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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Two-dimensional chalcogenides : material synthesis and nano-device applications, Robin Bay Jacobs-Gedrim
Hexagonal boron nitride : ubiquitous layered dielectric for two-dimensional electronics, Nikhil Jain
A national survey of kindergarten screening : purposes, tests, and procedures, Kiana Ashley Jannesari
Determination of current density distribution in an electron beam, Yudhishthir Prasad Kandel
Government-nonprofit relationships and the management process of social welfare service contracting in Korea, Ji Sun Kang
Characterization of R-plasmid dependent single-stranded RNA phages : interactions of phage Hgal1 with five enterobacteriaceae species, Sherin Kannoly
Phase imaging using x-ray optics, Bushra Kanwal
Assessment of quality of life (QoL) in people living with HIV in Georgia, Ekaterine Karkashadze
Gendered patriots and post-revolutionary ladies : Girl Guiding and twentieth century Mexican girlhood, Maryann Kelly
Nanoparticle generation and interactions with surfaces in vacuum systems, Yashdeep Khopkar
Work and school experiences of employed students, So Jung Kim
The acquisition of adult skills in OECD countries : individual and societal antecedent, Suehye Kim
Key generalization of recognition memory for melodies, Abigail Lincoln Kleinsmith
The self in Hume's "Treatise", David M. Krueger
Trends in risky sexual behavior among men who have sex with men : analysis of repeated cross-sectional survey data from Ukraine, 2007-2013, Roksolana Kulchynska
A variationist approach to code-switching and lexical borrowing : the case of Limonese-Spanish bilinguals in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, Ashley Laboda
The effects of landscape on malaria vectors of the neotropics, William David Lainhart
Diagnosis of the source of medium-range forecast errors for an extratropical cyclone, William Lamberson
911 : help or hindrance in reducing repeat victimization, Kay Elizabeth Lang
Investigating counselor training environment, awareness of privilege, and social dominance orientation as predictors of counselor trainees' self-reported multicultural competencies, Melanie Marie Lantz
Design and development of stress engineering techniques for III-Nitride epitaxy on Si, Jeff Leathersich
Human feeding biomechanics : intraspecific variation and evolution, Justin Ledogar
Three essays in program evaluation, Jungtaek Lee
Comparing organizational configurations of principal autonomy in Finland and New York, Harry Leonardatos
The effects of individual cultural differences on reactions to 360-degree feedback, Kimberly Lepore
Black hole microstates in string theory, Joseph Lewkowicz
Mixed ligand approach to design heterometallic single-source precursors for low-temperature preparation of oxide materials, Craig Matthew Lieberman
Taming a profession : state and economists during China's economic reform, 1978-2012, Jing Li
Legislating for American empire : the U.S. Congress and territorial policy, Timothy Lindberg
Hedge fund market timing skills, liquidity, flows and performance, Xin Li
Novel NMR based technologies to study macromolecular structures, Subhabrata Majumder
Trends of injecting risk behaviors among people who inject drugs in Ukraine : the analysis of bio-behavioral surveillances conducted in 2007-2013, Iuliia Makarenko
The effects of parental monitoring and parent-child relationships quality on children's academic engagement in mother-headed, single-parent families, Benjamin Robert Malczyk
Using a novel multiplexing method to track cell populations and cytodifferentiation during development of the submandibular salivary gland, Charles Thomas Manhardt
We might be mad here : an archaeological investigation of institutional life in the Northeast, Rachel Manning
Defending God : Thomas Paine's last crusade and the contest over his memory, Theodore William Marotta
Physician density and location of physician training : the impact on avoidable hospitalizations, Robert Martiniano
Hemispheric specialization for emotion within first and second languages : emotion word processing in monolingual and bilingual speakers, Jennifer Mary Martin
Explaining participation : an explanatory history of select gender patterns in undergraduate STEM, Michael Pasquale Mastroianni
Vitamin D signaling and the impact on mouse mammary gland epithelium, Donald Grant Matthews
Analysis of strategies for successful identification, reporting, and prevention of carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in acute health care facilities in New York State, Christen Leigh Mayer
The fiscalization of social policy : tax expenditures and the cultural legacies of public policies, Joshua Thomas Mccabe
Investigating socioeconomic and personal network factors as predictors for major depressive disorder, especially in women during their reproductive transition, Molly Kathleen Mccann
Nationalism in New England : Keene, New Hampshire and the American Civil War, Thomas Anthony Mcgrath
Striving for salvation : Margaret Anna Cusack, sainthood, religious foundations and revolution in Ireland, 1829-1899, Sean Heather K. Mcgraw
Landowner knowledge and opinions of invasive species and their management surrounding a suburban nature preserve, Christina Mclaughlin
Beyond permissibility : traversing the many moral pitfalls of abortion (a virtue ethics approach), John Westley Mcmichael
Two step parsimonious variable selection for right censored continuous survival time models, Anju Menon
Study of millisecond laser annealing on ion implanted soi and application to scaled finfet technology, Tyler J. Michalak
Expecting the unexpected : a precautionary principle addressing unconsidered dangers, John Raymond Milanese
Impacts of climate, geography and White-Nose Syndrome mortality on the population genetic structure and variation of Myotis lucifugus in the Eastern United States, Shannon Marie Dodge Morgan
Three essays on risks in the middle-aged and elderly in Japan, Daisuke Moriwaki
Ill living : Hemingway's writing and my father's death, Jennifer R. Morrill
RNA aptamers for molecular chaperones Hsp27 and Hsp90, Sathishkumar Kumar Munusamy
Identity compatibility, career adaptability, and adaptive coping as predictors of college women's commitment in STEM majors, Michelle Murray
Developing a Weibull model extension to estimate cancer latency times, Diana L. Nadler
Identical particles in quantum mechanics : operational and topological considerations, Klil H. Neori
Three essays on household inequality, bargaining and child custody, Dung Kieu Nguyen
The intensification of sheared tropical cyclones, Leon Nguyen
Understanding transcriptional enhancement in monoclonal antibody-producing Chinese hamster ovary cells, Sarah E. Nicoletti
The "New Civil Rights" : the Innocence Movement and American criminal justice, Robert Norris
The impact of seed layer structure on the recrystallization of ECD Cu and its alloys, Brendan B. O'Brien
Physical activity and sports team participation as predictors of suicidal behavior in high school students, Jacquelyn E. O'Connor
Plato and the Sophists : eristic practice, cognition, and perception, Kevin W. Olbrys
Plasmonic enhancement of the ellipsometric measurement of thin metal lines, Samuel O'Mullane
Does student status affect perceptions of school climate and bullying?, Samantha Palladino
Perú Negro : choreographing and performing Afro-Peruvian identity, 1969 to the present, Luis F. Paredes
The lived experiences of lesbian clergy in four Protestant mainline denominations : the formation of their religious, spiritual, and sexual identities, Pamela Jeanne Pater-Ennis
Understanding the role of literature in the reading lives of secondary English students, Tracy Pontin
Distributions and formations of HONO in the troposphere, Dennis Pu
When is hacking ethical?, Sharif Rezazadehsaber
The initiation and maintenance of the Early Woodland interaction sphere (ca. 3,000-2,000 B.P.) : the view from six northeastern mortuary sites, Francis Wanton Robinson Iv
Mass spectrometry-based rnomics : global surveys of ribonucleotide modifications as possible indicators of cell identity, epigenetic, metabolic and pathological state, Rebecca Erin Rose
Current status of RtI implementation : influences on school psychologists' service delivery and self-efficacy, Elizabeth Sabourin
The variability of Madden-Julian oscillation convection and the role of the Western Hemisphere circulation, Naoko Sakaeda
The effect of a dual coding elucidation technique on idiom comprehension in ESL and EFL learners, Denis Samburskiy
Creation of a 3D construct to aid cell migration and promote cell capture, Joseph Michael Sanders
Health promoting lifestyle profile of Asian Indians in the U.S. : analysis of data from the Diabetes among Indian Americans Study, Sanghamitra Siddharam Savadatti
Preparation, chemistry, and characterization of hypervalent organosulfur fluorides, Paul R. Savoie
Conditions for deterministic limits of Markov jump processes : the Kurtz theorem in chemistry, Ada Anna Sedova
The structural heterogeneity and dynamics of base stacking and unstacking in nucleic acids, Ada Anna Sedova
Advanced raman spectroscopic methods for structural characterization of amyloid fibrils and bionanotubes, Valentin Sereda
Molecular dynamics simulations of small systems to improve base pairing parameters of the AMBER-99 force field, Angelo Christopher Setaro
An assessment of critical dimension small angle X-ray scattering metrology for advanced semiconductor manufacturing, Charles Michael Settens
Modulation of East African precipitation by the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and ENSO, Ahmed Shaaban
Supervisee avoidant attachment and supervisors' use of relational behavior : contributions to the working alliance, Katharine Suzanne Shaffer
Structure and stability of amyloid fibrils studied by advanced vibrational spectroscopy, Marudachalam Shanmugasundaram
An empirical examination of the causal reasoning perspective of counterproductive work behavior, Choe Shannon
White privilege in teacher education : a critical analysis of discourse, Kenneth P. Sider
An evaluation of eligibility, accessibility, and social-emotional outcomes for young children in the New York State Early Intervention Program, Kirsten M. Siegenthaler