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2017

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

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