Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Impact of Fraud Education on Fraud Detection, Michele Leonard
Variations in the Facial Prominence of a Hollywood Action Heroine: The Case of Katniss in the Hunger Games, Alexandra M. Mastorides
Breaking Bad: On the Western Genre and Audience Reception, Marisa Mazart
The Effect of Emotional Intelligence on the Relationship between Negative Mood and Risk Taking, Gabriela Melillo
Obsession: Journalistic Pieces Through Four Years, Rebecca Melnitsky
The Sanity of Furor Poeticus: Romanticism’s Demystification of Madness and Creativity, Joseph Meringolo
The Effects of Downsloping on Storm Precipitation Distributions in the Capital District of New York State, Kyle James Pallozzi
Are Un-Registered Hedge Funds More Likely to Misreport Returns?, Jorge Perez
The Black and the Blue: Comedy, Laughter, and Deformity in Ellison’s Invisible Man, Olivia Grace Popiel
The Politics of Happiness in the Workplace, Jacob Shay Sherretts
The Cost of Corporate Carelessness, Genesis Tejeda
Adjectives, Be Verbs, and Derterminers in Manyika Shona, Grace Teubl
The Role of Transfer-Appropriate Processing in the Testing Effect, Mary T. Veltre
Theoretical Consequence of Social Media and Retail Marketing, Jessica Wald
Ideology and Subversion: Linguistic Registers in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible, Natalie Wallace
Cruise Industry: Size Matters, Christina Antoinette Wedderburn
Are You Trying to Recruit Suicide Bombers or Something?, Suzanne Weedon
The Effect of Harsh Parenting on Anxiety Levels in Adolescents as Moderated by RSA and Family Stability, Laura B. Welburn
Riffing on The Past: Jazz and Signifying in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo, Kevin Wheeler
The Isolated Self: A Re-imaging of the Individual in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell, Emily Wierzbowski
The Role of Social Expressiveness Expectancies and Body Image in College Students’ Alcohol Use: A Moderation Model, Ashley Zenner
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Factors Affecting the Detection of Relationship Status Deception, Fatima Aboul-Seoud
Cypriot Religion of the Early Bronze Age: Insular and Transmitted Ideologies, ca. 2500-2000 B.C.E., Donovan Adams
Walking Corpses & Conscious Plants: Possibilist Ecologies in Graphic Novels, Julie Ann Bingham
Exiting the Porkway: The Transformation of Transportation Politics, Jeffrey A. Brauner
Metal Oxide Nanocomposite Nanoliter Reaction Chamber Fabrication and Applications for Harsh Environment Gas Sensing, Michael C. Briggs
The Rise of Totalitarianism in Germany, As Seen in Albany Editorials: 1933-1941, Jamie Rose Brinkman
The Relationships among Sharing Behaviors, Social Skills, and Problem Behaviors in Preschool Children, Taylor P. Bulman
Molecular Actions of the Vitamin D Receptor in Mammary and Skin Carcinogenesis, Samantha L. Chu
The Media's Impact on College Students' Career Aspirations With a Focus on Minority Students, Natasha Cooper
$1,000: The Price of Life and Honor in the 1834 North Carolina Supreme Court Case, State v. Will, Bria Cunningham
Social Story Intervention for Children with Autism to Decrease Challenging Behaviors During Homework, Arianna Doss
Charging and Self-Assembly of Fullerene Fragments, Michael V. Ferguson
What is a Sport Injury?, Emily Fiorini
Corporate Social Responsibility: Is what’s Good for Society also Good for Business?, Nicole Elizabeth Gillette
Differences in the Health of Domesticated Sheep (Ovis aries) Pastured in Wild and Agricultural Landscapes, Corine Giroux
Does Going Green Mean Losing Green? Bank of America vs JPMorgan Chase, Heather Goldstein
Selected Writings, Ian Goldstein
Connection Between Cannabis Use and Psychosis and the Direct Vs. Indirect Form of Inquiry to Combat Self-Report Bias, Lauren Grady
Investment in Treasury Bills as a Means of Stock Portfolio Revenue Generation, Ryan Heller
Advancements Towards Single Site Information Storage and Processing Using HfO2 Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM), Michael Quinlan Hovish
High Element Gold Nanorod Plasmonic Sensing Array for Harsh Environment Gas Detection Grant Proposal, Brian Janiszweski
A Brief Exploration of the Development of the Japanese Writing System, Brianna Jilson
The Moderating Effect of Skin Conductance Level on the Relationship between Family Conflict and Disordered Eating Behaviors, Laura B. Kenneally
Social Media Fetishism: The Substitution of Life, The Disavowal of Death, and The Zombie Syndrome, Ian Andrew Lepkowsky
From Pulp to Webpage: Homestuck and Postmodern Digital Narrative, Austin Gunner Litwhiler
Generation of SAWs in GHz Range for Nanoscale Particle Removal, Leigh Kent Lydecker IV
The Iron Fist and the People’s Will: An Analysis of the Bulgarian Anti-Communist Movement and Meanings of Democracy, Mariela Mihaylova
State Compliance on the CDC Recommendations for Hepatitis C Testing, Amanda Norcott
Equity through Education: Adapting the US Education System to a 21st Century Student Body, Meghan Nyman
Language Contact and Variation in the Spanish of Catalonia, Nikoleta Papa
Comparing Grief as a Negative Emotion to Survival for Memory Enhancement, Sarah Pate
Implications of Tanzanian Culture on Nutrition and their Effects in People Living with HIV/AIDS, Jennifer Pollard
Do Mutual Fund Managers Outperform by Low-Balling their Benchmarks?, Matthew James Scala
A Senior’s Anthology, Jason Robert Seligson
Molecular Modulation of Single and Multi-species Biofilm Formation by Orally-associated Bacteria, Daniel Sellers
The Effects of Progesterone Receptor on Development of Serotonergic Circuits that Mediate Cognition, Heather Smith
Going Green in the Coffee Business: A Stock Market Perspective, Jeffrey Spiletic
Corporate Social Responsibility: Path to Profits or Track to Losses?, Kevin Spiletic
Perceptions of the “World”, Marybeth Frances Staebell
Witnessing the Holocaust: More Than Just a Story, Ashley Steinberg
Neoadjuvant Therapy for Ovarian Cancer Using BioglycogenTM Nanoparticles SBIR Grant Proposal, Alexander E. Talamo
An Empirical Investigation into the Informativeness of Earnings, Joyce Tseng
Restaurants: Do Healthy Menus Mean Positive Financial Performance? A Case Study of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Cara N. Veneziano
Transforming Schools through Positive Youth Development, Briana Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
LargeScale Precursors to Major Lake Effect Snowstorms Lee of Lake Erie, Hannah E. Attard and Ross A. Lazear
Determinants of the Success of Active vs. Passive Investment Strategy, Richa Birla
Techniques for Improving Parameter Estimation in ESR, Troy R. Broderick
The Role of Magic in Fantasy Literature: Exposing Reality through Fantasy, Martin Cahill
Robust and Economical Autonomous Navigation via Advanced Bayesian Methods, Ali H. Chaudry
China in Africa Examining Chinese Foreign Aid in Africa and Implications for US Interests, Zachary DesJardins
Analyzing Tophets: Did the Phoenicians Practice Child Sacrifice?, Katelyn DiBenedetto
The Power to Say Who’s Human: Politics of Dehumanization in the Four-Hundred-Year War between the White Supremacist Caste System and Afrocentrism, Sam Chernikoff Frunkin
The Existentialist World of Murakami Haruki: A Reflection of Postmodern Japanese Society, Maria Garguilo
Aeschylus’ Tragedy of Law: Kinship, the Oresteia, and the Violence of Democracy, Grace Hobbs
An Evaluation of CAPE Tendency in Tornado Outbreaks, Timothy W. Humphrey and Lance F. Bosart
Corporate Social Responsibility: A Profitable Alternative, Wai Ping Kan
The Structural Changes of the Hedge Fund Industry Over Time, Simeon Kawakami
The Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Gustav (2008), Jason H. Keefer
Sizes of Joint Articular Surfaces in Homo sapiens and Pan paniscus and the Relevance to Locomotor Differences, Jacqueline Kenitz
The Effectiveness of Sell Discipline Strategies in Institutional Portfolios, Ryan Kennedy
Stock Returns and the Franchise Value, Sean Landrigan
To Build a Nation: An Assessment of Post-Development Thought and the Example of Bolivia, Samantha Leuschner
Transplanting Roots: Cultivating Community Amongst Brooklyn's Mexican Immigrant Populations, Rachel Luscombe
Back to the Future: The Mechanics of Temporality in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, Rebecca Matt
A Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis: Qualcomm, Incorporated VS VisaSat, Incorporated, Daina Migdel
Probing the T-Box Riboswitch: A Novel, High-Throughput Transcription Reporter Assay Using a Fluorophore-Binding Aptamer, Nishtha Modi
Correlating Qualitative Performance with Quantitative Performance: Investigating the Financial Benefit of Good Corporate Citizenship, Neema Moghadam
Defining a Movement: Ann Marie Buerkle, the 112th Congress, and the Meaning of the Tea Party, Matthew W. O'Neil
Perspectives on Eventual IFRS Adoption, Annette Or
The Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype (SASP) and Redox-Dependent Invasion of Metastatic Cancer Cells, Brooke A. Pati
Terrorisk: The Impact of Terrorist Attacks on Sovereign Bond Yield Spreads of Targeted Countries, Slava Rar
In Their Defense: Arguments in the Debate over the Use of Corporate Takeover Defenses and their Policy Implications, Scott Ruling
A Millenial Little Pieces: Selected Writings from a Gen-Y, Lauren Elizabeth Valentine Servideo
Perceptions of Mental Illness in the Legal System, Krista Wallace