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Submissions From 2011
Design of Advanced Materials by Exploiting Hierarchically-Structured Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers, Yuxiang Zhou
12C + 12C Fusion: Measurement and Advances Toward the Gamow Energy, James Zickefoose
Submissions From 2010
Photoacoustic Imaging For Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis, Andres Aguirre
Three essays in agricultural development in Central America: Semiparametric analyses using panel data, Alexandre Nunes de Almeida
Grammatical formalisms for RNA structure analysis, Sahar Al Seesi
Investigating the antimicrobial potential of trans-cinnamaldehyde for controlling Cronobacter sakazakii infections, Mary Anne Roshni Amalaradjou
Community-based participatory research with Hispanic/Latino community leaders and members, Mary Grace Amendola
Intergenerational transfers in the long term care market, Monika Lopez Anuarbe
Self-assembling Polypeptide Nanoparticles: Design, Synthesis, Biophysical Characterization and Biomedical Applications, Tais de Araujo Pereira Falcao Pimentel
Improving the light quantification of near infrared (NIR) diffused light optical tomography with ultrasound localization, Yasaman Ardeshirpour
Accuracy Assessment of GEOID09 abd GEOID03 in Connecticut, Kazi Arifuzzaman
Folk-Psychology and Analogy, Theodore Robert Bach
The Acute Effects of Nutrition on Muscle Signaling and Hormonal Responses to Consecutive Repeated Sprints and Resistance Exercise, Brooke L Bailey
Essays at the interface of operations and risk management, Preetam Basu
Testing the Role of Social Cues in Saltmarsh Sparrow Habitat Selection Decisions, Trina Schneider Bayard
Three essays on income inequality, Gulgun Bayaz Ozturk
Cultural Normalization of Violence among a Detention Population, Rebecca Floor Beebe
Great Expectations: Family and Community in Nineteenth Century Black Hartford, Barbara Jean Beeching
Grassroots organizing and 'post-civil rights' racism: The dilemma of negotiating interracial solidarity in a 'color-blind' society, Angie K Beeman
The Dynamical Circulation of a Partially Stratified, Frictional Estuary: Long Island Sound, Diane Catherine Bennett
Targeted drug delivery using carbon nanotubes for cancer therapeutics, Ashwinkumar A Bhirde
Modulation of Autoimmunity by antigen specific regulatory T cells, Sourojit Bhowmick
Insertion element activity in bacterial genomes, Derek Martens Bickhart
Diffuse Fluorescence Tomography for Mapping Tumor Vasculature and Hypoxia, Nrusingh Charan Biswal
Regressive and Early Onset Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Comparison of Developmental Trajectories, Autistic Behaviors, and Medical Histories, Hilary Corinne Boorstein
Moderating Islam: Religion, security, and the Western state, Robert Michael Bosco
Preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome: A comparison of two parent education programs, Jill Marie Bradshaw
Spectroscopic detection and analysis of atomic emissions during industrial pulsed laser-drilling of structural aerospace alloys, Robin Michael Bright
Desire, violence, and peace: A Girardian approach to catharsis in the Calderonian auto sacramental of Baroque Spain, Christa C Bucklin
Perceptions of the impact of Upward Bound on academic success: Case studies of Northeast Latino students and graduates, Gail Elizabeth Buller
Transforming Gender: Medicine, Body Politics, and the Transgender Rights Movement, Mary C Burke
Under the ivory tower: Labor in the American academic novel 1929--1940, Barbara Jean Campbell
Shaping Solidarity: Music, Diplomacy, and Inter-American Relations, 1936--1946, Jennifer L. Campbell
Bioinformatics Methods for Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases, Jorge Alexander Duitama Castellanos
Investigation of Blowoff Mechanism and Forced Response of Bluff Body Stabilized Turbulent Premixed Flames, Swetaprovo Chaudhuri
Controlled synthesis, characterization, and applications of advanced inorganic nanomaterials, Chun-Hu Chen
The Contours of Womanhood: Living with "Eating Disorders" in Southern Italy, Ann M Cheney
A study of the production technology of general dental practices in the U.S., Lei Chen
A molecular approach to the study of saxitoxin resistance in copepods, Lihua Chen
Multi-wavelength laser operation and pulse propagation using nonlinear fibers, Zhe Chen
No pain, no gain? A resource based model of work-to-family conflict and enrichment, Zheng Chen
Nursing home social workers' leadership competence in end-of-life care: Development and validation of an instrument, Emily J Cherlin
A precursor approach to the synthesis and fabrication of conducting polymers, Jia Choi
The Effects of Grade 9 Mathematics Coursetaking Opportunities on Students' Algebraic Achievement, Shelbi K Cole
Investigating the Visual Perceptual Domain in Children with Specific Language Impairment, Beverly Anne Collisson
Struggles for Modernization: Peru and the United States, 1961--1968, Paulo C Contreras
School counselors and Latino/a English language learners: Closing the achievement/opportunity gaps to increase college-going rates, Amy Lynne Cook
Assessment of Bovine Rod Outer Segment (ROS) Disk Membrane Heterogeneity and the Contribution of the Bilayer to Rhodopsin Kinetic Stability, Scott Chalon Corley
Sounding the Audiophonic Imagination, Kenneth Paul Cormier
Non-classical mereologies and their applications, Aaron J Cotnoir
Sparse aperture 3D passive image sensing and recognition, Mehdi DaneshPanah
Improving decision making in healthcare operations, Matthew D Dean
Integrin,alphaIIbbeta3: Tale of Two Cytoplasmic Tails, Lalit Deshmukh
The Iron Curtain in the picture window: The Cold War home in American fiction and popular culture, Rebecca Allison Devers
pi-Conjugated Polymers for Electrochromic and Photovoltaic Applications, Tanmoy Dey
Rigorous bounds for fundamental heuristic search, Hang Trung Dinh
"Sanctions and Sanctuary" Revisited: Domestic Violence and Cultural Models of Intervention, Susan C DiVietro
Clinical application of parental acceptance-rejection theory (PARTheory) measures in relational therapy, assessment and treatment, Jamie Marie Donoghue
An interpretive study of African Americans' mental models of museums and visitation: "...you think, damn, so close, but yet so far.", Dana Dudzinski
Self-care and second shift burden in the context of socially-constructed mothering, Alicia G Dugan
A brief motivational intervention for adolescent depression in school based health centers, Edith L Dundon
Substance abuse education for undergraduate nursing students: A target approach to program evaluations, Jill M Espelin
School Type and Mathematics Achievement: A Comparison of Magnet and Public Secondary Schools Using the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 Data Set, Craig L Esposito
A self-exciting switching model, Yuchen Fama
School days and family ways: Education in African American literature, 1903--2005, Denise Karachuk Feikema
It's been twenty years: The case of ethnic Armenian refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan, Thomas Patrick Felke
The ghost in the Irish psyche: Ghost stories in contemporary Irish literature, Molly Elizabeth Ferguson
Asian Americans in New England: Settlement and business patterns, 1980--2002, Paul Alfred Fernald
Licensers and Meanings: Structural Properties of Dependent Indefinites, Natalia Viktorovna Fitzgibbons
From new nurse practitioner to primary care provider: A multiple case study of new nurse practitioners who completed a formal post-graduate residency training, Margaret M Flinter
Trumpet intonation pedagogy in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Joel Kent Flunker
Effects upon purchase intention of spokespersons who speak non-native-accented English in a U.S. television commercial, Robert Glenn Forbus
An Experimental Approach to Elucidate Functional Mechanisms of Control of the Bivalve Pump, Dana M Frank
Elastic and Inelastic Collisions in Ultracold and Astrophysical Environments, Marko Gacesa
Whistle-blowing following sexual harassment: Examining the intricacies of reporting within a planned behavior framework, Jessica A Gallus
The Politicization of Science in the Public Sphere, Gordon Gauchat
DIVAS Mentoring Program follow-up study, Camille Burke Geathers
Regulation of Osteoblast Migration by Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor kappa B (RANK) Signaling, Diana Lynne Golden
Contested places: The history and meaning of Hassanamisco, Donna Rae Gould
Solution mediated phase transformation: Investigating using a novel flow-through dissolution apparatus, Kristyn Elizabeth Greco
Early detection and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug chemoprevention of colorectal cancer, Emily Joy Greenspan
The role of microstructure on transport phenomena in fuel cells, Kyle Nathan Grew
In sickness and in health: A study of ethnomedical ideology and practice in colonial New England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Margaret Ann Teague Guelakis
Nation and state level freight generation models, Feng Guo
Functional analysis of interaction between nuclear retinoid receptors and a novel keratinocyte derived coregulator TNIP1, Igor Gurevich
Removing the "risk" from adolescent sexual behavior: An intersectional analysis of adolescent sexual empowerment, Jamie L Gusrang
Molecular mechanisms of microRNA regulation in breast cancer cells, Irene Kathryn Guttilla
Accessibility of the residential environment: Its influence on the depressive symptoms of older adults, Mariana T Guzzardo
Lease Accounting and the Cost of Equity Capital, Fei Han
Modeling and imaging elastic waves in heterogeneous media, Kuang He
Paying attention to consciousness, Richard J Hine
Part 1: Synthesis of psico-nucleoside analogs of oxetanocin A. Part 2: Synthesis of alpha-glycosphingolipids for in vivo studies and purity determination, Nathan E Hnatiuk
Mercury cycling in sediments of Chesapeake Bay and the mid-Atlantic continental shelf and slope, Terill Anne Hollweg
Association of HIV Stigma and Sexual Behavior, Carol Leah Holmes