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2014

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

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