrous waters, renascent lands: Politics and agrarian transformations in post-disaster Colombia, Alejandro Camargo

Targeted: Young Black Men, Schools & the Consequences of Anti-gang Policing, Mary Agnes Cannito-Coville

SENSOR MANAGEMENT FOR LOCALIZATION AND TRACKING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS, Nianxia Cao

The Design of Allosterically Regulated Protein Catalysts, Elizabeth Anne Caselle

A Multivariate Exploration of School Counselor Engagement with Students with Disabilities, Jaime Hernando Castillo

PERSPECTIVE TAKING AND THREAT: DO THREATENING SITUATIONS HAVE AN EFFECT ON HELPING INTENTIONS AND PERCEIVED EXPECTATIONS?, Joseph R. Castro

Visionary Architecture: Monastic Magic and Cognition in John of Morigny’s Liber florum, Nell Guenna-Beatrice Champoux

Brothers in Blood: the Significance of Land and Loss in the Creation of Jewish and Native American Ethnic and Religious identity, Michael Eron Chaness

E-Commerce and Income Shifting to Dot-sized Tax Havens, Chao Chen

THE PRESCRIBED BURNING IMPACTS ON SOIL WATER REPELLENCY AND SOIL HYDROLOGICAL PROPERTIES IN SAGEBRUSH-STEPPE ECOSYSTEM, Yang Cheng

Neuromorphic Learning Systems for Supervised and Unsupervised Applications, Qiuwen Chen

Patterns in the Concentration and Transport of Nutrients and Major Elements in the Watersheds and Embayments of Lake Ontario: a Landscape Perspective, Xiaoxia Chen

High-energy Neutron Backgrounds for Underground Dark Matter Experiments, Yu Chen

Incompatibilist Alternative Possibilities, Yishai Cohen

Young Adult Dating Violence and Coercive Control: A Comparative Analysis of Men and Women’s Victimization and Perpetration Experiences, Nicole E. Conroy

Disparities in Student of Color Education and Resulting Racial Microaggressions: Can MFT Training Programs Do More?, Sarah R. Cort

The Interdependence of Scientists in the Era of Team Science: An Exploratory Study Using Temporal Network Analysis, Mark R. Costa

Equal Access DENIED: Empowered Voices of Students with Physical Disabilities in New York City Public Schools, April B. Coughlin

Characterizing the Relationship Between Related and Unrelated Items in Recognition Memory, Ryan Andrew Curl

Divergence or Convergence of Home and School Ethnic-Racial Socialization: Effects on Preschool Children's Self-Regulation, Kimberly Leah Davidson

Racial Incidents in the Classroom: A Qualitative Study on Preschool Teachers’ Perceptions, Melinda Day

Transnational Genre Hybridity and the British Horror Film, 2002-2012, Lindsey Decker

THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ECONOMIC HARDSHIP AND PATERNAL DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AND CHILDREN’S SOCIO-EMOTIONAL OUTCOMES VIA PATERNAL PARENTING: A BAYESIAN APPROACH, Elif Dede Yildirim

Plasma Volume Hematocrit (PVH): “Big Data” Applied to Physiology Enabled by a New Algorithm, Paul Washington Dent

Three Essays on Peer Effects and Juvenile Delinquency, Carlos Daniel Diaz Guimaraens

CHINESE FEMALE GRADUATE STUDENTS ON US CAMPUSES: NEGOTIATING CLASSROOM SILENCE, THE LEFTOVER WOMAN AND THE GOOD WOMAN DISCOURSES, Yuan Dickerson

Finite Generation of Ext-Algebras of Finite Dimensional Algebras and Associated Monomial Algebras, Melissa Margaret DiMarco