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Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Computing the (Un)computable: A Computationally-Augmented Perspective on the Yasukuni Shrine Controversy, Ryan Muther

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War and Women Wielding Power: Lessons from Burundi, Liberia, and Chad, Emily Myers

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The Influence of a Second Object on the Responses of Target Selective Descending Neurons in the Dragonfly, Randy Nguyen

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'And I am a Material Girl': How Aesthetics and Material Culture Fashion Femininity in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, from Text to Film, Avery Novitch

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Unveiling Laïcité: Secularism Algerian Muslims and the Headscarf Affair in Modern France, Coleen Nugent

Evaluation of Cell-Permeable Analogs of Trehalose fro the Preservation of Mammalian Cells, Molly O'Brien

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Baby Cribs in Prison Cells: Assessing Opinions About Prison Nursery Programs by Humanizing Incarcerated Mothers, Erin Ostheimer

The Many Lives of Gregory Marnes: Rephrasing the Historical Narrative Through Historians and Fiction, Christina Pastore

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Modern Interpretations of Ancient Roman Mosaics, Emily Pastore

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De-Shelving Woolf: A Poetic Response to the Life and Work of Virginia, Cara Peterhansel

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Effect of Deictic Gestures on Direction-Giving in Virtual Humans, Anthony Pham

The Argentine Body (An All-Meat Diet): A Study of Body Politics and Eating Disorders in Cordoba, Rani Plotkin

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German and the European Migrant Crisis: An Exploration of German National Identity, Sarah Pollack

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Les reincarnations de Carmen: La creation d'un mythe, Mary Kathryn Pope

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Care Choices a Home-based Palliative Care Program, Katherine Pouliot

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Sustainable Agriculture: How France Promotes Sustainability, Jordan Pulling

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The Effect of Color in Advertising Among Low and High Self-Monitors, Anne Reardon

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Statelessness and Human Trafficking: A Case Study of Haitian-Dominicans, Anabel Reyes-Ovalles

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Union College Smokers: Hurting Themselves But Helping Others? Mixed Research on the Relationship Between Smoking and Volunteering, Cameron Robertson

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Voter Identification Laws: In the Name of Reform or Suppression?, Melissa Rodriguez

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Approaching Humans For Help: A Study of Human-Robot Proxemics, Eric Rose

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Detection and Depletion of Digital Cameras: An Exploration into Protecting Personal Privacy in the Modern World, Jessica Sanford

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Environmental Education in New York State, Laura Schad

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Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Pollution of the Hudson River: Social Policy and Health Considerations, Laura Schad

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Suburban Space and the City of Rome: Liminality Fluidity and Differentiation, Henry Scherck

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Diverging Approach: Railroad Regulation, the Staggers Act and Path Dependence, Henry Strangford Scherck

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Modeling Pulsar Trajectories Through a Galatic Potential to Determine Birth Locations, Brent Shapiro-Albert

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Responses of Dragonfly Visual Neurons MDT3 and DIT3 to Near-Hit Looming Stimuli, Benjamin Goodman Shapiro

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The Expression of Pain in Children: An Autism Spectrum Disorder Perspective, Aileen Shaughnessy

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Information Encoded by Dragonfly Visual Neurons MDT3 and DIT3 in Response to Looming Stimuli, Cara Slugaski

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Point Mutations of the Putative Follitropin Receptor Caveolin Interaction Motif Do Not Disrupt Receptor Function, Stanley Soroka

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The Effects of Early Confidence Interval Training on User Efficacy in a P300 Brain-Computer Interface Spelling Task, Adam Starkman

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Culture of Conflict: Watching the End of the 1960s American Counterculture Through Documentaries About Rock Music, Matt Steinberg

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Automated Household Tracking System, James Triola

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Sino-African Relations in the 21st Century: Consistency and Complexity, Josh Tryon

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Faithlessly or Faithless Lie?: The Name Symbolism Conundrum in Sedgwick's Hope Leslie, Erin Wade

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Cantor's Infinity, Michael Warrener

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Constraining Cosmological Parameters Using the Correlation Function, Michael Warrener

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Tanzanian Art: Attracting Tourism and Constructing A Packaged African Image, Ben Washburn

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Lesbia A Voice from the Unheard, Jullisa Webb

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Yellow Window into the Soul: Creative Explorations of Surrealism, Elora Weil

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Pay for Play: O'Bannon v. NCAA and Legal Change in Collegiate Sports, Ryan Whelpley

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In and Out Line Monitoring System For Volleyball, Kelley White

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Making It: The Role of School-Based Intervention in Shaping Educational Aspirations Expectations and Achievement Among High School Students, Maeve Williams

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13C Composition in Bryophyte Primary Sugars as an Indicator of Water Availability, Olivia Hope Williamson

Through the Kaleidoscope: Reimagining Cuba in the American Mind, Quisqueya Witbeck

Radon Potential and Uranium Redistribution in the Lucerine and Gouldsboro Granites, Maine, Matthew Peter Worthington

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La Paisana Jacinta: el programa que causa la risa para algunas y el sufrimiento para otros, Rachel Wyman

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The Philadelphia Catto: Bridging the Racial Gap in the City of Brotherly Love, Rachel Wyman

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PIXE Analysis of Aerosol Soil Artificial Turf and Running Track Samples, Joshua Yoskowitz

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Maritime Piracy in the Indian Ocean, Ross Aaron

United States Nuclear Testing at the Nevada Test Site: An Environmental Justice Perspective, Jill Ackermann

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The Somewhat Less than Super Adventures of The Gargoyle and The Sparrow, Including the Pseudo-comical Incident of the Fan Fiction and What Transpired After, Thomas Arcuri

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Adjustable Prostetic Insert for Residual Limb Fluctuations, Mary Arnold

Expression and Purification of the metacaspase protein Scp3 from the fungus S. commune, Travis Barker

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The Role of Women in Punk, Katherine Barner

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A Comparative Overview of Factory Farming to Insect Farming And the Business Potential of Small-Scaled Insect Farms, Ram Nath Batta

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The American Health Care System, Health Care Reform, and the Effects of the Affordable Care Act, Adam Becker

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The Effect of Circadian Rhythm on Cortisol and Perceived Stress Correlations, Adam Bender

Tracking Pollution in New York Streams Using Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes, Michelle Berube

Using zircon geochronology and apatite tephra fingerprinting to understand the origin of ignimbrites in Dominica, Sarah Brehm

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Kinetic Modeling of Catalytic Aerogels, Yi Cao

Binocular Inputs to Neurons That Code Prey Moventments in the Dragonfly Central Nervous System, Victoria Carr

New Routes to Clean Water: Copper Oxide Nanomaterials for Bacterial Remediation, Alexander Cavert

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The Affordable Care Act Dependent Health Insurance Mandate's Effect on the Life Satisfaction of Young Adults, Kirti Chakote

Phase Transitions of Confined 2-Decanol: The Effect of Annealing Temperature, Alexander Clain

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What's "Really Real": David Foster Wallace and the Pursuit of Sincerity in Infinite Jest, Henry Clayton

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Framing Fracking: The Environmental and Social Implications of Hyraulic Fracturing, Lindsay Cohen

Whole-rock geochemistry and petrography of the Morne aux Diables volcanic center,Dominica, Emily Crampe

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Power Without Agents? A Theoretical Analysis of Power in a Complex and Globalized World, Davis Cutter

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The Design and Construction of a Portable Solar Energy Conversion System, Ian Davies

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What It Is To Be Conscious: Exploring the Plasibility of Consciousness in Deep Learning Computers, Peter Davis

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Madagascar: Passé, Présent, et Futur, Liz Devine

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Developing a Parametric Downconversion Apparatus for Single-Photon Experiments in Quantum Optics, Stephen Dilorio

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Optimizations for Rendering Realistic Lens Flares in Polynomial Optics, Stephen Dilorio

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The Design of an Optimized Patient-Specific In Vivo Spinal Fusion Cage Using Additive Manufacturing, Gorman Donnelly

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The Rise and Fall of the Friends of Irish Freedom: How America Shaped Irish American Nationalism in the Twentieth Century, Shanon Delia Douglass

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Classifying System Call Traces using Anomalous Detection, William Doyle

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Targeted Online Advertisements: Effectiveness as a Function of Need-for-Cognition, Katherine Dorothy Drebin

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19th Century European Art, John Famulare

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The Art Looting Investigation Unit: Finding Their Place in World War Two History, MaryKate Farber

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Choice of Café Locations in San Francisco, Benjamin Ferri

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How Advancements in Aerodynamics Improves the Performance of Formula 1 Racecars, Joshua Fields

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Structural Limitations to the Success of Third Parties in the American Political System: A Study of the life Cycle of the Republican Party, Louis Fierro

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“Listen to Many”: Intersectionality, Tragedy, and William Shakespeare, Anna Flores

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The Effects of Sports Fanship on Impression Formation, Holden French

An Analysis of the Benefits and Detriments to Lifting or Maintaing the U.S. Crude Oil Export Ban, Dan Friedman

Remote Sensing Of The Invasive Water Chestnut (Trapa natans), Madeline Frieze

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La nature des relations françaises : Du sexe à l’amour au mariage, Rachel Frisch

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The Effect of Existential Concerns on Evaluations of Dating Websites, Rachel Frisch

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A Closer Look at Immigrants' Wage Differential in the U.S.: Analysis Correcting the Sample Selection Problem, Mitsuki Fukuda

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Investigating the Impact of Marijuana Legalization on Income, Education, and Depression, Wayne Fu

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The Impact of Exchange Rate Fluctuations on Labor Migration: Evidence from U.S. Nonimmigrant Visa Statistics, Yaqi Gao

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Does Digital Engagement Predict Enrollment: An Analysis of Applicants’ Behavior on Union College’s Website, Christopher Garibaldi

Trapped In The Wrong Body: An Anthropological Look at Transgenderism in the United States Reflected Through The Life of One Individual, Emmalena Gold

Affordable Care Act Through the Lens of Foreign Healthcare Systems, Alex Goldsmith

Secure Electronic Voting System, Nicholas Goodrich

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Online Dating and Relationships On Campus: Gender, Religion, and Parental Marital Status Influencing Expectations and Experiences, Carla Gottlich

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Brand Attachments and Social Feedback: The Moderating Effect of Self-Concept Clarity, Lillianna Griggs

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America’s First Ladies: A Catalyst for Change in Female Leadership, Power and Influence or a Reinforcement of Gender Norms in American Society?, Deborah Kim Grinhaus