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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The simulated sensitivity of the North American monsoon at convection-permitting scales, Brendan Wallace
Dynamic instance-wise decision-making for machine learning, Yasitha Warahena Liyanage
The Long Island Opt-Out Movement and local politics in four school districts, Raymond James Webb
AB42 alters glutamatergic transmission in the CA1 region of the mouse hippocampus, Patrick Harry Wehrle
The dark figure of wrongful convictions : how intake decisions impact exonerations, Jennifer Weintraub
Understanding sense of belonging of students of color attending a liberal arts college, Jessica Wenger
Women's work history and mental well-being : evidence from the Indonesian family life survey, Nurul Widyaningrum
Relationships of teacher perceptions and racially diverse third grade student achievement : an analysis of ECLS-K:2011 data University at Albany, Lynnette Renee Williams
New York city micronet : comprehensive site metadata and classifications and characteristics of the urban heat island, Ashley Williamson
Computational methods for propagation of optical fields with the angle-impact Wigner function, Jeremy Wittkopp
Examining the relationship between admission requirements and program outcome variables in a special education teacher preparation program, Emily Woofenden
Adolescent maltreatment, substance use, and self-efficacy : a test of General Strain Theory among a sample of clinical youth, Sonya Worthington
Stability and differential privacy of stochastic gradient methods, Zhenhuan Yang
Probing the stability and solution processability of metal chalcogenide semiconducting materials, Mengwen Yan
High-capacity and interpretable temporal point process models for user activity sequence modeling, Mengfan Yao
"We are the stories" : narrative competence and cognitive mapping as a culturally sustaining pedagogy in the education of emergent bilinguals, Sepideh Yasrebi
Applications of search and matching to international trade and unemployment insurance, Kai You
Innovation capacity in local government organizations : a comparative case study of three innovation labs in the U.S, Qianli Yuan
Contrapuntal readings of the exilic consciousness : reading Yehuda Amichai and Mahmoud Darwish together, Sarah Brooks Zahed
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Novel functional proteomics techniques for multiplex and single cell cytokines detection, Mohammed Abdullah
Statistical and variational modeling and analysis of passive integrated photonic devices, Norbert Dinyi Agbodo
Black bisexual women's experiences of growth following gendered racism and biphobia, Alexandra Agiliga
Development of bioaffinity based assays for forensic applications, Juliana Maria Agudelo Cano
Graduate students' intrinsic motivation in fully online courses, Ahmed Alahmari
Long noncoding RNA AK001796 as a mediator of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in metastatic breast cancer, Sumayya Adib Alchalabi
Arabic-speaking students' responses to children's literature about the Middle East, Amal Aldaej
Evaluating the impact of tobacco retailer density on smoking among patients with serious mental illness and diabetes in New York State, Amani Alharthy
Graduate students' understanding, perception, and preference of time management in online learning, Majed Ali
Isolating oral bacterial species from a single donor through a multi-step detection method, Khalid Al-Lakhen
Flexible lives on engineering's 'Bleeding edge' : gender, migration and belonging in the semiconductor industry, Sarah E. Appelhans
Mass spectral and chemometric analysis for the detection and identification of forensically relevant materials, Meghan Grace Appley
Change and continuity in biology, Gunnar O'Neill Babcock
The time course and interaction of emoji and text processing during natural reading : evidence from eye movements, Eliza Barach
Utilizing raman spectroscopy to determine the time since deposition of heated bloodstains, Alexis Pearl Barber
Supporting highly mobile literacy learners : examining how an elementary school provided support to mobile students in an urban school district, Rebecca L. Benjamin
Factors influencing psychotherapy completion in children exposed to adverse childhood experiences, Cheryl Kayleen Best
An examination of the Arctic environment and Arctic cyclones during periods of low and high forecast skill of the synoptic-scale flow, Kevin Biernat
Role of RNA helicases in the drosophila germline, Patrick Blatt
Feasibility of acceptance-based health coaching targeting food cravings in pregnancy, Lauren Blau
A cross cultural comparison of Asian college students' well-being : exploring the impact of cultural factors in a social cognitive framework, Jennifer Joy Bordon
Belonging and bias : how diatonicity and response bias affect pitch memory in a probe tone task, Jeff Bostwick
Novel sensing concept for organophosphate monitoring, Cheyenne Bowman
Legacy and emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances : analysis, environmental distribution, and bioconcentration, Richard Anthony Brase
Using machine learning to predict super-utilizers of healthcare services, Kevin Paul Buchan Jr.
Disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline : implementing alternative education programs to reduce student disciplinary issues, Michael M. Burns
The sensitivity of convection to boundary layer parameterization in hurricanes Harvey and Irma 2017, Dylan Card
The foundations of inference and its application to fundamental physics, Nicholas Matthew Carrara
Crime and safety in United States schools : selected findings regarding the relationship of interventions on the rate of student removal from the educational setting for disciplinary reasons, Heather Chadwell Dennis
Modulation of Rho termination : expectation vs reality, Kavya Sri Sai Chegireddy
Higher education under market forces how the "transnational shadow education" industry emerged and persisted to help Taiwanese students to study in the U.S, Kenneth Han Chen
The acquisition of variation in future time expression by high school student learners of Spanish in Upstate New York, Erika E. Clarkin
The effect of mindfulness on autonomic nervous system coordination in individuals with interparental conflict exposure, Rachel Clegg
Critical media literacy in social studies : a case study, Lauren Collet-Gildard
Sex differences in context fear neural circuitry and behavior across development, Lorianna Marie Colon
Black women social workers : a qualitative exploration of stress and coping, Collina D. Cooke
Exploring the roles of school business officials through the lens of financial transparency reporting requirements in New York State, Colette Crawfordmack
Tapestry and tomb, choreography and clot : metaphors for mobilities and moorings in geographical literature, Zachary Robert Cudney
Intrabodies reveal critical steps involved in ricin's interactions with the ribosome, Timothy Francis Czajka
Substance abuse policies, prescribing behaviors, and health outcomes, Huy Do Dang
What drives collective informal learning : the influence of team learning orientation, process efficacy, and metacognition, Gabrielle Danna
Uncle Tom's women : slavery and Black female sexuality, Natalia Davila
Courtland Street, Lake George : a bioarchaeological study of the skeletal foot morphology of early Revolutionary War soldiers, Alexandra Grace Decarlo
Inverse problems for topological summaries in topological data analysis, Jordan Desha
The materiality of metaphor in Mayan hieroglyphic texts : metaphor in changing political climates, Rebecca Ann Dinkel
Social identities at work : how do multiple social identities influence organizational attraction?, Aileen Dowden
Emotion regulation and executive functioning : a comparison of collegiate taekwondo athletes, other athletes, and non-athletes, Rae Danett Drach
Aerosol and terrain effects on winter cloud and precipitation over New York State, Yuyi Du
Addressing the development of reading comprehension in students with ASD : a meta-analysis, Halley Eacker
Molecular simulation of RNA conformational dynamics : an example of Micro-RNA targeting messenger RNA : Mir-34a-MSIRT1, Parisa Ebrahimi
Molecular simulation of RNA conformational dynamics : an example of Micro-RNA targeting messenger RNA : Mir-34a-MSIRT1, Parisa Ebrahimi
Cuerpos femeninos en concursos de mujeres o 'reinados' en Colombia, 1991-2018, Ernesto L. Ebratt
19th century exam, 21st century policing : an examination of the New York State Civil Service and police officer recruitment:, Amani Edwards
Diagnosing high sinuosity regimes associated with anomalous Greenland ice-melt events using self-organizing maps, Mansour El Riachy
Kinetic characterization of two C-family polymerases from the gram-positive bacterium staphylococcus aureus, Sean P. Fagan
Seasonal differences in the impacts of IPO and AMO on temperature and precipitation over South America, Thomas Favata
The contributions of dynamical and diabatic processes preceding and accompanying major Greenland ice-melt events, Scott Feldman
A comparison of implicit and explicit error detection and their effects on purchase intention and judgments of quality, Rachel Fernandes
Developing and testing a single-case experimental design tool : improving the way researchers choose and justify quantification techniques, Joelle Fingerhut
An exploration of undergraduates' intercultural development : a case study of an internship abroad program, Jennifer Fong
Against empathy bias : the moral value of equitable empathy, Zoe Fowler
Exploring environmental and methodological sensitivities of forecasted and observed surface winds and gusts using underutilized datasets, Alex Roslyn Gallagher
Epitranscriptomic writer regulation of gene expression in Escherichia coli, William Eugene Gasperi
Identifying the microphysical sensitivities of mesoscale and synoptic precipitation using an ensemble framework, Lauriana Gaudet
Applications of mass spectrometry to forensic entomology : calliphoridae species determination, monitoring of decomposition volatiles, and discovery of chemical cues, Justine Elizabeth Giffen-Lemieux
Mining subgroups from temporal data : from the parts to the whole, Alexander Gorovits
Mechanical analysis of a heterogeneously integrated silicon photonic interposer, Erica Charlene Graham
The case of environmental education of children, Mary Greagan
A project to dye for : differentiation of dyed and non-dyed human hairs Using ATR FT-IR spectroscopy, Joseph John Greco
The circulatory process and user-data, Matthew Greene
Are there individual differences in the foreign language effect?, Rita Gross
Dominican Spanish in New York : language attitudes and variation of final /ɾ/ and /l/, Gabriel Valentín Guadalupe
Simulation analysis of the snowball chamber, Thomas Guile
The role of school and district leaders in discipline systems in positive outlier high schools, Catherine E. Guthrie