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Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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MicroRNA Regulation in Mammary Progenitor and Tumor-Initiating Cells, Ingrid Ibarra

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Shock Waves in a 2D Riemann Problem Having Pure Rarefaction Data, Xiaomei Ji

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Enduring Violence In the Lives of Formerly Incarcerated Women: A Study in Individual Survival and Societal Indifference, Diane Miller Johnson

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Behavioral Phenotypes as Contextual Factors for Problem Behavior in Individuals with Developmental Disabilities, Megan Robinson Joy

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Role of Fatty Acid Binding Proteins and FAAH-2 Endocannabinoid Uptake and Inactivation, Martin Kaczocha

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The Interplay Between Adenovirus and the Double-Strand Break Repair Response in the Struggle to Replicate, Kasey Anne Karen

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Mother-Child Shared Book Reading and Maternal Mood, Samantha Katz

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The Importance of Including Literature Written By and About Islamic Women into High School English Curriculum, Nilufer Kelly

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Simulation-Based Sequential Bayesian Filtering with Rao-Blackwellization applied to Nonlinear Dynamic State Space Models, Mahsiul Khan

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Conservative Data Collections and Comparison Study for Front-tracking, Dongyung Kim

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Holographic QCD, Keun young Kim

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Elucidation of Mechanisms of Yersinia pestis Survival in Macrophages by Examination of Phagosomal Acidification and Negative Selection Screening, Kathryn Anne Klein

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The Role of RNAi in Epigenetic Inheritance and Cell Cycle Control in S.pombe, Anna Kloc

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Representation of Past and Current Oppression of Black Women in Contemporary Black British Literature, Kaaren Kockenmeister

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Energy and Performance Evaluation of Lossless File Data Compression on Computer Systems, Rachita Kothiyal

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Image Quality in MAP SPECT Reconstructions, Santosh Kulkarni

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Differentiation Between Low Positive Affectivity and Behavioral Inhibition in Preschool-Age Children: An Examination Across Domains of Temperament, Social Behavior, Parenting, and Psychological Symptomatology, Rebecca Sonia Laptook

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The Mechanism of Complement-Independent Bactericidal Antibodies Against Borrelia, Timothy Joseph LaRocca

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Qur’anic Narrative and Sufi Hermeneutics: Rumi's Interpretation of Pharaoh's Character, Amer Latif

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Structural and Biochemical Characterization of the Interaction between Gephyrin and Dynein Light Chains, Eun-young Lee

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Design and Analysis of Heterogeneous Sensors based Object Tacking Systems, Jinseok Lee

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Molecular Design and Synthetic Studies of an Amino Acid Receptor, JiSun Lee

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SAPHIRE (Scintillator Avalanche Photoconductor with High Resolution Emitter Readout) for Low Dose X-ray Imaging, Dan Li

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Mechanism of Caspase-1 Activation in Macrophages and its Role in Pathogenesis by Yersinia pestis, Sarit Lilo

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Aspect-Seeing and Seeing Paintings, Hoyeon Lim

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Numerical Modeling in Turbulent Mixing Flows, Kyunkyung Lim

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DNA Melting, Unwinding and E1 Complex Assembly During BPV1 Replication Initiation, Xiaofei Liu

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Quaternary Ammonium Compounds (QACs) in Marine Sediments: Detection, Occurrence, and Application as Geochemical Tracer, Xiaolin Li

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Sulfur Biogeochemistry in the Cariaco Basin, Xiaona Li

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The Dynamics and Origins of the Gender Gap in Support for Military Interventions, Mary-Kate Lizotte

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Synaptic Vesicle Dynamics at Retinal Ribbon Synapses, Lisamarie LoGiudice

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Studies of Quantum Transitions of Magnetic Flux in a rf SQUID Qubit, Luigi Longobardi

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Role of Speciation in Tungstate Sorption on Iron Oxyhydroxides: A Spectroscopic Study, Emily Ann Lorenz

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Mating and Reproductive Patterns in Phayre's Leaf Monkeys, Amy Lu

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Preparation and Comprehensive Characterization of Poly(diiododiacetylene) and Spectroscopic Studies of Its Reactions with Lewis Bases, Liang Luo

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Energetics and Kinetics of Epitaxial Nanostructure Formations on Topographically Patterned Substrates in Three Dimensions, Noah D. Machtay

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Medium Access and Security Protocols for Wireless Multihop Networks, Ritesh Maheshwari

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Hierarchical Constraints and the Choices Judges Make: Judicial Decision-Making at the U.S. Courts of Appeals, Maxwell H. H. Mak

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Strong Field Studies of Cesium Using Intense Mid-infrared Light, Anne Marie March

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Solid-State NMR Spectroscopic Investigation of Structural and Chemical Defects in Minerals, Harris Edward Mason

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The role of the Meiosis II Outer Plaque in membrane formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Erin Marie Mathieson

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Andes Virus Recognition of Human β3 Integrin is Determined by Residue 33 within the β3 Integrin PSI Domain, Valery Sofie Matthys

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Characterization of Anthocyanin Based Dye-Sensitized Organic Solar Cells (DSSC) and Modifications Based on Bio-Inspired Ion Mobility Improvements, Jose Amador Mawyin

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The Role of Magmatic Volatiles in Igneous Systems on Mars: Inferences from Martian Meteorites and Experimental Investigations, Francis Michael McCubbin

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Factors Associated with Condom Use and HIV Risk Perception in Heterosexual Males in Belize, Abigail Cecilia McKay

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Effects of Galanin on Energizing and Hedonic Aspects of Consumption, Ilan Michael McNamara

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Resistant Melodrama: Reading Madness and Motherhood in Michael Cohn's 1997 Film Snow White: A Tale of Terror, Kerry Mescallado

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Growth Following Romantic Relationship Dissolution, Melissa Ramsay Miller

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Instrumentation and Process Development for Resistive Memory Devices, Esteban Monge

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Black-Hole Binaries As Relics Of Gamma-Ray Burst/Hypernova Explosions, Enrique Moreno Mendez

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A Climatology of Convection in the Northeast U.S. during the Warm Season, John Christopher Murray

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Lipid Raft and Sterol Interactions of the Beta-Barrel Forming Toxin Perfringolysin O, Lindsay D. Nelson

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Intermittent Employment Histories and Labor Market Outcomes, Anna Nesterenko

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Coherent Quasiparticle Transport in Multi-Antidot Structures with Potential Applications to Quantum Information, James Albert Nesteroff

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Two Particle Correlations with Direct Photon and [pi]0 Triggers in 200 GeV p+p and Au+Au Collisions, Matthew Nguyen

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Production of Quality in the Hospital Environment, Pamela Susan Noack

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Survival of Yersiniae in Naive and Activated Macrophages: Role of Opsonization and the Plasmid-Encoded Type III Secretion System, Betty Lavonia Noel

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The influence of Post-Burial Environment and Plant-Bone Interactions on Vertebrate Preservation: An Experimental Taphonomic Study, Christopher Robert Noto

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Abnormal Error Processing in Individuals with Major Depressive Disorder, Doreen Marie Olvet

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Weighted L2 Interpolation on Non-Uniformly Separated Sequences, Stanislav Ostrovsky

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Teaching Mothers to Use Promised Consequences with Their Children, Daniela Jade Owen

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Recovery of Trabecular Bone from Disuse Induced Deterioration in Cellular, Morphological and Biomechanical Properties, Engin Ozcivici

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Cellular Interactions with Tissue-engineered Microenvironments and Nanoparticles, Zhi Pan

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Looking Inward, Jin-kang Park

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Mobility Impact on VoIP Quality over Radio Access Network, Seyong Park

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Structure and Reactivity Studies of Size-Selected Transition Metal Sulfide Nanoclusters in the Gas Phase and Supported on Au(111), Melissa Jean Patterson

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Correlation Functions of One-Dimensional Impenetrable Anyons, Ionel Ovidiu Patu

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Synthesis and Characterization of (GaN)1-x(ZnO)x for Energy Applications, and Comparative Synchrotron and Lab X-ray Structure Solutions of Two New Y11Pd23 Compounds, Candace Hannah Payne

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The Presence of the Absent, Verónica Peña-Martínez

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How we can Improve Science Writing, Anthony John Pesiri

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Monomeric Iron and Cobalt Compounds with Cyanide and Isocyanide Ligands, Anthony John Pesiri

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Caveolin-1 Localization and Trafficking and the Effect of Varying Bilayer Thickness on Caveolin-1 Hydrophobic Domain Topology in Model Membranes, Catherine Maud Peterson

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A Specialized Endosomal Population Mediates Trk, but not EGFR, Retrograde Signaling, Polyxeni Philippidou

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Fission-Fusion and Foraging: Sex Differences in the Behavioral Ecology of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii), Amy Anne Pokempner

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Modulating Immune Responses of Langerhans Cells against Microbial Associated Molecular Patterns, Sivaraman Prakasam

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Courbet's Dirty Feet: The Underside of Modernism, Kelly Marie Presutti

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Location Based Activity Recognition Using Mobile Phones, Naveen Vignesh Ramaraj

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High Resolution Photoemission Experiments on Copper Oxide Superconductors, Jonathan David Rameau

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Architecture and Protocols for a High-Performance, Secure IEEE 802.11-based Wireless Mesh Network, Ashish Raniwala

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Quantum Gases in State-Dependent Optical Potentials, Rene Harald Reimann

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Barriers to Effective Discipline: Situational Contexts, Maternal Cognitions, and Maternal Affect Associated with Dysfunctional Discrepant Discipline, Kimberly Anne Rhoades

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Regulation of Transcription in the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Adam Phillip Rosebrock

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Scribble Regulates Morphogenesis and Cell Fate Decisions During Mammary Gland Development and Neoplasia, Avi Z. Rosenberg

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Morphometric Variation in the Appendicular Skeleton of Recent and Prehistoric Humans, Danielle Frances Royer

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Alterations in the Mineral and Collagen Matrix of Bisphosphonate-Treated Bone and Osteoblocks, Meghan Elizabeth Ruppel

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Geometric Algorithms for Dynamic Airspace Sectorization, Girishkumar R. Sabhnamni

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Inshore Movements, Residency, and Abundance of Adult Winter Flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus, and Piscivorous Predation on Young-of-the-Year Winter Flounder within Coastal Bays of Long Island and an Investigation on the Effect of Temperature and Photoperiod on Vertebral Band Deposition in Little Skate, Raja erinacea, Skyler Rose Sagarese

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The Ongoing Synthesis of a Tetrahedral Chromophore, Rosemarie Salerno

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Advances in the Structural Characterization of Duplex DNA Containing 3-Aminobenzanthrone, Freda Charlotte Sansaricq

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Primary Aberrations: An Investigation from the Image Restoration Perspective, Shekhar Sastry

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Low Temperature Thermal Conductivity and Competing Orders in d-wave Superconductors, Philip Ross Schiff

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The Day the Music Died: The Reinvention of Poetry as a Spoken Art in the Works of Amy Lowell and Edith Sitwell, Kristie Ann Schlauraff

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Les Pommes en Pleine air de Gustave Courbet: Emblematizing the Massacred Communards of the 1871 Semaine Sanglante, Christine Ann Scott

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Identification of Novel Interaction Sites Between Myosin Phosphatase (MP) Subunits PP1 c [beta] and MYPT1, Elizabeth Scotto-Lavino

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Commodity and Abjection: A Psycho-social Investigation of Pop Culture Imagery in the Artwork of Paul McCarthy, Robert Rand Shane

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NMDA receptors and Synaptic Plasticity in Lumbar Motoneurons of Neonatal Rats, Monicca Shanthanelson

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Theory of ZnO and GaN: Nanostructures, Surfaces and Heterogeneous Photo-catalysis, Xiao Shen

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Network Flow Modeling via Lattice-Boltzmann Based Channel Conductance: Prediction of Relative Permeability in Primary Drainage, Yelena Sholokhova

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Modeling and Verification Techniques for Ad Hoc Network Protocols, Anu Singh

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Nonlinear and Nonstationary Data Analysis of the Renal Autoregulatory Dynamics in Normotensive and Hypertensive Rats, Kin Lung Siu