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Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Gardner, Nathaniel W,. NOVEL COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND SANDWICH STRUCTURES FOR BLAST MITIGATION

Krumholz, Jason Seth. SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS IN NUTRIENT STANDING STOCK AND MASS-BALANCE IN RESPONSE TO LOAD REDUCTIONS IN A TEMPERATE ESTUARY

Kulkarni, Supriya. NRF2 AS A NUTRIENT SENSITIVE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR

Monahan, Kris A.. TIME FOR LEARNING: UNDERSTANDING STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES TOWARD LEARNING IN EXPANDED LEARNING TIME REFORM

Oakley, Bryan Andrew. LATE QUATERNARY DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS, TIMING AND RECENT DEPOSITION: NARRAGANSETT BAY, RHODE ISLAND AND MASSACHUSETTS

Pires, Armand R.. THE DIALECTICS OF TEACHER CHANGE WTIHIN A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

Rohr, Nicole. Impacts of Marine Invasive Species on Subtidal and Intertidal Food Web Dynamics

Sherman, Karen J.. Teachers’ Perception of Bullying Among Youth: Hindsight Bias in Relation to Victim Responses

Sipala, Michael W.. HORMONAL AND PHEROMONAL EFFECTS OF 20-HYDROXYECDYSONE IN THE AMERICAN LOBSTER, HOMARUS AMERICANUS

Spas, Jayson. MULTIPLE HEALTH BEHAVIOR RISKS: REDEFINING CO-ACTION AND INVESTIGATING MULTIPLE HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE USING THE TRANSTHEORETICAL MODEL

Subaiea, Gehad Mohammed. Brain Penetration of Tolfenamic Acid and its Ability to Enhance the Cognitive Functions and to Lower Amyloid Pathology in Animal Models of Alzheimer's Disease

Vinhateiro, Nathan D.. Mechanisms of Shoreline Change on the Rhode Island South Coast: Past, Present, and Future

Zhang, Lin. TRANSPORT AND PARTITIONING OF ORGANOCHLORINE POLLUTANTS IN THE OPEN OCEANS

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Audette, Jennifer Gail. Theoretical Frames and Teaching Styles of Physical Therapy Faculty Who Lead International Service-Learning Experiences

Burditt, Cailtin. Application of the Transtheoretical Model Parent Facilitation of Healthy Anxiety Management in Their Children

Caporaso, Alicia Lynn. A NEW MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE FORMATION MODEL: THUNDER BAY NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY

Chatterjee, Swarbhanu. INTERFERENCE EFFECTS IN RESTRICTED SYSTEMS

Cox, Annie M.. DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTON OF VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS, A BACTERIOPLANKTON SPECIES OF CONCERN FOR HUMAN HEALTH, IN RHODE ISLAND

Crocker, Steven E.. GEOACOUSTIC INVERSION USING THE VECTOR FIELD

Dalavi, Swapnil. ANALYSIS OF INTERPHASE FORMED ON THE ELECTRODES OF LITHIUM ION BATTERIES

Dossot, Georges Albert. ACOUSTIC FLUCTUATIONS IN SHALLOW WATER DUE TO NONLINEAR INTERNAL WAVES

Engqvist, Inger. EXPERIENCES OF POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF WOMEN WITH THE DIAGNOSIS AND PSYCHIATRIC NURSES

Farley, George Thomas. Polyphosphate-Based Industrial Cooling Water Treatment

Gayle, Trudy-Ann K.. "I'm Telling On You": A Natural History of Disclosure of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Harris, Jeffrey C.. WAVE-INDUCED SEDIMENT TRANSPORT: SIMULATION OF TURBULENT WAVE BOUNDARY LAYERS

Horn, Matthew G. S.. EXAMINATION OF THE DIATOM-BOUND NITROGEN ISOTOPE PROXY: NITRATE CONSUMPTION IN THE POLAR OCEAN

Joseph, Shaun N.. RELAXATIONS OF L(1, 1)-LABELING FOR THE BROADCAST SCHEDULING PROBLEM

King Williams, Patricia. Objectification, Femininity Ideology, and Sexual Assertiveness: A Model of Women’s Sexual Functioning

Kumar, Puneet. DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF STRUCTURAL MATERIALS TO SHOCK LOADING

LeBlanc, James. DYNAMIC RESPONSE AND DAMAGE EVOLUTION OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS SUBJECTED TO UNDERWATER EXPLOSIVE LOADING: AN EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDY

Segala, David B.. MULTIVARIATE MULTISCALE ANALYSIS OF NATURAL AND ENGINEERED DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Smith, Sarah Lindley. AN ANALYSIS OF MARINE RESERVE CO-MANAGEMENT WITHIN THE CARIBBEAN: FACTORS INFLUENCING STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION

Smythe, Tiffany Catherine. AN ANALYSIS OF THE CAPACITY OF COASTAL MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS TO DEVELOP COASTAL ECOSYSTEM‐BASED MANAGEMENT PLANS

Sullivan, Karen Anne. THE EFFECT OF RISK, TIME PREFERENCE, AND POVERTY ON THE IMPACTS OF FOREST TENURE REFORM IN CHINA

Thompson, Marcella Remer. EXPOSURES TO MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICALS (LEAD, METHYLMERCURY AND POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS) AMONG CHILDBEARING-AGED WOMEN IN THE U.S.

Wijesinghe, Dayanjali Diluka. SELECTIVE TRANSLOCATION OF CELL-IMPERMEABLE TOXINS INTO CANCER CELLS: pHLIP MEDIATED DELIVERY OF PHALLOTOXINS INHIBITS CANCER PROLIFERATION

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Ahern, David C.. Extreme group comparisons: Nature, prevalence, and impact on psychological research

Alshammari, Thamir M.. Drug Safety Issues Focusing on Liver and Pancreas Toxicity

Aruga, Kentaka. Essays on the Efficiency of Non-Genetically Modified (Non-GM) and Conventional Soybean Features Markets

Aruga, Kentaka. Essays on the efficiency of non-genetically modified (non-GM) and conventional soybean futures markets

Boveda, Adriana M.. Yours, mine & ours: The use of social networks in co-creation

Brett, Ann M.. Global behavior of difference equations

Budziszek, Michael John II. Analysis of the function and evolution of the cellulose synthase-like C gene family using the model organism Physcomitrella patens

Byron, Carrie Jean. Carrying capacity of bivalve aquaculture

Carrigan, Gillis Joseph. Evaluation of treatment discontinuation, patterns of respiratory arrest and myocardial infarction and re-hospitalization rates in patients treated for schizophrenia

Chen, Yanjing. Lipid bilayer-nanoparticle interactions in nanotoxicology and nanomedicine

Corbett, Brian W.. A novel nanotechtonics approach to nanoparticle assembly for chemical sensing arrays

Dimond, Elizabeth S.. The development and validation of the Survey of Attitudes Toward Research Methods

Dimos, Christos Sotirios. Functional analysis of the cellulose synthase-like D (CSLD) gene family in Physcomitrella patens

Dosunmu, Aderemi. Lead Exposure, Aging and Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease

Dunn, Michael Eugene. Functional, metabolic and ultrastructural alterations as a result of cardiac hypertrophy

Egan, Crystelle A.. Older adult alcohol misuse: Attitudes, knowledge, and support for prevention policies and practices among aging services practitioners

Fald, Ahmed. Valve-less rectification micropumps based on bifurcation geometries

Fortuna, Carolyn. Making waves with critical literacy: A teacher researcher study around the texts, contexts, and recontextualizations of an upper middle class public high school

Friedman, Carey L.. Using passive samplers to measure the bioavailability and transport of sedimentary organic contaminants

Glade, Maria Chiancola. Flight of the mind: Reading Virginia Woolf reading

Golding, A. Cassandra. The Healthy Emotional Reliance Scale and Deconstruction of Dependency: A Latent Variable Model of Relationship Functioning in Female Couples

Graff, Jason Robert. Physical and chemical interactions between marine phytoplankton and particle-colonizing bacteria

Greenblatt, Theo. Taking stock of the Warehouse Cooperative School: A personal inventory of the formation of adolescent subjectivity in the context of 1970s alternative education

Greene, Andrew Dale. DEEP VARIABILITY IN THE KUROSHIO EXTENSION

Guidi, Vanina Valeria. Experimental study of organocatalyzed homodimerization reactions of Î±,Î²-unsaturated enones

Heard, Kenneth V.. Factors Influencing the Evaluation of Expert Witness Testimony in the Behavioral Sciences Under Daubert

Hodgkins, John. The drift: Rethinking the affective dynamics of adaptation

Holden, Glen L.. Free energy changes in water clusters

Huang, Kezhen. Structure-function studies of protein tyrosine kinases: Regulation and substrate specificity

Johnson, Bruce G.. Bodies of evidence: Critical theory and audience response to American Gothic narratives

Kalkunte, Satyan. Trophoblasts and endothelial cells in pregnancy-associated vascularization

Kaufman, Owen Brian. Writing Across the Curriculum: Faculty workshop practices (1977-1997)

Kissko, Jennifer Joyce. Homeless chic: Cultural contradictions in contemporary American literature

Koch, Stephanie Lianne. Shorebird migration ecology at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge

Kotowicz, Dawn M.. BUILDING RESILIENCE TO COASTAL DISASTERS: AN ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL RESILIENCE DURING RECOVERY AFTER THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI IN THAILAND

Krieger, Aliza. The role of family functioning in ethnic identity and well-being in Jewish late adolescent women

Krishnan, Sanalkumar. Physiological and molecular mechanisms of salt stress tolerance in Festuca rubra and Lolium perenne

Kudlak, Zachary A.. Problems in generalized graph colorings

Kue, Mailee Ong Xiong. Predictors of college persistence: Learning strategies, use of campus services, and beliefs about intelligence

LeBlanc, Robert. Subjectivities and counterpublics in 20th-century Christian leftist texts

Li, Qiang. Nonlinear internal waves in the South China Sea

Marinelli, Bryan D.. Mitigations of shame: Represented and elicited affect in Vietnam War films of the late 1980s

Marshall, Lee H.. Rewriting the script: Using rhetorical theory to mitigate the effects of media violence

May, Patricia Jane. Literacy coaching: The role of reflective thought in teacher decision making

McKeon, Brian T.. Utilizing modular upgrades to maintain an effective inventory of complex machines

Monahan, Tony. An empathetic approach to Physical Education Teacher Education

M. Srinivasan, Ravi Sharma. Strength prediction of weakly cemented sands from geophysical logs

Naumiec, Gregory R.. The development of novel MR molecular imaging agents towards the visualization of DAT

Noonan, Nancy. Possessing new worlds: Eliciting abstract thought and empathic response through image construction

Ortoleva, Matthew. Rhetorics of place and ecological relationships: The rhetorical construction of Narragansett Bay

Pampati, Praveen Kumar. Characterizing the advanced glycation endproducts formation of proteins and nucleotides by methylglyoxal and glyoxal

Perry, Kimberly M. Hill. School psychologists' attitudes toward bullying and homosexuality

Phelps, Michael Paul. Regulation of muscle growth in teleost fish by members of the transforming growth factor Î² superfamily

Potavathri, Shathaverdhan. Regioselective oxidative arylation of N-acetylindoles and N-alkylindoles

Rodríguez Boissén, Myriel. Relationship Between Psychosocial and Interpersonal Factors and Implicit Sex-Submission Associations in Hispanic/Latina and White Women

Sarode, Ashish. Amorphous solid solutions using hot melt extrusion

Schibler, John J.. The social capital of decision-making groups

Sevey, Leslie A.. The role of pedagogical documentation in developing young children's thinking processes

Shumchenia, Emily J.. Benthic habitat mapping and assessment using organism-sediment relationships

Simeone, Jason Charles. Evaluation of treatment patterns for medications utilized in the management of pediatric attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Skuza, Piotr A.. Around, alongside, inside, and in-between: The geometries of performance in contemporary U.S. play and film

Smith, Chris P.. EXTENSIONS FOR THE RIGID-BODY QUANTUM MONTE CARLO METHOD

Smith, Nicole C.. The effect of perinatal morbidity, child health and maternal influences on social competence at age 12 years in formerly preterm infants

Sun, Zhenzhen. Three essays on institutional investors' holding and trading activities