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2016

Touring Extinction: The Rhetorics of Biodiversity Loss on Display, Terrell Jake Dionne

The Dissemination of Local Food Rhetoric via Restaurant Wait Staff: A Pilot Study, Laura Dragon

IDENTIFYING THE INFLUENCE OF SELECTIVE EPISODES AND MECHANISMS ON REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM AND DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER, Elizabeth Metta Droge-Young

Parenting Styles, Effortful Control, and Academic Outcomes among Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Effect of Activation Control, Yemo Duan

Thioetherification and Etherification Utilizing Trichloroacetimidates Under Thermal Conditions & Progress Towards an Efficient Synthesis of AQX-1125, Brian C. Duffy

THE IMPACT OF A SUPPLEMENTAL READING INTERVENTION ON THE LITERACY SKILLS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AND NATIVE ENGLISH-SPEAKING FIRST GRADE CHILDREN, Theresa Marie Dussling

Essays on the Economics of Rental Housing and Crime, LaRhonda Renee Ealey

Resource Allocation for Interference Management in Wireless Networks, Raghed El Bardan

THE TENSIONS OF NORTHERN IMPORTS: DISABILITY AND INCLUSION IN KENYAN PRIMARY EDUCATION, Brent Carson Elder

Skirt Patrol: American Women in Uniformed Service, 1915-1950, Alexandra Marie Elias

Development of multicomponent coupled-cluster theory and its application to nanoclusters and molecular systems, Benjamin Harrison Ellis

The Role of ICTs in Social Movements: The Case of the Honduran National Front Against the 2009 Coup, Fatima K. Espinoza Vasquez

PRE-SERVICE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS LEARNING TO FACILITATE STUDENTS’ ENGAGEMENT OF THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS’ MATHEMATICAL PRACTICES: BALANCING ATTENTION TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS, TO ALL LEARNERS, AND TO ONE’S OWN MATHEMATICAL LEARNING, James Stephen Ewing

Modeling the Effects of Acid Deposition and Natural Organic Acids on Surface Waters, Habibollah Fakhraei

Adolescent Health Behaviors Related to Reproductive Health: Does Structural Violence Matter?, Chantell B. Frazier

PROTEIN PRENYLATION BY GERANYLGERANYLTRANSFERASE TYPE I (GGTASE-I): UNDERSTANDING THE SUBSTRATE RECOGNITION AND ACTIVITY REGULATION OF A MULTISPECIFIC ENZYME, Soumyashree Ashok Gangopadhyay

Religiosity in Secular Spaces: Perinatal Bereavement Rituals in the Hospital, Kandace Suzanne Geldmeier

Achieving Public Long-Term Care Insurance Through Social Security Wealth: Microsimulation for the US Case, Alexandre Genest

Elevational and Seasonal Patterns in Methylmercury Production Across the Montane Landscape of Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondack Region of New York, Jacqueline R. Gerson

Essays on Global Sourcing under Uncertainty, Shahryar Gheibi

Vir Bonus: Political Masculinity from the Republic to the Principate, Charles Goldberg

The Elaboration Likelihood Model and Sport Video Gaming Effects on Gamers' Confidence and Desire to Play the Sport, Ximiyuan Gong

Heavy Main-Group Metal Coordination Chemistry: A study of metal size, co-ligand, and secondary interactions, Alan Goos

Cognitive, Academic, and Neuropsychological Effects of Treatment, David Scott Gordon

Challenging Behaviors of Children with and without Developmental Disabilities in Early Childhood and Parent Management Behaviors, Ellen Gottuso

The evolution of alternative mating tactics in the yellow dung fly, Brian Gress

Laboratory Investigations Into the Fate of Aromatic Pollutants in Natural Waters, Jarod Nathaniel Grossman

The Handcrafted Utopia: Arts and Crafts Communities in America's Progressive Era, Thomas A. Guiler

Identification of key players in networks using multi-objective optimization and its applications, R Chulaka Gunasekara

The Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility in Contemporary India, Kasturi Gupta

Aluminum is more tightly bound in soil after wollastonite treatment to a forest watershed, Weiyao Gu

News Content, Investor Misreaction, and Stock Return Predictability, Muris Hadzic

Essays on supply chain analytics: Investment and capacity planning under uncertainty, Mert Hakan Hekimoglu

Selective Dynamic Analysis of Virtualized Whole-System Guest Environments, Andrew William Henderson

Crack Growth Mechanisms under Anti-Plane Shear in Composite Laminates, Allison Lynne Horner

Assessment of Tongue Position and Laryngeal Height in Two Professional Voice Populations, Carly Jo Hosbach-Cannon

CONVENIENT ETHERIFICATION USING TRICHLOROACETIMIDATES AND SYNTHESIS OF AMINOSTEROID SHIP INHIBITORS, Kyle Timothy Howard

La Pasionaria: The Ethos of a Leader, Nicole Gonzales Howell

Child sexual abuse, interpersonal difficulties, and staying in relationships with intimate partner violence: a preliminary study, En-Ting Hsu

Risk-Aware Planning for Sensor Data Collection, Jeffrey Hudack

A Quantitative Assessment and Comparison of Conceptual Learning in Online and Classroom-Instructed Anatomy and Physiology, Joel Yager Humphrey

Citizenship and Nation Making: Ethnicity, Class and the Indo-Mauritian Identity, 1834 - 1968, Yoshina Hurgobin

Local Investment and the Relationship Between Prices and Earnings, Michael Hyman

The Illusion of Collaboration and Bureaucratic Politics in India, Harish Pranav Jagannath

New Perspectives on the Role of Attributions in Entrepreneurship., Parvathi Jayamohan

Identity Creation and World-Building Through Discourse in Video Game Narratives, Barbara Jedruszczak

DRUG-SPECIFIC DESIGN OF TELODENDRIMER ARCHITECTURE FOR EFFECTIVE DRUG ENCAPSULATION, Wenjuan Jiang

Observation of J/psi p resonances consistent with pentaquark states in Lambda_b^0 to J/psi K^- p decays, Nathan Philip Jurik

Distributed Inference and Learning with Byzantine Data, Bhavya Kailkhura

SUSTAINABLE AND INNOVATIVE APPROACHES FOR GEOTEXTILE TUBE DEWATERING TECHNOLOGY, Mahmoud Khachan

Que Salgamos más Adelante: Identity, Community, and the Desire for Development in Oaxaca, Mexico, Lori Klivak

To Disclose, to Conceal or to Sell: Zero-Day Exploits and Emerging Institutions in Cybersecurity, Andreas Kuehn

Oil Industry in Uganda: The Socio-economic Effects on the People of Kabaale Village, Hoima, and Bunyoro Region in Uganda, MIRIAM KYOMUGASHO

Response Modulation Moderates the Effect of Agonistic Striving on Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children, Sarah Rose LaFont

Pain-Related Anxiety as a Predictor of Early Lapse and Relapse to Cigarette Smoking, Lisa Renee LaRowe

The impact of surface water-groundwater interactions on water quality in an urban stream, Sarah Holderness Ledford

CONSUMERISM, SOCIAL PRACTICE, AND SLAVERY: CONSUMER PRACTICES AMONG ENSLAVED LABORERS AT POPLAR FOREST PLANTATION (1828-1861), Lori Ann Lee

The Influence of Social Price Comparisons on Pricing Strategies, Seung Hwan Shawn Lee

DNA-Mediated Nanoparticle Clustering: Exploring the Role of Size Ratio and DNA Hybridization Energy, Alisha Janae Lewis

FINE-GRAINED EMOTION DETECTION IN MICROBLOG TEXT, Jasy Suet Yan Liew

Analyzing Nation Branding Through Public Relations Lenses-- the Case of the 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony, Ruoshi Li

Resource Management for Distributed Estimation via Sparsity-Promoting Regularization, Sijia Liu

MULTILAYER COMPOSITE SOLID ELECTROLYTES FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES, Wei Liu

AN ANALYSIS OF TALK AND INTERACTIONS IN INITIAL SESSIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF COUNSELING AND FAMILY MEDICINE, Yihhsing Liu

Fretting corrosion of CoCrMo alloy biomaterials: Instrumentation development, heredity integral modeling and the effect of frequency, Zhe Li

Making Men in the City: Articulating Masculinity and Space in Urban India, Madhura Lohokare

APPEARANCE POLITICS, PHYSIOGNOMY, AND LEADERSHIP IMAGE: BUILDING POLITICAL LEGITIMACY IN LATE IMPERIAL AND MODERN CHINA, Lex Jing Lu

“Que(e)rying Religious Activism: Culture, Identity, and the Politics of Family in Unitarian Universalist Churches”, Karen E. Macke

Claiming Knowledge, Claiming Lives: Decolonial Feminist Pedagogy and the Experiences of Low-Income Women Undergraduates in Community College, Meredith Madden

A Mediterranean Connection: French Ambassadors, the Republic of Venice, and the Construction of the Louisquatorzien State, 1662-1702, Sherrod Brandon Marshall

Detector Characterization for Advanced LIGO, Thomas James Massinger

Problems in hard and soft matter: From brain folds and Levy localization to active elasticity, David Mayett

Biodegradable Thermoplastic Elastomers and Smart Composites, Erin McMullin

Response of mercury in a forest stream to lime application: Accelerated watershed recovery, Geoffrey Dean Millard

New Destinations of Empire: Imperial Migration from the Marshall Islands to Northwest Arkansas, Emily Mitchell-Eaton

Business Calculus Students’ Reasoning about Optimization Problems: A Study of Quantitative Reasoning in an Economic Context, Thembinkosi Mkhatshwa

PARAMETERS THAT AFFECT PARALLEL PROCESSING FOR COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION CODES ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CLUSTERS, Hongsik Moon

What Does Corporate Social Responsibility Mean to Fortune 500 Companies and Why? A 2015 CSR audit of the top 25 Fortune 500 Companies., Delisa N. Morris

Collective Becoming: Participation, Affect, and Religion in Protestant Hymn Singing and Contra Dancing, Paul Wesley Morris

The evolution of extreme longevity in modern and fossil bivalves, David Kelton Moss

On the Design and Analysis of Secure Inference Networks, Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla

The Epistemologies They Carry: An Investigation of Feminist Writing Assignments, Kathryn Elizabeth Navickas

The Post-Colonial Language and Identity Experiences of Transnational Kenyan Teachers in U.S. Universities, Rosemary N. Nduati

Women as Fish: Physical Movement and Social Mobility in Contemporary Vietnam, Linh Khanh Nguyen

The Effect of Stress on Undergraduate College Students in Relation to Eating Out Behaviors and Weight Status, Shannon Emily Nicholas

The Multi-Substrate Binding Specificity of Saposin B, Yan Nie

Vortices and Quasiparticles in Superconducting Microwave Resonators, Ibrahim Nsanzineza

The Effect of Multimedia Cases on Science Teaching Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Prospective Teachers in Kenya, Peter Rugano Nthiga

Netflix and the Development of the Internet Television Network, Laura Osur

Amphibious Subjects: Sassoi and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana, Edwin Kwame Otu

Novel Methods and Self-Reinforced Composite Materials for Assessment and Prevention of Fretting Corrosion in Modular Tapers, Eric S. Ouellette

Cognitive Radio Systems: Performance Analysis and Optimal Resource Allocation, Gozde Ozcan

Social Beliefs, Agonistic Goals, Anger, and Biased Perceptions of Outgroups: A Social Action Theory of Covert Racial Prejudice, Mariam Parekh

Three Essays on Testing for Cross-Sectional Dependence and Specification in Large Panel Data Models, Bin Peng

Long-term biofilm tests with silver contained electrospun polymer mats, Bo Peng

On Distributed and Acoustic Sensing for Situational Awareness, FANGRONG PENG

Assessing the contribution of geography and host use to genetic structure in New York populations of the parasitoid wasp, Aphidius ervi, Haley Jay Plasman

The Construction of a Multidimensional ADHD Self-Report Measure: A Pilot Study, Heather Potts

Understanding and Improving Security of the Android Operating System, Edward Paul Ratazzi

Housing Demand, Housing Wealth, and Public Policy, Judith Sallie Ricks