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2012

Covalent Modification that Enhances Protein Properties and Functions and Folds Random Coil into Alpha-Helix, Deepali Prashar

Discrete Sparse Fourier Hermite Approximations in High Dimensions, Ashley Prater

On Pessimism: A Study in Normative Psychology, Paul Prescott

Lawyers Need Law: A Study of Constitutional Arguments Made to State Supreme Courts, Richard S. Price

The Impact of Citizens' Knowledge On Public Administration: Exploring the Links in Three Social Movements, Vadym Pyrozhenko

Method of Moment Analysis of Partially Shielded Chiral Bodies of Revolution, Khaja Qutubuddin

A "Responsibility to Speak Out": Perspectives on Writing from Black African-Born Male Youth with Limited or Disrupted Formal Education, Bryan Ripley Crandall

The Risks of Outsourcing Security: Foreign Security Forces in United States National Security Policy, Eric Rittinger

Shape Memory Assisted Self Healing (Smash) Polymeric and Composite Systems, Erika D. Rodriguez

Engrafting Modernity: Daktari in Nineteenth Century Bengal, c.1830- c. 1900, Shrimoy Roy Chaudhury

A Temporal Model of Mindful Interactions Around New Service Conception, Joe Rubleske

"She's an All-in-One Guru": Devotion to a 21st century Mystic, Angela Carol Rudert

The Immanent Body: A Thematic Study of the Logic of Immanence in Christology, Philosophy and Aesthetics, Francis J. Sanzaro III

Enriching Step-Based Product Information Models to Support Product Life-Cycle Activities, Mehmet Ilteris Sarigecili

Role of the Nla6S and Nla28S histidine kinases in fruiting body development of Myxococcus xanthus, Zaara Sarwar

Animal Religion: Evolution, Affect, and Radical Embodiment, Donovan O. Schaefer

Linear Sigma Models in QCD and S3 Symmetry for Neutrinos, Muhammad Naeem Shahid

Experimental Investigation of an Actively Controlled Three-Dimensional Turret Wake, Patrick Ryan Shea

"The Canal Is in the Hands of the Conspirators": Fear of Traffickers and Transport Workers in the British North Atlantic and the Port of New York, 1840-1940, Jacob Shell

Mechanism of Action and Gold Nanoparticle Delivery of Pt(IV) Prodrugs of Cisplatin, Yi Shi

Business Exits and Reentry: Demand and Supply Explanations of Entrepreneur Career Choices, Sharon Alicia Simmons

Building Envelope Wind Pressure Manipulation for Application in Streamlined High-Rise Buildings, Sivaramprasad Sivakumar

Image-Enabled Discourse: Investigating the Creation of Visual Information as Communicative Practice, Jaime Snyder

Peer Led Team Learning in Introductory Biology: Effects on Critical Thinking Skills, Julia J. Snyder

North Korean Migrants' Integration into South Korean Society: Policies, Perceptions and Realities, Gae Hee Song

The Impact of Incentives on Neuropsychological Test Performance: An Analog Study, Laura Marie Spenceley

The Effect of Participation in Syracuse University Project Advance and Advanced Placement on Persistence and Performance at a Four-Year Private University, Kalpana Srinivas

Global Career Development Facilitator Romania: Training Evaluation and Job Analysis, Elena Amalia Stanciu

The Real Virtual World: Connectivity and Techno-mediation in the Lives of College Students, Alecea Standlee

Fretting Crevice Corrosion of Metallic Biomaterials: Instrument Development and Materials Analysis, Viswanathan Swaminathan

Exploiting Data Locality in Dynamic Web Applications, Paul Talaga

The Role of Magmatism in the Catalina Metamorphic Core Complex, Arizona: Insights from Integrated Thermochronology, Gravity and Aeromagnetic Data, Jessica Terrien

Mercury Accumulation And Biological Transfer In Onondaga Lake: Ecosystem Response To Decreases In Mercury Load And Water Quality Improvements, Svetoslava Todorova

Investigating the Interaction between Cubilin and Holo-Intrinsic Factor in the Small Intestine, Debbie Valentin

Pagkababae at Pagkalalake (Femininity and Masculinity): Developing a Filipino Gender Trait Inventory and predicting self-esteem and sexism, Vivienne Velez Valledor-Lukey

Synthesis, Design, and Biological Evaluation of Inhibitors and Activators of Src Homology 2 Domain-Containing Inositol Phosphatase (SHIP) and Synthetic Studies of Apicularen A and Maoecrystal V, Dennis Racca Viernes

Development of Spect and Ct Tomographic Image Reconstruction, Levon Orion Vogelsang

Moral Economy Meets Global Economy: Negotiating Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Livelihood among Shrimp Farming Households in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, Hong Anh Thi Vu

Sillica Nanoporous Materials Adsorption and Release Study, Gang Wang

Lesbians and Their Mothers: A Taiwanese Experience, Meng-ning Wang

Effects of Surface Roughness on the Indoor Particle Deposition Rate Constant, Shaojie Wang

International, National, and Local Notions of the Public Library: An extended case study in Namibia, Sarah M. Webb

Cultivating the City: Urban Agriculture and Agrarian Questions in Brooklyn, New York, Evan Weissman

Teaching Children to Fluently Decode Nonsense Words in Lists: Generalized Effects to Oral Reading Fluency of Connected Text, Candace Susan Werder

Crowdsourcing Scientific Work: A Comparative Study of Technologies, Processes, and Outcomes in Citizen Science, Andrea Wiggins

Food For Thought: Sustainability, Community-Engaged Teaching and Research, and Critical Food Literacy, Dianna Winslow

Investigation of Explosives and Related Compounds Using Terahertz Spectroscopy and Solid-State Density Functional Theory, Ewelina Witko

Technosexuality: Technology, Sexuality, and Convergence, John M. Wolf

"Seeing Another/Seeing Oneself": Nondisabled Audiences' Perspectives on Disability in Two South Korean Films, Oasis (2002) and Malaton (2005), Chung Wan Woo

Perceptions of Factors Related to Therapeutic Change in Face-To-Face and Distance Counseling Environments, Stephen Harding Wright

Study of VOCs Transport and Storage in Porous Media and Assemblies, Jing Xu

Geometries in Soft Matter, Zhenwei Yao

Intelligent Data Fusion for Applied Decision Support, Xiang Ye

The Rhetoric of Mom Blogs: A Study of Mothering Made Public, Madeline Yonker

Engineering A Place for Women: A Study of How Departmental Climate Influences the Career Satisfaction of Female Mechanical Engineering Faculty Members, Monica J. Young

Spatial Patterns of Mercury in Atmospheric Deposition, Soils and Lake Biota in the Adirondack Park, New York, Xue Yu

Measurement Of Neutron Radius In Lead By Parity Violating Scattering Flash ADC DAQ, Ahmed Zafar

Development of a Novel Statistical Method and Procedure for Material Characterization and a Probabilistic Approach to Assessing the Hygrothermal Performance of Building Enclosure Assemblies, Jianhua Zhao

The Influence of Employees' Mindset on the Feedback Process, Matthew Zingoni

Geochemical and Geochronological Constraints on the Origin and Evolution of Rocks in the Active Woodlark Rift of Papua New Guinea, Nasser Alexander Zirakparvar

2011

Bioenergetics and dynamics of ciliary responses and systems biology of phototaxis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Suphatra Adulrattananuwat

Two Octopuses Making Love: An Analysis of Institutional Management Behaviors Across Four Brownfield Remediation and Redevelopment Project Networks in Rochester and Buffalo, NY, Rob Alexander

The Effects of Settlement Policy on Refugee Political Activism: Sudanese Refugees in Australia and the US, Hannah Allerdice

State-Based Techniques For Designing, Verifying And Debugging Message Passing Systems, Rajaa Khaled Alqudah

Meeting of the Minds: Perceptions of and Experiences with School-Based Mental Health Services, Jill Priest Amati

Essays on Vulnerability to and Likelihood of Reemergence from Corporate Bankruptcy, Punit Arora

A Single-Field Finite-Difference Time-Domain Formulations for Electromagnetic Simulations, Gokhan Aydin

Sweet Spring: The Development and Meaning of Maple Syrup Production at Fort Drum, New York, David W. Babson

Effects Of Calcium Addition On Structure And Bioavailability Of Soil Organic Matter, Ankit Balaria

Controlling Biofouling by Surface Engineering and Molecular Inhibition, Debjyoti Bandyopadhyay

Tuning Modernity: Musical Knowledge and Subjectivities in Colonial India, c. 1780s - c. 1900, Sharmadip Basu

Waiting for Your Return: A Phenomenlogical Study on Parental Deportation and the Impact of the Family and the Parent-Child Attachment Bond, Erika Beckles Flores

"The Future of Asia": The Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association, Tunghai University, and the Rhetorics of Intercultural Exchange, 1955-1979, Jonathan Parks Benda

Genealogies of Resistance to Incarceration: Abolition Politics within Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Prison Activism in the U.S., Liat Ben-Moshe

Excess Porteous, Coherent Porteous, and the Hyperelliptic Locus in M3, Thomas S. Bleier

Business Models and Performance: Entrepreneurial aspects in the New York wine industry, David Brannon

Old Broken Crayons: Adolescent Artists with Autism in Art Education, Corrie Burdick

Searching for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescence Using LIGO and Virgo Data, Collin Capano

Towards an Information Theoretic Framework for Evolutionary Learning, Stuart William Card

Movement of the Organized Blind in India: From Passive Recipients of Services to Active Advocates of Their Rights, Jagdish Chander

Application of high throughput sequencing in selection of RNA aptamers, Lei Chen

Sizing for Deep Submicron VLSI Circuits, Wei-Yu Chen

Characteristics of closest friends: A comparison among U.S., international and Third Culture college students, Kyoung Mi Choi

Growing Up Gay in Black America: An Exploration of the Coming Out Process of Queer African American Youth, DeMarquis Clarke

Essays on Product Acquisition for Value Recovery, Dwayne D. Cole

Thomas Hobbes' Response to the Fool: Justice and Magnanimity, Andrew James Corsa

Skeletal Muscle Function, Morphology, and Biochemistry in Ts65Dn Mice: A Model of Down Syndrome, Patrick Michael Cowley

"It's the Resources": Work, Governance, and the Institutionalization of an Emergency Food Network, Stephanie Crist

Characteristics of the Fields in the Near and Far Zone Of Antennas and Its Significance in Wireless Communication, Arijit De

Two Essays on Governance in IPO Firms, Palash Deb

Information Behaviors in Higher Education Research Administration: Support for Collaborative Proposal Development Activities, Christina Leigh Deitz

Optimizing the use of the audit in alcohol screening for college students, Kelly Smith DeMartini

Age-Related Changes in Listening Effort for Various Types of Masker Noises, Jamie L. Desjardins

Specters of truth: Exercising philosophy and theology, T. Wilson Dickinson

Investigation of Coenzyme Q10 Production in Sporidiobolus johnsonii, David Dukane Dixson

Class and Gender in the Phillippines: Ethnographic Interviews with Female Employer-Female Domestic Dyads, Emelda Tabao Driscoll

Molecular Characterization of Genetic Components of Pathogen Defense in Arabidopsis, Aditya Dutta

Victory's Foundation: US Logistical Support of the Allied Mediterranean Campaign, 1942-1945, David D. Dworak

Whom Would You Choose? The Role of Trust in New Venture Partner Choice, Verona Patrice Edmond

The Good, the Bad, and the Persuasive: Enhancing Retention of Future Information Professionals through Attitude Inoculation, Isabelle J. Fagnot