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Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This collection of SBU students' theses and dissertations was migrated here from its former repository. It is closed to submissions. Please use the Electronic Dissertations and Theses collection for current submissions of your thesis or dissertation.

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Orchestra, Bill M. Wolf

The Role of Plant-Bird Interactions in the Invasion of Juniperus bermudiana in Hawaii: Integrating Experiments, Behavior, and Models, Eliza Woo

A Comparative Study of Various High Density Data Center Cooling Technologies, Kwok Wu

Configurations of Graphs and the Master Equation, Dezhen Xu

The Chemical Composition of Sinking Particles and their Vertical Dynamics in the Open Ocean, Jianhong Xue

Quantification of the Tidal Exchange of Radium as an Indicator of Submarine Groundwater Inputs to Great South Bay, Suhui Yang

Modeling Excitable Cells Using Hybrid Automata, Pei Ye

Essays on the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance System, Na Yin

Process Development For High Speed Superconductor Microelectronics For Digital and Mixed Signal Applications, Daniel T. Yohannes

Rotation and Evolution of A and F Stars, Jinmi Yoon

Ontogeny of Locomotion in Saimiri boliviensis and Callithrix jacchus: Implications for Primate Locomotor Ecology and Evolution, Jesse Wyatt Young

Role of Sir3 N-terminus in Yeast Transcriptional Silencing, Peihua Yuan

Caribbean Drosophila melanogaster: A Model For Incipient Sexual Isolation and Admixture Between Genetically and Phenotypically Divergent Populations in Widespread Species, Roman Yukilevich

Inventing Shakespeare, 1998-2008: A Consideration of Recent Fiction and Picture Books in Which Shakespeare the Man is a Character, Nina Mary Yuliano

The Duality of Wallace Stevens, Michael ZarZicki

Genome Signals and Evolution for Fidelity and Regulation of Pre-mRNA Splicing, Chaolin Zhang

Investigation of Menaquinone Biosynthetic Pathway in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: Catalytic Mechansism and Inhibition Studies of MenB and MenE, Huaning Zhang

Analysis and Visualization of Facial Expression Subtlety Using Dynamic High Resolution Data, Lei Zhang

Integration of Process Diagnostics and Three Dimensional Simulations in Thermal Spraying, Wei Zhang

Substrate Recognition by Bacterial Enoyl Reductases from Escherichia coli and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Xujie Zhang

Development of a Wireless Health Monitoring System with an Efficient Power Management Scheme Based on Localized Time-Varying Data Analyses, He Zhao

Structure Analysis to Large Size Electronic Systems and Its Application for Optimized Electronic Design, Yang Zhao

Collagen Maturization and Mineralization - A Three-Dimensional Ultrastructural Evolution of Bone Tissue, Hongwen Zhou

Annual Precipitation Pattern Over Long Island Based on Radar Data, Lisha Zhou

Repairable File and Storage Systems, Ningning Zhu

Collaborative Information Processing and Query Evaluation in Wireless Sensor Networks, Xianjin Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Effects of Mineral Association and Aggregation on Particulate Organic Matter Composition in the Water Column, Lynn Abramson

The Pattern and Process of Evolutionary Diversification: Lessons from a Threespine Stickleback Adaptive Radiation, Windsor Efren Aguirre

Cooling, Trapping, and Transport of Atom Clouds, Stephan Gerhard Albert

The Pathogenic NY-1 Hantavirus Gn Cytoplasmic Tail Regulates Cellular Interferon Responses, Peter Joseph Alff

The Role of Dynamic Muscle Contractions on Bone Loss and Muscle Atrophy in a Functional Disuse Mouse Model, Adiba Mir Ali

Effectiveness of Prices as a Smoking Reduction Mechanism: An Analysis of Adolescent Smoking Behavior, Mir M. Ali

Costs of Sexual Selection in the Sand Fiddler Crab, Uca pugilator, Bengt Joseph Allen

Terrestrial and Marine POC Fluxes Derived From ²³⁴Th Distributions and ð¹³ Measurements on the Mackenzie River Shelf, David Amiel

William James: Exploring The Possibilities of an Aesthetic Theory, Robert Phillip Andersen

Construction and Commissioning of a Hadron Blind Detector for PHENIX at RHIC, William Anderson

Design and Implementation of Reconfigurable Hardware for Real-Time Particle Filtering, Akshay Athalye

Studies in Perturbative QCD, Sahap Mert Aybat

The Paranoiacs Who Knew Too Much: Postmodern Knowledge and Hollywood Cinema, Emilia Bakola

Barcelona múltiple: transformaciones urbanas, ciudadanos, visitantes e inmigrantes. De ‘ciudad condal’ vencida a urbe postolímpica, Natalia Núñez Bargueño

Clathrin-Independent Endocytosis of ErbB2 in Human Breast Cancer Cells, Daniel John Barr

Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) and Dissolved Trace Metal Cycling in the Subterranean Estuary and Coastal Ocean, Aaron Joseph Beck

Studies of Decoherence in rf Squid Qubits, Douglas A. Bennett

Defeating Memory Error Expolits Using Automated Software Diversity, Sandeep Bhatkar

Essays on Supply and Demand Side of the Health Care Market, Partha Bhattacharyya

Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis in Urban Air Pollution: Optical Mapping in Tissue-Engineered Model, Harold H. Bien

Analysis of Task Mapping for Parallel Supercomputers, Janet Laura Braunstein

The Social and Personal Implications of the Process of Identity Revision: The Case of Separated and Divorced Catholics, Anna Aleksandra Bruzzese

Discourse, Science, and the Ideology of Race: The Concept of Race Struggle in Michel Foucault's 1975-1976 Lectures, Christopher Buckman

Infection of Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) Ovaries by the Dracunculoid Nematode, Philometra saltatrix: Prevalence, Intensity, and Effect on Reproductive Potential, Walter R. Burak

Principled Conservatives or Covert Racists: Disentangling Racism and Ideology Through Implicit Measures, Inna Burdein

Reconstructing Aquaporin 2 Trafficking and AHNAK Function in 3T3 L1 Adipocytes., Donne Bennett de Leon Caces

Culture Wars as Identity Politics, Erin Catherine Cassese

The Rising of the Ongwehònwe: Sovereignty, Identity, and Representation on the Six Nations Reserve, Andrea Lucille Catapano

Who, If I Cry Out, Would Hear Me Among the Angels, Hsiu-Hsiu Chang

Coke Resistant Coating Technology For Applications in Ethylene Pyrolysis Heaters, Alok Pratap Singh Chauhan

Neighborly Properties of Simple Convex Polytopes, Je-Wei Chen

Binding and Release of Oxygen and Hydrogen Peroxide are Directed Through a Hydrophobic Tunnel in Cholesterol Oxidase, Lin Chen

Collaborative Visual Search, Xin Chen

Molecular Dynamics Modeling of a Biotoxin in Various Temperature and pH Environments and Another Protein Interacting with Small Molecules, Xin Chen

Biochemical and Dynamic Analysis of Promyelocytic Leukemia Nuclear Bodies, Yi-Chun Maria Chen

Structural and Functional Studies of Negative Regulators of TCR Signaling, Yunting Chen

Essays on Strategic Outsourcing, Yutian Chen

Structure-Function Studies on Mammalian Mitochondrial DNA Polymerase, Zhixin Chen

Physicians' Gender Bias in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Interpretation of Coronary Heart Disease Symptoms, Gabrielle Rosina Chiaramonte

Phenotypic Characterization of mlqgap2-Deficient Mice, Carmine Saverio Chiariello

Thermal Transport Properties of Thermally Sprayed Coatings: An Integrated Study of Materials, Processing and Microstructural Effects, Weiguang Chi

Approaches Toward Investigation of Metastatic Progression of Ovarian Tumor Cells, Leong Chuen Cho

Epitaxial Growth of Hexagonal Ferrite Films by Thermal Spray, Mei-Ni Chou

Some Aspects of Internet Portal Market Competition, Volha Chuvakin

Development of a Brief Couples Therapy for Depression: Targeting Illness-Related Attitudes and Behaviors, Empathy, and Support, Shiri Cohen

Functional Morphology and Evolution of the Primate Auditory System, Mark Newman Coleman

Reciprocal Actions of REST and a microRNA Promote Neuronal Activity, Ma.Cecilia G. Conaco

Food Availability and Pediatric Overweight: Fields of Influence and Bounded Rationality, Josephine Connolly-Schoonen

Structural Studies of Molybdopterin Synthase, an Essential Enzyme for Dithiolene Formation during Molybdenum Cofactor Biosynthesis, Juma Nkosi Daniels

On (Non)Factivity, Clausal Complementation and the CP-Field, Carlos Francisco De Cuba

The Functional Analysis of Four Connexin50 Variants to Determine the Physiological Relevance of Connexin50 Protein Domains, Adam Michael DeRosa

Single Photon Counting For Ultra-Weak Fluorescence Detection: System Design, Characterization and Application to DNA-Sequencing., Vinit H. Dhulla

Maternal Space as Boundless: Finding Liberation through Child Preservation in Toni Morrison's Beloved, Sula, and The Bluest Eye, Olivia Maria Diaz

Energy loss and flow of heavy quarks in AU+AU collisions at [square root of]sNN = 200GeV, Alan Dion

Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the ZH à [mu]⁺ [mu]⁻ + bb Channel in pp Collisions at [square root of ]s = 1.96 TeV, Huishi Dong

Phospholipase Cβ₁ and its Interactions With Members of the Gαq Signaling Pathway: In Vitro and In Vivo Implications for a Self-Scaffolding Model, Louisa Marie Dowal

Simulation of Magnetohydrodynamic Multiphase Flow, Jian Du

Mimicking Marine-based Natural systems: A Study of Sediment-hydrate Interactions Under in situ Conditions, Michael Waldram Eaton

Ecogeographic Variation in Neandertal Dietary Habits: Evidence From Microwear Texture Analysis, Sireen El Zaatari

High Scalable Implementation of SPME Using Parallel Spherical Cutoff 3D FFT on the 6D Torus QCDOC Supercomputer, Bin Fang

Ensemble Methods for Classification with Applications to Genomics, Melissa Jane Fazzari

Identification and Functional Characterization of Novel Proteins Regulating Wnt/β-catenin Signaling, Michael Eric Feigin

Gauge Covariant Actions From Strings, Haidong Feng

Jefferson and Tolsty: Scriptural Revision, Daniel Fineberg

Reflections on Sculpture, Alton Ciro Frabetti

Concerted Elimination of Cl+₂ from CCl₄ and of I+₂from CH₂I₂ Driven by Intense Ultrafast Laser Pulses, Dominik Peter Michael Geissler

Electrical Methods to Characterize Defect Evolution in Plasma Sprayed Coatings under Cyclic Straining, Arash Ghabchi

Regulation of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling in Yeast, Douglas Paul Gladue

Evaporative Cooling and Bose-Einstein Condensation of Rb-87 in a Moving-Coil TOP Trap Geometry, Daniel Guenther Greif

Acceptance of Evolution and Knowledge of Related Scientific Tenets: A Survey of Science Center Visitors, Dustin Growick

Cooling and Trapping of Rubidium and Francium Ions in a Linear Radio-Frequency Quadrupole Trap, Kerim Gulyuz

Computational Study of Protein-Ligand Interaction with Application in Drug Discovery, Yuanqing Guo

The Sad Death of a King: The Legacy of Richard the Second, Marco Hernandez

Closed Systems, Fumito Hiraoka