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Author:: Rodriguez, Leila
Title:: Economic Adaptation and the Self-Employment Experience of Nigerians in New York City
Graduate Program:: Anthropology
Keywords:: African migration
immigrant adaptation
immigrant entrepreneurship
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Committee Members:: Patricia Lyons Johnson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patricia Lyons Johnson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James William Wood, Committee Member
Leif Jensen, Committee Member
Ralph Salvador Oropesa, Committee Member

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Author:: Szwydky, Lissette
Title:: Adaptations: The London Stage as Entertainment Industry, 1790-1890
Graduate Program:: English
Keywords:: novel in adaptation
culrual studies
nineteenth-century theater history
File:: Download FULLDISSERTATION.pdf
Committee Members:: Paul B Youngquist, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Youngquist, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicholas A Joukovsky, Committee Member
Robert Lawrence Caserio Jr., Committee Member
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Lori D Ginzberg, Committee Member

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Author:: Sun, Lu
Title:: LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY IN MOUSE CEREBELLAR STELLATE CELLS
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: calmodulin
action potential
extrasynaptic
NMDA receptor
PICK
PKC
AMPA receptor
synaptic plasticity
GABAergic interneuron
cerebellum
protein synthesis
electrophysiology
File:: Download dissertation-Lu_Sun.pdf
Committee Members:: Si Qiong Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Si Qiong Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Whim, Committee Member
Bernhard Luscher, Committee Member
Steven Schiff, Committee Member
Gong Chen, Committee Member

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Author:: SASIDHARAN, LEKSHMI
Title:: CAUSAL MODELING APPROACH TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TRAFFIC SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: regression estimation
causal models
propensity scores
matching
stratification
File:: Download LEKSHMI-DISSERTATION.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric Todd Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Peter Jovanis, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Member

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Author:: Strauss, Linda C.
Title:: PREDICTORS OF INSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENT AT TWO-YEAR AND FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS
Graduate Program:: Higher Education
Keywords:: Institutional Commitment
Higher Education
Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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Committee Members:: Melvin Michael Mark, Committee Member
Michael John Dooris, Committee Member
James Fredericks Volkwein, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alberto F Cabrera, Committee Member

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Author:: Wang, Li
Title:: Integrated Conditional Moment Test for Parametric Conditional Distributions
Graduate Program:: Economics
Keywords:: simulated integrated conditional moment test
Integrated conditional moment test
Specification test
consistent test
testing parametric conditional distributions
File:: Download LiWang_EconPSU.pdf
Committee Members:: Herman J Bierens, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Coenraad Arnout P Pinkse, Committee Member
Quang Vuong, Committee Member
Arkady Tempelman, Committee Member

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Author:: Wang, Li
Title:: Spatial Econometric Issues in Hedonic Property Value Models: Model Choice and Endogenous Land Use
Graduate Program:: Agricultural Economics
Keywords:: spatial econometrics
hedonic property value mode
open space
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Committee Members:: Richard C Ready, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Samuel Shortle, Committee Member
Kathryn Jo Brasier, Committee Member

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Author:: Xie, Liang
Title:: Mitigating Rapidly Propagating Worm Threats in Emergent Networks
Graduate Program:: Computer Science and Engineering
Keywords:: p2p networks
cellular networks
worm threats
countermeasures
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Committee Members:: Sencun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Zan Huang, Committee Member

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Author:: Yu, Lan
Title:: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A MIXED APPROACH USING THE LOGISTIC LATENT CLASS MODEL AND THINK-ALOUD PROTOCOLS TO INFORM DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING
Graduate Program:: Educational Psychology
Keywords:: differential item functioning
mixture model
think-aloud protocols
File:: Download LanYuThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Hoi Kin Suen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pui Wa Lei, Committee Member
Jonna Marie Kulikowich, Committee Member
Aleksandra B Slavkovic, Committee Member
Dorothy H Evensen, Committee Member

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Author:: Zhang, Lin
Title:: LABOR MOBILITY, INTRAHOUSEHOLD DECISION-MAKING, AND AGRICULTURAL LAND LEASING: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY WITH AGENT-BASED MODELING IN RURAL SOUTH CHINA
Graduate Program:: Agricultural Economics
Keywords:: labor migration
labor time allocation
intrahousehold decision-making
agricultural land leasing
household collective models
agent-based models
File:: Download Dissertation_final_LinZhang.pdf
Committee Members:: Jill Leslie Findeis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Gerard Abler, Committee Member
Jill Leslie Findeis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leif Jensen, Committee Member
Rhonda Belue, Committee Member

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