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Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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3D Illustration of Environments from the Chinese Legend "The Journey To The West", Fei Gao

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Surface Treatments to Reduce Leakage Current in Homojunction In0:53Ga0:47As PIN Diodes for TFET Applications, Abhinav Gaur

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A Comparison of the Lifecycle Cost and Environmental Impact of Military Barracks Huts in Deployed Environments Constructed from Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) versus Traditional Techniques, Kevin Michael Gebo

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Digital Chaos: Exploring Relationships Between Technological Advancement and Visual Experience, Kevin Giaquinto

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Sustainability Informed Management of End-of-Life Photovoltaics: Assessing Environmental and Economic Tradeoffs of Collection and Recycling, Michele Goe

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Design for Slow Living, Siyang Gong

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Raine Azure, Lucas Gonzalez

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Unmentionable: Socio-Structural Discrimination of Incontinence; Engendering Dignity by Design, Brendan Charles Gordon

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Experimental Performance Study of a Lab-Scale Hydrokite System, Shriya Gosavi

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The Homeless Bird: A Motion Graphics Narrative About Deforestation and Animals., Kyle Griffin

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Kinesthetic Empathy, Danielle Haendiges

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Voxel-Based LIDAR Analysis and Applications, Shea T. Hagstrom

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Mr. Perfect, Ruosi Han

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Mood Watcher: Interactive Visual Guide to Increasing Awareness of Mood Disorders, Ziyan Han

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Alive, Heran Hao

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Supervised Material Classification in Oblique Aerial Imagery Using Gabor Filter Features, Michael L. Harris

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Optimal strategies for sustainable household organic material management in the city of Rochester, NY, Joseph Cameron Hebda

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Traversing Truth and Decay, Zak Helenske

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Impact of an Academic Success Class on Probationary Students, Nathan Hendrickson

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Metacognition and Decision-Making Style in Clinical Narratives, Limor Hochberg

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Tidy Guide – A Beginner’s Guide to an Organized Home, Katie Hollenbeck

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The Export Potential of Kosovo's Natural Resources and their Impact on the Kosovo Economy, Arif Hoti

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When the Distance Is Too Much, Nicholas Hruby

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Wing Chun: Introducing Basic Wing Chun Kung Fu Using Instructional Multimedia, Li Han Huang

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Live in the Moment: The Essence of Life, Ta-Wen Huang

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Cross Media Communication Planning for Small Businesses, Rockie A. Hunter

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Magical Landscape, Eunoh Hur

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MINUS 25 Betty Tyson, Taunja Isaac

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Pool Boiling Enhancement Through Improved Liquid Supply Pathways Over Open Microchannels, Arvind Jaikumar

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The Use of Visual Metaphors in Print Advertisements, Lisa M. Janos

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Silicon Doping Profile Measurement Using Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy, Chih-Yu Jen

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Printing Standards: A 2010 Survey Report, Søren Tapdrup Jensen

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About Me, Wenyao Jia

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Omnidirectional Control of the Hexapod Robot TigerBug, Christopher B. Johnson

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Bandwidth Requirements of GPU Architectures, Benjamin C. Johnstone

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A Portrayal of Biomechanics in Avian Flight, Kelly M. Kage

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Toy Library: Nurturing Talent-Learning Through Play, Prachi Kapadia

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Blast-Off: Determining glioblastoma GOI sequence conservation across model organisms, Joseph K. Kaplan

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Investigating the interaction between positions and signals of height-channel loudspeakers in reproducing immersive 3d sound, Antonios Karampourniotis

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Design and Cryptanalysis of a Customizable Authenticated Encryption Algorithm, Matthew Joseph Kelly

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Robust Quasi-LPV Controller Design via Integral Quadratic Constraint Analysis, James C. Kempsell Jr.

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Drowsy Cache Partitioning for Multithreaded Systems and High Level Caches, Samantha Rose Kenyon

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Meaningful Objects Through Process-Oriented Form Research, Heechan Kim

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MOOKKOORI, Myungsuk Kim

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Capturing the Effects of Public Opinion Polls on Voter Support in the NY 25th Congressional Election, Heather Knappen

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Assembling 3D Objects with Artificial Spatial Intelligence, Eugene Koon

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Development of SRADE tool and analysis of quality scores of the reads of Next-Generation Sequencing data, Chaitanya Krishna Kotha

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Computational Investigation of Potential Failure Modes in Arterial Hemodynamic Flowpath, Praveen Kumar Koya

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Effect of Herbivory on the Growth and Competitive Ability of Reed Canary Grass (Phalaris arundinacea), Lisa A. Kratzer

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Gesture Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models Augmented with Active Difference Signatures, Himanshu Kumar

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A Brain Computer Interface for Interactive and Intelligent Image Search and Retrieval, Shitij P. Kumar

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Immigration Restriction Then, Immigration Restriction Now; The Politics of IQ, Alexandra L. Kummerow

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Mapping of Memories, Yoonjee Kwak

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Watt Community Rowing Center High-Performance Athletes Yield High-Performance Architecture, Allison Marie LaChance

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An Atrial Activity Based Algorithm for the Single-Beat Rate-Independent Detection of Atrial Fibrillation, Steven J. Ladavich Jr.

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Kosovo’s Verification Procedure for Diplomas issued by Private Providers of Higher Education, Mirushe Dalipi Latifaj

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Investigating Digital Publishing Trends Within the Consumer Magazine Industry, Sarah E. Lawrence

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Nowhere: A kinetic typography motion graphic about the pursuit of happiness, I-Cheng Lee

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Reflections, Sooja Lee

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The Development of a Performance Assessment Methodology for Activity Based Intelligence: A Study of Spatial, Temporal, and Multimodal Considerations, Christian M. Lewis

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Characterization of the Ren4 resistance locus through the integration of de novo assembly, expression analysis, and Genotyping-by-Sequencing data, Jacquelyn A. Lillis

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Probability of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Commercialization as a result of Participating in the Navy's Transition Assistance Program, Erick W. Littleford

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Anatomically Realistic Structural Modeling of the Cardiac Purkinje Network: A Basis for Studying Contributions of the Conduction System to Ventricular Arrhythmias, Benjamin Liu

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X, Xiaoyu Liu

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Over Bed Table Service System Design Aging design practice through research in a nursing home, Yu Liu

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Unbalanced Workload Allocation in Large Assembly Lines., Christian E. Lopez

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Analysis of KECCAK Tree Hashing on GPU Architectures, Jason Michael Lowden

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An Extension of the Hull White Model for Interest Rate Modeling, Xiao Lu

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More Than a Library: An Outline for an Integrated Marketing Communications Campaign, Erica MacArthur

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Dictionary Attacks and Password Selection, Tarun Madiraju

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Aligning Carbon Fibers in Micro-Extruded Composite Ink, Chaitanya G. Mahajan

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Compensation of Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Image Field Edge Effects Through Optical Proximity Correction, Chris Maloney

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TravelMacedonia: A Solution for the Discovery of Macedonia as a Place of Travel, Violeta Mangovski

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Reliable and Fault-Resilient Schemes for Efficient Radix-4 Complex Division, Niranjan Manoharan

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Plastic Glory, Ihab Mardini

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Progress in Energy Storage Technologies: Models and Methods for Policy Analysis, Schuyler W. Matteson

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Variability in the phenolic content of invasive and non-invasive emergent wetland plants, Melissa M. Maurer

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Statistical Methods for Signal Processing with Application to Automatic Accent Recognition, Zichen Ma

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Software/Hardware Tradeoffs in the Speedup of Color Image Processing Algorithms, James P. Mazza

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re÷belief, Raymond McCarthy Bergeron

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The LifePump: A Strategy for Introducing Affordable Clean Water to the Developing World, Kristin McGeorge

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Parts of a Whole, Hsiang-Lu Meng

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Analysis of the Correlation Between Media Consumption Behavior and Cultural Adaptation of International Students in the United States, Solange M. Mercedes Checo

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Temperature Evaluation of NoC Architectures and Dynamically Reconfigurable NoC, Aniket Dilip Mhatre

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Pattern Repeat, Brendan Miller

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Studies Toward the Synthesis of a Novel Diastereomerically Pure Cyclopropyl N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand for Asymmetric Catalysis, Brandon T. Milliken

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Color Managing for Papers Containing Optical Brightening Agents, R. Scott Millward

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Accelerated Object Tracking with Local Binary Features, Breton Lawrence Minnehan

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Le Couple, Junran Mo

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Recovering the History of Graphic Design: The Voice & Vision of Elaine Lustig Cohen, Megan Moltrup

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The Moment, Ho Moon

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The Role and Responsibility of the Environmental, Health & Safety Manager in establishing an organization’s commitment towards environmental stewardship and workplace safety [as elements of social responsibility], Arthur Nagy

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Modern Islamic Motif Design: Developing New Arabesque Motifs by Mixing Styles, Shuruq Nahhas

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Analysis and Exploitation of Automatically Generated Scene Structure from Aerial Imagery, David R. Nilosek

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A Multivariate Analysis of the Human Factors and Preferences Towards Digital Publishing Platforms for the iPad, Anton Ninkov

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No Words, Maasa Nishimura

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Web Browser Private Mode Forensics Analysis, Emad Sayed Noorulla

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Tiered Based Addressing in Internetwork Routing Protocols for the Future Internet, Yoshihiro Nozaki

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A Transformation-Based Foundation for Semantics-Directed Code Generation, Arthur Nunes-Harwitt

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Comparative Analysis of Intercultural Communication Apprehension Displayed by International Students in the US Interacting with American Students and Other Internationals, Laura Nunez Quero