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2016

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

Marronage Unbound: Colonial Governance and Maroon Resistance to Enslavement in the French Caribbean, Thor Ritz

Rendering Disaster Architecture: Remodeling Citizenship in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Dylan Rollo

SELF-INITIATED CREATIVITY IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM, David Rufo

Elucidating the Electronic Origins of Intermolecular Forces in Crystalline Solids, Michael Thomas Ruggiero

Containment and Dewatering of Heavy Metal Contaminated Sediments using Reactive Soil Minerals and Cellulose Materials, Prabesh Rupakheti

STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS AND RHEOLOGY OF SURFACTANT MICELLES AND MICELLE-NANOPARTICLE SOLUTIONS: A MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY, Abhinanden Sambasivam

The Effects of Genetic and Environmental Variation on Growth and Flowering, Kelly Marie Schmid

A Modular Approach to Highly Functionalized Indole Derivatives and Syntheses of Tryptamine-based SHIP Inhibitors, Jigisha Shah

Is disability a diversity issue?: Diversity workers and the construction of disability in higher education, Lauren Emily Shallish

Interactions between Inflammatory Cells and CoCrMo Alloy Surfaces under Simulated Inflammatory Conditions, Huiyu Shi

mLearning in the organizational innovation process, Micah Joseph Shippee

Antebellum Rhetorical Education at Myrtilla Miner's School for Colored Girls: Cultural Rhetoric and Epistolary Writing at the First African American Normal School, Reva Evonne Sias

Free to Be: One Charter School's Approach to Supporting Gender and Sexual Minority Students, Katherine Sieger

Affective Cultural Practice: Imagining Queer Feminism in the Riot Grrrl Movement, Kate Siegfried

Pressure Reduction on Wide Culverts with EPS Geofoam Backfill, Stephen Singh

Assessing gender inequality from large scale online student reviews, Souradeep Sinha

EXPLORING DIETARY INTAKES OF MICRONUTRIENTS INVOLVED IN BONE REMODELING IN RELATION TO BONE MINERAL DENSITY AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS: AN EXAMINATION OF PRE-MENARCHEAL FEMALE GYMNASTS AND NON-GYMNASTS., Sarah Kristine Skinner

The Influence Of Peer-Led Team Learning on Underrepresented Minority Student Achievement in Introductory Biology and Recruitment and Retention In Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Majors, Jeremy David Sloane

Three Essays on the Origins and Consequences of Public Services Motives, Jason Smith

Effects of substrate stiffness on bacterial biofilm formation, Fangchao Song

Effect of Severe Corrosion on Lateral Strength of Square RC Bridge Columns, Sara Sotoud

Output Interference and Testing Effects in Recognition Memory, Sean Allison Spangler

Ego Identity Development as a Mediator Between Negative Affectivity and Wellness of College Students, Sarah F. Spiegelhoff

The relationship of cognitive and affective factors with daily somatic complaints: An investigation into response expectancy theory and the symptom perception hypothesis, Garry L. Spink

Crafting Rhetorics of Trust: Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Appeals to the American People, Chelsea Anne Spring

Statistical Mechanical Treatments of the Optical Properties of Cadmium Selenide Quantum Dots, Amogh Srihari

Three Essays on the Impacts of Air Pollution and Environmental Policy, Jordan Stanley

Intuition: A Silver Lining for Clinicians with Complex Trauma, Sarah Dyanne Stanton

Whose Honey, Whose Hive?: Genre and Rhetorical Agency in the U.S. Colony Collapse Disorder, W. Kurt Stavenhagen

On What Consists in What, Stephen Steward

Understanding Mediators of the Relationship Between HIV-Related Stigma and Medication Adherence Among People Living with HIV (HIV), Shannon Marie Sweeney

Effects of vlogger race on perceived credibility, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions towards weight loss, Mengmeng Tang

Explaining Technological Change of Wind Power in China and the United States: Roles of Energy Policies, Technological Learning, and Collaboration, Tian Tang

Reacting to negative self-relevant information in an interpersonal context, Mingxuan Tan

ENHANCING ENGAGEMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL OR COGNITIVE DECLINE THROUGH THE USE OF MULTISENSORY ACTIVITIES, Jodi Taylor

In Defense of Deprivationism, Travis Timmerman

Assessing Formative Assessment: An Examination of Secondary English/Language Arts Teachers' Practices, Leigh M. Tolley

Lorenzo Giustiniani and the Politics of Obedience: Church and State in Fifteenth-Century Venice, Laura Giovanna Urist

THE PACE AND TIMING OF CHANGING LANDSCAPES AS VIEWED THROUGH COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES: SYNTHETIC AND REAL EXAMPLES FROM THE CENTRAL ANDES AND AMAZONIA, Pedro Val

Role of Information Technology in Policy Implementation of Maternal Health Benefits in India, Nidhi Vij

Predicting Social Functioning in Young Adults with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A Longitudinal Study, Kayla Eileen Wagner

Trichloroacetimidates as Alkylating Reagents in C-N Bond Formation and Synthesis of Aminosteroid and Quinoline Inhibitors of Src Homology 2 Domain-Containing Inositol Phosphatase (SHIP), Daniel Ryan Wallach

Shells, Sheets, and Shapes, Duanduan Wan

An All-in-One Debugging Approach: Java Debugging, Execution Visualization and Verification, Beinan Wang

Essays on structural changes in high dimensional econometric models, Fa Wang

STUDIES OF CELL MOTILITY AND DIFFERENTIATION IN COMPLEX 3D IN VITRO MICROENVIRONMENT, Jing Wang

Data Driven Nonparametric Detection, Weiguang Wang

UNDERSTANDING SOFT MOLECULAR INTERFACES USING MULTISCALE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS, Xiaoyi Wang

Binge-Watching Rate as a Predictor of Viewer Transportation Mechanisms, Stephen Marshall Warren

“My Training Wheels are Off:” How First Generation College Students Made Meaning of the Influence of their College Access and Support Programs, Staci Weber

Trans Gender Embodied States of Recognition: Fragmented Citizenship and Agency, Tre Wentling

Seeing Right from Wrong: A Defense of A Posteriori Ethical Intuitionism, Preston John Werner

Deprotection and Reductive Amination Methodology of N-Boc-3-amino-4-halopyridines, Christopher Alexander Wilhelmsen

Exploring the Differences in Girls’ and Boys’ Learning from Their Teachers’ Perspectives in a Coed High School in Kingston, Jamaica, Renée Danielle St. Cecelia Wilks

Patient Sociotechnical Assemblages: The Distributed Cognition of Health Information Management, Matthew Andrew Willis

INNOVATIVE AND CONVENTIONAL APPROACHES TO DETRITAL ZIRCON PROVENANCE ANALYSIS: LOOKING TO THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE, Gregory Karl Wissink

Short-Term Incentive Effects of Temporary Full Capital Asset Expensing, John David Patrick Witesman

Blazing trails, being us: A narrative inquiry with five high school students with autism who type to communicate, Casey Lee Woodfield

Essays on Characterizing Inefficiency for Stochastic Frontier Models, Ian Anthony Wright

Inductive Discipline and Children's Prosocial Behavior: the Role of Parental Emotion Regulation Strategies, Xinyue Xiao