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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The role of progesterone receptor in the development of the mesocortical serotonergic pathway, Allyssa Phillips
The AIDS volcano : narratives of HIV/AIDS in the Iranian public sphere, Elham Pourtaher
The effect of anthropogenic environmental modifications on malaria vectors in Amazonian Peru and Brazil, Catharine Prussing
An expansion of a model of depression in multiple sclerosis : emotion regulation and coping as moderators of the relationship between functional disability and adjustment to disease, Elizabeth W. Raffanello
Modeling chaperone-substrate interactions of alpha crystallin from the ocular lens, Lisa Marie S. Ramirez
Epistemic trust in online higher education : a mixed method phenomenological research study, Lisa F. Rapple
A New York State mesonet based analysis of squall line cold pool strength and uses for short term forecasting, Daniel William Reese
Integration of cultural competency in delivery of mental health services to Latinos :, Jacqueline V. Richardson-Melecio
Characterization of a novel, stress-responsive sexually dimorphic corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1 (CRFR1) nucleus in the rostral anteroventral periventricular nucleus of the mouse, Zachary Julius Rosinger
Developmental changes in the activation and structure of the contextual fear neural circuit from infancy to adulthood, Anthony John Santarelli
How much weight do organizational personality inferences have on judgments of organizations?, Levi Sassaman
Inteins from pathogenic microbes as regulatory elements and potential drug targets, Cathleen Maria Schiraldi
"Farre fetched and deare bought" : cosmetics and Englishness 1570-1625, Marta Josie Schoel
Unbecoming : a collection of short fiction, Angélica Luisa Valentín Schubert
Association of serum PCSK9 with carotid artery thickness and carotid lesions in women with HIV and hepatitis C virus, Michael Patrick Searles
Stories in order to live : essays, Kelsie Seehusen
Protein ligation : selenocysteine, Komal Shah
Emotion forecasting in dyadic conversation : characterizing and predicting future emotion with audio-visual information using deep learning, Sadat Shahriar
The everyday sacred : a symbolic analysis of contemporary Yucatec Maya women's daily realities, Crystal Sheedy
Significance of RNA 2'-5' linkage and metal-ion mediated base pairs, Fusheng Shen
Remote sensing of planetary boundary layer height and particulate matter 2.5 in New York State Mesonet Network, Bhupal Shrestha
The clinical laboratory workforce in New York State : a study of supply and demand, Stephanie H. Shulman
Race, threat, and firearms: : analysis of state-level self-defense and "Stand your ground" laws, John-Michael Simpson
A comparison of three tablet-based sight word flashcard interventions, Brandon Paul Sinisi
Dissidence and displacement : translation theory through the work of Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Darren Smith
CVD molybdenum disulfide : material and device engineering, Eui Sang Song
The influence of miR-322 on skeletal muscle differentiation, Miles Alexander Soyer
Age-related differences in cognition and affect at work : the impact of mindfulness, Sara Michelle Stevens
Spatial boundary detection and estimation of jet stream as a key factor for tornado environments, Mingzeng Sun
Measurement of bottom quark pair production, in association with Z bosons and top quarks, with the ATLAS detector, Stewart Swift
"We get nothing" : an ethnography of participatory development and gender mainstreaming in a water project for the Bhil of Central India, Indrakshi Tandon
Housing in China's urbanization process, Zequn Tang
Reflective structuration of knowledge building practices in grade 5 science classrooms, Dan Tao
Human error in police involved shootings, Paul L. Taylor
Accumulation and spatial distribution of lead and other trace elements in keratinized tissues : investigations based on analytical atomic spectrometry, Mina W. Tehrani
Examining the mechanisms of nucleic acid structural rearrangements using nanospray ionization mass spectrometry, Botros Toro
Development of a neutropenic murine model for invasive candida auris infection, Steven Torres
Non-Euclidean metric on the resolvent set, Mai Thi Thuy Tran
An examination of North Pacific jet regimes conducive to landfalling atmospheric rivers along the West Coast of North America, Eli Jacob Turasky
Risk factors for gestational diabetes in Upstate New York women & implications for practice, Margaret Versteegen
Does testing episodic "lion-tiger" and/or "tiger-stripes" associations facilitate later "lion-stripes" learning, Deana Vitrano
The simulated impact of snow cover and soil moisture on convective precipitation within the Rocky Mountains under climate warming, Brendan Charles Wallace
Stereotypes and phenotypes : using machine learning to examine racial implicit bias in sex offender criminal case processing, Christine M. Walsh
The magic of a strange sky : nature and the mysticism of memory in Beckett's trilogy, Daniel James Warhol
Human interactions with the late Holocene landscape on Martha's Vineyard, Jessica Watson
Learning a new physics concept by exploring analogous problems : an instructional intervention, Joanna Perry Weaver
Climate change and salmonella, New York State, Kevin Taylor Welch
Transcriptional regulation of dksA in E. Coli, Daniel Thomas Woods
I play therefore I am : deconstructing ludic identities, Joseph Matthew Wozlonis
Arctic sea ice predictability and prediction, Chao-Yuan Yang
Cross-community collaboration among knowledge building communities, Guangji Yuan
Empirical essays on science and new technology adoption, Huifeng Yu
Stand-your-ground laws and housing insecurity : boundary-work and intersections in gun laws and housing insecurity, David Zacuto
Modality as a reflection of pragmatic competence : exploring modification of ELLs' pragmatic knowledge based on the use of modality in the context of peer feedback, Liya Zalaltdinova
Optimization methods for learning graph-structured sparse models, Baojian Zhou
Education, skills, and wage outcomes among mid-career adults : a cross-national study, Kai Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The detection of cocaine in oral fluid using ultraviolet resonance raman spectroscopy, Yasmine Ahmed
On problems dual to unification : the string-rewriting case, Zumrut Akcam Kibis
The effects of engaged reader instruction on the reading development of struggling readers with limited reading comprehension, Fatima Allahverdi
The relationship between tropospheric synoptic-scale events, vertical wave activity flux, and sudden stratospheric warmings in the boreal winter, Hannah Elizabeth Attard
Making sense of the mix : understanding the role of family dynamics in the racial identity experiences of black-white emerging adults, Crystal Austin
Technology development for detection of circulating disease biomarkers from liquid biopsies using multifunctional nanomaterials, Mustafa Balcioglu
Satisfaction of Search (SOS) impacts proofreading performance : evidence from eye movements, Eliza Barach
Exploring heterometallic beta-diketonates for the low temperature synthesis of energy-related oxide and fluoride materials, Matthew Christopher Barry
Before nature's nation : ecological thought and early American poetry, Joshua Bartlett
The influence of inversions on the perception of major and minor chords, Vincenzo Belli
Bounded algebra in symmetric monoidal categories, Bryan Bennett
Extratropical cyclones leading to extreme weather events over Central and Eastern North America, Alicia Marie Bentley
Exemplary Welshness : the role of the transnational Welsh heritage network and being Welsh in Patagonia, Kimberly Anne Berg
Relationships among community violence exposure, physiological stress responses, and resilience in children, Cheryl Kayleen Best
The effects of pre-pregnancy tobacco use on food cravings and weight gain in pregnancy, Lauren E. Blau
The responsibility to prevent : neocolonialism, poverty and mass atrocity crimes in Africa, Eileen Brino
An analysis of the linkages between large-scale flow regime transitions on the spatiotemporal distribution of clustered extratropical cyclone events over the Northern Hemisphere, Eric Merton John Bunker
The microfluidic intravital window : a tool for manipulation and imaging of the tumor microenvironment, Logan William Butt
From Jim Crow to diversity : racial formation as institutional logic in the U.S. National Park Service, 1935-2011, Rick Caceres-Rodriguez
Regional specialization of the adult meninges supports different brain areas and alters with age, Christina Ann Calabrese
Transits of non-spherical exoplanets, Bertrand Carado
Stratospheric and tropospheric contributions to the poleward energy flux across 70°N and 65°S in the MERRA-2 and CESM, Christopher Cardinale
A consideration of ancient residues and their analysis, Jennifer A. Cardinal
Childhood emotional functioning and arterial stiffness in young adulthood, Logan Carey
Estimation of planetary photometric emissions for extremely close-in exoplanets, Jennifer L. Carter
Differentiation of potential false positives from human saliva using raman spectroscopy for forensic purposes, Selina Casadei
Illumination modulation for improved propagation-based phase imaging, Tonmoy Chakraborty
Marriageable us, undesirable them : reproducing social inequalities through marital boundaries, Yuching Cheng
Alumni and named structures : a qualitative analysis of major gift donors, Allison Cherkosly
Projected changes in climate, elevation-dependent warming, and extreme events over continental Ecuador for the period 2041-2070, Oscar Chimborazo
Exploring religiosity and spirituality on the meaning of HIV/AIDS and service provision in Malawi, Sung Ah Choi
Modulation of cytokine signaling in optic nerve regeneration in xenopus laevis, Rupa Priscilla Choudhary
Bossy, abrasive and a bit too aggressive : the unique double bind of agentic women in the workplace, Lindsay Ciancetta
Circular RNA : a review of history, diseases, and diagnostic potential, Daniel Conley
Now, tomorrow, forever the persistence of school segregation in America, Dustin Connors
Mechanistic analysis of the type I-E CRISPR-Cas system in escherichia coli, Lauren A. Cooper