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Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Kudlak, Zachary A.. Problems in generalized graph colorings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sarode, Ashish. Amorphous solid solutions using hot melt extrusion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Teasdale, Margaret E.. Antagonism of bacterial cell to cell signalling by metabolites of marine gram-positive bacteria

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Thikeo, Manivone. Cambodian and Laotian Americans' cultural values and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological services

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Trueblood, Lloyd A.. Physiology and behavior of the jumbo squid Dosidicus gigas

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Vancza, Valerie A.. Inside writing assessment: One faculty's collective engagement & active critique within departmental course outcomes

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Varina, Maureen. The regulation and processing of the EmpA metalloprotease of Vibrio anguillarum

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Vigness-Raposa, Kathleen J.. Spatial patterns of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) and its summer habitat in the North Atlantic Ocean

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Wang, Erheng. Blast resistance and energy mitigation behavior of sandwich composite materials

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Weed, Aaron Scott. Biology and ecology of European natural enemies of swallow-worts (Vincetoxicum) and the potential for biological control

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Whitmore, William D.. An expectancy theory analysis of catch shares: Identifying outcomes, preferences, and potential co-management changes in New England groundfish management

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Wiersma, Joshua B.. The preferences of commercial fishermen to supply collaborative research in New England: A welfare analysis

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Yu, Zhitao. Roll vortices and their impact on the mean flow in the atmospheric boundary layer

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Zhang, Zhigang. Full-wave tomography: Method and application to the south-east Tibetan plateau

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Addagulla, Swapna. Functional Silane Based Co-Polymers for Biofunctionalization Studies, Chemical Sensing and Separations

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Anthony, Abigail Walker. Climate Change and Peak Demand for Electricity: Evaluating Policies for Reducing Peak Demand Under Different Climate Change Scenarios

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August, Gerri. Making room for one another: Practicing dynamic and designed dialogicality in a kindergarten classroom

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Basu, Sukanya. Global behavior of solutions to a class of second-order rational difference equations

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Bell, Richard James. Overwintering ecology of young-of-the-year winter flounder in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island

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Bissonnette, Sharon. The effects of a peer-mediated intervention on language and reciprocity in young children with social communication disorders

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Butler, John D.. Exploring some inattended affective factors in performing nonroutine mathematical tasks

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Caffrey, Aisling R.. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Pharmacoepidemiologic assessment of common medications

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Calabretta, Christopher John. Benthic macrofauna in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: An examination of factors causing variability in community structure

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Chu, Jingjie. Aquaculture stakeholders' perceptions, actions, and implications for its future: A comparison of the U.S.A. and Norway

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Cotter-Lemus, Kimberly. Children of possibility: Children's musicking in communities of practice

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Crawford, Brian R.. Factors influencing the success of community-based marine protected areas in North Sulawesi Indonesia

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Dalton, Elizabeth Minchin. The Relationship Between Assistive Technology State Standards for Teachers, Assistive Technology Implementation, and Student Performance in the Context of Evidence-Based Practice

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Dixon, Brian A.. Sex for dinner, death for breakfast: James Bond and the body

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Donoyan, Giovanna Guadagno. A quantitative study of the summer slide in science of elementary school students

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Doucet, Jennifer M.. Qualitative Examination of Satisfaction with Three Expert System Interventions to Reduce Cancer

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Erickson-Owens, Debra A.. Milking the umbilical cord at term Cesarean section: Effect on hemoglobin levels in the first 48 hours of life

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Fero, Julie Ann. Simulating widespread tephra dispersal from explosive volcanic eruptions

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Fogg-Matarese, Sarah. The use of cnidarian nematocysts by the aeolidian nudibranch Cratena pilata

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Freeman, Matthew Alan. Economic decisions in quota and license fishery management plans

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Frost, Megan. A Stereotype Threat Intervention That Examines Causal Attributions, Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Faculty Support

Frost, Megan. A stereotype threat intervention that examines causal attributions, self-efficacy, and perceived faculty support

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Gamie, Samaa. A study of selected errors in Arab students' English compositions and an investigation of Arabic rhetoric

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Golden, Hayley Y.. The effects of wife-abuser socio-economic level, type of abuse, and rater gender, on attribution of blame for wife abuse

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Hawes, Katheleen. Nurse job stress, burnout, practice environment and maternal satisfaction in the neonatal intensive care unit

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Hettenbach, Kevin. Gas scrubber design in pharmaceutical R & D

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Jin, Guanglan. East meets West: Chinese reception and translation of Virginia Woolf

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Kang, Kyung Woo. To obtain or to provide? Antecedents of knowledge intentions in virtual knowledge communities: Self-efficacy, individual motivations, and social capital

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Kaur, Parminderjit. Resistance to northern root-knot nematode (Meloidygyne hapla Chitwood) in lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)

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Kemble, David J.. A biochemical study on the regulation of the Src and FGFR family of protein tyrosine kinases

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Kidane, Addis Asmelash. An experimental and analytical study of graded materials under thermo-mechanical dynamic loading

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Kluft, Jacqueline Michele. Beach invertebrates of Cape Cod National Seashore: Environmental factors and the effects of off-road vehicles

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Kortz, Karen Melissa. Alternative conceptions of introductory geoscience students and a method to decrease them

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Kratzmann, David Jon. Petrogenesis and eruption dynamics at Hudson Volcano, southern Chile

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Kuehl, Joseph J.. Finite-time invariant manifold detection from experimental phase space trajectories

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Kuehl, Joseph J.. On the dynamics of oceanic gap-traversing boundary currents

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Kumar, Anurag. Computational modeling of microfluidic processes using dissipative particle dynamics

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Li, Gang. Polyaniline as stationary phase for HPLC

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Li, Ling. Identification and regulation of hemolysin genes of Vibrio anguillarum

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Liu, Chang. Micro-fluidic based numerical simulations and experiments on streaming induced by oscillatory flows

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Longval, Brooke A.. Biomass spectra in Narragansett Bay from phytoplankton to fish

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Lubertazzi, Maria Adella Aliberti. Natal Habitat Use by Dragonflies Along Landscape Gradients in Rhode Island

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Lu, Ping. Quasiparticles in quantum spin chains with strong axial exchange anisotropy

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Mateo, Ivan. Assessing essential fish habitat and connectivity using otolith chemistry and growth of temperate and tropical fish

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McElroy, William David. Diet, feeding ecology, trophic relationships, morphometric condition, and ontogeny for the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, and smooth dogfish, Mustelus canis, within the Delaware Bay estuary

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McGreevy, Thomas Joseph Jr.. Conservation genetics of Association of Zoos and Aquariums and wild Matshie's tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei) from Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea

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Mouw, Colleen Beckmann. Bio-optical and remote sensing investigation of phytoplankton community size structure

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Nargiso, Jessica E.. Adolescent gender differences in risk of alcohol use

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Narwal, Rajesh. Evaluation of mixed-effects modeling techniques for the analysis of longitudinal data collected from PK-PD and efficacy clinical trials

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Oczkowski, Autumn Jean. Fertilizing the land, lagoons, and sea: A first look at human impacts on the Nile Delta fishery, Egypt

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Pabla, Dimple. Solubility and permeability enhancement of levothyroxine sodium for oral administration

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Radford, Kari A.. Exploration of the quality of three measures for assessing state anxiety in hospitalized cardiac patients