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Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Biological activity of a set of new copper(II) complexes: toward understanding structure-reactivity correlations, Chelsea Aitken

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The Corporate Logo: An Exploration of the Logo through Infographics and Other Works, Caroline Aldrich

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The Provision of Refugee Services in the United States: A look at the Non-profit Organizations that facilitate the resettlement process, Venetia Varnett Alegria Gomez

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Police Officer Stress, Loping Mechanisms, and Family Life, Maria Apruzzese

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Can the Performance of High Self-Monitors Be Influenced by the Perceived Success of their Peers?, Malene Barlow-Hansen

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The Effect of Gross Profitability on Share Price Appreciation, Philip Barr

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Using Green Building to Mitigate Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century, Lisa Battiste

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Risky Business: How Self-Monitoring and Gender Relate to the Participation in Risky and Unsafe Behaviors in College Students, Katherine Beale

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U.S. Immigration: The Origins and Evolution of Contemporary Issues and the Architecture of Future Reform, Andrew Beaule

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Nora and Cece: A Contemporary Adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Samantha Bertschmann

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The Origins and Evolution of Corporate Sponsored Film, Clara Boesch

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Economic and Political Implications of Agricultural Subsidies and US Farm Policy, Justin Bogardus

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Design of a Medical Walker with an Integrated Crutch Mechanism, Harrison Bourikas

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Earthquake Relocation and Focal Mechanism Analysis in the Area of Rupture Following the Mw = 7.6 September 5 2012 Nicoya Earthquake Costa Rica, Gregory Brenn

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Controllable Home Coffee Roaster from a Modified Popcorn Popper, Nicholas Brenn

Varieties of Bias in Human Random Number Generation, Jennifer Brodsky

How Euripides Slew My Writer's Block and Other Stories, Emily Brower

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Office of War Information and WWII Propaganda: How Perceptions Shaped Campaigns, Elsa Bruestle

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Breaking the Back: The Continuous Battle over the Bank of England 1694-1715, Brendan Callanan

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Application of a High-Performance Optically Enhanced Solar Thermal Collector System, Timothy H. Cameron

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Why Am I Buying Another Black Dress?: An Anthropological Perspective into the World of Fashion, Ava Carnevale

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Cost Benefit Analysis of the Keystone XL Pipeline, Daniel Carr

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Burnout and Other Complex Challenges Causing Doctors to Become Patients in France and the United States, Cherry Chahal

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Design and Optimization of the Steering Braking and Drivetrain for the ASME Human Powered Vehicle, Marjorie Chee

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Who Really Benefit from the One Child Policy: an Analysis of the Impact the One Child Policy has on Marital Prospects of Han Chinese and Ethnic Minorities in China, Zhu Chen

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Cognitive Advantages and Disadvantages of Number-Form Synesthesia, Rachel Clegg

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Terrorism Through Organized Crime: An Examination of the Ku Klux Klan and Government Counterterrorism Strategies, Eliza Cody

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The Relationship Between Narcissism Attachment Styles and the Response to Social Media, Caitlyn Collins

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A Comparative Study of GUPIX and GeoPIXE Software in the Analysis of PIXE Spectra of Aerosol Samples, Sean Collison

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Soccer Violence: An Examination of Hooliganism and Violence Against Referees in Latin America and Worldwide, Dean Constant

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The Effects of Soil pH and Texture on the Molting Success and Survival of Blacklegged Ticks (Ixodes scapularis): A Field Experiment, Colleen Cook

Limit(less): The Intersection of Mathematics and Poetry, Teresa Crasto

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Contemporary Slavery: A Historical Perspective, Keilah Creedon

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Evaluating the Connection between Gender Based Violence and HIV/AIDS, Keilah Creedon

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Neuropsychological Effects of Interactive Physical and Cognitive Exercise: Increasing the Mental Challenge, Shannon Crowley

Differences in Event Related Potentials of Semantic Incongruities Between Agents of Different Animacies, Alana Curran

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In Reckless Pursuit: Barry Goldwater A Team of Amateurs and the Rise of Conservatism, Nicholas D'Angelo

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Evolving Soft Robots with Vibration Based Movement, Andrew Danise

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Does Public School Administrative Spending Affect District House Prices?, Catherine Degen

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Ecumenical Trends: Three Forms of Ecumenism within Christianity, Peter Donnelly

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Back to the Beginning, Carla Duval

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Effect of Derivatized Pyridine-Based Ligands on the Biological Reactivity of Copper(II), Courtney Elwell

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Localization of the Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Receptor in Lipid Raft Domains, Tyler Esposito

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Impact of the Eurozone Crisis on Political and Social Trust: Analyzing Policy Trade-off, Leandra Falotico

Color Theory, Elliot Feld

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The Debate Over Physician Aid In Dying, Maxfield Fey

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Unionization and Income Inequality: The Impact of Labor Union Participation on Income Inequality in the United States, Terence Finnigan

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Sex and the College Hookup: Gender Differences in Perceiving and Experiencing Sexual Interaction, Kelsey Fish

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Correlating monotonous crystal-rich dacitic ignimbrites in Dominica: The Layou and Roseau Ignimbrite, Alexandra Flake

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Stability and Instability in Former French Colonies: A Case Study Between Gabon and Congo Brazzaville, Abigael Flynn

A Psycho-Historical Analysis of Adolf Hitler: The Role of Psychopathology Personality and Development, Sarah Foster

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Disarmament: A Nuclear Strategy for the 21st Century, Alexander Frye

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Airframe Design for 2014 Union College SAE Aero Design Challenege, Nikolay Garabedian, Adam Herzog, Richard Hojnacki, and Evan States

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Japan and the Ancient Western Classics: The Role of Divine Intervention in Greek Roman and Japanese Literature, Christian Garcia

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The Ethics of Occupation; A New Way To Consider Israeli Occupation, Michelle Goldberg

Synthesis of Cell-Permeable Trehalose Analogs for Use in Cellular Protection, Caroline Gorka

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Money Puck: The Effectiveness of Statistical Analysis in Building an NHL Team, Troy Grosenick

African freshwater bivalves as climate and environmental archives, Holly Havel

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Who's Laughing Now? From Lovable Lucy to Top-of-the-Rock Tina: How Women in Comedy Changed from 1950-2014, Caroline Hershey

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ASME Human Powered Vehicle Competition Frame Design, Zacarie Hertel

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2014 SAE Aero: Systems Engineering, Adam Herzog

Childhood Memory, Shiqing He

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Structuring the Unstructured Note: Automatic Organizing and Formatting for lecture notes., Shiqing He

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Proving Widespread Deforestation of the Ancient Mediterranean as Myth: A Detailed Examination of How Anthropogenic Activities During Antiquity Affected the Mediterranean Landscape, Carolyn Hooper

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Does perceiver sex or target sex determine biases in sexual and commitment intent perception? A critical investigation with a homosexual sample, Rhea Howard

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Using Multilocus Sequence Data to Assess Population Structure and Gene Flow Between the Semi species of Drosophila Athabasca, Syed Hussain

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The Effect of Educational Debt on the Probability of Homeownership for College Graduates: An Empirical Analysis, Cole Ikkala

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The Origins of Wave Elections: Narrative Control Polarization and Turnout in New Hampshire Electoral Politics 2006-2012, Zachary Jonas

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Expression in Yeast of the Metacaspase Scp3 from the Fungus Schizophyllum commune, Anne Kaminski

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Exhumation of the Baranof Schist in Whale Bay Alaska determined through zircon fission track dating, Kate Kaminski

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Explorations in the Domestic Space: How Hollywood Made a Home in Film Melodrama, Elana Katz

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Happiness and Anxiety as a Function of Gender and Religiosity, Kara Kaufman

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A Test of Simple Ledges for Facilitating Mammal Passage through Inundated Culverts, Amy Kelley

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3D Flowerlike Micro/nanocomposite Ceria to Remove Arsenic and Chromium in Drinking Water, Taera Kim

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Aggressive Monetization: Why the Pay for Currency Model is Dominating the iOS App Store Today, Theodore Kitchen

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Attachment Style and its Role in Perceived Team-Efficacy and Individual Self-Efficacy in Sports, Meghan Kupiec

Predicting Bank Failures in the State of Georgia, Jeffrey Law

L'evolution de l'art du 20'eme siecle en France, Kezia Lawler

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An Evaluation of the Common Core, Holly Lawrence

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Spartacus the Liberator: Modern Reception of an Ancient Narrative, Charlotte Lehman

America's Smoking Gun, Gabriella Levine

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Looking for Small Changes in Heat Capacity Using A Differential Scanning Calorimeter, Will Linthicum

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Reducing Anxiety and Increasing Social Skills in Children With Asperger's Through Drama and Role-Playing Games, Rachel Magin

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Correlation of the Andesitic Ignimbrites of northern Dominica Lesser Antilles Caribbean, Lauren Main

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Effects of Playing Surface and Shoe Type of ACL Tears in Soccer Players, Melissa Mansfield

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El exiliado dentro del exilio: La experiencia de Luis Cernuda en su exilio fuera de Espana, Trevor Martin

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The Tragedy of Punishment: An Insight into Why Doing Something Good Feels Bad, Trevor Martin

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Il etait une fois: Contes de fees aux dix-septieme et dix-huitieme siecles en France, Jacqueline Massare

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The post title IX portrayal of female athletes in the media, Kelsey McDonald

A 6 000 Year Record of Climate Developed From Analysis of Trace Elements and Stable Isotopes in a Belgian Speleothem, Kyle McQuiggan

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Effects of the World Trade Center Attacks and Hurricane Sandy: Manhattan Commercial Real Estate Market, Michael Miceli

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Morphology and Electronic Characterization of Polyaniline: A Synthetic Metal for Photovoltaics, Jared Mondshein

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Investigation of the Mechanism of Binding of Perfluoroalkyl Acids with Human Serum Albumin Using an Improved Approach to Equilibrium Dialysis, Michael Morris

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The Somatic Sex: Bodies in Beauvoir's Aesthetic Politics, Melissa Moskowitz

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An Examination of the Relationship between Adult Attachment Style and Patterns of Facebook Use and Facebook Behavior, Elizabeth Nailling

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Assessment of the Fertility of Hybrids in Drosphila Athabasca, Son Nguyen

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Intra-firm Trade from U.S. Multinational Enterprises to Emerging Market Economies: An Assessment of the Impact of the Global Recession and Intellectual Property Rights, Trang Nguyen

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Incentive to Innovate: Dynamic Optimization Strategy in the Case of a Symmetric Duopoly, Jigme Norbu

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Killing Time: An Analysis of Civil War Soldiers' Discussion of Free Time in Camp, Madeline Norton

What Factors Influence the Success of Entrepreneurial Teams?, Chelsea Nyman