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2015

Influence of environment on soil carbonate clumped isotope records, Andean piedmont of Central Argentina (32-34⁰S), Mallory Cecile Ringham

The Potential For Greek Housing To Shape Diet And Exercise Patterns: An Exploratory Intra-Greek Comparison, Anna Rose Riverso

Mechanically Active Electrospun Materials, Jaimee Marie Robertson

Negotiating DSE Teaching Identity in Today’s Public Schools: Complexity, Camaraderie, & Subversion, Carrie Eileen Rood

What is the Relationship Between the Degree Middle Schools Implement the Essential Elements, Student Achievement and the Programs and Practices Applied in Each School, Ravo Root III

Leading Teacher Unions: Negotiating Challenges and Impact, Carrie A. Roseamelia

Question-Asking Behavior of Faculty During Conceptual Instructional Design: A Step Toward Demystifying the Magic of Design, Susan Lee Rothwell

Questions And Inquiry: Some Epistemological Applications, Jason Rourke

The Self-Assembly of Peptides to Create Catalysts, Caroline Marie Rufo

In Search of Ordenamiento Ambiental Territorial in the Peasant Reserve Zones of Colombia, Manuela Ruiz Reyes

The Political Economy of Ceramic Production in Barbados: From plantation industry to craft production, Dwayne Scheid

Geopolitics of Digital Literacies: Accounting for Myths and Realities, Rachael Shapiro

A Unified And Green Platform For Smartphone Sensing, Xiang Sheng

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THERMAL STABILITY OF FAEE BIODIESEL FUEL WITH ETHANOL, Yujie Shen

Discovering the Biological Activities of Maltose Derivatives for Controlling Bacterial Multicellular Behaviors, GAURI SHIRISH SHETYE

Poletsky-Stessin Hardy Spaces on the Unit Disk, Khim Raj Shrestha

Which Jobs for Which Boys? Party Financing, Patronage and State Capacity in African Democracies, Rachel Sigman

Synthesis towards Polyhedral and Rigid Organic Non-Linear Optic Materials, Casey R. Simons

Controlling Microbial Multicellular Behaviors With Saccharide Derivatives, NISCHAL SINGH

Electrochemical Aspects of Metalllic Biocompatibility, Shiril Sivan

Effects of Ultrasound as Visual Feedback of the Tongue on Generalization, Retention, and Acquisition in Speech Therapy for Rhotics, Greta Sjolie

Designing Core/Alloy Nanoparticles by Manipulation of Interfacial Oxidation and Atomic Diffusion, Rahiem Davon Slaton

Interactions Between Cultural Attitudes, Cultural Instruction, and Second Language Use by International Students at the University Level, Rebecca K. Smith

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