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2016

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

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