Current dissertations and theses from UVM graduate programs are submitted electronically and will be available in this collection approximately twelve weeks after the final submission by the candidate. Print and electronic dissertations and theses are browseable and searchable at UVM Theses & Dissertations.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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An Automated Analysis Of Single Particle Tracking Data For Proteins That Exhibit Multi Component Motion., Rehan Ali, MS, Neuroscience

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Improving Detection And Prediction Of Bridge Scour Damage And Vulnerability Under Extreme Flood Events Using Geomorphic And Watershed Data, Ian Anderson, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Novelty Detection Of Machinery Using A Non-Parametric Machine Learning Approach, Enrique Angola, MS, Mechanical Engineering

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Combining Observations Of Soils And Streams To Investigate Trends Caused By Reduced Acid Depositon In The Sleepers River Watershed, Jesse Armfield, MS, Geology

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Exploration Of Zirconium-Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydrophosphination With Primary Phosphines: Photocatalytic Single And Double Hydrophosphination, Christine Anne Bange, PhD, Chemistry

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Selenium In Thioredoxin Reductase: Resistance To Oxidative Inactivation, Oxidation States, And Reversibility Of Chemical Reactions, Drew Barber, PhD, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences

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Developing Toward Generality: Combating Catastrophic Forgetting with Developmental Compression, Shawn L. Beaulieu, MS, Complex Systems

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Evaluating The Utility Of The Modified Cigarette Evaluation Questionnaire And The Cigarette Purchase Task For Predicting Acute Relative Reinforcing Efficacy In Cigarettes Which Vary In Nicotine Content, Cecilia L. Bergeria, PhD, Psychology

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Optimization of Turbulent Prandtl Number in Turbulent, Wall Bounded Flows, Donald Edward Bernard, MS, Mechanical Engineering

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Improving Scalability of Evolutionary Robotics with Reformulation, Anton Bernatskiy, PhD, Computer Science

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War in the nursery: The impact of transgenerational trauma on refugee infant development, Anne Brassell, PhD, Psychology

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Insights From Narrative Reflections Of First Year Medical Students On Their Professional Formation, Laurey Burris, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

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Examining School Building-Level Implementation of an MTSS Problem-Solving Team, Nicole Carter, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

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Intersection Of Salt Signaling With Nodule Initiation And Maturation During Medicago Truncatula-Sinorhizobium Meliloti Symbiosis., Sanhita Chakraborty, PhD, Plant Biology

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Methylation Controlled J Protein Is A Master Regulator Of Mitochondrial Metabolism, Devin Pierre Champagne, PhD, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences

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The SH2 Domain-Containing Adaptor Protein SHD Reversibly Binds the CRKL-SH2 Domain and Knockdown of shdb Impairs Zebrafish Eye Development, Brendan Chandler, MS, Biology

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Chronic Kidney Disease and the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism, Katharine Lana Cheung, PhD, Clinical and Translational Science

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La Jaula De Oro Y Dreamers: Wellness Of Latinx Undocumented College Students In A Divisive Political Climate And #45 Era Presidency, Sarah Maria Childs, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

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Soil Aggregates: The mechanistic link to increased dissolved organic carbon in surface waters?, Malayika Cincotta, MS, Geology

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Students in Transition: Introducing English Language Learners from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East to U.S. History, Bill Clark, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

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Fragmentation, Rearrangement, And C-H Insertion: Reactions Of Vinyl Cations Derived From Diazo Carbonyls, Sarah Elizabeth Cleary, PhD, Chemistry

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Bottom-up adaptive management and stakeholder participation for clean water and healthy soils in a complex social-ecological system, Sarah Coleman, PhD, Plant and Soil Science

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21st Century Approaches To Addressing Childhood Diarrhea In Low And Middle-Income Countries: Zinc As A Cornerstone Of New Prevention Strategies, Elizabeth Ross Colgate, PhD, Clinical and Translational Science

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Spectroscopic Insight into Oxidative Heme Cleavage by the Non-canonical Heme Oxygenase IsdG from Staphylococcus aureus, Matthew A. Conger, PhD, Chemistry

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Examining Inter- And Intra-Individual Differences In The Neurobiological Mechanisms Associated With Inhibitory Control, Nicholas C. D'Alberto, PhD, Neuroscience

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Enhancing The Efficacy And Thermotolerance Of Selected Beauveria Bassiana Isolates For Management Of Sunn Pest, Eurygaster Integriceps, Using Electrofusion Techniques, Agrin Davari, PhD, Plant and Soil Science

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Simulacra Of The (un)real: Reading Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle As A Feminist Text Of Bodily Resistance, Kimberly Michelle Dean, MA, English

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Some results on a class of functional optimization problems, David Rushing Dewhurst, MS, Mathematics

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The Synthesis of Highly Substituted Aromatics and the Reaction of Alkene Pi Systems with Vinyl Cations, Nicholas Jarrod Dodge, PhD, Chemistry

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Rural Education Philanthropy: A Case Study of Need and Opportunity, Carolyn Dwyer, EdD, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

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Evaluating The Resistome And Microbial Composition During Food Waste Feeding And Composting On A Vermont Poultry Farm, Korin Eckstrom, MS, Animal Science

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Genetic And Demographic Consequences Of Lake And River Habitat Fragmentation On Fishes In Vermont, Peter T. Euclide, PhD, Biology

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The Brain Correlates of Personality and Sex Differences, Brittany Fair, MS, Neuroscience

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Numerical Modeling Of Collision And Agglomeration Of Adhesive Particles In Turbulent Flows, Farzad Farajidizaji, PhD, Mechanical Engineering

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Rotating Magnetometry For Terrestrial And Extraterrestrial Subsurface Explorations, Robert Farrell, MS, Mechanical Engineering

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Between Extermination and Child-Rearing: The Foreign Child-Care Facilities of Volkswagen and Velpke, Lauren Elizabeth Fedewa, MA, History

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Biochemical Characterization of the Dimerization Domain of Purine-rich Element Binding Protein B: An Essential Subdomain Mediating the Repression of Smooth Muscle Alpha Actin Gene Expression, Lauren Ferris, PhD, Biochemistry

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Evidence For The Involvement Of Runx1 And Runx2 In Maintenance Of The Breast Cancer Stem Cell Phenotype, Mark Fitzgerald, MS, Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences

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A Human Side Of The Smart Grid: Behavior-Based Energy Efficiency From Renters Using Real-Time Feedback And Competitive Performance-Based Incentives, Daniel Fredman, PhD, Natural Resources

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Characterization Of A Novel Vps26c-Retromer Complex And Its Interaction With An Endosomal Trafficking Pathway Regulated By The Snare Vti13 In Controlling Polarized Growth And Cell Wall Organization In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Suryatapa Ghosh Jha, PhD, Plant Biology

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The Radical Ekphrasis Of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, Georgia Googer, MA, English

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Management Factors Influence On The Fatty Acid Content And Composition Of Forages, Caleb Goossen, PhD, Plant and Soil Science

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Regularization in Symbolic Regression by an Additional Fitness Objective, Ryan Grindle, MS, Mathematical Sciences

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Remote Sensing Methods and Applications for Detecting Change in Forest Ecosystems, David James Gudex-Cross, PhD, Natural Resources

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Large Eddy Simulation of Oscillatory Flow over a Mobile Rippled Bed using an Euler-Lagrange Approach, Daniel S. Hagan, PhD, Mechanical Engineering

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Fluvial Processes in Motion: Measuring Bank Erosion and Suspended Sediment Flux using Advanced Geomatic Methods and Machine Learning, Scott Douglas Hamshaw, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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A Study Of Food Hub Buyers In Vermont: Motivation, Marketing, And Strategy, Hannah Harrington, MS, Community Development and Applied Economics

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Pharmaceutical Waste in Vermont: Results from a Survey on Purchasing, Use & Disposal, Christine Hart, MS, Natural Resources

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Evaluating The Impacts Of Southern Pine Beetle On Pitch Pine Forest Dynamics In A Newly Invaded Region, Molly Heuss, MS, Natural Resources

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Resource control strategies: Associations with autonomic nervous system reactivity, Leigh Ann Holterman, PhD, Psychology