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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Huang, Kezhen
. Structure-function studies of protein tyrosine kinases: Regulation and substrate specificityJohnson, Bruce G.
. Bodies of evidence: Critical theory and audience response to American Gothic narrativesKalkunte, Satyan
. Trophoblasts and endothelial cells in pregnancy-associated vascularizationKaufman, Owen Brian
. Writing Across the Curriculum: Faculty workshop practices (1977-1997)Kissko, Jennifer Joyce
. Homeless chic: Cultural contradictions in contemporary American literatureKoch, Stephanie Lianne
. Shorebird migration ecology at Monomoy National Wildlife RefugeKotowicz, Dawn M.
. BUILDING RESILIENCE TO COASTAL DISASTERS: AN ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL RESILIENCE DURING RECOVERY AFTER THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI IN THAILANDKrieger, Aliza
. The role of family functioning in ethnic identity and well-being in Jewish late adolescent womenKrishnan, Sanalkumar
. Physiological and molecular mechanisms of salt stress tolerance in Festuca rubra and Lolium perenneKudlak, Zachary A.
. Problems in generalized graph coloringsKue, Mailee Ong Xiong
. Predictors of college persistence: Learning strategies, use of campus services, and beliefs about intelligenceLeBlanc, Robert
. Subjectivities and counterpublics in 20th-century Christian leftist textsLi, Qiang
. Nonlinear internal waves in the South China SeaMarinelli, Bryan D.
. Mitigations of shame: Represented and elicited affect in Vietnam War films of the late 1980sMarshall, Lee H.
. Rewriting the script: Using rhetorical theory to mitigate the effects of media violenceMay, Patricia Jane
. Literacy coaching: The role of reflective thought in teacher decision makingMcKeon, Brian T.
. Utilizing modular upgrades to maintain an effective inventory of complex machinesMonahan, Tony
. An empathetic approach to Physical Education Teacher EducationM. Srinivasan, Ravi Sharma
. Strength prediction of weakly cemented sands from geophysical logsNaumiec, Gregory R.
. The development of novel MR molecular imaging agents towards the visualization of DATNoonan, Nancy
. Possessing new worlds: Eliciting abstract thought and empathic response through image constructionOrtoleva, Matthew
. Rhetorics of place and ecological relationships: The rhetorical construction of Narragansett BayPampati, Praveen Kumar
. Characterizing the advanced glycation endproducts formation of proteins and nucleotides by methylglyoxal and glyoxalPerry, Kimberly M. Hill
. School psychologists' attitudes toward bullying and homosexualityPhelps, Michael Paul
. Regulation of muscle growth in teleost fish by members of the transforming growth factor β superfamilyPotavathri, Shathaverdhan
. Regioselective oxidative arylation of N-acetylindoles and N-alkylindolesRodríguez Boissén, Myriel
. Relationship Between Psychosocial and Interpersonal Factors and Implicit Sex-Submission Associations in Hispanic/Latina and White WomenSarode, Ashish
. Amorphous solid solutions using hot melt extrusionSchibler, John J.
. The social capital of decision-making groupsSevey, Leslie A.
. The role of pedagogical documentation in developing young children's thinking processesShumchenia, Emily J.
. Benthic habitat mapping and assessment using organism-sediment relationshipsSimeone, Jason Charles
. Evaluation of treatment patterns for medications utilized in the management of pediatric attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderSkuza, Piotr A.
. Around, alongside, inside, and in-between: The geometries of performance in contemporary U.S. play and filmSmith, Chris P.
. EXTENSIONS FOR THE RIGID-BODY QUANTUM MONTE CARLO METHODSmith, Nicole C.
. The effect of perinatal morbidity, child health and maternal influences on social competence at age 12 years in formerly preterm infantsSun, Zhenzhen
. Three essays on institutional investors' holding and trading activitiesTeasdale, Margaret E.
. Antagonism of bacterial cell to cell signalling by metabolites of marine gram-positive bacteriaThikeo, Manivone
. Cambodian and Laotian Americans' cultural values and attitudes toward seeking professional psychological servicesTrueblood, Lloyd A.
. Physiology and behavior of the jumbo squid Dosidicus gigasVancza, Valerie A.
. Inside writing assessment: One faculty's collective engagement & active critique within departmental course outcomesVarina, Maureen
. The regulation and processing of the EmpA metalloprotease of Vibrio anguillarumVigness-Raposa, Kathleen J.
. Spatial patterns of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) and its summer habitat in the North Atlantic OceanWang, Erheng
. Blast resistance and energy mitigation behavior of sandwich composite materialsWeed, Aaron Scott
. Biology and ecology of European natural enemies of swallow-worts (Vincetoxicum) and the potential for biological controlWhitmore, William D.
. An expectancy theory analysis of catch shares: Identifying outcomes, preferences, and potential co-management changes in New England groundfish managementWiersma, Joshua B.
. The preferences of commercial fishermen to supply collaborative research in New England: A welfare analysisYu, Zhitao
. Roll vortices and their impact on the mean flow in the atmospheric boundary layerZhang, Zhigang
. Full-wave tomography: Method and application to the south-east Tibetan plateauTheses/Dissertations from 2009
Addagulla, Swapna
. Functional Silane Based Co-Polymers for Biofunctionalization Studies, Chemical Sensing and SeparationsAnthony, Abigail Walker
. Climate Change and Peak Demand for Electricity: Evaluating Policies for Reducing Peak Demand Under Different Climate Change ScenariosAugust, Gerri
. Making room for one another: Practicing dynamic and designed dialogicality in a kindergarten classroomBasu, Sukanya
. Global behavior of solutions to a class of second-order rational difference equationsBell, Richard James
. Overwintering ecology of young-of-the-year winter flounder in Narragansett Bay, Rhode IslandBissonnette, Sharon
. The effects of a peer-mediated intervention on language and reciprocity in young children with social communication disordersButler, John D.
. Exploring some inattended affective factors in performing nonroutine mathematical tasksCaffrey, Aisling R.
. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Pharmacoepidemiologic assessment of common medicationsCalabretta, Christopher John
. Benthic macrofauna in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: An examination of factors causing variability in community structureChu, Jingjie
. Aquaculture stakeholders' perceptions, actions, and implications for its future: A comparison of the U.S.A. and NorwayCotter-Lemus, Kimberly
. Children of possibility: Children's musicking in communities of practiceCrawford, Brian R.
. Factors influencing the success of community-based marine protected areas in North Sulawesi IndonesiaDalton, Elizabeth Minchin
. The Relationship Between Assistive Technology State Standards for Teachers, Assistive Technology Implementation, and Student Performance in the Context of Evidence-Based PracticeDixon, Brian A.
. Sex for dinner, death for breakfast: James Bond and the bodyDonoyan, Giovanna Guadagno
. A quantitative study of the summer slide in science of elementary school studentsDoucet, Jennifer M.
. Qualitative Examination of Satisfaction with Three Expert System Interventions to Reduce CancerErickson-Owens, Debra A.
. Milking the umbilical cord at term Cesarean section: Effect on hemoglobin levels in the first 48 hours of lifeFero, Julie Ann
. Simulating widespread tephra dispersal from explosive volcanic eruptionsFogg-Matarese, Sarah
. The use of cnidarian nematocysts by the aeolidian nudibranch Cratena pilataFreeman, Matthew Alan
. Economic decisions in quota and license fishery management plansFrost, Megan
. A Stereotype Threat Intervention That Examines Causal Attributions, Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Faculty SupportFrost, Megan
. A stereotype threat intervention that examines causal attributions, self-efficacy, and perceived faculty supportGamie, Samaa
. A study of selected errors in Arab students' English compositions and an investigation of Arabic rhetoricGolden, Hayley Y.
. The effects of wife-abuser socio-economic level, type of abuse, and rater gender, on attribution of blame for wife abuseHawes, Katheleen
. Nurse job stress, burnout, practice environment and maternal satisfaction in the neonatal intensive care unitHettenbach, Kevin
. Gas scrubber design in pharmaceutical R & DJin, Guanglan
. East meets West: Chinese reception and translation of Virginia WoolfKang, Kyung Woo
. To obtain or to provide? Antecedents of knowledge intentions in virtual knowledge communities: Self-efficacy, individual motivations, and social capitalKaur, Parminderjit
. Resistance to northern root-knot nematode (Meloidygyne hapla Chitwood) in lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)Kemble, David J.
. A biochemical study on the regulation of the Src and FGFR family of protein tyrosine kinasesKidane, Addis Asmelash
. An experimental and analytical study of graded materials under thermo-mechanical dynamic loadingKluft, Jacqueline Michele
. Beach invertebrates of Cape Cod National Seashore: Environmental factors and the effects of off-road vehiclesKortz, Karen Melissa
. Alternative conceptions of introductory geoscience students and a method to decrease themKratzmann, David Jon
. Petrogenesis and eruption dynamics at Hudson Volcano, southern ChileKuehl, Joseph J.
. Finite-time invariant manifold detection from experimental phase space trajectoriesKuehl, Joseph J.
. On the dynamics of oceanic gap-traversing boundary currentsKumar, Anurag
. Computational modeling of microfluidic processes using dissipative particle dynamicsLi, Gang
. Polyaniline as stationary phase for HPLCLi, Ling
. Identification and regulation of hemolysin genes of Vibrio anguillarumLiu, Chang
. Micro-fluidic based numerical simulations and experiments on streaming induced by oscillatory flowsLongval, Brooke A.
. Biomass spectra in Narragansett Bay from phytoplankton to fishLubertazzi, Maria Adella Aliberti
. Natal Habitat Use by Dragonflies Along Landscape Gradients in Rhode IslandLu, Ping
. Quasiparticles in quantum spin chains with strong axial exchange anisotropyMateo, Ivan
. Assessing essential fish habitat and connectivity using otolith chemistry and growth of temperate and tropical fishMcElroy, 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 estuaryMcGreevy, Thomas Joseph Jr.
. Conservation genetics of Association of Zoos and Aquariums and wild Matshie's tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei) from Huon Peninsula, Papua New GuineaMouw, Colleen Beckmann
. Bio-optical and remote sensing investigation of phytoplankton community size structureNargiso, Jessica E.
. Adolescent gender differences in risk of alcohol useNarwal, Rajesh
. Evaluation of mixed-effects modeling techniques for the analysis of longitudinal data collected from PK-PD and efficacy clinical trialsOczkowski, Autumn Jean
. Fertilizing the land, lagoons, and sea: A first look at human impacts on the Nile Delta fishery, EgyptPabla, Dimple
. Solubility and permeability enhancement of levothyroxine sodium for oral administrationRadford, Kari A.
. Exploration of the quality of three measures for assessing state anxiety in hospitalized cardiac patients