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2007 Abstracts

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ANTHROPOLOGY
Albanese, Jacqueleen Avian Influenza: Power Struggles in Thailand 
   
Fabian, Rebecca Teaching Others, Learning Ourselves: Native American Education and the Formation of Identity
   
ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES
Eisenzopf, Kira What is Happening to Affordability?
   
ART HISTORY
Long, Courtney Mariology and Monumental Sculpture on the West Façade of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris 
   
ART-STUDIO
Groth, Emily Fears of Immobility
   
Merrill, Cecily Logical Necessity
   
ASIAN STUDIES
Choudhury, Ramona Kingship and the Forest in the Epics of Ancient India
   
ASTRONOMY
Walker, Catherine Variations of Solar Wind Parameters Over a Solar Cycle: Expectations for NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) Mission
   
BIOCHEMISTRY
Aye-Han, Nwe-Nwe  Probing the Structure of the Dynamic Initial Transcribing Complexes
on Escherichia coli Promoters
   
Gragnolati, Ariel FTIR Characterization of Aß(16-22) Dynamic Equilibrium
   
Neveling, Lauren Probing the Kinetics of Unfolding and Aggregation of Human Gamma-D
Crystallin at Low pH Using Infrared Spectroscopy
   
Olayinka, Oluwatomisin Study of the Structure of N-Terminal and C-Terminal Domains of Human #-D Crystallin Using FTIR and CD Spectroscopies
   
Rumora, Amy Exploring DNA Destabilization Induced by the Thymine Dimer Lesion
Using Small Molecular Probes and Thermodynamic Techniques
   
Smith, Kathryn Blakey Analysis of the Structural Asymmetry of Alanine-Rich Peptides of Varying Lengths Using Fourier-Transform Infrared and Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
   
Vrabel, Anna Human Gut Microbes Associated with Obesity
   
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Bonvini, Lauren Jumping Behavior and the Effects of Caudal Autotomy on Jumping
Performance in A. carolinensis
   
Dettinger, Julia Development of a Sensitive Force Transducer for Use with Larval Dipteran Muscle
   
Flenniken, Megan  The Paleoecology and Construction of Miocene Tubes Made of Foraminifera: Are They Comparable to the Tubes of Living Pectinaria (Polychaeta)?
   
Giles, Josephine The Role of Lymphangiogenesis and Dendritic Cell Migration in
Murine AIDS`
   
Goldstein, Emily Does Size Matter? Examining Hindlimb Muscle Strain and Activation Patterns during Level and Incline Locomotion of Sheep Through Ontogeny 
   
Hare, Julie Mutational Analysis of Trypanosoma brucei Components of Motile
Flagella (TbCMF) Genes in the African Trypanosome
   
Jasienowski, Sondra  Measurement of Dyspnea in Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart
Failure Presenting to Baystate Medical Center Emergency Department
   
Kruppa, Antonina Identifying Binding Sites for the ßFTZ-F1 Protein within the E93 Gene
of Drosophila melanogaster
   
Lama, Tsering Pema  Differential Apoptosis Responses in a Murine Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (MAIDS) Model
   
McKeag, Erin Addressing Aquatic Invasive Species and Climate Change
   
Miller, Dery Knee Flexor Muscle Actions During Swimming in the Toad, Bufo marinus
   
Nardiello, Tricia  Comparison of Protease Activity in the Lymph Node and Spleen of BALB/c
and C57BL/6 Mice Infected with Murine Leukemia Virus
   
Power, Erika Multi sex combs and Polycomb Group Genes in Drosophila melanogaster: Genetic Interactions and Subsequent Abnormal Development
   
Rosenthal, Noel  Selective Knockdown of the Trypanosoma brucei FLA Genes and
Development of a Chemotaxis Assay
   
Yang, Maureen  The Role of Retinoic Acid in Zebrafish Notochord Formation
   
CHEMISTRY
Cagulada, Amy  Carbonyl Condensation Chemistry for Rotaxane Formation
   
Gondo,Chenaimwoyo  Approaches to the Preparation of Co-facial Arrays of Electroactive or Photoactive Organic Compounds
   
Ho, Karmen  The Synthesis of Functional Hyperbranched Polymer Surfaces
via Radical Polymerization
   
Johnson, Emily  Analysis of Paintings with the Use of Near Infrared Spectroscopy
   
Korolev, Maria  IGF-1 and Seladin-1 Regulation of the MDM2-p53 Interaction
   
Magala, Pearl  Self-Healing Using Nanorods
   
Mihailovic, Aleksandra  Exploring the Interaction of Ruthenium (II) Polypyridyl Complexes
with DNA Using Single-Molecule Techniques
   
Pothier, Laura  The Effects of Amino Acid Substitutions on Aß16-22 Aggregation Stability as Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Infrared Spectroscopy
   
Scott, Caitlin  Modeling Hydrophobic and Ionic Interactions in Aqueous Solutions Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
   
Tester, Chantel  Dynamic Light Scattering Study of the Interaction Between Poly(vinyl alcohol) and Gold Nanoparticles
   
Ward, Caroline  Chemiluminescence and the Synthesis of 9-(Phenylethynyl)anthracene
   
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Hafernik, Carolyn  Automatic Methods to Disambiguate Geospatial Queries
   
CRITICAL SOCIAL THOUGHT
Caden, Mara  Re-Imagining Labor and Freedom: Indentured Servitude, the 'Freeborn Englishman,' and the Racialization of Unfree Labor in
Seventeenth-Century Virginia
   
Freeman, Emily  Political Picture Books: How Babar and the Lorax Reflect Political Ideologies
   
Herzog, Megan  Great Conversations: Dialogues on the Western Canon
   
Thorne, Michelle  Copywritings: A Eulogy for Authorship
   
ECONOMICS
Bai, Xue  The Entry of Commerical Banks into Investment Banking Industry:
How Tying Has Reshaped the Industry
   
Espinoza, Corinne  Capital Gains Tax Cuts and Growth
   
Kodi, Phyllis  The Role of Decentralization and Integrated Rural Development in
Ghana's Development
   
Surdulescu, Diana  Deregulation and Competition in the Romanian Telecommunications Industry
   
Tithi, Bidita Jawher  The Alternative Approaches to Development: The Case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh
   
ENGLISH
Franklin-Hudson, Ariel  Two Wits One Soul: The Erotic Politics of Beaumont and Fletcher
   
Gracey, Amy  The Hidden Journey of Margery Kempe
   
Johnson, Kara  Interpreting Henry James's The Bostonians: Women, Theatricality,
and  Public Performance 
   
Kharpertian, Kiara  Slothrop and the Rocket
   
Pho, Diana  Presenting The Strays of Moscow: And Other Stories
   
Pylvainen, Hanna  Revealing and Retaining the Tensions of Fundamentalist Religion
through Creative Nonfiction
   
Waddell, Heather  To Create New Worlds: Philip Pullman's Reinterpretation of
Blake and Milton's Works
   
Whitmore, Lindsey  Writing Down the Wall: Creativity, Incarceration, and Women
Writing in Community
   
GENDER STUDIES  
Motai, Jessica  Commodifying Looks: Multiracial Women as "Exotic"
   
GEOLOGY
Barkley, Madison  F-OH# Substitution and Thermal Effects on the Crystal Structure of
Pegmatitic Topaz
   
Graham, Shannon  GPS Geodetic Constraints on the November 21, 2004 Mw 6.3 Earthquake
off the Northwest Coast of Dominica: Implications for in situ Volatile Solubilities and Eruption Dynamics
   
GERMAN STUDIES
Owocki, Sarah  Integrating the "Guest," Constructing the Self: Challenges of Second Language Acquisition in Secondary Study Abroad
   
HISTORY
Franklin, Laura  A Message Hidden but Always Seen: The Spiritual Franciscans and
their Influence on the Works of Dante
   
Greene, Heather  Revolutionary Violence: A Comparative Study of the Weather Underground Organization and Red Army Faction 1967-1973 
   
Konstantopoulos, Gina  The Kamikaze Pilots of World War II and Their Image in American Media
   
Martenyi, Megan  Exploiting Conventions at Inanda: How Uncommon Women Created “South Africa's Mount Holyoke” in 1869
   
Satter, Lori  Susan B. Anthony: A Visionary of the Nineteenth-Century United States Suffrage Movement
   
Scannell, Lindsey  The Façade of Neutrality: French Far Eastern Policy 1926-1927
   
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Vennell, Sheila  From Margins to Mainstream: The Democratic Unionist Party in
Northern Irish Politics
   
MATHEMATICS
Boatwright, Anna  An Introduction to the Affine Weil Zeta Function for Simple Polynomials
   
You, Shuting  Primality Testing and Proving Methods
   
PHILOSOPHY
Guruli, Nino  Preventive War and Self-Defense: A Consequentialist Argument
   
O'Donnell, Carolynn  Feminist Solidarity
   
Wilson, Alison  Hannibal Lecter v. Immanuel Kant
   
PHYSICS
Merritt, Elizabeth  The Effects of Extremely-Short External-Cavity Optical Feedback into
a Modulated Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser
   
PSYCHOLOGY
Kim, Grace June  The Pursuit of Career Possible Selves by Adolescents: The Role of Socioeconomic Status and Occupational Procedural Knowledge
   
Kurahara, Lindsay  Exploration of the Relationship Between Racial Salience, Self-Esteem,
and Coping Strategies Among Multiracial College Students
   
Markarian, Audrey  The Effects of Associative Learning on Antlion Feeding Behavior
and Fitness
   
Sarma, Arti  Cross-Class Study of the Division of Domestic Labor in Madurai, India
   
Spasojevic, Jelena  Teacher-Child Interactions in a Preschool in Serbia
   
PSYCHOLOGY & EDUCATION
Tong, Taryn  Directors as Mentors: The Role of Early Childhood Center Directors
in Encouraging Preschool Teachers to Return to School 
   
RUSSIAN & EURASIAN STUDIES
Neher, Allison  Environmental Change and Acute Conflict in the Republic of Georgia
   
SOCIOLOGY
Becque, Simone  Big Damn Fans: Fan Campaigns of Firefly and Veronica Mars 
   
Leinberger, Amanda  Changing Representations of Women's Higher Education in the 1940's 
   
Wallace, Adrienne  The Marvelous Real: The Construction of Cultural Memory in Colombian Literary Works
   
   
STATISTICS
Berry, Katharine Fischer  The Effect of Missing Data in the Analysis of a Bariatric Surgery Program
   
Kanyangarara, Mufaro  Hierarchical Modeling of HIV/AIDS Data from Zimbabwe
   
Pu, Ning  The Critical Role of Volatility in Option Pricing

 

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