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2014

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

Using Temperature-Sensitive Smart Polymers to Regulate DNA-mediated Nanoassembly, Kristen Hamner

Laboratory Studies of Gas-Grain Processes on Cosmic Dust Analogues, Jiao He

Drivers of Change: Explaining IMF Low Income Country Reform in the Post Washington Consensus, Mark Rittenhouse Hibben

Programming Generality into a Performance Feedback Writing Intervention, Bridget Hier

Opening Our Eyes: How Activist Women in Ecuador Learn Critical Political and Self-Aware Consciousness, Dana Michelle Hill

Investigating the Activity of Metal Pyrophosphate Complexes against Select Pathogenic Organisms, Amanda E. Hoffman

DYADIC GREEN'S FUNCTIONS FOR LAYERED GENERAL ANISOTROPIC MEDIA AND THEIR APPLICATION TO RADIATION OF DIPOLE ANTENNAS, Ying Huang

The Incentive Effects of Health Insurance on Labor Market Outcomes and SSDI/SSI Utilization, Chun-Chieh Hu

I. Metal-Citrate Transport in Kineococcus radiotolerans & II. The Interaction of Saposin B with Antimalarial Drugs, Brian Phillip Huta

Reform-Based Science Teaching: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Explaining Variation in Secondary Science Teacher Practice, Lauren E. Jetty

Analysis of Corroded Steel Reinforced Concrete Beams, FARES JNAID

ACCOMMODATING CONSERVATION: REGULATING ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE IN A HIMALAYAN TOURIST TOWN, Jamie Kathleen Johnson

A Social History of the New York City Trans Fat Policy, Kimberly Elizabeth Johnson

Evaluation of Non-Covalent Interaction Models in Molecular Crystals Using Terahertz Spectroscopy, Thomas Juliano

ADVANCED IMPLEMENTATIONS OF THE ITERATIVE MULTI REGION TECHNIQUE, Fatih Kaburcuk

Technology Adoption in Secondary Mathematics Teaching in Kenya: An Explanatory Mixed Methods Study, Leonard Mwathi Kamau

TRADE POLICY AND THE LABOR MARKET: EVIDENCE FROM KOREA, Kul Prasad Kapri

Identifying Extract Class and Extract Method Refactoring Opportunities Through Analysis of Variable Declarations and Uses, Mehmet Kaya

Ways to Refuge: Bosnians in Central New York in Ethnographic Perspective, Fethi Keles

New Media, Multiliteracies, and the Globalized Classroom, Santosh Khadka

Khwaja Sira: Culture, Identity Politics, and "Transgender" Activism in Pakistan, Faris Ahmed Khan

Expanding the Usage of Renewable Energy Through Innovation and Technology Transfer, Jung Eun Kim

"That's me in the game": Being present and identifying avatar, Sung Yeun Kim

Life Events and Alcohol Use Disorder Clinical Course: Modeling the Dynamic Association, Marketa Krenek

Network Theoretic Analyses and Enhancements of Evolutionary Algorithms, Karthik Kuber

Topics in Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics, Prayush Kumar

Identifying Effective Ways to Increase Teachers' Implementation Integrity through Brief Experimental Analysis, Tonya LeAnn Lambert

Isolation of polyacetylene: Exploring the properties of isolated, oriented, and insulated polyacetylene utilizing inclusion crystal chemistry, Amanda F. Lashua

REPUTATION COMPUTATION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, JooYoung Lee

Three Essays in Applied Econometrics: with Application to Natural Resource and Energy Markets, Chong Li

AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES, INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION, AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Shimeng Liu

Rigidity and Fluidity in Living and Nonliving Matter, Jorge Hernan Lopez

Optical Spring Stabilization, James Lough

LEARNING BY DESIGN: TECHNOLOGY PREPARATION FOR "DIGITAL NATIVE" PRESERVICE TEACHERS, Liangyue Lu

ATTACKS AND COUNTERMEASURES FOR WEBVIEW ON MOBILE SYSTEMS, Tongbo Luo

SEARCHING AS THINKING: THE ROLE OF CUES IN QUERY REFORMULATION, Veronica Maidel

Insurgent Imaginations: Culture, Postcolonial Planetarity and Maoism in India, Auritro Majumder

Domestic Instability and Legislative Development: Understanding the Sources of Parliamentary Weakness in Jordan, Michael A. Makara

The Dynamics of Violent Escalation and De-escalation: Explaining Change in Islamist Strategies in Egypt and Indonesia, Ioana Emilia Matesan

Turning the Board Blue: America's Epiduralized System of Birth. A Medical Ethnography, Maureen May

Valuing Health: Herbal Traditions, Pharmaceuticals, and Healing in Bangladesh, Karen McNamara

Solving time domain scattering and radiation problems in a marching-on-in-degree technique for method of moment, Zicong Mei

Introducing Wireless Grids Technology to the Field of Telemedicine, Dale W. Meyerrose

Rummaging Through the Wreckage: Geographies of Trauma, Memory, and Loss at the National September 11th Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, Jacquelyn Micieli-Voutsinas

THE EFFECTS OF EXTENDED TIME ON READING COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE FOR ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE COLLEGE STUDENTS: IS THERE A NEED FOR ACCOMMODATIONS?, Laura Ann Miller

Rooting for the story: Institutional sports journalism in the digital age, Brian Peter Moritz

STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK AND QUATERNARY PALEOLIMNOLOGY OF THE LAKE TURKANA RIFT, KENYA, Amy Morrissey

On Firm Growth: The Role Of Penrosean Resources And Boundary Permeability, Robert S. Nason

Schools under Siege: Terror, Security, and the Making of Milton High, Nicole Nguyen

Electrochemical Control of Bacterial Persister Cells, Tagbo Herman Roland Niepa

Unpacking Coalitions: Explaining International Commitment in European Governments, Sibel Oktay Karagul

Describing students' talk about physical science phenomena outside and inside the classroom: A case of secondary school students from Maragoli, Western region of Kenya, Grace Nyandiwa Orado

Problems in the Theory of Convergence Spaces, Daniel R. Patten

THERMOTECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE ALASKA RANGE: LOW-TEMPERATURE THERMOCHRONOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS, Stephanie Ellen Perry

The synthesis, characterization, and application of carborane-cluster based macrocycles and boron nitride nanosheets in photovoltaics, Christopher Robert Petrelli

Deficit Discourse, Urban Teachers' Work and the Blame Game, Heidi Katherine Pitzer

Wideband Phased Array Design and Characterization, Mark J. Povinelli