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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The A.J. diaries, Angelica Rose Reilly
Improving our understanding of the relationship between ocean heat uptake and climate sensitivity, Michael Cameron Rencurrel
Sociolingüística urbana, sociolingüística rural : el caso de la Región Del Cibao, República Dominicana, Juanita M. Reyes
Unpacking the untapped potential of first-line supervisors : sergeants' role in managing police discretion, Danielle Leigh Reynolds
A comparative study of leadership and management in rural schools achieving above predicted graduation outcomes, Brian David Rhode
Evaluating large-scale and storm-scale characteristics of rapidly intensifying and slowly intensifying tropical cyclones using an analog approach, Jannetta C. Richardson
Units of truncated group rings of Higman groups, Brian Rich
Elemental composition and arsenic speciation analysis of processed seafood products using atomic spectrometric techniques, Austin A. Roberts
The aftermath : perceptions of employment and livelihood among former crack cocaine dealers in Upstate New York, Charletta Latrice Robinson
Secondary school principals' orientations toward and uses of data for improvement, Lisa Cala Ruud
Improving query reformulation in voice search, Ning Sa
Allegories of neoliberalism : contemporary South Asian fictions, forms of appearance, and the critique of capitalism, Zayed Sarker Hasan Al
"She is finally free" : an analysis of women's pathologized oppression and reclamation of the abject in "The yellow wallpaper" and Midsommar, Diana Gem Schultz
An analysis of temperature trends in the Northeast United States : 1950-2019, Christopher Selca
Three essays on international economics, Rongzi Shan
Idealist and materialist approaches to abolition in Uncle Tom's cabin and The daughter of adoption, Jillian Shea
The "Matthew Effect" in punishment: : do previous sanctions foster more sanctions in the future?, Yinzhi Shen
Public perceptions of crime trends : measurement, perceived causes, and behavioral consequences, Luzi Shi
Cholinesterase based system for fentanyl detection, Alyssa Shoemaker
What's your plea (culture)? : processes and rationales underlying and shaping plea decision-making : a "courtnography" and interviews with defendants, defense attorneys, and prosecutors, Reveka Vladimirovna Shteynberg
Compressing combinatorial formulas for Hall-Littlewood polynomials and Whittaker functions, James Sidoli
NARAL and the art of playing defense : how interest groups act when they seek to protect the status quo of public policy, Katherine Elaine Slye-Hernandez
Haemoparasite infection and immunogenetic diversity in a clade of North American songbirds, Naima Starkloff
Necessary evil : how student loans are incorporated into people's everyday lives, Abby J. Stivers
Effects of the Black Lives Matter movement on media portrayals of accused criminals, Samantha Strine
Implicit sense of gratification : a new lens on academic intrinsic motivation, Haiyang Su
Spina bifida mortality by clinical and demographic characteristics using the New York State birth defects registry, 2008-2016, Anaclare Mackenzie Sullivan
Making good : World War I, disability, and the senses in American rehabilitation, Evan Patrick Sullivan
An examination of Response to intervention implementation in New York State, Job Thomas
An extension of social justice : a Rawlsian application of justice for the intellectually disabled, Jennifer Christina Tillman
Global circulation variability associated with MJO phase speed, Alexander Marat Tomoff
Easterly waves over the Eastern Pacific, Victor Manuel Torres Puente
The obligation of promises, Toan Tran
TGFbeta1 and STAT3 as regulators of the HA synthesis and signaling pathway, Brenda Goretty Trevizo
Development of dual functional DNA/RNA nanostructures for drug delivery, Vibhav Amit Valsangkar
Demographic differences in post-secondary outcomes following participation in the Diagnostic Assessment and Achievement of College skills Intervention, Jana Vanderslice-Barr
The role of earnings, pharmaceutical innovation, and unemployment on SSDI : analysis using merged SIPP/administrative data, Angela Vanderwerken
Development of small molecule antibiotics against a conserved RNA gene regulatory element in gram-positive bacteria, Ville Yrjö Petteri Väre
Interactions between Jefferson County Iroquoian women and men as explored through social network analysis of pottery and pipe decorative motif traits, Jessica L. Vavrasek
Does testing enhance mediation in paired-associate learning?, Deana Vitrano
The influence network in 1+1 dimensions, James Lyons Walsh
The significance of the nontraditional coriolis terms in tropical large-scale dynamics, Heng Wang
Permutation orbifolds of fermionic vertex algebras, Joshua Andrew Wauchope
Increasing performance of classifiers for SSVEP-based brain-computer interfaces using extension methods, Ethan Douglas Webster
The legacy of Uncle Tom : the transformation of Black masculinity and racial politics, Lauren R. Weeks
The evocative effects of child temperament on parenting stress and behaviors, Laura Welch
Aesthetic education in the Anthropocene, Nathaniel Williams
Statistical fit and factor structure of the food-life questionnaire in emerging adult undergraduate students, Arielle Wolinsky
Towards practical modulation recognition for future spectrum-sharing applications, Wei Xiong
Use and perception of beyond-the-classroom learning skills by students in high school, Alyssa Nicolina Yusko
Timing of antiretroviral initiation and virologic outcomes among HIV-positive adults in Ukraine (2010--2015), Yaroslav Zelinskyi
Structured data mining networks, time series, and time series of networks, Lin Zhang
The reliability of single-item assessments, Sijun Zhang
Sequentially-closed and forward-closed string rewriting systems, Yu Zhang
Essays on disability, public assistance programs and employment, Xiaoqi Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Autonomous spectrum enforcement : a blockchain approach, Maqsood Ahamed Abdul Careem
The role of interrole transitioning in the conflict and enrichment of work and family, John Paul Agosta
Predictive validity of i-ready diagnostic scores for high-stakes test outcomes with middle school students : a program evaluation, Rachel Eva Aguilar
Applications of bio-orthogonal tools towards RNA synthesis and imaging of RNA, Edgar Agustin
Synthesis of metallopolymers : toward photoactive, porous, soluble materials, Ebtisam Alammri
Language attitudes among Muslim women in Barcelona, Farah Ali
Synergistic effects of midlevel dry air and vertical wind shear on tropical cyclone development, Joshua James Alland
SERS for protein detection at a single molecule level for developing a new medical diagnostics platform, Lamyaa Almehmadi
The contribution of acculturative stress to body dissatisfaction among Latina college women : testing the moderating effects of ethnic identity and differentiation of self, Julien Alexandra Almonte
Assessing novel expectancies about ayahuasca : a preliminary report, Brianna Rose Altman
Partitioning of defect sources and defects reduction in EUV mask blank multilayer deposition, Alin O. Antohe
Quantification of hemoglobin in human blood to differentiate individuals from one another, Audrey Jeanne Auleley
Computational modeling as a tool for designing ligands and receptors, Waqas S. Awan
Towards the development of a concurrent programming language, Marrium Ayesha
Premature rho-dependent transcription termination in escherichia coli : link to translation and gene regulation, Gabriele Baniulyte
Female college students' experiences with coercive control : a qualitative investigation, Larissa Barbaro-Kukade
Convection-permitting ensemble forecasts of the 10-12 December 2013 lake-effect snow event: : sensitivity to microphysical, planetary boundary layer, and surface layer parameterizations, William Massey Bartolini
Work-family balance and the relationship between parental status and marital satisfaction : a revision to the marital structure approach, Michelle Lynn Barton
Winners and losers in the remaking of American healthcare payment systems following the ACA : a theory of private-actor policymaking and implications for democratic decision making, Heather G. Bennett
When is test-potentiated learning item-specific versus generalized?, Carol Bolte
Contrasting roles RNA binding proteins G3BP1 and HuR influence Zika virus and a proposed mechanism by which Zika virus induces neurological complications, Gaston Bonenfant
The transition from active duty to veterans in higher education, Chantel Nicole Boudreau
Baby Girl Z : a novel, Kathryn Bradley
An underground world : creative writing in the dystopian genre, Mary Kathleen Brown
Evaluation of fingerprint content for forensic crime scene analysis and drug metabolite detection, Erica Kathryn Brunelle
Tribute from the underworld : the historical ecology of the Maya postclassic fish trade with isotopic analysis of otoliths from Mayapán and Caye Coco, Jeffrey Michael Bryant
Undone by adaptation? : tracing Desdemona and Emilia in Othello and Otello(s), Emily Buckley-Crist
Applying forecast track and intensity diagnostics to high-impact Northeast winter storms, Tomer Burg
Black Trojans : the free Black community's grassroots abolition campaign in Troy, New York before 1861, Jennifer J. Thompson Burns
Individuals with developmental disabilities and criminal incompetence : an analysis of predictors to restoration, Ashley Cahill
The hot and the cold : a historical explanation for Russia's and America's contrasting foreign policy approaches to the Arctic, Joshua Newman Caldon
Coming out online and on campus : queer perspectives on identity work, Ian Callahan
Bayesian analysis in adult skeletal age-at-death estimation, with additional consideration of pathological variables, Jessica L. Campbell
Potential effects of regional soil moisture anomalies on the Great Plains low-level jet, Matthew Arturo Campbell
The impact of Thoreau's racial privilege on his complicated views of slavery and abolition, Cassandra Carpenter
Development and demonstration of a processing and assembly pathway for a 3D-synchronous field programmable gate array, Robert Carroll