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2015

Commercial Capital and the Political Economy of Agricultural Overproduction, Dean Snyder

Indexing the White House Statements Regarding Snowden and NSA: A Content Analysis of U.S. Elite Newspapers’ Opinion Pieces, Elena Sorokina

Effects of an Expressive Writing Intervention Aimed at Improving Academic Performance by Reducing Test Anxiety, Stephanie Lauren Spielberger

Trace Metal Characterization and Ion Exchange Capacity of Devonian to Pennsylvanian Age Bedrock in New York and Pennsylvania in Relation to Drinking Water Quality, Jeffrey Dale Spradlin

LEADING CURRICULAR CHANGE: THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS, Tiffany Marie Squires

COSTS AND BENEFITS OF EMPLOYEE INTERACTION WITH THE PUBLIC: EXTENDING THE KNOWLEDGE ON THE TYPOLOGY, CONSEQUENCES, PROCESSES, AND CONTINGENCIES, Angsuthon Srisuthisa-ard

Privileged Resistance: Prisoners of Conscience in the United States, 1980-2013, Anya Stanger

Understanding Disordered Systems Through Numerical Simulation and Algorithm Development, Sean M. Sweeney

Governing through Health: The Biomedical and Public Health Management of Drug Using Bodies, Kelly Szott

Predictions and Constraints of Cosmological Correlators, Jayanth Tallakere Neelakanta

Soft Reversible Actuator based on Shape Memory Polymer, Che Tan

The Influences Of Atmospheric Cues On Consumer Behavioral Intentions: An Affordance Perspective, Jian Tang

Self-expansion Motivated Goal Pursuit in Relational and Non-relational Domains for Individuals with Different Attachment Styles, Ying Tang

Marginalization and Democracy: Kenya's 2007 Post Election Violence, Hamdi Ibrahim Tartarini

Beyond Able-Minded Citizenship: Embracing Intellectual Ability Differences in Democratic Education, Ashley Taylor

HOW MENTAL HEALTH, SOJOURNER ADJUSTMENT, AND DRINKING MOTIVES IMPACT ALCOHOL-RELATED CONSEQUENCES FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS STUDYING ABROAD, Laura Kay Thompson

Conceptual Design of Wind Farms Through Novel Multi-Objective Swarm Optimization, Weiyang Tong

Audit, Accountability and Commitment: School Business Officials' Perceptions of an Audit Regime, Michael A. Torak

Shape Memory Electrospun Scaffolds for Cell Mechanobiology and Bone Regenerative Applications, Ling-Fang Tseng

The Innovation Process of a Career Services Technology: A Comparative Case Study, John Edward Turbeville

Constructing a Counter-Discourse: Agroecological Formação at the MST's Milton Santos School, Marian Li Turniawan

The Impact of Natural Resource Booms on Local Economic Conditions, Mallory Vachon

Mediated Motherhood: Discourse and Maternal Identity in the Digital Age, Melissa A. Vaillancourt

Crosslinked Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogel Networks Designed as Mechanical Actuators, Pushkar S. Varde

Looking Beyond the Standard Model from the Lattice, Aarti Veernala

Reliable Inference from Unreliable Agents, Aditya Vempaty

Navigating the Urban-Rural Divide: The Agency of Rural Chinese Female Higher Education Students in China, Lifang Wang

A STUDY OF CERTAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS AMONG HIGH OPTICAL CONDUCTIVITY NANOSPHERES AND DIELECTRIC HALF-SPACES, Satvik Navin Wani

Control of Inflammation Using Drug Delivery Strategies in in vitro Models, Patricia R. Wardwell

Flux-tunable superconducting transmons for quantum information processing, Matthew Ware

How "global" are global history teachers? Secondary social studies teachers' understandings of global awareness and global education, Ardyth L. Watson

Coteaching in Secondary Schools, Carol A. Willard

Screens and stereotypes: The transmission of images of women of color on Twitter and television, Sherri Marie Williams

The Country's House: Examining Public Space and Community in St. Mary's City's Seventeenth-Century Town Center, Wesley R. Willoughby

A New York Mirror: Urban Literary Intellectuals and the Image of the National Individual, 1794-1861, Jonathan W. Wilson

Middle-Class Identity and Hindu Women's Ritual Practice in South India, Nicole Allyse Wilson

Ruthenium Hydride Catalyzed Silylvinylation of Alkynes, Robert J. Wilson

INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (IEQ) AND BUILDING ENERGY OPTIMIZATION THROUGH MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL (MPC), Korbaga Fantu Woldekidan

Where the Reasons Come From, Aaron Wolf

Capturing the Impairment Profile of College Students with Sluggish Cognitive Tempo Symptoms, Whitney Lee Muhlenkamp Wood

Collective Phenomena in Active Systems, Xingbo Yang

Structure, Dynamics and Rheology of Polymer Solutions from Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics: Effects of Polymer Concentration, Solvent Quality and Geometric Confinement, Yutian Yang

EXTENSION OF PLURISUBHARMONIC FUNCTIONS AND DYNAMICS OF POLYNOMIAL MAPPINGS, Ozcan Yazici

The Effects of Local Government GAAP Regulation on Audit Market Concentration, Auditor Specialization, and Audit Fees, Alfred A. Yebba

A Semantics and Context -Aware Approach to Android Application Security, Mu Zhang

Mechanics, shape, and programmability in soft matter systems: From fluid membranes to spring and droplet networks, Tao Zhang

Capacity Analysis for Gaussian and Discrete Memoryless Interference Networks, Fangfang Zhu

Fundamentals of microlayer evaporation and its role on boiling heat transfer enhancement, An Zou

2014

The Presidency Effect, Doreen K. Allerkamp

PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING: NONCOMBATANT MOBILIZATION FOR PEACE IN AFRICA, Bertha Kadenyi Amisi

The Prospects of Institutional Transfer: A Within-Case Study of NATO Advisor Influence Across the Afghan Security Ministries and National Security Forces, 2009-2012, Nicholas J. Armstrong

Seattle, Rhetorical Velocity, Identity Shift, Transnational Politics, and Materiality: Watching Rhetoric Bleed, Brian J. Bailie

INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AMONG YOUNG ADULTS IN UKRAINE: APPLICATION OF THE STRESS-CULTURE MODEL, Iryna Balabukha

Modeling H-Bonded Uncharged (arginine-tyrosine), or "BU(RY)", dyads in activated states of G-protein coupled receptors, ANDREW TOYI BANYIKWA

Ground and Relative Fundamentality, Mark Graeme Barber

The Effects of Active Flow Control on High-Speed Jet Flow Physics and Noise, Zachary P. Berger

AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTACHMENT STYLE AND BODY IMAGE IN ADOLESCENT GIRLS: A FOCUS ON THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP, Jaclyn Bex

HOW CONTEXT MATTERS IN DIGITAL LIBRARY USE, Swati Bhattacharyya

The Ghost of Olmsted: Nature, History & Urban Park Restoration in Boston's Emerald Necklace, Phil Birge-Liberman

Effect of Confinement and Temperature on the Behavior of EPS Geofoam, Amsalu Birhan

Development and Delivery of a Brief Intervention to Reduce Suicidal Ideation among Veterans in a Primary Care Setting, Todd Michael Bishop

Theoretical investigation of the quantum-confined Stark effect, Christopher Jon Blanton

Runners, Biters, and Chair Throwers: Discourses of Order and Medicalization in Inclusion, Joshua Bornstein

Selfless Service: An Examination of Motivation in Public Sector Information Technology Service Transformation, Gregory Brierly

UNINTENDED EFFECTS OF CHARTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS, Christian Buerger

ENERGY-EFFICIENT LIGHTWEIGHT ALGORITHMS FOR EMBEDDED SMART CAMERAS: DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS, Mauricio Casares

Does Credit Rating Matter in Audit Fee Determination? A Comprehensive Analysis, Yanwei Chen

Making Sense of Autism: Parents' Experiences in the People's Republic of China, Zhaoyang Chi

TEACHER IDENTITIES AS DECISION-MAKERS AND FACILITATORS: AN INVESTIGATION OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHER PERFORMANCES AND REFLECTIONS WITHIN A CLINICAL SIMULATION, Osman Cil

Confessional Politics and Religious Identity in the Early Jesuit Missions to the Ottoman Empire, Robert John Clines

Geographies of Containment: Logics of Enclosure in Aboriginal and Asylum Seeker Policies in Australia's Northern Territory, Kate Shipley Coddington

CATHOLIC LOYALISM IN GEORGIAN IRELAND c. 1724-1823, Terrence D. Corrigan

Implementation of The Essential Elements of Standards-Focused Middle-Level Schools and Programs and Their Relationship to Student Achievement, Jeffrey Craig

A Critical Race and Critical Whiteness Theory Analysis of Preservice Teachers' Racialized Practices in a Literacy Across the Curriculum Course, Kathleen Cullen

DEALING WITH DEMENTIA: HOW ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE CAREGIVER-SPOUSES/PARTNERS, PATIENTS, AND CAREGIVERS USE ONLINE SUPPORT GROUPS TO COPE, Linda Daley

EARLY PERFORMANCE PREDICTION METHODOLOGY FOR MANY-CORES ON CHIP BASED APPLICATIONS, Boray S. Deepaksubramanyan

THE NON-ERYTHROID MEMBRANE SKELETON AND ITS ROLE IN MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, Eleni Kinfe Degaga

Characterizing Pharmaceutical Polymorphs Using Terahertz Spectroscopy, Sean Patrick Delaney

Mercury Transport and Fluxes in the Lake Ontario Basin, Joseph Steven Denkenberger

DETECTION OF DEMENTIA RISK IN PRIMARY CARE: PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF A COMPOSITE DEMENTIA RISK SCORE IN VETERANS, Jonathan DeRight

Assertive Fictions: Arguments and Audiences of the Postwar Social Problem Film, 1944-1954, Steven Doles

Paradoxically Progressive: The Red Progressives and the Creation of a Modern Native American Subjectivity, Corey J. Dosch

Making Fenians: The Transnational Constitutive Rhetoric of Revolutionary Irish Nationalism, 1858-1876, Timothy Richard Dougherty

Public Policy and Postsecondary Education, Alissa Dubnicki

IS FAITH ON THE CAMPUS TOUR? RURAL, PUBLIC COLLEGE STUDENTS' EXPLORATION OF SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY, Tamara Durant

Steroid hormone regulation of fetal mouse oocyte development, Sudipta Dutta

A STUDY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES OVER IMPERFECT GROUND PLANES BASED ON SCHELKUNOFF INTEGRALS, Walid Mohamed Galal Dyab

Do Social Control Motives Combine with Perceptions of Social Support to Predict Relationships between Interpersonal Stress and Blood Pressure in the Normal Environment?, Gavin James Elder

The Children of Spring Street: The Remains of Childhood in a Nineteenth Century Abolitionist Congregation, Meredith Alyson Berman Ellis

Development and Application of Explicitly Correlated Wave Function Based Methods for the Investigation of Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanomaterials, Jennifer Mary Elward

The Relationships Between Stress, Social Support, Maternal Self-Efficacy, Maternal Depression, Maternal Reports of Child Demandingness and Maternal Reports of Child Social and Emotional Quality of Life in a Sample of Overweight and Obese Women Two Years Post Childbirth, Elizabeth Banks Feldhousen

Assessment of Cognitive Abilities and Reading Comprehension Across School-Age Development: A Meta-Analysis, Diana B. Finn

Hydrochemical Dynamics Under Differing Winter Climate Regimes at the Hubbard Brook Experiment Forest, Colin Fuss

THE CHINESE NEW MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM REFORM AT TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: TWO CASES COMPARED, Wei Gao

Measurement of CP Observables in B- -> D0 K- pi+ pi- Decays, Justin Garofoli

Three Essays on Robust Estimation of Key Factors Underlying the Changes to the U.S. Income Distribution, Pallab Ghosh

Relocation & Realignment: How the Great Migration Changed the Face of the Democratic Party, Keneshia Grant

"You Missed the Exam!" A Discourse with College Students with Learning Disabilities on their Experiences with Self-Determination, Self-Advocacy, and Stigma in Secondary and Postsecondary Education, Karen Diane Grella

PATTERNED BIOFILM FORMATION TO INVESTIGATE BACTERIA-SURFACE INTERACTIONS, Huan Gu

Determination of the X(3872) Meson Quantum Numbers, Bin Gui