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2014

A Comparison of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms Brief Interventions for College Drinkers, Mark A. Prince

Leaders' Accounts: A Study of Transnational NGOs Leadership Views on Accountability, Paloma Raggo

The Unified-FFT Method for Fast Solution of Integral Equations as Applied to Shielded-Domain Electromagnetics, Brian J. Rautio

At the Margins of the Plantation: Alternative Modernities and an Archaeology of the "Poor Whites" of Barbados, Matthew Connor Reilly

Coordination polymers of the alkaline earth metals for applications in synthesis and gas storage, Peter Josue Rosado Flores

THOREAU'S A WEEK, RELIGION AS PRESERVATIVE CARE: OPPOSING THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY, MANIFEST DESTINY, AND A RELIGION OF SUBJUGATION, Robert Michael Ruehl

APPLICATION OF DATA FUSION TO FLUID DYNAMIC DATA, Christopher John Ruscher

Politics of popular creativity and popular knowledge: on the case of adbusters and Harry Potter fans, Stephanie Schreven

Understanding The Use and Impact of Social Media Features on The Educational Experiences of Higher-Education Students in Blended and Distance-Learning Environments, Michael John Scialdone

ADAPTIVE POWER MANAGEMENT FOR COMPUTERS AND MOBILE DEVICES, Hao Shen

America's New Internationalists?: Evangelical Transnational Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy, Chan Woong Shin

Intraspecific trait variation and community assembly in old-field grasslands, Andrew Siefert

Teacher Allies: An Exploration of the Professional Experiences of Teachers Who Support LGBTQ Students, Melissa J. Smith

Land use and land cover legacy effects on the mycorrhizosphere and productivity in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem, Geofrey E. Soka

`ROAMING IN THE GARDEN OF FREEDOM:' CONSTRUCTIONS OF U.S. IDEOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND THE PAST IN TELEVISION NEWS'S ANNIVERSARY COVERAGE ABOUT THE BERLIN WALL, Rachel Eve Somerstein

Kant and the Neglected Alternative, Andrew F. Specht

ASPIRING LITERACY SPECIALISTS' (UN)CERTAINTY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, Elizabeth Years Stevens

Hypothesis Testing Using Spatially Dependent Heavy-Tailed Multisensor Data, Arun Subramanian

TOWARD A CO-VIVIAL COMMUNITY: HOPES FOUND IN THE FRIENDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY LABELS, Maho Suzuki

Metal Based Synthetic Strategies and the Examination of Structure Determining Factors in Alkaline Earth Metal Compounds, Yuriko Takahashi

Numerical study of a hybrid re-centering viscous fluid energy dissipative device for seismic protection, Wenke Tang

FATHER INVOLVEMENT IN LOW-INCOME FAMILIES: EVIDENCE ON PREDICTORS OF INVOLVEMENT FROM TWO LARGE SCALE MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH DATASETS, Mark Dean Thomas

The Effect of Maternal Separation and Postnatal Oxytocin Administration on Social Recognition in Adolescent Female Mice, Nathaniel Richard Thomas

HOME-VISITATION AND PARENT EDUCATION: THE IMPACT ON HOME-BASED SHARED READING DURING KINDERGARTEN, Tonia Thompson-Grubham

TAXATION, SOCIAL SECURITY, AND HEALTH INSURANCE, Liu Tian

Soft Shape-memory Polymers As A Platform For Biomedical Applications, Amir Hossein Torbati

Twenty-first Century Exclusion, Valarie Ann Torrence

Laboring Lesbians at Gas Stations: Pumping the "Good Life", Amy Jo Tweedy

Enabling Single-Chain Surfactants to Form Vesicles by Nonamphiphilic Liquid Crystals in Water AND Controlling Attachment and Ligand-Mediated Adherence of Candida albicans on Monolayers, Nisha Varghese

The Mechanism of Self-Organized Beating of cilia, Jyothish Vidyadharan

Alpha Background Study In Dark Matter Detection, Boqian Wang

CONSTRUCTING THE GLOBAL PRODUCTION NETWORKS: Development of the Automotive Industry in Changchun and Shenyang, China, He Wang

Home Literacy Environment, the Quality of Mother-Child Book Reading Interactions, and Taiwanese Children's Early Literacy Development, HUI-HUA WANG

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF FLAME-ASSISTED FUEL CELLS, Kang Wang

Writing and the Internationalization of U.S. Higher Education: The Roles of Ideology, Administration, and the Institution, Melissa May Watson

Attunements to the Good Life: Religious Joy and the Critique of Eudaemonism in the Writings of Søren Kierkegaard, Carson Seabourn Webb

A Repeated, Cross-sectional Analysis of Principals' Professional Development and Instructional Leadership Behaviors in the First Decade of the Educational Accountability Era, Douglas Manning Wieczorek

A Variously Understood Past: Negotiating History and Identity in Eastern Rajasthan, Ian Richard Wilson

THE MOTIVATION OF WORKING PRACTITIONERS SEEKING A DOCTORAL EDUCATION: FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF CONFUCIAN LEARNING PHILOSOPHY, Anna Ching-Yu Wong

Discrete Gate Sizing Methodologies for Delay, Area and Power Optimization, Jiani Xie

NEW SURFACE AND BULK SHAPE MEMORY EFFECTS IN POLYMERS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS, Pine Yang

Transient electromagnetic scattering by a radially uniaxial dielectric sphere: Debye series, Mie series and ray tracing methods, Mohsen Yazdani

An Epidemiology of Big Data, John Mark Young

ENDURING TERRITORIAL DISPUTE OVER THE NORTHERN LIMIT LINE(NLL) BETWEEN THE TWO KOREAS IN THE WEST SEA OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA, Jihoon Yu

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF PEROVSKITE-STRUCTURED MIXED IONIC- ELECTRONIC CONDUCTING OXIDES AND MEMBRANES, Pingying Zeng

Lacustrine Turbidites from Tropical African Lakes as Indicators of Hydrologic and Climatic Changes, Xuewei Zhang

Distributed Estimation and Performance Limits in Resource-constrained Wireless Sensor Networks, YUJIAO ZHENG

Developing Critical Loads and Dynamic Critical Loads for Acidification for Watersheds in the Adirondack region of New York and Great Smoky Mountain National Park (GRSM), Qingtao Zhou

2013

Irreconcilable Mourning: Inheritance, Redemption, and the Critique of History, Jill Petersen Adams

Investigating the Role of Quantum Dot Morphology and Microstructure in Resonance Energy Transfer, Rabeka Alam

DNA-Capped Gold Nanoparticles as Intercalative Anticancer Drug Delivery Vehicles, Colleen Marie Alexander

The Effect of Public Policy on Health Service Providers, Marier Allison

Toward Computationally Lightweight Stationary and Mobile Computer Vision-based Traffic Surveillance for Assistive Devices in Intelligent Transportation Systems, Akhan Almagambetov

Rights in Transit: Public Transportation and the "Right to the City" in California's East Bay, Kafui Ablode Attoh

Gender Regimes in Finance: The Social Organization of Money Work, Megan Bahns

Power, Likeability, and Perception: Evaluating Men and Women in High and Low Power Positions, Daria A. Bakina

Landscaping India: From Colony to Postcolony, Sandeep Banerjee

Cell Mechanics: From Cytoskeletal Dynamics to Tissue-Scale Mechanical Phenomena, Shiladitya Banerjee

Influences to Post-graduation Career Aspirations and Attainment in STEM Doctoral Candidates and Recipients, Deborah Barry

Race, Class, Risk and Trust: Risk Communication in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Bruno F. Battistoli

Taking Nonprofits at Their Word: The Role of Conflict over Mission in Organizational Change and Response to Environmental Pressures, David Gregory Berlan

"From the American People": Aid, Counterinsurgency, and the U.S. National Security State in Palestine, Lisa Bhungalia

A Theory of ICT User Types: Exploring Domestication and Meaning of ICTS through Comparative Case Studies, Johanna L. H. Birkland

Deposition and Fate of Atmospheric Mercury in Forested Landscapes of the Adirondack Park, NY, Bradley Blackwell

VERDICTS: Visual Exploratory Requirements Discovery and Injection for Comprehension and Testing of Software, Sefik Kanat Bolazar

Measurement of the CP Violating Asymmetry a^s_sl using Bs0->(Ds->phi pi) mu nu, Alessandra Borgia

Edgeware Security Risk Management: A Three Essay Thesis on Cloud, Virtualization and Wireless Grid Vulnerabilities, Tyson Brooks

Particle Physics in the LHC Era, Don Bunk

Knowing How: An Empirical, Functionalist Approach, David Joseph Bzdak

Essays on the Impact of State Policies on Mortgage Finance, Qianqian Cao

Adolescent Personality, Confucian Values, Parenting Typologies and Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes: A Study in South Korea, Yo Ok Chang

Peripheral Knowledge: The Witch, the Magus, and the Mountebank on the Early Modern Stage, Rinku Chatterjee

A New Outlook Into The Kinetics And Thermodynamics Of A Protein Pore, Belete Regassa Cheneke

Using Ontology-Based Approaches to Representing Speech Transcripts for Automated Speech Scoring, Miao Chen

Development of an Integrated Process, Modeling and Simulation Platform for Performance-Based Design of Low-Energy and High IEQ Buildings, Yixing Chen

Differential Effectiveness of Sitting Meditation Program and Movement Meditation Program in Reducing College Students' Cognitive and Somatic Trait Anxiety, Sanghyeon Cheon

Structure, Rheology and Optical Properties of Plasmonic Fluids, Tao Cong

"Being Grown": How Adolescent Girls with Disabilities Narrate Self-Determination and Transitions, Danielle Cowley

Silence Is Golden: Older Women's Voices and The Analysis Of Meaning Among Survivor's Of Domestic Violence, Virginia Lee Cronin

What to do about Newfoundland? Colonial Reconstruction and the Commission of Government, 1933-1941, Declan Cullen

For Logs, For Traditional Purposes and For Food: Identification of Multiple-Use Plant Species of Northern Amazonia and an Assessment of Factors Associated with Their Distribution, Anthony Ravindra Cummings

Essays on Agglomeration, Homeownership, and Labor Market Outcomes, Jie Dai

Determinants of political transnationalism among Vietnamese Americans in the United States, Saheli Datta

Essays on Estimation and Inference for Spatial Economic Models, Ying Deng

Thermodynamic and Structural Characterization of the Interaction between Wd40 Repeat Containing Protein 5 (Wdr5) and Human Set1 Family Methyltransferases, Venkat Dharmarajan

Holomorphic Fundamental Semigroup of Riemann Domains, Dayal Buddhika Dharmasena

The Impact of Cultural Assumptions about Technology on Choctaw Heritage Preservation and Sharing, Jake A. Dolezal

Toward Understanding "Teaching in the Making:" Explaining Instructional Decision Making by Analyzing a Geology Instructor's Use of Metaphors, Glenn Robert Dolphin

Parents' Perspectives on the Literacy Instruction Received by their Children with Intellectual Disabilities, Michelle A. Duffy

Methods of Nonparametric Multivariate Ranking and Selection, Jeremy Entner

"We're Still Here!": The Rhetorical Education of the Prince Edward County Free School Association, 1963-1964, Rebecca Candace Epps-Robertson

Experimental and Analytical Investigation of the Transient Thermal Response of Air Cooled Data Centers, Hamza Salih Erden

Health Consequences of Sexual Hookups for First-Year College Women: A One-Year Prospective Investigation, Robyn Leanne Fielder

Recombinant Expression, Purification, and Characterization of an HIV-1 Tat-Human Cyclin T1 Chimera, Collin Lesley Fischer

The Public Library as Health Information Resource?, Mary Grace Flaherty

Addressing Trans-boundary Challenges Through Collaboration: How Organizations "Harmonize" Actions and Decisions Across Problem Landscapes, Rachel Fleishman

The Other Side of Girls Gone Wild: The Emotional Labor of College Women's Sexual Decision-Making, Leah A. Flynn

Adaptation to Membrane Stress in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae: Identification of Novel Proteins and Mechanisms, Gary Fred Franke

A New Field of Dreams: A Study of the Writing Major, T J Geiger

Secondary Traumatic Stress Of Child Welfare Workers: A Qualitative Investigation, Jennifer Cornish Genovese