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2016

AN INVESTIGATION OF US AND CHINESE PROSPECTIVE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ PROBLEM POSING WHEN INTERACTING WITH PROBLEM-SOLVING ACTIVITIES, Jinxia Xie

LIKE A DUCK ON WATER: CHINESE ACADEMIC MIGRANTS IN THE U.S. AND THEIR SUBURBAN WEEKEND CHINESE SCHOOL, Jianping Xu

Intentio Ex Machina: Android Intent Access Control via an Extensible Application Hook, Carter Yagemann

ROBUST KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN UNIVERSAL HYPOTHESIS TESTING AND DEVIATION DETECTION, Pengfei Yang

A New Method for Helping Chinese People Who Are Facing Retirement to Exert Greater Control over Their Financial Resources, Xuanmu Yan

Three essays on the effects of health insurance and taxation policies, Jinqi Ye

Molecular Dynamics Study of Solid-Liquid Heat Transfer and Passive Liquid Flow, Sumith Yesudasan Daisy

The Economy of Preventive Maintenance of Concrete Bridges Due to Corrosion, Haotian Zhang

Development and implementation of efficient noise suppression methods for emission computed tomography, Jiahan Zhang

THREE ESSAYS ON THE LINKS BETWEEN LOCAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURAL CHANGES AND PUBLIC FINANCE, Pengju Zhang

UNCOVERING AND MITIGATING UNSAFE PROGRAM INTEGRATIONS IN ANDROID, Xiao Zhang

Improving the Efficiency of Energy Harvesting Embedded System, Yukan Zhang

Embodiment in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Discourse: Healing, Silence and the Miracle Cure, Kaicheng Zhan

Parasocial relationships with transgender characters and attitudes toward transgender individuals, Lizhen Zhao

Contributions On Theory And Practice For Multi-Mission Wireless Systems, Yu Zhao

The Relationships between Confucian Family Values and Attitudes toward Divorce in Mainland China: An Exploratory Study, Ruiwen Zheng

Developing iodine proxies for oceanic oxygenation conditions during greenhouse episodes, Xiaoli Zhou

AN INFORMATION MODEL IN THE DOMAIN OF DISASSEMBLY PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING, Bicheng Zhu

DEVELOPMENT OF A “2-D” TEST SYSTEM FOR VISUALIZING FRETTING CORROSION: A STUDY OF THE FRETTING CORROSION BEHAVIOR OF Co-Cr-Mo ALLOY, DongKai Zhu

Nonparametric Anomaly Detection and Secure Communication, Shaofeng Zou

2015

Spatial Features of Labor Markets and Links to the Housing Market, Nuno Abreu Faro e Mota

Implementation of School-wide Positive Behavior Supports in the Neoliberal Context in an Urban Elementary School, Deanna Adams

Development of Improved Methodologies Toward the Formation of C-C and C-N Bonds, Ijaz Ahmed

Essays on Local Political Economy in Brazil and the United States, Evan Andrews

Specification of V2b and KA neurons in the zebrafish spinal cord., Liwia Anna Andrzejczuk

Trying Times: Disability, Activism, and Education in Samoa, 1970-1980, Juliann Anesi

Three Essays on the Supply of Long-Term Care Services to the Elderly in the U.S., Kanika Arora

Understanding Proactive Facilitation In Cued Recall, William Roger Aue

Extracting Expectations in Affine Term Structure Models, Halil Ibrahim Aydin

CONTROLLING BIOFILM AND PERSISTER CELLS BY TARGETING CELL MEMBRANES, Ali Adem Bahar

Shape Memory Polymers as 2D Substrates and 3D Scaffolds for the Study of Cell Mechanobiology and Tissue Engineering, Richard McClary Baker

AUDIT FEES AND BUSINESS RISK: EVIDENCE FROM COUNTRIES PERCEIVED AS MORE CORRUPT AND TAX HAVEN COUNTRIES, RAVINDRA R. BANGAR

Recommendations, Rhetoric, and Reporting: State and NGO Behavior in the Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights, Michael Joseph Beckstrand

Study of homogeneous mineral acid dehydration of monosaccharides in a CSTR, Siddharth Sharad Bhat

Thermally/Mechanically Responsive Polymeric Composites with Shape Memory/Self-Healing Properties, Hossein Birjandi Nejad

Parent-Child Communication among African American Families: Does "Being on the Same Page" Protect Against Adolescent Sexual Risk Behavior?, Katherine Bonafide

Perfection, History, and Harmonious Individuality: Herder's Ethical Thought, 1765-1791, Charles Richard Booher

On robust and secure wireless communication system design using software-defined radios, Kapil Meghashyam Borle

The Impact of Self-Efficacy on Willingness to Try Emerging Formats of Digital Content, Dawn Bovasso

Middle Managers Intention To Use Information In A Data-driven Decision Support System: A Case Study In The Aircraft Industry, Keith Matthew Brand

THE RELATIONSHIP OF SPIRITUALITY AND DEPRESSION ON THE SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING OF JAMAICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY OF TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTIONS IN JAMAICA, Claudette A. Brown-Smythe

STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS THAT PREDICT PERSISTENCE AND PERFORMANCE IN ONLINE COURSES AND THE FACE-TO-FACE EQUIVALENTS AT A FOUR-YEAR PRIVATE NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Karen Zannini Bull

A Qualitative Approach to Studying the Lived Experiences of High School Aged Sexual Minority and Gender Nonconforming Youth Across Relationships and Contexts., Michael Calloway

Detecting At-Risk Drinking in University Primary Care: Validity of the AUDIT-C, Clare Elizabeth Campbell

All Joking Aside: The Role of Religion in American Jewish Satire, Jennifer Ann Caplan

The Sundial Tribe and the Labyrinth of Purpose, Mihnea D I Capraru

High-stakes Accountability and Inclusion: The Impact of Policy Sense-making and Identity Construction on Co-teaching, Deborah Lynne Capri

"WE'D ALWAYS RETURN TO THIS CENTER:" UNDERSTANDING URBAN SPACE AS A DAKOTA PLACE IN MNI SOTA MAKOCE, Kelsey Marie Carlson

Students' Attitudes towards Socially--but Not Scientifically--Controversial Subjects: Evaluating Ways in which These Attitudes May Be Shifted, Benjamin Elijah Carter

Surface Plasmon Polaritons: Guided-wave Devices and Applications, Ashish Chanana

The All World Gayatri Pariwar: Religion, Science, and the Body in Modern India, Daniel Philip Cheifer

Composite Minimization: Proximity Algorithms and Their Applications, Feishe Chen

Dancing With Gender: A Reception Analysis of Chinese Women's Viewing Experiences of Ann Hui's The Golden Era, Li Chen

Meeting at Mom's: The Crisis of Identity within the Black Community in Syracuse, New York, Anne-Margaret Childress

Controlling Pseudomonas aeruginosa Persister Cells by Human Granulocyte Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor, Geetika Sanjay Choudhary

Deciphering the Neuroprotective Potential of Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) using in vitro Murine Models of Oxidative Stress, Twinkle Chowdhury

Three Empirical Essays on Energy and Labor Economics, Melissa Chirk-May Chow

Coordination Chemistry in Biology and Medicine, Christopher Chu

Examining the Effectiveness of using CSR Communications in Apology Statements after Negative Publicity, Eun Ji Chung

Effects of social endorsement on news evaluation in Korea and the U.S., Myojung Chung

Chiraq: One person's metaphor is another's reality, Jacoby Cochran

Nanoparticle Biofunctionalization for Self-Assembly and Energy Transfer Applications, Kaitlin Jeanne Coopersmith

Change Point Detection and Estimation in Sequences of Dependent Random Variables, Benjamin Cortese

Beyond “Data Thrifting”: An Investigation of Factors Influencing Research Data Reuse In the Social Sciences, Renata Gonçalves Curty

IDENTIFICATION OF SUBSTRATE CHEMICAL GROUPS IMPORTANT FOR GHRELIN O-ACYLTRANSFERASE ACTIVITY, Joseph Edgar Darling

Does One Size Fit All? The Relationship Between A Country's Political Context And Its Rulers, Hanneke Derksen

Characterization of three Arabidopsis genes involved in regulating defense and flowering, Nikhilesh Dhar

American Dreams and Immigrant Realities: Transnational Migration and Notions of 'Better' for Caribbean Immigrants in Brooklyn, NY, Sharlene Diamond

Metric Space Invariants between the Topological and Hausdorff Dimensions, Claudio A. DiMarco

CHARACTERIZATION OF FUNDAMENTAL COMMUNICATION LIMITS OF STATE-DEPENDENT INTERFERENCE NETWORKS, Ruchen Duan

Practical Identity and Meaninglessness, Kirsten Egerstrom

Characterization and Chemical Kinetic Analysis of the Ignition of Representative Conventional and Bio-Derived Fuels, Mazen Eldeeb

Role of Self-Efficacy and Experiential Training in Classroom Guidance Participation, Sean O'Patrick Finnerty

Quantitative Investigation of Factors Impacting Protein Farnesylation Within the Cell, Susan Clare Flynn

PEDAGOGY, SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION, AND SPACE: TOWARD A REVOLUTIONARY CRITICAL PEDAGOGY FOR SPACE, Derek R. Ford

Embedded Technical Communication Instruction: Understanding High-Context Writing in a Pre-Professional Engineering Program, Michael Frasciello

Topics in Supersymmetry: Implications for Cosmology and Non-Perturbative Studies on a Spacetime Lattice, Richard Anthony Galvez

FABRICATION AND TESTING OF NANOSCALE THICKNESS METAL CYLINDER FIBER, Ronak B. Gandhi

Power-Aware Planning and Design for Next Generation Wireless Networks, Chenfei Gao

Coalition Formation For Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems, Nathaniel Gemelli

Concerns of Elementary School Leaders and Teachers When Implementing a Common Core Aligned Mathematics Program, Leela J. George

TRANSFER RATES AND BACCALAUREATE ATTAINMENT: TWO-YEAR VERSUS HYBRID COLLEGES, David M. Gerlach

"We're all Horacians": Listening to international students at an American liberal arts college, Peter Arno Gerlach

Motivating Information Security Awareness (isa): An Action Research Study, Grace Giraldo

Investigation of Electrostatic Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles Mediated by Giant Polyoxomolybdate Clusters, Jonathan Gooch

Social Equality: On The Aim Of Distributive Justice, Jake Greenblum

Concrete Roses: A Critical Exploration of Black Adolescent Girls' Literacy and Language Practices in an Out-of-School Street Literature Book Club, Delicia Tiera Greene

Three Essays on U.S. Social Policy’s Impact on the Human Capital Development of Young Adults At-Risk of Poverty, Lincoln H. Groves

Negotiating Formal Schooling, Multiple Identities, and Community Advocacy: (Counter)-Narratives of Somali Bantu Refugees in the United States, Vivian Fiona Guetler

Measurement of the form factor shape for the semileptonic decay Lb->LcMuNu, Christos Hadjivasiliou

Functional traits and resource-use strategies of native and invasive plants in Eastern North American forests, Jacob Mason Heberling

Heterogeneous Sensor Signal Processing for Inference with Nonlinear Dependence, Hao He

Synthetic, Structural, and Mechanistic Investigations of Vitamin B12 Conjugates of the Anorectic Peptide PYY3-36, Kelly Elizabeth Henry

"The Terror Within:" Neoliberalism and the Rhetoric of the Obesity Crisis, Anna Hensley

Comparison of Cost Function Against Positional Analysis for Automated Tracking of Three-Cell Interactions, Ye He

From Accommodations to Accessibility: How Rhetorics of Overcoming Manifest in Writing Pedagogies, Allison Harper Hitt

INDIUM TELLURIDE (In2Te3) SEMICONDUCTOR CYLINDER FIBER SENSOR, Xun Huang

A Defense of Formal Contractualism, Ryan Hubbard

Permitting Joint-Control in Asymmetric Dependence Relationships: Investigating a Strategy for Increasing Trust, Michael Ioerger

Beyond Standard Model Physics under the ground and in the sky, Bithika Jain